CH.2 The Island
Donk glanced at the greyed system interface again, and it seemed that it was almost done, and he was expecting the game system to help. The ship is now short of water and food, and the location of the land is not yet known, which is a big problem.
This progress has risen very slowly, and it has only slowly risen to 90% after so many days.
He turned off the image in his mind and looked at the endless sea, the sky was already overcast, and there was a heavy layer of gray on the sea. He sat in the guardrail, holding the only fishing rod on the boat, hoping to catch something to eat.
The ship had very few supplies, only this one fishing rod. The chances of catching a fish are slim to none, but it's impossible to stop the boat, and no one can expect to be supplied with a fishing rod, or even if there is a fishing net.
A group of unknown fish flew out of the sea, with a pair of transparent wings, which drew an arc into the sea, and then flew out quickly, splashing in bursts of water.
Looking at the scenery in the sea, Donk felt that it was not bad to be a pirate, and that a free life was exactly what he longed for.
"Little ones, it's too quiet, sing to me!" On a whim, Donk shouted presumptuously.
The vicious sailors quickly responded to the captain's command, howling in a rough voice: "We are pirates, fierce pirates. In his left hand he holds a wine bottle, and in his right hand he holds a treasure. We are pirates, pirates with skills. Beautiful girls, please come to my arms......"
What a bunch of straightforward villains.
A smile tuckled at the corner of Donk's mouth, he liked this group of men. During these days, he had spoken to every sailor, hoping to come up with some clues, but they had little memory and only knew that he was a sailor.
Donk theorized that the sailors might have been created by the game, and that, like him, they didn't know anything about the world.
The fishing rod in his hand suddenly came with a pull, and he almost couldn't catch the rod, and his body staggered. He was not surprised, after so many days of fishing, this was the first time a fish had bitten the hook. He tightened his grip on the rod and pulled it back hard, his feet slamming against the guardrail for strength.
Since arriving in this world, his strength has increased a lot, but he still can't pull up the fishing rod, which shows the strength of this fish's bite.
"Come and help me!" Donk blushed and yelled.
The sailors rushed over to hear the noise, and everyone grabbed the fishing rod together, which turned the situation around. Under the pull of the two forces, the fishing line was tightened, and the fishing rod also hung its head, and there was a posture of breaking.
"The fishing line is going to break, hurry up and release the line!" Donk said quickly, he let go of his hand, letting the other sailors continue to drag. He ran and grabbed a rope and tied it to the harpoon. When he ran back, he nearly fell on the slippery deck.
After the fishing line was lengthened, the tension was relieved, and there was a faint black shadow swimming in the seawater, constantly turning its head to fight for the fishing line.
With a fierce blow, Donk threw the harpoon at the black shadow, and when the blow missed, he pulled the harpoon out of the sea with a rope and threw it again, this time after the harpoon went down, there was a burst of red blood in the water. The sailors shouted loudly, their eyes burning at the dark shadows in the sea.
Without Donk's order, there were already sailors pulling the rope back, and the dark shadow gradually surfaced.
Judging from the pull just now, this fish should not be small, and it must be no problem to boil a pot of fish soup. Donk and the sailors looked at the sea expectantly, but when the thing caught it, they looked at each other.
It's not a fish, it's a small water monster!
The guy was misshapen, thirty inches long, silvery-white, with a head that looked like a hideous grimace and webbed calves on the tail. It clenched the hook, its mouth began to spit blood foaming, and its body was still trembling slightly.
Donk scratched his chin, looked at the dead water monster, and said, "Do you think this thing can be eaten?" ”
Look at me, sailors, I look at you, and replied in unison: "Yes!" ”
"You're really not a picky eater." Tang Ke looked at the little water monster in disgust, still a little resistant in his heart.
The sailors didn't care about that, and they quickly cleaned up the monster, scraped off the scales, gutted the entrails, washed them, went to the kitchen to make a fire, and stewed them in an iron pot. What is surprising is that after this water monster got out of the pot, it didn't take long for the aroma to waft up, and it smelled quite fresh.
Although it was said that the fish caught belonged to the captain, Donk had no intention of dominating the stew monster.
After a brave man had tasted the non-poisonous flesh of the monster, the sailors gathered around to feast on the monster soup, dividing the tender monster meat with knives and forks, and scooping the steaming soup with spoons. Destroying this pot of water monster soup is a matter of three or two minutes.
A more smuggling sailor brought a bowl to the captain, and in the bowl was a fat sea monster leg, apparently the meaty. Donk hesitated to take it, looking at the part that looked like a baby's calf, and his appetite really couldn't be raised.
There are many strange creatures in this sea, whether it is seabirds or fish, which are very different from those on Earth. This is one of the reasons why Donk feels that this is a different world. Compared to those huge sea beasts that were hundreds of yards long, this little sea monster was not worth a penny.
Seeing the sailors eating so heartily, Donk was a little tempted, and the wisps of aroma that penetrated the tip of his nose also seduced him. He took a sip of the soup, which contained only salt and salt, but it tasted as delicious as the chef's cooking.
"Forget it, just eat it as a frog." Tang Ke's heart was horizontal, and he made a gesture to gnaw on the water monster's legs.
"Report to the captain! I found an island! The lookout, who was on a high place, suddenly shouted excitedly.
Donk's mouth stopped in mid-air, his neck stretched out, he shoved the bowl of soup to the sailor beside him, and then climbed up to the lookout in a hurry, the slippery mast not bothering him.
The lookout excitedly gave the captain directions, and there was a rolling bulge in the sea about a thousand yards to the southeast, which looked like it was indeed a small island. They don't have a high-end product like a telescope, so they can only look at it by sight.
Tang Ke rubbed his eyes vigorously and discerned them repeatedly, for fear that what he saw was a mirage. Luckily, it does look like an island.
"It's an island, it's an island, haha, we're saved!" Donk laughed, flew to grab the rope, and slid straight down from it.
When the sailors heard the news, they also cheered enthusiastically.
"Let the oarsmen pick up the speed and you go and adjust the sail for me." Donk quickly ordered that he would take control of the rudder himself, so that he could be faster.
What seemed like a thousand yards was actually far away, and when their boat came to shore, they jumped out of the boat and pulled it up to the beach with human power. The ship dropped its anchor and was deeply rooted in the mud of the seaside.
"A few of you stay and guard the ship, fix the boat, and the rest come with me." Tang Ke was just about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, turned around and said, "I almost forgot, you all bring your weapons with you, just in case of accidents." ”
As a captain, Donk always wears a thin scimitar, but the sailors don't wear weapons because they have to do a lot of hard work, and the weapons are stored in boxes. In order to maintain the weapon, someone has to wipe it twice a day.
Donk's thin scimitar is decorated, and the metal of the sword is relatively strong, and when the knife is drawn, it is clearly dangling. In contrast, the weapons of the sailors were rudimentary.
In fact, Donk is not very satisfied with this thin scimitar, after all, this is a European thing, and it feels less powerful than a machete.
On the shore, Tang Ke looked around a few times, surrounded by sand and reefs, there are dense vegetation in the distance, the area of this island is too small, it is estimated that you can run around in three hours, shouting on this side, you can hear clearly on the other side of the island.
Donk leads the sailors forward, their main purpose is to obtain food and water. These sailors are very bold. Tang Ke felt that it was too solid to take them, even if he encountered some monsters or something, it was estimated that these people would be able to slash to death if they rushed up.
The pirate's plants have a Caribbean vibe, with the coconut palm being the tallest, with needle-like leaves spreading out from the canopy, and underneath the ripe fruit and a thick trunk curved.
No one cares about other plants, but this coconut tree is a rare good. Donk and the sailors climbed up the tree one after another, cut off the coconuts, and he was relieved to see the increasing number of coconuts under the tree, so that the water problem was temporarily alleviated.
They left the coconut in place and were ready to pick it up when they left, and they went deep into the depths of the island oasis. There were no animals inside, but there were some mosquitoes and ants. Donk was bitten twice, and his heart hurt, and he moved a fire to burn the forest.
After collecting a circle in the woods, no edible plants were found except for coconut palms. No one knew the wild fruits, and Tang Ke ordered that no one should eat them, because there was no need to take the risk.
He looked at the green vegetation under his feet and suddenly remembered the sweet potatoes in his hometown, which reminded him that the rhizomes of some plants were also edible. He immediately ordered the sailors to dig up. They used the scabbard as a shovel, but the soil was moist and easy to dig.
"Thank you Poseidon for your blessing!" A sailor shouted excitedly, carrying in his hand a freshly dug plant with a bunch of round rhizomes hanging from it, which turned out to be a potato.
"Haha, I didn't find the sweet potato, but I found the potato, yes, yes." For the first time in his life, Donk looked at potatoes so pleasing to the eye, as if they were a gold ingot.
After that, the excavation is simpler, because there are above-ground leaf stems of potatoes as a reference, and everyone can dig purposefully without digging around. The sailors were all strong and mobile, and it wasn't long before the potatoes were piled up into a hill.
In the middle of the excavation, the rain that had been brewing for a while finally dropped, and the rain was not small, and everyone's clothes were soaked. Fortunately, these people are full of firepower and don't care about this little rain at all.
Donk used the rain as a shower and was comfortably drenched. They also collected some rainwater, which was also drinkable, so that the water and food were replenished.
After the rain had cleared, Tang Ke wanted to leave with the sailors like this, but the sailors in the distance suddenly shouted: "Come here, there is a shipwreck here!" ”