Chapter 1316: Attu Island
"Master! Come here quickly! The boat in front of you saw the island! It should be the Thousand Link Islands!!"
Gan Shi, who taught Haiwa how to collect clothes, immediately let go after hearing this and asked Haiwa to try to collect clothes by herself. She walked to Zheng Ping and asked, "Oh? How far is it?"
“It will definitely be there within one or two hours.
I just don’t know if there is a suitable place to park, and I don’t know if there is fresh water on the island. Our fresh water needs to be replenished."
"If you don't work, just get off the anchor and let the sergeant change to a small boat to the island!"
Gan Shi said, and returned to the command cabin with Zheng Ping.
In the direction of the east, a large island appeared in front of Gan Shi.
"This island is quite large, it seems that there should be tamsui!"
The large island that Ganshi saw was the westernmost Attu Island of the Aleutian Islands in the later generations.
During later World War II, Atu Island was once called the place where Japan and the United States fought, and this was also one of the few wars that the United States had occupied by the enemy after its founding.
After the war, the US military built a military base there, which was abandoned, leaving only a large amount of materials sealed when it was strategic reserves, waiting to be activated again.
Not to mention anything else, the US military's extravagant behavior is really enviable.
And now, Atu Island is still an isolated island that has not been involved in civilization.
"It seems that there is no people on this island, just log in."
Zheng Ping, who had been half a circle around the island, chose a relatively flat place to log in.
"No one happens to be right, we can erect the monument!"
Gan Shi is now addicted to erecting monuments.
After landing, the crew began to team up to explore, on the one hand, to find Tamsui and on the other hand, to find stones suitable for erecting monuments.
Just as he was looking for it, a sudden scream attracted everyone's attention.
"Beware! Blow the horn!!"
The sound of the trumpet sounded, and the crew members who were scattered around were immediately cautious and quickly retreated.
"It's a hunter's trap. It seems that there are still people on the island, but this trap is very simple, and it's not like it's dug by metal tools. Either the hunter has no money, or the people here don't have metal tools at all."
Soon, Zheng Ping and others found the source of the screams. It was a crew member exploring the island. He fell into a trap. Fortunately, there was no wooden sign or something like that in the trap, otherwise the crew member would have to be broken here.
"Those who hurt us cannot end like this! Find me!!"
Zheng Ping was angry and annoyed. If he hadn't made the judgment that there was no one on the island before, the crew would not have been so relaxed that they would have been injured by such a simple trap.
The island is indeed not big, and a village was quickly found to dig a trap.
This is a very small village, but dozens of people were frightened when they saw Zheng Ping and others. They knelt on the ground and shouted what Zheng Ping and others didn't understand, and presented goods such as animal skins.
But from the action, I understand that this is begging for mercy.
Zheng Ping, who was originally angry, was immediately exhausted.
After all, they broke into the island.
Moreover, from the outside, these villagers have very similar appearances to those of the Han people, and they also have black hair and yellow skin.
After exchange of gifts and sign language exchanges, Zheng Ping and Gan Shi roughly learned about the situation on the island.
There are only one village on this island, and the population is less than one hundred. This village or tribe is called Atu, and it is still in an extremely primitive state, without any metal tools, only stone tools.
Therefore, after receiving the iron tools given by the Ocean Fleet, the Attu people immediately regarded the people of the Ocean Fleet as friends and guests.
Gan Shi enthroned the Attu people as usual and gave them two flags of great men to be inserted into the village.
I just don’t know if these villagers will regard this flag as a god to worship...
Suddenly, Haiwa walked up and started talking to the Atu people.
The Atu people were immediately excited.
Finally, there is someone who knows a little bit of humanity.
"Master, I know a little bit about them, they are a bit like us."
Haiwa's Chinese dialect has made rapid progress. Although he can only say simple short sentences, it can also make Gan Shi and the others understand.
"Does the people here and the people from Hope Corner were from the same lineage before?" Zheng Ping couldn't believe it.
How far is it from Hope?
But if you say it is not...how did the people here come from?
Zheng Ping vaguely guessed something in his mind, but he was not sure.
Gan Shi said, "It seems that yes. The general had said before that there might be some Yanhuang remnants who left in Dongshengzhou."
"Did they come from the big man?"
"There was no great man at that time, maybe even Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang had not yet."
Gan Shi smiled and then stopped discussing the ancient things.
Zheng Ping looked at Haiwa and the Attu people who were struggling to communicate, and felt that the world... was a bit crazy.
The Ocean Fleet did not stay on the island named Atu Island for too long, and left again after replenishing Tamsui and erecting a stone tablet.
Looking at the Atu people gathered on the beach and shaking the flag of the Han Dynasty, Zheng Ping said, "I hope they can make good use of the seeds we left for them. As long as they learn to farm, they will have hope."
"Just a few days, hope."
Gan Shi shook his head, and had no confidence in whether the Attu people could advance from fishing and hunting to farming.
Farming is not that simple.
Since leaving Atu Island, the fleet can see an island almost every two or three days, and sometimes two or three days can see two or three a day. These islands guide the fleet to continue to go east like road signs. But it is regrettable that many of these islands are bare, with only some weeds and not even trees, let alone people.
"boom!!"
"What sound?"
Xu Hong, who was writing a diary, was startled by the huge roar. He hurriedly put down his pen, locked the diary and then went to the deck.
"Xu Ji, you are a cultural person. Look, what is that?"
Xu Hong looked in the direction the sailor pointed, but saw a large amount of black smoke appearing on the island not far away.
"Typeg! Give me a telescope!!"
The sailor in charge of looking at the observation handed the telescope to Xu Hong. Xu Hong picked it up and saw that under the black smoke was a small hill on the island. Red and black mud was flowing out of the top of the hill, but Xu Hong soon discovered that these were not mud, because the already sparse plants on the island were lit and burned into ashes when they encountered these mud.
Xu Hong, let alone seeing you, has never heard of such a strange thing.
This is not a surprise to Xu Hong. Although there were many earthquakes on the territory of the Han Dynasty, there were few volcanoes, mostly distributed in border areas such as the northeast and northwest.
Xu Hong is one of the few people in the Han Dynasty who saw a volcano erupt with his own eyes.
After witnessing the volcano eruption, the fleet continued to travel eastward.
Chapter completed!