Chapter Seventy-Eight: Supply Point

Thirty years, a full thirty years, Mike used his captain's skills to perceive and pursue the mysterious whirlpool, his footprints traveled all over the Pacific Ocean, and the sailors around him left and came again, and the wealth of exploration and trade continued to expand, and the ship also had a three-masted merchant ship into a huge fleet of ten three-masted ships.

Gradually, Mike seemed to grasp the law of the appearance of the mysterious whirlpool, and began to squat in his guessed position for many years, and the disappointment did not discourage his confidence, and each failure made him know that he was getting closer and closer to the truth, but the people around him thought that Mike had become crazy for the mysterious whirlpool that did not exist, and no sailor was willing to go to sea with him.

So Mike bought all his possessions, exchanged them for supplies, and hid them on more than a dozen small islands in the Pacific Ocean that only he knew, and then took a group of sailors loyal to him and sailed out on one of the remaining three-masted battleships to continue exploring the mysterious whirlpool.

On the last page, Mike's diary reads.

I am 100% sure that the mysterious vortex will appear in this sea, and I have even accurately calculated the time and latitude of its appearance, and this time the truth of the mysterious vortex will be opened to me.

I don't know what I'm about to face, I never regret my decision, when I first saw it, I was attracted to what it hidden, my perception could touch her, the temptation I couldn't extricate myself, the priest said that this is how the devil seduces mortals, maybe my soul has been captured by it, and only there is my final destination.

Tomorrow I will take a boat and wait for the mysterious whirlpool to appear, maybe I will never come back, and the opposite side may be heaven or hell, what does it matter to me?

There is nothing left, no mezzanine, no legacy.

It is not uncommon to see whirlpools on the sea, large fish, air currents, ocean currents, submarine movements, etc. may form all kinds of whirlpools, but that whirlpool makes Mike feel different, all of which comes from Mike's captain skills: perception, as the only skill, perceives that the powerful psychic ability is the basis that Mike relies on to dare to challenge the four oceans, and its warning to the unknown and mysterious makes Mike avoid many risks in time.

The vortex only had a dozen seconds from its appearance to its disappearance, and it didn't give Mike time to observe it up close, but it was these ten seconds of time perception that made Mike make a decision that would affect his life and unlock the secrets of the mysterious vortex.

Mysterious whirlpool, Gangzi doesn't have a cold very much, maybe Mike is a neurotic, he keeps making up for it when he sees a whirlpool, and then spends thirty years filling it up, and finally collapses on his own; Even if Mike was right, the mysterious whirlpool must be something amazing, and the Gangzi fleet was half crippled, and he didn't have the courage to bet on whether the whirlpool was under the sea. The point is, the charts are ghostly drawn, and who can see where the mysterious whirlpool will appear.

In Gangzi's eyes, the most valuable information in the notes at this time is Mike's more than a dozen secret supply points in the Pacific Ocean, as a rich man with ten three-masted ships, how much wealth will he have after his assets are sold? It may have surpassed the economies of some small countries.

Is it really a blessing for Seon to lose his horse? If he hadn't been beaten up by players in the Fuso Sea, Gangzi wouldn't have been able to run to the Pacific Ocean, and of course he wouldn't have picked up Mike's box.

Lying on the chart, Gangzi quickly found thirteen patchwork red dots, as for whether the guess is right or not, find a close past to see.

All three ships needed to be repaired, and nothing happened to Gangzi. So Gangzi snapped a few photos of Mike's charts and went offline.

Scan the chart into the computer and call out the home computer manager: "Do you see these spiral symbols, lines, and letters?" Find me the pattern of his appearance. ”

The mechanical voice of the computer butler sounded: "Due to the vague information, the calculation may take some time. ”

Also, the lines on the chart are intricate, letters, symbols are everywhere, I don't know which one is useful and which is not, of course, it is complicated to identify and analyze, anyway, where is the amount of computing on the computer, it is definitely better to do this boring work than the human brain. If you were asked to get it done in a few seconds, he wouldn't jump out of the game and strangle you to death.

"Count slowly, don't delay doing other things, I have time."

The nearest microphone supply point is in a sea area near the White Collar Sea, and the vast expanse of Rakshasa in the Far East is deserted, let alone the merchant shipping routes, and the icebergs that can be seen everywhere are also a big threat to the ships that come here, and the supply point is located here, which is simply very secret.

After the three battleships were repaired, Gangzi decided to go to the Bering Strait, although he had to go back, but the urgently needed ammunition must be replenished to a certain extent. This trip back to the Han Dynasty, whether it is the Ryukyu Group or the Bass Strait, is a prosperous area of Nanyang trade, there are many players, it is difficult to guarantee that there is no guts, fat and cheap, and the Black Sail Pirate Fleet really has no means to resist when it comes to fighting.

Gangzi originally planned to ask Sun Tiezui and Gao Lu to go south to respond, but without the two of them, the construction and trade of Heifan Island would be stopped. Now that there is a better way, there is no need to use them again, and Gangzi also wants to verify the authenticity of the McNail, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

The ship has undergone simple repairs and is already seaworthy, of course, in the absence of bad weather and battles. According to the charts, Gangzi led the Black Sail pirate fleet to turn north, and after a week's voyage, he found the location of the supply point, which is an island chain of three small islands. The three small islands are arranged in a north-south pattern, and they are covered with coniferous forests, but it is a little strange that there is no snow and ice unique to the far north on the islands. There is no specific location indication of the supply point on the chart, after all, this chart is for Mike to show himself, as long as he follows the route to find it, he must know how to get to the supply point.

All the information that Gangzi has is that Mike's last ship is a three-masted battleship, and the supply of this kind of large ship must not be something that can be done by any shoal, so the scope of the search will be much narrower.

Sailing around three small islands, Gangzi quickly settled on a beach suitable for mooring large ships.

Anchored and stopped the ship, Gangzi landed in a small boat with more than a dozen jumping helpers.

Stepping on the beach, there is a hint of warmth under your feet, is this a volcanic island, and there is geothermal heat underneath? It's a great place to recuperate from a long voyage in such an environment. Ordered his men to search around, and Gangzi observed the nearby terrain in situ.

The three small islands are distributed in a linear pattern from north to south, and they are only a few hundred meters apart, and the vegetation on the islands is lush, and the vegetation of this magnitude in this high latitude has a lot to do with geothermal heat.

Gangzi's island is located in the northernmost part of the island chain, and it is also the largest island, the shape of the island is an inverted cone, the highest altitude is about 300 meters, such a nameless volcanic island is everywhere in the ocean, even if people occasionally pass by nearby, they will not realize that this small island is actually hoarding supplies.

"Commander, we've found it."

Mike was engaged in research and not strategic military affairs, and it was impossible for the materials to be hidden deeply, which made it difficult to carry them, and sure enough, after a while, he was found by the sailors.

Guided by sailors, Gangzi came to the mouth of a cave on the mountainside. The entrance to the cave is two meters high and five meters wide, and it is hidden with vegetation, and the shrubs and vines are removed so that you can see the inside from the outside.

The inside is not deep, but the volume is very large, there is actually the size of a football field, logs, planks, and all kinds of boxes are piled up in different categories.

Hahaha, Mike's fortune has finally been found, little ones, go, and see how many good things are in it.

Stepping into the cave, the temperature rises sharply, the air is dry, and it is surrounded by rock walls with solidified lava, which is smooth and breathable, and it is really a good place to store supplies. Wood or something don't move it, this thing is on the mainland, it's the least valuable thing, open the box for me first.

Gunpowder, artillery, shells, armor plates, sails, spikes, cables, fishing nets...... Anything that can be used on a ship can be found here, and in principle, as long as there is a shipyard and drawings, push these things in, and you can spit out sailing ships one after another.

But why are there no gold coins? What I have in my port is that I pull them back one by one, so it's better for me to grab a ticket and sell gold coins to make it myself. Mike, you're not really nervous, are you, buying all the money into this? Don't leave some gold coins for physiological needs? Even if you yourself have surpassed sanctification, those sailors who go to sea with you must not all be as nervous as you, you must know that the men of this regiment will have empty pockets when they dock and disembark and get on board.

"Open it, open all the chests for me, and I don't believe I can't find anything made of gold."

The result was still to the disappointment of Gangzi, and the sailor spent half a day opening all the chests, and found not a single trace of gold, not even a single silver.

What to do? It seems that Mike is really "crazy", can it only be used as a supply point here?

At this time, one of the sailors shouted: "Commander, there is something wrong with this cannon. ”

This is also where the artillery can be looked at by Gangzi, and when he heard the strange appearance of the artillery, Gangzi immediately walked up: "What's wrong, I'll take a look." ”

"Commander, you see, this cannon body is much better than the material of the iron smoothbore cannon we produce, and the fine iron smoothbore cannon on the Sea Monster with the regiment commander belongs to the same fine iron casting, but these cannons are larger caliber and heavier than the naval guns on the sea monster, which means that it can be filled with more gunpowder and shoot heavier shells, according to the caliber, I estimate that this cannon can fire 16-pound shells."

"Shoot a 16-pound shell? Are you telling the truth? Gangzi carefully observed these cannons, which were indeed two circles larger than the naval guns on the Sea Monster, and he couldn't figure out how the fine iron smoothbore cannon could appear in two calibers, so Gangzi immediately sent someone to call Liang Hong over, and then said to the sailor: "You kid is fine enough, this time you have made a meritorious service, the head of this regiment will reward you with 100 gold, what position are you on the ship now?" ”

The sailor was overjoyed: "Elder Xie Tuan last time, he was a junior blacksmith, and when he didn't go to sea, he made iron in the military ironsmith workshop, and now his proficiency has passed half, and he is saving money to ask Captain Sun Tiezui to buy an intermediate blacksmith skill book, and when our Heifan Town is upgraded to the county seat, we can build a refined iron refining furnace, and at that time we can produce our own refined iron cast iron smoothbore cannon." ”

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