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"Hurry up, get it up quickly!" Lu Wan grabbed the side of the boat and said loudly to the people below. On the sea not far below the big boat, there was a small boat parked in Haoli, and a crew member on the boat stretched out his hand. , ready to pick up something from the sea

From Lu Wan's perspective, it can be seen that the thing on the sea surface is about one step long, and the whole is black. It looks like it should be a piece of wood, but it needs to be held in hand to be sure.

"Captain, it's indeed a piece of wood!" The crew member on the small boat said with ecstasy just as he took the thing in his hands.

"Quick, bring it up!" Lu Wan was also very pleasantly surprised. Don't underestimate this piece of wood. They have been sailing on the sea for nearly three months, but they still haven't found the shadow of the American continent, or even an island. None, but now there is a piece of wood here, which means that there is likely to be a piece of land in this sea area, and it may even be the American continent they are looking for. This naturally makes Lu Wan and the others feel a kind of ecstasy

Of course, Lu Wan and the others cannot be sure that this piece of wood drifted over from the American continent, but whether it is a mainland or a small island, it is a great joy for Lu Wan and the others, after all, they have sailed so far. After a long time, the crew has been extremely tired and urgently needs a piece of land to rest Capital Datang 571

Soon, the crew below delivered the scooped up wood to Lu Wan, but Lu Wan took a look in his hand and found that the wood should be a branch as thick as an arm, because there was a thick layer of wood on the surface. The black "black" algae, so it looks thicker than it actually is. After scraping off the algae, you can see that the gray-black bark is just a branch of a tree, but Lu Wan can't recognize it?

"Shi Jie, let someone identify what kind of tree branch this is?" Lu Wan ordered.

"Yes!" Feng Shijie immediately agreed, took the branches and went to find someone to identify them. There are many carpenters on board who are responsible for the repair of the hull. They deal with wood every day, so they are naturally very familiar with all kinds of trees, but Feng Shijie didn't expect it. The strange thing is that after he asked a few well-informed carpenters, they told Feng Shijie that they had never seen this kind of tree before.

After hearing Feng Shijie's reply, Lu Wan's face showed a bit of excitement, a kind of tree that even carpenters don't know. His intuition told him that America might be just ahead

The discovery of this branch also boosted the morale of the entire fleet. The crew members who were already a little desperate to explore the Americas also raised a hope that maybe they could really accomplish this feat, and then in His Royal Highness Qi Wang organization's grand welcome back to Taiwan

Thinking of the scenery after returning, all the crew members' faces were filled with longing, and their hands and feet were a little more agile than before. Even without Lu Wan's order, the fleet has already accelerated and sailed eastward.

Maybe it really comes from the fact that after they hunted down the whale, the whole fleet's previous nightmare finally disappeared, first they found a branch from the land and after a few days, they finally found a very Small archipelago These small islands are all volcanic islands, the largest of which is only more than 70 miles long and only 30 miles wide

However, although these islands are not large in size, they are rich in resources. Not only fresh water can be replenished, but also forests and pastures, where various animals live. The only regret for them is that they have no Find traces of native people's activities here

The significance of the discovery of this archipelago to Lu Wan and the others is self-evident. On the island, they can not only replenish fresh water and food, but also drive the boat to a freshwater estuary to clean up all kinds of attachments on the bottom of the boat. The attachments are mainly shellfish marine organisms. If they are not cleaned up, it will seriously affect the speed of the ship. In addition, there is a kind of insects that will eat the wood on the bottom of the ship. However, this kind of insects can only live in sea water, so you only need to put If the boat is moored in fresh water for a period of time, that kind of bug will be killed

And taking advantage of the period of replenishing fresh water and food, and repairing the ship, Lu Wan gave most of the crew members a vacation, so that everyone could relax their tense nerves. Even Lu Wan also gave himself a vacation, After arranging all aspects of work, he carried a shotgun and went hunting in the grasslands of the island with Feng Shijie and others

"Bang~" With a gunshot, an animal that looked like a deer but had no horns and was much smaller fell down, and its companions were startled by the gunshot and quickly fled. He drove a few steps, but stopped quickly, and then turned his head to look at his fallen companion, showing no sign of fear

"Hahaha~, if I knew the animals on the island were so stupid, we can just use a knife. Using a musket is a waste of gunpowder." Feng Shijie rushed over laughing, picked up the prey and directed it at Lu Wan and the others behind him. shouted

"Brother Shi Jie is good at marksmanship. It's surprising that you haven't lost your marksmanship after several years of rich life!" A short man who looked like a native of Nanyang came over and said

This person was also their companion when they discovered Australia. He was of mixed Chinese and soil, that is, the interpreter Liu Kata was a language genius. He can also learn it at the fastest speed, so this exploration of America is naturally indispensable to him

"You guys still talk about Shi Jie, who doesn't know that you are the chieftain now, I heard that you have more than a dozen wives, no wonder I haven't seen you for a few years, you are thinner than before, probably because your wife squeezed you dry Right?" The other guy laughed and said that this person is a one-eyed dragon, with a long scar stretching from his forehead to the corner of his mouth, just destroying one eye, looking extremely hideous

Cyclops was also one of the important members of the exploration fleet back then. He was the helm captain on a ship, named Er Hanzi. His family was a hunter for generations, and he was a good hunter. He has been working as a slave catcher all these years. In the team, when he was catching slaves two years ago, he was slashed by someone. Although he survived by luck, he ruined one eye. At the same time, it also made him look more fierce. silly young man

"Hey, by the way, speaking of it, old Liu, you always hated going back to the Kata tribe, why did you go there later and became the chief?" Feng Shijie also came over at this time, holding the prey and asked casually.

Liu Kata's father is Han, and his mother is the daughter of a native chief. His name comes from the Chinese homonym of that tribe, but it is precisely because he has half of the native blood, so Liu Kata has suffered a lot of grievances and desperately He wants to prove that he is a Han, so he has never liked the Kata tribe where he was born. As his friend, Feng Shijie naturally knows it, but he has not contacted him for a few years, and he was already a little rusty when they met again, so he was just a friend at that time. Didn't ask, now that we live and die together again, the friendship between everyone is deeper than before, so Feng Shijie asked casually

"Hey, it's not my fault. Look at me. How can a woman from the Han family marry me? So in the end I had to go back to the clan and marry more than a dozen women and girls. Anyway, I have a Han woman. No one can deny that the child born is also a Han Chinese!" Speaking of this, Liu Kata couldn't help saying angrily: Capital Datang 571

However, Lu Wan and Feng Shijie smiled after hearing this. Liu Kata avoided the important and ignored it. He didn't say how he became the chief. It may be the nail sent by the palace to Nanyang. After all, the Kata tribe is located in Borneo, and most of the area there is not yet under the control of the Qi palace. But even if this is the case, Liu Kata will never admit it, so they also Did not follow up

There is no sign of human activities in this archipelago, so the animals on the island are not afraid of people at all, and even after their companions are killed, they don’t know how to escape. This may also be related to the fact that they have no natural enemies on the island. But it is precisely because of this, Lu Wan and the others were able to easily hunt down a lot of prey, and even quite a few of them were captured alive. It is precisely because of this that Lu Wan and the others named this animal "dull deer"

When Lu Wan and the others carried a lot of prey to the campsite on the coast, they met many crew members who were playing on the island along the way. Many crew members carried a kind of sea turtle the size of a millstone, saying that they came from the other end of the island. In addition, there are many fresh sea turtle eggs on the beach. Many crew members have already collected them with bags, which makes Lu Wan and the others very happy. It seems that there is delicious sea turtle soup to drink tonight. , and there must be white egg flowers floating in the soup

In addition, when passing through some forests, some crew members were cutting down trees. This is because the fleet needs a lot of fuel, which not only needs to be stored on board, but also the fresh water prepared must be boiled, so that it can be stored for a longer period of time. , in addition to preventing diseases, this is already common sense that all crew members know

The campsite on the beach was even more lively. Apart from the crew members on duty, there were also some crew members who hadn’t gone out or had come back together, playing cards, drinking, grilling prey, etc., making the whole The camp is extremely noisy, but it is also in this noise that a kind of vigorous vitality appears, which is much stronger than the dead energy when the food was scarce before.

Lu Wan and the others stayed in this archipelago for nearly ten days, and when they left, Lu Wan named the largest island Whale Island and the second largest island Branch Island to commemorate those islands. the whales that saved their flotillas, and the boughs that steadied them onward

What Lu Wan and the others didn't expect was that on the second day after they left Whale Island, a black horizon suddenly appeared in the direction they were heading! (to be continued...)