"Today we have asked the cook to add vegetables to us, and we will eat snake meat today, fresh python meat." The fat man said.

"Is there anything good today? Makes you so happy. "Caterina is strange.

"We found a talent fruit on the ship!" The fat man said proudly.

"Christ is above, do you mean the fruit of nature?" Caterina covered her mouth in surprise, and then anxiously wanted to see, "Where?" Where is the fruit of talent? ”

The fat man took out the box containing the talent fruit from the backpack space, Caterina snatched it and opened it, looked at the fruit that emitted a faint red light and muttered: "It's so charming, it's so charming, I am the one my father exchanged for one-tenth of his assets when I was a child, and it was that fruit that made me feel the water energy, and got the soul dementoring skill in the water energy." ”

"It is this skill that allows me to escape from danger again and again and save my precious life, so I feel that all the fruits of talent should be priceless."

Caterina solemnly closed the box gently: "Captain, you are so lucky! ”

The fat man put away the box: "Let's go up to that small island to have a look, and tell the sailors to prepare too, there is not much firewood on the ship, and they all take axes to the island to chop some wood and come back, otherwise there will be no fragrant toast in a few days without firewood." ”

The island is not very big, not a third of the size of the island that the fat man saw when he first came to this world, and it is only about five or six kilometers in radius, but there are really many trees and birds on this small island.

The big ship dropped anchor at a long distance from the island, and there were too many reefs on the edge of the island, but they didn't dare to get close, and a group of sailors got off the boat with axes and rowed towards the island, and the fat man chased after him and shouted: "You bastards, come back and take your bow and arrows, and see so many fat birds, don't you want to take them down and roast them?" ”

Except for the sailors who stayed behind, all the people went to the island, where there were turtles basking in the sun, and they were not afraid to see people, so that the fat man was embarrassed to see the sailors catch them and put them in small boats and transport them back to the big ship, and went directly up the mountain.

He had already seen a bird in the woods that was fat and not very fast, and he had to pay attention, it was running! Not flying.

The fat man knew that these birds might have lived on this small island for an unknown number of years, because there were no natural predators, and the vegetation on the island was well covered and the food was abundant, so these birds simply lived on the ground, and over time their wings were degraded, just like the governor birds on the island of Mauritius.

Some sailors wondered: "What kind of bird is this, it is bigger than a turkey and can't fly." ”

"Don't care about any birds, let's take a few back and taste them, if it's delicious, then catch some and put them on the boat to raise, now I give you a task, that is, to find the eggs, if the eggs are well kept, they will not be bad for a month or two, and then it will be a particularly valuable food on our ship."

The fat man continued: "We are now on this island, which is the first goal, to see if there is fresh water on the island, and now after seeing this bird, I am very confident that there is fresh water on this island, so you have to look carefully, after all, there is not too much beer on the ship, if there is fresh water, we can keep the beer, and then drink beer when the water can no longer be drunk." ”

"The second goal of going to the island is to find edible plants, you go separately and see, if there are any edible plants that you know, don't think that there are no far from the land, there are many birds that eat the seeds of the fruit and come here and leave the seeds in the dung, so you can find the plants that you are familiar with and can eat."

"Although we have sprouts now, it's still good to eat the same food."

The sailors scattered when they heard this, and the fat man saw that there were no snakes on this island, it should be in the center of the sea, and the reason why the snakes could not swim up!

The fat man had recently learned how to make charts when he was learning elementary navigation, and Caterina was drawing his own charts, and so was O'Neill, and they drew all the places they passed, in what directions, and how fast they went, and where they would go through the reefs, and so on, and in the last three, the fat man drew the worst.

However, as you can see from the charts, this small island is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! As for why such an island was not seen on the map in later generations, who knows!

Anyway, now it's there!

Caterina exclaimed in surprise: "Lord Baron, this is an uninhabited island, we can occupy it as our own territory, if there is a land on the other side of the Atlantic, then this small island under our feet can be developed into a transit port, a transit port for shipping routes." ”

The fat man laughed: "You guessed too accurately, there is really a big continent on the other side of the sea, and we can really make a transit port here, then we will definitely be rich, but no one has gone to the west of the Atlantic Ocean to find that continent, so if we want to get rich, it is still early, you are so optimistic about this island, this proves that you have a good vision, since you like this island so much, then I will hand it over to you to manage, from today on, you are the governor of this island, I've already thought of the name of this small island, Catalina Island, how? ”

"Really?" Caterina was stunned for a moment, then asked nervously.

The fat man smiled: "What am I lying to you for?" By the way, which country are you from, you are not treason, are you? ”

"Lord Baron, I was originally Spanish, but then those disgusting nobles robbed my home, so I have no home now, and I am not from any country." Caterina said hurriedly.

O'Neill couldn't stand it anymore: "Lord Baron means to make you loyal to him, and you will be from his country in the future, Lord Baron, what is the name of your country?" ”

"Da Ming! The Great Ming Kingdom of Nanzhan Buzhou. The fat man said to Caterina: "You will be the governor of Catalina Island in the Ming Kingdom in the future, and I will also make you a knight in my name, that is, the lord you say, but now this place is still primitive, you have to wait for me to be free, find someone to renovate this place, bring living materials, and then you will be your governor again, okay?" ”

O'Neill looked at Caterina enviously and said, "I envy you, Katarina, I think I'll have an island as a governor too, right?" Lord Baron? ”

"Yes! O'Neill, do you want to be a governor too? Oh! By the way, you said when you followed me that you just want a knighthood to restore your former glory, right? The fat man remembered that there were two captains beside him looking at him with a blank eye!

Arthur is too young, too young to take on a heavy responsibility, and has to study for a few years and deal with more things, besides, he is a Spaniard, it is impossible to follow him, but O'Neill is different, he has already said at the beginning, follow himself just to get a knighthood.

O'Neill hurriedly nodded: "Yes, my Hanlin family was originally a nobleman, but my title was cut off after I was compilational for vendetta, so I need a knighthood, and I think the baron will meet my request." ”

"Yes, as long as you contribute, even if it's just a piece of advice, just like Katarina, just made a suggestion, a meaningful suggestion, and I will reward you with credit, if you don't have merit, I'll make you a lord, governor, then I'm not wronged!" The fat man said with a smile.

"For Arthur, I won't say it, I will give you gold coins if you have merit, after all, you are a Spaniard, and I am a Ming person, if you accept my title, then you must be my Ming people, so your father will not agree, but I am not without rewards for your contributions, as long as you contribute to me, then I will not be stingy with gold coins."

O'Neill was overjoyed when he heard it, as long as there is a reward after the meritorious service, the meritorious service! As long as you are willing to work hard, are you afraid that there will be no credit? When I was a pirate, I didn't work hard.

It's just that Arthur's face has a deep sense of loss, he doesn't have the freedom of Caterina and O'Neill, O'Neill pats him on the shoulder, but doesn't speak.

Then the fat man asked them, "Have you drawn all your charts?" Then the four of us checked it to see what we had drawn wrong, corrected it, and left here tomorrow, I don't want to come with supplies one day and not find Catalina Island. ”

"Beautiful Governor Caterina, you will go down in a while, and go down with these more than 100 sailors, all you need to do is to erect a big stone, and then write the name of our beautiful island from it, declare our ownership, the stone should be large enough, and it is best to engrave many Chinese languages on it, our Daming Chinese, Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, etc., and tell those who are lucky enough to land on our island that it is our territory."

Caterina answered excitedly, and rushed out at a speed that a lady should not have.

More than 100 people worked together, using ropes and large wooden sticks, to put a large rock four or five people high on the beach, and wrote the name of the island and the island in many languages.

Then, the next morning, the group was about to say goodbye to the island in the morning sun, when suddenly the fat man remembered Figo, who was still under the cabin of the ship.

So he had him brought up, and sent him to the island in a boat, and told him that as long as he was not dead when Caterina came, the fat man would have Catalina spare him and send him to land.

Then, ignoring Figo, who was still shouting on the beach, left him a knife, and the four boats went to the place where the sun rose, where they came, where they had dreamed of land for two months.