The Mysterious Island Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Captain Grant's Children

Chapter 175 The Mysterious Island (60)
Everyone looked at him with great excitement.In other words, he is the one who successfully rescued all kinds of dangers under so many complicated and changeable situations, so he is called the "sage of the island" and the almighty one. By!However, what was in front of them was just an ordinary person, and a dying person at that.May former Pencroft and Neb have always thought him a god!
But how did Cyrus Harding know Captain Nemo?Why did Captain Nemo stand up reflexively as soon as he heard his name?He may think that no one in the world knows his name anymore? ...

The captain returned to the sofa, propping himself up on his arms, looking at the engineer sitting next to him.

"Sir, do you know my name?" he asked.

Cyrus Harding replied, "I know yours as I know the name of this admirable submarine."

The captain smiled slightly and said, "'Nautilus'?"

"Yes, the 'Nautilus'."

"But do you know... do you know who I am?"

"I know."

"But I have been isolated from the world for 30 years. For 30 years, I have lived in the deep sea. This is the only place I can find, where I can return my freedom and independence! Who leaked my secret?"

"Captain Nemo, he is a person who has never made a promise to you. Therefore, it cannot be said that he leaked it."

"Is that the Frenchman? A man who was thrown on board my boat by fate sixteen years ago."

"it's him."

"So he and his two companions didn't die when the Nautilus crossed the Meyer Strait?"

"No, he also published a novel called "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", which contains your story."

The captain quickly replied: "Sir, that's my story in just a few months!"

Cyrus Harding continued: "Yes, but those legendary months are enough for the world to know and get to know you..."

Captain Nemo replied: "Maybe you know that I am a big criminal?" At the same time, a proud smile appeared on his lips, and he said: "Yes, maybe he is also a traitor who was exiled by mankind?"

The engineer didn't answer.

"Well, sir, what do you think?"

Cyrus Smith replied: "At least about Captain Nemo's past, I have no way of judging. Like the world, I can't figure out why he led such a strange life. Without knowing the reason, I can't judge the result." Yes. But I know that since we were thrown on 'Lincoln Island', a pair of benevolent hands have been helping us constantly, a kind, generous, omnipotent man has saved our lives, and has saved our lives. It is you, Captain Nemo, whom I owe you so much favor!"

The captain replied bluntly: "Yes, that person is me!"

Engineers and reporters stood up, and the big guys moved closer.They wanted to express their infinite gratitude to Captain Nemo with words and actions...

Captain Nemo stopped them with a wave of his hand, and said in an uncontrollable excited voice: "We will tell you after you have heard my story."

Afterwards, the captain hurriedly told everyone his whole life in a concise and clear way.

Although he spoke very briefly, it could be seen that he didn't even have the strength to speak, and he had to use all his strength to say what he wanted to say.It was evident that he was struggling with extreme weakness.Cyrus Harding urged him several times to rest, but he shook his head.Because he felt that his life was in jeopardy.When a reporter offered to take care of him, he replied: "No, my time is limited."

Captain Nemo, an Indian, known as the Prince of Dhaka, is the nephew of the Indian hero Tipo Saib and the son of a prince of the then independent Bender Khand domain.At the age of ten, his father sent him to Europe to study, secretly hoping that he would one day deal with the oppressors as those who oppressed his own country did.

From the age of ten to 30, the talented and intelligent Prince of Dhaka established great ambitions, eagerly learned all kinds of knowledge, and studied science, literature and art systematically and deeply.He is heroic, but depressed.Prince Dhaka traveled all over Europe.His background and wealth made him popular everywhere he went, but he was never moved by the temptations in front of him.He was filled with a kind of unresolved hatred.

Prince Dhaka harbors a deep hatred.Because hatred makes him never want to go to this country, but he has to approach it, and this country is England.At the same time, because it has many advanced aspects that he admires, it arouses hatred for it.This Indian has a deep-seated hatred of the British invader.The aggressor cannot be forgiven by the aggressed.The United Kingdom only provides a justification for enslaving those sovereigns.And the son of one of the sovereigns, the prince of the Tipo-Saib family, was instilled from childhood in the sense of restoration of sovereignty and vengeance.He has a sincere love for his beautiful country that was ravaged by the British; and he has an extreme hatred for the land that oppressed India and was cursed by him.

Prince Dhaka became an emotional and skilled artist, a scholar of various disciplines, and a politician who dealt with European courts.To those who don't know him well, he might appear to be a studious but unrealistic cosmopolitan, an arrogant, unrealistic, talkative traveler.He is constantly traveling around the world, but he does not belong to any country.But Prince Dhaka is not that kind of person.This talented artist, scholar, and politician has always regarded himself as a real Indian, always ready for revenge, and looking forward to the day when he can drive away foreigners, regain national sovereignty, and restore the country's independence and freedom. Indian.

So, in 1849, Prince Dhaka returned to Benderkhand.He married a like-minded Indian aristocratic woman, established a happy family, and had two lovely children. Like him, she loved the motherland, but she was bleeding for the disaster-ridden motherland in her heart.But the happy family did not destroy his will, and he never forgot the oppression and humiliation suffered by India.

He was waiting for his opportunity, and the time finally came.Perhaps the shackles that the British put on the Indian people were too heavy, and the Indian people made a cry of resistance.Therefore, he took the opportunity to publicize his ideas to everyone and instill his hatred of foreigners.He campaigned in areas on the still independent Indian peninsula, and in areas directly under British rule.He wants everyone to always remember those memorable days of the hero Tipo Saib who died heroically in defense of the motherland and fought against the invaders.

In 1857, Indian soldiers launched a large-scale armed struggle.Prince Dhaka was at the head of the struggle and he launched a massive uprising.He gave his all, his intelligence and his wealth to this cause.He risked his life to fight at the forefront, and he paid a heavy price for it.He regarded death as home, and was wounded nine times out of ten in engagements.But in the final moments of the war, when his comrades fell under the bullets of the British, he survived.

Britain, which ruled India, had never been hit so hard.If Indian soldiers can get external assistance, then the rule of the United Kingdom in Asia will be severely damaged.

Since then, Prince Dhaka's reputation has spread far and wide, and is known to all women and children.This national hero did not hide in the face of the reward offered by the invaders, but still carried out the struggle openly.Although none of the traitors betrayed him, his parents, wife and children died heroically at the gunpoint of the invaders because of him...

Right fails against might, but civilization never backs down, and it can win all rights when it has to.The Indian soldiers were defeated, and the surviving Dhaka princes returned to the mountains of Benderkhand, where the country of the former Indian maharaja fell under the harsher British rule.From then on, he lived a lonely life there, feeling extremely disgusted with everything related to people.He hates and hates the civilized world, and hopes to stay away from the noisy world forever.After he sold the rest of his property, he called together more than 20 of his most loyal friends.One day, they disappeared collectively.

So, where can he find the independence and freedom that cannot be found in the world?To go underwater, to the depths of the sea, where no one can interfere with him.

He ceased to be a military strategist and became a complete scholar.A deserted island in the Pacific Ocean became his construction site, where a submarine was built according to his drawings.Submarines use electricity for everything from power to lighting to heating.He uses the endless spring water to obtain power, and also uses the infinite mechanical force of water through some methods that will be known in the future.The sea has inexhaustible treasures, countless fish, abundant brown algae and sargassum, and huge mammals.There are not only everything nurtured by nature, but also everything lost by human beings, all of which fully meet the survival needs of the prince and his crew, and this also fulfills his desire not to have any contact with the land.Yes, the desire is strong.For this reason, he called himself Captain Nemo, and his submarine was named "Nautilus", and then hid in the bottom of the sea.

For many years, the captain traveled all the oceans from the Antarctic to the North Pole.

This abandoned child in the world has collected many amazing treasures in the strange ocean world. In 1702, the millions of property scattered in Vigo Bay by Spanish merchant ships became his inexhaustible treasure house.And he donated it all anonymously to the people of India who fought for the independence of the country.

In any case, he hadn't had any contact with anyone else for a long time.However, on the night of November 1866, 11, three men were accidentally thrown aboard his boat.They are a French professor, the French professor's servant, and a Canadian fisherman.At that time, the US destroyer "Abraham Lincoln" collided with the "Nautilus" while pursuing it, and the three were thrown into the sea.The professor told Captain Nemo that the outside world sometimes regards the "Nautilus" as a huge cetacean mammal, and sometimes regards it as a submarine driven by pirates, and has been chased in various sea areas.

These three had been thrown into his mysterious life by accident, and Captain Nemo could have left them alone.But he didn't, he kept them as captives.So they went through a seven-month, [-]-nautical-mile journey under the sea, enjoying all the wonders and wonders.

On June 1867, 6, these three people, who knew nothing about Captain Nemo, snatched a small boat from the "Nautilus" and escaped.At that time, the "Nautilus" was caught in the vortex of the Meyer Strait and was swirled to the coast of Norway.Therefore, the captain thought that they might be swallowed up by this terrible vortex and buried in the bottom of the sea.Little did he know that the French professor and his two companions had miraculously been cast ashore again and rescued by fishermen from the Lofoten Islands.The professor later returned to France and also published another novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" written by the same author.In the book, he described the seven-month wonderful and adventurous voyage of the "Nautilus", satisfying readers' curiosity about the ocean.

Captain Nemo lived like this for a long time, roaming the seas.As time went by, his companions gradually died, and they were buried in the coral graveyard in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, leaving only himself, and the "Nautilus" finally became empty.

Captain Nemo was 60 years old when he was alone.He drove the "Nautilus" to an undersea port. The Nautilus has several home ports on the seabed, and this is one of them.There is another one just below "Lincoln Island", so that the "Nautilus", which has been traveling under the sea for many years, finally got quiet.

The captain has been there for six years.He was waiting for death, for the moment when he would be reunited with his companions, no longer sailing.It wasn't until he happened to see a balloon fall that things changed.

Captain Nemo, in a diving suit, was swimming a few strands from shore when the engineer suddenly plunged into the sea.The good captain saves Cyrus Harding.

At first, he didn't want to deal with the five victims.However, his harbor of refuge was closed and he was unable to pass through the entrance of the cave, as volcanic activity caused the basalt to rise.While there was enough water for a small boat to get through, the Nautilus couldn't because of her comparatively much greater draft.

Captain Nemo therefore remained there.Then he observed the five poor people who had been thrown on the desert island.But he was just like an invisible man, hiding beside them, unwilling to let them find him.Slowly, when he found that they were honest, upright, and strong, and everyone was friendly and harmonious, he developed a good impression of them and became interested in their efforts to save themselves.Not intentionally, he gradually became familiar with all the secrets in their lives.Putting on a diving suit, he can easily reach the bottom of the inner well of the "Granite Palace", and then climb the protrusion of the rock, like rock climbing, to the wellhead.He listened to these people talking about the past, talking about the present and the future.He heard from them that there had been a civil war in America to abolish slavery, and that it had cost him dearly.Yes, these people performed so well on the island, they naturally reawakened the captain's goodwill towards humans!The captain saved the life of Cyrus Harding.It was he who brought the dog back to the "chimney"; threw Top out of the lake; let the box run aground at "Frottle Head" with so much useful to these people in it, that it was undone. Their urgent needs; let the boat go down the "Grateful River"; when the monkeys are in trouble, throw the rope from the height of "Granite Palace"; News from Tabor Island; mines deep in the channel to blow up the brig; quinine sulfate to revive hopeless Harbert.In the end it was him again, killing the criminals with those electric bullets.He is very familiar with electric bombs and knows the trick of making electric bombs.Usually he uses them to hunt under the sea.In this way, many mysterious and seemingly supernatural events were finally explained, and they all proved the kindness, selflessness and omnipotence of the captain.

Yet this reclusive man had a desire to do good and to help others.In addition, from the beating of his own heart, he could feel death approaching step by step.He has a lot of advice to tell those he has protected.And so he summoned us, as is known, by that telegram... If he had known that Cyrus Harding knew his history well, and could greet him by the name "Nemo," he would have Probably won't do it anymore.

The captain finished his life.Cyrus Harding began to speak.He recalled all the help he had done to them one by one, and expressed his heartfelt thanks to him in the name of himself and his companions.After speaking, the engineer extended his grateful hand to him.

It never occurred to Captain Nemo to ask them for something in return.He still has one last wish that haunts his mind.Before shaking the engineer's hand, he said, "Sir, since you know my past so well, judge me!"

Cyrus Harding knew what he meant, but did not answer at once.

The captain's words were obviously aimed at a serious incident, and the three foreigners who happened to be thrown onto his boat were witnesses to this incident.The French professor must have described this in his own work, and it may have caused a great deal of repercussions.

The thing is that, a few days before the escape of the professor and his two companions, the "Nautilus" was pursued by a destroyer in the north of the Atlantic Ocean. crash it into the icy sea.

Captain Nemo exclaimed excitedly, "Sir, this is a British destroyer," and now he was Prince Dhaka again. "A British destroyer, you hear me! It hit me! It drove me in a narrow, shallow cove! I had to get through, so... I did! Sink it!"

Afterwards, he calmed down and added: "I am upholding fairness and justice. No matter where I am, as long as I can and should do it, I will uphold justice, punish evil and promote good. As long as it is justice, there is no Guilty!"

Then, after a moment's silence, he added: "Gentlemen, what do you think of this matter?"

Cyrus Harding took the captain's hand, and answered his question in a low voice:

"Your mistake, captain, is to think you can recreate the past and fight against the necessary progress. Some will appreciate this mistake, while others will flog it. Only God can judge. But the truth is that it deserves Forgive me. There are people who act with good intentions but end up making mistakes. This kind of person is wrong, but he deserves everyone's respect. You are such a person and made such a mistake. You don't have to worry about the judgment of history at all. .History condemns reckless bravery, but loves it. Rest assured, your reputation will not suffer.”

Captain Nemo's breathing became rapid and his chest heaved violently.He stretched out his hand to the sky and murmured, "Am I wrong or right?"

Cyrus Harding added: "All great deeds can be traced back to God, because they come from God! Captain Nemo, we righteous people, you have rescued, and we will always be grateful to you, Miss you!"

Harbert had approached the captain.Get down on your knees, take his hand and kiss it.

A line of hot tears flowed from the captain's eyes.He said, "God bless you, my child!"

Captain Nemo's Will

(End of this chapter)