After throwing the examined murloc corpses into the sea, Lawrence led a few people in a small boat to land on Jinquan Island. In the center of this small island, there is a well with a diameter of two meters, and the well is surrounded by coral stones that are native to the area.
A well circle was built, and a wooden cover was placed over the well for hygiene reasons.
Next to the well, there is a large stone that is more than two people tall. The stone is carved with the statue of the goddess of springs and the holy emblem. Lawrence led his group to salute the statue of the goddess of springs and took out a few pieces of bread.
He placed it in front of the statue as a sacrifice, and then began to search the surrounding area.
Soon, a few of them found evidence that John and the others had been here: somewhere near the well, they found a shoe nail. This shoe nail glowed with metal and looked completely new.
There is a simple-looking trademark cast on the spikes.
"Ha, this is the trademark of Steel Hammer." As Leisuo, who has been active in the Star Island area recently, he quickly recognized what the small hammer logo on the side of each shoe nail represents. "This
It is the largest metal processing factory in the New Netherland Islands and the surrounding sea area, producing a series of daily hardware products. For example, most of the nails, shoe nails, hinges, springs, and wires in the surrounding area come from
This factory.”
"Fishermen don't wear leather shoes with spikes. We often choose to go barefoot on the boat." A sailor who landed with them said that he had been a sailor for a long time before becoming Lawrence's sailor.
The fishermen of the time naturally know the habits of fishermen in this area. "Except for a few small offshore cargo ships that have deviated due to storms, the only people who come to this small place to get fresh water are fishermen."
"No cargo ships have passed here these days, and unregistered smugglers will not wear such shoes that are difficult to move on the ship." Lawrence, who got the ship operation data in the area these days, said, and then held the
The spike said to the people around it, "If you look carefully, you will find that this spike is a heavy-duty combat boot with an armored iron plate. In this era, only extraordinary people will wear these."
"But why do they need to replenish fresh water?" the sailor asked with some confusion, "The New Netherland Islands are not far from here, and the weather in the surrounding areas in recent days can be said to be calm. In theory, the expedition
There should be no shortage of fresh water on the team's boat. It seems a bit strange to get water here at this time."
"I think there are two possibilities." Nora, who had remained silent just now, said. "One is that they encountered some unexpected situations and lost a lot of fresh water stored on the ship, even to the point of having to replenish it. I think.
Thinking about the group of murlocs that just besieged us and shouldn't be here in the first place, I wonder what happened nearby."
"Another possibility is that they discovered some unexpected situation on the way to the target. Lin temporarily decided that they needed to sail far, so they came to this island to temporarily replenish some fresh water in order to maintain a longer voyage."
"The first possibility is unlikely." After listening to what Nora said, Lawrence closed his eyes and thought for dozens of seconds. "Because if John and the others follow their planned sailing route, there will be a place farther than the previous day's voyage.
It’s not a small port. It’s much more convenient and faster to buy water directly from the port than to draw water from this well.”
"As for the second possibility." Lawrence frowned and took out the nautical chart from his arms and looked at it carefully before saying. "That means that many things we have guessed before need to be changed. John 1 and the others are very likely to
Instead of driving through the island-dense area as originally planned, we sailed directly to the open sea."
While talking, Lawrence took out the red and blue pencil from his arms, then crossed out a few dots that were originally circled and quickly calculated a series of numbers again in his mind, and finally added a few numbers near the east.
Two blue circles.
"They yawed very sharply this time. If we connect the two traces of the ship we found together with a line, we will find that their ship deviated far from the original target point and sailed to the open sea." After calculating, Lawrence raised his head and said.
to. "Next we may need to search outside the area given by the church."
"Then let's do this." Lei Suo thought briefly and said. "Anyway, the church will focus the search on the area they have delineated. One more of us is not more, one less of us is not more. It is better to let us
It’s better to just go and look where they haven’t looked.”
"Then do we need to inform the church of the conjecture we just came up with?" Nora asked curiously. "If the church can send some people to help, I think we-" But she
When he was halfway through speaking, Lawrence raised his hand to stop him.
"This is unnecessary. After all, the clues we found were just a can and a shoe nail. Everything else was concluded through reasoning and prophetic magic." Lawrence shook his head gently and said, "
But my extraordinary level is not enough for church members to believe in the results of my spells."
"More importantly, we are just proposing a conjecture anyway. Simply speaking from a possibility perspective, John and the others are more likely to be within the range drawn by the church. If so, they have put the main
Investing your energy there and working separately with us is actually the most reasonable approach right now.”
After unifying everyone's thoughts, Lawrence and the others returned to the Enterprise and set sail again. This time, they made a big turn and sailed toward the east coast. However, less than a day after setting off, something happened in the sky.
Dark clouds slowly began to gather, and at the same time the wind and waves on the sea became stronger and stronger.
Sudden storms like this are not uncommon in tropical sea areas, so the Enterprise immediately made preparations after seeing the low-hanging black clouds in the distance. Therefore, it passed through this stormy area smoothly. But it also passed through
During this period of time in the wind and wave zone, they lost their original course and needed to reposition themselves.
Different from the aimless search at the beginning, after roughly locking the direction of the target, Lawrence can use Bai Ze's ability to predict the future to drive the plum blossoms to further determine the direction of the target. So when relocating, Lawrence asked the captain for a
The compass divined again. In order to avoid some possible interference, he also borrowed part of Nora's power related to the gods through the connection of his soul.
Unexpectedly, after performing a series of magic rituals and letting the last three coins fall to the ground, the pointer on the compass placed on the ground swung slightly and pointed in a new direction, and this
There is an angle of more than ten degrees between the direction and the direction divined before departure.
"What are John and the others doing?" Lawrence frowned as he looked at the direction and chart displayed on the compass, because this kind of prophetic magic indicated not the current location of the team, but the location of their target.
.Now it seems that if there is no problem with the divination results, then it means that their target is also moving.
"Could it be that some pirates took away what they were looking for, and John and the others were chasing them?" Nora raised a possibility after reading the divination results. After all, the previous intelligence suggested that pirates were hiding treasures.
The nearby waters are haunted.
But after a brief thought, this conjecture was rejected by Lawrence. Because if it was really related to pirates, John and the others should report it as soon as possible and let the church mobilize manpower to hunt down the pirates, instead of just relying on their own small boat to hunt down the pirates.
"But you gave me an inspiration." Lawrence turned to Nora and said, "Then the treasure is probably not in a fixed position, but is carried by something moving."