Chapter 146: The Legend of El Dorado
"Keep your posts and don't go wrong. ”
In the end, the soldier only suppressed the doubts in his heart, because he really couldn't think of a second explanation, could anyone knock them out and mix them up? Don't be stupid, this is the Caroni River valley, except for them, there are only Indians.
The patrolling soldiers walked away, and Gore finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They threw the soldier out of the fence and then tied their hands and feet with their own trousers and gagged with socks.
Looking at Gordon's skillful movements, Gore's face was full of surprise, this is really the captain of a merchant ship? Well, now a privateer captain.
"You've done this before?"
Gordon just hurriedly put on his Spanish military uniform, and then straightened his collar, this dress was so smelly, next to the river, these soldiers did not take a bath.
"Of course, I've tied pigs before. ”
"That's all?"
"That's all!"
Gordon infiltrated the camp with Mickey, who was also dressed, and then took a third piece of clothing from a tent next to a sleeping soldier.
Three Spanish soldiers in ill-fitting clothes walked out from behind a tent, Gore was originally an officer, and his temperament was of course not bad at all, but the two behind him looked very awkward.
Although they have tried hard to pretend to be calm.
By this time it had come twelve, and most of the soldiers had gone to sleep, for the colonel had given the order that they must set out early to-morrow morning.
The three men acted in the shadows between the tents, in order to cover their unfit pants and shoes of a fundamentally different style.
The Spanish soldiers' costumes were the best cover, and the three-man patrol was inconspicuous here, and the patrol officers' greatest attention was on guarding against the attack of wild beasts.
The fire in the center was constantly burning and crackling, and next to it was the largest tent.
The two soldiers on duty sat here, seemingly idle, throwing some dry wood into the fire to keep the flame from being extinguished.
“...... Don't want to look at the eyes, do you want to be crazy too?"
"I'm just, I'm curious, what does an angel look like? When it was unearthed, everyone lowered their heads, including the colonel, and when I held it in before, it felt like it should be made of gold, but the shape was square, and it didn't look like an angel at all. ”
Another soldier was very helpless and spread his hands: "Angel, it's just a signifier, a symbol, okay? For example, a cross that symbolizes outstanding contributions." ”
"So what the hell is it, the symbol of El Dorado, and I still want to see it!"
Saying this, the soldier beckoned, then lowered his voice: "I heard...... It's the cursed key, the whole El Dorado is cursed, and we're not the first to look for it, and we're definitely not the last. ”
"Why?" he raised his voice, "If we find it, there will be no next batch, we will be the last!"
"Shhhh
"Don't scare me, it's terrible!!, how could Pedro Cabral bring out the gold and record the location of the key's burial. ”
"Is he still alive?"
“...... You are right. ”
The three of them stood blatantly not far away, and heard clearly, but Gore alone understood what was said.
"What are they talking about?"
"Something about the keys. ”
Gore's answer was vague, and he wasn't sure if it would be a wise move to tell Gordon and his boatswain.
The atmosphere in the camp was very strange, and almost all the soldiers were very dissatisfied with the operation, but the soldiers were photographed by the prestige of the colonel, and the pirates were photographed by Captain Wilson's bloodthirstiness, and no one dared to openly disagree.
This situation does not seem to last long, and even Gore believes that if the situation does not improve after a while, there will be defectors in Spain, especially pirates.
For this reason, Gore did not dare to tell Gordon the truth, even soldiers may not be able to withstand the deterrence of the curse, not to mention that the two people in front of him are just some amateur combatants, and their quality is not comparable to that of the navy at all.
He decided to report the news to Burton and let him make the right choice.
They pretended to be patrolmen and continued to walk forward, but in reality they were all circling around the main tent, and they were waiting for the lights inside to go out.
In the tent in the center, Captain Abbot Wilson was reading a nautical diary with an oil lamp and pressed his forehead.
Cursed, yes, it's a cursed treasure, like an Aztec gold coin.
"Damn the curse!"
El Dorado, legend has it that around 1000 A.D., the Toltecs arrived in the central plateau and exercised political rule, imposing their religion, rituals, and customs on the Mayans, and they established the Mayan city, and even established a city made of gold in the southernmost location - El Dorado.
It gathered almost all the gold of the American continent at that time, and conscripted millions of people and slaves to build it, symbolizing their supremacy.
The place where the El Dorado was founded was rich in gold mines, and it took 70 years to build the basic city, and then add improvements and additional buildings in the later period, and it took 100 years before and after the construction of this greatest city.
There are state-of-the-art stargazing platforms, temples, and pyramids. The finest works of art as decorations, even the sand in the river, are gold.
But the Toltecs were not satisfied, and when the city was built, they lost their reverence for the gods.
The ruler claims to be a god!
Of course, this unsurprisingly angered the true gods, who did not love the world, but only needed the faith of mankind and the fear of men.
The El Dorado was devastated, with wars, plagues, and blackwaters......
The later Toltecs fought for the El Dorado for decades, and eventually the entire city disappeared, and no one knows where it went, but the fear of the gods was passed on.
In the 15th century, the explorer Francisco Pizarro landed in the Americas, plundered gold here, and hanged the emperor of the Inca Empire.
Captain Wilson followed the logbook of Adudin, and went straight to the old man in Port of Spain, of course, he did not treat this man so politely, and finally tortured more useful information.
"The angel is buried by the waterfall...... Don't look into the eyes of the angels, and don't take anything from El Dorado...... All people will die......"