Chapter 81 3.4 First Encounter with the Royal Family

In the following days, Loki was making preparations before going to sea.

This trip was not like going to England. Although Loki did not have a clear world map in his mind, he knew that finding Iceland was much more difficult than finding England.

This time, he would lead the only remaining three-masted ship and the Tangren Building Ship that his "father-in-law" returned to him. The two ships would carry about 60 people. After all, the biggest goal of this operation was to find the ships left on the coast by the scientific expedition team of "Xiao Lu".

After finding the ships, Loki needed enough manpower to drive these ships back from the distant Iceland to the Scandinavian Peninsula. In this way, he must have enough manpower on his ship.

The second thing was food.

The Tangren Building Ship with an outstanding carrying capacity was filled with supplies by Loki. In addition, he also brought Aunt Fafna, who had just been promoted to "Sea Citizen" of Sequence 9 of "Fisherman's Path" in the village. Although this one-legged aunt lost one leg in the battle, her heroic fighting behavior was seen by the gods, who gave her the status of God's Chosen at the age of 40.

Although this is not a battle sequence, having a "seaman" who is good at fishing will greatly increase the team's endurance when sailing in the ocean. This allows Loki to leave more storage space for fresh water and rely on fishing to maintain food on the sea.

At the same time, there are two navigators who have awakened the "sailor" sequence on board. The two, a man and a woman, are Viking fishermen in the village. After several days of observation, Loki found that the sequence 9 "Wind Listener" of the "Sailor's Path" can easily identify ocean currents and sea breezes, and judge the wind direction in the next few days.

This is their only divine power, but it is magical enough for Loki.

In this medieval era without satellites and weather forecasts, being able to judge the water flow and wind direction in the next few days is already similar to the function of half a weather forecaster, which is very useful in the vast ocean.

In addition to people, he also used the gold and silver given by his father-in-law to buy 12 sled dogs. This large hunting dog, a cross between an ice wolf and a sheepdog, was used by Viking rich farmers to guard their homes. But Loki clearly remembered that during the Antarctic scientific expeditions in the 17th and 18th centuries, the icebreaker of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the United Kingdom was frozen in the ice and could not move. The spontaneously organized expeditions by the people crossed the entire continent in a very primitive way, using dog-drawn sleds.

If Iceland in early spring is still an ice-covered continent, these dogs will come in handy.

When selecting villagers to enter the ocean-going ship, Loki had carefully prepared a speech. Spring is the season of revival of all things. Hunters have to go into the mountains to hunt, and farmers have to plow the land and sow. He didn't expect that anyone would be willing to go on this life-threatening adventure with him. But he didn't expect the registration site to be unusually popular.

Just one winter ago, the appearance of Sartre's young men in their twenties with gold and silver in their pockets is still fresh in the memory of all the residents of Hanshui Village. Then they happily went to Valhalla together. I haven't come back yet. I really don't know how many potions I have drunk so far!

The honest Vikings will not be jealous, because they know that these people can plunder such a huge amount of gold and silver from the other side of the sea, and they must have paid a lot of price. But at this time, a seed has been planted in everyone's heart

"Follow the village chief to go to sea, you will definitely get a huge harvest!"

"The village chief is the reincarnation of Loki. He can lead us to win a war with such a huge disparity. He must also lead his subordinates to wear gold and silver!"

Although Loki has explained again and again that this voyage is not a plunder, but an expedition. The enthusiasm of the residents remains unabated. Among these people, the one who jumped the highest was Sanji's father, Gor Marash.

This restless blacksmith has been waiting for this opportunity for too long.

"Lord Loki, look at my arms, look at these two strong legs! They all say I'm old, but I can still control lightning!"

"Take me on board, let me do anything! Repair boats, row, scrub floors, fish, cook. I'm still young, I'm a hard bone, a newly promoted God of Thunder Chosen! Let me show you a piece"

Seeing that the old guy was about to swing the hammer and hit a set of military boxing in front of everyone, Loki hurriedly stopped him.

"Sir, please calm down. If you are not in the village, what will happen to the blacksmith shop?"

"Haha! The blacksmith shop doesn't need me at all. In fact, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. My skills have been bad for a long time. Almost everything used in the village recently was forged by my disciples and grandchildren."

"Okay, you do it"

The subsequent selection work lasted almost a day and a night. Loki chose young people in the village who were good at driving boats. After all, the main goal of this voyage was to pick up garbage. Pick up the relics left by the Qi-refining masters of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and the boats left by Xiao Lu on the seashore, etc.

It takes at least five people to drive a Tang Dynasty building boat. Almost all the experienced boatmen in the village were selected and trained for a few days before Loki decided on the final candidates.

If everything goes smoothly, it will take less than a month to go back and forth. If it doesn't go well, he can't say how long it will take. During the time he was away, Wen Zof was in charge of the "Wuya Town Production Brigade", so Loki was not worried.

In his own village, Loki thought for a long time whether to take Jerome, the top fighter of Hanshui Village. But he found that since Aunt Fafna was going to follow him, it seemed that only Jerome could help him manage the daily production work of Hanshui Village. After all, at this time, about one-third of the villagers in Hanshui Village believed in and supported the Holy Bishop.

There is no doubt that it would be easier for him, the head of the village, to manage.

As for the position of security captain, Loki assigned it to the newly promoted "Valkyrie" Katya. Jerome's newlywed wife had proved her combat ability in the battle of the siege of Hanshui Village. With Katya's help, coupled with a large number of awakened God's Chosen in the battle, Hanshui Village was able to resist the general foreign enemies on the peninsula without worry.

After completing all these preparations, the night before the departure. A melodious flute sounded suddenly at the gate of Hanshui Village. A carriage with a black body and pulled by four snow-white military horses appeared at the gate of Hanshui Village with the sonata of the musicians.

Leading the way for the carriage were 16 knights holding spears, and at least 50 fully armed shield-axe soldiers followed behind the carriage.

The gatekeeper rubbed his eyes vigorously, and after confirming that what appeared in front of him was not an illusion, he hurriedly opened the city gate and knelt respectfully.

After the carriage entered the village, all the villagers along the way saw the saber-toothed leopard flag on the carriage and bowed respectfully. At this moment, everyone spontaneously forgot the decree issued by Loki that "men should not kneel to others".

Because the flags and family emblems hanging on this carriage were really too dazzling.

The carriage drove smoothly all the way to the front of the Coldwater Castle. At the reminder of Loki's maid, he walked out of the gate and saw the saber-toothed leopard emblem of the Viking King "Sabertooth" O'Sullivan.