Reborn As a Pirate

Only once through the forest, 20 sailors belonging to the expedition team died, four were seriously injured, and four were slightly injured. This is still in a state where the preparations are sufficient and there is basically no damage to the forest...

Just an oversight.

He Brazil's wild boars are brutal and huge, each weighing at least four to five hundred catties, with sharp fangs and red eyes.

Judging by their aggressiveness, they should be carnivorous.

And it should be the top of the food chain of this small island, domineering and arrogant.

Considering the growth and reproduction speed of pigs, there is such a family of overlords in the windward woods, and the size of its group becomes difficult to estimate.

Certainly not too much, and certainly not too little...

This means that the sparse forest is far less safe than it appears.

They simply found two suspected sources of fresh water. As long as they are lucky, they don't need to die with wild boars in the woods.

The order of the probes is thus determined.

Carrying the harvested wild boars and the corpses of their dead companions, the scarred team sneaked through the sparse forest to the large pool by the beach. It was soon determined that this was indeed one of the main sources of fresh water on the island.

There are obvious traces of wild animals wandering by the pool, and the footprints are mostly hooves. There are no killer stars such as bear paws and cat claws, and there are no terrifying island crocodiles. Lorraine can finally breathe a sigh of relief after one good news after another.

Then there is the second question... how to collect fresh water and the abundant food resources in Xiangfengpo.

Sea transportation along the island is the best way, but the Butterfly Flower cannot be launched, and a total of two assault boats cannot undertake the heavy responsibility of transportation.

Lorraine looked at a wild deer probing by the edge of the forest ponderingly.

"Hina, do you think that if we camp on Windward Beach, wild boars will drive us away?"

"Camp here, what about the Butterfly?"

"The camps can be scattered, the logging team stays on the narrow east beach, and the logistics team and expedition team move here. In this way, the fresh water collected can be processed and stored locally, and only a small amount of transshipment is needed to meet the needs of the logging team. need."

Haina raised her eyebrows: "There are two streams of fresh water here. Let's set more traps by the pool and actively hunt. Smart beasts will avoid here and go to the woods to drink water."

"You can also shoot..." Lorraine bit his lip and added, "The six-pound cannon at the stern is very light and can be transported by assault boat. It can be used not only as a defense for the beach camp, but also to scare away wild animals and open up space. "

"After the Butterfly is repaired, it will not be a problem to ship fresh water."

After discussing in a few words, it was decided, and Lorraine ordered the sailors who could move to be divided into two. A group of people dug ditches on the beach, artificially built islands, and set up a place for hundreds of people to camp.

Another group of people felled wood and tied a log back to Dongsha Beach to report.

As a result, the simple raft was completed first. The three sailors used their smocks as sails, tied up a rough sail raft, and floated along the coastline to the east bank.

At sunset, Yacharin led two assault boats, twenty sailors, shovels and many empty barrels to the new camp, greatly accelerated the speed of digging the sand island, and brought a message to Lorraine.

On the way, they found the ruins of a long ship under a cliff.

"Longship? Viking longship?" Lorraine asked in surprise.

"Yes, judging by the slender hull proportions, it should be a Snakejer-type long warship that was popular in the 9th century, but because it was getting late, we didn't board it to explore."

"The Vikings in the ninth century..." Lorraine patted Yacharin's shoulder with great interest, "You are not only knowledgeable, but also made the right decision, Yacharin."

"Compared to the ruins of an ancient ship that can't run, digging through the sand island before nightfall is our top priority. Tomorrow, we will see that ancient ship..."

...

The construction of Sand Island and the transfer of personnel and materials lasted for a whole night, and the sun rose again the next day.

A semi-independent arc-shaped sand island has been added to the windward sand booth in Hebasi.

The island covers an area of ​​nearly one square kilometer, facing the sea on one side and the sparse forest on the other.

It is separated from the sparse forest by a two-meter-wide waterway with a depth of nearly two meters, which is introduced into the sea water, built high on both sides, and supported by simple shrub fences.

Beasts on land don't like the sea. With such a simple waterway guarding the camp, wild boars or other beasts hiding in the woods will not launch large-scale attacks. As for sporadic attacks, the sailors on duty can handle them.

The sand island and the sea island are connected by a log bridge with a width of 4 to 5 meters, and there is a freshwater pool 40 or 50 meters across the bridge.

Hannah and Pierce will organize the sailors to make a series of traps on Xianglin's side, and they are also in charge of the temporary camp.

Fishing, hunting, repairing ships, and collecting fresh water, the Butterfly has completely resolved the survival crisis, and Lorraine has also simply adjusted the allocation of seafarers.

Pierce and Hina preside over the Windward Camp, and Hina is also the protector of the camp to deal with accidents.

Keren and Noah are in charge of the east coast beach. The entrance and exit there are narrow, and the two sides are rocks that are difficult to rise. The defensive structure is definitely not as safe as the Windward Camp, but they can live on the boat at night.

Noah is the protector of the beach on the east coast. Although the character of the Roma witch is shy, her personal combat power is much higher than that of two normal humans, Yacharin and Karen, and she is firmly in the third place on the ship.

Lorraine also further simplified the expedition group. The wounded rested, the unmoved sailors were transferred to the logistics, and Hana was replaced by Yacharin.

As a result, there were only 8 people left in the expedition team. In order to improve his combat effectiveness to some extent, Lorraine gave him back Yacharin's ivory short spear, which he borrowed.

In this way, after transporting the two stern guns to the windward camp, the expedition team requisitioned an assault boat, and under the guidance of Yacharin, they paddled towards the longship ruins.

Not far away, Lorraine saw the Snakej-type longboat that Yacharin was talking about under a cliff.

She is seventeen or eight meters long and less than three meters wide. There is a mast standing in the middle, about ten meters high. The horizontal sail on it has long been weathered, and only a single wooden pole is left, shaped like a tombstone.

Looking up at the ruins, the members of the expedition team landed on the shore. Lorraine stood on the protruding reef and took a closer look at the basically intact ancient warship.

Her ship was made of oak, petrified over the years, but with little outward decay.

Her hull was wrapped in a layer of planks, fastened to the hull with long iron rivets.

The gaps between the planks are huge, because the threads and cables made of animal hair and plant fibers are not as resistant to corrosion as the ship materials, and have long since disappeared.

There is also the famous high curved prow and stern, which are finely carved from a whole piece of oak. There is a bust of a woman carved on the bow, with big eyes and curly hair, and a line of ancient Icelandic language, [HALLVEIG], is engraved on the bottom of the portrait.

Lorraine? After waiting for a long time, she couldn't help but glanced at the beautifully carved bust again, and used her imagination to whiten her complexion, brown her eyes, and black her hair...

Faintly, he saw the dead Helena...

This made Lorraine confirm a conjecture, and gave birth to more doubts.

Hellwig is the mother-grandfather of the Lorraine whalers, and the first wife of the legendary Icelandic king Inge Janasson.

But she herself is not a particularly prominent person, that is, she has no personal legend, and she does not conform to the tradition of the Vikings who like to use the black dragon Nigelhold and the big snake Yermungard to shock the Seven Seas...

Why, would she become the figurehead and patron saint of this ship?

Repressing the doubts in his heart, Lorraine continued to check the hull.

The material of the keel is taken from a tall and straight oak tree. The middle part is made into an arc to increase the load-bearing capacity, while the two ends are gradually narrowed to form a streamlined passage.

The ribs are made of solid oak, all from natural bent wood, carefully fashioned and placed in various parts of the keel.

The ribs were covered with one-inch-thick planking, made of overlapping oak blocks, riveted to the ribs, leaving long rows of oar holes.

It’s just that the long oars are still there, but the cables that should be made of fir roots have long since decayed, so that the combination of the boards has become loose, and some parts have fallen off directly. At first glance, it looks like a withered flower.

A major feature of Viking longships is the open-air single-deck without interior cabins.

Through the peeled-off hull plates, Lorraine saw rows of skeletons sitting in the bilge, with rusted iron chains tied to their waists and legs. They had a miserable appearance before death, and most of their heads were scattered.

They are rowing slaves, a total of 24 people, and it seems that they were beheaded uniformly.

Combining the complete structure of the ship, Lorraine guessed that she did not hit the rocks, but ran aground on her own initiative.

He also found the ship's inscription on the pattern of the keel...

[INGOLF], the wolf of the king.

"Inge...Anason?" Lorraine's eyes widened in disbelief.

Just as he was about to further clarify the facts, Yacharin rushed out from the inner side of the cliff in panic with a few sailors.

"Captain! Great discovery! Great discovery!"