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Chapter 743 Discovering New Islands ([-])
The scouts swept out [-] islands overnight, but they haven't finished scanning yet. New outlines of islands keep appearing in the scouting range. Zhaolin decisively went to find Qi Ke, and the two took out [-] scouts from Qianhe Realm to replenish In this way, even if the archipelago consists of thousands of islands, so many scouts can all be swept away within a few days.

Of course, when sweeping the islands on such a large scale, the first thing to look for is islands related to pirates. Starting from the slave transit island, search for islands with better ports and wharfs within ten days of voyage.

The only decent village on the slave transfer island had to provide food and drinking water for a hundred people to eat and drink for ten days at sea. It might not be enough to strip out all the food in the village. The lighting was calculated on the upper limit. After searching in this way, if you don’t believe me, you can’t find it, unless there are other transit islands that can provide supplies for the pirates to have extra meals on the way.

More than 200 scouts take the search for clues of pirates as the highest priority task, and their efficiency is outstanding. First, they use life detection to search for densely populated islands, and then send the pictures back to Zhaolin one by one. Five suspicious objects were found, all of which had lively ports and wharfs, and the most important point was islands that could berth ships of the same size as pirate ships.

The distribution of these five islands is also very interesting. From the periphery of the archipelago to the center of the inner circle, the islands in the inner circle are more populated and have more solid bamboo, wood, brick and stone houses. There are also small dilapidated houses with rough walls and thatched roofs, and there is a significant gap between the rich and the poor.

Ignoring these gaps between the rich and the poor, and only looking at the size of the ships berthing at the port, it is already certain that the pirates who came to burn, kill and loot across the vast sea have the support of their local power behind them, either rich merchants and nobles, or ruler.

"Look at these five suspicious islands, and see if any of the ships anchored have cannons." Qi Ke poked Zhao Lin's arm.

"What do you suspect?" Zhaolin mobilized the scout to return to the sky over the five islands, and projected the real-time images back for Qi Ke to see.

"If the supporters behind the pirates are really these big forces, will they let armed ships disguised as merchant ships berth in civilian ports?"

"So, we have to find the military port?"

"The well-known military port may not work. If the big forces want to keep it secret, there should be a dedicated port."

"Then it still needs to have a small population, but have a port that is not commensurate with the population?"

"Besides, there must be various supporting docks." Qi Ke's eyes sparkled, "Call out the picture of the big pirate ship and look at it. Just look at the ships and weapons. Does it look like they are often maintained?"

"There is a port with a complete set of facilities, but only one armed ship is sent all the way to rob. Can this make money?" Zhao Lin said while calling out the old data stored, and after checking it, he found that it was indeed as Qi Ke said. He said that the maintenance of the pirate ship was well done.

"In addition to robbing, they also sell slaves. I think slave trading is the main business, and robbery is a sideline. It was even a temporary idea at first." Qi Ke paused, tapped his fingers on the table, "No, behind the temporary There may still be a tentative intention.”

"Test? What is the test? See if this continental country with a long coastline has the ability to deal with maritime crises?"

(End of this chapter)