Upon seeing the shocked expression on the tribal Conqueror's face, Tugra replied respectfully, "Great Conqueror, the nautical chart is filled with vague and undecipherable text symbols that have been soaked in seawater. The rough outline is very similar to the corner of the nautical chart that you hung in the treehouse. I think it should be a part of the nautical chart of the Hellfire Archipelago."
"Show it to me right away, Tugra! Show me the nautical chart!" Upon hearing this, Zhang Lisheng hurriedly said.
Nautical chart and nautical chart sounded similar, but in reality, they were completely different. If a nautical chart was equivalent to a rough topographic map of the ocean, then a nautical chart would be an encyclopedia that included the ocean current data, the distribution of reefs, and even the island's product data.
Even though Zhang Lisheng had intercepted the Hellfire sea region on the Shrimp World No. 2 satellite map that contained the entire Hellfire Archipelago and most of the mainland and made it into a nautical chart, he still wanted to survive in a dangerous place.
The seabed was covered with reefs.
The ocean current was turbulent and strange.
Sea monsters emerged one after another.
It was still a huge project to explore the route between the islands in the foreign world's ocean where severe and extreme weather would appear from time to time. Now that he could have a ready-made nautical chart, even if it was just a small part of it, he could not help but feel excited and anxious.
"Yes!" Sensing the eagerness in the tribal Conqueror's heart, the Wizard Li headman stood up and hurriedly retreated. Not long after, he brought eight native choresmen to carefully carry a wooden board that was ten feet square and walked back to the bark house.
When Tugra came to Zhang Lisheng, he secretly signaled the choresmen to set up the wooden board and bent down to explain to the young man, "Great Conqueror, when I found this nautical chart, it was already very fragile after being eroded by the storm. I could only stick it on the wooden board to preserve it."
The instant Zhang Lisheng saw the huge nautical chart that was firmly stuck on the wooden board with gum, his gaze was immediately attracted to it.
"Unfortunately, it's too badly damaged, and I don't recognize the language either. Looks like they're not from the same hometown as that old man Armandnik," Zhang Lisheng said regretfully. Then, he praised the Wizard Li headman without hesitation. "But no matter what, you're very thoughtful, Tugra. Very thoughtful …"
As the young man was speaking, he began to carefully observe this sea map that had a similar outline to the lower corner of the Hellfire sea region of the Shrimp World No. 2's satellite map from the bottom corner. After a long time, he shook his head and muttered, "Using different colors to depict the ocean must be for the convenience of marking the depth.
The words written beside the arrowheads between the islands were either warnings or descriptions of the distribution of currents;
There were also these small portraits of monsters. Needless to say, they represented the distribution of dangerous marine creatures in the Hellfire sea region. This was indeed a nautical chart.
I was wrong! My train of thought was wrong! When I saw the broken wooden ships of the mainlanders, I took it for granted that they were still in the early stage of geographical discovery of the Shrimp World No. 2, but I've forgotten that this is a world with sorcery power … "
After sighing at his dull mind for a while, Zhang Lisheng shifted his gaze from the nautical chart to the Wizard Li headman reluctantly. "Tugra, looks like you've also carefully memorized the Hellfire Archipelago's nautical chart in your heart. Otherwise, it'd be impossible for you to see the relationship between this nautical chart and the Hellfire Archipelago's nautical chart in just one glance. Very good! You've indeed lived up to my trust.
That's right, you said that you've locked those mainlanders in the stone prison, right? Now, it seems like they're very precious' resources'. None of them fell sick or died, right? "
"Great Conqueror, they're very healthy now. Even though they're imprisoned in the stone prison, because I feel that they'll be very useful no matter what, I've given them sufficient food these days. They're delicious and plump."
"Tugra, you should really listen to your tone when you say the words' plump and plump. '" Zhang Lisheng said with a curl of his lips. "I've said before that cannibalism is a bad habit. It's not right even if they're eating the enemy. The Wizard Li tribesmen should become civilized.
We drive the big iron ships that the mainlanders can't even build to fish and sail. In the future, we'll travel between the islands by airship. We're different from the other Hellfire tribes. We're truly civilized people because … "
"Because we're your people and believers, Great Wizard Li Majesty!" Tugra interrupted Zhang Lisheng's words and prostrated at the young man's feet.
"You can call me 'Majesty' on the day I become the island's god, Tugra." Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment before saying with a smile. "Don't flatter me now. Go build a bark house in the jungle near the stone prison where the mainlanders are imprisoned. Make sure it's hidden. I want to stay there for a few days."
"Yes, Conqueror!" Even though Tugra did not know that Zhang Lisheng was staying next to the mainlanders' prison because he planned to learn their language with the Eternal Comprehension Spell, he still replied without hesitation.
Very soon, under the personal supervision of the Wizard Li headman, a unique treehouse was quietly built in the jungle near the stone prison where the mainlanders were imprisoned.
Living in this bark house, even if Zhang Lisheng did not have amazing hearing, he could still clearly hear the noises of the mainlanders who were imprisoned.
In the days to come, the young man stayed in the new treehouse to kill time by cultivating the secret method and waiting for the Manifestation stone egg to hatch, patiently waiting for the day he could learn the mainlanders' language overnight.
On an early morning eight to nine days later, Zhang Lisheng, who was sitting cross-legged on a mat woven with tree fibers and gulping down the smoked beast's legs and fat worms, wafted in the refreshing air with the smell of rotten vegetation unique to the primitive jungle not far in front of him.
Not far in front of him was a huge log stump with a sunken surface. In the groove on the surface of the stump, there was a big round ball made of beast tendons, spider silk, and tree branches. Eight native servants were using clay pots with simple patterns to pour the hot blood that had just been taken from the beast's body onto the big ball.
When the fresh beast blood seeped through the thousands of tiny holes on the surface of the big ball, the stone insect egg contained in the big mottled ball would slowly absorb the dripping blood without leaving a single drop behind, turning it into kinetic energy and slowly beating like a heart.
"Tugra, this insect egg is very precious. I've combined various methods of raising ancient strange insects to collect and incubate it. Now, it looks like I've taken the right path.
If it still can't hatch in a short time, you'll order the choresmen to bathe this insect egg with fresh blood every day when I'm not on the island in the future, understand? " Zhang Lisheng looked at the worm eggs that were constantly shrinking and expanding in the ball through the mesh and swallowed a mouthful of fatty cooked meat. With a satisfied expression, he lowered his voice and ordered the Wizard Li headman kneeling beside him.
"Yes, Great Conqueror!" Tugra kowtowed and answered in a low voice.
"There's one more thing. Hasn't the chief craftsman, Aruba, already built iron ships one after another? Even though the iron ship is not the final product, we still have to let the boatmen learn to sail it as soon as possible.
Yes, order the first 50 sailors who are proficient in sailing iron ships and learn to use the theodolite to be given the position of one, no, two feathered chief and be called captain. In the future, be it warriors or craftsmen, tribal chiefs or ordinary Wizard Li tribesmen, as long as they board the iron ship and go out to sea, they must obey the captain's order. "
"Making the chief warriors have to obey the boatmen's orders on the ship? Great Conqueror? I-Is this okay?" Even though Zhang Lisheng had long dominated the Wizard Li tribe, Tugra still blurted out when he heard such an order.
"Lower your voice, Tugra. Don't alarm those mainlanders." Zhang Lisheng smiled and made a shushing gesture. Lowering his voice, he said, "This method that I'm talking about is the most effective way to cultivate the sea power to become strong quickly, and now is the best time to use this method."
The young man's confidence came from the positive effect of the theory of 'the captain is the king of the sea' in the Earth's maritime era. Back then, the British miscellaneous army could defeat the invincible fleet of Franco, the overlord of the sea, largely because their navy pursued the theory of 'the captain is the king of the sea'.
The foresight brought by the superior civilization made Zhang Lisheng feel happy. Without warning, he heard someone shouting outside the window, "Get up, Mifard! Those natives are coming to send food soon …"
"The Eternal Comprehension Spell has taken effect …" The young man's body froze. Pleasantly surprised, he threw away the beetle skewer in his hand and stood up. Tilting his head to listen, more and more human voices entered his ears.
After making sure that he had mastered the mainlander language, the young man grinned and rubbed his hands. Pulling off the exquisite apron that was sewn with beautiful leaves and spotted animal skin that covered his private parts, he put on old Earth canvas shorts and shirt and said to the Wizard Li headman, "Tugra, the show has begun.
Find the smartest choresman and cooperate with me to put on this show according to the plan. "Then, he strode out of the treehouse.
A few minutes later, the young man mixed in a group of midget choresmen and carried a wooden barrel filled with fragrant chowder soup through the woods to the two adjacent stone circles.
The two stone circles were of different sizes. The larger one was about 300 to 400 square meters while the smaller one was only about 100 square meters. Both of them were surrounded by square stones that were more than five meters high. They were tied with thick and strong ropes from top to bottom, leaving a gap that was only the size of a bowl. Even a three-or four-year-old child would not be able to escape. More than 100 male prisoners and 20 to 30 female prisoners were imprisoned inside.
The appearance of these prisoners was similar to that of Earthlings. Even their skin color was different. However, most of them were white and brown people with mottled hair. There were less than ten people with black skin, and there were even fewer people with yellow skin. There were only three to four of them.
After quietly glancing at the stone circles, Zhang Lisheng imitated the movements of the native choresmen and used a long-handled wooden spoon to send the thick chowder soup into the wooden bowls held by the prisoners through the gap.
It was difficult for the young man to not be noticed by the group of short Hellfire tribesmen. Most of the prisoners in the stone circles had an indescribable look of disgust when they met his eyes. Only a few people who looked the most submissive had an irrepressible look of surprise and joy at the corner of their mouths, but they did not dare to speak at all.
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