Pirate King System

"Report to the captain, I've found an island!" shouted the lookout, who was on a high place, suddenly excited.

Tang Zhen excitedly climbed the watchtower.

The lookout excitedly gave the captain directions, and there was a rolling bulge in the sea about a thousand yards to the southeast, which looked like it was indeed a small island. They don't have a high-end product like a telescope, so they can only look at it by sight.

Tang Zhen rubbed his eyes vigorously and repeatedly distinguished, for fear that what he saw was a mirage. Luckily, it does look like an island.

"It's an island, it's an island, haha, we're saved!" Tang Zhen laughed, flew up and grabbed the rope, and slid directly down from it.

When the sailors heard the news, they also cheered enthusiastically.

"Let the oarsmen pick up the speed and you go and adjust the sail for me. Tang Zhen quickly ordered, and he personally went to master the rudder.

What seemed like a thousand yards was actually far away, and when their boat came to shore, they jumped out of the boat and pulled it up to the beach with human power. The ship dropped its anchor and was deeply rooted in the mud of the seaside.

"You guys stay and guard the boat, fix it again, and the rest come with me. Tang Zhen was just about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, turned around and said, "I almost forgot, you all bring your weapons in case of accidents." "

As a captain, Tang Zhen wears a thin scimitar all day long, but the sailors don't wear weapons because they have to do a lot of hard work, and the weapons are stored in boxes. In order to maintain the weapon, someone has to wipe it twice a day.

Tang Zhen's thin scimitar is strengthened, and the metal of the sword casting is also relatively strong, and when the knife is pulled out, it is obviously shaky. In contrast, the weapons of the sailors were rudimentary.

In fact, Tang Zhen was not very satisfied with this thin scimitar, after all, this was a European thing, and it felt less powerful than a machete.

On the shore, Tang Zhen looked around a few times, surrounded by sandy beaches and reefs, there are dense vegetation in the distance, the area of this island is too small, it is estimated that you can run around in three hours, shout a voice here, and you can hear it clearly on the other side of the island.

Tang Zhen led the sailors forward, and their main purpose was to obtain food and water. These sailors are very bold. Tang Zhen felt that it was too down-to-earth to take them, even if they encountered some monsters or something, it was estimated that these people would be able to slash to death if they rushed up.

The island's flora has a tropical feel, with the coconut palm being the tallest, with broad leaves spreading out from the canopy, and ripe fruit hidden underneath, with thick trunks bent.

No one cares about other plants, but this coconut tree is a rare good. Tang Zhen and the sailors climbed the tree one after another, cut off the coconuts, and looked at the gradually increasing coconuts under the tree, he was relieved, so that the water source problem was temporarily alleviated.

Tang Zhen left the coconut in place and was about to pick it up when they left, and they went deep into the depths of the island oasis. There are no animals in it.

After a round search in the woods, no edible plants were found, except for coconut palms. Those colorful wild fruits, no one knew, Tang Zhen ordered no one to eat them, because there was no need to take this risk.

He looked at the green vegetation at his feet, and suddenly remembered the potatoes he had "seen" when he was a child, which reminded him that the rhizomes of some plants were also edible. He immediately ordered the sailors to dig up. They used the scabbard as a shovel, but the soil was moist and easy to dig.

"Thank you for the blessing of the sea god!" exclaimed one of the sailors, carrying a freshly dug plant with a bunch of round rhizomes hanging from it.

"Haha, I found potatoes, although I don't fight hunger, but it's not bad. Tang Zhen looked at potatoes so pleasing to the eye for the first time in his life, as if they were a gold ingot.

After that, the excavation is simpler, because there are above-ground leaf stems of potatoes as a reference, and everyone can dig purposefully without digging around. The sailors were all strong and mobile, and it wasn't long before the potatoes were piled up into a hill.

By the way, I also had people dig up some soil and prepare to take it back to the boat to see if I can plant something. There is no way to grow vegetables, this gene is engraved in the DNA of every flower grower. The first thing you do when you get back the lunar soil from the moon is to study whether you can grow vegetables.

What's more, there is food in his hands, and there is no panic in his heart. Tang Zhen, who had already been starving, didn't want to try this taste. It's uncomfortable.

In the middle of the excavation, the rain that had been brewing for a while finally dropped, and the rain was not small, and everyone's clothes were soaked. Fortunately, these people are full of firepower and don't care about this little rain at all.

Tang Zhen used the rain as a shower and was poured very comfortably. They also collected some rainwater, which was also drinkable, so that the water and food were replenished.

After the rain passed, Tang Zhen wanted to leave with the sailors like this, but the sailors in the distance suddenly shouted: "Come here, there is a corpse there!"

Tang Zhen raised his eyebrows, this was an unexpected gain, he didn't think much about it, and rushed there with the sailors.

There was a skeleton near the sea, which seemed to have been dead for a long time, and the twisted skull looked at Donk and the others with dark eyes. There is also a bullet hole in the head.

It seems that he was a sailor on a ship before. I don't know why I was exiled from the ship to this desert island. Because he couldn't bear loneliness or other reasons, he committed suicide by swallowing a bomb.

If it was a corpse, Tang Zhen would be afraid of corpse poison or something, but he was not so afraid of skeletons, after all, it was too vegetable.

Then Tang Zhen rummaged through the clothes of the bones, and he pursued the doctrine of goose plucking. After searching for a while, he found a rusty compass, and then a rotten nautical diary.

The compass was crushed by Tang Zhen, staining the rust on his hand, and the nautical diary could no longer be opened, and the pages were glued together. He set his sights on the skeleton again, and when he touched something in the skeleton's pocket, he pulled it out and took it in front of his eyes to examine it carefully.

It turned out to be half a sheepskin map, which gave people a special sense of history, but it was a pity that it was a remnant map. It depicts a sea area, and the delicate black lines are still clear. But it's a bit weird to talk about maps.

There are several rows of written records on it, which Tang Zhen can't understand. After he crossed over here, he learned a language out of thin air, and he could write words, but it was different from the one on this picture.

Underneath the text is the pattern, which is enclosed in a place with many diagonal coils, which obviously refers to something. In the center there is a fish-shaped motif of a moray eel with red eyes and blue fins. But the body of the fish is partially mutilated. A treasure chest is also drawn in the lower left corner.

Could it be a

treasure map? And how could this fish monster look so familiar?

Tang Zhen saw that the sailors had gathered around, so he put the treasure map away casually, preparing to study it again when he had time to do it later.

This skeleton has been looted by Tang Zhen, and it is almost stewed into pork rib soup.

Before leaving, a sailor said awkwardly: "If we leave him alone like this, we will be cursed, this is a blasphemy against the dead!"

Tang Zhen glanced at the sailor and said, "Then you can stay with him, and you can listen to him tell you the story of the duckling at night." The

sailor was stunned, looked back at the bones lying on the beach, recited the blessing of the sea god in his mouth, and hurriedly ran up to follow the crowd.

Tang Zhen and the others braved the rain to carry all the harvest onto the boat, and these coconuts and potatoes were enough for them to eat for more than half a month, which was quite encouraging.

It was a pity that Tang Zhen couldn't find the chart on the skeleton, and the treasure map was incomplete, and many routes were broken halfway, and if the other half was not found, it would basically be scrapped.

They left the island the next day, and the little sailboat swayed back to the embrace of the sea, riding the waves under the dual effect of wind and manpower. After Tang Zhen slept all night, he also became refreshed, he walked out of the captain's room with a stubbled beard, the sky was already clear, and as far as the eye could see, the sea and the sky were the same, and his mind became broader.

After yesterday's rain, they collected a large bucket of rainwater. Although they have a pile of coconuts, fresh water can be kept for a longer period of time, and there is still a lot of reserve when they don't know when they will be able to dock.

Rainwater and running water can be drunk as is, and even more so when boiled.

Because he was lucky to run into that small island, Tang Zhen did not live a hungry life, he could eat until he was full every day, and the baked potatoes were still very good.

In a flash, many days passed.

"The deck is too wet, hurry up and wipe it, are you all blind, you have to be reminded of this!" Tang Zhen was bored and patrolled, and when he saw a lazy sailor, he went up and kicked it.

The sailors did not have any resistance mood, and some sailors did like to be lazy, and if they were kicked awake in their sleep, they would smile at Tang Zhen who was stiff and sneered a few times, and then got up and ran to work.