Chapter 172: Charts
Roy leaned over to Buscekarn and looked at the unfolded parchment in his hand.
It was a parchment that was not very well preserved, and the surface of the whole parchment was covered with fine cracks, and the corners around it were pale marks left by the soaking of the sea, and the tattered ones seemed to tear the whole parchment to pieces with a little more force.
Buscekahn carefully unfolded the parchment scroll slowly, revealing the pattern inside, and judging from the fine lines and rich colors, this parchment scroll was definitely an extremely difficult to find boutique when it was in good condition, with a delicacy that other parchment rolls could hardly match.
The whole parchment is recorded on a chart, directly above the chart there is a golden sun symbol, which represents the east in the chart, and above the chart is marked a huge land, from the text on it, it seems to be Kasagam, the course of the ship is marked by a black dotted line, from Kasagam to the west and then turn to the south, in a small island, there is a golden marked island, on the top of the island in the lingua franca is written the words "Golden Country".
Roy took a closer look, and his eyelids jumped suddenly, the location of this Golden Township is actually real, in reality, the Golden Township is hidden in the middle of a group of small islands, and there is a special enchantment that shrouds and hides the islands, so that even if a ship passes here, it will pass through it, making it impossible to detect anything wrong.
On either side of the parchment, there are several lines of special symbols, which twist back and forth like earthworms, making it impossible to determine what exactly they represent, a kind of pirate ciphertext.
The so-called pirate cipher is a general term for a special script, generally speaking, the pirate captain will record the location of his buried treasure in writing for some special reasons, but most of the pirates are illiterate, even if they have learned to write, they will not write down the treasure location so blatantly, for which the pirates will create some symbols to represent the real text content, this kind of writing created by the pirates is called the pirate ciphertext, Since the content of the ciphertext designed by each pirate who recorded the location of the treasure is different, although all the ciphertexts are called pirate ciphers, the meaning of the representation is different, and only the immediate family members of the pirate captain may know the meaning of this pirate ciphertext, so that people often take advantage of this disunity of the ciphertext to create fake treasure maps to cheat money.
Steward Buwey had already seen the parchment scroll in Bucikahn's hand, but Butler Buwey believed that it was a fake treasure map forged by Bucikarn in order to obtain the third round of chamber of commerce investment, and there were people from their Woda Chamber of Commerce in the middle of the group, and there was no island in the middle of the drawn chart, and most of the treasure maps were from the families of the descendants of the pirate captains back then, and the protection of the things handed down from the ancestors was basically very good, like this one in Buccikan's hand, Basically, it can be judged that it is false and deliberately deceives others.
Roy raised his eyebrows, he only knew that the first person to discover the Golden Country was an American Lone Ranger player named Casillas, who seemed to have made an acquaintance with an NPC, and used the relationship of this NPC to discover the Golden Country that the enchantment was gradually exposed by the influence of the Necromantic Legion, and made a lot of money for it, is it the one in front of him?
Roy's eyes rolled twice, the money was sent to his side, and it seemed impossible to let go, not to mention that he didn't seem to need to pay anything more in front of him, this Kasagam soldier could do it for himself, and take other people's gold coins to do things for himself, it seemed that there was no such good thing anymore, thinking that Roy looked at the guards beside him.
The guard was bitter by Roy's eyes, he naturally understood what Roy was thinking, it was just 1,300 gold coins, although it was not much in the eyes of the kingdom, but it was not a lot, throwing out 1,300 gold coins in vain, even he felt a little uncomfortable, but the upper echelons of Kasagam would definitely not be stingy in treating the envoys, even if it was a somewhat unreasonable expense.
Seeing that the guard's expression was a little bitter, Roy smiled, didn't break it, and said directly to Bucikarn: "Okay, I will pay back the thousand three hundred gold coins you owe to the Woda Chamber of Commerce, but I have a request, your fleet is now subordinate to me, you are just the captain who takes the lead, and I decide the specific route and content of the voyage, of course, I am very interested in this treasure map in your hand, I allow you to explore the treasure of this place, but if it is really the Golden Country or if there is really any treasure, it belongs to me, Do you understand? ”
This time it was Buscekahn's turn to hesitate, when Roy said his conditions, Bussikane subconsciously refused, for the sake of the 1,300 gold coins to change the entire fleet to change hands, and lose the treasure on the map, this is really a bit of a loss, but now he does not have a single gold coin on his body, before asking the Voda Chamber of Commerce for investment, he spent all his savings over the years, in order to find the legendary Golden Country.
When the chartmaker under his command appeared with this ancient parchment scroll, Buscekarn knew that his opportunity had come, so he borrowed money from the Warda Chamber of Commerce twice in a row to look for it, but he didn't find the real place twice, fortunately, there were some new clues every time, so that the flame of desire in Buscekahn's heart about the Golden Country has not been extinguished, and he had to borrow from the Warda Chamber of Commerce for the third time, but this time the Warda Chamber of Commerce has stopped lending, but wants to recover the 1,300 gold coins, This made Buscekarn panic, he had no money.
Roy looked at the hesitant expression on Bucikan's face, and suddenly said, "You have to think about whether you will ruin the possibility of going to sea, or whether it will be used by me and still have a chance to reach the place you want to reach." ”
Steward Bouvy glanced at Roy and said respectfully, "I don't know if I should say a sentence or not. ”
Roy turned his head to look at Butler Bouvey and said, "What's the matter, you say?" ”
Others treated Roy politely, and he naturally replied politely.
Steward Buwei looked at the parchment scroll in Bucikan's hand and said: "It's not that no one has been to the place on this parchment scroll, there is no such marked island there, if you want to find the pirate's treasure, there are dozens of real treasure scrolls in the Sea City auction in Kasagam, you can buy that, as for this one in Bucikan's hand, you better be careful." ”
Roy smiled, and the Bouvet steward obviously regarded Roy as a noble kid who liked to hunt for treasures, who had never seen much of the world, and was frightened by this chart that he thought was fake, so he spoke tactfully to persuade him.
Roy smiled and waved his hand, "Thank you for the reminder, but I'm still interested in this parchment roll, how have you thought about it?" Captain Buscekahn? ”