After throwing the murloc corpses into the sea, Lawrence took a few people on a small boat to Jinquan Island. There is a two-meter-diameter well in the center of this small island. Around the well is a well circle made of the surrounding specialty coral stones, and the well is covered with a wooden lid for hygiene reasons.

Next to this well is a large stone as high as two people, on which the goddess of spring water and the holy emblem are carved. Lawrence took the group of his men to salute the statue of the goddess of spring water and took out a few pieces of bread as sacrifices and placed them in front of the statue, and then began to search around.

Soon, the few of them found evidence that John and the others had come: somewhere near the well they found a shoe spike, which glowed with metal and looked completely new. A simple-looking trademark is cast on the studs.

"Ha, this is the trademark of the Iron Hammer." As Reso, who has been active in the Star Island area recently, he quickly recognized what the small hammer symbol on the side of the spikes represented. "This is the largest metal processing factory in the New Netherlands and the surrounding sea area, producing a series of small daily-use hardware products. For example, most of the iron nails, shoe spikes, hinges, springs, and iron wires are all in the surrounding area. Come from this factory."

“Fishermen don’t wear leather shoes with studs. We often choose to go barefoot on the boat.” said a sailor who landed with them. He had been a sailor under Lawrence for a long time. The fishermen of time naturally know the habits of the fishermen in this area. "The only people who come to this small place to fetch fresh water are fishermen, except for a small number of small offshore freighters that yaw due to the storm."

"No freighter has passed from here in the past few days, and unregistered smugglers will not wear shoes that are inconvenient to move on board." Lawrence, who got the ship's operation data in the area these days, said, and then held it. The spike said to the people around. "If you look at it carefully, you will find that this stud is a heavy-duty combat boot with an armored iron plate. Now this era, only the extraordinary will wear this."

"But why do they want to add fresh water?" the sailor asked in a puzzled way, "New Netherlands Islands are not far from here, and the surrounding weather in the past few days can be said to be calm. In theory, that expedition. On the team’s boat. There should be no shortage of fresh water. It seems a bit weird to get water here at this time."

"I think there are two possibilities," said Nora, who had been silent just now. "One is that they have encountered some unexpected situation, so that the fresh water stored on the ship has lost a lot of it, even to the point where it must be supplied. Think about the group of murlocs who were besieging us just now that shouldn’t have been here, I doubt this What happened nearby."

"The other possibility is that they found something unexpected on the way to the target. Lin temporarily decided that he needed a long voyage, so he came to this island to temporarily supplement some fresh water in order to maintain a longer voyage."

"The first possibility is unlikely." Lawrence closed his eyes and thought for dozens of seconds after hearing what Nora said. "Because if you follow John's scheduled sailing route, there will be a large port on the previous day's voyage. It is much more convenient and faster to buy directly from the port than to get a little water from this well."

"As for the second possibility." Lawrence frowned, took out the nautical chart from his arms and looked at it carefully. "That means that many things we guessed before need to be changed. John 1 and they probably did not drive in the dense island area as originally planned, but drove directly to the sea."

While talking about Lawrence, he took out the red and blue pencil from his arms, then crossed out a few points in the original circle and quickly recalculated a series of numbers in his heart, and finally added it to the east. Two blue circles.

"They yaw very badly this time. If we connect the traces of the ship we found in two places into a line, we will find that their ship has deviated far from the original target point and sailed to the sea." After the calculation, Lawrence looked up and said To. "Next we may need to search outside the area given by the church."

"Then do it." Reso said briefly after thinking. "Anyway, the church will focus its search on the area they have delineated. There will be no more than us, and less of us. It's better to let us go directly to places they haven't found."

"Then do we need to inform the church about the conjecture we just arrived at?" Nora asked curiously. "If the church can send someone to help, I think we--" But she was stopped by Lawrence when she was halfway through.

"This is unnecessary. After all, the clues we found are just a tin box and a shoe spike. All the rest are conclusions drawn through reasoning and predictive magic." Lawrence shook his head gently and said, " But my transcendent level is not enough to convince church members of the results of my spells."

"More importantly, we are just proposing a conjecture anyway. In terms of possibility, John and the others are more likely to be in the range drawn by the church. If this is the case, they put the main It is actually the most reasonable way to spend energy there and act separately with us."

After unifying everyone's thoughts, Lawrence and the others returned to the Enterprise and set sail again. This time, they took a big turn and drove in the direction of the open sea to the east. However, less than a day before the departure, the dark clouds in the sky began to gather slowly, and the wind and waves on the sea were getting bigger and bigger.

Such sudden storms in tropical seas are not uncommon, so the Enterprise immediately got ready after seeing low-hanging black clouds from a distance. So I passed this stormy area smoothly. However, during the time they passed through the stormy zone, they lost their original course and needed to be repositioned.

Different from the aimless search at the beginning, after roughly locking the target's direction, Lawrence can use Bai Ze's unpredictable prophet's ability to drive Meihua Yishu to further determine the target's direction. So when repositioning, Lawrence asked the captain for a compass to divination again. In order to avoid some possible interference, he also borrowed part of Nora's power related to the gods through the connection of the soul.

Unexpectedly, ~lightnovelpub.net~ After performing a series of magic rituals and letting the last three coins fall to the ground, the needle on the compass placed on the ground swung slightly and then pointed to one. The new direction, and there is an angle of more than ten degrees between this direction and the direction that was fortuned before departure.

"John, what the **** are they doing?" Lawrence frowned as he looked at the direction displayed on the compass and the chart, because this kind of prophetic magic indicated not the team's current location, but the location of their target. . Now it seems that if there is no problem with the result of divination, then it means that their target is also moving.

"Could it be that some pirates took what they were looking for, and John and the others were chasing them?" After reading the results of the fortune-telling, Nora suggested a possibility. After all, the information suggested that the pirates were hiding treasures. Haunted the nearby sea.

But after simple thinking, this conjecture was rejected by Lawrence. Because if it is really related to pirates, John and the others should report it as soon as possible, and let the church mobilize people to hunt down the pirates, not just rely on their own boat to hunt down and kill them.

"But you gave me an inspiration." Lawrence turned his head and said to Nora, "The treasure is probably not in a certain fixed position, but is carried by something moving."