Haihu Island is not a very large island, and all the combined area is only about the same size as a city in Tiannan Province, and most of them are dense forests, hills, and caves, and there are even fewer places where you can really live and move freely.

But the scale of the pirate group is relatively large among the major pirate groups, and there are only one or two hundred people, and there are only three hundred family members.

As for how the family came here, a small number of pirates who were forced by life to take refuge with their families on the island of the Sea Tiger, and some were women and children who plundered on merchant ships.

Pirates also need to live, and some slaves can also make their lives more comfortable, and children can raise future pirates.

Pirates are not born to exist, and they also need to recruit talents everywhere, and even rob some innocent fishermen, force them to kill people, or do other unconscionable things, which can be regarded as a vote, and then even if they don't want to be pirates, they can't quit at will, after all, the evidence is in the hands of the pirate leader.

Leave that at that.

At this time, Chu Jing had already gone into the water to check the bottom of the boat, which was better than he imagined, just a small crack, at least it didn't look very serious from the outside.

As for the inside of the ship, because the damage is at the bottom, there is no sea water yet.

Coming out of the sea, the water is a little cold, and at this time, even overseas, swimming is definitely not a fun thing to do.

"It's not a big problem, let's go around to the previous island now, the pirates are still fighting the sea monster, and it shouldn't be for a while. ”

Chu Jing shook off the seawater on his clothes, there were dry clothes in the cabin, and he would change them later.

Lian thought for a moment and said, "It's okay, I'll go to that island and see if I can get a chart by the way, we'd better leave before being discovered by the pirates." ”

After circumnavigating for some distance, the Bloody Bones began to head in the direction of Sea Tiger Island.

This time, Chu Jing had already been alert, and began to go around to the back of Sea Tiger Island, a place that looked extremely desolate and prepared to land on the island.

Naturally, there are pirates on Sea Tiger Island who are monitoring this place, this is their old lair, how can it be easily invaded by other outsiders.

It's just that the main pirates on the island have all gone out, leaving behind the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is not even a big ship.

After the pirates discovered the Blood Bones, when they saw such a terrifying pirate ship suddenly landing on Haihu Island, they naturally would not startle the snake, so they could only hide first, preparing to wait for Huo Ying to return with the main force of the pirates before planning in detail.

This has to be said that it is not a correct decision, because there are only four people on the Blood Bones, and if they show up, it is very likely to scare Chu Jing away them.

However, in fact, it did not, and the Bloody Bones successfully landed on Haihu Island, and even stopped on the island's beach.

"This island looks good from afar, but when you come up, it's really desolate. ”

Xu Qian got down from the Blood Bones, stretched her waist, and looked at the beach trees on Sea Tiger Island and said.

In fact, Sea Tiger Island is not desolate, there are indeed bare black rocks, and there are a lot of wild grasses, but for plants, it is an ideal home.

For human beings, there is no land to cultivate, no vast plains, no towns, even if it is desolate.

Lian also looked around at this time, and said: "If it weren't for those pirates coming out to chase us, even if we landed on this island, it was very likely that we would think that it was a desert island, and we didn't know where those pirates were hiding, even if we repaired the ship, we must have a chart, and someone needed to go to the pirates to get one." ”

At this time, stealing and robbing are both necessary means, and anyway, facing pirates who loot for a living, it is not too much for them.

If you want to repair a ship, you first need to have a certain knowledge of shipbuilding and an understanding of the hull structure, but the Blood Bone has an extra advantage, it can tell Chu Jing what to do in person.

In fact, the work is not complicated, first of all, it is to tow the whole boat to the beach.

"Wow, such a big boat, it's up to the four of us to pull it to the beach, aren't you kidding?"

Xu Qian grew her mouth, and she didn't dare to use her ears, thinking that she had heard it wrong.

"Otherwise, what do you think, can you go to the sea to repair?" Chu Jing asked rhetorically.

"Can't you go to the sea to repair?"

...... In the end, Xu Qian's protest was ineffective and Chu Jing pulled the boat.

Of course, the Blood Bone is so heavy, with the strength of four people alone, even a warrior can't pull it.

Therefore, some other measures must be used.

For example, putting logs under the boat, etc., Chu Jing had already used all the knowledge he knew, and secretly used all his strength, and the Blood Bone also helped them as much as he could.

Finally, with great difficulty, the Bloody Bones was finally pulled to the beach, but fortunately the damage was close to the side, so there was no need to knock the boat down entirely, otherwise it would be even more troublesome.

"I'm so tired!"

Xu Qian and Bai Lan both collapsed on the soft sand, unwilling to move again.

Lian also sat on the sand and said to Chu Jing: "It seems that next time you need to leave at high tide and low tide, I don't know what the tide is like here." ”

It seems that even she thinks pulling a boat is a chore, in fact, she is the least contributed, after all, she is not a martial artist, just an alchemist.

Then it's all Chu Jing's job, going to the woods next to him to cut down trees and make them into alternative materials that need to be used.

And after Xu Qian finished resting, she took Bai Lan with her to explore this unknown island.

Lian agreed that they should move freely, there should not be many pirates on the island, the three pirate ships are all competing with the sea monsters, and there should be few pirates left on the island.

They are not playing, but mainly to explore the specific location of the pirates on the island, and then find a way to enter the pirate lair and steal the chart.

Detective is what Xu Qian is good at, and stealing things is what Chu Jing is good at.

The first role of the inheritance is to move over the times, and Chu Jing has done little for stealing chickens and dogs, but it doesn't mean that he won't.

Therefore, after Chu Jing proposed to steal the chart by himself and showed off his skills a little, the other three unanimously passed it.

Pirates are an unpopular group, and the three of them don't want to have any contact with pirates at all.

Xu Qian took Bai Lan with her, but she actually wanted to show off her ability to Bai Lan.

Chu Jing's combat power is super strong, Lian is an alchemist, and now he has a thunder stone, and he can use the palm thunder of the great sword master with all his strength, but Xu Qian seems to be inconspicuous in this team.

Even if the archery skills are not bad, the arrow that Chu Jing shot at the scorpion lion still made Xu Qian feel ashamed, and Xu Qian could only rank behind Chu Jing in the lotus archery technique.

However, Xu Qian still has some path-finding skills, which is not something that a dog can achieve, Xu Qian is a qualified ranger.

Although there are very few people living on Haihu Island, there are many traces of human activities.

The pirates will arrange patrols every day, and the patrol is to wander around the island, in order not to form too obvious traces of human life, such as roads, etc., the route of the patrol is also different every day.

Xu Qian was much stronger than the pirates, and quickly deduced the direction in which the pirates came from and where they went.

"Hehe, see it, follow me, you will soon see the pirates on the island, let's not make a move, just watch quietly." ”

Xu Qian walked along a patrol route in front, looking up from time to time to look around.

In fact, she was still too worried, the Blood Bones came from the back when it landed on Sea Tiger Island, and the front of the three pirate ships she encountered before, which was the main settlement of pirates.

From this side to the pirates, it is almost necessary to cross the entire Sea Tiger Island, how can it be so easy.

The pirates on the island also hid because of the absence of the main force, for the exercise, the pirates are much more diligent than in the school, and the effect is better, since the pirate ship with a bloody skeleton in the bow of the ship landed on the tiger island, the pirates have hidden, and when the main force returns.

Of course, Xu Qian couldn't take Bai Lan too far, and in the end she could only walk back dejectedly.

Chu Jing asked while removing the broken plank, "How is it?"

"What else, we're in the back, the pirates are on the other side of the island, we have to get there, I don't know how long it will take, since we want to find those pirates, why don't we just kill them, anyway, I don't believe it's all a rabble. ”

After Xu Qian complained, she put her hands on her knees and asked, "How is the repair, don't tell me it will take a long time to complete." ”

"Come on, the boat can't be launched with planks, don't be in a hurry. Would you be interested in coming with me to the Pirates' Lair?"

"When?"

"Just tonight. ”

The sea monster didn't know how long it would be able to hold off the pirates, and it was inevitable that the night would be full of dreams, so Chu Jing decided to steal the sea chart tonight.

An important reason why he took Xu Qian, Chu Jing didn't know where the pirates usually put the charts, if they were placed on those three ships, wouldn't they get nothing when they went this time.

Xu Qian can be regarded as a treasure hunting dog.

The two decided, Lian and Bai Lan had no opinion, stealing things was not something they were good at.

The night is dark and the wind is high, and the cold sea breeze blows on Sea Tiger Island.

At this time, it is most comfortable to stay in the cabin and sleep peacefully, but unfortunately the two of them have to take advantage of the night to go to the pirates to do the things of chickens and dogs.

Fortunately, the night vision of the two people is not bad, even if they cross various difficult places such as rocky hills and jungles in the dark night, it also does not take much time.

Crossing the entire island, the speed is certainly not comparable to peace.

In the second half of the night, the two came to the other side of Sea Tiger Island.

"Whew, I'm tired, rest for a while. ”

Xu Qian saw that there was no one around, and there were no lights, so she sat under a coconut tree without caring about her image.

Yes, there are a lot of coconut trees here, and there are coconuts growing on them, but I don't know if they are ripe, Chu Jing has eaten coconuts, but he doesn't know much about coconuts, and he doesn't think that coconuts are very delicious, and the juice is not very good.

Therefore, Chu Jing was not interested in this very big coconut at the moment.

"It's dark all around, how can I find where the pirates are hiding?" Chu Jing looked around, he was not from the Investigation Department, and he was completely confused.

"Don't worry, rest, take a break. Xu Qian seems to be really tired and sleepy, since she no longer has to work hard to run around for life and take risks, she has begun to become lazy, especially on the boat, she can hardly do anything, and people will naturally become very lazy.

Chu Jing had to wait for Xu Qian's rest to end, and he looked at the sky boredly.

"Hey. Xu Qian suddenly shouted.

"What?" Chu Jing didn't look back.

"You...... Where are you from, and are you homesick?"

The word "home?" is both familiar and unfamiliar, as long as you are where you are, where is not home.

Xu Qian told her story again.

"When I was a child, my village was attacked by monsters, a whole bunch of monsters, goblins, trolls, kobolds, and many others that I had never seen before. ”

"The people of the village were terrified, crying and shouting, but to no avail, monsters do not know mercy, they seem to be born to eat people. ”

"Cruel, ruthless, and indifferent, on that day, the monsters carried out a massacre in my village, but it was not a one-sided massacre. ”

"At that time, the adventurer's guild gathered a large group of adventurers and began to fight against the monsters, and in the end, it was not a victory, after all, the villagers died a lot, and the monsters also died many, many monsters, and the monsters were driven away, but the villagers could not be resurrected. ”

"Later, the village was rebuilt on the previous foundation, and I, homeless, was chosen by the Adventurers' Guild to join the Ranger Academy to learn how to become a Ranger and then become one of the adventurers. ”

"Actually, in my opinion, adventurers are really a little selfish, adventurers don't kill monsters to protect ordinary people, nor for justice and other nihilistic things, but for the real Besso. ”

"With Besso, there are adventurers to hunt monsters, and without Besso to take them, adventurers don't bother to chase monsters when they encounter them, and in the end it is those ordinary people who suffer. ”

Chu Jing asked, "Then do you want to kill all the monsters?"

Xu Qian smiled bitterly, "This ideal is too big, even the sword god doesn't dare to say this, there was such a thing as an ideal, I had it when I just left the academy, but you also know in the later life, you can only do some simple tasks to make a living, what kind of ideal." ”

Killing all the monsters in the world is at most a wild talk for ordinary people, and no one will really practice it, nor do they regard it as an ideal.

This made Chu Jing can't help but think of the Ultimate King, the man who expelled all the alien races from the Leaving God Continent, and it was because of him that there was no such situation as Luo Lie Island in the Leaving God Continent.

The only monsters that are still threatening are mostly kept in captivity in the monster domain, and the powerful monsters don't dare to come out at all, and the weak monsters are also delivering food in the face of the tall city gate.

"Then you don't have to worry about Besso now, do you have a new ideal?" Chu Jing asked again.

"Hehe, ideal, forget this kind of thing, I like to get by. ”

Xu Qian patted the sand on her buttocks, stood up, and said in one direction, "Come on, it's time for you to perform." ”

It turned out that after resting for a while, Xu Qian had already discovered something.

Pirates can live on pirate ships, but most of the others still live on the island, so there are still many traces of life left behind.

"Heh, it turned out that you were hiding underground, it seems that this time you will not have a good time. ”

"Underground?"

As Xu Qian walked out of the grass, she pushed aside the grass in front of her, and sure enough, a hole was exposed.

Rabbits don't eat grass at the edge of the nest?

Chu Jing began to think about how to sneak in so as not to be discovered, which seemed to be much more difficult to be a gentleman on the beam.

However, Chu Jing is not someone who will give up easily.

"You find a place to hide, I'll go down and see, and if I don't come out after an hour, then ...... It could take me two hours. ”

Chu Jing didn't believe that anyone among the pirates could compete with him, not even the Sword Saint, not to mention, the Sword Saint who was also high in other places, how could he be willing to run to a desert island to be a pirate.

That female pirate leader has the strength of a great sword master, and she should be able to be promoted to a sword master in the future, I don't know, at that time, what will this pirate group become, will it change its skin, and immediately become a legitimate chamber of commerce, anyway, the merchants of Thunder Island are not much better than pirates.

"Be careful, and if you encounter danger, shoot lightning into the sky. ”

Xu Qian came up with a good idea, and then approached the coconut tree where she was resting just now, and her figure quickly hidden.

Concealment is also one of the basic skills of the Ranger.

Chu Jing doesn't know any forbearance, and he doesn't have stealth fruits, so he can only rely on sharp hearing and light movements to act.

Chu Jing listened to the entrance of the cave for a while, there were people below, listening to the breath and heartbeat, there should be two of them, both of them were ordinary people, they only knew how to hide their bodies, and they didn't know how to adjust their breathing.

Well...... There is also the sound of snoring, it seems that I am too tired from the night shift and have become sleepy.

Chu Jing walked into the cave with light steps, and the entrance was pitch black, but when he walked around a corner, he saw a torch burning on the wall.

There was still a man standing against the wall under the torch, young and young, only fourteen or fifteen years old, this was a preparatory pirate.

The young man was very tired from standing all night, and fell asleep against the wall.

"What about the other one?"

Chu Jing followed the snoring sound and looked over, and saw a one-armed man, sleeping in a dead corner.

Ordinary people would have to reprimand the guards when they saw them lazy, and the sound of the reprimand would wake up the one-armed man, who seemed to be an old driver.

Also, pirates who lost an arm in the prime of life are naturally much more experienced.

Chu Jing did not wake them up, but continued to move towards the cave.

This cave is supposed to be where the other pirates on the island live, and of course, the hole is certainly not the only one.

Fortunately, the passage is not very far, and this time is the time to be asleep, but one or several pirates will not suddenly come out.

Chu Jing walked for a while, and felt that it was getting more and more open, the entrance was the narrowest, and it was artificially excavated, but the back was like a naturally formed cave.