Chapter 11 1.11 Mist

Ten servants moved food, fresh water and ravens for finding land to the boat overnight. Loki took advantage of the twilight to pick up the old priest Wade who was sleeping in a daze from the bed and ran all the way to the cave by the sea.

In the past two days, he had repeatedly asked the old guy what kind of ship they took and how they sailed to the land of the Slavs. Old Wade rolled his big eyes and always talked about other things.

Facing him, Loki thought of those slippery old oil sticks he met at work in his previous life.

The more respect you have, the more crooked your ass is.

Father Wade is not a fool. He saw at a glance that Loki was not willing to kill him. So he lived in Hanshui Village without hesitation, eating a lot every day, and gained a circle of weight in just three days.

Loki also has a way to deal with such people.

Don't tell me, right?

Okay! I'll catch you and let's get on the boat together.

Why do people in ancient times say "get on a pirate ship"? Because after boarding the ship, no matter whether there are people or animals on the ship, everyone will perish together after the ship capsizes. When sailing to the uninhabited sea, the old man has to point the way even if he doesn't want to.

Because his own life is on the ship.

He led the old man into the lower cabin. 10 people drove a three-masted capsized ship, and everyone had to play their part.

Father Wade's old arms and legs couldn't do anything else, so he hid in the lower cabin to clean up, clean the toilet, etc.

At 4 a.m., Loki and his 10 companions drove this huge three-masted ship out of the estuary not far from Hanshui Village in the thick night.

It was late autumn, and the sky continued to fall with fine snowflakes like white sugar. The three sails of the three-masted ship were all full of wind, and the speed of the ship was close to 30 kilometers per hour.

Although the speed was still much worse than Zheng He's "treasure ship" that sailed to the West, this speed was quite good for Loki, who built a ship for the first time!

Old Walder stood at the bow with his eyes wide open. Unlike the young men manipulating the sails, his age and experience far exceeded his peers in this era. He had seen many great artifacts and creations in his life, but he had never seen or heard of the three-masted ship that Loki was manipulating at this time.

Not to mention the size, the speed of this thing alone exceeded all ships of this era.

Under the silver moonlight, the bow of the three-masted ship broke through the large piece of floating ice that had condensed on the sea surface. Before the sun rose, the big ship had disappeared in the vast coastline of the Scandinavian Peninsula.

The cold wind blew, and Loki stood behind the rudder wearing a thick bearskin coat. He calculated the position of the stars and the rising sun, and strictly faced the bow to the west.

According to his calculations, if the map of this life is the same as that of the previous life, then this ship will cross the North Sea and reach the other side of the English Islands with favorable winds and waters

It only takes 30 hours!

However, due to the lack of maps and the backward and primitive pirate culture of the Vikings, outsiders dared not approach their land. There was very little information about the outside world that could be obtained in Hanshui Village. It was based on this consideration that Loki brought enough food for 20 days.

In case the world map in this plane is completely different from that in the previous life, and in case England to the west of the Scandinavian Peninsula is thousands of miles away, he has also made psychological preparations in this regard.

"Our goal is to find the continent to the west. Everyone, open your eyes wide, and the lookout on the mast, be alert, and use the quartz lens to observe the western sea surface carefully for me!"

"What we are looking for is thick fog! As long as we see thick fog, it means that England is not far away!"

In his previous life, Loki was on a business trip to the British Isles. During the week he was on business, there was heavy fog in London for six days.

Combined with Dickens' famous work "Oliver Twist", although he was not a geologist, there was a lot of evidence around him that showed that the English Isles should be a foggy place.

The three-masted ship cut through the waves. Loki was lucky. He encountered good weather when he led the people of Hanshui Village to go out to sea for the first time. For a whole day, the ship speed was maintained at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per hour.

Near dusk, when the sun set and the sky and the earth were shrouded in a deep blue twilight, the observer on the top of the mast observed a thick fog on the sea not far away. Loki was extremely excited. According to his experience in the previous life, the appearance of thick fog should indicate that the land is ahead!

Haha, the British Isles were found in one day! The wisdom of the traversers is really beyond the imagination of the natives in this plane!

Raising the flag and shouting with high spirits. The three-masted ship accelerated and rushed into the vast white fog without looking back. However, Loki at this time never thought that after the three-masted ship entered the thick fog

For the next 10 days, they did not sail out of the thick fog again!

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The formation of fog is due to the gradual cooling of the air near the ground due to the heat dissipation of the ground. The relatively humid air quickly cools down to the dew point, forming countless small water droplets suspended in the air.

This is Loki's scientific understanding of fog in the previous life.

The two most critical words in this passage are "ground".

The land must be the source of fog, because only the land can store heat. The empty sea surface without land cannot form this kind of natural landscape. Therefore, when Loki saw the thick fog spreading over the sea, he rushed in without hesitation.

He naively thought that if he continued to sail for two hours relying on inertia, the ship would inevitably touch the land.

However, after sailing for a full day, the surroundings were still a quiet sea shrouded in thick fog.

Loki is an atheist. The only firm belief in his heart is science. However, what is happening before his eyes cannot be described by science.

First, it is late autumn now. When we just set out to sea, Ruhaikou near Hanshui Village is already full of floating ice. However, the sea water here is still warm! Waves of fog continue to rise from the sea, making everyone on the boat warm like a sauna.

Secondly, after sailing for a full day without getting out of the thick fog, a faint sense of crisis began to emerge from the bottom of his heart. Loki made a prompt decision and ordered to cast a net to catch fish. However, the fish caught in the fishing net were species he had never seen before.

Seahorses with a length of one meter, turtles with a diameter of two meters, and phosphorescent mollusks that appeared in groups at night, all these creatures were severely challenging the remaining common sense of time travelers in his mind.

As a Viking "seaman", Loki can be called half a fisherman, but he has never found these strange creatures in the sea near Hanshui Village.

When everyone looked at these terrifying and strange creatures, only the preacher Old Walder hugged his shoulders and raised his mouth, revealing an unknown smile.

Seeing that something was wrong, Loki made a prompt decision and ordered to return.

In the thick fog, the continuous sea breeze that blew when setting sail was completely still. At this time, the disadvantage of the three-masted ship being too large began to appear.

The 10 people on the boat rowed with oars, which was much more laborious than rowing a small and light Viking longboat.

After 1 day, everyone was still in the thick fog.

After 3 days, even after 10 days, the almost endless thick fog that enveloped the sky and the earth never dissipated!

As a red countryman, Loki has a strong sense of crisis. The boat was loaded with enough food and fresh water for 10 people for 20 days. Although food could be supplemented by fishing, the problem of fresh water could not be solved on the sea. The air was filled with thick fog with a slightly salty taste, and everyone's water consumption was increasing after rowing continuously for several days.

The remaining fresh water could not last for a few days.

This thick fog connecting the sky and the earth was severely punishing Loki's innate sense of superiority as a traverser.

After 10 days, he ordered his men to stop rowing and take a day off. He found that he could not see the direction clearly without the sun and stars. Blindly rowing would not only waste physical strength, but also make the boat keep turning in circles like a ghost wall.

Loki returned to the captain's room, ate a full meal and fell asleep.

When the crisis came, anger, frustration and collapse were useless emotions. The only thing that could save him from despair was to keep a clear mind and sufficient physical strength.

It didn't take long before snoring sounded all over the ship.