Chapter 2 1.2 General Map of the World

Loki was not a top student in his previous life, but thanks to the perfect nine-year compulsory education in the Red Country, he still clearly understood the meaning of these two English sentences!

The subordinates around him looked at him hesitantly, but Loki helped the old missionary up very carefully. Looking carefully at his face, he found that he was an old man between 40 and 50 years old. He was only 1.7 meters tall, with brown hair and black eyes.

In terms of appearance alone, he was very different from the tall and pale Slavs in this land.

The missionary was wearing a thin linen coarse cloth. He was unarmed, but the thick book he held tightly in his arms looked quite valuable. Loki snatched it away and found that the book looked very old from the outside.

The cover was greasy and dirty sheepskin, and the inner pages were all fragile papyrus. After shaking it twice, the whole book seemed to be blown to pieces by the cold wind! However, what caught his attention more was the line of traditional Chinese characters written on the cover of this ancient book.

General map of the whole world?

There were three small characters at the back: Volume 15.

After opening it, the inner pages of the ancient book actually outlined several vivid maps with gold powder and silver lines!

Loki was shocked.

In this era without printing, all books must be completed by hand-drawing. And among all the hand-drawn books, the most precious are the travel notes that record the travel routes of the predecessors and what they saw and heard along the way.

Cartography is a very profound subject. In an era when humans cannot fly into the sky like birds, it is very difficult to draw a complete and accurate coastline! There are several parchment scrolls drawn by wanderers in the ancestral home of Hanshui Village, but those things are more like a pile of vague directions made of arrows than maps.

The map drawn in this shabby ancient book is quite different. Although these maps are only the corners of a continent, the coastline of this local corner area is accurately drawn! Even the islands, the fish and monsters in the sea, and the products of different regions on land are clearly marked!

The old priest struggled to take back the ancient book from Loki, but was kicked to the ground by Loki without mercy.

"From now on, I ask, you speak! Otherwise, I don't mind sending you to see God immediately!"

"You... you can actually speak English! My God, I actually met a barbarian who can communicate with me in English!" The old priest cried out, but Loki slapped him back to consciousness again.

"Remember, I'm not a barbarian!"

"First question, what's your name?"

"You can call me Father Wade. Can you give me the book first?"

"This is a map drawn by the flying swords of the Eastern Tang Dynasty! The text inside is Tang language, you can't understand it!"

Loki was the first barbarian who was related to the word "civilization" that old Wade saw. After saying his name, he temporarily forgot his fear and wanted to take back his book.

"Get lost!" Seeing the old priest stretching out his dry big hand to grab the atlas, Loki kicked him to the ground again.

"Are there any missionaries like you around?"

"No, I'm the only one left, the others are all dead!" When mentioning his dead companions, confusion and fear appeared in Wade's eyes again. His shaking hands involuntarily grasped the wooden cross on his chest, and at this moment, Loki was surprised to find that his dark gray coarse cloth robe was full of dried blood stains.

The cold and freezing covered the smell of blood decay. But the pieces of dark red blood clots attached to the clothes made the soft linen look like cardboard.

"Where are you from? Why did you come to the land of the Slavs?"

In late autumn, this man was still wearing a thin summer cloth robe. After pulling him out of the barn, although his cheeks and ears were frozen red, he did not tremble due to the cold.

Only the dead would still block the body's instinctive warning in such a cold environment.

This is not normal.

"I, on the order of the Pope, led the Templars across the sea to find the evil temple left by the "Old Lord" in the mortal world"

"Use the map drawn in this book?" Loki turned his eyes away from his blood-stained robe and stared at his black eyes.

"Yes."

"Look at your behavior, didn't you find it?"

"No"

"On the cold beach of Murmansk, we encountered a giant monster left over from prehistoric times! Everyone died, only I barely rode an old horse, wandered aimlessly and found this remote village."

Loki nodded. Haha, indecisive, mysterious creature. These eight words were particularly useful in the Middle Ages.

"The last question is, are you from England?"

The previous questions were all foreshadowing and idle talk, and this question was the answer Loki wanted to know the most.

Before crossing, his understanding of Eastern European history was limited to a little knowledge. But even so, he knew that the Vikings made their fortune by plundering England.

However, almost all Viking lords insisted on one truth: there is only sea and no land west of the North Sea! Loki didn't know how different the world map in this plane was from what he saw in his previous life.

Today, I finally caught a tongue. He first needs to know whether there are English Islands in this plane! As long as Britain exists, it means that there is land west of the Scandinavian Peninsula!

After mastering this information, you only need to build a few ships and go west from the North Sea to a new hunting ground that is much richer than Eastern Russia.

No need to be allocated, no need to be drawn, the whole hunting ground is mine!

"Yes, sir, I come from the Kingdom of Northumbria in the west of the West English Isles."

Hehe Loki clapped his hands, stuffed the ancient book into his backpack, and smiled with satisfaction.

"Brothers, hurry up and search for supplies. We will finish work in the afternoon and return!"

"Boss, why?!"

"Yes, there are still three days before the return date announced by the Duke. We can definitely find the next village and make a lot of money from him!"

The Vikings are natural warriors. In their beliefs, only warriors who die on the battlefield can ascend to Valhalla after death and drink wine with the gods.

For every Viking pirate who goes out to plunder, it is a great honor to die on the battlefield with a huge axe. None of them fear death, but Loki, a deep-rooted atheist, doesn't think so.

Regain your energy and seek development. Every Chi countryman has a deep and incomparable understanding of these eight words. They have witnessed with their own eyes that a poor country with nothing has become the world's largest country with the unremitting efforts of three generations!

All this is not given by some illusory gods, but the hardworking people have fought with their wisdom, diligence, and blood and sweat!

There are only more than 170 people left in the village. The looting this winter has killed 10 young and strong laborers in his village, and there are less than 40 hunters in the village who can take up weapons to fight.

If ten or eight more people die in the next battle, how to go out hunting next year and how to participate in the next robbery will become a problem. Besides, I have captured an English missionary and have obtained the most precious spoils of this robbery.

I have a tongue and a map written in Chinese.

Next year, I will find a way to lead my people across the North Sea to the west, and cross to the English Isles to rob the truly wealthy nobles. In the last life, these bastards once used opium to knock on the door of the poor Qing Dynasty.

In this life, I will use a big axe and a raging fire to plow your ancestors hard, so that you will understand what it means to be a "robber from the West!"