Navigator: I have a double six-story house

Two days later, the Sunshine was still sailing on the route through the eternal night.

Wang Yao is currently on guard atop the crow's nest.

Su Qing had just finished her close combat training and stepped onto the deck.

Melee Mastery: Level 0 → Level 1

Melee Mastery Lv.1 (3/200)

He was still far from mastering shooting, so he decided to level up his melee mastery first.

During his rotation, Wang Yao only used the melee training ground, and his melee proficiency was one level higher than Su Qing's, at level 2.

In the past two days, Su Qing has spent not only in the close combat training ground, but also on eating.

Thanks to the hard work of Han Ge and his team, the plantation has already yielded several batches of food.

Thanks to Brother Han, Su Qing can eat Western fast food every day.

But fast food alone won't do. With Selena around, the Sunshine's meals are designed to be varied and balanced.

The ingredients given away for free by the Windbringer Merchant Guild were transformed into various delicacies under Selena's spatula.

In just two days, Su Qing's level reached level nine, just one step away from level ten.

Wang Yao is still at level seven.

Wang Yao expressed his great admiration for Su Qing's talent.

It's not about the experience points bonus, but about being able to eat as much as you want.

Su Qing stretched and relaxed her body a little, preparing to replace Wang Yao.

"An island has been spotted ahead."

Selena's voice came from the direction of the steering wheel.

Su Qing took the binoculars from Selena and walked to the bow of the ship.

As the camera zoomed in, he saw the island in front of him clearly, and at the same time, he noticed something was wrong.

The dungeon islands I encountered before all seemed to be cut from the same mold.

The island is small, with a few coconut trees growing sparsely, and the dungeon entrance can be seen from afar.

But the island in front of us is completely different.

Its area is at least several dozen times larger than the previous instance island, and its coastline stretches as far as the eye can see.

The island's interior is covered by vast forests, the canopies forming a dark green ocean that stretches from the beach into the unseen depths.

But what really caught Su Qing's attention were those few thin, grayish-white lines in her field of vision.

It looked like smoke rising from the depths of the forest, scattered into thin wisps by the sea breeze.

Where there is fire, there are people.

Or at least there is something alive.

Su Qing put down her binoculars and turned to look at Selena.

"Have you heard there are living people on the dungeon island?"

Selena walked over to him, took the binoculars, glanced at them, and then shook her head.

"Even the Windrise Merchant Guild has very limited intelligence on exclusive shipping routes." She handed the binoculars to Su Qing. "There are already few captains who can reach exclusive shipping routes, and even fewer who are willing to sell intelligence to the merchant guild. Most of the information is fragmented."

Su Qing did not press the matter further.

Selena's ability to say "I don't know" means she genuinely doesn't know.

Given their current relationship, Selena wouldn't hide anything about this.

"Where is the dungeon entrance?"

"I didn't see it." Selena shook her head again. "According to the usual pattern of dungeon islands, the entrance should be somewhere on the island, but given its size... we might have to go inside to find it."

Su Qing put away her binoculars and turned her gaze back to the wisps of smoke rising from the chimneys.

Finding the dungeon entrance is one thing, having living creatures on the island is another; when these two things overlap, the variables become significant.

"Let's dock."

"Stay vigilant."

The Sunny slowed down and glided slowly toward the island.

As the hull skimmed the shallows, a slight scraping sound came from under the keel.

Selena maneuvered the helm and steadily moored the boat in a naturally formed, curved harbor.

Su Qing disembarked, her boots sinking half an inch into the damp sand.

He squatted down and pinched a handful of sand.

The sand was fine and damp, with no unusual color or smell. There were fragments of seashells and seaweed washed ashore. Everything looked normal.

But the word "normal" was never good news during the Age of Exploration.

Wang Yao jumped down right after him, shield already in his hand, and subconsciously moved his wrist with his other hand.

Selena landed last, without a weapon, but the clasp on her left handbag was already open, revealing her various gadgets.

Three people stood on the beach, with the Sunshine ship behind them and the deep forest in front of them.

The sound of the waves crashing on the shore was very rhythmic; other than that, there was no other sound.

There were no birdsong, no insect chirping.

Such a large island, covered with such dense forest, is unusually quiet.

Just as Su Qing was about to say something, his ears twitched.

I felt a slight vibration under my feet, very light, but rhythmic.

"Something's coming." As Su Qing finished speaking, his right hand was already on the musket at his waist.

Before the words were finished, there was a loud rustling sound at the edge of the woods, the bushes were roughly pushed aside, and a group of figures rushed out from inside.

Their skin was dark brown, and they wore simple clothes pieced together from tree bark and animal hides, with alternating red and white stripes painted on their faces.

The hair was held in place by some kind of sticky substance, forming an upright shape like rows of thorns.

The weapons they used were also quite "primitive": sharpened wooden spears, polished stone axes, and catapults made of vines.

But their movements were not primitive.

In just a few seconds, these beings, who looked like primitive people, quickly surrounded the three people on the Sunshine.

The encirclement was formed within three seconds, with twelve people evenly distributed around the three, three in each direction, blocking all directions.

This doesn't look like a savage who can only babble.

Su Qing quickly glanced around and waved. The three members of the Sunshine formed a triangle in perfect unison.

At this moment, a man who appeared to be the leader stepped forward.

He was a burly man, half a head taller than the others.

His face was painted with the most intricate patterns, and he wore a necklace made of some kind of animal teeth around his neck.

He addressed Su Qing and the other two.

The voice was rough and rapid, with short syllables, and contained a large number of tongue and throat sounds that Su Qing had never heard before.

A barrage of words came crashing down on him.

In Su Qing's mind, the D-level skill [Universal Language] was operating, but it was a bit difficult to understand.

The grammatical structure of this language was different from all the language families he knew, forcing Su Qing to try to understand it using his own logic.

After the leader finished speaking, he took another half step forward with the wooden spear, his tone becoming even more threatening.

Selena turned her head to look at Su Qing and lowered her voice.

"Captain, what are they saying?"

Just as Su Qing was about to speak, a voice spoke first.

"I see."

Su Qing and Selena turned their heads at the same time.

Wang Yao slammed his shield into the sand, crossed his arms, raised his chin slightly, and looked completely at ease.

He said he was an islander.

Su Qing looked at him, and Selena looked at him too.

He was surrounded by twelve indigenous people who were holding weapons and watching him.