Pu Haixin hurriedly picked up the telescope and aimed at the lookout of Nicole, at a distance of less than a kilometer, the flag waving by Wei @ Hong could be clearly seen in the telescope-

"To the Pride...... Port 10 o'clock...... Seven to eight kilometers from the island...... There is a smoke column...... Send a dinghy to land and check ...... Gu Jin. The second time I repeated......"

So, Pu Haixin immediately raised a yellow signal flag to indicate that the information had been received, and then rang the bronze bell beside him.

Soon, Li Sanduo's voice came from the microphone of the observatory:

"Lookout, please report!"

"Lookout report! Received an order from Captain Nicole Gu: there are islands and smoke columns seven to eight kilometers from the port side, and asked to send a dinghy to land and inspect! ”

"Roger!"

After a while, Gu Jin's voice came from Li Sanduo's walkie-talkie:

"Sanduo, report the content of the flag."

"Landing to check the island with a column of smoke seven to eight kilometers from the port side. Complete! ”

"The information is correct, it seems that the students have learned well, you can implement it."

"Yes, Captain, do it at once!"

Sure enough, Gu Jin would never let go of any opportunity to train the crew and test the crew's academic performance, and this time was no exception.

A minute later, a shout rang out from the deck of the Pride:

"Attention deck crews! Collect the wings on both sides ~~"

"Folded sails!"

With the shout of the first mate Zhu Beiguo, the two crew members ran to the left and right sides of the middle of the ship's deck, where each had an open wing sail.

At this time, the Pride mainsail and wingsail were open, and the canvas became hemispherical in the sea breeze, and the two crew members shook the handles, and the two iron poles supporting the wings gradually rolled up the canvas, and then swept back the mast like the wings of a seabird, and clinged to the side of the ship.

"Lower the rope sail~"

"Untie the rudder!"

"Helm~"

"Left ~ Full ~ Rudder ~"

...... Amidst a burst of shouts, the Pride finally began to slow down and slowly turn its bow, drawing a large arc across the sparkling sea.

Then, against the wind and waves, he headed for the pillar of smoke in the distance......

Xue Laixiang and his four companions knelt down on the beach, and they looked at the sea, and everyone burst into tears.

The huge ship, which was as huge as a hill, was parked on the surface of the sea a few miles away from him, and the sea was undulating, but the huge ship did not even see the slightest swaying with the waves, as if it had taken root at the bottom of the sea.

Xue Laixiang looked at the giant boat with hope but apprehension, he and his companions had just stopped the ship with fireworks, but they didn't know what they had just summoned......

Their apprehension was undoubtedly justified, for in their worldview, it was impossible to predict whether it would be an immortal to emerge from the huge ship with smoke billowing from its chimneys. Is it a demon? Or people?

However, there was no movement on the giant ship, the huge white building on the deck of the giant ship, except for a few rows of windows, did not have any sails, although there were towering towers reaching into the sky, but it was obviously not a mast for hanging sails, and what was even more strange was that the light gray hull of the whole giant ship was still smooth and lackluster, and there was no wooden structure or nail riveting structure.

Xue Laixiang looked into the distance blankly, after all, the giant boat was too far away from him, and his monocular Xiyi telescope had long been lost when he jumped into the sea to escape, so Xue Laixiang couldn't see clearly with the naked eye what was happening on the giant boat miles away.

Their apprehension, however, was soon soothed—and at that moment on the side of the great ship suddenly appeared a smaller ship, though it was in a shape he had never seen before, with a slender hull, a straight deck, and a square tower at the middle and aft end.

At first glance, Xue Laixiang felt that this ship had an inexplicable beauty.

What made him feel a little relieved was that the boat had sails, or double masts, with a triangular soft sail hanging on it, quite in the style of a Xiyi sea ship, and compared to the giant boat, the painting style of this ship was much more normal.

At this moment, Xue Laixiang and his companions couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief......

That ship is really beautiful...... Xue Laixiang said silently in his heart.

At this time, the Pride that greeted Xue Laixiang's eyes was so different, her blue sails bulged forward in the sea breeze, the dark blue hull was slender and smooth, the striking blue-and-white gunwales and the buildings painted with red and blue lines, and the pointed bow that rose and fell with the waves, the whole ship glided lightly against the wind on the sea, like a seabird skimming across the water, speeding straight towards them—

Xue Laixiang and his companions were stunned......

"Brother Li, I saw people on the beach!"

Zhu Beiguo's voice came from the public channel of the walkie-talkie, he was standing on the roof of the cockpit of the Pride, and was holding a telescope to observe the distance.

At this time, the Pride was less than five hundred meters away from the island.

"Spotted the figure! Four, no, five! There's one more lying on the beach! ”

Pu Haixin, who was on the lookout, shouted over the intercom.

"Watch out! All off-duty staff gathered on deck, prepared the dinghy, and prepared for landing! ”

Li Sanduo began to issue orders to the crew in the microphone.

"Brother Li! Those people seem to be Han Chinese! ”

Zhu Beiguo stood on the foredeck of the Pride with a military high-powered telescope at this time, and after taking a closer look, he turned around and shouted to Li Sanduo in the cockpit.

Zhu Beiguo's voice quickly sparked a discussion on the public channel of the walkie-talkie

"Han Chinese? There are actually Han people here? ”

"Nothing strange, isn't there a Chinese maritime merchant in Sulu......"

"Brother Zhu, how can you tell that you are Han?"

"Look at the question you asked! It must be seen in the costumes! ”

"Is it easy to shave?"

"Everyone, be quiet!"

Gu Jin finally spoke in the public channel, and then asked:

"O Northland, are you close, can you see clearly? Is it Han? ”

"It's a Han who doesn't have shaved hair and is easy to wear! Typical Han hair buns, civilian costumes, although the clothes are ragged, I can't be mistaken......"

Zhu Beiguo's answer was very affirmative.

"Okay, you should lead the team for this landing, bring five people, including the ship doctor, all wear Colt ****, bring walkie-talkies, and pay attention to safety."

Captain Gu succinctly issued the order.

"Roger! Five people and the ship's doctor landed with weapons! ”

…… Half an hour later, Zhu Beiguo, Dai Xiaoshan, Hu Xiaolin, Zhou Rui, Yue Chu and Mi Anfei rowed away from the Pride in three small boats in groups of two......

Xue Laixiang watched with tears in his eyes as the three dinghy rowed towards the beach, and he could see clearly that it was not gods or demons that came down from the boats, but a group of men, although the clothes of these men were something he had never seen before.

Of course, Xue Laixiang and his companions didn't know that the crewneck and blue and white striped shirts worn by the people in the dinghy were called seafarers' shirts, but that didn't prevent them from realizing that the people who came were definitely not the pirates of the Sulu Kingdom or the indigenous barbarians somewhere.

It was a group of young men, with short hair, trousers and boots, handsome faces, and strong bodies—they didn't look like a bunch of laymen.

After a while, the dinghy came to the shore, and a tall man at the head jumped out of the dinghy, only to see him holding his waist with one hand, and a black box with a wagging thin rod in the other.

I saw him walk slowly, stop in front of the group of people kneeling on the beach, and asked:

"What is the silver (people) knowledge (scholars)? How to show (fall) is difficult (in) this?! ”

Nanjing Mandarin!

The person who came actually spoke the Nanjing official dialect of the Ming Dynasty!

When Xue Laixiang and his companions heard this question, they suddenly burst into tears......

When Zhu Beiguo said this, his tone was subdued and his tongue was stiff, but God knows if this is the authentic Nanjing official dialect, he only learned some skin from Nicole's brainwave teaching course, and Nicole also told him that even this course is actually inferred from limited history, but what is certain is that this way of speaking is very close to Nanjing official dialect.