"Sand girl, you see a wild man peeking at you in the tree! Give you this crossbow and shoot him! "Hong Tao is quite satisfied with the defensive measures of the camp. In fact, as soon as the two boats entered the estuary, the people in the camp knew who was coming, and Chen Qihong was squatting on a big tree as a lookout post at this time. Seeing that this sentry post was still permanent, they used wooden strips and planks to build a small tree house at a height of more than ten meters above the ground, borrowing the natural angle of the trunk and branches, which was difficult to find outside after being covered with leaves. Anyway, Hong Tao didn't see it at first, if it weren't for Chen Qihong seeing that his wife was also on the boat, he stupidly picked up the leaves and waved at the boat, no one would have noticed that there were still people in the tree.

"......" Huang Sha originally planned to wave his hand to Chen Qihong on the tree, so that Hong Tao said this, and avoided it with a red face, this big old man really didn't slip away, where did he make fun of his younger siblings.

"Comrades, the organization has sent me to visit you...... I have good wine on board, and beautiful women, hehehehehehe...... Ah! Who is this TM! Seeing that Huang Sha ignored himself, Hong Tao ran to the bow of the boat again, with one hand behind his back, and one hand slightly raised, making a big leader, wanting to review his troops. As a result, as soon as he said an opening statement, he was hit in the face by an unknown object, and he touched it, it was a yellow berry, and someone shot himself with a hand crossbow!

"Uncle Huang, have you found the locals?" Hong Tao is most concerned about the safety of the camp, and the first thing he needs to know after going ashore is that he has found no locals in the past few days.

"There are no people, but there are birds of prey, and they have taken away a lot of chickens we brought, and this is this thing, and it is a couple! There were also monkeys, but they didn't come to camp, they just barked in the woods on the other side. There is also no rest in the water, there is a big fish with teeth, which often wanders on the shore, I have never seen it, and two of them are caught with a rolling hook, and you can see what they are! "I haven't seen Lao Huanghai for a few days, he seems to be ten years younger, and his voice is different, and the whole camp can hear it after chatting for a day.

"It's a crocodile, and there's still this thing in Luzon?" Follow Huang Hai to the back of the house, where several animals hang on the outer wall. The two eagles Hong Tao didn't know what kind of breed they were, but the two crocodiles surprised Hong Tao. He hadn't heard of crocodiles on Luzon, and it seemed that he would have to make everyone careful not to go into the water casually in the future, and if they bite this thing, they will basically not be far from death.

"Is this a fish? Can you eat it? "The Yellow Sea has the demeanor of Cantonese people, and when you encounter a living thing, the first thing you consider is whether you can eat it.

"It's edible, it tastes good, its skin is kept, and the treatment is a good armor, harder than cowhide. But this thing hurts people and harms livestock, so you'd better clean them up, and I'll do that. Jiao! Cal! Get the whale crossbow aboard the Explorer, and we're going to get to work! "Crocodiles are good prey, they can use their skin and flesh, so it's okay to hunt a little more. Not only do they have to be hunted and killed, Hong Tao plans to kill them all, and the animal protection organization is still going to stay where it is cool, people themselves are uncomfortable, and there is still time to think about protecting animals?

On the first day of arriving at the Jinhe camp, Hong Tao pulled Bo Jiao and Carl to start his crocodile hunt. The three men drove the relatively small explorer back and forth along the upper and lower reaches of the riverbank, and as long as they found a crocodile, it was a crossbow arrow, and then pulled up to the surface and stabbed to death with a harpoon, no matter how big or small. If there was a small tributary, the three men rowed a small wooden boat with harpoons up the river and swept the crocodiles on both sides of the riverbank. I don't dare to say that we should cut the grass and eradicate the roots, at least we must greatly reduce their number.

Now the women who just arrived have a job to do, and there are a few people every day to deal with the crocodiles that Hong Tao and they have killed. Peel off the skin first, rub it with salt and dry it, even if it is cooked. Crocodile meat is simpler, wash the meat, rub it with salt, and then hang it up and bake it over a firewood fire, just like Yungui makes sausage bacon. As for whether crocodile meat is good or not, it is actually similar to whale meat, and it is similar to beef when it is done. However, in this era when you can't even eat rice, it's good to have meat at every meal, and the landlord's family doesn't have this standard of living, so be content.

"It would be great if those hunting enthusiasts in the future crossed over, my eggs can't be eaten again, and the dog is a dog with a thousand cuts!" When humans prevailed, animals became a rarity and were protected in every possible way. But when humans are at a disadvantage, animals are the worst enemies, they will bite your livestock, steal your stockpiles, break your fences, and threaten your life!

It took Hong Tao several days to clean up the crocodiles near the camp, and there was an accident in the camp again! The last two hens were killed overnight by unknown animals, most likely badgers or relics. The most annoying thing is the monkeys, who, after a period of familiarity, find that the things in the camp are very interesting, so they come to the camp from time to time to steal things. Clothes, tools, food, fruits, anyway, you can take whatever you see, come and go without a trace, and it is difficult to hunt and kill.

Compared to these petty animals, crocodiles are quite easy to deal with, after all, their intelligence is low, and they only know how to eat and hide. So how to deal with these thieves? Hong Tao also has no practical and immediate solution, and it is the most stupid thing to take people to the woods to hunt them with hand crossbows. Not to mention holding a crossbow, even if one person fires a shotgun, it won't have much effect after entering the jungle, and maybe there will be non-combat attrition. Those poisonous insects are not a joke, whoever bites them, according to the current level of medical care, can basically only rely on the will of God.

"I'll go to the south and take a look to see how far away we are from the port, and know myself and the enemy!" In order to escape the logging and hunting work in the camp, Hong Tao gave himself another righteous excuse, and then ran away with his daughter-in-law, Bojiao and Carl on the Predator.

The work of cutting down trees with an axe is too torturous, not to mention that the whole body is full of bags bitten by red ants, and a tree is tired and hurts its back and legs before it is cut, which is too damaging to the image of his territorial sea people + CEO of cooperatives. It's fun to hunt this thing from time to time, and if you make it a job every day, it's going to be boring for two days. Otherwise, everyone has to find their own life positioning, and Hong Tao positions himself as a planner, just make ideas and ignore the specific implementation details, to put it bluntly, he is a mouth peddler.

After leaving the mouth of the Jinhe River, I drove south along the coastline for another day, and there were still no people in sight, but Hong Tao probably knew where he was. A large bay is depicted on the charts according to the coordinate points, and this is probably Lingayen Bay, an important supply haven marked on international charts for later generations, but Hong Tao never entered it. If it's really Lingayen Bay, then a little further south it should be Manila Bay.

As the saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, and Hong Tao is looking at the chart this time to run a dead ship, a little further south...... This point is a point on the chart in my impression, and the actual distance is at least more than 400 kilometers. Hong Tao even surveyed and mapped, and walked for more than 3 days without seeing the entrance to Manila Bay, but for the first time he saw a small fishing boat, he finally saw a human figure.

"Carl, get your crossbow ready, we're here to trade. Don't you want to be a slave owner? I'll grant you that first wish! After a while, you will do it, and if you can catch it alive, you will catch it alive, and if you are injured and dead, it will be meaningless. I'll deal with one, and the rest will be done with both of you! Hong Tao removed the telescope on the sextant again, glanced at the small sailing ship in the distance a few times, and then looked around the sea area, and gritted his teeth and issued the battle order.

The small boat should be called a sideframe boat to be precise, and it is a very suitable type of ship for racing, and it is more suitable for long-distance voyages than the shipbuilding process at this time. What is a side-frame boat? In fact, it is very simple, it is a main hull, and the two sides are connected to the smaller auxiliary hull with wooden shelves. Only one side with an auxiliary hull is called a unilateral frame boat, and the one with both sides is called a bilateral frame boat, similar to the catamaran or trimaran of later generations.

The unilateral boat that Hong Tao saw was a bit too simple, the main hull was a 3 or 4 meter long canoe, the auxiliary hull was a section of tree trunk, and the wooden strips connected in the middle were not too straight, twisted and crooked, and the broken sail was no less than the patches of the Tan family, and it was impossible to tell what the original background color was. Don't underestimate this thing, according to some research conclusions of later generations, the people who lived on the ancient Pacific islands relied on this simple and simple thing to cross thousands of kilometers and wander between many small Pacific islands.

However, Hong Tao believes that this does not mean that the navigation skills of the people at that time were superb, but it just reflects that there was basically no navigation technology at that time, and it was completely gambling with his life and the sea wherever he floated. But those who can survive on land will definitely not take the initiative to cross the ocean in a side-frame boat, either being chased and killed by the enemy and having nowhere to hide, or being blown away by strong winds and waves when going to sea.