Rebirth of the Viking King

Ten companions spent the night carrying food, fresh water, and ravens for finding land to the boat. Loki took advantage of the dusk to pick up the sleeping old priest Walder from the bed and ran all the way to the seaside cave.

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

Facing him reminded Loki of the slippery old fools he met at work in his previous life.

The more respectful you are, the more you become crooked.

Father Ward was no fool. He could tell at a glance that Loki was not willing to kill him. Because of this, he was very embarrassed to live in Hanshui Village. He ate so much every day that he gained weight in just three days.

Loki also has a way to deal with such people.

Don't tell me, right?

good! I'll capture you and let's get on the boat together.

Why does the old saying say that we boarded a "thief ship"? Because after getting on the boat, no matter whether there are humans or animals on the boat, everyone will be dead if the boat capsizes. When it comes to truly sailing on a deserted sea, the old guy has to point the way even if he doesn't want to.

Because his own life is also on board.

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

Father Ward's old arms and legs couldn't do anything else, so he could always do anything from hiding in the lower cabin to cleaning the toilets and scrubbing the toilets.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, Rocky and his 10 companions drove this mammoth three-masted ship out of the estuary not far from Hanshui Village in the thick night.

It was late autumn, and snowflakes as fine as sugar continued to fall from the sky. All three sails of the three-masted ship were full of wind, and the ship's speed was close to thirty kilometers per hour.

Although the speed is still much lower than that of Zheng He's "treasure ship" on his voyages to the West, this speed is quite good for Loki, who built a ship for the first time!

Old Walder stood at the bow of the ship, dumbfounded. Unlike the young men who steered the sails, his age and experience were far beyond those of his peers in this era. He had seen many great artifacts and creations in his life, but like the three-masted ship that Loki was piloting at this time, he had neither seen nor heard of it.

Not to mention the size, this thing's speed has exceeded all ships of this era.

Under the silver moonlight, the bow knife of the three-masted ship broke through the large ice floes that had condensed on the sea. Before the sun rose, the big ship had disappeared into the vast coastline of Scandinavia.

In the cold wind, Loki stood behind the helm of the ship wearing a thick bearskin coat. He calculated the direction of the rising stars and the sun, and pointed the bow of the ship strictly to the west.

According to his calculations, if the map of this life is the same as the previous one, then the ship will cross the North Sea and reach the English Islands on the other end with smooth winds and smooth water.

Only takes 30 hours!

However, due to the lack of maps and the Vikings' backward and primitive pirate culture, outsiders did not dare to approach their land at all. There is very little information about the outside world available in Hanshui Village. It is based on this consideration that Rocky will bring enough food for 20 days.

If the world map in this plane is completely different from the previous life, if England to the west of Scandinavia is thousands of miles away, he has made mental preparations for this.

"Our goal is to find the continent to the west. Everyone's eyes widened. The lookout on the mast cheered up and used a quartz lens to carefully observe the sea in the west for me!"

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

Loki had been to the British Isles on official business in his previous life. During the week he was away on business, there was heavy fog in London for six days.

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

The three-masted ship cut through the waves, and Loki was lucky. After leading everyone in Hanshui Village to go to sea for the first time, they encountered good weather with smooth wind and water. The boat's speed remained close to 30 kilometers per hour throughout the day.

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

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

They raised the flag and shouted the trumpet in high spirits. The three-masted ship accelerated into the vast white mist without looking back. However, at this time, Loki never expected that after the three-masted ship sailed into the thick fog,

For the next ten days, they did not drive out of this thick fog again!

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Fog is formed because the air near the ground gradually cools due to heat dissipation from the ground. The humid air quickly cools to the dew point, forming countless small water droplets suspended in the air.

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

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

What can form heavy fog must be land, because only land can store heat. The empty sea surface without land cannot form this kind of natural landscape at all. So when he saw the thick fog filling the sea, Loki rushed in without hesitation.

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

However, after driving 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 happened in front of us obviously cannot be described scientifically.

First of all, it was already late autumn, and when we first went out to sea, Ruhaikou near Hanshui Village was already full of ice floes. However, the sea water here is still warm! Waves of mist continued to rise from the sea, making everyone on the ship feel as warm as a sauna.

Secondly, after driving for a full day without driving out of the thick fog, a faint sense of crisis began to emerge from the bottom of my heart. Loki immediately ordered the nets to be set down to catch fish. However, the fish caught in the fishing net were of a species he had never seen before.

Seahorses with a length of one meter, sea turtles with a diameter of two meters, and phosphorescent molluscs that appear in groups at night. All these creatures severely challenged the remaining common sense of a time traveler in his mind.

As a Viking "sea dweller", Loki can also be said to be half a fisherman. However, he has never found these strange creatures in the offshore sea near Hanshui Village.

When everyone looked at each other in confusion at these terrifying and strange creatures, only the preacher Old Walder crossed his shoulders and raised the corners of his mouth, revealing an unknown smile.

Seeing that something was wrong, Loki made a quick decision and ordered a return trip.

In the thick fog, the sea breeze that blew continuously when setting sail completely stopped. 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 strenuous than rowing a small and brisk Viking longboat.

One day later, everyone was still in the thick fog.

Three days have passed, and even 10 days later, the almost endless thick fog that shrouded the sky and the earth has never dissipated!

As a red countryman, Loki is quite crisis-conscious. The ship is loaded with enough food and fresh water for 10 people for 20 days. Although food can be supplemented by fishing, the problem of fresh water cannot be solved at sea. There was a thick, slightly salty fog floating in the air, and everyone's water consumption was rising as they paddled every day for several days.

The remaining fresh water could not last more than a few days.

This heavy fog connecting heaven and earth was severely punishing Loki's inherent sense of superiority as a time traveler.

After 10 days, he ordered his men to stop rowing and take a day off. He found that without the sun and stars, he could not see the direction clearly. In addition to wasting energy, blindly rowing can only make the ship continue to circle in circles like a ghost hitting a wall.

Loki returned to the captain's cabin, had a hearty meal and fell asleep.

Anger, frustration, and breakdown are useless emotions when crisis strikes. The only thing that can save him from this desperate situation is to maintain a clear mind and sufficient physical strength.

Not long after, snoring could be heard throughout the ship.