Chapter 3: Pirates and Nassau

Dragged the wild deer to the beach, John shook his wrist, which was a little numb, and felt a little incredible: just such a little exercise could cause this body to have an adverse reaction, which made John understand the weakness of this body again. While disemboweling the wild deer with a dagger and throwing its entrails far into the sea so that no animal would smell the fishy smell and lean over them, the venison was washed with seawater, and the skins were rubbed and washed in the seawater, and hung on a nearby tree to dry.

The wild deer was not very large—too large for an animal that lived in the dense forest, and it was obviously a burden for John, so after cutting off the main part of the deer's flesh from its back, he left only the meat on its back and four legs, just enough for John to eat for a day.

To light the bonfire, John wrapped the venison in a large leaf next to it and buried it in the sand below the campfire, and then piled the remaining leaves and branches on top and lit it. At this time, one of the barbecue skills that Ma Li had taught before, John was now going to the tree to pick coconuts, and he couldn't keep an eye on the barbecue, so it was just right to handle the meat in this way. Now John is like an ordinary man in distress, searching for food and water necessary for survival, without a body that never tires before, and no mysterious abilities. This is an experience that has not been felt even in the continent of Tel'an, John climbed the coconut tree, and used a dagger to cut the coconut from the tree little by little and threw it to the ground. Anyway, the coconut shell was hard and there was no risk of being broken, so John naturally didn't bother to carry it off the tree.

John first cracked the coconut open, drank the coconut water in a big gulp, and at the same time broke up the fire that had been completely charred, dug up the meat buried under it with a branch, picked it up with a simple throwing gun, and took it to the shade of the tree to sit down, and ate the coconut while waiting for the meat to cool.

After eating and drinking, John got up, he didn't forget to continue to explore the island today, if he can find some other resources on the island, it will also be a help to his life, if he can find signs of human life, it is naturally the best, after all, staying on this island all the time is not the right way out, John still has to enter the human society, only when he goes there can he find out why he didn't return to the original stone world with the original stone soul.

The forest was large, at least much larger than the Penalty Forest that he had walked before. John sighed as he explored his path with a simple throwing gun. Although the speed has been slowed down due to the need to explore the road, if it is the Punishment Forest, I should have reached the Frank Fortress or the Chapel of Purification even if I walked. And now, John still can't see the end of the forest. However, in the forest, John found the corpse of a human who had died at some unknown point. That's a good sign, John thought. Since there are human corpses here, it at least means that there will be others here. It is further speculated that the captain chose this place as a supply island for fresh water and food, and it may have been a route designed from the beginning. Since there is a route through, there will definitely be other ships arriving to see if they can leave by boat. However, the current fleet is not good, even if it is a merchant ship, if you meet someone who wants to be left alone like this, it is still very common to catch it as a slave, let alone meet pirates. Besides, even if you don't meet pirate merchant ships, it is not a good choice to meet warships, in addition to the regular army, many warships in this era are like this predecessor, with privateering licenses, pirates in the name of the state; Unless, they have something that can impress them, such as ...... Treasure, or something.

Thinking of this, John decided to examine the body first to see if he had been shipwrecked or had died here for some other reason. Except for the dagger in his hand now, John only has some value in the notebook that can barely be regarded as a nautical diary—as for the silver medal that he thought before, don't dream of it, it's just a piece of iron plated with a layer of silver.

Now John needed more information to determine where he was at the point in time.

The predecessor was just an ordinary pirate, and he was able to read and write thanks to the fact that the old navigators on the previous ship were his relatives. I learned a little common phrase there, or I wouldn't even be able to write my own name. However, due to the death of the old navigator, his backer on the ship was gone, and then he naturally felt uncomfortable, and finally was thrown to the island by the captain without directly feeding the sharks, which was already considered to be the face of the navigator.

In such a turbulent life, the predecessor did not even know who his own emperor was, only the name of the East India Company. This is very troublesome, you know, the East India Company was founded in 1600, until 1858 was abolished by the British royal family, a total of nearly 300 years of existence, not only experienced the Age of Discovery, but also established a stronghold in India, becoming the actual administrator of India at that time, such a large time span made John a little confused. Therefore, it is better to determine the time point of this life.

Thinking of this, John began to examine the corpse. First of all, judging from the degree of decomposition, this corpse has not been dead for too long, there are still some muscle tissues attached to his bones, you must know that this should be in the tropics or subtropics, the surrounding air is warm and humid, if this corpse has been dead for too long, there will not even be a little bit of flesh for a long time. With no knowledge of this himself, John could only extrapolate the time of his death to about a month.

The corpse showed no signs of being eaten, unlike the circumstances John knew—his backpack had been shredded by some kind of wild animal.

These questions John put aside for now, and now the main thing is whether he can find useful clues on this corpse. Thinking of this, John began to grope around the corpse, first unwrapping the clothes from the corpse. There would have been quite a few pockets on clothing in this era, and now rummaging through the pockets for a while, John was given two gold coins and a letter.

Since he couldn't get much information from the pattern on the gold coin, John had to look at the letter first, which was almost out of shape.

Exposed to the wind and the sun, and corroded, many of the words on this letter were no longer legible. John struggled to discern the information that could barely be discerned. The entire letter was written by a pirate captain to another pirate, but his messenger died unluckily here. John pointed to one of the words, which was supposed to be a place name: "Nassau." Touching his chin, John recalled the information about Nassau, since there was already a place name for Nassau, it was first after 1690 AD, and it can be seen from the pirate's letter that the two pirates met in Nassau, and it would not be after Nassau was taken over by the British in 1729 AD.

(Seriously, you only want to get the Pirates of the Caribbean when you see the East India Company?)