Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 484 3 The Land Abandoned by God

The end of Loki's memory exists at the moment when he walked out of Paris carrying Mutu's stump.

Not long after leaving the city, he immediately felt a stab of pain in his brain. Mutu, who was tied up on his back, said that this was the sequelae of being subjected to the "soul-searching technique".

His brain was studied by the old lizard like a book for two months. After breaking free from the cage, they fought a series of bloody battles. When the war ended, he walked out of the city alone and was indeed on the verge of running out of oil.

Thirteen long years have passed, and he doesn't know if this kind of thing happens often. But this time he appeared inexplicably in the desert and lost a large part of his memory.

Perhaps his brain was indeed irreversibly damaged in that god-slaying battle.

His memory is not completely lost.

The reason why Rocky was willing to believe the year told by Old Hash was because he found that he had unknowingly mastered two brand-new languages, "Arabic" and "French."

In the past, this was a completely blind area of ​​knowledge. Without several years of training, it was impossible to talk freely with the Arab grooms around me.

Through the bronze mirror the old man took out, he also saw the changes in his face.

He no longer looks like a 22-year-old.

He is indeed older.

This high-quality clothing is also a luxury item that he would never choose in the past.

When the whole clan is in danger of life and death, every gold coin in the treasury should be used wisely. In the past, he would have been quite happy to trade these two pieces of clothing for 100 axes.

What's even more exaggerated is that at this time, there is an extra ring on the index finger of his left hand!

In addition to the forged diamond ring he had when he married Elizabeth, there was also a huge ruby ​​on his index finger.

If I remember correctly, 13 years ago, I only had Elizabeth as my wife.

Could it be that 13 years have passed and I have an extra daughter-in-law? ?

So the question is, how many children do I have now?

Recalling the horrific scene in which after the capture of Normandy, Sophie's eldest daughter suddenly had a room full of children in her family, Loki felt a sudden chill in his heart.

However, when he inevitably thought of Alfred who died in Paris, he couldn't help but feel a lot of regret for this outstanding adopted son.

To be able to complete the battle of killing gods in the city of Paris, Alfred and Dean Francis must be credited with the first contribution.

The Kingdom of Normandy could be established, and these two people were the cornerstones of the kingdom.

(Let’s make peace with what we have come. Since there is still a life left, the top priority is to figure out why I appeared in the desert of the northern continent, and more importantly)

(What happened that left me alone on the sea of ​​sand?)

"Brother Harsh, according to your brothers, we are still on the outskirts of the Black Desert?" Loki tentatively spoke to the caravan boss.

"Haha, peripheral" Harsh looked at him jokingly.

"Little brother, to be able to say this, you have never been to the Northern Continent!"

Loki nodded, noncommittal.

The sandstorm would not dissipate for a while. Seeing that it was getting late, the servants and women accompanying the caravan took down the firewood from the carriage and prepared to light a fire for cooking.

With nothing to do, Harsh put down his pipe, pulled out a sheepskin map from behind, and slowly unfolded it in front of Loki.

The dim firelight in the hall illuminated the map, and Loki discovered that there were many differences between this map and the appearance of "Africa" ​​in his brain.

Not only that, compared with the "Mediterranean Map" drawn by Jianxiu of the Tang Dynasty, the map of the Northern Continent appears particularly rough.

There are still clear roads and cities in the section near the Mediterranean Sea, but from Cairo City at the mouth of the Nile River, everything is blank.

There are no roads, no cities, not even any coordinates.

Only the end of the dry bed of the Nile marked the city of Memphis.

Harsh stretched out his withered fingers and pointed at this lonely city in a sea of ​​sand.

"Little brother, look

From Cairo to Memphis, the straight-line distance along the Nile River is only 7 days. "

"For many gold diggers, being able to reach Memphis is considered a victory. They can use the goods purchased from Cairo, such as salt, spices, cotton cloth, grain and desert residents, in exchange for scorpion venom, snake venom, sand snakes or mummies. of."

"But all easy routes will inevitably be occupied by caravans. And large caravans often move hundreds of camels at the same time, and they will buy out all the goods in the village in one purchase."

"Retail investors like us have no chance."

Harsh's eyes couldn't help but dim, as if he was remembering many past events.

"If we want to survive, we must go deeper." The old man moved his dry fingers and pointed to the black and gray blank on the lower level of the map.

"The depths of Salaha are called the Black Desert! This is also where the last 'Scorpion Temple', 'Temple of Anubis', 'Temple of Amun' and 'Temple of Horus' existed. land."

"Ordinary deserts are actually not scary!"

"In my hometown of Caspian Sea, our whole family has been accompanying the yellow sand and camels since childhood. But at least there are oases in the yellow sand on the coast of the Caspian Sea. And with an oasis, we have a node that can be located."

"From the Tang Dynasty in the East to Constantinople, most of the journey was either Gobi or yellow sand. The merchants all relied on one oase after another to complete this two-year journey. "

"The most terrifying thing about the black desert in the northern continent is that there are no oases in the entire sand sea. There is not a trace of green that can be located in the boundless yellow sand."

"The only few wells are in my brain."

Lao Ha Shi clicked his brain. Outsiders may not be able to see the intention of his series of actions, but Loki has been a lord for so many years, so he naturally has a mirror in his heart.

This old man must have regarded him as some great lord, and everything he did at this time was fulfilling a businessman's instinct - to show off his abilities.

No businessman would dislike having enough customers, especially when he has goods in short supply.

One more outsider means one more shark entering the pond. What he most wants to see is vicious competition among all his customers, and him being able to raise prices on his own.

He was just about to compliment him symbolically, but he didn't expect that Old Hash had no intention of stopping.

"The Black Desert is not the end of the Northern Continent!"

His fingers continued to move downward, but this time where his fingertips landed, not even the boundary of the coastline was clearly drawn. All he could see was a dark red patch, like the entire map was covered with flowers, and a mouthful of bright red blood was vomited on it.

"There is a much wider area of ​​land south of the Black Desert, but this land is also the biggest mystery in the entire northern continent, and even in human civilization."

"The maesters of Constantinople called the land on the other side of the Black Desert the 'Forsaken Land'. After hundreds of years of death, the Holy Bishop Pope 'Gregory III' and the Vulcan Pope 'Susa Si'shuang canceled the exploration of the second half of the continent."

"Because there is no country or law in this land! The people living here are all believers of evil gods who are not allowed to live in other countries, researchers of forbidden arts, and crazy sorcerers!

Here, the boundaries between humans, alien gods, and monsters are extremely blurred.

It is rumored that this group of crazy warlocks will make peace with ancient monsters at night and give birth to even more crazy and evil offspring.

The chaos lasted so long that the land became a breeding ground for madness. There are so many bloody battles taking place here every day that the soil of the entire continent is bright red.

On it, black flowers bloom. "

If it had been 10 years ago, Loki would have thought that the old man in front of him was talking nonsense. However, after traveling through time, he had experienced so many things that he had to face up to the nonsense spoken by the old man.

Because there are many similarities between what he said and the development of later generations.

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Loki looked at the map in Harsh's hand.

According to his understanding of this land, the "Sahara Desert" where Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Algeria are located in several North African countries is indeed the most extensive desert in the world.

This desert ends in Central Africa.

In southern Africa, such as the Congo Basin and Nigeria, the desert will disappear. In their place will be dense grasslands, rainforests and densely vegetated plateaus.

It has to be admitted that the vast majority of modern people living in the 21st century know very little about the mysterious Africa. It seems that all history books deliberately avoid this continent.

There is no news about this continent from prehistoric civilizations.

Records of Central Africa and South Africa in the Middle Ages are almost completely blank.

As for the countries in Central Africa in modern history, they are still unknown.

If Central Africa in the Middle Ages was really what Mr. Harsh said, it is no wonder that later generations have almost zero knowledge of this land.

"Few people have ever entered this land, because even the sword cultivators of the Tang Dynasty are unwilling to easily provoke the evil gods and evil sorcerers wandering in this chaotic land."

Harsh didn't understand what was going on in Loki's mind, so he muttered to himself.

"No one from Byzantium, Arabia, or the scholars from the Eastern Tang Dynasty has successfully drawn a map south of the Black Desert.

Because no one has successfully entered the "Land Abandoned by God" and has come out of it!

There is only one message that can be brought out from this land in the past thousand years——

——The soil of this continent is red.

On it, there are black plants and flowers!

My dear friend, I endured it for 2 days until this moment. I can’t bear it anymore”

Suddenly, Harsh stretched out his withered right hand and grabbed Loki's leather jacket pocket, and pulled out a handful of moist red soil.

On it, there are several black leaves that have not yet completely dried!