Chapter 247
It took two days for Qiao Sheng and his team to finally reach the second large island recorded by Pei Hong. This pirate island was much simpler than the previous one. They could be defeated in one go.
Xia Beibei even despised these pirates, saying that they had no fighting power at all. After distributing all the supplies, the two fleets separated again, and Qiao Sheng and his team set out on a life of drifting on the sea again.
They encountered no islands, but Pei Hong often encountered them. Player 909 Shen Li also rarely encountered pirate islands before. Since he got the power box, he didn't know if his luck had changed, but he encountered pirate islands every few days.
At first, they were very stealthy, sneaking in slowly, then poisoning all the pirates, and then looting. After several rounds of trading with Li Mu using the pirate base flag, he had more supplies.
The first thing was to expand the fleet. In his own words, it was the chicken and the egg. He used the pirates' flags to exchange for food, and then used the food to recruit people to expand. With more people, he went to fight more pirates and get more flags.
"Uh... why did Shen Li say that? It feels like we are being taken advantage of." Qiao Sheng listened to Li Mu read the email and felt that something was wrong.
"That's about it. Now all the larger fleets have exchange business with us. Think about it in a positive way. We are paving the way for ourselves. The more fleets that can land on the pirate island, the sooner the day of clearing 999 islands will come. Maybe one morning when we wake up, the game will notify everyone that we can go home." Li Mu sent all the cans that Shen Li exchanged by mail. "
Teacher Li, your cake is too big. Yesterday I went to the storage box to count the headquarters flags you collected. There were only 128, and there were still 871 missing. At this rate, will we still be floating on the sea this time next year?" Lin Haiyang held the spicy duck neck he had just made and asked everyone to help taste it.
Li Mu took out the five flags that Shen Li had sent before and the 25 flags that he had just exchanged with Pei Hong a few days ago, indicating that another thirty flags had been deposited, and there would only be more and more in the future.
I don’t know if it’s because of luck, but since they separated from Pei Hong and his friends, Qiao Sheng and his friends can also encounter pirate islands while drifting on the sea, but the frequency is a bit low. Pei Hong and Shen Li can now get a flag almost every two or three days.
Qiao Sheng and his friends can only encounter one every five days. They have encountered many pirate islands, and after trying, they finally got the secret code book.
In fact, it is quite simple, just learn from Shen Li and his friends to sneak in and poison. It’s a bit slow, but it can catch the pirates off guard.
According to Li Mu's analysis, the iron box with the radio was also obtained in this way. As for why there was no secret book at that time, it was probably because the pirate leader had memorized it and destroyed it long ago in order to avoid being exposed.
They were able to obtain the secret book this time because the pirate leader was a new official and was still in the learning stage, which allowed them to succeed. They also got the new radio box, which happened to be parked on the band commonly used by pirates.
It provided them with secrets between pirates. As for why Pei Hong had never encountered these, it was entirely because they were wealthy and would also use stealth methods. They went to the island with great fanfare, giving the pirate leader enough time to destroy these things.
After getting the secret message book and knowing the frequency band, the four people became even busier. They had to arrange people to guard the two radio boxes 24 hours a day to report the information of the pirate leaders.
Originally, they thought that the information was difficult to intercept, but they didn't expect that the remaining 800 pirate leaders were also chatterboxes.
"Ahhhh, are they sick? The lunch was not right. When they went to the toilet in the afternoon, they had to send a message to others, and someone replied to him! Tell this pirate how to treat it, it pissed me off. I recorded it for a long time, but there was not a single useful message. It was all bullshit. I chatted in circles for more than 300 times!" Xia Beibei finally exploded after recording the conversation on several wooden boards.
There was nothing nutritious, it was all nonsense! No wonder she was furious. In order to keep watch at night, Qiao Sheng, who had just woken up in the afternoon, came to take over. He comforted her a few words and then put on his headphones to continue recording. It was not
until Lin Haiyang prepared dinner that the four of them gathered together again after breakfast.
Unlike the others who complained while eating, Li Mu took the wooden board that Xia Beibei and the others had recorded and studied it for a long time.
"What did Teacher Li come up with? I just recorded these words without nutrition. I wasted all the mulberry paper I used before. I had no choice but to write on the wooden board. Let's put it together. The charcoal pencils are all used up. The two I have now were made by Lin Haiyang who spent half a day shaving charcoal. They are not only difficult to write with, but also rubbed dirty. My hands are all black after a day of work. I can't wash them clean. When my mother sees me when I go home, she will probably suspect that I went to the coal yard to dig coal." Xia Beibei is now used to calling Li Mu Teacher Li, and she also stretched out her black little hands for everyone to see.
Lin Haiyang bared his teeth and said that he forgot to wrap the charcoal pencils with a layer of skin, which earned a big eye roll from Xia Beibei.
After dinner, three pirate ships arrived. Several people took cleaning up pirates as an after-dinner exercise. When they came back from dismantling the pirate ships, it was almost time for Xia Beibei and the others to wash up and rest.
Qiao Sheng had nothing to do, so he went to the third-floor cabin first and sorted all the crops grown by the robots in the past few days into the refrigerator on the second floor. Then he took the food to the first-floor cabin and added the raw materials to the filling machine.
The machine is fast enough, and as long as there are enough ingredients, it can process hundreds of cans in one night.
After turning on the machine, he turned around and saw Li Mu holding a few pieces of wood and still studying it.
"Did you find anything? You've been looking at it for so long?" Qiao Sheng walked over, sat on the chair next to him, and stretched his head to cut the words on the wood.
It must be said that Li Mu's literacy level is quite high. Xia Beibei's handwriting was very neat and orderly at first, but it became more and more chaotic and more and more chaotic as she wrote. It was enough to see how much resentment she had when she wrote.
"There are a few things wrong. Look at what this person said. He meant to persuade a pirate who sent a message to get a good treatment, and he also gave a folk prescription, but the prescription says poison." Li Mu pointed to a hastily written medicine name and expressed his confusion.
"Chinese medicine talks about fighting poison with poison. What if there is such a prescription?" Qiao Sheng looked at the wooden board and recalled the little theoretical knowledge of Chinese medicine stored in his mind.
Li Mu shook his head and said that he had asked Pei Hong's team doctor. This medicine cannot cure other diseases. It is pure poison. There is no such thing as fighting poison with poison. He also showed other prescriptions to the team doctor, who said that they were irrelevant. Not to mention the dosage, many of them were counterproductive.
But it was difficult for him to find out the truth that these pirates wanted to convey from these questions. They were hitting the nail on the head and there was no pattern at all.
Qiao Sheng also turned on the radio to listen to whether there were any new messages. This night, except for going out to fight with the pirate ship, she spent all the other time listening to the radio.
She really intercepted two messages, but the content was meaningless. One was a reminder that it was dark and the water was wide, so be careful of the waves, and the other was that the waves were hitting each other, and it was hard to say who was stronger.
Li Mu and Qiao Sheng were both overwhelmed by reading this confusing telegram. By the time Xia Beibei and the others got up and had breakfast together, all four of them were overwhelmed.
"I don't care. You guys take your time to research. I'm still young and my brain capacity is not good enough. You adults have to deal with this kind of intrigue. My IQ has been taken away by the college entrance examination." Xia Beibei leaned against Qiao Sheng and acted coquettishly for a while before continuing to listen to the radio.
Lin Haiyang was different. He didn't even say he gave up. He just sat up straight and asked Qiao Sheng sincerely whether he was going to have leek dumplings or radish and mutton dumplings for dinner.
This problem really bothered them for a long time. Every day, new telegrams were intercepted and new questions were raised. In a few days, the wooden boards next to the bamboo chairs were piled up half a person's height. The four people racked their brains but still couldn't figure out what the pirates meant.
When they were at a loss, Pei Hong and Shen Li sent emails to Li Mu, saying that they seemed to be targeted by pirates recently. The number of pirate ships they encountered increased sharply. They killed one wave after another, which affected their normal pace of searching for the island.