Chapter Seventy-Three: The Road to Treasure
"Everyone, steady, yes, don't move!"
Gordon shouted orders to steady the nervous-looking sailors, whose ships were still rickety.
"Mickey, what's going on in the bilge?"
Gordon shouted that he had to make sure there was no leak in the bottom of the boat.
There was silence for a long time before Mickey's voice came from below.
"No problem, no problem in the bilge, it's just that the cargo is a little messy......"
He said it lightly, but it was the tumbling cargo that tripped over many sailors, and even Mickey himself continued to get up and inspect the bottom of the ship.
"Don't move yet, I'll go down and have a look. ”
It was a blessing that the bottom of the ship was not broken by the reef, and the most important thing now was to check the details of the ship, and this time it was grounded.
Sailors at the lookout should always pay attention to the situation of the route, whether there are shallow reefs, and the base of the island is within the observation range, but this time, there was no warning at all, and the ship ran aground.
Gordon jumped out of the boat and plunged straight into the water, the cool water soaking his body, and Gordon saw the island base from the water.
The blue seagrass is constantly floating with the current, almost becoming one with the sea, covering the mud and sand and reefs below, and if you don't look at it closely, you can't detect that the seven uplifted reefs from such a distance are one, and the range is incomparably huge.
Oasis.
People at sea call this huge reef hidden under the water that is very easy to ignore, this kind of place can only allow small boats less than 30 meters to pass, it is the best place for small speed ships to avoid the pursuit of large pirate ships, the hull is more than 40 meters, and the waterline is more than 2 meters The large ship directly ran aground.
"Drop the anchor on the right side of the hull! Be careful and take your time. ”
The ship's sailors heard Gordon's shout and began to slowly loosen the winch that pulled the anchor.
Bang!
When the anchor was first lowered, the whole hull was shaken, and the exclamation of the sailors was heard from the ship.
"Be careful! slow down!" Gordon commanded, looking at the state of the entire hull.
A main anchor and two secondary anchors on one side of the ship slowly descended, and finally stabilized the whole ship.
Gordon looked around the wide oasis, and if the big ship couldn't get in, it would have to be seen in a dinghy first, and as a ship like the Jackdaw, there were a lot of small boats prepared.
"Mitch, put the two dinghy down, call ten sailors, let's go over and have a look, Morgan, you and Alan guard the ship. ”
"Got it, Captain!"
On the left side of the boat, closer to the water, the two dinghys were slowly lowered, and Mickey and ten other able-bodied sailors stripped naked, jumped straight into the water, and then climbed back onto the dinghy.
Gordon swam over, then took Mickey's hand and flipped into the boat.
Looking at Mickey's somewhat tattered lips and forehead, he asked, "It's not a big deal." ”
"It's okay captain, I'm used to it. ”
The soaked clothes were a little too much of a hindrance, and Gordon also learned from these sailors, so he directly ripped off the clothes on his body and threw them into the sea, revealing his strong upper body.
Gordon's original body was a little thin, but after two reinforcements, it reached an incredible level, and there were five scabbed scars on his body, which looked a little terrifying.
"Captain, what about our ship?"
Alan looked at Gordon and his party who were about to leave, and shouted a little anxiously, it is not a way to stay stranded like this.
What to do? The waterline is too deep and stranded, and it is not completely out of water.
"Weigh the boat and get out of the area and pick it up, do you still have to ask me?"
Gordon's understated tone made Kuric laugh out loud, finally a little bit old captain.
"Oh, I see. Allen's somewhat indifferent voice came back from above, feeling crushed from the IQ level.
Gordon smiled slightly, then motioned for the sailors to start rowing.
Alan is a person he cultivated as a first mate, talented, capable, and has a natural affinity, seeing Alan always has a way to see the original self, of course, he also inherited his own initial a little too tender.
The sailors slowly rowed their boats towards the seven islands and reefs not far away.
If there is no mistake, the Elizabeth should have been washed up by the waves in that big storm, and then the bottom of the ship hit the rock, helplessly destroyed by the big waves, which is really full of tragedy.
There is a bright glow at the bottom of the water, and this red is so conspicuous in the blue algae.
"Stop the boat first. ”
At this point, the reef was getting shallower and shallower, and Gordon jumped from the boat, and the water was only waist-deep.
He picked up the glow from underwater, so dazzling on the surface of the water, it was a spinel the size of a pigeon's egg.
What a pure red, like the flow of blood, in this age when gemstones could not be synthesized, it is simply priceless, and this kind of thing is worth tens of thousands of pounds even in the twenty-first century.
"Looks like we've found the right direction and keep going. ”
Gordon re-onboarded the dinghy and headed for the seven reefs.
He slipped the gem into his trouser pocket, and according to Animus's estimate, the price of the gem reached one hundred and thirty gold coins, and there was a ship on board the Elizabeth.
But as the distance got closer, Gordon began to notice that there were two other small boats in the distant sea, also approaching the center of the reef, and his heart instantly cooled.
Because farther away, there is a pirate ship with black sails and black flags.
"Damn it!"
Originally thought it was just an ordinary treasure hunt, Gordon didn't even carry a musket, only a scimitar hanging from his waist, and the sailors were almost all about the same, and the whole dinghy only had two spare muskets to prevent sharks and sea beasts.
"Captain, what are we going to do?" Mickey stared at the pirate ship in the distance and was also a little frightened, if it was fully armed, he would definitely not be afraid to go up and fight directly, but now, they don't have muskets, only scimitars, and it will be a great loss to fight.
Gordon pulled the binoculars out of his trouser pocket and looked at the pirate's dinghy opposite, only to be ...... It's exactly the same as them, almost stripped naked.
"Haha, hahaha!"
Gordon laughed out loud, since you don't have muskets and you don't have ten men, sorry, you probably haven't seen an assassin's scimitar.
"Up, rush up for me, the enemy is about the same as us. ”
After the battle of Havana, Gordon has the most intuitive understanding of his melee combat ability, the soldiers of the British Royal Navy are not his opponents, will these pirates who are surrounded by the British Royal Navy be more difficult?