The scouts swept out of the eighteen islands overnight, but they had not finished sweeping, and new island outlines continued to appear in the reconnaissance range, so they went to Qi Ke decisively, and the two took out two hundred scouts from the Qianhe Realm to supplement them, so that even if this archipelago is composed of thousands of islands, so many scouts can be swept all within a few days.

Of course, the first thing to look for in such a large-scale sweep of the islands is the islands related to the pirates, using the slave transit island as the starting point, searching for islands that are no more than ten days away and have better harbors.

The only decent village on the slave transit island has to come up with food and water for a hundred or so people to eat at sea for ten days, and it may not be enough to strip all the food stored in the village.

More than 200 scouts took the search for clues to the Haikou as the highest priority, and the efficiency was outstanding, first using life detection to search for densely populated islands, and then sending the pictures back to Zhaolin one by one, and then screening them, and in less than half an hour, five suspicious objects were circled, all of which were lively harbors and docks, and the most important point was that they could berth islands with ships about the same size as Haikou's big ships.

The distribution of these five islands is also quite interesting, from the outer periphery of the archipelago to the center of the inner ring, the more populous the islands are, there are more sturdy houses made of bamboo, wood and masonry, and there are also small dilapidated houses with mud walls and thatched roofs, and there is a significant gap between the rich and the poor.

Ignoring these disparities between the rich and the poor, and just looking at the size of the ships berthed at the port wharf, it can already be determined that the pirates who came to burn and loot across the vast sea had the support of their local powers, either rich merchants and nobles, or rulers.

"Look at the five suspicious islands, and see if any of the ships at anchor have ship guns." Qi Ke poked at Zhaolin's arm.

"What do you suspect?" Zhao Lin mobilized the scout to return to the sky above the five islands, and projected the real-time footage transmitted back to Qi Ke to see.

"If the backers behind the pirates were really these big powers, would they let armed ships disguised as merchant ships anchor in civilian ports?"

"So, we have to find a military port?"

"The military port that the people know may not work, if the big forces want to keep it secret, there should be a special port."

"Then you still want a port with a small population, but a port that is not commensurate with the population?"

"In addition, there must be a variety of docks." Qi Ke's eyes lit up, "Take a look at the picture of the big ship of the Haikou, just look at the ships and weapons, does it look like you do maintenance often?" ”

"With a fully equipped port, but only sending an armed ship to rob it from afar, can this recoup the capital?" As he spoke, he retrieved the stored old information, and after checking it, he found that it was indeed as Qi Ke said, and the maintenance of Haikou's ship was in place.

"In addition to robbery, they also trade slaves, I think slave trading is the main business, robbery is a side business, and even at the beginning it was just a temporary idea." Qi Ke paused, his fingers tapped on the table, "No, there may be tentative intentions hidden behind the temporary intentions." ”

"Temptation? Temptation of what? See if this continental country with its long coastline has the capacity to respond to maritime crises? ”