"Quick, hurry up and catch it!" Lu Wan grabbed the side of the boat and said loudly to the people below. And not far below the big ship, a small boat was parked in Haoli, and one of the crew members of the boat stretched out his hand, ready to pick up something on the surface.

From Lu Wan's point of view, it can be seen that the things on the sea surface are about one step long, and the whole is black, and it looks like it should be a piece of wood, but this needs to be held in your hand to be sure.

"Captain, it's a piece of wood!" As soon as the crew of the small boat fished the things in their hands, they immediately said with ecstasy on their faces.

"Quick, get it!" Lu Wan was also very surprised, don't underestimate this piece of wood, they have been sailing on the sea for nearly three months, but they still haven't found the shadow of the American continent, not even an island, but now there is a piece of wood here, which means that in this sea area, there is likely to be a piece of land, and it may even be the American continent they are looking for, which naturally makes Lu Wan feel a kind of ecstasy.

Of course, Lu Wan and the others are not sure that this piece of wood was floated from the American continent, but whether it is a continent or a small island, it is a great joy for Lu Wan and them, after all, they have been sailing for so long, and the crew is extremely tired, and they urgently need a piece of land to rest.

Soon, the crew below sent the scooped up wood to Lu Wan, but Lu Wan took it in his hand and looked at it, and found that this piece of wood should be an arm-thick branch, because there is a thick layer of black algae growing on the surface, so it looks thicker than it actually is, and after scraping off the algae, you can see gray-black bark. It's just that Lu Wan can't recognize what kind of tree branch this is?

"Shisuke, let someone identify it. What kind of tree is this branch? Lu Wan commanded.

"Yes!" Feng Shijie immediately agreed, took the branch and went to find someone to identify it. There was already a lot of carpentry on board. Responsible for the restoration of the hull, they work with wood every day, so they are naturally very familiar with all kinds of trees. However, what Feng Shijie didn't expect was that after he asked a few knowledgeable carpenters, the other party told Feng Shijie that they had never seen this kind of tree either.

After hearing Feng Shijie's reply, Lu Wan's face was a little excited, a kind of tree that even carpenters didn't know, although it didn't mean anything. But this was a great encouragement for Luvan, and even his intuition told him that America might not be far ahead.

The discovery of this branch also boosted the morale of the entire fleet, and the crew, who had already been a little desperate for exploring the Americas, also raised a hope that maybe they could really accomplish this feat and return to Taiwan in a grand welcome organized by His Royal Highness King Qi.

I think of the scenery after I go back. The faces of all the crew members also rose a little yearning, and the movements of their hands and feet were a little sharper than before, and even without Lu Wan's orders, the fleet had already accelerated its speed and sailed eastward.

Maybe it's really not Jitai Lai. Ever since they had hunted the whale, the fleet's nightmare was gone, when a branch from land was found. A few days later, they finally found a very small archipelago. These islands are all volcanic islands, and the largest of them is just over 70 miles long. The width is only more than 30 miles.

However, although the area of these islands is not large, the islands are very rich in resources, not only fresh water to replenish, but also forests and pastures, living a variety of animals, the only regret is that they have not found traces of indigenous activities here.

The discovery of this archipelago was of great significance to Luvan, where they were not only able to replenish fresh water and food, but also drove the boat to the mouth of a freshwater river to clean up all kinds of attachments from the bottom of the boat. These attachments are mainly shellfish marine organisms, and if not cleaned up, it will seriously affect the speed of the ship. There is also a bug that eats on the wood at the bottom of the boat, but this bug can only live in seawater, so it only needs to be moored in fresh water for a while to kill the bug.

And while replenishing fresh water and food, as well as repairing the ship, Lu Wan gave most of the crew a holiday, so that everyone could relax their tense nerves. Even Lu Wan gave himself a vacation, and after arranging all aspects of work, he carried a shotgun on his back and went to the grassland on the island with Feng Shijie and others to hunt.

"Bang~" With a gunshot, an animal that looked like a deer, but had no horns, and was much smaller in size, fell in response, and its companions were startled by the gunshots, and quickly ran away a few steps, but quickly stopped, and then turned to look at the companions who fell to the ground, without the slightest fear.

"Hahaha~, I knew that the animals on the island were so stupid, let's just use a knife, it's too much of a waste of gunpowder to use a musket." Feng Shijie rushed over laughing, picked up the prey and shouted at Lu Wan and the others behind him.

"Brother Shi Jie is good at marksmanship, and it is really surprising that you haven't been rusty with your marksmanship in the past few years!" A guy of short stature who looked like a native of the South Seas walked over and said.

This person is also their companion when they first discovered Australia, a Chinese-Turkish mixed-race, that is, the interpreter Liu Kata. This guy is a language genius, there is no native language in the South Seas that he can't speak, and when he comes into contact with a new language, he can learn it as quickly as possible, so this exploration of the Americas is naturally indispensable to him.

"You guy even said Shi Jie, who doesn't know that you are now the chief chief, I heard that you still have more than a dozen wives, no wonder I haven't seen you for a few years, your kid is thinner than back then, I guess he was squeezed dry by his wife, right?" The other guy laughed. This man was a one-eyed dragon, and a long scar ran from his forehead to the corner of his mouth, just destroying one eye, and he looked extremely hideous.

The one-eyed dragon was also one of the important members of the exploration fleet back then, he was the helmsman of a ship, named Erhanzi, and his family had been hunters for generations, and he was a good hunter. He has been in the slave hunting team all these years, and when he was catching slaves two years ago, he was slashed, although he was lucky not to die, but he ruined one eye, and at the same time made him look more ferocious, and he no longer had the appearance of the silly young man back then.

"Hey, by the way, speaking of which, Lao Liu, didn't you always hate going back to the Kata tribe, why did you go there later and become a chief?" At this time, Feng Shijie also walked over and asked casually with his prey.

Liu Kata's father is Han Chinese, and his mother is the daughter of a native chieftain, and his name is derived from the Chinese homonym of that tribe. However, it is precisely because he has half of the local blood, so Liu Kata has been wronged a lot, and desperately wants to prove that he is a Han, so he has never liked the Kata tribe where he was born, these Feng Shijie as his friends, naturally know, but he has not been in touch for a few years, and he was already a little rusty when he met again, so he didn't ask at the time, and now after life and death again, the friendship between everyone is deeper than at the beginning, so Feng Shijie asked casually.

"Alas, it's not my fault, look at me like this, how can a Han woman be willing to marry me? So in the end, I had to return to the clan and marry more than a dozen women and girls, anyway, I have the identity of a Han person, and the children I gave birth to are also Han people, which no one can deny! Speaking of this, Liu Kata couldn't help but say a little angrily.

However, Lu Wan and Feng Shijie smiled after hearing this, and Liu Kata avoided the important in his words, and did not say how he became a chieftain at all. However, Lu Wan and the others knew that Liu Kata seemed to have some relationship with the Qi Palace, and it was even likely to be a nail sent by the palace to Nanyang, after all, the Kata tribe was located in Borneo, and most of the area there was not in the control of the Qi Palace. But even if this was the case, Liu Kata would never admit it, so they didn't ask questions.

There is no sign of human activity in this archipelago at all, so the animals on the island are not afraid of people at all, and even after their companions are killed, they do not know how to escape, which may also be related to the fact that they have no natural predators on the island. However, it is precisely because of this that Lu Wan and they can easily hit a lot of prey, and even a considerable part of them are captured alive, and it is precisely because of this that this animal was named 'Dumb Deer' by Lu Wan and them.

When Lu Wan and his family walked towards the camping camp on the coast with a lot of prey, they met many crew members playing on the island along the way, many of them carrying a kind of turtle the size of a millstone, said to have been found on the beach at the other end of the island, and there were also many fresh turtle eggs on the beach, and many crew members had already collected them with bags. This made Lu Wan and them all happy, it seems that there is delicious turtle soup to drink tonight, and there must be white egg flowers floating in the soup.

In addition, when passing through some forests, some crew members are cutting down trees, because the fleet needs a lot of fuel, not only to store it on the ship, but also to prepare fresh water must be boiled, so that it can not only be stored for a longer period of time, but also prevent diseases, which is already common knowledge that all crew members know.

The camp on the beach is even more lively, in addition to the crew members on duty who are working, there are also some crew members who have not gone out, or have come back, get together, everyone plays cards, drinks, barbecues prey, etc., making the whole camp extremely noisy, but it is also in this noise that a kind of vigor is revealed, much stronger than the dead air when food was scarce before.

Luvin and his wife spent nearly ten days in the archipelago, and when they left, they named the largest of the islands, Whale Island, and the second largest island, Branch Island, in honor of the whale that saved their fleet, and the branch that held them forward.

It's just that what Lu Wan didn't expect even more was that the day after they left Whale Island, in the direction they were heading, a black horizon suddenly appeared! (To be continued......)