West, the Mediterranean Sea.
At the eastern edge where the sea meets the sky.
It was stained a brilliant orange-red.
Then, it darkened again, fading to a light gray.
Within this expanse of grayish waves, a semicircular, pale red halo slowly emerged.
Beneath the halo, half of a bright red sun suddenly appeared, rising higher and higher, leaping out of the water in an instant.
Sunrise.
Ships anchored at sea, responding to the captain's shouts, raised their sails and began their voyage.
On the deck of a sailboat stood a fair-haired man in a pristine white robe.
Gazing at the sunrise on the horizon and the surrounding fleet, a confident smile played on his lips.
Suddenly, he seemed to hear something. With a thought, a transparent screen, like rippling water, appeared before his eyes.
On the screen, a green dot represented his current location.
Besides the green dot, there were four red dots.
One of them was directly to his south.
The other three red dots were to his east, northeast, and southeast.
At this moment, the red dot in the southeast was moving at an imperceptible speed.
"Enlarge!"
The fair-haired man casually uttered a command.
The water-like screen rapidly enlarged, and enlarged again.
With this change, the red dot in the southeast began to move faster and faster, though for the moment, its ultimate destination remained unseen.
The fair-haired man frowned.
"Fuck! Is the mission target a living creature?"
System: "No comment. When the host gets closer, they will naturally receive a prompt!"
The golden-haired man was the second穿越者 (chuānyuè zhě – transmigrator).
His current mission was to collect four mission items, and his journey south was to collect one of them.
Just now, he had heard the system prompt that a mission item had shifted from its original location, which was why he had opened the system interface to check.
On the banks of the Volga River, he had conquered parts of the Slavic tribes.
Then, by the Black Sea, he had gathered the fleet behind him and modified it using blueprints provided by the system.
Passing through the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, and then crossing the current Mediterranean Sea would lead him to Egypt, the location of the first mission item!
The moving red dot to the southeast was originally his third planned mission target.
Looking at the items accumulated in the system warehouse over the past three years, the fair-haired man smiled dismissively.
No matter what it was, it would eventually fall into his hands.
"Send down the order, full speed ahead!"
"Yes, my Emperor!"
The attendant turned and shouted towards the signalman on the mast: "Relay the Emperor's order, full speed ahead!"
Hearing the command, the sailors quickly hoisted the remaining two sails.
The signalman on the mast took out flags and began signaling to the fleet behind them.
The fair-haired man walked into the ship's cabin. The cabin, less than ten square meters, contained two spring mattresses, seemingly of the same brand as Fang Er's family.
On the mattress, a young woman, seeing the fair-haired man enter, immediately crawled towards him.
"Emperor!"
The woman crawled to the man's feet and called out respectfully.
"Hahaha, come, we didn't have enough fun last night, let's continue to be happy!"
The fair-haired man pulled at his waist, and his wide robe slipped to the floor, revealing his muscular physique, his eight-pack abs particularly striking.
But then a situation of extreme embarrassment occurred.
One minute.
Two minutes.
Five minutes.
The fair-haired man found himself completely unresponsive. He suddenly cursed, "What the fuck!"
System: "Idiot, you used your anus as a tonic, what a fool?"
The fair-haired man paused for a moment, then mumbled, "Isn't chrysanthemum a tonic? Why do so many Chinese people like to drink chrysanthemum tea in their past lives?"
System: "Idiot, chrysanthemum is for cooling down!"
Fair-haired man: "Cooling down? Cooling down what? Why use chrysanthemum to cool down? Can't a fire extinguisher do the job?"
System: "You still want to declare yourself Tsar, you Tsar is the Tsar of Idiots!"
Fair-haired man: "What kind of bird is a 'sha diao' (idiot)? Can it be eaten?"
System: "It's my fault for bothering with you, you're not a 'sha diao', you're a 'sha bi' (utter idiot)!"
Fair-haired man: "What kind of bird is a 'sha bi'?"
System: "I'm crashing!"
"Wuwuwuwuwu~~~!"
The woman suddenly burst into tears. Her crying made the fair-haired man become agitated.
"Stop crying, your crying makes this Emperor feel very lost and anxious~~"
The woman quickly stopped crying, looking at the fair-haired man with a tearful expression and said worriedly.
"My Emperor, what is wrong with you? Are you sick? Shall I help you bleed to treat it?"
The fair-haired man instantly took a few steps back: "Get away from me! This Emperor is not sick! I don't need your treatment!"
The thought of bloodletting, especially with a scalpel in that area, was terrifying. He recoiled further in an instant.
These foolish foreigners' bloodletting therapies, they would draw a large bowl of blood, and the sicker the patient, the more blood they would draw, until the patient fainted from exhaustion;
Headaches and colds ---- bloodletting.
Backaches and muscle pains ---- bloodletting.
In 1685, King Charles II of England felt extremely unwell in his head and soon fainted. The court physicians first drew 16 ounces of blood, and the next day, they drew another 10 ounces. A total of 680 milliliters of blood was drawn before he died at the age of 53.
In 1799, Washington suffered from a sore throat. Before the doctor arrived, his family had already let him bleed over 400 milliliters. After the doctor arrived, he continued to bleed. In 10 hours, a total of 3.75 liters of blood was drawn, until he passed away.
In his past life, he had seen such content, and at that time, he had only taken it as a joke, but he never expected to become the protagonist of such a joke.
"This is outrageous!"
"Chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, damned chrysanthemum!"
The fair-haired man cursed as he recalled these records.
In his past life, he had seen many Chinese people who enjoyed drinking tea made from chrysanthemum, and many who drank tea with goji berries, saying it could tonify the kidneys.
When he was on missions before, he had obtained several hundred kilograms of Golden Silk Tribute Chrysanthemums. According to the system, these were the finest among Chinese chrysanthemum teas.
Therefore, he started brewing chrysanthemum tea.
Not only did he drink water infused with chrysanthemum, but even the food he ate had to be cooked with water that had been steeped with chrysanthemum.
But now, the system actually said that chrysanthemum was not a tonic, but rather for cooling down.
What did "cooling down" mean?
It shouldn't mean cooling down lust, as the fair-haired man felt his lust was quite strong at the moment.
However, being powerless, he looked at the woman beside him and felt utterly insulted.
"Fuck, damn it all!"
The woman, terrified and flustered, rushed out of the cabin naked.
The sailors looked at her with lustful eyes.
"I, Tsar, Motorola!"
"I swear to make chrysanthemum disappear from this world!"
The fair-haired man also walked out of the cabin and stood by the ship's rail. He took out all the Golden Silk Tribute Chrysanthemums from the system warehouse and dumped them all into the Mediterranean Sea.
"Emperor, land is sighted ahead!"
A sailor knelt before Motorola and reported, pointing towards the front of the fleet.
"Head towards it, and land!"