In the process of exploring the entire Zixia Island, Gu Jin also asked the crew to focus on the coastal towns and villages on the map of the old world, because since it was a residential area in the old world, it was obvious that those places should be more suitable for human habitation, which was to prepare for future immigration work.

When the exploration team arrived, they found that everything was untouched, not even a large wild animal, but the land was fertile, the view was wide, and the jungle was relatively sparse.

The dense jungle of Zixia Island is only in the eastern and western coastal areas of the island, and it is obvious that the ecological environment of this island is very simple, and the central and western parts of the island have nothing but purple flowers and low bushes, and it is very "barren" for the indigenous people who are in the gathering and hunting stage.

However, this ecologically homogeneous island with a lack of hunting and gathering resources, with its temperate climate, flat terrain and fertile land, would be a farming paradise if people entered the age of farming.

On the morning of the third day of the landing and exploration, the fleet received a telegram from the Red Mansion, the sender was Lao Wang, who asked the exploration team to go to a place on the island to obtain soil samples, there was a small town in the old world, called Tours, Lao Wang said, if the conditions permitted, as many soil samples as possible in the vicinity.

On the map of the Old World, the group found the location, which is the largest town on the island of Little Kayi, located in the northern coastal area of the island of Kayi.

So Gu Jin immediately arranged to do so, and the Pride hovered on the sea near there for an afternoon, and sent several teams to land, bringing back not only soil samples, but also very detailed geographical and hydrological data.

So this place, called Tours, became an overseas port of Australia a few years later, a bustling city---- the world's spice processing and trading center.

Well, I'll try not to say much about these afterwords in the future, after all, spoilers are not good.

On 25 June, the exploration of Zixia Island was successfully completed, and after retrieving soil samples and open-pit coal mine specimens, the fleet was on the road again.

According to Gu Jin's plan, the fleet would continue to sail northwest into the Maluku Sea, then turn to the sea east of Sulawesi, and then go straight north to the northeast corner of Sulawesi---- Manado, also known as Manado, which was an important port city in the history of the Old World.

Of course, in this day and age, there was no city there, just a desolate bay with port potential.

At this time, the Red Mansion called: It is recommended to stop by and inspect the Manado landing, but the telegram emphasizes that this is only a suggestion, and in the end everything is up to you.

Obviously, Gu Jin had already made up his mind at this time that the fleet would not have any more landing exploration operations before it arrived at Holo Harbor.

However, after discussion with everyone on the ship, the Red Chamber's suggestion was still necessary, although there were indigenous kingdoms and natives nearby, but the kingdom's forces did not rule there, so far, the bay is still a borderless land.

And the reason for the landing was also very simple, Zhu Beiguo suggested that if we didn't go there to erect a monument to swear sovereignty, it wouldn't be many years before the Dutch would go there and build a trading base.

In order to give up that place to the Dutch for nothing, it is better for us to have a "de jure occupation" first.

Captain Gu finally accepted this suggestion, but it was only limited to finding a stone to carve a few lines of words on it, and then erecting the stone on the coast, so that the in-depth landing exploration was avoided.

Gu Jin said, we are about to go to Huoluo Port, there is not only business, but also girls in the market waiting for us, so at present, everything should be centered on the main goal and safety, and it is better to do less other extraneous things.

The crew members were all convinced after listening to Captain Gu's words.

However, people don't want to make a fuss, but they just want to do something, and a day later, the situation suddenly changes.

On June 26, the fleet was again confronted by a major tropical storm of unprecedented scale from north to south.

Gu Jin had no choice but to command the fleet to go south-west into the Banda Sea to take refuge, and in the end, under the continuous pressure of the hurricane, the fleet had to run for another twenty-four hours in one go, which was calculated to be a distance of more than 400 kilometers.

But even so, it did not get rid of this tropical storm.

There was no way, it seemed that the plan to land in Manado could only be abandoned for the time being, and the storm completely disrupted the scheduled route and journey of the fleet.

As the hurricane became more and more violent, looking at the sea in the distance, the wind was raging and the waves were raging, and the fleet had to continue to sail southwest to take refuge.

Two days later, when the fleet finally found and entered a bay that could shelter from the wind and waves, the navigator on duty measured and determined his position again, and everyone was surprised to find that the fleet had actually reached the island of Timor!

The east-west island of Timor has a number of small coves with complex topography that can be sheltered from storms.

June 28, 1657, was a memorable day in the history of what would become the Commonwealth of Australia.

On this day, the time-travelers finally came into contact with the "civilized world" outside.

Although it was just an accidental encounter, no matter what, Australians finally appeared on the historical stage of the "civilized world" from this day on.

This "first contact" was very dramatic.

In the early morning of June 28, the fleet that had just recovered from the storm was preparing to set sail again in this unknown bay, when Xie Muyang, who was on the lookout of the Nicole, suddenly rang the small bronze bell beside him, and he shouted loudly to Class A:

"Ten o'clock ahead, a mast was found on the sea!"

After hearing this shout, everyone hugged the deck, took out their binoculars and observed in the direction of Xie Muyang's finger.

At this time, Gu Jin suddenly gave a battle order, and after a few hurried whistles, the crew members who had been trained by Gu Jin as a conditioned reflex immediately let go of their curiosity and began to take their places.

Among them, there were two groups, the cannon team composed of **, Ren Ke, Ailush, Song Chen and others, respectively, under the cockpit in the middle of the deck, and unveiled the gun jackets of the 75 naval guns.

Xu Zhi led a group of off-duty crew members to operate four 20mm cannons on the roof of the cockpit, only to see them skillfully play, pull the trigger and open the safety, although they were all operating silently, but from the faces of everyone, it could be seen that everyone was very excited.

At the same time, the situation is also discovered by the Pride, which is located in the deepest part of the bay, quite far from Nicole.

At this moment, Li Sanduo picked up the binoculars in the cockpit and began to observe carefully, while Zhu Beiguo had already taken a few people to the cockpit top class, where the field of vision was even wider.

Some of them used binoculars to observe the sea in the distance, while others skillfully operated two 20-millimeter machine guns.

At this time, the remnants of the hurricane are still there, the sea is still choppy, and although the main storm area of the tropical storm is far away, the sky is still cloudy and stormy.

Sure enough, on the rough sea, two sailing boats suddenly appeared in the distance, and these two boats suddenly turned from behind a headland.

When Xie Muyang on the Nicole spotted the shadows on the watchtower, the ship at the front was about seven to eight kilometers away from the Nicole, and even closer to the Pride.

However, due to the height of the lookout, the viewing angle and the position of the headland, the Pride in the depths of the bay spotted the other party a little late, so when the small sailboat in front turned the headland, the Pride discovered the situation ahead.

At this point, the Pride was two kilometers away from the nearest sailing vessel.

The two galleons rushed into the bay at a high speed of about six to seven knots.

In this day and age, the speed of the sailing ship was usually only about four or five knots, and now, these two ships are coming at such a high speed, in addition to the effect of high winds and waves and the tides of the currents, it is clear that in an emergency, both sailing ships are making full use of the wind direction and currents to rush to the wind.

From the Pride, the two sailing ships rode the wind and waves, one in front and one in front of the other was a small boat, sloop, and smaller, while the latter boat was tall, fat, with two masts, and mainly square sails.

At this time all the sails of the two ships were open, and the strong sea wind made all the sails of the two ships full of wind power, especially the small boat in front, which swayed all the way in under the action of the wind, at an angle and speed that was dangerous that the hull might capsize.