Reborn As a Pirate

Chapter 63: Longboat Remains

   only once through the forest, the 20 sailors belonging to the expedition died, four serious injuries, four minor injuries, this is still in a state of adequate preparations, basically no damage to the forest...

   only one negligence.

  He Brazil’s wild boars are arrogant and huge, each weighing four to five hundred catties, with sharp fangs and red eyes.

   From the point of view of aggressiveness, they should be carnivorous.

   and it should be the top of the food chain of this small island, domineering and indispensable.

   Considering the growth and reproduction speed of pigs, there is such an overlord in the sparse forest of the wind, and the size of the group becomes difficult to estimate.

   certainly not too much, certainly not too little...

   This means that the distant forest does not seem safe.

   They found a total of two suspected sources of fresh water. As long as they are lucky, they don’t need to be in the woods and wild boars.

The sequence of    probing is thus determined.

   Carrying the harvested wild boars and the corpses of their dead companions, the scarred team sneaked through the sparse forest and came to the big pool by the beach. It was quickly determined that this was indeed one of the main freshwater sources on the island.

   There are obvious traces of wild beasts wandering by the pool, and the footprints are mostly hoofed. There are no killers such as bear paws and cat claws, and there are no terrifying island crocodiles. The good news one after another made Lorraine breathe a sigh of relief.

   Then there is the second question... how to collect fresh water and the rich food resources of Xiangfengpo.

   Sea transportation along the island is the best way, but the Pansy cannot be launched, and the two assault boats together cannot bear the heavy responsibility of transportation.

   Lorraine looked at a wild deer probing his head by the forest.

   "Henna, you said that if we camp on Xiangfeng Beach, will the wild boars come and drive us out?"

   "Set up camp here, what about the Butterfly Flower?"

"You can separate camps, the logging team stays on the narrow east beach, and the logistics team and the expedition team move here. In this way, the collected water can be processed and stored on-site, and only a small amount of transportation is needed to meet the logging team's needs. need."

  Haina raised her eyebrows: "There are two streams of fresh water here. We set more traps by the pool and take the initiative to hunt. Smart beasts will avoid this place and go to the woods to drink water."

"Can also fire..." Lorraine added, biting his lip. "The six-pound cannon on the stern is very light and can be transported by assault boat. It can be used as a defense for beach camps, and it can also scare away beasts and open up space. "

   "When the butterfly number is repaired, there will be no problem in shipping water."

   After discussing in a few words, Lorraine ordered the sailors who could act to be divided into two. A group of people dug trenches on the beach and built artificial islands to create a place for hundreds of people to camp.

   Another group of people felled logs and hacked a log back to the East Beach to report.

   It turned out that the first thing completed was a simple raft. The three sailors used their own gowns to make sails, set up a rough sail raft, and drifted along the coast to the east coast.

   At sunset, Yacharin led two assault boats, twenty sailors, shovel and many empty barrels to the new camp, which greatly accelerated the speed of digging the sand island and brought news to Lorraine.

  On the way here, they found the remains of a long boat under a cliff.

   "The long ship? The Viking long ship?" Lorraine was surprised.

   "Yes, looking at the proportions of the slender hull, it should be a long Snakejie warship that was popular in the 9th century, but because it was getting late, we didn't board to explore."

   "The Vikings of the 9th century..." Lorraine was interested and patted Acharin on the shoulder appreciatively. "You are not only knowledgeable, but you also made the right decision, Acharin."

   "Compared to the remains of an ancient ship that can't run, digging through the sand island before nightfall, guarding against wild beasts is our top priority. Tomorrow, we will see that ancient ship..."

  ……

   The construction of the sand island and the transfer of personnel and materials lasted all night, and the morning sun rose again the next day, and a semi-independent arc-shaped sand island was added to Heba's Xiangfengsha stall.

   Island has an area of ​​nearly one square kilometer, facing the sea on one side and sparse forest on the other.

   It is separated from the sparse forest by a two-meter-wide waterway with a depth of nearly two meters. Sea water is introduced. The two sides are high and a simple shrub fence is also supported.

  The beasts on the land don't like the sea. With such a simple camping channel, wild boars or other fierce beasts hiding in the woods will not launch large-scale attacks. As for sporadic attacks, the sailors on duty can handle them.

  The sand island and the island are connected by a four-to-five-meter-wide log bridge. After crossing the bridge forty-five meters is the freshwater pond.

  Henna and Pierce will organize sailors to make a series of traps on Xianglin's side. They are also the heads of the temporary camp.

   Fishing, hunting, repairing ships, collecting fresh water, the Pansy completely eliminated the survival crisis, and Lorraine also simply adjusted the assignment of seafarers.

   Pierce and Hina preside over the Xiangfeng camp. Hina is also the protector of the camp, and he can deal with accidents.

  Kren and Noah are in charge of the east coast beach. The entrances and exits there are narrow, and there are hard-to-lift mountains on both sides. The defensive structure is definitely not as safe as Xiangfeng Camp, but they can live on a boat at night.

   Noya is the protector of the beach on the east coast. Although the Roma Witch has a shy personality, her personal combat effectiveness is much higher than that of two normal humans, Yacharin and Karen, and she ranks third on the ship.

   Lorraine also further simplified the expedition group. The wounded rested, the unrestricted sailors were sent to the logistics, and Henna was replaced by Acharin.

   In this way, there are only 8 people left in the expedition group. In order to improve some combat effectiveness, Lorraine gave Yacharin's ivory pistol back to him, which he borrowed.

  So, after transporting the two stern guns up to the wind camp, the expedition team requisitioned an assault boat, and under the guidance of Yacharin, paddled to the long boat ruins.

   After a short trip, Lorraine saw the long Snakejie ship at the mouth of Yacharing under a cliff.

   She is seventeen or eighteen meters long and less than three meters wide. There is a mast standing in the middle, about ten meters high. The sail above has already been weathered, leaving only a solitary wooden pole shaped like a tombstone.

   Looking at the ruins, the members of the expedition drew ashore and landed, Lorraine stood on the protruding reef, and took a closer look at the basically intact ancient warship.

   Her boat is made of oak. After many years, it has gradually become petrified, but there is almost no external decay.

   Her hull is wrapped with a layer of ship planks and fixed to the hull with long iron rivets.

   The gap between the ship's plates is huge, because the thread and rope made of animal hair and plant fiber are not as resistant to corrosion as the ship's material, and it has long been gone.

   There is also the famous high curved stern, which is finely carved from a whole piece of oak. The bow is carved with a bust of a woman with big eyes and curly hair. There is also a line of ancient Icelandic at the bottom of the portrait, [HALLVEIG].

   Lorraine? After being different for a long time, she couldn't help but glanced at the exquisitely carved bust again, and used her imagination to turn her complexion white, her eyes dyed brown, her hair dyed black...

   faintly, he saw the passing Helena...

   This made Lorraine confirm a conjecture, and gave birth to more doubts.

   Helveg is the mother and ancestor of the Lorraine whalers, the wife of the legendary King of Iceland Inge Arnaxon.

   But she is not a particularly famous person~www.wuxiamtl.com~ that is, there is no personal legend, and it does not conform to the tradition of Vikings who like to use the black dragon Nighold and the big snake Yemengard to photograph the Seven Seas...

  Why, she will become the bow and patron saint of this ship?

   Pressing down on the doubts of the heart seat, Lorraine continued to check the hull.

  The keel is made of tall and straight oak trees. The middle part is curved to increase the load-bearing capacity, while the ends are gradually narrowed to form a streamlined passage.

  The ship ribs are made of strong oak. The materials are all taken from natural curved wood. After careful construction, they are placed on various parts of the keel.

   The ship rib is wrapped with a one-inch-thick hull plate, made of overlapping oak blocks, and fixed to the ship rib with rivets, leaving a long row of oar holes.

   It’s just that the long oars are still there, but the cables that were supposed to be made of fir roots have long rotted, so that the combination of the plates has become loose, and some of them fall off directly. At first glance, it looks like a withered residual flower.

   A major feature of the Viking long ship is the open-air single deck without inner cabins.

   Through the peeling hull plate, Lorraine saw the skeletons sitting in rows on the bottom of the bilge, with rusty chains tied to their waists and legs, their appearances were miserable before death, and most of their heads were flying away.

   They are slaves to the oars, there are 24 people in total, and they seem to be beheaded in a unified manner.

   Combined with the complete structure of the ship, Lorraine guessed that she did not hit the rocks, but ran aground on her own initiative.

   He also found the boat inscription on the keel pattern...

  【INGOLF】, the wolf of king.

   "Inge...Anason?" Lorraine opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

   As he was trying to clarify the facts further, Acharin led a few sailors hurriedly from the inside of the cliff.

   "Captain! Great discovery! Great discovery!"

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