Ore Town Port.

The wind on the seaside is still roaring, and seagulls are hovering in the sky. The clear sunshine fills the eyes without hesitation, and every inch of the waves is full of dazzling colors.

From the distant skyline, the figure of a white ship slowly appeared, swaying with the waves, like a picture scroll.

But if you look carefully, the white ripples behind the ship spread layer by layer, proving that the speed of the white ship is not as leisurely as it seems.

Before anyone noticed the trajectory of the white ship, it had drifted through the deep blue sea and slowly approached the blue-white shallow sea. In the process, the sound of the ship's whistle finally reached the port.

Zach, who was still wearing short clothes and busy carrying goods, heard the sound and hurried to the door, looking at the white ship.

"Why did the cargo ship arrive so early today?" Zach said in surprise.

Usually, cargo ships come to the port of Ore Town in the evening to pick up the goods after completing their daytime route, and then rush to the next trading area overnight.

This one-way journey every 24 hours is the norm here.

Today, I suddenly came here early in the morning. Could there be something wrong?

Zach thought of this and ran back to the house to prepare maintenance tools in advance. The reason he could imagine was that the ship encountered some technical failure and could only dock briefly in port for repairs. It provided limited help to passing ships.

, which is also the rare pleasure he has now after leaving the life of a sailor.

But as the white ship gradually approached, Zach saw that the ship was still rushing towards Ore Town with full power, and it did not look weak at all like it had some mechanical failure.

I'm afraid that if the ship hasn't slowed down yet when it reaches the port, it will cause trouble.

Zach raised the flag and shouted to the white boat in semaphore. But the boat made no movement, just like a leisurely fisherman doing his own thing.

Finally, as the white ship approached the port, it finally began to slow down and approached the docking area step by step.

After stopping the ship and lowering the anchor, a plank was finally extended from the ship for landing. A tanned man ran over from the ship with a bright smile on his face.

"Zach! Are you surprised to see me?"

The man saw Zach from a distance and trotted over, shouting excitedly.

Zach was at a backlit angle and couldn't see the person clearly at first, but with this greeting, he finally showed an excited expression: "Gu Le Gu! Why are you such a bastard!"

The swarthy man named Gu Legu said unhappily: "I came to see you and you still called me a bastard, so I'll leave now."

"Hahaha, you bastard, if you dare to leave, I will break your legs."

Zach grabbed him without any courtesy and took him to where he lived.

The two entered the house, and Gu Legu looked a little surprised.

"Zach, you live here? This is too simple."

Zach giggled and said: "The environment here is much better than when we were on the ship. There is nothing worth criticizing."

"On the ship? It's been so long that I almost forgot about it. I just remember that there were more than twenty of us sleeping in a sailor's room, and every time we got up, we had to step on other people's stomachs to go out."

"You kept shouting to get off the boat and leave this hellish place. Hahaha."

"I was just angry at the time. How are those old friends doing now?" Gu Legu also talked about the past with a nostalgic look on his face. It was obvious that their friendship had lasted for a long time.

Zach dug out a diary from his well-kept cabinet. The cover of the book showed a small boat sailing on the sea.

He pointed to the photos inside and said to Gu Legu.

"They sent this to me a few years ago. They went to a new sea area and discovered several new minerals. However, Bacher and Cassidy also got off the ship that year. This is what they

The last group photo taken that year.”

"This is a photo of Eustace's wedding. In front of him, the children on the ship have grown up and got married. Boatswain Kidd was their witness. Everyone who could make it that time arrived."

"The last thing I received was last year, the ship brought a letter saying that after they stabilized a route, they were preparing to restore a new route based on the route in the ancient book. After that, only Kay came to see me every summer."

Gu Legu's fingers also caressed the photos, getting closer one by one to identify the familiar faces and looking at the bright smiles still on their faces.

"Kay? You mean old Captain Kay still comes to see you?"

"Old Kay has passed away. He is his grandson. Do you still remember, the kid who sneaked onto the ship with us back then and said he would be a great sailor and travel all the routes when he grew up?"

"Hahaha, it's that kid! I still remember that he was discovered not long after he got on the ship, and was locked up and beaten by the old captain. But he recovered from his injuries two days later, and he started messing around with us on the deck.

"

The two chatted for a while, exchanging their experiences over the years. Gu Legu watched Zach look at the letters from old friends with a nostalgic look on his face, and couldn't help but ask.

"Zach, are you really not going to continue sailing?"

Zach said with a happy expression.

"Someone must have told you that I am no longer fit to be a sailor."

"But you obviously still want to live your previous life, why do you want to live on this island?" Gu Legu asked puzzledly.

Zach put away his diary, as if he had put away all memories of the past, and his expression looked particularly calm and at ease.

"After the shipwreck, I didn't dare to touch anything related to the ocean. Staying in this small town will make me feel at ease."

"But……"

"Didn't you also end your life as a sailor and become a fisherman? What now?"

"Me? After I separated from you, I took the money I saved to participate in fishing competitions in various places and competed with fishing masters from various places."

"Amazing, Gu Le Gu!"

Gu Legu said displeasedly: "If I hadn't been crushed by you everywhere and couldn't see a chance to get ahead, I wouldn't have left the ship so early."

"You still blame me? You were not helping me on the boat every day, tying knots on the sails and smashing nails on the deck. If you hadn't been able to fish and cook, we would have locked you in the cabin."

"Hahaha, I didn't do it on purpose. But I never thought that being a sailor would be so complicated when I ran away from home."

"You still had no contact with your family afterwards?"

"They contacted me. When I won the fishing competition a few years ago, they saw me on TV and asked me to go back. I was not interested in taking care of the business, so I left after a month."

"Are you still so cold to your family?"

"I have long forgotten what happened at that time. It's just that I have been away from home for so many years and I don't know how to get along with them like this. It would be better to live outside and be more comfortable."

Zach chuckled and said, "That's right. Look how happy I am living here. Do you want to move here too?"

Gu Legu said with disdain: "I don't know what's so good about the remote countryside here. Who would come to live there?"

"Really not coming?"

"...It's okay to come and stay here occasionally."

“It’s a deal!”

Zach finally remembered the question he had always wanted to ask, "By the way, you didn't come here specifically to see me, right?"

Gu Legu said with a smile: "Don't be narcissistic. I came here for a product. I asked a few old friends to investigate. It turned out that you were here too, so I rushed over by myself."

"What did you come here for? Apart from chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and some wild products, there is no valuable thing sold in Ore Town."
Chapter completed!