The dot sank and floated in the waves, becoming clearer and clearer. With Zhang Lisheng's amazing eyesight, he could actually tell that it was a large wooden ship with a tattered sail drifting in the sea.
After looking at it carefully for a while, he could tell that this ship was definitely not the work of a Hellfire tribesman from the exquisite carving of a human-headed fish body at the bow of the ship, the relief of a child playing a trumpet-like musical instrument on the handrail of the ship, and the exquisite carpentry of the cabin stained with blood.
"The ship of the mainlander …" Zhang Lisheng muttered. He had only seen one so-called mainlander mentioned by the Hellfire tribesmen before. It was Armandnik who chased after the migration of the Evnado merpeople and mistakenly entered the Shrimp B1 Island. In the end, he was seriously injured because he discovered the secret of the Earthlings' invasion and died miserably in the hands of an inhuman.
Speaking of which, this scholar's bad luck was actually Zhang Lisheng's good luck. He had inadvertently obtained a very useful magical ability, the Eternal Comprehension Spell, from Armandnik's relic.
It was because he had obtained a gratifying harvest during his first encounter with the mainlanders that Zhang Lisheng could not help but secretly feel an itch in his heart when he saw the abandoned ship of the mainlanders.
He calculated that even if he did not find anything else, just taking the wooden ship that floated around unmanned and could actually cross the ocean into the Hellfire Archipelago's sea area as a 'model' for the shipyard to build ships in the future was already a great harvest. Leaping down from Ghostface's back, he shrunk the wizard gu and pinched it in his hand.
Then, Zhang Lisheng commanded the wyrmdragon to soar into the air from his shoulder and reverted to its original size of seven to eight meters. It rolled a few times on the sea surface and wrapped itself in water vapor before flying straight towards the shipwrecked wooden ship in the distance.
The sea was boundless. The wooden ship was right in front of his eyes, but the wizard gu had to fly for three to four minutes before finally landing on the deck.
After boarding the ship, the young man found that this wooden ship was much larger than he had expected. The distance between the bow and the stern was actually about 70 meters.
On the deck of the ship, the two masts that could hang two layers of huge sails had already been broken, leaving only half a sail, while the mast at the stern that controlled the direction of the ship was full sail. Perhaps it was precisely this kind of coincidence that allowed this wooden ship, which could quickly sway along with the wind despite being blown by the hurricane, to escape the fate of sinking.
After walking around the exposed cabins, he realized that there was nothing else in the cabins other than the large amount of blood that was sprayed and the broken wooden furniture that had fallen into a mess. Zhang Lisheng frowned and stomped his feet on the deck a few times. When he heard the hollow sound, he looked around and came to a spiral staircase that was covered with a movable thin wooden board before walking to the second floor of the cabin.
The second floor of the ship was filled with spacious guest rooms. There were beds, tea tables, soft chairs covered with feathers, and even an exquisitely carved dressing table. All of them were present, but at this moment, they were all crumpled into a ball.
"There are still no corpses, only bloodstains. It seems like the passengers and sailors on the ship have been destroyed." After looking at more than half of the cabins that were still similar, Zhang Lisheng muttered and no longer continued to walk.
He stomped his feet on the second floor of the deck again. When he heard that it was still hollow, he walked around a few times in the corridor and found the stairs leading to the third floor of the cabin hidden in a storage room.
Walking down the stairs, he encountered a heavy wooden door that he had never seen before in the stairwell connecting the first and second floor of the cabin. Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment and pondered for a moment before guessing that the wooden door must be a fence that separated the two types of passengers on the ship. The upper class lived in the gorgeous second-floor guest rooms where they could walk up to the top deck at any time to enjoy the blue sky, white clouds, warm sunshine, and comfortable sea breeze.
The people with lower social status, on the other hand, had to stay in the dark bottom cabin during the journey, living a hard life like a gopher.
"Passenger ship? Looks like this is really a passenger ship. I can't believe that other than mastering the magic civilization, the mainlanders of the Shrimp World No. 2 also have such a high level of scientific literacy.
A large ship that relies on the wind to sail and has a discharge of at least 3,000 tons is actually just a passenger ship … "He frowned and muttered to himself before pushing the wooden door hard.
The wooden door that was half a foot thick was not locked. After being pushed, it slowly opened with a creaking sound. When it had only opened a small gap, a pungent stench that could make one's head go numb immediately rushed into the young man's nose.
"Don't tell me that they've all died on the third floor …" After mastering the transformation power, Zhang Lisheng could survive freely even if he did not breathe for a few days and nights. He held his breath and slowly walked down the dark stairs. At once, a hellish scene appeared in front of his eyes.
In the third floor of the cabin, all the wooden partitions of the compartments had been burned by the fire, turning into pieces of charred and incomplete wooden boards that were pressed on the hundreds of corpses that had been burned and rotted by the damp, with green moss growing on the rotten flesh that were connected together on the deck.
This must be the work of the pirates who had looted the passengers on the ship before slaughtering all of them and throwing them into the third floor of the cabin. In the end, they set up a big fire in an attempt to destroy the corpses.
However, it did not cross their minds that the wood used to build this passenger ship was particularly resistant to fire. The fire did not destroy its entire structure and sink it to the bottom of the sea. Instead, it slowly floated to Zhang Lisheng's eyes along with the ocean current and sea breeze.
"Looks like this is a gift from a group of inexperienced, novice pirates," Zhang Lisheng stood on the pile of corpses that were stuck together after being burned. Standing on the pile of corpses that were stuck together after the fire, Zhang Lisheng had no expression on his face. He muttered and turned to walk up the stairs.
He held his breath all the way to the open deck of the wooden ship and took a few breaths. Then, he began to command the wyrmdragon to swim into the sea and expand its body to its limit to push the wooden ship slowly towards the coast.
It took him three to five minutes to arrive but nearly half an hour to return. Zhang Lisheng transformed into a majestic giant using the Money Toad's power and worked together with the wizard gu to carefully place the big wooden ship on the beach. After dragging it to a place where the high tide could not reach, he put away the wizard gu and looked at the Tudenan shipbuilders, fishermen and elite warriors guarding the ship fishery who surrounded and worshipped him. He ordered, "Send a warrior.
Call all the chief craftsmen of the tribe here. "
It was the privilege of the chiefs to serve the tribal god first. A chief warrior with two feathers on his head shouted, "Yes, Great Raider!" Climbing up from the sand, he jumped onto the back of his partner and commanded the big spider to fly away.
Not long after, the chief craftsmen of the Tudenan tribe rode on the neck of the Lohlos and appeared in front of Zhang Lisheng in a swaying manner.
When these craftsmen saw the unimaginably huge wooden ship beside the Raider, surprise and shock appeared on their faces in unison. However, they still suppressed the desire in their hearts and kneeled on the ground one after another.
"I've told you before, other than worshipping me when you see me for the first time every day, you only need to bow down to show your respect." Zhang Lisheng waved his hand and said, "Aruba, stand up with your subordinates and study this wooden ship carefully. See if you can imitate it."
"Yes, Raider!" Aruba replied respectfully and climbed up from the beach. Together with several dozens of chief craftsmen with feathers on their heads, they surrounded the wooden ship that had fallen on the sand and began to measure it with the strange tools that were transformed from the meter ruler and protractor that Zhang Lisheng gave him.
Upon seeing their excited look, Zhang Lisheng could not help but say, "It's just a small wooden ship of several dozens of meters and you're already so shocked. Then, when you see the giant steel ship that's parked in the foreign tribe's stone city, won't you pass out?" The so-called foreign tribe's stone city was, of course, the gathering place of humans on Shrimp B1 Island.
"Great Raider, actually, I've long wanted to go to that magical foreign tribe's stone city to have a look. It's just that with your ban, that place has always been a forbidden zone for the Tudenan people …" Upon hearing the Raider's words, Aruba, who was climbing up the wooden ship's side and gesturing with a wooden ruler connected with iron nails, seized the opportunity to say in a regretful tone.
"Don't worry, Aruba. You'll be able to go there to have a look very soon." Zhang Lisheng smiled and casually added, "That's right, this ship is divided into three floors of cabins. There are many charred bodies of the mainlanders on the third floor so don't be afraid later."
"Raider, only the living mainlanders are the terrifying and useless mainlanders.
After they die, they'll become fertilizer for the trees and it'll make the Hellfire people have a good impression of them instead. " Facing the hot sea breeze, Aruba said with a grin. The natural hatred between the 'mainlanders' who claimed to be a civilized world and the Hellfire tribesmen who had a hard time in the jungle of the savage island caused him to lose the demeanor of a wise man.
Zhang Lisheng could not help but chuckle and no longer said anything. He watched silently as the craftsmen were busy for a long time. Finally, they measured the wooden boat from top to bottom, inside and out, and recorded it carefully on the bark paper.
After completing the preliminary work, Aruba, who climbed out of the cabin on the third floor of the wooden ship but did not have a good impression of the mainlanders who were stuck into a pile of corpses like he had said before, bent down towards Zhang Lisheng and said with a pale face, "Raider, the structure of this wooden ship is complicated. If we just measure it with our naked eyes, it'll be very difficult for us to imitate it.
However, if we can dismantle it and carefully study each part and the connection between the parts, I'm at least 80% sure that we can replicate it. "
"In that case, dismantle it, Aruba. This is the purpose of the big wooden ship that I picked up from the sea," Zhang Lisheng replied without hesitation.
Upon hearing the Raider agreeing to dismantle the ship, the chief craftsmen of Tudenan cheered and began to slowly dismantle the wooden ship.
Dismantling a 70-meter wooden ship into parts was undoubtedly a very delicate work. Several dozens of chief craftsmen also called over 300 to 400 meters of their subordinates to work together. By the time evening arrived, they had only completed less than one-fifth of it.
At this time, the aborigines lit up a lot of bonfires on the surrounding coast to illuminate. Unfortunately, it was impossible to illuminate the wooden ship as clearly as it was during the day on the open coastline. However, it was also because of the continuous flickering of this light that Zhang Lisheng inadvertently discovered an anomaly at the bottom of the ship.
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