The drone flew another fifty or sixty miles before reaching the other end of the island. If we add the distance from the stone bridge to the current distance, then the length of the island from north to south would be about one hundred and twenty miles.
The width from east to west is only about sixty or seventy miles. He didn't expect it to be so deep from north to south, which gave Tang Wen a surprise.
As a result, the scope of Koh Samui is about twice as large as originally imagined.
Tang Wen continued to control the drone to circle the island, and then fly to the top of the mountain to take a look.
Because, although I have been to Koh Samui for almost half a year.
However, for safety reasons, the scope of activities is temporarily limited to the area around Wolong Lake, and we have not been able to visit the entire island.
Not long after the drone flew to the back of the island, Tang Wen was stunned for a moment.
He found that the trees on the back of the island were bigger and more lush, with towering old trees everywhere, primitive jungle as far as the eye could see, and almost not even the ground could be seen.
So, he controlled the drone to lower its altitude and get closer to the ground.
He found that there were many thorny plants or vines growing among the trees on the ground.
And the vines have bright flowers and fruits as big as basins, which look like small and charming women.
These thorny plant flowers are densely covered in the woods, layer upon layer, and look quite scary.
At this time, Tang Jun came over and said "oh" immediately.
"Did you find something?" Tang Wen turned to look at him and asked.
"It's the man-eating tree and piranha." Tang Jun pointed at the trees and vines on the screen and said with some fear.
"Cannibalism, eating human trees and flowers? Can it really eat people?" Tang Wen expressed doubts.
Although he had seen this thing in novels, he never dared to believe it.
"Of course cannibalism is cannibalism. Of course, it's not as evil as the legend says.
Look at these man-eating trees, their leaves are quite huge and spread out like a small round table.
Once a person gets close, these leaves will fold up and wrap you inside.
Or, their vines can trap you and cause the leaves to close in.
Then, a poisonous liquid will be sprayed out from their leaves, which will gradually wear away the skin and flesh of your body.
In the end, you were sucked in by the holes in the leaves. The same goes for piranha, which spreads its flowers and swallows you in.
However, this process is very slow. If you have high skills, you can escape.
Of course, these man-eating trees and piranha flowers will spit out some poisonous gas at any time. If you go in without precautions, you will gradually be stunned by them and eventually be eaten.
Therefore, before going there, you must first prepare some antidotes.
Also bring a special long knife with a pole and slash with it from a distance, and they won't be able to do anything to you." Tang Jun said.
"Tang Jun, look, these man-eating trees and flowers only grow in this area, and the area is only about a mile. They are not completely spread out and disappear further in. Is there something wrong here?" Tang Wen said
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"What's the problem with this? Maybe it's because this area is suitable for them to grow, but other places are not suitable for them." Tang Jun shook his head.
"What if it was planted artificially?" Tang Wen said.
"Man-made, who has enough food and nothing to do to cultivate this kind of thing?
This kind of thing cannot be eaten or played with.
You can't sell it to make money, it's absolutely impossible." Tang Jun was stunned and said.
"I feel like it's man-made, as if it's to prevent outsiders from entering," Tang Wen said.
"There are pirates hiding behind the island?" Tang Jun blurted out in shock.
"Perhaps, the pirates who attacked us are hiding on the back of our island. There may be a pirate den there." Tang Wen said, controlling the drone and continuing to fly forward slowly.
"There is someone!" After the drone continued to fly for ten miles, Tang Jun pointed at the screen and shouted.
"This guy must be a secret whistler." Tang Wen nodded and found a guy holding a big knife and hiding under the tree.
The drone continued to fly and discovered the second and third ones one after another.
As we flew further in, the number of people gradually increased, and we also discovered a horse trail that was seven or eight meters wide.
These horse trails are hidden under huge trees. If drones hadn't been flying close by, they wouldn't have been discovered at all.
After continuing for a few miles, we found houses, all of which were one-story houses.
There are stone ones and bamboo structures, all hidden under the big trees, making them extremely difficult to find.
"Ship!" Tang Jun shouted again, and Tang Wen discovered that there was actually an extremely narrow canyon over there.
The canyon has been connected to the sea. At this time, a boat slowly sailed into the canyon.
The drone flew into the canyon, and both of them were stunned.
There are people inside, and a group of pirates are patrolling with whips and swords, monitoring the workers.
The workers are also busy, and if they are a little slow, they will be whipped.
These workers are carrying wooden boxes to the ship. I wonder what is in the boxes?
At this time, Tang Wen controlled the drone and carefully landed in a hidden place.
Afterwards, the unmanned person was controlled to open the cockpit and slide out another micro-drone only the size of a hummingbird.
This kind of miniature drone has a poor battery life. It can only go back and forth within a range of about ten miles, and it can't come back any further.
However, because it is so small, it is difficult for even concealed whistlers to spot it, and they often mistake it for a hummingbird.
The Hummingbird drone flew in and found a trace of smoke coming out of the front, as if there was a hole, so it flew in carefully.
Next door to Mahler!
Sure enough, he was stealing the silver mine from my Tang family.
There are several large cast iron furnaces lined up in the cave, and hundreds of workers are busy smelting silver ore.
Moreover, these guys are so smart.
The stove would emit a lot of smoke, and they actually built several huge iron cylinders.
In front of these tubes is a huge inverted pot-like object that covers the large iron stove.
Behind the iron cylinder, there are a group of people who are desperately turning several fan-like things. As the fan rotates, the smoke from the iron furnace is sucked into the iron cylinder.
And these iron sheets and coppers have been poured into the sea water not far away, and the smoke is sucked into the sea water, so naturally it will not rise everywhere.
Isn't this an ancient version of a 'range hood'? Moreover, it's also an oversized one.
"This mechanism is too powerful. Could it be the work of the Gongsun family?" Tang Jun sighed repeatedly.
"It's possible, but they must have captured these workers," Tang Wen said.
"That's for sure. There are pirates everywhere here, and workers can't escape even if they want to." Tang Jun nodded.
"They found out we were building a dam and were afraid we would find them out.
Therefore, they sent people to attack us twice in a row. Firstly, they wanted to scare us away. If they didn't scare us away, they would kill us.
Therefore, there will be a bigger attack soon, and there will be more people coming the third time." Tang Wen said.
"They seem to have a lot of blunderbuss. The first two times were probably because they were afraid of alerting others.
Or maybe they think we don’t have the ability, so we didn’t bring the blunderbuss.
However, once we bring fire guns for the third time, we will be in trouble." Tang Jun said with a worried look.
"So, we have to strike first and be stronger." Tang Wen said.
"But there are many of them. You see, there are two to three hundred people on patrol alone. I'm afraid the number will not be less than five or six hundred.
We don't have any guns, so we definitely can't defeat them.
It's better to report to the officials and ask the navy to come over and destroy them." Tang Jun shook his head.
"We are at war now, and the navy won't care about our trivial matters.
Moreover, the navy moves slowly, and God knows if they have spies in the navy.
You see, their illegal excavations have not been discovered for so many years. Maybe there are officials in the navy who colluded with them.
Once it is leaked, they will take action in advance, and we will suffer." Tang Wen shook his head.
"What should we do? Otherwise, please ask Chief Yang to bring the police over to help us." Tang Jun was anxious.
"You have to be careful about this matter. There are spies in the navy, and there is no guarantee that there are no spies in the police yamen.
They have been in business for decades, refined a lot of money, and managed it everywhere. I am afraid they have also secretly formed a network of relationships in Yanling County.
As soon as we move, they will know it first." Tang Wen shook his head.
"Are we just waiting for them to come and kill us?" Tang Jun snorted.
"Let's go back first and stop all work. First, organize the manpower for special training for a few days and prepare for action." Tang Wen said, taking back the drone, and the two quickly rushed back to the station.
As soon as they arrived at the gate, Li Quan came over and said, "Master, someone wants to see you."