wild trail

Chapter 392 New Zealand Island
The hope of life was ignited, and the sailors rekindled their fighting spirit. The land ahead was huge, but it was not a mainland, but a very huge island.

First officer Zhao Tong looked at the huge island and murmured, "It's finally here."

In this direction, in the maps he had seen, there was only one unnamed island. As long as he arrived at this island, he would not be far from the mysterious land in the east.

After going through life and death, I don't want to travel thousands of miles across the ocean to come here. Now that victory is in front of me, how can I not let my heart surge.

It's just that although we can see land, it will take some time to actually land at the current speed. In order to ensure that the sailors can survive, Zhao Tong keeps cheering for everyone.

I used my little urine to get through this last period without sleeping.

Zhao Tong looked in the direction of the captain's cabin and walked slowly towards it.

"Mate!"

He Tie, who had rescued the monkey, saw Zhao Tong approaching, and Gang Yao got up, but at this moment, he, who had been weak for a long time, his legs softened, and he shook a few times, holding on to the wall, barely letting himself fall.

"Go and rest, we will be rescued soon," Zhao Tong said slowly.

He Tie nodded, and found a shady place to sit down to recover his strength.

"crunch~"

The heavy wooden door was pushed open, and there was an unpleasant smell, Zhao Tong frowned and looked around.

On the bed, the captain lay quietly on the bed. From the slight rise and fall of his chest, it could be seen that he did not die.

Zhao Tong walked to the bed, and saw the captain staring at the roof with a dull expression, his cheeks were sunken, his eyes were dark, and he looked very scary.

On the side table, the meals seemed to have not been touched for a long time, and the unpleasant smell came from these rotten foods.

"Captain, we are here." Zhao Tong said softly.

It's just that the captain didn't respond as if he didn't hear him.

"Ugh!"

Zhao Tong sighed, raised his voice, cupped his fists and said: "Captain Wei, please cheer up, the imperial court entrusted the fleet to you, not to let you wait here to die."

At this moment, the captain's eyes moved, and he turned slightly to look at Zhao Tong.

"You're here!" the captain said hoarsely.

"We're here." Zhao Tong said expressionlessly.

Hearing this, the captain suddenly opened his eyes, sat up straight, grabbed Zhao Tong's shoulder, and said like crazy: "What did you say, say it again."

"We have arrived at the island on the map." Zhao Tong said here.

"Haha, here we are, here we are."

The captain let go of his hand, and yelled madly in the room, looking unkempt, no different from a madman.

After a long time, the captain suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily towards the east, "Your Majesty, we have arrived. I am guilty, I am guilty. I am ashamed of your Majesty and the people of Xia Kingdom."

The captain cried bitterly and kowtowed to the east with a "bang bang" until the bleeding from his head did not stop.

Seeing this surge of anger rising in his heart, Zhao Tong walked over, lifted him up, and punched him in the face.

The captain was punched and fell to the ground with blood on the corner of his mouth.

"Wei Ming, are you a bloody soldier? Your Majesty won't care about the shit you shed. You are the captain, so you should think about bringing your brothers back safely. Even if the sailors are down, you can't. If you die, you have to bury the brothers before you die." Zhao Tong pointed at the captain's evil nose and cursed.

The captain sat on the ground with a hunched body, his eyes were a little dull.

Zhao Tong gritted his teeth and left with a cold snort.

The captain sat in the cabin for a long time, when the evening sun shone on his face along the crack of the door, he felt that the person in the sun was very warm.

Slowly stood up from the ground, pushed open the door, and walked out of the long-closed room.

When the crew saw the unkempt Wei Ming, they stared at him as if they had seen a ghost.

The corners of Wei Ming's mouth curled up, and he bowed deeply to his subordinates, saying: "Brothers, I, Wei Ming, am sorry for you, the first mate woke me up, don't worry, I will definitely let you take pride Return to your hometown."

The crew didn't speak, but they smiled unconsciously.

"glory!"

Someone yelled, and the rest of the crew also raised their arms and shouted.

Wei Ming was very moved. He gave up these brothers who shared weal and woe, but they did not give up on themselves. These people are not just subordinates to him now, but brothers he can trust.

The moonlight sprinkled on the sea, and by virtue of the moonlight, the crew, relying on their skilled navigation skills, parked the ship in a harbor.

Looking at the weedy shore, everyone knew that it was extremely unwise to go up to such a strange place at night.

Although everyone wanted to drink cool and delicious fresh water, they could only wait patiently.

After a difficult night, at dawn, the crew took the boat and headed for the coast. As long as they got on land, everything would be fine.

This bay has a long sandy beach. When sailors step on the soft sand with their feet, the down-to-earth feeling is amazing.

Looking inland from the beach, there is a tall mountain behind a dense grassland. The trees on the hillside are very sparse, and most of the mountains have large areas of exposed rock.

When everyone landed on the beach one after another, the sailors started looking for wood non-stop. Although there were not many trees in the plains, the season here seemed to be autumn, and the weeds were a little yellow and the low shrubs were good fuel.

With their current physical strength, it is simply impossible to find the river in a strange place.

The way to obtain fresh water now is to distill seawater. Although the collection speed of this method is very slow, it is the most reliable method as far as the current situation is concerned.

Yellow weeds and trees were gathered, and while the flames were lit under the great iron pots of the still, the crew sat together, swallowing, and waited for clean fresh water to flow down the copper pipes.As the seawater was boiled, the water vapor fell into the condensing pipe, turned into a clear stream of water, and slowly flowed into the container below.

Although the sailors were very thirsty, none of them touched the fresh water.

Distilled in several cauldrons at the same time, in half a day, only a large barrel of fresh water could be collected for people. Although this amount of water was not enough for everyone to drink heartily, it solved their urgent needs.

The clear water enters the abdomen, and the refreshing feeling runs through the limbs and bones, which makes people feel refreshed, and the whole person seems to be reborn.

The fresh water continued to distill, and the sailors who replenished the water had to do something that made people feel heavy.

During this difficult voyage, not everyone survived. Seeing the corpses neatly placed on the ground, everyone felt extremely heavy.

The captain took off his helmet and gave a solemn military salute to these dead brothers.

A total of 23 people died, and the captain asked them to write down their names. At dusk on this day, the sailors held a cremation for these brothers and collected the ashes of these dead brothers. The soul returns to the hometown.

Soldiers who knew some sacrifices sang sad songs, ancient and mysterious songs, which filled the beach with a sad atmosphere.

The dead are gone, but the living will continue to move on. With the will of the dead brothers, the expedition team is ready to go again.

After several days of busy work and collecting a sufficient amount of fresh water, the expedition team is ready to explore the island. It is obviously unrealistic to explore the island in depth. Their role is to determine whether there are humans on this island and that continent, or Other civilizations, this is their mission here.

There are no signs of human civilization activities near the beach, and the expedition team does not plan to go too deep here. After staying here for a few days, the fleet set sail again and headed north along the coastline.

According to the map given by the imperial court, if nothing else happened, the big island would be divided into two parts. If you go around the North Island and continue to the west, you will reach the mainland.

But the specific route will be determined according to the direction of the ocean current.

The fleet sailed along the coastline for more than ten days. In the telescope, there was no sign of human activities on the land, but they saw many very special animals. These animals were very different from those in China, but the crew did not know Attract the attention of the crew, after all, the most indispensable thing in this world is the beast.

Driven by the ocean current, the expedition ship circled the northernmost corner and headed south. After driving south for two days, a huge mouth of a river appeared in front of everyone.

The captain, first mate and others took the revised map for comparison, and marked the estuary at the approximate location.

"Captain, should we follow the river, maybe we will find something good." Zhao Tong suggested.

The captain looked at it with the binoculars for a while, nodded and said, "Well, let's go in and have a look. If there are humans or other people, it is most likely near the river."

Zhao Tong responded and ordered the signal soldiers to send orders to the ships behind to prepare to sail into the big river.

On both sides of the river is a vast expanse of lush plains, where all kinds of grotesque animals inhabit, and these have no interest in this behemoth that suddenly broke in.

"Heizi, this place is really good. If this land is planted with grain, it will definitely have a good harvest." The monkey said tut-tsk.

He Tie nodded and said: "I also think it's good, this place looks even better than that in Yancheng, and even if you don't farm the land, even if these things are all running around, if you catch them and sell them, it will be enough for us to eat for a long time gone."

"These things look delicious, why don't we talk to the captain, go down and get them and eat them, those bacon and moldy corn sorghum, I'm going to throw up." The monkey swallowed.

"This is not very good. We are not familiar with this place. The captain will not agree. If there are savages or dinosaurs attacking us here, we are no opponents at all." He Tie shook his head and said.

"Where are the savages and dinosaurs coming from? Look at this palm-sized island, where beasts can run around. I think even if there are savages, they are running around with bare buttocks. I guess they can't even make stone weapons. , just relying on these people, we can hit ten if we come out at random." Monkey said without cutting.

What the monkey said moved He Tie's heart. To be honest, it's not just the monkeys. Most of the crew haven't eaten fresh food for a long time. Looking at the wild beasts wandering back and forth, it's like a walking barbecue.

He Tie's throat rolled, he licked his lips, and said, "Why don't we talk to the first mate first."

When the monkey heard this, he laughed and said: "That's right, we are the boss here, there is nothing that can threaten us."

The two went to Zhao Tong and explained their intentions. After Zhao Tong listened, he said, "It's okay. I'll talk to the captain later."

The two were overjoyed when they heard the words, and hurriedly bid farewell to Zhao Tong, and began to prepare the hunting things.

Not long after the ship docked and stopped, dozens of fully armed sailors jumped onto the shore excitedly, their green eyes patrolling the prey back and forth.

These animals who have lived in this land for a long time, do not know that they have been targeted by the strongest predator in history.

It doesn't matter whether you are a grass eater or a meat eater, as long as you are targeted by these people, there is basically no good end.

After observation, He Tie found that the animals here were not big in size, and the carnivores occasionally found were about the same size as the hyenas living on the grasslands of Xiaguo. He knew how many beasts of this size had been killed before.

After gathering on the river bank, dozens of people divided into several teams to search for suitable targets.

The team of He Tie and the monkey stared at a group of big birds, which seemed to be many times smaller than the moa. Looking at their thick thighs, he could already imagine that they were roasted on the fire, and the oily sauce A wonderful picture overflowing.

"These birds are ours. Be careful, everyone. It's best not to let any of them go." He Tie, the team leader, said in a deep voice.

The team members were gearing up, ready to do a big job, and they all shouted: "He Heizi, what are you talking about, hurry up, look at it again, our saliva will almost flow out."

He Tie smiled and said: "Okay, now listen to my instructions, go around behind them with a few people, let's surround them from all sides, as long as the dead don't live."

"understand!"

Everyone responded and began to act.

These people are different from the students who explored in the west. They are all very experienced beast hunters or retired soldiers, and their hunting skills are not comparable to those students.

The human civilization attacking everywhere hunted and killed these beasts very efficiently. In their view, the animals on this island were extremely stupid, and hunting them was not challenging at all.

This hunt can be said to be a one-sided massacre. Under the siege of the tacitly coordinated hunters, the targeted prey has no way to escape. This hunting method of the expedition team appeared on this land for the first time. Immediately, this peaceful great plain was littered with corpses, as if the end of the world had arrived.

(End of this chapter)