The ancients valued the sky, with the North Star disappearing, the position of the moon and the sea changing, many stars that could be seen disappeared, and some stars that had never been seen appeared in Ji Mengchen's vision.

This made people feel as if they had entered another world, which made people panic.

Ji Mengchen and Cheng Bi were both afraid of this vision, but in order to avoid panic in the fleet and cause panic among the crew, Cheng Bi and Ji Mengchen did not make any noise, and the fear only spreads in a small range.

Cheng Bi's face was gloomy, "Why is this? The Beidou disappeared and the stars shifted. It has never been heard of in ancient times. How could such a thing happen?"

After a panic, Ji Mengchen gradually calmed down, Suomei thought for a while, and then guessed: "Sir, the more you sailed, the higher the height of Beichen, the higher the height of Beichen, and the lower the height of Beichen, the lower the height of Beichen. Yu guessed that the disappearance of Beichen may be related to our sailing south, but Yu was a little confused. When sailing south, Beichen should just be getting lower and lower, why did it disappear?"

Ji Mengchen said, something suddenly rang out, and an unbelievable look appeared in his eyes.

Seeing this, Cheng Bi hurriedly asked, "Huiming, what did you find?"

Ji Mengchen looked strange and said for a while: "I remembered a book "The World of the West" that I had read in the Commercial Bookstore before."

After saying that, Ji Mengchen suddenly said, "Sir, can you turn the fleet and sail north!"

Cheng Bi frowned when he heard the words, "I'm afraid it won't work at this time. The Dutch are behind him. Turning to meet the Dutch!"

Cheng Bi looked at Ji Mengchen and asked in a deep voice: "What did you think of?"

Ji Mengchen shook his head, his face still had a bit of weird expression, with horror and disbelief, "Yu is not sure yet. Perhaps what the book is right. Only in this way can it be explained, but how is this possible?"

The fleet continued to sail, the sun and the moon alternated, and black and white transformed. After entering the daytime, Ji Mengchen soon discovered that the position of the sun also changed.

During the sailing process, the compass can only simply point out one direction. To know the exact position you are, you must calculate your position through the positions and heights of the sun, moon, and stars to know how to continue sailing.

A few days later, as Ji Mengchen said, the fleet lost its course on the sea.

This is not because the fleet does not know where they go north and south, but they just don’t know where they are, whether they have bypassed Sumatra and arrived at the south side of the strait between Sumatra and Java. It’s time to turn north.

Because he was not familiar with the water marks, the ship was worried about falling into the reefs. In addition, the Dutch were chasing him behind him, so the fleet could only sail away from the mainland.

After losing the means to judge your position, turning north early may hit Sumatra Island. If you turn too late, you may drive to Java. Moreover, because you cannot judge the position, the coastline that can be seen by the naked eye is almost the same. The fleet does not know whether it has arrived in Sumatra or Java.

After losing his course, the fleet was afraid that he would meet the Dutch when he turned around, so he continued to wander southeast for several days.

The fleet set off from the Sri Lanka stronghold, Lion City, through the Indian Ocean, and then met the Dutch people east of Sumatra and was forced to sail southeast.

Originally, the fleet was expected to arrive at Palembang in a maximum of one and a half months for resupply, but now it has been drifting on the sea for nearly two months.

Soon, the fresh water and food carried by the fleet were in a hurry, but there was a vast sea around it, which made the fleet feel desperate.

Since discovering that Beichen has disappeared, Ji Mengchen's spirit seems a bit abnormal to outsiders.

He hardly talks to others all day long, fiddling with the star board, writing the information he observed.

At noon that day, the fleet continued sailing. In the shadows under the sails on the deck, sailors and crew were sitting or lying down, their lips were chapped, listless, and desperate, and there was silence on the ship.

At this time, a piece of land suddenly appeared in the south of the fleet.

"Look, there is a continent!" The sailor who looked up at the watch and shouted.

On the deck, the crew members lying in the shade under the sails couldn't help but stand up when they heard the words, walked to the side of the boat, looked in the direction of the sailor's fingers, and indeed saw a coastline appearing in the south.

For a moment, the sailors on the boat cheered.

After sailing for nearly two months, there was land, water and food, and everyone was excited.

The cheers alarmed Cheng Bi, Ji Mengchen and others. Everyone ran to the bow of the boat to check, but they looked surprised when they saw the continent in the distance.

Ji Mengchen hurriedly picked up a chart to check it out, then looked up at the land ahead, and said in surprise: "How could there be such a huge piece of land here?"

Cheng Bi was also full of surprise because on the navigation chart, Sumatra and the south of Java Island were a blank sea with no land at all.

Ji Mengchen looked disbelief, "How is this possible?"

Since the fleet crossed the equator, the world that Ji Mengchen knew gradually collapsed.

At this time, Cheng Bi, who was standing beside him, suddenly exclaimed, "It's Xinmingzhou!"

"Xinmingzhou?" Ji Mengchen looked puzzled.

Cheng Bi suddenly remembered that two years ago, the night before he left Shanghai, Zhao Ming had a chat with him and said something.

At that time, he realized that he had rich experience in sailing, and Zhao Ming was just an amateur, so he did not take the words of Dashui Zhao too seriously.

Now that he suddenly recalled that night, Zhao Ming said to him, and he was so shocked that he couldn't stop talking.

"The Grand Marshal is a real god!" Cheng Bi exclaimed and had to accept it. Then he looked at Ji Mengchen and explained: "Before I set off from Shanghai, the Grand Marshal once told me that there is a vast land of uninhabited land south of Java Island, called Xinmingzhou! It is a new continent!"

The New Mingzhou mentioned by Zhao Ming is Australia. At this time, Australia was led by the Dutch Tasman to conduct preliminary explorations between 1642 and 1644, and named it New Holland.

Many Dutch people don’t know about this land, let alone others. Because this land was just discovered, the previous navigation charts were not marked. Most of the south of Java Island was a vast ocean.

Cheng Bi did not expect that Zhao Ming, a person who had never conducted a long-distance voyage, would know that there was such a piece of land thousands of miles away.

Ji Mengchen murmured, "Xinmingzhou, New World!"

Zhao Ming's prophecy appeared, which made Cheng Bi suddenly feel energetic, sweeping away the panic after the trek and the strange feeling of entering a new environment, feeling that everything is still under the control of Zhao Dashang.

Cheng Bi waved excitedly, "Tell the fleet! Move forward, looking for a suitable port to dock supplies!"
Chapter completed!