Navigator: I have a double six-story house

Su Qing pinched the bridge of her nose, thinking she was still half asleep.

No, no, how could this be?

The captain's cabin door was open, but the things inside had nothing to do with the captain's cabin he knew.

An oak table was placed against the wall, with a light gray placemat on the tabletop.

On the table stood something that Su Qing couldn't quite describe; it was something that was both familiar and unfamiliar to him.

Well, if we use the terminology from our original world, this thing should be called a laptop computer.

Next to this laptop-shaped object, three chibi-style figurines are neatly arranged.

The first one had a pointed mouth, monkey cheeks, and a thunder god-like face; the second one had three eyes standing upright between its eyebrows; and the third one had three heads and six arms, adorned with lotus flowers.

Aren't these the same people?!

Selena sat on a soft chair at the table, wearing blue-light glasses on her nose, and holding a white porcelain coffee cup in her right hand, steam rising from the rim.

She was staring at the screen, her fingers flying across the keyboard.

Su Qing slowly closed the door.

He stood outside the door, took a deep breath for a moment, and then pushed it open again.

The table is still the same table, the screen is still the same screen, and Selena is still the same Selena.

Even the orientation of the figure hasn't changed.

This isn't a captain's cabin from the Age of Exploration; it's clearly a modern office.

Su Qing knew that since the Age of Exploration established contact with the original world ten years ago, the cultures of the two worlds had been permeating each other.

The language, food, and entertainment brought by the time travelers have long been integrated into every corner of this world.

But culture is one thing, technology is another.

He had never seen any information in any document that someone had brought a laptop onto the ship.

Selena noticed his gaze and pushed up her blue-light glasses on her nose with her long, slender fingers.

"Captain, you've arrived."

She stood up and walked to the small table next to her.

Tea or coffee?

"Tea."

Su Qing answered instinctively that he didn't like coffee; it was too bitter.

Selena took tea leaves from a sealed jar, poured hot water into a cup, and a familiar aroma spread out.

Su Qing took the cup and took a sip.

Jasmine tea?

He was taken aback; jasmine tea was not from this world.

This kind of tea only exists in the original world, so it won't be cheap to get it here.

But after glancing at Selena's equipment, he found it quite reasonable.

Su Qing shifted her gaze back to the laptop.

"Miss Selena, the seas were so vast during the Age of Exploration, how did you manage to establish network communication?"

He took his teacup and walked to the table.

"Are there base stations everywhere?"

Selena shook her head, picked up a small tool from the table, and quickly pried open the back cover of the laptop.

Su Qing looked down and saw a token-shaped object embedded in the motherboard, with fine patterns engraved on its surface, emitting a faint blue glow.

"This is a communication token," Selena pointed to the token. "It's supposed to only allow one-on-one communication, like a walkie-talkie."

"Later, the Chamber of Commerce recruited a technical team, and they used... well, something like code compilation, to transform a token into a terminal."

She closed the back cover and patted the notebook.

"The other token is located at the Windbreak Merchant Guild headquarters, which integrates a server, enabling network communication."

Su Qing couldn't understand anything about code compilation or server integration.

But he heard a key word.

recruit.

Those who can be recruited by the Windbringer Merchant Guild to do this kind of thing must be people from the original world.

Moreover, they are not ordinary people, but talents who already possess core technologies in their original world.

It seems there are quite a few talented people among my fellow villagers.

"So what are you doing with this?"

Selena confidently turned the screen towards Su Qing.

"It's just chatting with family and playing some simple games."

Several chat windows were open on the screen. One on the left read "Uncle Zloty," another on the right read "Aunt Freya," and there were also "Uncle Mark" and "Aunt Anna."

Each name is followed by the chamber of commerce's internal logo.

There were a lot of uncles and aunts there, probably all high-ranking members of the Fengxi Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Selena, an "ordinary office worker," is also making an effort to socialize today.

Selena also opened a small game window, a farming game where the field was filled with various crops.

"This game looks really fun, Captain, would you like to try it?"

Su Qing did not answer her question.

He stared at the laptop, his gaze no longer one of shock, but one of intense scrutiny.

In Selena's eyes, this is just an electronic toy to pass the time, for chatting or growing vegetables.

But in Su Qing's eyes, the value of this laptop goes far beyond that.

This laptop offers a new way to access information for locals.

If I could get my own machine and join this network, I could get more information about locals indirectly.

Information that other captains cannot access.

Su Qing lowered her eyes, took a sip of tea, and showed no emotion on her face.

He had only one thought in his mind: he had to find a way to get one for himself.

"Captain?" Selena tilted her head.

"Yeah, it's pretty fun."

Su Qing put down her teacup, speaking casually.

"Your vegetables need watering."

"Ah! That's right!"

Selena turned back to the screen and frantically began watering the plants.

Su Qing left the captain's cabin and bumped into Wang Yao, who was eavesdropping through the crack in the door.

Wang Yao gave a thumbs up, his face filled with awe.

"Su-zai, that notebook inside..."

"Don't even think about it, you can't even recognize all the characters."

"I know him! He's just a little slow!"

Su Qing ignored him, climbed onto the deck, and felt the sea breeze blowing in her face.

For the next two days, the Sunny sailed smoothly along its course.

Selena cooks three meals a day on time, and Wang Yao licks the plates clean every day on time.

During the day, Su Qing would observe the sea from the crow's nest, and at night, she would ponder the next plan while looking at the route map in the cabin.

Life was so uneventful that people almost forgot how many skeletons were buried beneath this sea.

On the morning of the third day, Su Qing climbed the mast as usual.

He saw it the instant the morning mist dissipated.

At the horizon, the outline of an island is emerging from the sea.

It's time to run another dungeon.

A surge of eagerness welled up in Su Qing's heart.

His level was still at level four, while Wang Yao had just reached level five, and Selena's strength was still unknown.

This is a good opportunity to find out what the other party is capable of.

"Time to get to work."

He slid down the rope ladder, and the three of them began preparing to land on the island.

……

At the same time.

On a route that did not intersect with the Sun's route, a black-painted two-masted sailing ship was drifting with the current.

The cabin was dimly lit.

A man sat at a table with a laptop in front of him that looked almost exactly like Selena's.

A new message popped up on the screen.

The message consisted of only one line, with no signature or source.

[Coordinates have been locked.]

Mission objective: Annihilate all enemies.

The man turned off the screen.

In the darkness, only the sound of his fingers tapping on the table could be heard.

"Sunny".

He pronounced the name in a flat tone, then stood up and pushed open the cabin door.

Outside the door, twelve figures stood in neat rows on the deck, the moonlight illuminating the weapons at their waists.

"Set off."