I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 488 Supplies
After drinking wine on the warship to celebrate his survival, Owen wanted to take a sampan back to his mission ship.

However, when Xia Qingdai saw the small sampan lowered from the warship, she thought of the cruelty of the sea during the previous storm. She felt that this sampan was a bit unreliable, so she simply changed back to her true form and stretched out her hand to signal Owen to jump on.

There was no place safer than the palm of her hand.

Owen naturally didn't say anything. He took off his leather shoes and jumped onto Xia Qingdai's slightly pink palm.

Then Xia Qingdai raised her hand slightly and carried Owen back to the boat where he was originally.

In the eyes of others, Irving was no different from flying in the air.

Although everyone had heard that Earl Owen had an electric carriage that could fly, most people had never seen it. Seeing Owen holding his shoes and flying from one ship to another was a very shocking experience.

Just by flying like this, Owen's prestige in the delegation rose to a higher level. At the same time, Xia Qingdai, the omnipresent "true god", also gained a lot of faith points, which was a two-pronged approach.

A count who is always protected by gods will naturally attract people to come and pledge their allegiance to him. Even good birds choose the right tree to live in, not to mention people? People all have a certain degree of admiration for the strong.

A deity who may appear at any time is definitely more likely to gain fanatical followers than an illusory God.

Of course, it is impossible to say that after this shipwreck, the entire delegation became Xia Qingdai's believers.

The reason is simple. Since there is a true God in heaven, there must be a God. There are always believers with firm faith who will make up their own reasons for persistence.

As for why God doesn’t show up?
Who can say that he didn’t show his power?

A tsunami and a storm of this magnitude would have wiped out a normal fleet, but their fleet survived. Who could say that it wasn't God who had blessed them?
As long as you believe in your heart, God definitely exists.

Xia Qingdai's desire to unify the martial arts world is not something that can be accomplished overnight. After all, the worship of God and the Bible is something that is engraved in the bones of these Westerners.

Anyway, she has now won over most of the people on the ship who have weak faith, and she doesn't care about the ten or twenty who slip through the net. She might as well share some of the incense with God.

After the sea calmed down, the messengers on each ship released pigeons to report the situation on their respective ships to the ship where the leader Macartney was.

It was confirmed that this maritime disaster caused two members of the delegation to fall into the sea and go missing. One was a doctor accompanying the delegation, and the other was a botanist.

To say they were missing was actually to say they were in distress. How could there be a chance of survival if one was swept to the bottom of the vast ocean?
After learning the situation, Lord Macartney stopped all the singing and dancing on the ships, and together with the pastor Daniel in the team, held a simple memorial ceremony for the two victims.

Xia Qingdai felt a little regretful for not being able to save everyone, but she didn't have too much psychological burden. After all, she knew that she was not a real god.

The other people in this delegation had nothing to do with her. She didn't stand by and watch them die, she had already done her best. So no matter what the result was, she could accept it calmly.

She wants to be a doctor in the future, so she can't have too much empathy when facing life and death, otherwise she will easily become depressed.

In this regard, she actually has a big heart.

What's more, the feeling of looking down at a tiny person less than three inches tall being dragged to the bottom of the sea from a giant's perspective is different from facing the death of a fellow creature directly, and it will not cause any psychological trauma to her.

As for Owen, of course he would not be affected. People who have been to a real battlefield would be more indifferent to life and death than doctors in peacetime.

After a simple memorial service, the fleet continued its work, and the two victims were soon forgotten.

Two days later, the fleet crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and docked at the first supply station of this voyage - British Gibraltar.

All members rested on the spot for two days and then set off again.

Gibraltar is located in southern Spain, but it does not belong to Spain now. Instead, it is a British overseas territory, governed by a governor directly appointed by the British royal family.

Although this place once belonged to Spain, in the early 18th century, Spain signed the Treaty of Utrecht with Britain and ceded Gibraltar to the other side. The Strait of Gibraltar thus became part of Britain's possession.

As a channel connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the Strait of Gibraltar can be said to be one of the important golden waterways in the world. Spain has never given up on recovering Gibraltar, but Britain is unlikely to give up either.

So until modern times, this land remains under British control.

Although many of Britain's colonies around the world declared independence after World War II, Gibraltar clearly did not have the strength to be independent.

It is also impossible for the Spaniards to change their affiliation through public opinion and referendum.

After Spain ceded the land, Britain drove all the Spaniards away and exiled many prisoners from their homeland. Now Gibraltarians are basically all of British descent, so how could they be willing to return to Spain?

This is off topic, so I won’t mention it for now.

Xia Qingdai still didn't quite understand why the fleet stopped at Gibraltar. Because at that time, the Suez Canal connecting Europe, Asia and Africa had not yet been built. At that time, if Europeans wanted to go to the East, they had to take a detour from the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, which was a long voyage.

And they chose to dock at Gibraltar in the Mediterranean, which was obviously a detour.

But Xia Qingdai didn't care much about not understanding. Anyway, when she came back from school on the weekend, the fleet had already set sail again.

It was Owen who told her about the stop at Gibraltar.

For Owen, the supplies along the way were not important, after all, he had Xia Qingdai to provide him with supplies every week. But after drifting on the sea for a long time, he was also willing to go ashore and step on the land.

What's more, the fact that two people in the delegation died also needed to be reported by letter to the British mainland in a timely manner, but there was no postal system at sea.

Xia Qingdai doesn't often travel back to the 18th century now, mainly because it's boring to be on the ship.

There was no woman in the delegation, only white men with strong body odor. What was she going to do there? To watch them fight and play cards?

If she wanted to communicate with Owen, she could just lie down beside the glass tank and look down.

Now, in addition to feeding Owen, Xia Qingdai also feeds some food into the sea.

She is really raising fish, unlike her brother, whose fish in the fish tank always die.