Chapter 142
On the island, there are white fine sand, green peaks, coconut trees swaying in the wind, and unknown fruit species that flash among green plants. The wind blows on the sea, making people feel that this place is really a place like a paradise on earth. And this place - there is fresh water! The spring water flowing down from the highest mountain here is still a little salty and warm, but it is indeed fresh water that can be drunk.
After wandering around the island for more than ten minutes, Tong Guan had to admit that maybe there was a problem with the chart. There might be an island that was not discovered here. "Okay! We found an island. Don't care what its name is, let's rest on the island first." Tong Guan did not catch fat sheep for a long time and did not dare to force the pirates under his command too much, so he issued an order to rest on the island for two or three days. Well, the pirates were all happy - there were islands and fresh water, so most of them would also have fat sheep.
The pirates also found animals on the island, but unfortunately they were all birds. Of course, there were many bird eggs. They moved food from the boat, ate and drank on the island, and spent a happy day. Tong Guan crossed the pirates who were drunk on the ground and walked to Nanbowan and Gao Qiu. The three leaders on the boat finally felt relieved. Some time ago, they were worried about whether their pirates would rebel, and tied them up to the bottom of the boat. After all, the pirates who had never been able to grab the fat sheep always had a choice to tug the captain's bottom and then drive the boat away and sell it to everyone's money.
The three guys clinked a glass of wine - what they were in their hands was the real wine, not the inferior strong wine that sailors drank. Then Gao Qiu looked at the sky casually, then wiped his eyes, looked at the sky again, jumped up, smashed the cup in his hand, and turned around and ran towards the ship. Tong Guan was a little confused, "This guy! Have you drunk too much?" So he also looked into the sky, and then the guy touched his head and thought hard, then looked at it several times, then jumped up and ran towards the ship.
Nanbowan couldn't understand these two guys at all. He looked at their backs in confusion, "What happened?"
The two guys climbed onto the boat one after another, took out the sextant from the cabin, and started looking at the stars as if they were drunk. Not long after, both of them began to pick up pencils and start calculating, and then found the chart, and their hands were still shaking and searching on the chart. "Move... moved 300 nautical miles. Move south with our previous position before we landed on the island for 300 nautical miles!" Gao Qiu's voice dried up as if he hadn't drunk water for decades.
"This is an island that can move... No wonder we couldn't find it on the chart before." Tong Guan replied, but the guy was immediately excited, "Will this become our opportunity? Make this place a secret base and hide our treasures! I'm really excited to think about it!" Then things come. In this way, you have to record the route for a period of time, at least you have to understand the movement rules of the island. And if this island has no rules at all, then at least you must leave and return to the channel before things are irreversible - after all, there has not been a fat sheep found by them yet.
So Gao Qiu was left on the boat, leading one-third of the sailors to maintain the ship and replenish freshwater. Tong Guan and Nanbowan began to explore the island with the rest of the pirates. Their first target was the only mountain on the island - a mountain that might be more than 300 meters high according to measurements. Below the peak is a dense tropical jungle. Due to the scattered freshwater flowing from the peak, the bottom of the jungle is actually similar to the terrain with swamps. However, it is not deep, and it is usually half a person deep. The pirates suffered a little at first, and then they cut down trees and tied them into small rafts to push them with long poles on the water. Their movement speed suddenly increased.
Tong Guan discovered that the terrain of the island except for the peaks in front of him was quite flat. He tested the water depth with a long pole in several different places and found that the water depths in various places were not very different. It can be said that the terrain was quite flat and flat. This is not what an island should look like. This kind of thing always seemed to be something wrong, but he pressed this wrong in his heart and urged the pirates to continue moving forward.
In fact, the pirates also noticed the abnormal atmosphere, and their actions became more cautious - this is the mysterious sea. Since the "Catastrophe", there have been many mysterious and legendary seas. I heard that humans used to have warships that could fly in the sky, and they were the masters of the sea at that time. But now, there are only a handful of warships that can fly, and they are almost all important national weapons collected by great powers. They can only be seen at various extremely important ceremonies. Fortunately, the technology of some individual weapons has not been lost - at least humans can still use continuous-shot paper shell fixed-loading guns with a very delicate rotating structure. This is also the confidence they are still exploring here.
Finally approached the mountain. The mountain appeared a very symmetrical low conical mountain. Generally speaking, this kind of mountain is mostly a volcano. When looking at the coast, the top of the mountain did look like a volcano. When he stepped on the mountain, the sharp-eyed Deng Bojun found a small yellow stone on the ground. The guy squatted down and wiped it, then slapped it on both sides a few times, and then he made a sound like a chicken being pinched on his neck. "Gold, gold!"
In this era, in the old world of mankind, gold was still a precious metal. His voice immediately attracted everyone's attention. Everyone surrounded him and watched Deng Bojun dig open the dust next to him little by little. In the end, the size of the gold was almost a circle larger than that of a human fist. Tong Guan straightened his body, and he was a little more knowledgeable. After all, he quickly woke up from this fanatical excitement, but when he looked around, he also let out a brief exclaim.
Chapter completed!