Scales of Eternal Order

After giving the little fisherman a common hand-free knife, he and Ques quickly got acquainted. Not only did he tell Ques his name, Kos, but he also gave his “Canoe” to this generous master captain.

The raft made of reeds turned out to be just a split floating raft on Kos’s catamaran fishing boat. Rainstorm destroyed his fishing boat full of catches. The experienced little navigator decisively chose to abandon the flooding. Serious hull, hug a raft to escape.

Taking advantage of the moment after the rainstorm stopped, the boy with quick hands and feet made a simple outboard bracket using spare wood and hemp rope on the Ques boat, and then set up his reed raft. In order to provide extra buoyancy for the boat.

“Praise your generosity, Master Captain,” Coase tied the knot skillfully, and smiled at the young Blue Dragon while raising his head: “Although this reed raft is worthless, it can also allow you It’s a bit smoother. And you still have an iron knife. I can fasten the deadlock. The fishing boat I used to disintegrate in the rainstorm because it can only be fastened.”

Young temperament, after getting acquainted with Ques, Coase has been talking non-stop. And the young Blue Dragon who hopes to get more information about the island world also becomes a qualified listener incarnation, just occasionally asking some questions.

“This open sea is about to border the land of the camels. Your circular base has drifted here this year. It should be time to trade with them. How many days are you going to park?” Ques asked curiously .

This question seems to reveal the suspicion that Ques himself is an “Illegal immigrants”, but it is not abrupt.

In fact, although the empire and federation’s trading bazaar does not prohibit other human forces from participating in trading except for the raft ring base, generally wanderers disguised like Ques, if they enter the market alone In the city, few people are not bargained by fiercely.

So they usually look for a ring base to pass by, and spend some money to join them temporarily, in order to be able to sell their goods at a fair price when dealing with aliens.

After listening to Ques’s questioning, Coase apparently regarded him as a wandering captain “seeking for help”. He patted his chest and said, “Master captain, don’t worry. Our Elders have already found out. Recently, there are many bactrian camel nobles from the big oasis. Few pearls, at least one week of mooring. If you want to temporarily join the caravan of our ring base, Coase is willing to be an introducer for you.”

As a thank you to the little navigator, when you sail to the ring base On the way, the so-so young Blue Dragon deliberately caught a swordfish, intercepted the flat and polished shape of its head, and then found a small piece of wood to make a grip and made a short sword more than three feet long and gave it to Koss. And the remaining swordfish meat was sprinkled with spices brought from the ashes world by Ques, made into fish meat and shared with the boy.

The sky in the west turned from red to light gray, and then from gray to black. With the help of the stars in the sky, he sailed for about a night, and Ques’ teak boat drove to the ring base of the raftman.

With Kos as the introducer, they soon followed a line of fishing boats into the sluice gate of the ring base. The young blue dragon, transformed into a human form, stood on the bow, looking at this “city” made up of various woods and other building materials.

Rather than a city, the term village is actually more suitable for the settlement of this floating raft.

Like most of the existing homes inhabited by humans in the island world, this huge floating object that moves with the ocean current is composed of logs and fish skin balloons to provide buoyancy.

The perimeter of the base is wrapped with a wall made of various wood materials. According to Coase, the wall is built by a little bit of wood by skilled craftsmen without using a single nail. Moreover, after the construction was completed, fish glue made by boiled fish maw was applied to reinforce it, so the final formed wall can withstand strong winds and sea monsters and is very reliable.

The surrounding wall encloses the settlement, and the whole is in a ring shape. The entire settlement is built along the wall for living or other buildings. The “circular base” is also named.

After entering the ring base, a special pilot commanded Ques to moor the boat to the pier in the heart of the belly. Ques found that other ships were about the same size as his own, not at all larger ships.

“There are shark blocking nets under the base, and boats with a slightly deeper draft can only be berthed at special piers outside the city wall.” Hearing Ques’s question, Coase did not suspect him and introduced meticulously: “Generally, those ships are used to hunt whales, or sail to communicate with other circular bases, and there are actually very few opportunities to berth on the pier…”

The voice of prayer chanted around, Coase’s words stopped abruptly, cup one fist in the other hand in the other hand whispered the eulogy in his chest: “Turn the ancient into pulp, the veins into vines, the body into trees, the blood into the sea…too old Ursula has passed away. Following the most ceremony, she will continue to bring us grace…”

The young blue dragon is looking for fame, and many people gather in what appears to be a botanical garden. Several women were hiding their faces and sobbing—they were holding a certain kind of funeral ceremony—the crowd chanted their eulogy around a corpse with shaved hair, and poured the corpse into a large tumbling yellow-green mud. In the slot.

Everyone who participated in the funeral grabbed a handful of mud from a small bag that he carried with him, followed the people in front of the line, and threw the mud into the bubbling mud one by one.

Because of the natural sensitive sense of smell of giant dragon, the smell coming from there made Ques frown.

The people attending the funeral were no better to go there than the young Blue Dragon. Soon after the ceremony was finished, everyone dispersed. Only two people with gauze on their faces were left, holding the long bamboo poles and constantly stirring the sink full of mud.

“Grandma Ursula is an out-and-out Legendary in the ring base,” the word “Legendary” in the words made Ques look awkward, but immediately he concealed himself well Expression-Coase continued to be introduced: “From a very young age, she devoted herself to sailing and exploring the remains of ancient human civilization. In the process of exploring the “earth and sea”, she learned from the ruins of the seabed and some unknown islands. Many ancient plants were brought back on the site, and a base botanical garden was established. Some of the plant seeds inside were taken home to grow fruits. After eating, the residents in the base can be healthier and the lifespan longer…”

It turns out that Ques happened to watch a funeral of a certain “Legendary” character in the island world from a distance. Although the grayish green mud looks disgusting and smells worse, it can actually quickly turn the body into mud. This kind of funeral method of “use the best” is also a tradition developed by the floating rafts due to the shortage of resources.