Dream Guide - #355 - Chapter 355 Ghost Sea Area

The charts were drawn on parchment and looked very ancient. Since only the islands and routes are marked on the charts, and there is no obvious continental outline, it is difficult to determine where the islands are located.

Petru didn’t take it too seriously after seeing it, thinking that it was just something made by some tomb robbers or cultural relic dealers, probably smuggled together with the mummy to somewhere in Asia, where there are often some perverted rich people. People like to collect strange things, such as rusty weapons, porcelain jars containing ashes, and bones from dead people. They also like to rub jade objects taken out of the anuses of dead people in their hands.

This is also in line with the rules he set. Any smuggling ship will be robbed unless you have informed him in advance. He doesn’t care which gang you belong to. It’s just that the cost of this robbery was a bit high. Dozens of elite men were lost before they got a mummy and a few broken maps. The key is that the mummy was thrown into the sea by the superstitious Somali pirate brothers.

I don’t know which museum this mummy came from. Although it may be valuable, Petru doesn’t want to go to the sea to salvage the corpses of ancient people, and the value of the mummy after soaking in water is estimated to be greatly reduced.

The parchment charts were quite good, and he believed they were drawn by some pirate centuries or more ago. The great voyages of navigation on earth began not with trade, but with piracy. It was his ambitious and dedicated predecessors who discovered most of the continents and carefully mapped the outlines of oceans and land.

The islands marked on the charts may contain pirate treasure. Petru kept them carefully and took them out from time to time to study, but he was never able to figure out where the chart pointed.

After this operation, Petru continued to recruit troops and prepare to implement his great plan-the transformation from a pirate to a political leader.

At that time, he had no idea how disastrous this incident would be, so much so that he had to leave the Gulf of Aden, go around half of the world, and hide in the South Pacific. But in the end, the only thing that saved him was those shabby sheets. nautical chart.

He once thought that people like priests were very rare in the entire human society. As for the guy he met at sea who looked much stronger than the priests, it should be even rarer, maybe not more than the number of black rhinos in West Africa. How much. This subspecies of black rhinoceros was once widely distributed in the savanna, but was later endangered due to over-hunting. The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared it extinct as early as 2011, but one of Petrou’s men vowed that he was on the border of Cameroon and Chad. Black rhinos have been seen in places.

However, over the next year or so, Petru encountered the most terrifying experience of being hunted and on the run.

The first person who came to the door was a small European. The man’s mental ability was about the same as that of a priest, which was enough to subdue Petru. However, the man’s purpose was not to take revenge and kill him, but to get the mummy and the sea map, so Petru found an opportunity to escape. When he met the man again, as the priest said, he didn’t even think about it. He was almost driven by instinct and decisively killed the man with one shot at a suitable distance. Although he wanted to know who they were and what organization they belonged to, he knew better that he only had two or three seconds to kill his opponent.

The bullet flew through the jungle on Somalia’s east coast, knocking off half of the man’s face. Petru thought of the priest, who died in exactly the same way. The person who killed the priest at that time may have known the threat of spiritually strong people just like him.

Petru began to suspect that spiritually strong people might not be so rare after all. From then on, he began to practice spiritual power again according to the method taught to him by the original priest.

However, in the subsequent pursuit by groups of strong men, he had no time to become stronger and embarked on the road to escape. The strong man’s mental suppression and the unpredictable dream path once made Pettru despair. Fortunately, he was also making progress, and his pirate empire was large enough, and countless pirate brothers paid the price with their lives to keep him alive.

Petru guessed that the mummy and the charts were not simply stolen cultural relics, but he couldn’t guess what they were. He also thought about going to the bottom of the sea to fish out the mummy and hand it over together with the chart to ensure safety. But the depth of the place where the mummy fell into the sea may be 5,000 to 6,000 feet. No one can say where a small crystal coffin, which can only accommodate one person, will drift with the ocean currents as it sinks to the bottom of the sea. It would be too difficult to salvage it. .

In addition, he understood that he was able to survive entirely because the sea chart was in his hands. If he handed over the sea chart, he would probably be killed and silenced by the other party.

Unable to stay in the Gulf of Aden, he began his escape career. After several twists and turns, he came to the South Pacific. After hiding in the Cook Islands and Tubuai Islands for a while, he suddenly discovered that the islands marked on those ancient charts were exactly on the edge of the South Pacific basin, about seven kilometers around 150° west longitude and 30° south latitude. A vast area within a hundred nautical miles.

Not all islands on the chart can be found. At first, Petru thought it was an error in the chart markings, or that some of the islands had disappeared due to thousands of years of submarine volcanic activity. It wasn’t until one day that he saw an island suddenly appearing that he discovered the island marked on the chart. Many of them are ghost islands.

These ghost islands are very strange. If you go to the island, you will not feel anything special. It is just an ordinary desert island. But after you leave by boat, you may turn around and find that the island is gone, and you may never see it again for a long time or even in your life.

Petru didn’t know what kind of great person it was that marked all the ghost islands here. This seemed to be an impossible task. Without these charts, even if he transferred all the pirates from Somalia, he might not be able to figure out how many islands there were in decades.

A triangle is drawn in the center of the chart, and there are many radiating straight lines from the center, connecting some of the surrounding islands. There is also a vertical line that emanates from the vertex of the triangle and is drawn directly to the edge of the diagram, seemingly connecting to somewhere outside the chart.

Petru didn’t know what that triangle represented. He had driven a boat to that sea area many times to see it. There was nothing there except the endless sea.

However, on those islands connected by straight lines to the triangle, Petru found some strange piles of stones, which obviously showed signs of artificial construction, like relics left by the original indigenous people on the island.

The islands in the picture are not all ghost islands. Some islands are real and even inhabited. The largest of them is Tubuai Island. There is also a hillside piled with such stones. The locals say it is an ancient altar. They call it Tabu, which means “forbidden place”. Mortals are not allowed to approach it, otherwise they will offend the gods and become crazy.