One hundred and forty-two parallel spaces!

Professor Bai led Li Huan to the end of the second floor, opened a door and pushed the door in, this is a study-like room, with unfolded documents and books piled up everywhere, a huge desk spread at one end of the room, and a blackboard next to the desk.

There are some intricate patterns and chaotic lines drawn on the blackboard, which seem to be done randomly when you look at them, but if you look closely, those lines and patterns seem to intersect into a structure...... It doesn't look like history, it looks like a mathematical and geometric model.

Professor Bai walked behind the desk and sat down, and asked first, "Where did this thing come from?"

Li Huan said honestly: "This was given to me by the mercenary officer of the dock after I rescued a wharf in the port of Luanda, according to him, it was given to him by a local tribal chief in Africa. But I don't think the pattern on it looks like a tribal carving. ”

Professor Bai nodded: "It is indeed not an African tribal pattern, it comes from a very famous person, he is called Sam Bellamy. ”

Although it can be retrieved by the system, since there are more professional people, it is always more convenient than his own scattered search, Li Huan simply replied: "I haven't heard of it." ”

Professor Bai smiled, took off his glasses and put them on the desk: "This is something that only history and archaeologists will deal with, and you must not have heard of it." But you've heard of privateer slave ships, right?"

If you haven't heard of this again, you're brain-dead, at least in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, you can find its shadow in every series.

From the 16th century to the 19th century, European powers used all means, including "encouraging pirates to attack other countries' ships" in order to compete for maritime supremacy. Although all countries have declared their opposition to pirates on the surface, behind the scenes, they have wantonly recruited pirates for their own use.

But there was always a time when pirates were not enough, and it was in this context that privateers were born. The so-called privateers are civilian vessels authorized by the state to possess armed civilian vessels to attack the merchant ships of other countries, and their essence is state-sponsored piracy.

Of course, the ostensible justification for such authorization is not to encourage robbery, but to obtain justice: for example, when a merchant of a country has been robbed of his goods by a ship of another country, and he has no way of obtaining compensation by legal or diplomatic means, in order to recover his losses, his Government issues him a licence to be armed, allowing him to go to sea to obtain the goods on the merchant ships of another country. This kind of correspondence from the government or the Chamber of Commerce is still used internationally.

It's certainly a kind of bandit logic that smells like a jungle. But in that era of the jungle, it didn't take too long for humans to leave the jungle.

Professor Bai is indeed very knowledgeable, and he knows this 16th-century pirate leader very well: "At that time, England was the most powerful country at sea, and Sam Birla took a fancy to a large privateer and slave ship, the Vida, and took it away, using this powerful ship as a flagship, and became one of the most feared pirates in the waters off the east coast of North America with heavy firepower." According to records, he robbed more than a hundred ships and accumulated more than 4.5 tons of various gold, silver and jewelry. ”

Li Huan was overjoyed: "So, this box contains treasure clues?"

Professor Bai smiled dumbly: "What treasure, the treasure has sunk to the bottom of the sea with the Vader, don't think about this, the reason why I told you Sam Bellamy is because of his legendary story." He went to sea at the age of 9, robbed the British firepower ship as a flagship at the age of 23, and then died mysteriously at the age of 28...... There is speculation that he is not dead, but that he has a special ability, which has been recorded in history that he can cross from one dimension to another, and can summon powerful demons to fight with him. And the root of all this is that he has a key in his hand that can open the space. ”

Hearing this, Li Huan's scalp was numb. When the spatial rift appeared on Panshi Island last time, the entire island was almost extinct, why did there be another spatial rift, is it fun to crack? Li Huan asked cautiously: "What do you mean to say, this black box, what kind of key left by Sam to open the space?"

Professor Bai shrugged: "I don't know about this, but if you want to open it, I have a way." This is a 16th-century mechanism called Pandora's Box, which is made of the hardest ironwood, and if it is forcibly broken, the contents will be crushed by the box itself. ”

Li Huan rubbed his hands and couldn't wait to say, "Then what are you waiting for? Let's start doing it!"

Professor Bai took out a set of delicate gadgets from his desk, moved over the magnifying glass table, and began to disassemble them.

Naturally, he didn't believe any nonsense such as a space key, in his opinion, it was just an ancient item. Every dismantling needs to be done with care.

While Li Huan was waiting, he communicated with Xiao Fei in his consciousness: "Xiao Fei, did you say that it is really the space key?"

Xiao Fei thought for a while: "I can't answer. If it can really open the spatial rift, then no one can guess on the other side of the spatial rift, and it is impossible to say whether it is heaven or hell. ”

Professor Bai's speed was extremely fast, and in less than twenty minutes, Professor Bai had already finished dismantling. The box was spread out squarely on the desk, but there was no space key in it, it was just an empty box.

Not only Li Huan, but even Professor Bai himself felt incredible: "How can there be no ...... something?"

On the contrary, Li Huan comforted Professor Bai: "It's okay, but since there is nothing in this box, why make a box, and make it so dexterous." ”

Li Huan said as he reached out to take the box that had been unfolded, and when he just touched the box, he suddenly remembered the system prompt that he hadn't heard for a long time.

Quest Tips:

Trigger Main Quest 3: Parallel Space (0/1)

Description: Find a spatial item and construct a spatial passage.

Reward: Space Key X1

Li Huan was still confused about what the hell this space key was, and Xiao Fei, who had always been emotionally stable, was rarely excited: "If we complete this task, we will be able to explore other spaces, so that I will have a chance to absorb more energy!"

Li Huan was still confused: "What should we do next?"

"Although the black box is empty, but the system prompts that a new task has been triggered, it is definitely valuable. It may take some time for me to deeply scan the existing data around the world for analysis. ”

Although Professor Bai was also very interested in the black box, because it was Li Huan's thing, he did not ask him for it, but after seeking Li Huan's consent, he took a photo of the box and kept it for study, and then told Li Huan that if he found anything in the future, he would also tell Li Huan in time. After eating at Professor Bai's house, Li Huan and Yu Ting officially said goodbye, although Bai Jing was reluctant, she was helpless, so she had to tell Li Huan to play with her when she came to Hong Kong again.

Xiaofei's progress in analyzing the black box was much slower than expected, and Li Huan accompanied Yu Ting to play in Hong Kong for two days, mainly to buy, buy, buy. In the past two days, she has not taken the initiative to tease Li Huan again, but she is at a very subtle level of intimacy.

Half a month has passed since the events in West Africa, and public opinion on the Internet has gradually calmed down.

Two days have passed, and there is still no progress on Xiaofei's side, just when Li Huan was about to return to China, he suddenly received a call from Chen Lao: "I inform you of something, you can't broadcast live for the time being, the incident of this African riot is too big, and you have become a public figure." Several countries are secretly investigating you. ”

Li Huan was stunned: "Then what am I doing?"

Old Chen seemed tired: "Let's rest for a while." ”