Chapter 287: Turnaround

At this time, the fleet urgently needs to find a place to settle for repairs, but the sea is vast, although there are many islands in the South Sea, but it is not so much that you can touch it by walking two steps casually, not to mention that this is still an unfamiliar sea, and no one knows what the situation in the sea is, in this case, they don't even dare to drive the ship too fast, let alone find the island......

As for the good fortune of just touching the island?

Qi Bin couldn't even think of it.

They've been unlucky enough to be like this, so where can any good luck come to their door?

Not to mention anyone else, even Qi Bin himself didn't think he could have such good luck, and at this time he prayed in his heart that as long as the situation of the fleet did not continue to deteriorate, it would be thankful - although at present, even this prayer is very difficult to achieve.

Not to mention the turning point that he couldn't have imagined.

However, Qi Bin forgot that there is a saying in the rivers and lakes called house leakage and even rain and rain, but there is also a saying on the rivers and lakes called the road of endless people, and there is another meaning of this sentence, that is, to do things must be reversed, otherwise it will be extremely Tailai - when luck is to the extreme, when bad luck has made you like a desperate situation, good luck will naturally come.

This phrase is called in the technical terms of later generations - bottoming out.

Although it is a bit absolute and a bit superstitious to say this, but the Salen fleet did encounter such a good thing this time, just when Qi Bin and He Lian were lamenting despair in the captain's room, there was a sudden commotion outside and ...... Cheers.

"Why is it so messy out there? Are there any rules? When the noise reached Qi Bin's ears, he was distressed.

Qi Bin was very distressed at this time, he was trying to find a way to solve the problem of medicinal materials, there was no need to worry too much about food, there were specially configured fishing boats and professional fishermen in the fleet, and there were two very lucky ones that escaped the attack of the wind and waves, with these two fishing boats, it should not be a problem to catch two or three thousand catties of fish a day, and if you are lucky, you may not be able to do more than this amount, plus the remaining food in the fleet itself, it should be enough for the fleet to consume in a short time.

The problem is medicinal materials, because Salen only cares about dressing spices, so that a considerable part of the medicinal materials are left to the garrisons of Spice Island, although there are still some on the ship, but in the face of these small two thousand wounds, it is simply a drop in the bucket - although spices can also be used as medicinal materials, but among all the spices, there are very few that can be used to heal wounds, even if they are all taken out, it is not enough at all, if it goes on like this, once the wound is inflamed, then the more than 1,000 wounds may not survive more than 500 people.

It was at this time of annoyance that the outside actually cheered, which made Qi Bin's already bad mood even more irritable.

"I'll take a look." He Lian walked out, but in less than a minute, he rushed in again.

"Great, my lord, we ran into an island."

Qi Bin's words, which were about to reprimand, were suddenly held in his heart, and then turned from anger to ecstasy: "What? Is this true? ”

He Lian nodded repeatedly: "That's right, and the area of this island is not small, and the vegetation is lush - we will definitely be able to find enough wound medicine and wood on it." ”

"Great." Qi Bin threw the brush in his hand fiercely: "It's really God's favor, quick, let's go out and have a look." ”

"Yes."

……

"Great, it's God's favor." Looking at the island in the distance, Qi Bin squeaked the telescope, his heart was very excited, and he repeated the previous words - he was so excited, his mind was blank at this time, and he couldn't think of other words at all.

"Quick, let the fleet dock." Qi Bin was excited, and immediately ordered the fleet to move closer, but the fleet had reached its limit, and he abandoned several ships that could not be repaired along the way, and although the island seemed to be close, in fact, it was at least dozens of miles away from him, if it wasn't faster, there might be ships to be abandoned at this distance.

"But what if there are traps on the island, my lord?" He Lian hesitated, he still remembered the encounter three days ago, if he could have reconnoitred in advance, the fleet might not have suffered such a big loss.

"It's okay, we're already like this, even if there is a trap, we admit it." Qi Bin doesn't care, their situation is already like this, it doesn't matter if there are traps or not.

It's like a person walking in the desert for three days and three nights without drinking a sip of water and eating a mouthful of food, and when he sees that he is about to fall, he finds that there is a clear spring in front of him, and there is a barbecue rack next to the clear spring, on which is a roasted fragrant whole sheep. Even if there is a trap, you are like this, even if you don't go up and eat meat, do you think you can still live? Even if there are traps, it doesn't matter - if you eat it, you can at least be a full ghost, and if you don't, you will only starve to death.

"Yes." He Lian also figured out the reasoning, and immediately began to direct the fleet to move closer to the island.

The draft of the big ship was placed there, of course, it could not be directly docked, as the big ship anchored and stopped, countless small boats were lowered into the sea, and as the temporary commander of the fleet, Qi Bin was naturally the first to get on board.

"In addition, send someone to check the surroundings carefully, and there is no trace of anyone's activities." When Qi Bin got off the ship, he instructed, although with their current situation, even if they meet the enemy, they have no combat effectiveness, but no one wants to die here so inexplicably, it is better to find out the surrounding situation first, it can be regarded as a rainy day, even if there are enemies, at least they must find out their origins, whose hands did they die in, and they can be a ghost who understands.

"Yes, my subordinates will arrange it." This is the proper meaning, and He Lian will naturally not object.

"My lord, this island is not small." Just as the two were talking, Yi Chong, the third mate of the fleet, also came up, he had been comforting the wounded before, regulating the supplies of the fleet, and did not appear, but now that he has found the island, the matter can be over, and he finally squeezed out a little time, which can be regarded as showing up.

"According to the observations of my subordinates, the length of this island will definitely not be less than fifty kilometers. The width should also be about ten kilometers, which means that this is a medium-sized island of more than 500 square kilometers, although it is not as good as those islands that can easily reach thousands or even tens of thousands of square kilometers, but as a temporary stop, it is enough for us to squander. ”

"Anyway, let's find out the situation on the island first." Qi Bin instructed: "Take a group of people to the island to take a look around, it is best to find out what resources are on it, especially in terms of medicinal materials, and collect as much as possible." ”

"Don't worry, I understand."

……

Kaven is so serious, my mind is in chaos, and I don't know how it was written today, whether you like it or not.

(End of chapter)