Chapter 69

Under the assessment of the master level, the macaw is in good condition.

The structure is intact and the ship material is tough.

She doesn't look like an old woman who has experienced a hundred years of wind and frost. She looks more like a ship of thirty or forty years old, but she lacks care for a long time.

Lorraine lacks professional knowledge in materials science, but according to Karen, it seems that a special oxide film on the hull surface causes this result.

All the exposed planks of the whole ship are covered with this special membrane, which is thinner above draft and thicker below draft.

This membrane insulates the corrosion of ammonia to wood, slows its aging, and can go to sea at any time.

Of course, that doesn't mean the Macaw doesn't need to be repaired.

The small iron parts on the ship were badly rusted.

Karen's plan is to directly replace the parts with sufficient spare parts on the butterfly ship, such as cable buckle and mast wrapping, and two anchors can also be obtained from the butterfly ship.

Brig and brigantin are of the same type. Each ship has four anchors, and two are reserved enough for them to berth stably in calm waters, such as hebrazil island and large docks in various countries.

There is no way to fix the rivets of the hull at present, but thanks to that film, the rivets of the Macaw can fight several more rounds. As long as there is no storm and battle on the road, they can drive back to Southampton for overhaul and replacement.

The smooth resolution of the problem of iron and wood means that 80% of the ship's problem has been solved.

The rest is small.

Waterproof glue is not a problem, and the materials on the cable butterfly are sufficient.

As for the sail, Karen's plan is to dismantle the two sides of the butterfly flower to catch the sail and transform it into a bow sail, which can provide a certain wind cutting capacity for the Macaw.

The cross sail of the butterfly flower is a three sail system, only the bottom large sail is retained, and the cross sail in the middle is transferred to the Macaw to form a downwind side.

The upper part of the horizontal sail is divided into two, which is transformed into two back masted Latin sails to improve the ship's speed.

Such an adjustment can greatly reduce the use of cables. Karen expects that after the transformation, the Macaw can obtain a speed of five knots downwind and three and a half knots upwind in the Atlantic Ocean, which is enough to keep up with the lack of sail of the butterfly flower to form a ship line and drive back to Britain together.

Lorraine was overjoyed. He entrusted the task of changing the ship to a trusted craftsman. When the instant man brought the good news back to Xiangfeng camp.

The first round of sea cave exploration earned ￡ 3000!

The memories of the dead and wounded were forgotten by the excited sailors. The second round of selection began on the night when the wind met the ground. This time Lorraine wanted 28 people.

In three days, the new expedition will drive the Macaw to the sea cave again and put the pirate treasure that has been identified into its bag!

……

In a flash of three days, the repair of the butterfly flower was orderly, and 40% of it had been completed.

The Macaw, whose sails had become beyond recognition, carried a morale raising expedition slowly offshore, startled the bats with the wind and guns, and returned to the end of the waterway.

The warship anchored.

This time, Lorraine brought more people and pushed three gun carts. He brought 20 explosive bags alone. He could put aside the guns and directly use them as explosive bags.

The long line lit a fire and came to the place where the giant lizard had met before.

The corpse of the giant lizard disappeared, and the corpse of the left sailor also disappeared. Only the light gun and the left shells were still stacked together intact, which was the same as three days ago.

Lorin knew that the Komodo lizard had the habit of eating rot and cannibalism. This change proved that the lizard group they met was not the only owner in the sea cave.

They may have their own kind, or there may be predators as powerful or even more powerful as them in the cave.

Lorraine raised his arm: "rest, load guns, three groups watch, don't stay away from the brigade."

That war seems to work

Animals are much more sensitive than people. In the nearly closed ecological environment of sea cave, Komodo lizard must be the overlord of the upstream even if it is not at the top of the food chain.

They launched attacks on new humans, paid the price of eight adult giant lizards, and only killed three people, which is enough to make the ecosystem rank human strength. More than half of them will be higher than the giant lizards.

Thinking of this, Lorraine felt more confident.

After the rest, the team continued to move forward and passed through the narrowest point of the tunnel without hurry. After that, it became more and more open.

Noah followed Lorraine step by step, looking warily at the increasingly dark cave wall.

"Captain, do you think it's getting hot in the hole?"

"A little..." Lorraine pulled his collar. "Lizards are cold-blooded animals. If there is no warm environment, their desire for action will decline. They won't be so aggressive."

"Really?" Noah's big eyes blinked curiously. "Captain, how do you know everything?"

"Basic biological knowledge..." Lorraine shrugged helplessly. "Karen and acharin also know."

"I know that modesty is a gentleman's virtue!" Noah nodded her head seriously. "Captain, there is no light in the hole. Why is it getting hot?"

"Most likely, we are marching towards the volcano..."

"Volcano!"

They were talking. The team turned a huge arc in the process of marching, and their eyes suddenly lit up!

They entered a flat and wide cave.

The cave is more than ten meters high, egg shaped and looks like a theater. The widest part is thirty or forty meters. There are clusters of red or green, glittering and shining strange plants everywhere, which make the whole cave strange and dreamlike.

These lights were weak and not enough to hold, but the sailors marched for a long time in the dark sea cave. Except for the orange area of the torch, they had already adapted to the darkness without seeing the head and tail.

The sudden light and clear hole in front of people unconsciously feel relaxed.

Lorraine looked at it in disbelief. "Are these fluorescent mushrooms?"

Fluorescent mushroom is a strange creature that emits light when it grows. It belongs to fungi and is not edible.

This is the strange cold knowledge brought to Lorraine by avatar in the previous life. You know what it is, but you don't know why.

The sudden appearance of this precious species in hebrazil naturally surprised Lorraine.

Noah around him was attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of him. She couldn't help leaning up. Without taking two steps, she was pulled by Haina who didn't know when to come to the front team.

"Haina?"

"Beautiful things often contain danger." Hannah pointed to a fluorescent mushroom not far away. "At least those giant lizards don't dare to come here."

Through her, Lorraine and Noah saw that there were more or less bones in the patches of fluorescent mushrooms.

Most are animals and occasionally human heads.

They were hidden in the brightest place of the cave, looming and difficult to detect. If it wasn't for Haina's sharp eyes, even Lorraine would have missed it.

In fact, he did miss it.

To be more precise, except for Haina, no one in the whole expedition found the hidden danger, and everyone was confused by the hard to find beauty in the world!

At least ten sailors were walking towards the fluorescent mushroom, and the nearest one had almost reached into the light bush.

"Everyone stay away! Cover your face and don't touch!" Lorraine shouted to the team.

His voice was not fast, but it was not fast enough for a quick and defenseless sailor.

Two sailors had reached into the light Bush and were stunned when they heard Lorraine's voice.

"Ah!"

Screams burst out!

The sailors who put their hands into the light clump staggered backward with their arms. They rolled a colorful ribbon on their hands. They took only a few steps back and fell convulsively to the ground.

The ribbon loosened from their arms, swam and slid down to the next sailor. There were only two aggressive sounds. Haina's red velvet Throwing Knife nailed one, and Noah's silver Tarot cut the other in two.

"It's coral snakes!" Haina quickly pulled out a new Throwing Knife. "They're scared!"

"I'm scared too!" Luo linqiang pulled out his double knives, spread his cross arms, and protected the sailors behind him to step back slowly.

There are hundreds of colorful ribbons swimming out of the light clumps, each of which is only 50 or 60 cm, slender and beautiful.

They approached the expedition from all directions, pressing the circle smaller and smaller. Most of them held their heads high, supported their triangular heads, and hissed red snake letters.

This is a sign of an impending attack!

Lorraine, Noah and Haina stood in a line and protected their companions, but even they were stunned by hundreds of snake eyes and had no confidence to kill them.

What's more, even if they kill out of this cave, what should they do when they come back?

"Acharin! Shoot into the open, come on!"

Acharin blushed and said, "if... Captain, what if you can't scare them away!"

"If you can't scare them away... The Drake chamber of commerce can be renamed the attic chamber of Commerce. Fire!"