"That's all?" Wang Xingguo was a little surprised, these pages recorded the situation on the island of Tinianti, but it was obviously very rough.

"Some things are not necessarily true on paper." Crussell laughed.

"For example? Skeleton Crown? Wang Xingguo asked.

"Well, who knows, but it should be here." As Dick's agent, Crussell did know a little more and asked, "Have you heard of the barbaric privateer era in the West?" ”

"Well, I've heard of it." Wang Xingguo has some research on history, hundreds of years ago the Age of Discovery began to be a period of accelerated development of the West, but it can't be put on the table, they developed by sea plunder, and even became a kind of maritime culture, many pirates wandering on the ocean have privateer licenses from various royal families, in order to prove that they have a legal basis for robbery! In Chinese parlance, that's called a robbery!

"Vasco da Gama first reached the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, Magellan reached Asia, Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, and then the Age of Discovery, which lasted for centuries, with merchant ships and pirates tirelessly busy for wealth."

"What does this have to do with the Skeleton Crown?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"There was a nobleman at the time, and he held this skull crown." Crussell said.

"Are you sure that the Skeleton Crown and the Loulan Crown are the same?" Wang Xingguo was keenly aware of the main point of the problem.

"Of course I'm sure, but as for why the people of Loulan decorate it with skull gems, I don't know." Krussell shrugged, "But that's where its mysterious story begins, and some believe it has magical powers, the magic that summons wealth. ”

"But the nobleman did not get lucky, and his plantations and fleet in India were in serious crisis and were on the verge of bankruptcy, so he planned to bring the crown back to England and present it to Queen Elizabeth, so that she could finance it."

"How did that end up in the hands of the Spaniards?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"Privateers, when the Spaniards and the English were fighting for control of the sea, there were more pirates at sea than merchant ships, his ship was sacked by Spanish pirates, and the crown fell into the hands of the Spaniards, this was the fourth expedition of the Spanish Armada in 1599, and the war at sea with England was in full swing, and then the privateer fleet was attacked by an English fleet, and they were sure that these Englishmen were here for the crown, and the game of pursuit lasted for 5 years, The privateer did everything they could to evade the British at sea and finally fled into the Indian Ocean. "Everyone's nerves were about to break, so they decided to hide their looted treasure on an island, to avoid the British pursuit, and then to come back and get it." ”

"And then they hid something on the island of Tignaanti?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"Yes, all the crew was on the verge of collapse at that time, and the English were following behind the buttocks, so the crew hired natives and hid the treasure into the island, but it was strange that the Spaniards did not return to the ship, and the English found the plundering ship floating on the sea, but the ship was empty, there was no treasure, no supplies, not even a single mouse, everything was gone, and the British, according to the calculations of the HNNA, thought that the Spaniards had transferred the treasure to Tignati, So he sent a team of marines to the island to look for it. ”

"And then?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"150 marines, equipped with the most advanced weapons at that time, half a month later, only one person returned, everyone did not know what happened, the marine who came back, the moment he got on the ship, he was duffed, his body was full of scars, his clothes were tattered, but he brought back a few Spanish gold coins." Crussell said, pulling a gold coin from his pocket, "This is one of them." ”

Wang Xingguo took the gold coin and looked at it, if you look at it from a modern point of view, this gold coin is not exquisite, the workmanship can be said to be quite rough, the image of the human head on the gold coin seems to be smashed out, crooked, and even the shape of the gold coin is not a circle, but an irregular shape that is almost round.

"And then?" Wang Xingguo returned the gold coin to Crussell.

And then ...... The British fleet was rumored to be full of speculation and rumors, they had been chasing the Spanish privateer for many years, everyone was on the verge of collapse, homesickness spread, in order to prevent the crew from mutiny, the captain gave up the search and the fleet returned, but less than a month after the return voyage, the fleet encountered a storm, and finally only one ship and a few dozen crew members returned to England, and everyone was silent about the voyage. Of course, there are still many legends that say that they touched a sea monster and angered God, and there are all kinds of things. ”

"They chased it for five years, and how many gold coins did they get?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"That's right, the royal family also kept silent about this voyage" "Aside from talking about it, the logbook was destroyed as if it had never happened, perhaps to protect the image of the royal family." Anyway, the matter ended inexplicably. ”

"Then how do you know that this treasure, or that this Loulan Crown, is on the island of Tinianti?" Wang Xingguo felt that some legends alone could not prove anything.

"Because someone has seen it." Crussell smiled mysteriously, "The competition between the Spanish and the British for the ocean has become commonplace, but Indonesia seems to have been neglected by them, so the Dutch Chinners occupied this place, and there was a Dutch explorer who settled on the island of Java, and he organized an expedition to find this Spanish treasure, but something strange happened." ”

"What's the secret?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"Like the Marines, the expedition went in with more than 50 people, and a week later, the waiting fleet found that it had drifted back into a dinghy, and only one Indonesian indigenous was dying, and there was an Indian crew member who lifted him up from the dinghy, and he died after saying only one word 'cannibal,' but he brought back part of the explorer's manuscript with a drawing in it." Crussell showed Wang Xingguo the picture of the manuscript.

This is another drawing, different from the one that Mr. Min asked him to see. Because of its age, the manuscript has been soaked in seawater, which makes it a little blurry, but it can be clearly seen that among the piles of various utensils, there is a throne, and the person on the seat has turned into a skeleton with a crown on his head, and the eyes of the bloody skeleton in the center of the crown emit a red cold light, and any look at each other will make people shudder.

"What's the deal with cannibals?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"Well, Tignaanti means cannibal island, and later there were several expeditions that tried to enter Tinianti Island, but in vain, but in 1956, an American explorer found a special passage into Tinianti, which could bypass some troubles."

"And then? He's dead too? Wang Xingguo asked.

"Yes...... Of course, he did not die immediately, but went crazy, and on the way back to China, he contracted a strange disease and committed suicide by jumping into the sea. He said something inexplicable, but it was assumed that he had been kidnapped by cannibals and forced to take some drugs or something...... But when he was sober, he said that he saw the Skeleton Crown, and it was a blood skeleton......"

"Well, what we're going to do now is a life-and-death job." Wang Xingguo said.

"No, I don't think it's that scary, because there are a lot of pioneers who have figured out the way for us, we dive in through a passage and then find the treasure on foot. According to the available information, we have demarcated an area, which is not very large, and the results will be obtained in about three or four days. ”

"So, what about cannibals?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"Don't provoke them, the previous failures were all because the expedition team was too large in number and easy to expose, as long as the number of people was controlled within 10 people, the success rate was quite high." Crussell said confidently.

"By the way, I want to know, why did Sharjah Jean come? What does he have to do with this? Wang Xingguo asked.

"Hmm, do you remember the Indian crew member who was the first to save people? It was Sharjah Jean's ancestor, the cunning characteristic of the Indians, that allowed him to hide some important information, including...... The location of the treasure. Crossell smirked.

"Oh, I see, in that case, you can go in, find the treasure, and move out." Wang Xingguo said.

"Hehe......" Crusher sneered, "I'm here on behalf of Dick because Dick doesn't trust him, is his purpose just pirate's gold and silver?" I think he wants the Skull Crown more. ”

"Your relationship is really complicated." Wang Xingguo expressed his dissatisfaction with these words.

"Trust me, it's all worth it." Krussell patted Wang Xingguo on the shoulder.

Crussell finished speaking and left alone, apparently he had no intention of continuing the conversation.

Wang Xingguo thought carefully about Crusell's words, if Mr. Min and Dick were really a cooperative relationship as he said, why did Dick hide so much information from Mr. Min? Or is Mr. Min hiding some key information from himself?