228. Infiltration
Spector moved quickly, it took him less than half a day to blend in with a caravan, and no one knew how he got in. And when Spector came back, he had already returned with a fishing boat and picked up Sean and the others on the boat.
There was still some very faint smell of blood left on the ship, and it was clear that in terms of handling methods, Spector was not as good as a veteran like Rupee, so there were still some traces left. But no one bothered to ask how Spector got his hands on the boat, because that didn't matter. However, the careful Spector still prepared some clothes from the Blackwater Tribe and let Sean and the others wear them on their bodies, so that as long as they are not too close to other Blackwater Tribe people, there will be no trouble that no one wants to encounter.
Along the way, everyone moved forward quite cautiously.
As Spector said, it was not for nothing that he had been lurking in the Blackwater these days, and he seemed to have summed up the pattern of the people of the Blackwater tribe when they were engaged in fishing operations. So the journey along the way did not cause any trouble or danger for the group, and they crossed the first 700 meters very easily, but according to Harding and Spector, it was only here that the real danger began.
At a distance of about 800 meters from the shore where Sean and the others set off, Sean could finally see the island in the middle of the lake vaguely.
The reason why it is vague is because there is a hazy mist around the island in the middle of the lake. The scope of this layer of mist is not small, it is enough to be hundreds of meters long just as far as the eye can see, and Sean estimates that if the island in the middle of the lake and the fog are equal. Then the shape of this island in the middle of the lake should be a long and narrow terrain in a north-south direction. Although the specific area cannot be determined for the time being, it is estimated that the east-west horizontal length of the island in the middle of the lake will not be too long, after all, the total east-west horizontal length of Heishuizawa is less than 3,000 meters.
Sean glanced at the north-south longitudinal of Kuromizusawa again. He found that he couldn't see the edge at all, and he speculated that it might be longer than the east-west horizontal.
In other words, the area of the lake should not be less than 5,000 square meters. This estimate is just a simple assessment, and in fact it has to be re-evaluated according to the rise and fall of the lake, but this has nothing to do with Sean and others, who are not engaged in geological research. Of course, the Blackwater tribe will not pay attention to this, they only know that the Blackwater River has a very rich fishery that can support the daily consumption of their entire tribe.
Besides. Even if there is a shortage of food, the Blackwater tribe has another plan to deal with it.
Fight to feed the war.
The routine of robbing houses and houses, the people of the Blackwater tribe have long been extremely skilled.
As for what to do with those things that have been extra because of robbery and have little use?
This is the main material that the Blackwater Tribe will secretly trade with some caravans who dare to go deeper. There were even some slaves among them. However, these slaves are not the tribes of the Savage Lands - the Blackwater tribe may for some reason set foot and annex the weaker tribes, but they will never trade the survivors of this tribe as slaves, which is a taboo in the Savage Lands. Of course, if you can succeed all the time, you won't be found, and the tail will be forgotten. Just leak the message once. Then the Blackwater tribe will face the siege of all the tribes in the entire Savage Land.
With the infinite future of the Blackwater Tribe, of course they wouldn't do such a thing.
Therefore, the slaves used by the Blackwater tribe for trade came from the nobles who were captured after the battle with them. These people can often sell for a good price, and can even be said to be the hard currency of the entire Savage Lands - just as other kingdoms do not treat the people of the Wild Lands as human beings, and these tribes of the Wild Lands do not treat humans as human beings.
This kind of hatred, which has risen to the level of racial contradictions, is not something that can be solved by anyone with just a few words.
A caravan like the one that Spector had just infiltrated had come for the slave trade—for the tribes of the Savage Lands, of course. This is the slave trade, but from the point of view of the human kingdom. It is the redemption of prisoners of war. However, the premise is that you, the captive, must at least prove that you are worth living, so the enemies that are generally captured by the tribes of the Savage Lands are mostly people with strong enough family backgrounds or very wealthy families.
"There's a ship approaching ahead." Spector's words abruptly interrupted Sean's musings.
Following Spector's gaze, Sean saw a vessel approaching that was different from the fishing boat.
The Blackwater Tribe's fishing boat is basically a small boat similar to a sampan that can accommodate four or five people. However, they usually only take two or three people, as they need to leave enough space for the fish they catch from the lake. A fishing boat with five people like Sean and others is actually very suspicious, but Cecilia and Heatley are relatively petite, and Harding and Sean can use visual angles to cover them, so they don't attract too much attention.
At this time, the approaching ship was much larger than the fishing boat, and the hull alone was several inches higher, because there were seven people on the boat and the waterline was relatively high. Shaun also noticed that the ship was covered with a layer of iron plates on and around the edge, especially the bow of the ship, which had sharp objects that resembled ramming.
In the face of the small sampan that Sean and the others were sitting on, not to mention that these boats had a numerical advantage, they couldn't bear it at all just by hitting these fishing boats. The only flaw is that these boats are no different from fishing boats, they are all rowed by man, except that the sampan has only one pair of oars, and there are two pairs of boats that are obviously supposed to guard the island in the middle of the lake.
Before they could get close to Sean and the others, a man in the boat stood up and whispered something.
Obviously, this is the language of the Savage Land, and looking at the appearance of the other party as a lizardman, it is obvious that he is not speaking the lingua franca of the continent.
However, at this moment, a sizzling sound similar to an electronic interference sound sounded in Sean's ears, which made Sean frown slightly. Then in the next second, Sean was surprised to find that he could actually understand what the other party said. Sean had also heard Hales's official language before, but there was no electronic jamming sound at that time, and Sean also thought that it was the system's own translation function, which seemed to be obviously not the same thing at this time.
"They said we were in the cordon, so let's leave immediately." Sean listened carefully for a moment, then spoke, "That's good, it saves us time to go to them." ”
As he spoke, Sean also stood up, and then waved his hand a few times, he found that there was a special panel marked "language" on the panel at this time, and there were already several sub-options in it, including the official language of Hales, the language of the demons, the lingua franca of the underworld, the language of the undead, the language of the merfolk, and now the language of the lizardmen. So Sean naturally activated the lizardman language and communicated with the other party: "Okay, let's leave right away." ”
Only the other party's lizardman could understand what Sean said, and the others sounded like the neighing sound of a snake, which was quite strange. However, Spector looked at Sean's gaze, obviously more reverence, and there was even a trace of unknown fanaticism in his eyes.
Hearing Sean's words, the speed of the other party's boat slowed down significantly, but he didn't leave, and continued to stare at Sean and the others as if he were watching. At Sean's motion, Spector quickly paddled his sculls slightly, as if he was about to leave the so-called cordon, but Harding dived into the water at a clever angle and began to approach the ship from the bottom.
On this side, after Shaun saw Harding diving into the water, he also showed exaggerated actions at the right time, and shouted at the same time.
The people on the other side of the boat saw Sean's movements, thinking that a companion had fallen into the water, and they knew the danger of this lake - there were many fish in the lake, and there were even some cannibalistic ones, and there were some water-type monsters. Even if the person who fell into the water was lucky enough not to encounter any of these, the temperature of the lake was very low for many races of the Blackwater tribe, and if you were not careful, you would get frostbite or even freeze to death.
At this time, when they saw that Sean's sampan had fallen into the water, they immediately rushed to the rescue as soon as possible, which was also one of their duties.
However, when these people came to a position about twenty meters away from Sean and the others, they found out that Sean and the others were not from the Blackwater tribe.
"Human!" The lizardman who had just stood up to give a warning let out an exclamation, and then subconsciously picked up the spear, ready to throw the spear with his arm strength to kill Sean, but it was not the usual process of raising the alarm.
When entering this alert sea, Sean paid special attention to the fact that there were not too many enemies around, which meant that if they were fast enough, they could take down one of these ships before attracting the attention of others.
And the distance of about twenty meters is not too far for Sean.
I saw Sean kick slightly, in order to prevent the destruction of the boat, Sean used his fighting spirit to borrow a little force on the lake, and jumped lightly onto the boat, and condescendingly directly slashed the lizardman. And Harding, who dived into the water, also jumped out of the water and flipped onto the boat at the same time as Sean fell, and with a casual flick of his hands, he directly killed two enemies in an instant.
It was only then that these enemies remembered to raise the alarm, but it was obviously too late to be boarded by these two evil stars.
In less than two seconds, Sean and Harding had eliminated all the enemies on the ship, and threw the corpses into the lake. It won't be long before the smell of blood from the obvious wounds on the corpses will attract the creatures of the lake that love to eat meat. Then, Sean and Harding took the boat close to the sampan that everyone was riding in before and quickly completed the replacement, and Spector also chiseled the sampan fishing boat directly through it, destroying all the evidence.
This time, the group chose a safer route with fewer patrols and headed straight towards the island in the middle of the lake. (To be continued......)