Chapter 63

Only once through the forest, one of the 20 sailors belonging to the expedition died, four were seriously injured and four were slightly injured. This was still in the state of sufficient preparation and basically no damage through the forest

It's just an oversight.

The wild boars of hebrazil are arrogant and huge. Each one weighs at least four or five hundred kilograms, with sharp tusks and red eyes.

In terms of aggressiveness, they should be carnivorous.

And it should be at the top of the food chain of this island.

Considering the growth and reproduction speed of pigs, there is such a overlord in the windward sparse forest, and the scale of its population becomes difficult to estimate.

Certainly not too much, certainly not too little

This means that sparse forests are far from looking safe.

They simply found two suspected light water sources. As long as they are lucky, they don't have to eat with wild boars in the forest.

The order of probing is thus determined.

Carrying the bodies of harvested wild boars and dead companions, the scarred team sneaked through the sparse forest and came to the big 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. Most of the footprints are hoofs. There are no star killers such as bear paws and cat claws, and there are no terrible Island crocodiles. One good news after another makes Luolin finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Then there is the second question... How to collect the fresh water and the abundant food resources on the windward slope.

Shipping along the island is the best way, but the butterfly can't go into the water, and the two submarines can't bear the heavy responsibility of transportation.

Lorraine looked thoughtfully at a wild deer prowling by the edge of the forest.

"Haina, did you say that if we camped on the windward beach, the wild boars would expel us?"

"Camp here. What about the butterfly?"

"It can be scattered and camped, the logging group can stay in the narrow east beach, and the logistics group and exploration group can move here. In this way, the collected drinking water can be processed and stored locally, and only a small amount of transportation is needed to meet the needs of the logging group."

Haina raised her eyebrows: "there are two streams of fresh water here. We set more traps by the pool and take the initiative to hunt. Smart beasts will avoid here and drink water in the woods."

"You can also shoot..." added Lorraine, biting her lips. "The six pound short gun at the stern of the ship is very light and can be transported by submachine boat. It can not only be used as a defense for the Beach Camp, but also scare away the wild animals and open up space."

"When the butterfly is repaired, there will be no problem shipping water."

After a few words of discussion, Lorraine ordered the sailors who could act to be divided into two. A group of people dug ditches on the beach, built artificial islands and created a site for hundreds of people to camp.

Another group of people cut wood and cut a log back to the east beach to report.

As a result, the first thing to be completed was a simple raft. Three sailors made sails with their own vests, tied up a crude sail raft and floated along the coastline to the east bank.

At sunset, acharin led two submachine boats, 20 sailors, shovels and many empty barrels to the new camp, which greatly accelerated the speed of excavating the sand island and brought a message to Lorraine.

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

"Long boat? Viking long boat?" Lorraine wondered.

"Yes, looking at the slender hull ratio, it should be a snecker type long warship popular in the 9th century, but we didn't climb up to explore because it was late."

"The Vikings of the 9th century..." Lorraine patted acharin on the shoulder with appreciation. "You not only learned, but also made the right decision, acharin."

"Compared with the ruins of an ancient ship that can't run, our first priority is to dig through the sand island before nightfall and guard against wild animals. Tomorrow, we will see the ancient ship..."

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The construction of sand island and the transfer of personnel and materials lasted all night. The next day, the sun rose again, and a semi independent arc sand island was added to the windward sand stall in hebrazil.

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

It is separated from the sparse forest by a two meter wide waterway, nearly two meters deep, introduced into the sea, built high on both sides, and erected a simple shrub fence.

Wild animals on land don't like the sea. With such a simple camp protecting waterway, wild boars or other fierce animals hidden in the forest won't launch large-scale attacks. As for sporadic attacks, the sailors on duty can cope with them.

Sand island and the island are connected by a log bridge four or five meters wide. After the bridge, 40 or 50 meters is a fresh water pool.

Haina and pierce will organize sailors to make continuous traps on the side of Xianglin. They are also the head of the temporary camp.

Fishing, hunting, repairing ships and collecting fresh water, the butterfly flower completely lifted the survival crisis, and Lorraine simply adjusted the allocation of sailors.

Pierce and Haina preside over Xiangfeng camp. Haina is also the protector of the camp to deal with accidents.

Karen and Noah are in charge of the east coast beach. The entrance and exit there are narrow, and there are mountains and rocks on both sides that are difficult to rise. The defense structure is certainly not as safe as the windward camp, but they can live on board at night.

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

Lorraine further simplified the expedition. The wounded recuperated, the sailor who did not move was sent to the logistics, and Haina was replaced by acharin.

As a result, there were only eight people left in the expedition. In order to improve some combat effectiveness, Lorraine handed over acharin's Ivory shotgun to him again. He borrowed it.

Thus, after transporting the two stern guns to the windward camp, the exploration team requisitioned a assault boat and paddled to the long ship ruins under the guidance of acharin.

Not far away, Lorraine saw the snecker long ship in the mouth of achalin at the foot of a cliff.

She is 178 meters long and less than three meters wide. There is a mast in the middle, about 10 meters high. The horizontal sail above has long been weathered, leaving only a lonely wooden pole, shaped like a tombstone.

Looking at the ruins, the members of the expedition landed on the shore. Lorraine stood on the raised reef and saw the basically intact ancient warship more closely.

Her ship is made of oak. After many years, it is gradually petrified, but there is almost no external decay.

Her hull was wrapped with a layer of planks and fixed to the hull with long iron rivets.

The gap between the ship plates is huge because the lines and cables made of animal hair and plant fibers are not as corrosion-resistant as ship materials and have long disappeared.

There is also the famous high curved bow and stern, which is carefully carved from a whole piece of oak. The bow of the ship is carved with a bust of a woman with big eyes and curly hair. At the bottom of the portrait is also engraved with an ancient Icelandic language, [hallveig].

Lorraine was different for a long time. She couldn't help but look at the exquisite bust again, and used her imagination to turn her skin white, her eyes brown and her hair black

Vaguely, he saw the passing Helena

This allowed Lorraine to confirm a conjecture and generate more doubts.

Helwig is the ancestor of Lorraine whalers and the first wife of the legendary king of Iceland, inger ananson.

But she is not a particularly prominent person, that is, she has no personal legend, and it is not in line with the Vikings' tradition of shaking the seven seas with the black dragon nighod and the big snake yemenggad

Why did she become the bow image and patron saint of the ship?

Pressing his doubts, Lorraine continued to check the hull.

The keel is made of tall and straight oak. The middle part is made into an arc to increase the bearing weight, while the two ends are gradually narrowed to form a streamlined channel.

The ship ribs are made of solid oak, all of which are made of natural curved wood. After careful fabrication, they are placed in all parts of the keel.

The ship's ribs are wrapped with an inch thick hull plate made of overlapping oak blocks, which are fixed on the ship's ribs with rivets, leaving a long row of paddle holes.

But now the long oar is still there, but the cable that should have been made of fir roots has long been rotten, so that the combination of plates has become loose, and some of them fall off directly. At first glance, it looks like a withered remnant flower.

One of the characteristics of Viking long ship is the open-air single deck without inner cabin.

Through the detached hull plate, Lorraine saw rows of skeletons sitting at the bottom of the cabin, with rusted iron chains tied to their waist and legs. Before his death, his appearance was miserable, and most of his heads flew away.

They were slaves of rowing, a total of 24 people. It seems that they were beheaded in a unified way.

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

He also found the boat inscription on the pattern of the keel

[Ingolf], the wolf of the king.

"Inger... Jonathan?" Lorraine opened her eyes in disbelief.

He was trying to find out more about the facts. Acharin rushed out of the cliff with some sailors in panic.

"Captain! Great discovery! Great discovery!"