Chapter 143
The mountain is not difficult to climb, and the most troublesome thing is only the dust like volcanic ash that can be submerged to the knees on the mountain, and some of this dust is gold. There are also streams that flow down the mountains, and they are all warm without exception. Tong Guan climbed to the top of the mountain with the sailors, and the top of the mountain was a huge black crater - this was similar to Tong Guan's previous estimate, and he also thought that this might be an extinct volcano - an active volcano was absolutely impossible, this island could be drifted, how could it be an active volcano.
The stream flows out of a sunken tank next to the volcano, and Tong Guan can't figure it out at all about this scene, but the fact is in front of him, and if he can't figure it out, it's also an objective fact, isn't it. Standing on the top of the mountain, Tong Guan and the sailors began to look around, and standing here should be able to see the whole island in its entirety. First they saw their boat, then they looked along the coastline, and the island was an egg-like silhouette.
Tong Guan continued to look, the area of this island is quite small, how can the diameter of the length be more than two kilometers, and the largest part of the wide diameter is probably a little five kilometers at least, from his height, there seems to be the shadow of the island here in the shallow water, this island seems to be really floating on the water, just like an iceberg, there are a lot of them under the surface of the water. In front of the big head of the egg, about a hundred meters away, there is an attached oval island, which also looks like it is more than 100 meters square.
Tong Guan looked at the whole island and began to go down the mountain with the sailor, he always felt that something seemed wrong, but he couldn't say it, so this guy was constantly recalling the picture he had just seen while going down the mountain. Nothing happened along the way, and everyone happily returned to the shore with the gold they had collected. The sailors who stayed behind couldn't help but run away on their own, and they also had to go to the mountains to dig for gold - they were pirates in the first place, not to mention any organizational discipline.
At night, Tong Guan was half-asleep in the captain's cabin on the ship, and suddenly a spirit woke up, and the picture he saw at this time was extremely clear, and he finally figured out where he felt that something was wrong. The creature jumped out of bed and rushed to the bookcase on the wall of the captain's cabin, from which he removed the huge hardcover waterproof book - although civilization had regressed, many of the techniques remained, such as papermaking and printing, and even photographs and ripping printing machines.
This is a biological book that is often revised and released, recording many biological species in the South China Sea of this continent, and now Tong Guan is flipping through the records of marine reptiles, which are mainly some sea turtles, after the big change, the species and appearance of sea turtles have a lot of variations, in addition to the original ordinary turtle species, there are also many intermediate species or new turtle species. However, Tong Guan only looked at the simplest kind of turtle, this guy compared the above graphics, and then closed his eyes and recalled.
When Tong Guan opened his eyes again, he was sweating profusely, and the sound of swallowing saliva startled him. The guy muttered to himself, "Big sea turtles, super big sea turtles...... No, we have to hurry up!" the guy looked at the night outside and decided to leave as soon as it was dawn. There was no need to hide the news, so as soon as he broke the morning, he told everyone the news that the island was actually the back of a large turtle, and of course everyone was so frightened that they jumped on the boat and asked to hurry up and hide as far as they could.
Maybe the turtles didn't really notice the insects, or maybe they weren't carnivorous turtles, but they left with a speed and dexterity that the sailors had never seen before. Tong Guan personally steered, the ship seemed to have life, under the control of Tong Guan's full attention, with the tacit cooperation of the sailors, under the huge pressure, using every trace of wind, quickly escaped from the island.
When the island disappeared below the horizon, everyone collapsed on the deck of the ship as if they had collapsed. They didn't get nothing in the cabin, and the guys brought back the gold they had dug up—and this trip alone was not a loss...... But no one wants to come a second time.
When they returned to their home port after a long time, they found that they were lucky to have gone off course on a giant giant turtle, so the gang didn't make a deal. And just as they were looking for a way back, the Continental Navy launched a clean-up campaign, and many of the pirate ships operating on the southern route were sunk or captured, and the pirates are now smeared with asphalt on the shelves outside the various ports and swaying in the wind. Tong Guan and the others narrowly escaped this clean-up......
They brought back the gold, and Tong Guan also reported to the relevant departments of the Navy that there were huge sea turtles further south of the southern route—all along, whether it was the discovery of a new island or a new route, or even as long as it was a new discovery, the navy and government departments were willing to pay a sum of money to the discoverer. Tong Guan's discovery is of this kind, and it is one of the most significant discoveries. Tong Guan was asked not to talk nonsense to the outside world, and without official proof, this would usually only become a series of cowhide for sailors in the tavern.
And in the Admiralty, the bigwigs looked at the report in front of them with serious faces, "East China Sea, South China Sea ......" The gray-haired big guy looked at the report in front of him and said, "Have you found monsters like this...... "That's right, in all the seas of the continent, there are ships that have found particularly huge sea creatures. It's just that the monsters found in the East China Sea and the South China Sea may be the same or even the same - because they are both particularly huge turtle-like monsters, but the captain of the East China Sea did not land directly, but found that the undercurrent that suddenly rose behind the island was made by a huge flipper in the deep water, so he ran away quickly.
In the North Sea of the mainland, in the vast ocean, there were broken planks floating by, and barrels or something, maybe a ship was shipwrecked. In the distance, a long reef moves, and then quickly disappears into the sea.
Similar reports have also appeared on the other side of the sea, and like the mainland, they have issued a gag order, and they have also sent Navy clippers to find such monsters, but they have never found them again. After all, these records have become the more famous sailor legends in the tavern.
Time passed like this, and similar sighting reports came one after another, but in the end, there was no evidence, and even if the Navy's clippers found something, I am afraid it was locked in a cabinet and not disclosed. After all, such a monster did not appear in the busy shipping lanes of humans...... But whether it is the sailors in the tavern or the unknown institutions in the navy, they all invariably refer to these legends as "sea kings".