Chapter 51: Exactly the same Bai Yu felt a little dizzy. ...
"There's no bed upstairs either."
"There's some hay in the house next door. I'll go ask if I can use it. I can just sleep on the ground. I've been drifting on the water for so many days, I just want to get a good night's sleep."
"Don't bother asking. Just sleep. We'll just rest here for two days and leave once we're sure of the direction. Don't bother us too much."
"That's fine. Just sleep on the second floor. It won't be too damp."
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Bai Xi stood on the third floor of her building, looking at the house not far away. She asked Bai Yu beside her, "Sister, do you think they'll come over? They're all strangers, and I'm always worried."
"It's okay. Even if they have malicious intentions, Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai are here. They saw it just now and didn't dare to come over." Bai Yu recognized the guarding skills of the two wolves.
"Yeah, they're wolves after all," Bai Xi breathed a sigh of relief, then added, "But even without Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, if they sneak over and cause trouble, we can handle them with our current abilities."
"Well, they can't beat us," Bai Yu turned around and pulled Bai Miao, who had been standing on tiptoe to watch, "Let's go back to the house and sleep."
Bai Xi followed him into the house.
The night passed peacefully.
The next morning, Bai Yu got up as usual. When he walked to the balcony, he saw several people processing wood not far away. This was what they had agreed on yesterday.
The steward gave them money. In addition to food, they also needed some wood, mainly to repair some problems on the boat to ensure that the boat could adapt to the long journey and return to the starting point.
There is a lot of wood stored on the island. In addition to the wood needed for building houses, the rest of the wood moved from the forest plane is stored in the house after being dried in the sun and not needed for the time being.
Now this group of people wants to repair the boat, and these woods can be used directly.
After watching for a while, Bai Yu went downstairs to help clean up the wood and asked for directions back.
When they came here before, although they had a fixed direction along the way, it was daytime. At night, the boat drifted with the current and no one knew where it was going. So even if they wanted to go back now, they didn't know which way to go.
These people have rich experience in living at sea and should be able to determine the direction.
Sure enough, as soon as Bai Yu asked, someone explained the situation to her.
"We got lost on the way here, but the way back is east. There's an experienced person on the boat who can tell the island's approximate location by looking at the trees on your island and the fish and shrimp in the sea. He's already checked, and we should have results in the next day or two."
"The sea is so vast. Without someone who knows the direction, who would dare to go out?"
"By the way, you've been living on the island for so long, and it looks like you need to buy some supplies. You must have gone to exchange them with others. Where did you go?"
Bai Yu found a few reasonable excuses: "Some of them were brought here when I arrived, some were exchanged with passing ships, and some were specifically found on the sea to find ships and then exchanged with people, but it all depends on luck. And some... like the bowls you used to eat yesterday, they floated directly from the sea."
At least the bowl floating from the sea was real.
Since something can float over, it is normal to encounter a passing ship as long as the boat sails farther.
When she said this, no one doubted it.
"If we don't see any ships for a long time, we'll run out of supplies."
"Just change more every time you encounter a fleet."
"Is there any silver on the island?"
"You're so stupid! Why not just exchange it for fresh water and food? These are what ships adrift on the sea need most. The fleet will definitely be willing to exchange these for less valuable supplies on board, don't you think?"
Bai Yu smiled.
She didn't know, but she felt that what the man said made sense.
After chatting for a while, Bai Yu already had a general idea of the situation of these people. The person who was mainly responsible for determining the direction was the guide on the boat, and the rest were ordinary crew members. They had more experience in survival at sea than Bai Yu, but were not very good at determining the direction.
For this reason, their main job is to repair ships.
She helped with the wood for a while until Bai Xi woke up.
The three sisters live together, and Bai Xi is mainly responsible for three meals a day.
At this time, everyone on the boat had already had breakfast, and there were no outsiders in the kitchen, but Bai Xi still did not use the seasonings from [Sign in], and simply cooked a pot of potato rice.
But this is not all their meals. If it is not easy to make here, they can go to the magic plane and the white fog plane to make it. At least the three sisters' stomachs will not be unfair.
After breakfast, Bai Yu chatted with the crew members again and learned that the steward had a "big map" in his hand, which showed the locations of all the known countries.
Although this map is not very detailed, the fleet going out to sea refers to the locations on the map, and there will generally be no mistakes. Even if there are any mistakes, it will only take one or two days.
For a fleet sailing on the sea, an error of one or two days is not a big problem. After all, every time they go out to sea, if they go to a country that is a little far away, it will take at least three to five months, and it is not impossible to take three to five years. As long as the direction is correct, they can always find the way back.
After confirming this, Bai Yu became more interested in the map and wanted to find an opportunity to take a closer look at it.
However, the map is very important, and it won't be a big deal to just take a look at it. He definitely won't ask someone to borrow it for no reason. So when Bai Yu was looking for someone to look at the map, he also brought Bai Miao, who had an excellent memory.
Soon after, she found the manager who was leading people to determine the location of the island.
And what he was holding in his hand was the map that Bai Yu wanted to see.
Bai Yu walked up and asked.
The manager didn't say much and handed the map to her directly. Afraid that she couldn't understand it, he also explained some of the content on the map.
This picture is said to be a map, but it is actually some information about country names. Except for the detailed content of the country itself, the other countries only have a rough range and name, as well as the sailing time of the fleet between the two countries.
Of course, there are specific directions.
"We went to this country before, rich in spices," the steward pointed to a country on the map, then to a blank spot. "On our way back, we encountered danger almost right here, which caused us to be separated from the fleet. We've been drifting on the sea ever since. It's been half a month since we got to the island from here. We don't know the exact location of your island, but we've been heading east, so if it's true, it should be within this range."
The steward drew a circle on the map.
Although it is just a circle on the map, its range is very large. Next time you go there, you can't just go east. You have to determine the specific direction, otherwise you may miss it.
The guide beside him glanced at the map and raised his hand to lock the circle: "At present, we can confirm that it is within this range. I need to confirm the situation here before I can narrow it down."
Bai Miao was held in Bai Yu's arms, and he also stretched his head to look at the map carefully.
The steward looked at her and said with a smile, "Your sister is very cute."
"Yes, she's very well-behaved and sensible," Bai Yu said with a smile. He let Bai Miao look at the map while he spoke to the steward. "It's not easy for you either. You were clearly following the fleet, but you still got separated. If you weren't experienced, it would be easy to get into trouble at sea."
"Yes, although doing business at sea is profitable, it is also dangerous," the steward sighed. "I don't know what the situation will be like when we return home this time. Before we left last time, many places had already implemented maritime bans. I hope there haven't been any major changes so we can return safely."
"Does the maritime ban mean that we can't go out to sea to do business?" Bai Yu asked.
The steward nodded. "Once the maritime ban is tightened, it will be extremely dangerous whether you go out or go back. Not to mention you might encounter pirates. Sometimes I really want to live in a secluded paradise like you guys, but my relatives and friends are all here, and I really can't leave them."
Bai Yu now understood a lot from the contents of the book. He probably understood the steward's feelings and continued his words, "Even in the paradise, you still need to buy salt and cloth. Without these things, it would be difficult to live."
"That's true. It's so difficult for people to live in a paradise on earth." The manager shook his head and sighed.
At this time, Bai Miao had finished reading all the contents on the map and turned around to hug Bai Yu's neck.
Bai Yu looked at her, then spoke to the steward: "Then you continue watching, I won't disturb you anymore."
"good."
Having said that, Bai Yu carried Bai Miao back home, and when they arrived at their residence, he placed her next to the table.
In front of him was the paper and pen he had exchanged for from the new dimension.
"Can Miaomiao remember?"
"Remember." Bai Miao held the pen and drew the map he had just seen on the white paper.
This includes all text on the map, as well as the distances and sailing times between different countries.
As she was drawing, she turned to look at Bai Yu: "Sister, this one will take a month, this one will take two months, and it will be bigger."
"You mean the distance should be farther, right?" Bai Yu looked at the picture and took another piece of white paper from the side. "Then draw two pictures. The second picture should use the distance you want."
Bai Miao nodded, quickly painted the same content on the second painting, and then began to draw two similar yet different paintings.
On one side was a painting that was exactly the same as the map in the steward's hand, and on the other side was a new painting she drew based on the sailing distance marked on the painting.
After finishing the painting, she put down her pen and sat there for a while with a frown on her face.
"What's the matter?" Bai Yu asked with his head down.
Bai Miao still frowned. After a while, he got up from the chair, walked to the cabinet where books were piled, took out a book, opened one of the pages without thinking, and spread it out next to the newly drawn picture.
Then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed at the pictures on both sides and turned around excitedly: "Sister, they seem to be the same."
Bai Yu lowered his head in shock, but found that he could not see any similarity between the picture drawn by Bai Miao and the map in the book.
After all, on the map in the manager's hand, most countries are just small dots.
Bai Miao was still very excited, pointing out the places one by one: "This is this, this is here, this is here, and this place is the same as here, sister, they are exactly the same."
Bai Yu felt a little dizzy.
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