Chapter 25: Unexpected Joy
Climbing up from this exit, John began to look around. This exit cave is not very big, but it is not small either. There is a large open platform in the cave, and there are stalagmites standing in the middle, and there are stalactites hanging down on the top of the cave, and some stalactites have been connected with the stalagmites in the west to form a stone pillar through the cave. However, some of the stalagmite pillars that had been generated naturally for an unknown number of years had broken off and fallen aside. John walked over and took a closer look at the fallen stone pillars, and could clearly see signs of being pushed down.
Looks like someone has been here. John touched the broken stone pillar and thought: If anyone has been here and broken these, then it means that they have come here for a certain purpose - no one can swim most of the day and come here for nothing but break the stone pillar. Moreover, John thought about the diving process he had just made, and ordinary people would not be able to get here. Could it be that there are other exits here?
There were multiple exits, hidden enough that someone had been here, and a series of clues strung together to make John feel like he had probably found a terrible place. Thinking of this, John decided to take a look at this cave to see if there were any surprises.
The environment of this cave is also a bit complicated, just the two caves that John is looking at now, and I don't know if these caves have forked roads, and if there is, it is even more troublesome. Therefore, John randomly chose one of the two caves to walk into.
This time he chose the cave on the left, and John kept walking against the cave wall, and walked for a while before coming out of the cave. There was nothing in the cave on the left, not even some sign of animal life, so John walked along the wall of the cave on the left, and soon came out of the cave on the left.
Now we're going to the right. John still walked against the wall of the cave, so it was difficult to get lost in the complex cave. Walking to the bottom of the cave, John noticed something unusual, or rather expected—in the deepest part of the cave, there was a pile of gold, silver, and jewels scattered there. These gold coins are not very numerous, and if you count them by volume, you can probably see everything here in the same chest of gold coins that Two John had obtained from the pirates before—including gold and silver coins, and various jewelry. It seems that this is indeed the location of the pirates' hidden treasure. But these treasures are a bit far from what John originally thought was a sea of gold and silver. But I didn't plan to hunt for treasures, but I was bored to find something to do, but I didn't expect to really find it, and it was an unexpected joy, so I didn't care about the quantity. Thinking of this, John prepared to look for another exit. If you're not mistaken, the other exit will allow you to get out earlier than the one you came in before.
The exit was easy to find, on the other side of the cave, and like the cave John had entered, it was a well-like entrance to the water, but larger than the small hole before John. John jumped from the hole, still following the current—it was supposed to be the same vein as before, but there were only two exits.
As John had guessed, drifting down the current, John soon saw a glimmer of light ahead of him—the exit was ahead.
Go ashore and find Bonnet, the fat man sleeping on his merchant ship.
Looking at Bonnet, who was lying in the hammock with his body shaking with the fluctuations of the ship, John somehow walked over and grabbed Bonnet's hammock, shook it vigorously, threw Bonnet off the hammock, and sat on the deck of the cabin.
"What's the matter, what's wrong, is it an earthquake? Is the tsunami coming?" Bonnet fell from the hammock, and for a moment he was not awake, and hurriedly got up and looked for cover everywhere, as if he was going to fight a tsunami.
John didn't speak, just stood there watching Bonnet's movements. After a while, without feeling any tremors other than the waves of the boat, Bonnet poked his head out from behind the sack of grain, which had not even hidden his ass. Looking at John standing there, he still didn't understand what was going on: "John, you are really, I rarely have free time to sleep well today, I rarely dreamed of my sugar cane plantation, and you woke me up." ”
John looked at him and said, "Bonnet, maybe I've found the pirate's treasure." Bonnet stood up from the sack of grain: "Oh my God! Is it true? Where is it? How many? Oh my God, John, you are really a man of God's favor." ”
John stopped Bonnet, who was happily circling around the cabin, and said, "Don't be too happy, those treasures are not as much as you think. Or rather, whether that amount can be called a treasure is one thing. ”
"No matter how much, it's a treasure from heaven. Bonnett could see that he cared not so much about the treasure as he was about finding it, just as he didn't care about the good money of sailing, though that was also an end, but preferred the very thing of sailing on the sea.
John, with a sack, led Bonnet to the shore where he had just climbed up, and pointed to the sea: "There is a cave below here, and inside the cave is the location of the treasure I said." It's very deep in there, though, and I don't think you'll be able to get there. He looked at Bonnet's belly.
Bonnet was also a little annoyed, and patted his stomach with his hand: "Okay, okay, then I'll wait here for you to come back." It can be seen that it is rare to find a treasure, but he is unable to go there in person because of his physical fitness, which is still a big blow to Bonnet.
John shook his head, walked straight into the water with the sack, and carefully searched for the exit of the cave he had just come out of. Soon, John saw the exit, which was hidden behind a large rock. Standing here, John could feel the force of the water flowing out, and if it was someone else, maybe they would be swept away by the current, so naturally there was not much chance of entering. Soon John went into the cave, filled all the gold, silver, and jewels with a sack, sealed the mouth of the pocket, and went back with the sack.
Bonnet was anxiously walking around the shore at this time, watching John emerge from the sea and hurriedly walking towards John, not even paying attention to the wet shoes and pants of the sea, and keeping his eyes on the sack that John was carrying on his back: "Is this it? Is it all in there? The gift from God!"
John nodded, stomped the sack on the sand, untied the ropes from the sack, and showed the entire bag of gold and silver to Bonnet's eyes.
Bonnet looked at the treasure with some obsession, and he took it out one by one, but ignored the gold and silver coins. After a while, Bonnet raised his head and put the jewelry in his hand back into the sack: "John." I have to tell you the fact that these treasures of yours may not be the ones found by the sailors. The patterns on these treasures show that none of these are in the same place as the necklace they found: the necklace they found came from Venice, and the jewels you find, if I'm not mistaken, are from the Holy Roman Empire. ”