The boatman slowly opened his eyes, and he first saw the mutilated roof of the wooden house.
"Dad, you're awake! You are alive again!" The silly big man screamed.
The old boatman, who was still a little drowsy, was startled by the thunderous sound in his ears.
He frowned and shouted loudly: "Shut up, I'm not your father. I don't have you as a silly son!"
Hearing the movement, the crew came to the wooden house.
Hearing the old shipwright's scolding, someone laughed and said: "Come on, when you picked up this abandoned baby, you didn't want to throw him away. It was you who raised him with a soak of shit and urine. If you are not his father, who else can be?"
Someone else said: "You were unconscious at the time, so you didn't see it. You silly son used his body as a shield to protect you. Otherwise, you would have been torn apart by those bat monkeys."
"Big man protect Dad! Dad is not afraid." The silly big man beat his chest hard and made a banging sound.
The old shipwright looked at the silly big man and snorted coldly: "I am a pure-blooded human, and I am your adoptive father at the top."
"Adoptive father!" The old boatman repeated again.
His tone was disgusting, but there was warmth in his eyes.
Seeing the bandages all over the silly big man, he showed a worried look again.
"How is your injury, show me ......" The old shipwright beckoned.
"Don't look at it, if you can walk, then hurry up and meet Master Needle."
"Lord Wire?"
The crew recounted what happened to the old shipwright.
The old shipwright was stunned, and then he realized that if Mange hadn't stopped the silver rhinoceros, he would have died in the underworld.
He couldn't help but feel a bit of fear.
At the same time, he became worried again: "This Lord Needle actually took the initiative to invite Mange and his gang into the camp?"
"He's a Templar, but is he a little too young?"
"Alas, no matter what, let's meet this big man first."
The boatman was helped out of the dilapidated wooden house.
In the open space of the camp, several bonfires were burning at the same time. Large pieces of lizard meat were grilled on the fire, exuding an increasingly strong aroma.
There is plenty of drinkable water.
There was even a small bottle of rum in the hand of the needle. This is supplies from the crew.
When the shipwright saw the needle for the first time, he immediately stroked his chest with his hand, half-knelt down, and met the needle.
"Get up." Needle seemed very happy and smiled.
"We will rely on you more in the future, old shipwright, we don't know how to build sea ships." Needle encouraged.
The old boatman stood up, but lowered his head even lower: "The villain must do his best!"
Needle Jin raised his hand: "Go down and eat, take care of your body."
The young knight took the grilled meat skewer in front of him in his hand and took the initiative to walk towards Mane's side.
Mange and the others gathered on one side, and the needle and others on the other side were clearly distinguished.
As soon as the needle took a step, it attracted everyone's attention. Under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, Zhen Jin came to Mange and handed him the barbecue.
"Here, taste the taste of lizard meat." Needle Jin smiled, his handsome face was shining with a dazzling brilliance under the light of the fire.
Mane Ge calmly took the lizard meat, took a big bite, and swallowed it into his stomach after just chewing a few times.
"This is the green lizard in the desert, which can spray acid?" Mane tasted the taste, and then frowned slightly, "It doesn't seem to be very good. Maybe the silver-level green lizard leader has better meat quality?"
"I also ate the meat of the silver green lizard, and it tasted similar. Mane, if you want to hear it, I can describe it to you in detail. In fact, it is good for us to exchange intelligence." Wire said.
Sandao stared at Needle, expressionless: "We have heard from others about the heroic experience of Lord Needle bravely breaking into the island, showing mercy to the weak, and saving the good."
Jeon Jin smiled bitterly: "What kind of hero am I? I tried my best and only brought out four companions. On this island, my abilities are very limited."
"Give." Mane took off the meat skewer from the campfire and handed it to the needle, "Silver bear meat might be better. Hmm...... Let's call it a bear. Although it has a monkey tail and orangutan hands."
"Monkey-tailed brown bear?" Needle Jin said in his heart, his pupils shrank imperceptibly, and the smile on his face did not change at all, and he naturally took the bear meat.
"Oh, right. This is for you, which can heal the wounds on your body. Use it as soon as possible, Miss Zidi told me when I configured it, and after more than a day, this bottle of potion will be invalid." Needle threw out a bottle of potion and threw it to Mange.
Mange took it subconsciously, and just as he was about to reply, Needle had already turned around and left.
After this exchange, Needle and Mane didn't say anything else.
After dinner, Mange and the others left the camp and returned to the tent they had set up makeshiftly.
"My lord, I brought you another bat monkey." Bai Ya carried a dead bat monkey in his hand and came to Cangxu's tent.
With the supplies brought by Xiasuo and others, Cangxu finally didn't have to sleep in a hammock. He was specially arranged by the needle and had his own tent.
In the tent, in addition to the floor bed, there is a long wooden table.
There were a few lit candles on the wooden table, the table was drenched in blood, and the bat monkey's wings, brains, and eyeballs were scattered.
Cangxu was still wearing his glasses with broken lenses, and at this time he was prying open the bat monkey's throat with an iron rod, looking carefully inside by candlelight.
"What a strong vocal cord, with abnormal lungs, no wonder it can emit such strong sound waves." Cangxu murmured, he didn't look at Bai Ya, but just said, "Put this bat monkey down."
Bai Ya put down the bat monkey as he was told, and was about to turn around and leave, when he heard Cangxu ask again: "This bat monkey was killed by the goblin with three knives?"
"Yes." Bai Ya replied, "According to your request, I picked it out of the bat monkey corpse. It has also been confirmed by others."
Cangxu stroked the incision on the bat monkey's neck: "It's just and neat, it's a good knife handle."
Bai Ya stood still, he showed a look of hesitation, opened his mouth, and finally said what he had doubts in his heart: "This group of people is very dangerous. Why did Lord Needle bring them back to the camp? Shouldn't we guard against them?"
Cangxu began to use a knife and continued to cut along the bat monkey's neck: "Which do you think is easier to guard against them, throwing them into the dense forest or putting them under your nose?"
Bai Ya was slightly stunned.
He immediately asked again: "Since Lord Needle is guarding against them, he must also be suspicious of Mane. Why not interrogate him directly? The lord is a dignified Templar and a nobleman. He came to interrogate an orc, and no one would object. My father is so kind."
Cangxu raised his eyes to glance at Bai Ya, and then turned his gaze to the bat monkey corpse on the table.
Cangxu lowered his head and said: "You should have heard other people's relays. Mane, a half-orc...... It is very strong."
Bai Ya immediately retorted: "But he was injured."
Cangxu nodded slightly, pressed hard in his hand, and finally cut off the bat monkey's neck with a knife: "It's injured. But how serious is the injury? Don't look at him, he spat out two mouthfuls of blood, there may be an element of drama in it."
Bai Ya stared slightly: "Is this still possible?"
"How is it impossible? Your combat experience is too lacking, young man." Cangxu laughed, "And the most important thing is that Mane saved the old shipwright. Without his action, the old boatman would have died. Mane Ge was injured because of this, our Lord Needle, he would never do anything like robbing while the fire was in the fire and falling into the trap."
"My lord, ...... alas" Bai Ya sighed deeply.
Cangsu began to attack the bat monkey's brain with a saw: "Moreover, there were also members of the Three Swords Mercenary Group at that time, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the crew. Once the conflict is stimulated, a melee is triggered. Even if the adult can defeat Mane, it will be difficult to protect Zidhi, the old shipwright and others at the same time. If we force the other party to kill the shipwright, then we will not be able to build a sea ship, and we will all leave this island. What's more, there was Lord Zidi next to the adult at that time. Lord Zidi cannot use magic, only potions to protect himself. How could an adult put his fiancée in danger?"
Bai Ya nodded: "It seems that the adult has thought it through."
After sawing for a long time, the bat monkey's brain was still hard to resist the serrations.
He stood up and waved to Bai Ya: "Come on, help me saw this thing."
Without any shirk or hesitation, Bai Ya immediately came to the table and took the saw.
He used his broken and still recuperating hand to stabilize the bat monkey's head, and used his other arm to pull the saw with all his might.
Cang Xu stood aside, gasping, looking at Bai Ya's hard work, and decided to mention a few more words about this young man.
After all, Bai Ya saved his life.
Although Cangxu has publicly proposed: use white buds as food. But that was a last resort due to food shortages. In this case, Cangxu was even willing to contribute himself to serve as food for the needle.
In this situation now, Cang Xu's attitude towards Bai Ya is naturally different.
Cangxu said: "My lord actually has many benefits in doing this."
"First of all, the lord has retained it, and is expanding the possibility of recruiting this group."
"Didn't they refuse?" Bai Ya was puzzled.
"Do they really not want to?" Cangxu smiled and said, "If you were one of them, would you be willing to follow Mane Ge, or Lord Needle?"
"Of course it's Lord Needle." Bai Ya did not hesitate.
"Yes." Cang Xu sighed, feeling very emotional in his heart, "Mercenaries are a very cruel competition, and the few mercenary groups standing on the top of the tower are indeed beautiful. But the Three Swords Mercenary Corps is not."
"The three swords of the goblin are just black iron cultivation. His mercenary group is only middle-level at most."
"As a mercenary, how many can you really get a good death?"
"Young people may be naïve, but these mercenaries have been in the world for half their lives, and they have already seen the reality clearly and recognized themselves. What kind of people are they? What bloodline can you have?"
Cangxu sneered: "Following the needle is very tempting for them. Because it could be an opportunity to change their entire life! What a rare opportunity to get the favor of a big man like Lord Needle and allow them to follow! They won't know."
"Then why did they refuse?" Bai Ya asked.
Cangxu smiled and said: "People are conformist, these mercenaries obey the three knives, their inertia is too strong, and they can't change it for a while. Moreover, it was the first time they had met Lord Needle, and they didn't understand the nobility of the adult. However, Lord Zidi had already planted the seeds of recruitment in their hearts. In the future, when these seeds take root and germinate, Lord Needle is personally soliciting them, and there is almost no possibility of failure!"
"It is necessary to recruit them."
"You have experienced how dangerous this island is."
"So, we want to unite anyone who can. Every precious manpower must be cherished."
"Think about it, maybe in the future, the sea ship will be successfully built. We steered the sea ship, but we got caught in the storm. Because of the lack of a sailor who did not lower the sails in time, the ship capsized, and we all died on the seabed."
"Although this idea is a bit extreme, who can really predict the future?"
"Can you imagine that there will be a shipwreck?"
Bai Ya shook his head.
Cangxu: "To recruit these people, Lord Needle has a very advantage. Mango is just a half-orc, and his identity and lineage are his biggest flaws. As long as they are in contact for a long time, these people will naturally be attracted to Lord Needle."
"But Mane is probably the murderer!" Bai Ya shouted in a low voice and stopped the saw in his hand.
"Continue, don't stop." Cang Xu immediately reminded.
"Oh." Bai Ya hurriedly buried his head in sawing the monkey's head again.
Cangxu looked at the young man's hard work and laughed silently: "Do you think Mane Ge is the murderer?"
"How do I know?" Bai Ya shook his head.
"Then do you think it's like it?" Cang Xu asked a different question.
"Isn't he the most suspicious? Xiasuo said a lot during dinner......" Baiya wanted to relay, but was immediately interrupted by Cangxu.
"You have to think for yourself, Bai Ya. Carefully recall the before and after performance of the mane. Do you think he looks like a murderer?" Cang Xu continued to guide Bai Ya.
Bai Ya thought about it seriously this time, and said in an uncertain tone: "I feel that Mange is a very arrogant person, as if he can't do the act of assassinating others."
Cangxu was noncommittal about Bai Ya's conjecture, but analyzed Mange's behavior: "We can say that Mane came to the rescue of the shipwright for himself. But Sandao and the others didn't take action against these people, did they? According to the situation at that time, killing the stupid big man and forcibly capturing the unconscious shipwright, Mane and his gang had a good chance. But they didn't."
"Although his attitude towards Lord Needle is very disrespectful, it can be said to be offensive. But he still didn't do it after all, and he kept communicating with Lord Needle."
Bai Ya thought of something and became very angry: "Is that considered communication? He even dared to ask the adults to prove his identity with divine magic!"
"Hahaha, I think that's more of a temptation than a real recklessness. He didn't know how strong Lord Needle was. After all, divine magic is the power rewarded by the gods, which is essentially different from fighting spirit and magic. Whether this island can ban magic, Mane has no bottom in his heart."
Bai Ya's eyes lit up: "So, Master Needle actually saw it. He scolded Mange, which made Mane fearful of adults, and he didn't dare to do it easily!"
"Not bad. It's good to think of that. Next, let's talk about the details." Cangxu said.
"What's wrong with Xi Suo? He is a very good person, although he is a third deputy, he has no airs and is very easy-going." Bai Ya said.
"It's not easy." Cang Xu pushed the lens, "If you think about it, the captain is his father. In other words, Xi Suo is the heir to the sea ship Pig's Kiss. The Pig's Kiss is the captain's private property, and it will definitely be carefully searched in the future. What do the crew members usually think of the rope? Even if he is not the young master, he is also the future boss. Xi Suo was supported into three pairs, and his status on the ship can be imagined."
"There was a shipwreck and the survivors came to the beach. The first mate secretly hid a lot of food, as the third mate's fine rope, do you know?"
"If I were the first mate and act as the leader of everyone, the first thing I would have to win was the support of the crew. The third officer has a special position in the hearts of the crew, and as the first mate, I will also take care of the third officer in private in order to stabilize people's hearts and my own image. Therefore, it is very likely that Xisuo is also a beneficiary of the first mate's private food."
"However, the first mate was overthrown by Mane. Mane became the leader, and even if he rebuilt the ship, it had nothing to do with the rope. What's even more dangerous is that Mane is a strong man. The longer he is in a leadership position, the greater his influence. At first, the crew attached themselves to and followed the rope, but over time, they followed the mane."
"Without the sea ship and the crew's following, what else is left of the search?"
Bai Ya was stunned when he heard this.
Cangxiu stroked his white beard: "Let's take a look at the wound on the captain's body again."
"The captain's body was found after Mange took power. Coincidentally, there was also a penetrating wound on the body, which looked like it had been pierced by a spear. What's even more coincidental is that Mane carries a pair of short spears all day long, which is very eye-catching."
Bai Ya couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and the saw in his hand paused again.