In the vast sea area, if it weren't for the rare drift ice in a hundred years, Qin Mao would not have noticed that there were ships following them not far away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's very difficult to track at sea, and there must be a mole on their ship who is constantly reporting.

Zhu Zhigao is in charge of finding the traitor, and Jairian and Yao Xitong have been thinking about what to do after finding the island.

The men did everything they had to do, and if Su Su hadn't asked, no one would have thought of informing the women.

Yao Xitong explained, "Not many people know about this, and I am afraid that you will worry about it if I hide it." ”

"Yes," Xiao Bao'er replied and stopped continuing the topic.

Su Su was not accustomed to this feeling of being despised and concealed, so he hurriedly asked Jianwei, "Which family is the ship that follows us?" The Qin family is the overlord of the sea, and Qin Mao will not fail to see it. ”

Jairus replied that it was Lord Song's ship, and Su Su suddenly panicked.

"If Lord Song is also on the ship, their purpose must be the underwater green ship, and the crew on board must be experienced sailors and guards. If there is a fight, can we win......"

"Even if we win, it will be a miserable victory, how can the ship return to Songdi, can it change its course and go to Liangdi? But Yao Xitong is on the ship, and Liangdi can let us go ashore?"

Jianwei wanted to leave with a bitter face, things haven't happened yet, how can he answer so many questions?

Su Su tugged at the corner of his clothes and asked: "We are all disguised to board the ship, how does Lord Song know about this? Do you think it could be that the Zhu family betrayed us? Zhu Zhigao is too young to bear the family affairs after all!"

Jianwei thought to himself, Zhu Zhigao is not a stupid person, how can such a two-sided unflattering thing be done? ”

Su Su disagreed with his statement and said, "Trust me, you will definitely be able to find it." ”

Jairus smiled, "Because you went out with the princess?"

Su Su nodded, "Don't laugh, I believe that she is the kind of person who is destined to belong, and there will definitely be miracles with her." ”

The ship sailed with the warm current for a whole day, and finally arrived at a sea full of islands and reefs at sunset, which looked exactly what Wu Zu said.

Xiao Bao'er asked lazily: "Why is it here, I don't look different from the sea areas I have been to in the past few days." ”

Along the way, the ship relied on Sinan and the water compass during the day, and stargazing at night, and the positioning was never missed.

I saw Qin Mao put a water compass on the table, and there was a magnetic needle in the middle of the depression where the water was filled. In the past, the magnetic needle floated on water and could rotate freely, pointing north and south at both ends when stationary.

Now the water compass seems to be enchanted, and the direction of the magnetic needle in the water has never stopped. Si Nan next to him was motionless, comparing the two of them, how weird it looked.

Yao Xitong explained: "Wu Zu once said that as long as we follow the warm current to a sea area where the navigator can fail, we are already very close to the underwater green boat. ”

Xiao Bao'er finally got a little energetic, "I found it without looking for it, I'm so lucky." ”

Qin Mao agreed very much, "I thought that I had deviated so much from the established route, and I might not be able to find the place you said, but I didn't know that I had arrived by mistake." Starting to land on the island tomorrow, first look for fresh water, and then look for the underwater green boat. ”

"Good!"

The search for fresh water is a matter of desperation before the search for the green boat underwater. The eruption of an undersea volcano has changed the course, and when you don't know where to find supplies, the most important task is to find survival resources, and no one wants to die of thirst in the sea, and the feeling of looking at the water but not being able to drink it must be very painful.

The next day, not far away, they saw an island, and everyone was excited, as if the underwater green boat had appeared.

The search turned out to be very disappointing, there was nothing on the island except a pile of guano. On such a small island, they met four of them all day, and each of them anchored excitedly and sailed away in frustration.

On the first day, nothing was found, and the rationing of fresh water supplies began.

Xiao Baoer learned the appearance of a black cat, did not brush her teeth, and wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief to wash her face. Seeing that Yao Xitong would rather be thirsty than brush her teeth and wash her face with water, she burrowed into the quilt with contempt, and refused to admit that she was lazy.

On the second day, he found an island, and Qin Mao did not dock. Wu Jun and his crew sailed to the island in a small boat, but there was still nothing on the island.

On the third day, the boat brought a turtle from the first two islands it encountered, and found no danger to the islands. It wasn't until late in the evening that he encountered another island, and Wu Jun was in charge of landing on the island, and after boarding, he shook the white silk towards the big boat, which showed that the island was in danger.

The big ship sailed into the island to moor, and Wu Jun jumped to the deck with a light skill, informing everyone that there were countless strangely shaped things buried in the beach on the shore.

The crew who landed on the island first accidentally cut the soles of their feet by that thing, and immediately bled profusely...... He tried to go to the rescue, but found that the whole beach was occupied by that strange thing, and there was no place to stay!

Hearing this, Yao Xitong said in his heart: Could this be the so-called dangerous island of Wu Zu?

"Whoever comes with me to see. ”

Jairus answered, knowing that there was no one to stand on the shore, so he threw a plank over first, and then easily jumped on the plank to rescue the injured crew.

Yao Xitong glanced at the wounds of the crew, ordinary scratches, not poisoning. Just as Jairus was about to warn him not to be so careful, the latter had already thrown the scratch on the deck, shouting, "I look like an oyster." ”

Xiao Bao'er had eaten oysters, and when she heard that the shore was full of oysters, she dragged Yao Xitong and jumped to Jair's side. There are oysters who dare to hurt people, look at the arrogance of not eating them all.

The three of them stood on the wooden plank and took a closer look, only to see hundreds of oysters buried in the sand.

The two shells of this thing are of different shapes, with a rough and hard surface and a dull gray color. The middle part of the upper shell is raised, and the lower shell is attached to the beach, which is difficult to remove from the beach without tools.

Xiao Bao'er looked at it for a while, and asked Yao Xitong in a low voice, "I said that one person eats ten, can you eat a passage?"

Yao Xitong asked rhetorically, "Can you count how many oysters will be buried on the road for two people?"

The beach is similar in color to oysters, and it looks gray as far as the eye can see.

"Dead tortoise!"

Jairus couldn't stand the two of them, so she went to explore the way by performing light skills alone.

From the deck, the island is high on all sides and concave in the middle. It's too far away to see what's in the middle of the island, and you have to walk to the middle of the island anyway to think of the much-needed freshwater resources.

Yao Xitong didn't go in a hurry, squatting on the shore and carefully pondering how to open the road, so as to save time and not waste manpower.

Xiao Bao'er couldn't stand still, and she used her light skills to explore the way. A quarter of an hour later, she returned to Yao Xitong's side with a bad face and complained: "This island is so strange, no matter how you go, you can't go too far, and I was almost scratched by an oyster." ”

As she spoke, she stretched out her foot in front of Yao Xitong's eyes, and the lambskin soft boots on her feet had been pulled out by an oyster with a finger-wide opening.

Yao Xitong asked, "Tell me how you got there?"

"Go straight to the middle. ”

"You can't get to the middle of the island?"

Xiao Bao'er suddenly felt that this conversation was a little familiar, and exclaimed, "Don't say that there are formations on this small broken island. ”

Jianxi limped back and said, "Even if they can break the formation, these oysters can't get around, and they have to be solved no matter what." ”

Yao Xitong asked Jairus to get on the boat to bandage his wounds first, and he had to stay on the island to observe for a while.

Xiao Bao'er squatted down resignedly, "Come on, I'll carry you around and take a look." ”

"Can you do it?"

"You think I'm you, I can't pick up my shoulders, I can't lift my hands, I'm useless and I'm a turtle. ”

"Watch your step!" Yao Xitong's reminder was a step late, Xiao Bao'er scolded happily, and forgot that there were oysters all over here, which was really happy and sad.

The only one on the ship who knew martial arts was Wu Jun, who carried Yao Xitong around the island on his back and went down to the middle of the island under his command. There are a few coconut trees, a pool of clear water, and birds close to the pond to get water, which is the only small island in the vicinity with fresh water.

Later, the crowd gathered to discuss the next trip.

Yao Xitong said: "Wu Zu once pointed out that there are countless islands in this sea area, and it is necessary to find out the dangerous islands, and combine them with the stars in the sky according to the location of three of them, and then determine the specific location of the underwater green boat. ”

At that time, he wondered, how could Sima Xiao be sure that the dangerous islands would still be in danger a hundred years later? If not, the descendants of the Sima family would definitely not be able to locate and find the underwater green boat among the hundreds of islands based on the stars in the sky alone.

This question has always been hidden in the bottom of his heart, and when he landed on the island today, he suddenly figured everything out. Danger can be created, and Sima Xiao found several islands based on the location and astrology of the underwater green ship and created danger on them.

If you look closely at where they grow, you will be surprised to find that they are like crops planted in the field, fixed in one area from the day they grow, and cannot grow across areas at all. All the areas are arranged according to Qimen Dunjia, and anyone who wants to walk in the middle of the island must not only break the formation, but also clean the oysters that are all over the beach.

"These oysters grow here, and if you want to clean them up, you can only dig them up with your bare hands, and I can't think of a better way for the time being." ”

Zhu Zhigao counted the supplies on the ship and said: "It is conservatively estimated that the fresh water can last for more than five days, and it is very likely that the underwater green boat or other dangerous islands have been found during this period, you see how to arrange it." ”

Qin Mao is the captain of the ship, and everyone gathers the information together, and it is up to him to decide whether to land on the island.

He thought for a moment and said, "To find the underwater green boat, you only need to use the dangerous island to locate it, and there is no requirement that you have to land on the island." Since there are still five days left, I want to find the other islands as soon as possible, and some things cannot wait. ”

Everyone knew what he was worried about, and although the fish in the stern of the boat was not dead, it had already attracted a lot of seabirds, and maybe more ferocious ones. Not to mention the fact that there was a ship that followed their ship unhurriedly, and there were some matters that were sooner rather than later.

Half an hour later, the ship abandoned the island and continued on its way.

In the days when there was no compass, ships could only be navigated by the stars. For two days in a row, the sea was empty, and the dense islands seemed to have all been lost.

Qin Mao was helpless, and ordered the bow of the ship to be turned around and sail in another direction. During this time, he passed through the oyster-covered island, and as a precaution, he decided to go to the island to solve the freshwater problem.

The boats docked, and all the big guys went ashore to clean up the oysters. Qin Mao spoke, lunch is oysters, if you don't get it, you won't have to eat! Many crew members complained bitterly, only saying that they can't eat too much of this thing, and they can eat three or four of them with wine in summer, but it is too cold in winter, and they are worried about eating bad stomachs when they eat two of them.

Xiao Bao'er was very strange when she heard this, and asked, "This thing doesn't have much meat, why do you only eat two?"

Yao Xitong explained: "The crew will only eat them raw, and they don't know if the oysters can be cooked. ”

Xiao Bao'er smiled, stood on the shore and said loudly: "There is a fish in the North Underworld, its name is Kun, the Kun is so big that it can't be stewed in a pot. Turned into shellfish, its name is oysters, there are so many oysters, it needs two pots, one pot of stir-frying, one pot of charcoal grilling!"

For lunch, Erer directly put the pot on the shore, and really used the oysters for stir-frying according to Xiao Baoer's words.

First of all, let people dig out the oyster meat from the shell, and then put it in boiling water and blanch it a few times, so that they don't need to cook it for too long, and when they see the soup turn white and smell the smell of the sea, they can pick it up. Sit in a pan with hot oil and sauté the ginger and mish. Then add the drained oyster meat, stir-fry carefully, and add a little sesame oil and salt to taste.

Stir-fried oysters are paired with steamed buns, and the crew members have a pot of them, and they eat with a fragrant mouth. There was no need for Qin Mao to order, and there was no need to rest, and after eating, they all consciously devoted themselves to digging oysters.

Qin Mao estimated that it would take a whole day to dig out the passage, and before it got dark, everyone broke through the formation and walked to the middle of the island under the leadership of Yao Xitong.

After sailing for more than half a month, it was easy to have a chance to step on the ground, Xiao Baoer refused to leave, and actually let Erer make a fire on the spot, planning to charcoal grill oysters.

Zhu Zhigao smiled and went with her.

Seeing this, Qin Mao asked the crew to bring out the good wine, and simply eat a good meal, who knows what will happen after today!

The next day, the ship set sail, and the delicious taste of the charcoal-grilled oysters was already in everyone's minds. Seeing that there were baskets filled with oysters near the kitchen, Xiao Bao'er patted her chest and said, "I'm so tired, I don't want to eat this thing lately." ”

Erer said ruthlessly: "The captain has a life, in order to save food, I will eat oyster dumplings for lunch today and oyster porridge for dinner!"

After the ship changed direction, another island was discovered before noon. The person in charge of the pathfinder was replaced by Jairus, who said that the island was full of crabs, this thing was big and aggressive, and asked Qin Mao if he wanted to land on the island.

Without waiting for Qin Mao to answer, his deputy said loudly, "Is it tolerable or unbearable! A certain person is willing to lead 30 crew members straight to the beach, and vow not to quit without eating all the crabs! Or salt and pepper, or boiled directly, or spicy, or steamed, if the enemy advances, he will wait with his mouth open, and if the enemy retreats, he will cover up and kill him, and he can empty the beach without wasting food. ”

Jairus laughed maniacally.

Xiao Baoer took Yao Xitong to the island for a walk, except for the crabs, there were still formations on the island. There is no fresh water on the islands, but there is some kind of edible plant. She said: "Sima Xiao is really a trick, eat all over the world, he won't think about changing something more terrifying?"

Yao Xitong explained: "Xiaoxiao, Sima Xiao has long been ancient, in the era when he was alive, no one dared to eat crabs, no one would eat oysters, these things seemed terrifying at the time. ”

Xiao Bao'er was about to leave with a "grace", this behavior made Yao Xitong very strange, this person could still let go of the food in his mouth? While Xiao Bao'er was not paying attention, he caught a few crabs and hid them in his sleeve.

Before lunch, Yao Xitong stopped Su Su and asked her a few questions about crabs.