Chapter 358

Those charts were drawn on parchment and looked very old. Since only islands and routes are marked on the chart and there is no obvious continental outline, it is difficult to judge where these islands are located.

Petru didn't take it seriously after reading it. He thought it was just something made by some tomb robbers or cultural relics dealers. It was probably going to be smuggled to a place in Asia together with the mummy. There are often some abnormal rich people who like to collect strange things, such as rusty weapons, porcelain pots for ashes and bones from the dead, He also likes to rub away the jade articles taken out from the anus of the dead in his hand.

This is also in line with his rules. Unless you say hello to him in advance, all smuggled ships will be robbed. He doesn't care which gang you belong to. But the robbery cost a little, lost dozens of elite men, and got a mummy and several broken maps. The key is that the mummy was also thrown into the sea by superstitious Somali pirate brothers.

I don't know which museum the mummy came from. Although it may be very valuable, petru doesn't want to go to the sea to salvage the bodies of the ancients, and the value of the mummy after soaking in water is estimated to be greatly reduced.

Those sheepskin charts were good. He believed they were painted by a pirate centuries or more ago. The great cause of navigation on earth began not with trade, but with pirates. It was his ambitious and dedicated predecessors who found most of the continent and carefully mapped out the outline of the sea and land.

The islands marked on the chart may contain pirate treasures. Petru carefully collected them and studied them from time to time, but he was never able to study where the sea map meant.

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 didn't know what a disaster it would bring, so that he had to leave the Gulf of Aden, bypass most of the earth and hide in the South Pacific. In the end, it was the old charts that saved him.

He once thought that people like priests were very few in the whole human society. As for the guy who looked much stronger than priests at sea, he should be more rare, perhaps not much more than the number of black rhinos in West Africa. This black rhinoceros subspecies was once widely distributed in the prairie and was endangered due to excessive hunting. The International Union for conservation of nature declared it extinct as early as 2011, but one of petru's men vowed that he had seen black rhinoceros at the border between Cameroon and Chad.

However, in the following more than a year, petru encountered the most terrible experience of being chased and fled in his life.

The first one who came to the door was a small European. His 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 revenge and kill him, but to get the mummy and chart, so petru found a chance to escape. When he met the man again, as the priest said, he didn't even think. Almost driven by instinct, he shot the man very decisively at an appropriate distance. Although he wanted to know who they were and what organization they belonged to, he knew better that he had only two or three seconds to kill his opponent.

The bullet flew through the jungle on the east coast of Somalia and knocked out half of the man's face. Petru thought of the priest, who died exactly the same way. The man who killed the priest at that time probably knew the threat of the spiritual strong as he did.

Petru began to suspect that the mentally strong might not be rare. Since then, he began to practice spiritual power in the way the priest taught him.

However, in the subsequent pursuit of a group of powerful people, he had no time to become stronger and embarked on the road of escape. The spiritual repression of the strong and the road of the defenseless dream once made petru despair. Fortunately, he was also making progress, and his pirate empire was huge enough. Countless pirate brothers paid the price of their lives to keep him alive.

Petru guessed that the mummy and those charts were not as simple as stealing and selling cultural relics, but he couldn't guess what it was. He also wanted to salvage the mummy at the bottom of the sea and hand it over with the chart to buy peace. However, the place where the mummy fell into the sea may have a water depth of 5000 to 6000 feet. A small crystal coffin that can only lie on one person will float to where with the ocean current in the process of sinking to the bottom of the sea. No one can say. It is too difficult to salvage.

In addition, he knew that he could survive because the chart was in his hand. If he handed over the chart, he would probably be killed 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 Tubai islands for a while, he suddenly found that the islands marked on the ancient charts were the edge of the South Pacific Basin, a vast area within 700 nautical miles around 150 ° west longitude and 30 ° south latitude.

Not all the islands on the chart can be found. At first, petru thought that some of the islands disappeared because of the wrong marking on the chart, or the submarine volcanic movement for thousands of years. Until one day, he saw a sudden Island, he found that many of the islands marked on the chart were ghost islands.

These ghost islands are very strange. If you go to the island, you won't feel anything special. It's an ordinary desert island. But when you leave by boat, you may look back and find that the island is gone, and you will never see it again for a long time or even in your life.

Petru didn't know how great he was to mark all the ghost islands here, which seemed an impossible job. Without these charts in hand, even if he transferred all the Somali pirates, it would take decades to figure out how many islands there are.

A triangle is drawn in the center of the chart, with it as the center. There are many radial lines connected with some surrounding islands. Another vertical line shoots out from the apex of the triangle and draws directly to the edge of the chart. It looks like it wants to be connected to a place outside the chart.

Petru didn't know what the triangle represented. He had sailed to the sea many times. There was nothing there except the endless sea.

However, on the islands connected with the triangle in a straight line, petru found some strange stone piles, which obviously had traces of artificial masonry, such as the relics left by the primitive aborigines on the island.

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