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There is a joke on the Internet of later generations called "If you don't die, you won't die". This sentence could not be more appropriate for the Mayans in Karoo City. After leaving, the dormant smallpox virus broke out almost at the same time. The sick people had persistent high fevers, and some even went blind, followed by complications such as sepsis, encephalitis, and pneumonia, and died within a few days.

At that time, the population density of Karoo City had reached an astonishing level, and almost everyone could not escape the smallpox infection. Large swaths of people died of the disease, and even people outside the city had no time to escape, and there were no dead bodies in the city at all. People cleaned up, and the entire street was almost full of people who died of illness, which eventually led to the situation that Lu Wan and the others saw.

Regarding the situation described by the Maya, those crew members who went to the city to search for gold also confirmed his words. According to these crew members, dead bodies were found everywhere on the streets of the city, and some roads were even blocked by corpses. Find another way to reach the temple.

Moreover, on the square of the temple, they also saw the patients who were sacrificed by blood, their limbs were tied on the altar one by one, and although the blood stains under their bodies had dried up, they could also see the tragic scene of blood flowing into rivers at that time .

"Poor Mayans, although you have excellent civilization in mathematics and astronomy, your ignorance in religion and medicine will bring you disaster sooner or later!" After hearing these things, Lu Wan shook his head and sighed said aloud.Capital Datang 679

It has to be said that Lu Wan's vision was very unique. According to the estimates of later Han Chinese scholars, the smallpox plague from Asia lasted for nearly a hundred years, and the total population of the Maya also decreased by more than [-]%. After gaining immunity to smallpox in this plague, he survived strongly.

At the same time, the death of a large number of people, especially the death of those priests, caused the civilization of the Maya to regress in great strides. Some knowledge of astronomy and mathematics was cut off from inheritance. , looking for some fragments about the Mayan civilization.

However, Lu Wan and the others don't care about the life and death of the Mayans, and they even have a very excited attitude, because they found a large amount of gold from the empty city, only in the temple of Kalu City. , The crew sent out brought back more than 3000 catties of gold, which made all the members of the fleet glisten, as if seeing a glittering piece of wealth placed in front of them.

So in the next action, Lu Wan and the others asked about the surrounding cities through the surviving Mayans, and began to send several teams to these cities. Come back immediately to inform the fleet, and then the ship sends a large number of people to the city to look for gold.

It was also during the process of searching for gold that Lu Wan and the others found that situations like Karu City were really rare. The Mayans did not seem to have much experience with the plague. Many Mayans rushed to the city after the outbreak of smallpox , maybe they feel safer in the city?But it's a pity that a plague like smallpox, the more densely populated the place, the more dangerous it is.

In this way, Lu Wan and the others stayed in the Yucatan Peninsula for more than a year, and found more than a dozen large and small uninhabited cities. In addition, they also encountered a few cities that have not yet had smallpox. It’s just the situation of these cities But they are not optimistic. They are surrounded by smallpox-infested areas. Although they closed the city gates, smallpox can be transmitted through the air. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the Mayans in these cities contract smallpox.

In the past year or so, Lu Wan and the others found a total of [-] tons of gold. Among them, they found a huge city in the northeast of the peninsula. The original population of the city was at least [-]. In this city alone In the process, Lu Wan and the others found nearly four tons of gold, which made Lu Wan and the others almost go crazy with joy.

But although gold is good, Lu Wan and the others are also very measured. For more than a year, they only acted in the coastal areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, and did not go too deep into the peninsula.This is mainly because in coastal areas, gold is also more convenient to transport to ships.In addition, the situation inside the peninsula is not very clear, if you encounter a more powerful Mayan, it will be bad.

Although the gold seems to be ownerless to Lu Wan and the others, to the Mayans, those gold utensils belong to the gods. This kind of behavior by Lu Wan and the others is not only theft, but also the personal belongings of the gods. , if caught by the Mayans on the spot, they will definitely be dragged to the altar for blood sacrifice.

After sweeping the entire coastal area of ​​the Yucatan Peninsula, Lu Wan and the others remembered the main task of this trip.However, they did not intend to return by the same route, but went all the way south along the American coast, preparing to bypass the Americas and reach the west coast, completing the feat of a week around the world.

The beginning was very smooth, even if there was a storm, they could dock at the shore, and on the east coast of South America, they also met all kinds of native Americans. Although these natives and the Mayans belonged to America Natives, but their living habits and language are quite different.

Soon Lu Wan and the others came to the southernmost tip of America, which is the Strait of Magellan area in later generations, and the south of the strait is Tierra del Fuego.The origin of the name of Tierra del Fuego is very interesting. Legend has it that when Magellan passed through the strait, he saw the natives on the island cooking a bonfire, so he named the island in the south of the strait Tierra del Fuego.

It's a pity that it was daytime when Lu Wan and the others arrived in the strait, and they didn't see the bonfires of the natives on the island, but Lu Wan saw a huge glacier on the island through a telescope, so he named the island Glacier Island, and the strait naturally Hence the name, temporarily named Glacier Strait.

The Glacier Strait is already approaching the Antarctic, and it just so happens that it is already June, which happens to be winter in the southern hemisphere, so when Lu Wan and the others passed here, the weather was quite cold.However, if it’s just cold, the Glacier Strait was famous for its high winds and rough waves in later generations, and it was often accompanied by heavy fog in winter. In addition, the strait was not very wide, so when the fleet passed here, they faced huge challenge.

When they first entered the strait, relying on the skilled sailing skills of Lu Wan and the crew, they advanced very smoothly, but they hadn't traveled far when thick fog began to appear in the strait, which made the fleet's driving difficult. Especially when passing through a section of the strait, the width of the strait suddenly became less than ten miles, and the water depth became very shallow. Everyone raised their hearts to their throats.

But just as they were about to pass through this relatively narrow strait, the wind in the strait suddenly became stronger.At the beginning, the strong wind blew away the thick fog in front of the crew, which made the crew happy for a while, but then they all started to scold the ghostly weather, because the wind was getting stronger and stronger. Big, already made it impossible for them to grasp the direction of the ship.

At this time, the superb sailing skills of the crew members in the fleet were reflected. In the huge wind and waves, the ships were swayed by the waves, and some even seemed to hit the hidden reefs in the sea, and even the cliffs on both sides of the strait. However, these ships can turn their bows when there is no time to save the ship from danger.

But maybe it was God's test of Lu Wan's round-the-world voyage. Just when they sailed out of this very narrow strait and entered a rather wide strait in the Glacier Strait, before the entire fleet could breathe a sigh of relief, one side of the strait The glacier hanging on the cliff suddenly broke, and a small mountain-like glacier slammed into the sea water next to the fleet with a strong wind. Huge ice blocks splashed everywhere, causing great damage to several nearby ships.

Among them, the Universal ship that Lu Wan was on happened to be not far from the glacier. At that time, Lu Wan was standing at the bow of the ship directing the ship to move forward, but unexpectedly, an icicle thick as an arm flew over, piercing his right leg at once, and even The femur was also punctured, and the white bone stubble protruded from the skin, and blood gushed out like a spring.Capital Datang 679

At first Lu Wan only felt his right leg go cold, but didn't feel any pain, but when he looked down and saw the tragedy on his leg, he immediately felt a heart-piercing pain, and immediately passed out with a scream.Fortunately, Xu Fang was on the Global, and immediately rescued Lu Wan.

Because most of the bones and muscles of Lu Wan's thigh were cut off, and only a part of the muscles were connected. Under the current situation, it was impossible to keep it, so Xu Fang decisively cut off Lu Wan's thigh, and then performed a bleeding operation. It prevented Lu Wan from dying of excessive blood loss.

Lu Wan was not the only one who was hit by the ice cubes. The crew members on other ships were also injured or even killed by the ice cubes. Even the stern of the ship closest to the glacier's sinking point was split twice by a huge ice cube. There was a big hole, and it sank before even repairing it. Although the crew on the ship tried their best to save themselves, other ships also came forward to rescue them, but in the end, because the temperature of the sea water was too low, only part of the crew on board were rescued and died. The number of people exceeded 30, and thousands of catties of gold stored on the ship also sank.

Although suffered such a big change, even Lu Wan was seriously injured and fell into a coma, but this fleet showed extraordinary qualities. A captain immediately took over Lu Wan's position, first commanding The fleet left this dangerous sea area, and then found a relatively calm sea area to anchor in the strait, and the entire fleet began to rest and overhaul the ships.

It's just that Lu Wan's injuries were too serious, and he woke up once during the period, but unfortunately he only came in time to formally hand over his best efforts to the captain who replaced him, and then passed out again.

After the fleet was rested, under the leadership of the new captain, the fleet moved forward along the strait again. During the period, they encountered several huge dangers, but they survived all of them. Finally, a month later, The fleet finally passed through this stormy strait, and this strait was renamed the Strait of Storms by the fleet!To be continued. )

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