Chapter 298: Friend or Foe Unknown
Don't talk about any food warehouses, now there is no living person in Dongqing except for Luca's group.
The sixteen navies brought by Admiral Max were all killed as sacrifices when Hall summoned the three main gods, and he himself was also killed when he tried to assassinate the other party, and Hall was already broken to the point that it could not be broken anymore, and none of these people who landed on the island remained.
The brig moored at the dock should have had a few navy officers left behind. But when Luca arrived on the coast, not to mention people, not even a mast could be seen.
Lukka took a few steps forward, making more sure that there was nothing floating on the surface of the sea that could carry people.
For more than a decade in the past, Winter Qingdao had been used by the June Alliance to hold its founding celebrations, and at that time of the year, hundreds of island rulers would come with their own retinues to participate.
Therefore, although the island is small in size, the marina is very large.
Ollie walked to the east side and pushed open the wooden door of a small building. Most of this hut collapsed in the shaking just now, only the part of the door was barely intact, it should be the residence of the left-behind people who were stationed on this island, and now it was empty.
However, Ollie didn't see the corpse either, and perhaps before Hall and the others arrived, the people here had slipped away when the Imperial Elite Navy surrounded Maple Song Island.
"It seems that there is no record of the entry and exit of ships to check. Ollie said disappointedly.
"Let's take a break. Lukka said, sitting on the ground, his strength was really at the end of his life.
Everyone else also found a dry and flat place, or to lie or sit.
The spells Lukka had used today were far beyond his limits, which made him extremely tired and soon fell asleep. By the time he opened his eyes again, it was already noon, and the bright sunlight was shining directly into his eyes. However, he was not awakened by the sun, but by a loud shout.
Daniel's voice suddenly came from the other direction, the shore at the south end of the pier, blocked by several rocks five or six meters high, from behind which his voice came from.
"I've found the boat!" shouted Daniel.
Everyone else rubbed their eyes and got up, walked to the south side of the dock, and looked at the rock in front of them in a daze, the ghost could blur itself and pass through the stone, no one else had the ability to do this.
Lukka sighed and shouted at the other side of the stone, "You stand farther away!"
He then unleashed a force field wave at the rock.
"Huh, you've only rested for a while, and you have the strength to cast spells?" Thea asked in surprise.
"Only this one can make do with it. Luca replied. This was nothing more than a first-level spell, and with the support of his newly acquired power of plastic energy, it was not difficult for him to use it.
The already heavily weathered granite quickly shattered into several pieces of rubble under the impact of magic, and Daniel's figure appeared in the dust that had been kicked up.
"The boat is here!" he said excitedly, pointing to the rugged shoreline ahead.
This stretch of shore on the south side of the pier is not very suitable for mooring. Countless sharp reefs poke out of the water, and the different shades of color on the surface of the sea indicate that there are more reefs below the surface, and it is difficult for ships to escape from here.
Lukka looked ahead, and the brig had lived up to the high hopes of the shore, its hull broken into three sections, and its mast resting horizontally on the reef.
"If you had said it was such a ship, I wouldn't have had much effort!" Lukka said helplessly.
"Could it be that the wreckage of the boat after the stick came ashore?" asked Ollie, puzzled, she had never seen such a lack of way out.
"It's not," Lukka observed the signs of fracture on the keel, "all kinds of energy were running around on the island just now, and this ship must have been thrown up by the overflowing energy and fell on the reef like this. ”
"It's so powerful, it can even throw a boat!" sighed Nora.
When this happened, they were in the center of the whirlpool, and they didn't feel it as strongly as the outskirts of the island.
"Can you fix it?" Phil hadn't given up yet. He knew, according to common sense, the ship was so damaged that it was no longer worth repairing at all, but what incredible spell might Lukka be able to conjure?
Lukka shook his head: "I can't help it. ”
This kind of thing, in general, belongs to the carpenter, not the mage's work. Lukka hadn't learned, and he didn't know if there was a similar spell. Even if there is, he doesn't know where to go now, and he has nowhere to learn.
"At least there's wood here, why don't we tie ourselves to it and float to another island?" suggested Thea, seemingly unaware of the fact that if she had followed her thoughts, there would probably be no more people left in the group.
Crete suddenly said, "A ship is passing by." ”
Everyone looked up together and looked at the sea to the southwest.
At the junction of the sea horizon and the sky, the top of one mast looms, followed by another. It wasn't long before a complete silhouette of a brig appeared on the distant surface of the sea, judging by its shape, which appeared to be a common merchant ship in the Sunset Islands.
At this time, generally speaking, no merchant ships will come to Dongqing, and this ship is likely to just pass through this place.
"Hurry up and find a way to get their attention!" Luca said, "or they'll drive away without seeing us, and we'll be stranded on this island." ”
The most common way for the average shipwreck survivor to get the attention of a ship approaching is to light a pile of semi-wet leaves on the beach that emit smoke. During the day, the smoke rising into the air is more visible than the light of fire.
However, in winter, Qingdao is made entirely of rocks, and there is not even a bit of serious vegetation, only a little moss growing on the damp shore, which obviously cannot be used to light a fire.
Lukka cast miniature fireballs in succession, the effect of this spell was very conspicuous in the night, and he didn't know how much it could do under the scorching sun.
"Try this!" Thea pulled out a small silver mirror from her pocket and pointed it in the direction of the ship, hoping that the reflected sunlight would attract the attention of the other party.
Ollie, Nora, and Kate did the same, causing Phil to mutter, "Do women carry this with them?"
After a while, perhaps this tossing and turning really had an effect, and the brig merchant ship pulled up its full sails and headed for Winter Qingdao at full speed.
The merchant ships were getting closer, but Luca was a little confused.
The ship had a shallow draft and didn't look like it was carrying much cargo.
Moreover, the Imperial fleet has been roaming around this area since the beginning of the war, and no merchant ship owner is willing to take the risk of sailing his ship to this area.
More importantly, the ship came from the southwest, which is the direction where Kita-Kaede Island is located. However, if you follow this route, if you go northeast of Dongqingdao, you will drive a few hundred nautical miles in that direction until the northernmost ice sheet of this sea, and there are no inhabited islands along the way.
"There was something wrong with the ship's route. Crete also found out.
"Yes," Lukka nodded, "it looks like they're here for this island, and it's impossible to tell if they're friend or foe right now, but it's possible that they're Hale's accomplices." Let's get ready for battle. ”