Chapter 58 Chapter Sixteen

After hearing this, the person lying on the sofa stood up.The electric light shone on his face, and his features were dignified, with a high forehead, piercing eyes, a snow-white beard, and long, thick hair that fell to his shoulders. He stood up from the couch, one hand still propped on the back of the chair.His demeanor was very serene.It could be seen that his physical strength was gradually weakened by illness.But his voice was still loud, and he spoke English in a tone of great astonishment: Sir, I don't have a name. But I know you!Cyrus.Smith said. Captain Nemo fixed his piercing eyes on the engineer as if he wanted to swallow him up.

Then he leaned back on the cushions of the couch. forget it!It doesn't matter now!He murmured, I'm dying anyway! Cyrus.Smith walked up to the captain, Keating.Spilett held his hand and knew from the temperature of his hand that he had a high fever.Ayrton, Pencroft, Herbert, and Neb stood respectfully in the far corner.This luxurious hall is filled with bright electric lights. At this moment Captain Nemo withdrew his hand and, with a gesture, directed the engineer and reporter to sit down. Everyone watched him with excitement.Before them was the man revered by all as the saint of the island.This almighty defender has rescued them again and again on various occasions, and each of his rescues has been so effective; how much they owe this benefactor!Pencroft and Neb expected to discover a supernatural being, but what they saw was a man, and a man dying at that!

Captain Nemo thought that no one would know his name, but Cyrus.How did Smith know about him?Why did he stand up suddenly when he heard this name? The captain lay down again on the couch.He rested his head on one arm and looked at the engineer sitting next to him. You know my old name, sir?he asked. Yes, Cyrus.Smith replied, and the name of this amazing dive boat Did you mean the Nautilus?The captain smiled faintly. Yes, the Nautilus! But do you know who I am? knew. I have been cut off from human contact for many years.I have spent thirty long years under the sea, and this is the only free place I have found!Who actually leaked my secret?

A man not under your control, Captain Nemo, so he cannot be blamed for breach of trust. Is it the Frenchman who came to my ship by chance sixteen years ago? They didn't die, and they wrote a book called "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", which narrates your history. That's just a few months of my life's history!The captain interrupted him impatiently. Yes, Cyrus.But those few months of eccentricity were enough for people to get to know you, Smith said. A sinner, huh?said Captain Nemo, with a haughty smile on his lips, yes, perhaps a thug despised by mankind!

The engineer didn't speak. Isn't it, sir? It is not for me to judge, Captain Nemo, Cyrus.Smith replied, at least about your past life.I, like everyone else in the world, don't know why you choose this weird way of life.Before I know the situation, I can't judge the outcome of the matter.However, since we came to Lincoln Island.We have always been protected by the hand of kindness, and our lives have been saved by the help of this kind, generous, and almighty being, and that is you, Captain Nemo, I know one thing! it's me.the captain said simply. Immediately the engineer and correspondent rose to their feet.At this time, the partners have also moved closer.They intend to express their inner gratitude with words and looks.

Captain Nemo made a gesture to stop them.He couldn't hide his excitement and said to everyone: Wait until you finish listening to the story. Then the captain briefly narrated the past events of his life. His narrative was short, yet he had to pull together all his last energies to finish the story.It was obvious that he was wrestling with a terribly debilitated physique.Cyrus.Several times Smith begged him to rest for a while, but he shook his head as if he would never live to see another day.When the correspondent offered him medical treatment, he said: It's useless, I'm already dying.

Captain Nemo was the prince of Dhaka in India. At that time, Benderhand still maintained his independence. He was the son of the monarch of Benderhand, the Indian hero Dipo.Saib's nephew.When he was ten years old, his father sent him to Europe to receive a comprehensive education, intending to rely on his talent and knowledge in the future to lead the people of the whole country to fight against the oppressors. Prince Dhaka was talented and intelligent. From the age of ten to thirty, he accumulated knowledge in all aspects and had profound attainments in science, literature and art. He roamed all over Europe.Because of his noble birth and wealth, he was popular everywhere.However, no temptation could arouse his interest.Although he was young and handsome, he was always very serious and silent.His thirst for knowledge is very strong.A fire of vengeance burned within him.

At that time, Prince Dhaka was full of anger.He hated a country, a country he would never want to go to; he hated a people, and he always refused to compromise with them.He hated England, and he cared just as much about England. The reason for this is that, as a conquered, he has a deep hatred for the conqueror, and the aggressor cannot get forgiveness from the invaded.Prince Dhaka is Dibo.A member of the Saib family, his father was a monarch who was only nominally subject to the United Kingdom, so he was brought up with ideas of restoration and revenge.He loves his motherland, which is as beautiful as poetry, but it is enslaved by the British colonists.He never set foot in the land of the British, whom he cursed, who enslaved the people of India.

Prince Dhaka became a well-cultivated artist, a scholar who understood various advanced sciences, and a politician who was familiar with the court policies of various European countries.On the face of it alone, one might regard him as a cosmopolitan devoted to study and despised action, a wealthy traveler who is defiant, self-important, homeless, and travelling. In fact, he wasn't that kind of person at all.This artist, scientist, and politician has an Indian heart. He is determined to take revenge, hoping that one day he can regain the sovereignty of the country, drive out foreign invaders, and restore the independence of the motherland.

In 1849, Prince Dhaka returned to Benderhand.He married an Indian noblewoman.Like him, she was outraged by the disaster in her country.They had two children, whom the couple adored very much.But the happy family life did not make them forget the cause of India's liberation.He waits for his chance.Finally, the opportunity finally came. Maybe it was because the British enslaved and squeezed India too much, and the masses expressed their dissatisfaction with the British colonists, which brought favorable conditions to the Prince of Dhaka.He deeply engraved his hatred of foreign invaders in the hearts of the broad masses of the people.He traveled not only to the parts of the Indian peninsula which remained independent, but also to the areas directly under British rule.He brought Dibo back.Great day of Saib's heroic sacrifice at Seringapatan in defense of his homeland.

In 1857, an armed uprising broke out among Indian soldiers. Prince Dhaka was the central figure in this uprising, and he organized this large-scale anti-British movement.He contributed his abilities and means to the cause.He took the lead and stood at the forefront of the battle.He was humble, and like the heroes who fought to liberate their country, he never thought of his own life.He fought in twenty battles and was wounded ten times.Finally, the British guns killed the last batch of uprising fighters, but he escaped from the tiger's mouth. Never before had British power in India been subjected to such a crisis.If the Indian soldiers really received foreign aid as they hoped, then the power of the United Kingdom in Asia might collapse. At that time, everyone knew the name of Prince Dhaka.The hero does not hide, he fights openly.The British authorities offered a price for his head, and though no one betrayed him, his parents, wife and children served as his substitutes before he knew the danger they were running on his behalf. This time, the just cause was once again suppressed by violence.However, civilization will never go backwards, and objective laws will inevitably push civilization forward.The uprising of Indian soldiers failed, and the lands of the former Indian monarchs fell to the darker rule of the British. Prince Dhaka escaped from the tiger's mouth and returned to the deep mountains of Benderhand.Since then, he has lived there alone.Not only does he hate everything about human beings, but he is also full of hatred for the civilized world, and he never wants to go back to the world.He sold his remaining property, assembled more than twenty most loyal companions, and disappeared together on a certain day. Where, then, did he find a freedom not found in the civilized world?Under the water, in the depths of the ocean, where no one could trace him. The military strategist turned scholar.He established a shipyard on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, and built a diving boat according to his own design.He made effective use of the almighty electricity in certain ways which will be discovered in the future.He uses electricity as a source of power, light, and heat for all the needs of his buoyancy devices, and this source of electricity can never be exhausted.There are endless treasures in the sea, including countless fish, countless seaweeds and huge mammals, not only everything provided by nature, but also various materials lost by human beings on the seabed.These treasures amply satisfied the needs of the prince and his companions.So his most ardent desire came true, and he never had contact with the outside world again.He named his diving boat the Nautilus, and called himself Captain Nemo, hiding in the depths of the ocean without anyone noticing it. Over the years, this amazing man has traveled all over the oceans, from the Antarctic to the North Pole.As a man abandoned by the civilized world, he collected countless treasures in these strange places.In 1702, the millions lost by the Spanish galleon in Vigo Bay became his inexhaustible wealth.He often used this huge sum to help countries struggling for independence, all the while keeping his name private. For a long time, he has been isolated from the outside world.On the night of November 6, 1866, three men suddenly fell aboard his boat.One is a French professor, one is the professor's servant, and the other is a Canadian fisherman.Abraham in the United States at that time.The cruiser Lincoln was chasing the Nautilus, and it was on his ship that the three fell when the two ships collided. After listening to the professor, Minister Nemo realized that the Nautilus was sometimes regarded as a huge cetacean mammal, and sometimes as a pirate's diving boat, and people everywhere searched for it in the sea. These three people came to the ship by chance from the ocean, and came into contact with his mysterious life; he could have sent them back to the ocean.But instead of doing so, he put them under house arrest.They stayed here seven months, and sailed twenty thousand leagues under the sea, and they saw with their own eyes all the wonders that befell them. None of the three knew about Captain Nemo's past history.On June 22, 1867, they escaped in a boat of the Nautilus.But at that time the Nautilus was caught in the center of a maelstrom off the coast of Norway.It was therefore quite natural for the captain to think that the three fugitives must be swept away in the dreadful whirlpool, and perish at sea.He never expected that the Frenchman and his two companions were thrown ashore by such a coincidence, and were rescued by the fishermen of the Lofoten Islands, let alone that after the French professor returned home, he published a book describing seven Months of uncanny voyages on the Nautilus.After these facts were made public, they once aroused the curiosity of readers. For a long time after this incident, Captain Nemo continued to roam the seas.But his companions died one by one, and they finally found a resting base on the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean.Later, Captain Nemo was the only one left among the group of sojourners at the bottom of the sea. At this time he was already sixty years old.Though helpless, he steered the Nautilus into a rocky cave in the sea, which he used to use as a harbor for his ships. One of these ports was just under the bottom of Lincoln Island, which at that time had become the hiding place of the Nautilus. The captain had lived on Lincoln Island for six years.He no longer sails, but waits out the rest of his life.At this time, he should go back to his compatriots in the past; at this time, he inadvertently saw the balloons taken by the prisoners of the Confederate Army descend from the sky.He was wearing a diving suit and walking on the seabed a few anchor chains offshore, just in time for the engineer to fall into the sea.Driven by compassion, the captain rescued Cyrus.smith. His first thought was to keep the five victims far away.But the volcanic action raised part of the basalt to the surface of the water, blocking the harbor in which he hid, and he could no longer come out of the burrow.Although light boats are not afraid of shallow water and can pass through the hole, the Nautilus cannot, because it has a deep draft. So Captain Nemo had to stay.He paid attention to these unarmed and destitute desert islanders, but he didn't intend to expose himself.Later, he gradually found that these people were honest, brave and united, and he cared about their struggle.He couldn't help but understand the misery of their lives.Wearing a diving suit, he can go to the bottom of the well inside the Granite Palace without any difficulty, and climb to the mouth of the well along the protruding rocks.In this way, he heard the residents reminiscing about the past, talking about the present and the future.He knew from them that there was a massive civil war in the United States to abolish slavery.Yes, the aboveboard behavior of these people on the island can change Captain Nemo's view of people. Captain Nemo rescued Cyrus.Smith; who also rescued Top from the lake, and led him to the Grotto; put chests full of many things useful to the inhabitants in the Relics Corner, sent the barge back to the Mercy; When they were in the Rock Palace, they threw rope ladders from above, put notes in bottles, let them know that Ayrton was on Dabo Island, placed mines under the channel, causing the brig to explode; Ning, saved Herbert from his dying condition; and at last he killed the criminal with the electric bullet, which he knew the secret of, and which he used to hunt the animals of the sea.In this way, many things that seem mysterious are explained.It all speaks to the generosity and talent of the captain. However, the great cynic was enthusiastic about all good deeds.He also wanted to tell his beneficiary some useful opinions; on the other hand, his heart was beating violently, and he felt that his death was approaching.So, as we know, he invited the denizens of Granite Palace to come here, by means of a wire that ran from the corral to the Nautilus.If only he had known Cyrus.Smith knew his history well, would have called him by Captain Nemo's name, and he probably wouldn't have invited them. The captain finished his life.Then Cyrus.Smith spoke.He retraces everything that happened in the past, and these things are of great benefit to the team.On behalf of his comrades and himself, he thanked this generous righteous man. But Captain Nemo didn't care about that.He seemed to have one thing on his mind.He did not shake the engineer's hand, but said: Now, sir, you know my history, and judge! By this the captain was evidently alluding to an important event, which the three strangers who had fallen on board had witnessed; the French professor had of course written it down in his work, and the The impact must have been huge.Here's the thing: Shortly before the Professor and his two companions escaped, the Nautilus was pursued in the North Atlantic by a cruiser, which finally sank the cruiser mercilessly like a wall-ram. Cyrus.Smith understood the captain's hint, and he made no answer. That's an English cruiser, sir, cried Captain Nemo, and in an instant he's Prince Dacca again, an English cruiser!You know, it came to attack me!I was squeezed into a narrow, shallow bay I had to get through, and so I did! Later, he said calmly: I stand for justice and justice. No matter where I am, I try my best to do the good things I can do, and at the same time do the bad things I should do.Know that justice does not equal forgiveness! There was a moment's silence; then the captain asked again: What do you think of me, gentlemen? Cyrus.Smith stretched out his hand to the captain, and replied solemnly: Sir, your mistake is that you think the past can be repeated, and you resist the inevitable trend.Some people praise such mistakes, while others condemn them; only God can judge right from wrong, and humanly speaking, they should be forgiven.A person wrongly thinks that what he wants to do is right, this kind of person, people can attack him, but people still respect him.Your mistakes do not deprive you of the admiration of others, nor does your name fear the judgment of history.History loves deeds of heroism and condemns the consequences of such deeds. Captain Nemo's chest was heaving with excitement, and he raised his hand, pointed to the sky, and murmured: Am I wrong or right? Cyrus.Smith replied: All great undertakings come from God and return to God in the end.Captain Nemo, you saved us honest people, and we will miss you forever. Herbert had approached the captain.He knelt down and kissed the captain's hand. Tears glistened in the eyes of the dying man. My child, he said, God bless you!