Danny showed an expression of relief: "Thank God Luta, you finally asked this question. I was so choked that my lungs were about to explode. First of all, we are in the huge desert 'Endless Sea of Sand' on the northwest side of the Southern Continent. ', the north of the desert is cut off by the other side of the Holy River, and a small half of the south side enters the territory of the Tocharian Empire. There are a lot of guys who make a living on the sand living in the desert. I will elaborate more when I have time... The most important thing is, There is a kind of cute big bug with a gentle temper called "sand-eating bug" living in the desert. They crawl quickly on the surface of the desert, swallow a lot of sand, discharge it from behind, and absorb the small life in the sand as nutrition. The principle of sand boat is to use These sand-eating worms... Although my father was not the one who discovered this method, he was the first captain to combine sand-eating worms with a three-masted sailboat, a great inventor."
Jonah felt his jaw rattling, trembling because of the exotic feeling that he couldn't understand: "You mean, there are many of these bugs crawling under the boat..."
Danny shook his finger: "No, no, dear friend...ah no, cargo, you underestimate the creatures in the endless sand sea. You only need to stand up and take a look at the side of the ship, and you will understand everything,,, hurry up, hurry up Go, I will block my sister's sight for you. If Hannah sees you running around, she will kill you with one shot, and then kill me... Thinking about it carefully, maybe she will kill me with one shot first, and then kill me. I'll use you in exchange for money. Who knows, she has completely inherited her father's temper. Thinking of this makes people sad..."
The astrologer's apprentice stood up dizzy, held on to the mast and walked a few steps to the side. When he lowered his head and looked down, he immediately understood what Danny meant.
The entire sailing ship "The Bactrian Wind" was completely built on the back of a huge sand-eating insect. This golden insect was at least two hundred yards long from head to tail, and more than thirty yards wide, with a multi-section back. The carapace is hard and flat, integrated with the lower deck of the sailboat. From the angle where Jonah is standing, half of the head of the sand-eating insect can be seen. In fact, it is difficult to tell whether this kind of cylinder is without judging from the direction of travel. Which side of the insect is the head and which side is the tail?
The sand-eating worm's lower body was buried in the yellow sand. As it moved forward rapidly, it kept swallowing a large amount of sand into its body cavity and sprayed it out from its tail. I didn't see it having eyes, ears or other organs, but in the endless desert , and there is nothing to see or listen to.
"Beautiful, this is our pet 'Chacha'. He has been serving our family since dad tamed it and built the sailboat. He works hard and does not complain. Apart from a little indigestion, he is as healthy as a seventeen-year-old boy. Boy, by the way, Jonah, how old are you this year," Danny said, standing next to Jonah.
"Seventeen years old," the thin astrologer's apprentice answered honestly.
Danny Stewart looked him up and down for a long time, "If my Chacha becomes a human, he will never be as skinny and sallow as you. You need to eat more, friend,...goods."
At this moment, the hull of the ship suddenly jolted, and a thunderous sound came from the front. Jonah quickly grabbed the side of the ship. Hannah Stewart turned around and stared at her brother coldly: "Brother, the chattering is starting to cause indigestion." Just because of the large rocks you swallowed while driving, and why the cargo was running around on my ship,"
Seeing that she was about to reach out and take off the huge gun from her back, Danny quickly grabbed the astrologer's apprentice's shoulders and shook him, "Look, everything is under control. I just explained to him that the Stewart family Let the name of Gale be better spread, and do some publicity for Stewart Express Service..."
"What...express delivery?" Jonah was overwhelmed with new terms one after another. He struggled to ask while swaying in Danny's hands.
"Stewart's 'Bactria's Wind' express delivery service. The so-called express delivery is to send goods from one place to another very quickly. To cross the endless sea of sand, there is no more reliable means of transportation than Chicha. Our speed on this route is second to none, and we haven’t let a single customer down since the switch,” Danny said proudly.
"...Change your career," Jonah seemed to hear a key word that was easy to ignore, "What did you do in the past?"
"...Pirates, should I say, sand pirates..." Danny whispered.
"Ah, that is to say, you rob and kill..."
Jonah couldn't finish his exclamation. A thunderous sound rolled under his feet, and the deck jumped up, causing Jonah to fall onto his butt with a plop. Danny seemed to be well prepared and stood there upright with a melancholy expression. Staring at the tail of the sand-eating worm: "Poor Chi-cha, when you get this money, you must find an insect doctor to treat your digestive problems. Hannah, I heard that there is a roving doctor near the sand-eating worm. He is very skilled. Well, the Schmitt family's sandworms suffered from cellulite, and their speed dropped drastically, and he cured it."
"Don't tell me about the damn Schmidt family, brother," the tall woman stopped her brother's chatter with a roll of her eyes.
At this time, the muffled thunder had reached the end of the sand-eating worm, and the tip of the chirping tail arched painfully. A bulging thing could be seen protruding from under the carapace, rolling towards the sand outlet, "What else... "Jonah sat on the floor, helplessly grasping the side of the boat made of hard teak wood.
"Bang,"
With a deafening loud noise, a cloud of black smoke was emitted from the tail of the Chicha, covering the sky and the sun. The smoke exuded a pungent smell and was blown into the cabin by the crosswind. Jonah's eyesight went dark and he could hardly see anything. "Cough cough cough..." He bent over and coughed, grabbing the side of the boat and not daring to let go.
After an unknown amount of time, the black smoke was gradually blown away, and the sailboat left a long black track on the desert. The billowing smoke climbed to the horizon like a long snake. The chattering body became stable, and I even felt the sand-eating insects. With the burden removed, I was happily enjoying myself in the desert.
Jonah wiped away the tears he had choked, and with hazy eyes found that the Stewart brothers and sisters each had a white scarf wrapped around their mouths and noses, Hannah's eyes were still cold, and Danny's eyes were filled with a complicated light that wanted to laugh but also sympathized.
"You will know how to protect yourself from now on, friend... that, cargo." My brother came over, helped Jonah up, and patted the black dust on his body. "Every time I swallow a big stone, I can't expel it in time. It gets stuck in the body, and after a while, it becomes tangled up with the food residue adsorbed on the surface of the body cavity, creating a lot of methane gas. It is an uncomfortable feeling of bloating, and people with constipation can feel it... So, farts are like this Although the matter is very unseemly for the lady Cha Cha, it is a physiological need, and even the great god Luta cannot prevent it from happening naturally..."
"This bug is still...a woman," the astrologer apprentice helplessly discovered that the world is full of cruel facts that are difficult to accept.
The Stewart siblings looked at each other, and Danny smiled, "This is common sense. All the sand-eating worms running in the endless sand sea are female. The male sand-eating worms are small bugs with wings, about as long as your arm, etc. When you meet the queen of all sand-eating worms: the queen worm, you will know what a complete matriarchal society is. Speaking of women being the masters of the family, this is not the traditional custom of the Western Continent. Don't you think so, folks? ” He glanced at Jonah.
Jonah stayed there in confusion, letting Danny's little eyes pass by him, then hit the mast with a clang and shattered into pieces.
"Having a woman in charge makes you uncomfortable, doesn't it, brother?" Hannah glanced at her brother and reached out to touch the gun.
Danny immediately apologized with a good-tempered smile: "No, no, sister, it's just a friendly biology discussion. Well, although this young man from St. Bollen is just our cargo, out of courtesy, we still have to introduce him formally. Hannah, this is Jonah, the astrologer's apprentice. Jonah, this is the head of the Stewart family, the owner of the three-masted sailing ship 'The Wind of Bactria', and the breeder of the chatter. Hannah Stewart, my dear 's sister,"
"Hello, madam," Jonah, who was confused about the situation, bowed politely and saluted.
Hannah ignored him and said, "Tie up the cargo, brother," and after saying this, she turned and returned to the wheel.
Yona stared blankly at the huge metal weapon behind her, speculating on her role on the sand pirate ship. If these bandits wanted to kill people, would she have the ability to resist? Her spirit pool had recovered to less than half. Look. It can release two or three scorching lights. Of course, if you have the materials, a few "failed streamers" are also a good choice.
Danny thought he was interested in that weapon and introduced it enthusiastically: "When Hannah inherited the sailboat, she also inherited two legendary weapons from her father. The one on her back is one of the highest masterpieces of steam puppet power. , the famous gun 'Lame Henry's prosthetic limb'; under the cloak, she also hides a magic short gun, the 'White Cherry of Summer' cast by the magic weapon master of the Western Continent Heftsbach himself, speaking of which, there are two One of the guns should belong to me, but my father was obviously a little delirious before he died. He left me nothing except a whole wardrobe of underwear... I didn’t know that before he died. The head of the Stewart family, who is famous in the Southern Continent and spans the endless sand sea, is actually a weird uncle with a habit of collecting underwear..."
Danny seemed a little resentful when he mentioned his dead father, but Jonah ignored his little sentimentality and opened his eyes wide: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, what's the name of that big gun?"
"Cripple Henry's prosthetic leg, I know it's a weird name, but I'm used to hearing it, and I think it's quite darkly humorous. Hahaha, think about it, holding a cripple's prosthetic leg in your hand..."
"Lame Henry,"
The astrologer's apprentice suddenly remembered Teacher Keshava's old friend, the owner of the steam airship "Cripple Henry", and the legendary steam puppet master who gave him the "Cripple Henry II". Although the old man named Henry was not the same as him. We only met him once, but for some reason, Jonah always felt very close to the old man.
"Tell me how you got this gun," Jonah yelled at Hannah's back.
"Alas, you really don't know how to live or die, friend, oh no, cargo," Danny Stewart covered his eyes,