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When Belinda was young, her father often took her to sea, so she can be said to be very familiar with the situation off the coast of Australia.

She is very familiar with not only the waters off Australia, but also New Guinea and Indonesia.

And she is very familiar with a series of procedures such as chartering a boat, going to sea, etc., so it can be said that it is appropriate for her to partner in this matter.

The two of them left the house on the same day, then rented a boat back to the mainland, and then went all the way back to Darwin, where they rented a boat, and went all the way north to start the treasure hunt.

In fact, Jin Muchen has also been studying this treasure map for a few days, and after studying it for a few days, he feels that the hope of this treasure hunt is a little slim, but he is not particularly disappointed.

The discovery of this treasure map can be said to have brought him a considerable enlightenment.

As an antique dealer, if you want to grow your business, you can't just look at the antique markets around the world.

You must know that although there are many treasures in those markets, once you have fame, then wherever you go, you will be stared at.

And you are not the only one who knows the goods in this world, sometimes even if you find some treasures, but you will also face the threat of competitors, so many times, it is not so simple to get the baby in your pocket.

But if you look outward, if you look in the natural world, it's different.

For example, some time ago, I found a few petrified woods in forest parks in the United States, as well as gloomy wood, which are the treasures of nature's gifts.

On the other hand, hundreds of years ago. The oceans around the world are places where piracy flourishes.

At that time, Spain was still the hegemon of Europe, and their golden fleet operated on several oceans, and the Dutch and English pirates that rose later attacked Spain's golden fleet countless times.

The treasure of those fleets. Many were snatched by pirates, and many were killed in naval battles.

If you can find those treasure ships that sank to the bottom of the sea, then your life will be much better.

You know, this is not a sudden idea, such a thing has been done by someone for decades, and these people now have a special name in the industry, that is, treasure hunters.

Of course, most of these treasure hunters are not very good. However, there are a few successful ones, and they are still very famous, and they have also gained a lot of wealth through this road.

This time I went to the South Pacific region to hunt for treasures, and it is very likely that I will return empty-handed, but this can be regarded as accumulating some experience for myself.

After all, rolling in the antique world of the West, it is inevitable to encounter the relics left by the pirates back then, so this is an opportunity to go to sea to hunt for treasures. There will definitely be in the future.

After getting on the boat, Jin Muchen usually hid in the cabin most of the time. The main job of the day is to take the treasure map and constantly compare it with the chart.

Although the chance of actually finding the treasure this time is not very large, he still does not plan to give up easily.

The ship is not large, more than a dozen meters long, and has two diesel engines in the tail section. However, during the day, it is still driven by sails, and Belinda is a veteran sail-copying expert, and she is quite good at driving this semi-motorized sailboat alone.

Jin Muchen usually has free time and learns a lot of knowledge about shipmaking and navigation with her, but when he has time. He studied more of the treasure map.

This treasure map is a simple treasure map hand-drawn by those pirates hundreds of years ago, and the situation of this treasure map can be said to be quite rough in terms of maritime knowledge at that time.

And from the current point of view, it is needless to say, it is almost like a book from heaven.

In addition, at that time, when these pirates were compiling the names of those small islands, they also specially used some 'passwords' that only they knew, which made Jin Muchen and Belinda even more confused.

So they can only sail on the seas while slowly deciphering this treasure map.

The pirates' hand-drawn skills are absolutely flattering, and the drawings are blurry, and it can only be roughly seen that the small island where they hid their treasure back then should be on some small island in the middle of a triangle of Indonesian islands such as Java, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi.

You must know that Indonesia is known as the country of a thousand islands, and in the Java Sea between these three large islands, there are thousands of small islands of all kinds.

The islands are large and small, and the conditions are different, some are suitable for human survival, and some are simply uninhabited.

Even today, with the development of science and technology, there are still countless desert islands waiting for people to explore.

Now if you want to rely on such a simple hand-drawn chart to find out those small islands with hidden treasures, it can be said that it is a fool's dream.

But now that the boat has been rented and the sea is out, of course, it is not stingy to spend more time in this sea.

Anyway, at this time, the mentality of the two has calmed down a lot, if they can find it, it is the best, if they can't find it, then it is a sea trip.

Belinda has a very extensive relationship in Australia, so this time they traveled in the name of a scientific examination of biology and natural sciences at an Australian university, so the journey was smooth, and no one bothered them.

Sometimes I run into some Indonesian coast guards, and people are not too difficult for the two of them.

However, the two did not let their guard down, considering that Indonesia is one of the most rampant areas of modern piracy, long before the rise of the Somali pirates in Africa, the pirates here were the most famous pirates in the modern world.

They kept an eye on the Malacca waterway, and went back to do it when they had the opportunity, and even in the eighties and nineties of the last century, when the domestic political situation in Indonesia, Malay and other countries was unstable, their own navy would sometimes make a cameo appearance as a pirate.

In recent years, with the attention of China, the United States and other countries to the Malacca shipping route, the coordination of relations between various countries, and the strengthening of the crackdown on piracy in this area, the security situation here is much better than before.

But it still hasn't completely eradicated the pirates here, and because of the joint crackdown of various governments, the pirates here are now also proficient, and generally no longer attack that kind of large cargo ships, but specifically focus on small ships like them, and start to specialize in kidnapping business.

So the two had to cheer up 120,000 points, but fortunately, the first half a month or so has been calm, which also made the nerves that the two have been tense gradually relaxed.

In the afternoon, the two men refueled in Makassar, and then set sail for the islands of Shabparaná, Tana Zanpeia, and the Tinga Islands near Java.

According to the hand-drawn treasure map, the first treasure that the pirates hid at that time was on one of the islands in the archipelago.

However, they did not leave a detailed name for the island, only a rough mark.

Jin Muchen and Belinda also made a rough judgment based on the records on that chart.

However, there are many islands in this area, just those few archipelagos that can be called, there can be hundreds of islands with names and surnames, and there are some nameless desert islands nearby, counting those desert islands, there can be about two or three hundred in total.

It will take a lot of time and patience to find out where the pirates are hiding their treasures among these two or three hundred small islands.

However, they seemed to be lucky, and by evening, Belinda had sailed the boat to a desert island.

"Mu Chen, look at this island, is it a little similar to the description on this map? The island is about three kilometers long, and there is a hill on the island, which is bordered by a 20-meter-high cliff on the north side, and a gentle slope on the other side, and there are not many trees on the island, and there is no fresh water source......"

These simple descriptions were all left by the pirates back then, of course, in ancient English, and there are many simple words, during this time, in order to decipher these records, Jin Muchen and Belinda spent countless brain cells and lost countless hairs.

Of course, the riddle-like treasure location left by the pirates like in the movie is basically impossible in the real world, and it is just a dramatic process.

If these pirates had such artistic cells, it was estimated that Jin Muchen and Belinda would not be able to decipher these codes even if they were exhausted.

"Hey! Don't tell me, it's a bit like, quick, let's take the boat to the cliff on the back side of the island and have a look. The sun hasn't set yet, and even if the tide rises, it shouldn't be that fast, and if we're fast enough, we should be able to see if there is a cave on the cliff side......"

According to the treasure map, there was a large cave in the north side of the island, which was connected to the sea.

Usually during the day, when the tide is low, the cave will leak out, and in the evening, when the tide is high, the cave will be flooded.

It was during the day when they were hiding from the Spanish warships that they discovered it, and then in the evening, when the sun was setting, before the tide rose, they moved some of the treasure to the cave.

Without saying a word, Belinda drove the boat to the north of the island, and this time they didn't care about saving fuel, and directly used the diesel engine.

Soon their boat came to the north of the island, but they did not see the cave that was said to be connected to the sea, but saw two boats.

One of them was much larger than their small boat, a large luxury yacht hundreds of meters long, while the other, relatively small, was hidden in the shadow of that ship......

As soon as he saw this luxury yacht, Jin Muchen shook his head in disappointment: "It seems that we may be in the wrong place!" (To be continued......)