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    "Coming! Coming!" With a burst of cheers from the crowd on the pier, several long masts suddenly appeared on the distant sea, and then several long sails appeared on the sea, and as the distance approached, they changed.  Get taller and taller.  However, those with good eyesight can quickly notice that the sails in the distance are colorful and patched in many places, making them look like beggars.

    After a while, the distant fleet finally jumped out from below the sea level and appeared completely in front of Li Min and others. However, when everyone saw the appearance of this fleet, they all felt sad.  Qi, because the appearance of this fleet is so miserable. There are only a dozen large ships left in the entire fleet. Not only are the sails patched, but the hulls are also in tatters. You can see stains on the boards everywhere.  With cracks and patched planks, it can be said that these ships are almost on the verge of being scrapped.

    When the family members of the crew from Luzon saw the miserable appearance of the fleet, many of them cried on the spot, because they all knew that two years would not be enough for the fleet to become like this, unless they encountered  There was a big storm, and during the storm, the fleet must have suffered considerable casualties. In other words, their relatives probably did not come back with the fleet.

    Li Min and others also felt their hearts sink. Most people were also speculating on the casualties of the fleet, and the atmosphere on the dock was silent for a while.

    Lu Wan¡¯s fleet quickly entered the port, and the pilot boat guided them into the berth. At this time, everyone, including Li Min, stepped forward to welcome them.

    At this time, people on the boat also leaned out from the side of the boat to look down. As a result, several family members recognized their relatives and began to call loudly. The crew members on the boat also responded loudly with tears in their eyes, which made the family members below  They were even more anxious, running back and forth between more than a dozen large ships.  Looking for his family.

    Li Min came to the main ship of the fleet. He knew this ship called Global. It was an ocean-going ship ordered by Lu Wan at the official shipyard in Taiwan after he completed his exploration of the second route to the Americas. It was very well-built and had always been  They are all Lu Wan's ships.  But the Globe in front of me was in a dilapidated state. There were scratches all over the hull, and there were signs of repairs. There was even a small piece missing at the stern.  Although it does not affect navigation, it is very unsightly.

    While Li Min and the others were looking at the Global, they saw a flash of people on the ship, and finally someone began to walk towards the ship.  According to the rules, the first person to get off the boat should be the person with the highest status on the boat.  That is Captain Lu Wan.  Today's situation was no exception. While Li Min and others were waiting, captain Lu Wan was the first to step off the ship.

    But when Li Min and the others saw Lu Wan, they were all stunned, because although Lu Wan in front of them was smiling, he was holding a cane in his right hand, and a gust of sea breeze blew by.  Blowing up the hem of his clothes, everyone could see that the place where Lu Wan's right leg should have been was now empty.

    "Common people see you, Your Majesty!" Lu Wan walked off the boat with his crutch.  He saluted Li Min.

    "Lu Wan, your leg?" Li Min hurriedly held Lu Wan and asked with great concern.  Now that he was closer, Li Min realized that Lu Wan was not only missing a right leg.  Moreover, he was very thin and looked a little pale.  It seemed like losing a leg took a toll on his body.

    "Your Majesty, it's just a leg. Compared to those brothers who were buried under the sea, it's nothing!" Lu Wan said with a somewhat silent expression. His words also confirmed the previous guesses of Li Min and others. Lu Wan and the others  This time there must have been a huge disaster.

    "Husband~" At this moment, Lu Wan's old wife couldn't bear it any longer. She didn't care that Li Min was talking to Lu Wan. She screamed in pain and threw herself on Lu Wan's chest and cried bitterly. There were also several of Lu Wan's  The children are also very sad.  In addition, the names of some dead crew members were also announced by other crew members at this time, which caused the families of these crew members to burst into tears.

    Originally, Li Min had prepared a banquet to welcome Lu Wan and the others, but he did not expect such a change. At the moment, he did not care about welcoming the wind, and hurriedly arranged for the crew and family members to meet and talk at the place of residence to stabilize the emotions of the family members first.  Say it again.  In this way, in the afternoon, Lu Wan and some senior members of the crew came to meet with Li Min, and then told them about their experiences in the past two years.

    It turned out that two years ago, after Lu Wan and the others separated from Li Ke, they followed a southward ocean current to near the equator of the Atlantic Ocean. Here they found an ocean current leading to the Americas. This made the entire fleet very excited and immediately  Heading to America by ship.

    Originally, they were going very smoothly at the beginning, but what they didn't expect was that because they were not familiar with the climate of the Atlantic Ocean, this time happened to be the peak season of typhoons in the Atlantic Ocean, but the typhoons here were called hurricanes in later generations.

    It is precisely because of this that when Lu Wan and the others were about to arrive in America, they suddenly encountered a strong wind.It was a storm, and the waves at that time were several feet high. If their large ships were not specially made and had excellent stability, they would have all been overturned in that big storm.

    Although the storm was strong, fortunately, Lu Wan and the members of the fleet were all experienced. Before the storm reached its maximum, Lu Wan made a decisive decision, abandoned some small boats that could not withstand the wind and waves, and gathered all the crew members.  On to the big ship.  It was his decision that caused the fleet to lose almost all the medium-sized ships, but the casualties were not very serious. Except for a dozen crew members who were swept away by the storm, the others were slightly injured at most, and it was worth mentioning.  The thing to mention is that Lu Wan's legs were still intact at this time.

    However, after this storm, more than a dozen large ships in the fleet also suffered great damage. Some ships were even blown into the rocks, and several large holes were broken in the hull. Fortunately, the crew worked hard to repair it, so the ship did not sink.  and reluctantly continued sailing to America.

    We didn¡¯t encounter any big winds and waves during the rest of the journey, and the fleet also successfully arrived at an archipelago very close to the American continent. There were also two fairly large islands in these archipelagos.  Later, Li Min looked at the chart provided by Lu Wan and others, and realized that this archipelago was located in the Caribbean Sea in later generations.

    Luwan and the others stayed on the island for a long time, mainly to repair the damage to the ship in the storm. At the same time, they also came into contact with the indigenous people on the island. The language of these people belongs to the same language family as the Mayan language. Although Liu  Kata, the language master, is not in the fleet, but there are other translators in the fleet who understand the Mayan language, so communication is not difficult.

    The indigenous people on the island call themselves the Arawaks. They came to the island in small boats from the Americas hundreds of years ago. The civilization of these Arawaks is very backward. They have no concept of a country and are even more backward than the Mayans.  Many, but they were very friendly to Lu Wan and the others, and took out a lot of food to exchange porcelain, cotton cloth and other daily necessities with the fleet.

    Luwan and the others had already had experience in contact with the Americans, and there was no problem with language communication, so they also got some very useful information from the Arawaks, such as the annual climate conditions in the Atlantic Ocean and some islands in the Caribbean.  distribution and so on.  However, the natives on these islands rarely communicate with the natives on the American continent, so they know very little about the situation in the Americas, not even as much as Lu Wan and others.

    After staying on this archipelago for a while, the injured ships in the fleet were almost repaired, and they headed west again. As a result, they finally reached the east coast of America, and coincidentally, they  We actually arrived directly at the Yucatan Peninsula, the birthplace of the Mayans.

    The Yucatan Peninsula is a prominent rectangular peninsula on the east coast of Central America. The northern part of the peninsula is what later became the Gulf of Mexico, and the southeast is the Caribbean Sea.  The peninsula is rich in corn, sugar cane, cocoa, etc. It is also the birthplace of the Maya people. The peninsula is full of Mayan city-states. When Luwan and others first arrived in America, they saw the Mayans in Chola City.  Their city was originally located on this peninsula.

    At the beginning, Lu Wan and the others did not know that the coast they were docking on was the Yucatan Peninsula. They just followed the wind and found a beach to dock at, and then sent a small team ashore, hoping to find someone they could communicate with.  Americans, and ask them how far it is from the west coast of America?  It would be best if the other party could know about Chola City or Luwan Port.

    But what Lu Wan and the others didn't expect was that after their fleet docked, they searched near the coast for several days, but they didn't find even a single person. They even found a small village not far from the coast.  But the whole village was deserted.

    What's even more strange is that Lu Wan and the others found a lot of moldy and spoiled food in many houses in the village. There was even a small amount of food that was still edible because it was well preserved. Some daily necessities were also there, but they didn't see them.  A single figure, as if the entire village had encountered some serious danger, so they moved away in a hurry, not even being able to take away all the food.

    Faced with this situation, Lu Wan and the others felt a little incredible. Judging from the style of the temple in the middle of the village and the text in the temple, this village should be a village where the Mayans lived.  Moreover, there are several corpses that died due to blood sacrifices in the temple. Judging from the decomposition of these corpses, this village was still inhabited at least half a year ago.

    Facing such an empty village, although Lu Wan and the others were puzzled, they did not delve too deeply into it. After all, they were not detectives, and they also got some useful information from here. For example, this is the territory of the Mayans, so it should be OK.  Got some useful information.

    However, Lu Wan and the others did not expect thatHowever, they then took boats to land several times on the Yucatan Peninsula, and even found a small city by the sea. However, whether it was a village or a city, they were all deserted, as if all the Mayans had disappeared. Finally, until they  When we arrived at the southern side of the peninsula and found what should be the largest city nearby, we finally understood the truth behind the disappearance of the Mayans!
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