Chapter XXVIII
Su Chen's soles were weak, and he sat on the stairs with his buttocks, and there was a corpse lying on the bed in the attic that had not yet decomposed.
wiped the sweat on his forehead, secretly said gloomily, turned over and climbed into the attic.
The flashlight illuminates the attic, the corpse lies quietly on the bed, the skin of the whole body is shriveled and hardened, and the air is filled with a faint smell, the strange smell that people emit after death.
People's fear comes from the unknown, and they are not so afraid of the known objects, and after a faint glance at the corpse, they observed the attic.
The room was a little messy, but it was also clean, with a simple bookshelf and desk, and the bed.
The bookshelves were empty, and there were only a few yellowed and wrinkled old books on the desk, or some unintelligible English, which I accepted them all and translated them later.
After cleaning up, Su Chen stood in front of the bed and secretly struggled with whether he could move this corpse, if he didn't move, he would not respect the deceased, and if he didn't move, he couldn't know the identity of the deceased, or even the identity of the ship.
If a person can live alone in the attic of this ship, then his identity must be more noble than below, Su Chen guessed that this corpse should be the captain.
Being able to have such a fortune as the captain of a fishing boat, Su Chen became even more curious about his identity.
He bowed to the corpse and decided to move it, but not to destroy it.
In this system space, Su Chen was almost omnipotent, and the quilt covering the deceased disappeared out of thin air, revealing the whole picture of the corpse.
A woman in a pirate suit, her shriveled and stiff skin could not see her appearance before she was born, her godless pupils stared at the position of the door panel, her lips were slightly open, as if it was done on purpose, no matter who pushed the door panel, the first thing she saw must be these eyes.
The corpse rested its hands naturally on its stomach, holding an ancient book in the European and American style in its arms, with a thick black cover and yellowed parchment.
Su Chen's eyes rolled, and the book appeared in his hand as soon as he moved his hand, with an unpretentious cover and no gilded characters.
The quality of the book is very good, and it doesn't feel like it's going to break, although I can't understand the content inside, but it must be something very important to her to be able to make the deceased take such a fancy to it and hold it temporarily.
After getting the book, the whole ship was almost searched, and the corpse was covered with a new quilt.
Su Chen walked out of the fishing boat with the ancient book and came to the system panel, where all the harvest was moved by him for easy inspection.
Sitting cross-legged, he took out his notebook and put it on his lap, opened the large pile of books he had just found, and translated it.
Su Chen's head is too big to read in dense English, but he just translated the title of the book, so he has no interest in reading it anymore.
The books found in the captain's room are all some nautical knowledge, geographical knowledge, and ship driving knowledge, all of which are relatively common.
After a long time of translating, he couldn't find anything that interested him, so he simply threw it aside and left the main ones.
Captain's logbook, logbook, and books in the attic.
Captain Anne Lina, ship Lina Fantasy.
On June 17, 1971, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and today, under the leadership of the Queen, the Lina, disguised as a fishing boat, managed to approach and rob a small Dutch merchant ship and demanded a large ransom.
On January 23, 1972, it was raining and the Lina had not been able to catch a ship for a week.
On May 12, 1972, a ship was robbed today, and no one paid the ransom, all seventeen people were thrown into the hold to feed my piranha, and ten tusks were found on board.
On September 2, 1972, the Lina robbed a stateless ship and found three sacks of gold coins in the attic.
I flipped through a few pages of the captain's logbook and translated it, and it was indeed a pirate ship.
A pirate ship draped in trawler skins, the Lina Fantasy, a group of pirates who have roamed the entire African seas all year round, robbed dozens of ships, large and small, and the captain is the corpse in the attic, Anne Linna.
When translating the last recorded page, the reason for the sinking of the Lena turned out to be.
Unknown!
On July 31, 1973, the last day of July, the Lina was sailing in the Indian Ocean on the Alcatraz Island, when someone suddenly reported that the Lina had leaked, and there were countless holes the size of needles at the bottom of the ship, which could not be repaired.
Closing this logbook, Su Chen fell silent, and the huge Linna actually sank in this sea for unknown reasons.
You must know that the Lina was transformed from a trawler, although the technology is not as good as today, but it is also an ocean-going fishing boat of that period, and it sank silently.
With doubts, Su Chen walked to the bottom of the Linna, and picked up a piece of rust, and the heavily corroded Linna could no longer see the needle hole that the pirates said.
Everything is so weird.
"What is Alcatraz again? Su Chen continued to think about an island that he had never heard of, why did the Lina go to this island, and mentioned this island at the last moment.
Su Chen, who was puzzled, counted the iron box.
Five boxes full of Kruger gold coins, ten well-preserved ivory, countless gold and silver jewelry, and some strange works of art, filled 17 iron boxes one meter square.
These are the treasures that the Lina has preserved after those years of robbery, an astonishing fortune.
The Lena dominated African waters in those years, even if she only robbed a few dozen ships, the wealth left behind was enough for an ordinary person to be prosperous and rich for a lifetime. Now these are Su Chen's.
Sitting casually on the box and knocking on Erlang's leg, he took out the book he had taken from Anne Linna's arms, and the most important book was of course to be translated last.
Solemnly turning the first page, this is Su Chen's respect for a great female pirate.
"Whoa. "The cover that I had just put down actually fell to the ground, and the parchment behind it was also connected and scattered.
Su Chen looked at it with a confused expression, what is the situation? Shouldn't this be a book?
Spread the ancient book on the ground, and then I realized what was going on, it was not a book at all, it was a map that could be opened and shrunk up and down, left and right.
A nautical chart showing detailed seafaring conditions of the four oceans, as well as detailed manuscripts in the waters off Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Su Chen can only understand simple topographic maps, but he can't do nautical charts.
This chart is very large, two meters long and two meters wide, and it is written in great detail, and even where there is a trench, where there is a big reef, it is clear.
Anne Linna made the manuscript mainly in Somalia and near the Indian Ocean, and it is estimated that she found some reefs in these places, and then recorded them and used them later.
Looking at the dense dots, Su Chen was distraught, he originally thought that some treasure had been recorded, but now it doesn't seem like that.
Su Chen, who was about to put away the chart, sighed softly.
In the sea between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, a small red circle is drawn, and a capital D is written in the red circle.