Chapter 423: The Role of the 'Navigator'

When Zhang Lisheng and the thin man spoke, all the prisoners had already gotten rid of the cage, and naturally gathered around a middle-aged man with a square nose and a wide mouth.

"That's our Captain Anduch, one of the best navigators of the White Philippe Comptoir in Venis. Seeing that his companions had escaped, the thin man pointed to the middle-aged man not far away, and said to Zhang Lisheng in a slightly strange tone.

"I don't care what kind of navigator or captain he is, the most important thing now is to run for their lives, so that they stop standing stupidly and follow in my footsteps. The young man pursed his lips and turned and walked silently into the depths of the jungle.

In Zhang Lisheng's heart, those land-based people behind him should have died in the sea when they were shipwrecked, and since they were saved by the Wuli tribe he created, the lives of these people naturally no longer belonged to themselves but to him, and it was a matter of course that he used them as a stepping stone to obtain the navigation chart of the Hell Sea.

Had it not been for the fear that the long-standing enmity between the landers and the Hellmen might have made them choose to die, and that the captured broken charts were less than a tenth of the entire Hellfire Sea, he would have tortured them with cruelty to complete the charts.

Now that they have chosen to 'cast a long line to catch big fish' before they have achieved their goal, these stepping stones are very useful, and all the young people have slowed down very considerately, so that those land people can see their blurred figures as clearly as possible in the dark jungle, and walk smoothly and safely.

Unfortunately, even though his feet had slowed down repeatedly, the prisoners who had managed to escape were still unexpectedly popping up in the forest. Either his ankle was injured by the roots of the tree, or he fell and broke his arm, and the number of injured people increased, and the whole team came to a standstill.

Then a fat woman cringed and proposed, "Light a torch, my lords, no, we won't be able to get out of this jungle without lighting a torch." ”

"Light the torch, do you want to become the target of the Hellenite's guns?" Although there was already the idea of letting these fugitives light the torches and walk well, Zhang Lisheng, who was walking in the front, stopped. Turning around deliberately objected.

His position in the team at the moment is very special. There was silence at this point, and after a moment Anduchi said: "We are 'sheep and cows' to the slaughter in the eyes of those Hellmen, locked up in the pen and unguarded. What's more, it's late at night. They were all asleep. No one will notice.

So let's light torches in the woods, and when we get out of the jungle, we can see the moonlight and extinguish it. ”

As he spoke. The middle-aged captain, who seemed to have a lot of experience in sleeping on the island, groped for dry branches in the woodland, and after a while, miraculously lit a few torches by drilling wood for fire.

The firelight lit up in the dark forest, which suddenly warmed the fugitive's heart inexplicably, and the extreme nervousness seemed to ease a lot, only Zhang Lisheng pretended to whisper to the only thin man who could follow him: "We are running for our lives, we can live if we hold on, and we can only die if we can't hold on."

Now there is a 'sage' in the team, risking everyone's death, trying to save those who can't hold on, and I kind of regret saving you out. ”

"Captain Anduch is such a character, it's too late for you to regret it now," replied softly after a moment of silence for the thin man, "the torch is on, let's hurry on." ”

"Hurry, hurry to go to the dead end..."Zhang Lisheng cursed in a low voice, turned around and continued to walk in the direction of the beach.

With the light, the speed of the team's progress was much faster, and the fugitives did not know that they did not encounter any danger along the way, because there were thousands of indigenous warriors riding huge spiders around them to quietly guard, so that the beasts and poisonous insects did not dare to approach, and finally came out of the jungle before dawn, and looked at the rippling sea under the moon in the distance.

"Saved, we saved..."At the moment of seeing the ocean, many people in the team clenched their fists excitedly, or bit their lips, and shouted in low voices.

At this time, Anducci and the thin man looked at the huge wooden ships with a length of more than 100 meters in the natural harbor moored in the sea, and their mouths grew in horror, "Impossible, impossible, those Hellmen can't build such fine ships!"

They, they must have ransacked the fleet of some giant trading house at sea..."

"Captain Anduch, we don't care if the big ships were built by the dwarves themselves or stolen, we would never have stolen them.

Come with me, there's a deserted harbor with a few old ships that have been lost, so let's get there. Zhang Lisheng said in a low voice on the side.

After being reminded by the youth, the fugitives finally realized that the journey of terror was far from over, and now was not the time to celebrate victory and think wildly, so they hurried behind Zhang Lisheng and continued their escape journey in the jungle.

After a long journey, when many people could no longer hold on, and were staggered and writhed by their companions, finally a lonely port built on a deserted beach suddenly broke into the eyes of the people on land.

Seeing that their destination was already in sight, their already exhausted bodies had squeezed out a lot of potential, and soon the fugitives approached the harbor cautiously and sneakily.

When they saw that the old wooden houses in the harbor were indeed uninhabited, they could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, and Anduch immediately commanded in a loud voice: "Master Anita and Miss Helena, you follow Mr. Hanino and Lady Elsara, etc., on the seashore.

The others, the women, went into the house to see if there was anything useful, silk thread, ironware, barrels, etc.;

The men are all on board with me, and we are going to pick a boat and set off, and I would rather die at sea than be kept in a pen and put in the belly of the Hellman, so quick, quick, quick...", as if as soon as he got close to the ship, he had the decisiveness and wisdom of a leader.

As soon as the captain gave the order, the people on land were all in action, and the surviving dozen or so ragged women hurried into the wooden houses by the harbor, and after a short time they found many tattered debris;

The men, on the other hand, ran to the beach, grabbed the cables hanging from the hulls of the old ships that were moored on the shore, climbed up to the deck, and looked around to pick out the right boats.

On the shore, only Zhang Lisheng and the thin man, and the young man and his old teacher, who had praised the strength of the youth, and the tall woman who seemed to be quite demagogic in the stone circle, and an unkempt girl beside her, seemed idle.

"Who are those two little guys, the very smart old man beside them, and the old woman who has always been very talkative, why do they seem to have a special status?" Zhang Lisheng asked curiously, pointing to the young man and woman who were not far away and began to wash their hair and face with seawater.

"Do you mean that Master Anita and Miss Helena, they are the descendants of the White Philippe family, and of course they have a special status," replied the thin man, "Young Master Anita is accompanied by his governess, Mr. Hanino, and by Miss Helena's side is her 'upbringing butler', Lady Aisara."

A word of advice to young people, don't call them 'little guy', old man, old woman, and my name is Hano, not thin. ”

"You didn't care if I called you that when you were locked in the stone circle," Zhang Lisheng pouted, sat on the beach, looked at the mighty sea from afar, and said in a quiet tone: "Have you changed your face before you escaped on the boat, but it doesn't matter, anyway, I have already seen everything, and if I change my face, I will change my face." ”

"Look away," Hano suddenly laughed inexplicably when he heard this, "How old are you to claim to have seen it." ”

"This has nothing to do with age," Zhang Lisheng replied in a low voice after being silent for a while: "Think about it, I gave up a comfortable wooden bed, a delicious breakfast and a dangerous but stable life, rescued a group of shipwrecked people, went to steal a wooden ship that was destined to have no supplies, and crossed the vast ocean to run to the so-called 'civilized world'. ”

Hano was stunned for a moment, looked carefully at the young man at his feet, and was silent for a moment and said, "I didn't expect you to look superficial and simple, and hesitate to do things, but in fact you think so much." ”

"Hano, I thought about it for twelve days before I decided to take the risk to save you, and what could I not think of. Zhang Lisheng smiled in a low voice, "Don't talk about me, let's talk about you, it seems that you are an old sailor, and you have a lot of brains to help pick up a boat for nothing, do you also mean that you are also a big man?"

"I'm not a big guy, I'm just a little navigator.

My only responsibility on board is to provide the captain with information about the sea ahead, to summarize all the navigable routes for the captain to choose, and nothing else," said Hano, who said that he was not a 'big man', suddenly became a little proud, and added at the end, "The status is only below the captain." ”

Hearing his words, Zhang Lisheng's heart trembled, and he bred ecstasy, lowered his head to look at the sand on the ground, and couldn't help but say in a strange voice: "It sounds like your work is amazing, Hano, then you must be very, very familiar with this sea area, and it can be called a living 'nautical chart'." ”

"Now that you've figured everything out, I don't have anything to hide from you, if it's the cities along the coast of the Catamane city-state, or even the many routes as far as Indona, the 'Land of Sugar', and as far as the 'Land of Iron' Venadi in the north, I am indeed very familiar with the vast sea, but I am very familiar with the 'Hell Sea'..."

"Are you unfamiliar with the Hell Sea?" Zhang Lisheng interrupted the thin man in a gloomy tone. (To be continued......)

PS: Yesterday the second more pig pig fell asleep in the middle of writing, and it was made up early this morning