Chapter 353: Enemy Traces and Speculation (4,000 words)

“…… It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that this island is definitely going to be. Liu Renliang pondered for a moment, still not believing Huo Sinian's words, but Huo Sinian is the descendant of the Louguan School, and it would be too embarrassing to say it directly, so he sorted out his language and said euphemistically: "After all, we still need to see the situation of the enemy on the island, at least we need to find out what their specific living conditions are, and see if it is as different from our previous speculation." ”

"It's okay, you can just ask, I don't care anyway." Huo Sinian was not angry, this was not the first time he had been questioned, after all, such a thing as Qi Hope Technique sounded too lofty, so tall that ordinary people would think that this was an immortal method when they heard it, and it was not something that mortals could have at all.

However, Huo Sinian knows very well that the so-called Qi Hope Technique is actually a very simple thing, the Qi Hope Technique focuses on all things have their own qi, Qi has its own attributes, and the change of Qi also indicates the change of the thing itself, the essence of Qi Hope is to see the Qi of these substances clearly, and then judge the future by the color of Qi.

Of course, this is a profound statement, whether it is accurate or not, Huo Sinian does not know, because he is only cultivating the Qi Hope Technique to the beginning, and he can't determine the good luck and evil, but the general landscape observation and dragon pulse are still no problem.

And the qi of life is one of the more active qi of all things, although Huo Sinian is only a beginner, it can also be seen - and there is another sentence he didn't say to Liu Renliang just now, that is, he just observed through the qi technique and found that there is no life on this entire island, that is to say, don't look at the prosperity of the trees on this island, in fact, there are no living animals except for these trees.

An hour later, a search party returned with its own findings: "My lord, we found these things on the edge of the island, can you see if it is useful?" ”

"Huh?" Liu Renliang looked at it and found that it was just some tables, chairs and benches, and the production was extremely rough, it should have been made temporarily on the island from local materials, but there were traces of use on it again, which proved that Huo Sinian was not right at all, the other party did live on this island for a while, but I don't know if they are still on the island.

"Is that all?" Regarding the gains of the search team, Liu Renliang was very dissatisfied.

"We've found these at the moment, and others don't know."

"You guys keep searching, if it's really as Huo Sinian said, they should have lived on this island for a long time, and at least one village exists on this island." Now, no matter how much he doesn't believe it, Liu Renliang has to believe Huo Sinian's words.

"Yes."

Five days passed, and all the exploration teams finally explored this island of less than ten square kilometers, which made Liu Renliang very unhappy - the exploration team did find a temporary garrison on the island, which also had a lot of living utensils, according to the size of the village, there were at least 10,000 people on this island, and they lived here for a long time.

In addition to this, the expedition team also found many bones around the village—not only animal but also human, and whether it was animal or human bones, they were covered with dense tooth marks that seemed to have been gnawed......

What this means, Liu Renliang knows very well without even thinking about it......

Combined with the fact that there are no animals the size of rats on the island, Liu Renliang concluded that this group did not use this island as a base camp, but only used it as a food source, and carried out extinction capture of the animals here, and when all the edible animals and plants on the island were eaten by them, they abandoned this place and continued to look for new food sources - that is, this is actually a sea wanderer, they are not the aborigines of this island.

Especially after Liu Renliang sent a warship to explore the surrounding area, he found that the situation of all the islands within a hundred miles around him was exactly the same as the island under their feet, and it was also pitiful that there were even fewer mice, and Liu Renliang's face was even more ugly - he concluded that they had guessed that the so-called Li Mi Yu might not be trying to oppose the Tang Dynasty at all, and their identity may indeed be Li Mi Yu, but because of the establishment of the Li Tang Dynasty, as the former opponent of the Tang Dynasty, Li Mi was afraid that the Tang Dynasty would kill him completely, He ordered some of his henchmen to take his young son to the sea to find a resting place, not to seek a comeback in the future, at least to live in peace, to pass on the ancestry, and not to cut off the bloodline of his Li family.

These people may have indeed found a paradise overseas, and they have all lived and worked on the island for a long time, but then they may have escaped from that paradise with some unknown reasons, or plagues, or wars, or droughts, floods, etc., whether natural disasters or man-made disasters, and a sudden outbreak of disasters forced them to no longer survive on that island.

But because they fled urgently, which led to the extreme lack of supplies they carried, and they were exhausted in a short time, but fortunately they were lucky, and found an island when they were in a desperate situation, and they survived through the food on the island.

It's a pity that they came out too quickly, let alone food seeds, and even some of them may not have withdrawn in time, which also leads to their inability to grow food, and they can't survive on that island......

In this cycle, in order to survive, they continue to fight on the sea, eat up one island and go to the next island, and so on, there is no future to move forward, and I don't know how many years have passed, during which countless people have died, but God has not let them go to a dead end after all, and will always let them run into a new island when they are facing a desperate situation......

In this way, they plundered all the way to survive, and there was no grass everywhere they passed.

I don't know how long they have been floating on the sea, they finally came to the island at their feet, before this they had eaten all the islands around them, this island was already the only one left in the archipelago at the moment, and there was no big island for them to live on hundreds of miles outside of this island, so when they also ate this island - the desperate situation finally came, in order to survive, they even began to kill each other, and then the victor could feed on the loser and continue to survive......

However, when they felt that they were facing a desperate situation, a fleet came here by mistake, and the group of people who were facing a desperate situation immediately burst out with a thousand percent of their strength, and easily defeated this fleet, if it weren't for the arrival of the storm, they would definitely be able to capture more ships. Although they lost their leader in this battle, they lost a dozen ships, a dozen ships that were much better than theirs, and especially a few fishing boats inside......

With fishing boats, they can fish in the deep sea, no longer have to worry about running out of food to eat, and as long as there is enough food, with the resilience they can fight the sea, they can definitely survive in any harsh environment, and then gradually discover new edible plant seeds, they can build their new home on this island.

However, when they captured these ships, they found a problem that made everyone fearful, that is, this ship was actually built by the enemies they had been trying to escape, and now the Tang people......

In other words, they robbed the ship of the Tang people, although this was very relieving, but thinking of the upcoming revenge of the Tang Dynasty, they had to abandon the island, board the ship plundered from the enemy, and embarked on an unknown future.

"That is, the Salen fleet is purely unlucky?" After listening to Liu Renliang's speculation, everyone felt that it was very reasonable, but deep down it was difficult to accept it - they had made great preparations for this expedition, and even many people were ready to sacrifice at any time, and they came to seek revenge with a strengthened fleet with great spirit, but when they arrived at the place, they knew that all their preparations were in vain, the enemy was not as strong as they imagined, and even they were not their enemies at all, the two sides simply caught up, if Salen did not move closer to this island, Maybe the people on the island will starve to death.

However, it is no wonder that Salen is ahead, after all, there is a storm ahead, and if there are islands nearby, a qualified captain will stay here, but they are more unlucky, and they have encountered a group of enemies who have gone crazy with hunger.

"By the way, you say...... Will there be any of us among these bones? Sun Fujia seemed to think of something, and suddenly asked with a big change in his face.

"......" The face of the person who changed drastically was not only him, all the people who heard his speculation had a bad look, Sun Fujia's guess was very likely to be true - they even began to eat their own people, not to mention that this time they also killed and even captured so many prisoners? Where is the reason to let go?

"Quick, turn the whole island over for me, and we must find the bones of our own people." Liu Renliang shouted, he still had a trace of illusion in his heart, the enemy is a descendant of the Han people, and it has only been twenty years since he emigrated overseas, his conscience should not be extinguished, the reason why he cannibalizes people is because he has no choice, if he doesn't eat, he will starve to death, but now they have captured many ships in the Tang Dynasty, and the food on them should be enough for them to come to the next island alive, maybe those captives were not eaten by them......

Qi Bin next to him suddenly sat on the ground and muttered, "No need to look for it, this should be the corpse of our own people." ”

"Why?" Liu Renliang's face was even more ugly, Qi Bin was the person concerned, he must know more things that others didn't know.

"Because ......" Qi Bin smiled bitterly, and tears suddenly flowed: "Because, the Spice Islands are full of spices, and Captain Salen didn't bring much food with him in the fleet in order to go back with more spices...... And at that time the supply fleet was at the rear of the group, and they were the first to escape...... Also the first ...... to hit the storm"

That is to say...... In other words......" Sun Fujia's voice trembled violently: "That is to say...... There were no supply ships in the ships captured by the enemy, and the only supplies they could get were what they had brought on board? ”

"I'm sorry for them?" Qi Bin picked up a hand bone that he didn't know who it belonged to, and burst into tears: "If I could have persuaded Captain Saren at the beginning, maybe I could have brought more food in the fleet, and maybe I could have saved their lives......

Liu Renliang patted Qi Bin's shoulder heavily and comforted: "It's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself, it's useless to blame yourself, the most important thing for us now is to avenge these tragically dead comrades, you don't have to think about anything else." ”

"Don't worry, I understand the priorities of the matter." Qi Bin wiped his eyes, and his voice was cold: "I will definitely assist the general to find the enemy and avenge the dead compatriots, but my subordinates still have a small request, that is, I hope that after the governor defeats the enemy, he can leave me a few, so that I can personally avenge my comrades." ”

"It's as it should be, Pontus promised you." This is human nature, and Liu Renliang naturally has no reason not to agree.

"Thank you, Governor."

"Okay, you go down and rest, the search for the enemy is not something that can be done in a while, everyone will rest on the island for a few days, and after adjusting the state, we will set off."

"Yes."

Two days later, the fleet was repaired, and Liu Renliang led the fleet to look for traces of the enemy in the surrounding waters, but what they didn't know was that the enemy they had been looking for was hit by Cheng Chuliang.

What's going on?

This matter has to start from the beginning, but it turned out that at that time, Cheng Zhu Liang took the Quanzhou fleet to escort the merchant ships to the Spice Islands, and not long after leaving the Grand Fleet, Cheng Chu Liang hosted a banquet for several chief captains of the merchant ships, and made a request to ask the old sailors of the fleet to teach their experience. Sure enough, as Li Daoyun expected, in the face of Cheng Chuliang's request, the ten captains agreed very happily, and on the second day, they sent ten people from each ship to the fleet, and taught the sailors navigation skills hand-in-hand - of course, Cheng Chuliang did not treat them badly, and promised that as long as he taught one, he would reward ten taels of silver, and the news was announced, and the old sailors taught more carefully.

The master and apprentice between the master and the apprentice taught the heart, the apprentice learned seriously, the progress of the recruits of the Quanzhou fleet is very huge, just half a month, the knowledge that should be learned is almost learned, some of the fast sailors can even operate independently without accidents, and the rest can be perfectly graduated in half a month at most.

(End of chapter)