It turns out that no matter how good or not you can swim, after falling overboard, you want to have a boat.

Even if it's just a small sampan. For example, like the "Visionary".

The day after being swept away by the rip current, Queth's small boat was already full of seven people, almost overloaded.

Consider that there were two polar bears who were extremely strong at the time, and three camels who were even taller.

As the captain of the ship, the young blue dragon had to pick up the trees that had been broken and rolled into the sea with the help of the young crew Kos, peel off the bark and roll it into ropes, and make outboard supports with additional floats on both sides of the "Zhanyuan".

"For you, boy," said Voliber to Kos, who climbed up the side of the boat from under the water and threw up a few of the fish he caught, "and there is no firewood on board, and if you don't have them, you can eat them raw after they have been gutted." ”

Grad, one of the rescued camels, pulled the chief of the Xiong Zhen tribe, and Volibel climbed into the hold of the Zhanyuan.

"If you can't make a fire now, don't make a fire," Gersang handed the Polar Bear Man fishing a water bladder containing fresh water he had made with his elemental shamanic powers, "Maybe the guy who started that tsunami is looking for us." ”

The other two rescued, Wolfgar and Twin Peaks, were under the command of Quest to help replace the Zhanyuan's mast. The young blue dragon had just picked up a suitable broken log from the sea, and as long as the sail boom was repaired and the spare sail was raised, the camel shaman promised to summon the spell wind and make the trimaran sail go fast.

"Where are we now?" said Voliber, drying his fur as he asked Kos, a small crew member beside him who was identifying the course, "I mean, in which direction is the land?"

Although he tried to make himself appear kind, his already hideous racial appearance still made Kos a little nervous.

"Mr. Voliber, I ...... It's not clear yet, but you have to find a reference, such as ...... There's a sandbar ahead!" the little boy turned around and shouted excitedly to Quest.

As a floating raft man who drifts on the sea all year round, shipwrecks are not uncommon, even if they are not encountered every day. Therefore, compared with camels and polar bears, they have more experience in dealing with such disasters.

There are only two races in the island world, which are occupied by the Camel Empire and the Polar Bear Federation. In addition, there are actually many scattered small islands, and of course, most of the resources there cannot support even a single ring base.

Still, the Raft Folk ancestors explored each of these miniature islands, and they left information on them: where food and clean water were available, nearby shipping routes, and names of nearby ring bases that might be passed......

They left behind all the information they needed in the event of a shipwreck in the future, so that they could find a glimmer of life in the event that a fellow clan was left here.

Day after day, year after year.

On almost every isolated island in the island world, the rafters have left behind more and more detailed "rescue" information that has been updated for generations.

However, all of this information is written in an ancient human symbolic script, and other races, even if they occasionally find these symbols when they land, will mistake them for the special texture of the rock.

And Kos, who grew up at the Ring Base, was naturally able to read the symbols - he was very excited to see the sandbar.

The trimarans galleons galloped across the surface with spare sails hung on the repaired masts, powered by the spell wind that Gersang had personally summoned, and the hydrofoils that Quest had temporarily installed for the Zhanyuan.

After a while, it was close to the shore of the sandbar.

"This sandbar doesn't look small," Quith stood at the bow of the ship as he didn't need to take care of the sails as he approached the shore, directing the ship's cheap passengers to pull the Zhanyuan onto the beach while surveying the land in front of him, "It's okay to say it's an island." ”

Originally, they thought it was just a lonely sandbar hanging out of the sea—a few grassy sand dunes in the center, plus a slightly salty spring or two at most, and that's it—but who would have thought that they would realize that it was far from the case when they approached.

"Found the rock beacon that burns the information?" Quest approached a rock, where Kos was looking around, "What did you find?"

The little boy scratched his head suspiciously, pointed to a few obvious scratches on the rock wall, and said, "It's a little strange here, there should be information about our location, but it was scraped clean." ”

He continued: "Instead, it points out that a two-day voyage east can lead to another sandbar and how to get some food and water nearby. ”

"I don't want anyone to know where this is," Coszle, thinking for a moment, came up with a possible answer, "and it's even better not to linger here." This means—"

"—there are people living in this place who don't want to be 'disturbed'," Quest agrees with his idea, "In your experience, where should we be now...... After less than two days of wandering, it stands to reason that we should not be far away from the camel empire. ”

Kos crouched down, stomped in a grass hole for a while, and found a few wild onions, "That's right, this wild onion is a specialty near this island chain, and it is recorded in the logbook of the ring base, I remember it clearly." ”

"That ring base—the one who sent someone to assassinate the Polar Bear Mission, have you been in contact with it before?" Quis suddenly thought of a possibility, so he asked Kos, "And the time of landing of the two ring bases, is it too close?"

"No, I've never seen that base before, and," the little boy recalls the details of the night before, "some of those people were dressed in sealskins—a specialty of Houjian Island—and most of them were sold by Walrus merchants from the Federation, and if there was a lot of trade there, it stands to reason that they would have had to make fir as a material, but as far as I could see, the main material of that ring base was bamboo, a kind of wood that would only be found on the islands in the sea near the Camel Empire......"

a floating raftman with long cheeks;

There was apparent advance intelligence on the assassination of the Polar Bear Mission;

a Bactrian hump nobleman who is both a priest and an elemental shaman;

beach-grabbing landings of benthic devilfish;

A miniature island not far from the Camel Empire, which clearly displays the attitude of "no one should enter......

Strange information that at first glance seems to be unconnected, but it is instantly connected. Quith suddenly understood, and he had a vague but reasonable guess about this series of events:

First of all, the assassination of the trading market was clearly aimed at sending people to death.

In other words, someone knows the whereabouts of the Polar Bear Mission, and can assign a long-cheeked raftman to send him to his death.

If you listen to the dead captive, then the mastermind behind it is the benthic devilfish, or even the Council of the Seven Gears.

This has something to do with the monster attack that follows and the tsunami caused by the bottom-dwelling devilfish.

However, if you think about it carefully, although the overall logic of this reasoning is valid, there is something wrong with the details-

First, if the benthic Mofish really aim to kill an important person in the Polar Ursa Mission, then they can send more elite assassins to directly carry out powerful assassinations. There's no need to try to get them to the beach.

Second, to be able to reach the bazaar in such a short time, the place where the gillly rafters lived, must not be too far from the borders of the empire. The small island that Ques and his party landed on at this time is very suspicious.

Third, even if the Empire's control over the sea is very weak, there must be a large number of "long-cheeked raftmen" living in this sea area close to the power of the camels, and there must be high-level camel people who know about their situation.

Therefore, the young blue dragon came to a more reasonable guess:

Those "long-gilled floating raft people" may not be at the behest of the benthic devilfish, and the benthic devilfish, which is powerful enough to cause a tsunami, may be just a participant, or even a tool, in the whole thing;

The real mastermind behind the scenes is hidden in the upper echelons of the Camel Empire, who plotted this in order to wipe out the Polar Bear Mission, some of the camels in the trading market, and the floating raft people who are "adding heads".

And this also explains why there are benthic demon fish - this plot will "kill" some important people in the two major forces of the island world camel empire and the polar bear people federation at the same time, it is entirely possible to cause unrest between the land races, so they are also happy to help it.

I have to say that the brain is a good thing, and the wisdom of the dragons is generally not low. Aside from the detail of using "Letters from Readers" to catch the big fish of Toplo, Quest's speculation almost restores the facts of the whole thing.

"Then what is the identity of that camel high-level?" the young blue dragon thought as he held his chin, "It shouldn't be their hidden agent who can let the benthic demon fish appear in this matter." ”

Quest was able to come to this more "advanced" conclusion thanks to the previous journey to the lower planes. As the commander of the devil's side, he learned from those bato races the high-level way of thinking about the "motive of motives".

If the person who planned this matter, like the shapeshifter in the hands of the Usang people he had encountered before, was sent to the top of the camel empire by the benthic demon fish, then there should be a high probability that there would be no benthic demon fish in this matter.

Because in that case, while causing unrest among the terrestrial races, it is likely to arouse their hatred for the same enemy.

After ruling out the possibility of the benthic devilfish lurking agent, the question of "who is the person who manipulated this matter behind the scenes" can be screened from the perspective of "ultimate beneficiary".

To put it simply, whoever gains the most will be the most suspicious.

However, due to the intrusion of the "stowaway" of the plane of the young blue dragon, the "fait accompli" of the whole thing - the deaths of Wolfgar and Gelsang - did not materialize, so the planner may not be able to obtain the "final gain" he expected.

"How should we get a piece of the pie?" Quies thought secretly, looking at the few people who were busy working ashore.

Instantly, an imperceptible smile appeared on his face.

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