Only once through the forest, the twenty sailors belonging to the expedition team died, four were seriously injured, and four were lightly injured, which was still in a state of sufficient preparation and basically no damage to the forest......

It's just an oversight.

The wild boars of Hebasi were brutal and huge, each weighing four or five hundred pounds, with sharp fangs and red eyes.

Judging by their aggressiveness, they are supposed to be carnivorous.

And it should be at the top of the food chain on this small island.

Considering the rate at which pigs grow and reproduce, the size of the herd becomes incalculable if there is such a clan of overlords in the windward open forest.

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

This means that sparse forests are far less safe than they seem.

They found a total of two suspected freshwater sources, and as long as they were lucky, they didn't need to die in the forest and wild boars.

The order of probing is thus determined.

Carrying the boar harvest and the corpses of their dead companions, the scarred team sneaked through the open forest to the large pond by the beach, where it was soon determined that it was indeed one of the island's main sources of fresh water.

There were obvious traces of wild beasts roaming around the pool, and the footprints were mostly ungulates, and there were no killer stars such as bear paws and cat's claws, and there were no terrifying island crocodiles.

And then there's the second question...... How to collect fresh water and abundant food resources on the windward slope.

Shipping along the island was the best way, but the Butterfly Flower could not be launched, and the two assault boats could not bear the heavy responsibility of transportation.

Lorraine groaned as she looked at a wild deer poking her head at the edge of the forest.

"Henna, do you think if we set up camp at Windward Beach, the wild boar herd will come and expel us?"

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

"It is possible to disperse and camp, the logging team will stay in the narrow east beach, and the logistics team and the expedition team will move here. In this way, the collected fresh water can be processed and stored locally, with only a small amount of transshipment to meet the needs of the logging group. ”

Henna raised her eyebrows: "There are two streams of fresh water here, let's set more traps by the pool and take the initiative to hunt." The clever beasts will avoid it and go to the woods to drink. ”

"You can still fire cannons...... Lorraine added with a bite of her lip, "the six-pounder cannon in the stern is light enough to be transported by assault boat." It can be used as a defense for beach camps, as well as to frighten off wild beasts and open up space. ”

"When the Butterfly Flower is repaired, it will not be a problem to ship fresh water."

After a few words, Lorraine ordered the sailors to divide into two, and one group to dig ditches on the beach, create artificial islands, and carve out a site for hundreds of people to camp.

Another group of people cut down the wood, tied a log and returned to the east beach to report the news.

Instead, the first thing to do was a simple raft, and the three sailors used their own overcoats as sails, set up a crude sail raft, and drifted along the coastline to the east shore.

At sunset, Acharin arrived at the new camp with two assault boats, twenty sailors, shovels, and many empty barrels, greatly speeding up the excavation of the sand island, and bringing news to Lorraine.

On the way there, they found the remains of a longship under a cliff.

"Longship? Viking longship? Lorraine was surprised.

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

"Viking ...... of the 9th century" Lorraine patted Acharin on the shoulder with great interest, "You are not only erudite, but you have made the right decision, Acharin." ”

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

……

The construction of the sand island and the transfer of personnel and materials lasted all night, and the sun rose again the next day, and there was a semi-independent arc-shaped sand island on the windward sand stall in Hebasi.

The island covers an area of almost one square kilometer, facing the sea on one side and the sparse forest on the other.

It is separated from the open forest by a two-metre-wide channel at a depth of nearly two metres, which brings in seawater, is high on both sides, and is supported by a simple shrub fence.

The beasts of the land do not like the sea, and with such a simple waterway as a camp, wild boars or other fierce beasts hiding in the woods will not launch a large-scale attack, and as for sporadic attacks, the sailors on duty can cope with them.

Sand Island is connected to the island by a log bridge four or five meters wide, and after forty or fifty meters of the bridge is the freshwater pool.

Henna and Pierce organize the sailors to make a series of traps on the side of the forest, and they are also the heads of the makeshift camp.

Fishing, hunting, repairing boats, and collecting fresh water, the Butterfly Flower completely lifted the existential crisis, and Lorraine simply adjusted the distribution of seafarers.

Pierce and Henna preside over Camp Windward, and Henna is also the camp's protector to deal with accidents.

Karen and Noya are in charge of the East Coast Beach. The entrance and exit were narrow, flanked by rocky rocks that were difficult to move, and the defenses were certainly not as safe as camping to the wind, but they could stay on ships at night.

Noah is the protector of the East Shore Beach. Although the Roma witch has a shy personality, her personal combat power is far higher than that of the two normal humans, Acharin and Karen, and she is firmly in the third place on the ship.

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

As a result, there were only 8 people left in the expedition group. In order to improve his combat effectiveness somewhat, Lorraine handed him back the ivory spear of Acharin, which he borrowed.

Thus, after transporting the two stern guns to Camp Windward, the expedition team requisitioned an assault boat and, under the guidance of Acharin, paddled towards the ruins of the longship.

A short distance away, Lorraine saw the Snekje longship in Yacharin's mouth under a cliff.

She was seventeen or eighteen meters long, less than three meters wide, and in the middle stood a mast, about ten meters high, and the sail on it had long since weathered, leaving only a lone wooden pole, shaped like a tombstone.

Admiring the ruins, the members of the expedition landed on the shore, and Lorraine stood on the protruding reef and took a closer look at the largely intact ancient warship.

Her ship was made of oak, petrified over the years, but with little outward decay.

Her hull was wrapped in a layer of planks, fastened to the hull with long iron rivets.

The gaps between the planks are huge, because the threads and cables made of animal hair and plant fibers are not as resistant to corrosion as the ship's timber and have long since disappeared.

There is also the famous tall curved bow and stern, which is intricately carved from a single piece of oak wood. ON THE BOW OF THE SHIP IS A BUST OF A WOMAN WITH BIG EYES, CURLY HAIR, AND AN ANCIENT ICESELIC, HALLVEIG ENGRAVED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE FIGURE.

Lorraine was surprised for a long time, and couldn't help but look at the beautifully carved bust again, and used her imagination to turn her complexion white, her eyes brown and her hair black......

Faintly, he saw the departed Helena......

This confirmed Lorraine's suspicions and gave rise to more doubts.

Helwig is the maternal ancestor of the Lorraine whalers, the legendary king of Iceland. Arnathan's wife.

However, she is not a particularly prominent person, that is, she has no personal legend, and she does not conform to the Viking tradition of using the black dragon Nighold and the serpent Jörmungard to shock the seven seas......

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

Suppressing his doubts, Lorraine continued to inspect the hull.

The material of the keel is taken from tall and straight oak trees, with an arc in the middle to increase the load-bearing capacity, while the ends are gradually narrowed to create a streamlined channel.

The ribs are made of sturdy oak, all from naturally curved wood, which has been carefully crafted and placed in various parts of the keel.

The outside of the rib was wrapped around an inch-thick hull plate, made of overlapping blocks of oak that were fastened to the rib with rivets, leaving for a long row of paddle holes.

It's just that the long oars are still there, and the cables that should have been made of cedar roots have long since decayed, so that the boards have become loose, and some of them are even more so.

One of the features of the Viking longship is its open-air single-deck with no interior cabins.

Through the detached hull plates, Lorraine saw rows of skeletons sitting in the bilge, rusted chains tied around their waists and legs, and their bodies were miserable before they died, and their heads were mostly scattered.

They were oars-slave slaves, 24 in all, and apparently beheaded in a unified manner.

Combined with the ship's complete structure, Lorraine guessed that she did not run aground, but ran aground on her own initiative.

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

INGOLF, the wolf of kings.

Inger...... Arnathan? Lorraine's eyes widened in disbelief.

He was about to find out more about the truth when Acharin rushed out of the inner side of the cliff with a few sailors in a panic.

"Captain! Big Discovery! A major discovery! ”