Chapter 66

The large-scale vampire bat attack caused heavy losses to the expedition.

Four people fell into the water, but seven others were injured to varying degrees, including acharin.

Falling into the water or not seems to be the criterion for judging the severity of the injury.

Because people who don't fall into the water are generally not seriously injured, and those who fall into the water

Two of the four died because of excessive blood loss. When the other two were picked up, they also had more air in and less air out. At a glance, the medicine stone had no spirit, and they were only one step away from death.

The main reason why the injury was so severe was that the saliva of blood sucking bats contained hemolytic enzymes.

This special enzyme will kill a large number of platelets, prevent blood coagulation and facilitate smoking.

Their alienated fangs and foraging habits are good at tearing huge wounds near blood vessels to further accelerate the passage of blood.

Everyone knows that even if Lorraine immediately stops his expedition and sends them back to the butterfly, they can't live tonight.

With their consent, Lorraine ordered people to end their lives, collect relics, and sink the body into the sea to the destination of every sailor.

The funeral cast a shadow over everyone's heart. The team lost the original sporadic laughter. It rowed for more than half an hour in silence and stability, and finally heard the sound of the waves lapping on the shore.

The shore waves represented them at the end of the waterway.

"Stop the oars!" Lorraine's voice echoed in the dark waterway and sent an echo to everyone's ears.

Lorraine stood up, stepped on the shaking board, went straight to the bow, raised the torch and shook the tall shadow in front of her.

"Is this... A sailboat?"

They found a brig sailboat at the end of the waterway

The standard twin mast full loaded cross sail frigate is 30m long, 8m wide and 5.5m high.

Her double side guns were tightly closed and anchored at the end of the undulating and dark waterway, lying like a silent beast at the entrance of hell.

This left Lorraine without thinking for a moment.

The standard sailboat is a fashion that arose only after the warship classification system was mature. Its origin can only be traced back to the first and middle of the 17th century. The history of the several years of maritime hegemony war between Britain and the Netherlands is not long.

At that time, British and Dutch warships chibo went to battle and plundered their opponents' merchant ships on the vast sea in order to cut off their business routes.

Merchant ships could only maintain trade under the escort of warships.

In order to adapt to the speed and formation of full sail warships, businessmen were forced to give up the original style of measuring material shipbuilding, and quickly formed a new shipbuilding industry standard of casually building offshore merchant ships and unifying ocean merchant ships as much as possible.

That is, since then, there has been the saying "standard size".

A brig frigate built in modern times suddenly appeared in a treasure cave in the 9th century, and the sidelights were all out, looking empty

Lorraine couldn't help licking his lips.

"Lean on the side. Noah and I board the ship first. After Haina hall, acharin is responsible for commanding the sailors."

He whispered the order.

Two small boats leaned against each other, four sailors jumped into the front boat, and Noah and Haina changed into the back boat.

They approached carefully from the port and starboard sides and threw up the hook.

Lorraine was the first to board the ship from the port side. With a clang, he drew out his knife and held up the torch.

After a while, Noah also boarded from the starboard side. They escorted each other back and forth and explored the cabin as fast as possible, but no one was found.

Everything was neatly stowed, the anchor chain was rusted, and the four pound, six pound and nine pound small guns were wrapped in tarpaulins in the gun compartment.

No one, no living, no dead, no skeleton.

Lorraine found a privation permit in the bulkhead of the captain's cabin, which was issued by the kingdom of Ireland in 1659 and granted to captain John nasbert.

All the mysteries have been solved

Lorraine took Noah back to the deck and sent a signal to both sides.

The sailors, led by the sailors, boarded the ship, gathered around Lorraine and waited for orders.

Lorraine's voice sounded particularly low: "search the whole ship carefully. This is the Macaw, the flagship of John nasbert's missing, the Macaw..."

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The unmanned cabin is naturally convenient to search, not to mention the sailors participating in the exploration are the best on the Lorraine ship.

The condition of the ship and all kinds of discoveries converged in front of Lorraine.

This ship is indeed the Irish exploration ship Macaw, which disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean a hundred years ago. It is of standard brig type and fully equipped with double masted cross sail.

Her ship material is expensive military ship material, century old oak.

The cave is a strange environment with high ammonia, and ammonia is corrosive to wood. It is strange that even if it has not been repaired for hundreds of years, the ship's ship materials and keel can be old without decay and well preserved.

However, her sails, cables and glue were completely weathered. If she wanted to sail in the ocean again, she needed cumbersome and meticulous care.

In addition, the 28 guns are in good condition. Most of them are small caliber guns popular a hundred years ago. The main battles are nine pounds and six pounds, and the main deck, bow and stern guns are even four pounds that have long been eliminated.

The four anchors were completely destroyed, and the winch and iron chain rusted into a lump. If you want to sail, you can only find a way to abandon the anchors.

Lorraine was almost certain that the crew of the Macaw left the ship in a well prepared condition.

Because every cabin is placed neatly, important items such as chart, Captain's diary, octant and navigation compass are wrapped with tarpaulin and carefully stored.

The sailors also found gold, silver and copper coins worth about 18 pounds. Lorraine didn't want a penny and gave it directly to the sailors of the expedition.

In addition, they also found a closed seaman's cabin, belonging to the assault captain who died during the voyage. His weapons were collected as relics, including two Dublin short muskets and a silver shining high-quality stabbing sword.

They became acharin's first harvest, and acharin smiled happily.

Lonely for a hundred years, there are only so many things left on the ship. Lorraine makes a lot of money.

The first is the boat. Lorraine can certainly drag it out of the sea cave. As for whether she can bring it back to Southampton, it depends on whether Karen can restore her ability to sea navigation under the existing conditions.

The second is the chart. There are mature high latitude transatlantic routes from Ireland to West India on the chart of nasbirt, and so on.

The third is nasbert's nautical diary.

Aside from the secret language, Lorraine saw a complete account of Heba's exploration in his diary.

Nasbert and his crew landed on the island twice. They not only explored the whole island, but also saw the ancient treasures in the sea cave with their own eyes.

He called the sea cave "a wizard who likes to send gold coins to sailors".

However, the wizard is not as friendly as he claims.

On his first landing, his ship rioted because of uneven distribution of stolen goods. Nasbert narrowly suppressed the riot, killed many people and seriously injured himself.

The heavily damaged Macaw lost its ability to continue to explore and had to leave the island with full of regret and scars until it revisited its hometown two years later.

The diary came to an abrupt end here.

Nasbirt did not describe the results of the second exploration, but the Macaw has been lurking in the sea cave like a ghost for a hundred years and has revealed the results of the second exploration to Lorraine.

The whole army was destroyed

Lorraine closed her diary and tightened the tarpaulin. Haina looked at him with emerald eyes full of exploration.

"From here, you can directly enter the treasure ground, which is well preserved, dry and closed." Lorraine pondered for a moment and whispered to Haina, "there may be a huge unknown risk on the road. Nasbert took forty sailors in, but none of them came out."