"Samsara 228, you've been given the competitive story mission: Pyramid (Tier B). The Portuguese Admiral Rafael Castello has asked you to join a treasure hunt for a pyramid. Mission: Protect Raphael until the end of the treasure hunt. Task rewards: Depending on the number of pyramid collections obtained, the more collections you get, the higher the completion of the task, and the basic reward is 20 honor points. ”

Xu Mo held on to the side of the boat and silently watched the dinghy that Raphael was riding away from the sea. The young admiral brought him great information that Raphael had obtained a treasure map in Alexandria, Egypt.

In fact, in this era, due to the vigorous development of navigation, the European powers had more frequent exchanges with the world's major ancient civilizations. Numerous ancient ruins have also been discovered and excavated at an astonishing rate, and such treasures are endless.

Some treasure maps are actually just notes or road maps for ancient people to record ruins and tombs. These ruins and mausoleums often contain funerary goods and artifacts of great value, so in the eyes of navigators, these notes and road maps become treasure maps.

The treasure map that Raphael showed Xu Mo was the inner labyrinth of a pyramid of a pharaoh in Egypt. Located in the southwestern desert of Alexandria, the pyramid appears to have numerous funerary goods of great value inside the pyramid from the labyrinth diagram. However, there must be a number of mechanisms inside such a pyramid, and perhaps there are some guardians who have survived to this day near the pyramid.

Raphael's merchant ships lacked armed sailors to explore the pharaonic pyramids on their own, and he hoped to get help from the Vaasa, promising to give the Vasa a portion of the pyramid's collection.

Through this competitive task on Raphael, Xu Mo confirmed one thing, that is, the convergence and fusion of the two major spaces in the era of sea power this time, the main purpose is to develop the treasure law that this world has. In other words, this kind of competitive task of searching for treasure will be the main direction of the two spatial reincarnations.

After thinking about it, Xu Mo accepted Raphael's request and promised to send armed sailors to accompany him to explore the treasures of this pyramid after arriving in North Africa. He had a vague sense that the treasure map that Raphael had obtained in Alexandria was most likely mysteriously related to the treasure map that Serna had obtained.

The evidence is that the two treasure maps are very similar in parchment, and that Alexandria and Jerusalem are geographically close to each other, and that Egypt and Israel were neighbors in ancient times.

Three days later, the Vaasa was resupplied and all the crew members who were on duty in Amsterdam returned to the ship. The Mofeng Tuan, who came day and night, symbolically bought the Spanish galleon at a low price, but named it the "Golden Elephant".

Shen Mo was very satisfied with this Spanish galleon that was a bit old, if it was in Lisbon, it would be absolutely impossible for him to buy such a big ship with the gold coins he had. In fact, the gold coins in his hand only turned around in Xu Mo's hand, and they were returned to him by the head of the old K in the name of investment.

The Golden Elephant also needed to recruit crew members to pay for the ship's refurbishment. In fact, Xu Mo also handed over to him some of the gold coins left by the Vasa. The Golden Elephant kept only a small number of guns, and all the other guns were sold to shipyards by Shen Mo, whose main mission was not naval warfare, but also as a mobile supply depot for the Vaasa.

The gold from the sale of the artillery and the money from the original mission allowed the Ink Wind Regiment to barely pay for the refurbishment and recruit enough sailors and supplies for the ship.

After the Vasa distributed the profits of this naval battle to the sailors and officers, Xu Mo's 20,000 gold coins from the Argotic Chamber of Commerce had all been exhausted, except for the gold coins that Xu Mo symbolically invested in the ink wind group, Admiral Alfred was already as poor as when he first set off from Stockholm.

Originally, a warship like the Vasa, Xu Mo could have waited until he returned to Stockholm after all the battles were over and then distributed gold coins to the surviving sailors. However, for Xu Mo, he didn't care about the gold coins, and he didn't even care if there was any wealth handed over to Gustav II after the entire naval battle mission was over.

If gold can boost the morale of all Viking sailors, they will be able to fight to the death in the battle with the Temple of the Gods. Xu Mo even hoped to exchange all the things that could be sold into gold coins and distribute them to his armed sailors.

"Anchor and set sail!" At Xu Mo's order, a brass bell rang out on the Vasa, and the Viking sailors climbed the mast like toiling ants and lowered their bound sails.

"Bang!" The wind-swept canvas looks like a thin willow moon from the side, the Vasa cuts through the waves, and the mermaid statue on the bow of the ship looks like a living thing, staring at the sea in the distance, and the huge sea beast once again embarks on an unknown journey......

Half a day later, the Vasa was able to see the Karutira ahead of her. The Carutilla was Raphael's ship and the flagship of the three merchant ships of the Castello Chamber of Commerce. The ship is a brand new Flemish sailing boat, but it has undergone a series of modifications compared to a regular Flemish sailing boat.

Raphael had a good friend, Jernas Pasha, who was currently working as a shipbuilder at the Castello Chamber of Commerce. Jenas Pasha, much like the Iron Lilley, was a brilliant mechanic and scientist as well as a navigator, who loved sailing and science, and traveled around the world with Raphael.

After the transformation of the Carutilla, although it could not become a battleship like the Vasa, and there were only a few more than 20 guns on board, it was extremely fast, and the cruising speed was even faster than that of the Vaasa. The Vasa could only catch up with it if it lost half of its guns and all its materiel, and was fully armed.

This armed merchant ship is also a sharp weapon for the Castello Chamber of Commerce to deal with pirates, don't look at Raphael and the others are very young, the head of the Castello Chamber of Commerce has experienced a lot more naval battles than Xu Mo, and he is a veritable young navigator.

"Boss, aren't you going to go to Venice first?" Dinah walked up to Xu Mo and asked softly.

"Well, I originally went to Venice to find traces of the Temple of the Gods, and since we can now ignore Hyreddin, then of course we have to go to North Africa with Raphael first." Xu Mo turned around and said with a smile.

"Originally, I thought we were going to spend months at sea, but now that the Castello Chamber of Commerce is able to cover the Vaasa, of course we need to make good use of the supply ports in North Africa. It is difficult to keep the morale of the sailors high all the time with gold coins, after all, we are human beings, not sea fish! ”

"Are we going to follow the Carutilla all the time?" Dinah asked, confused.

"No, Raphael and the Tiereli have already decided on a route, Raphael is going back to Lisbon to sell their goods, and then they are going to buy some souvenirs to take to North Africa in the coastal seaports of France and Italy. We will separate from them in Lisbon and wait for an opportunity to hunt merchant ships along the way, and the two sides will meet in Tripoli and go together to Alexandria, Egypt. Xu Mo shook his head and explained.

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The voyage was quiet for the next few days, and as it passed through the English Channel, the Vassar shortened the distance between the two sides, disguised itself as an armed warship of the Castello Chamber of Commerce, and avoided the English privateering fleet. In fact, without Raphael's cooperation, the Vasa would have gone north to the Faroe Islands, making a big bend in the sea, and then south to Western Europe, avoiding the numerous British warships in the English Channel.

As the fleet parted over the outer harbor of Lisbon, the relaxed atmosphere on board the Vasa began to dissipate. Everyone on board understands that from now on, they will be on their own.

Xu Mo suppressed the Vasa's desire to fight, and did not plunder the Spanish merchant ships on the way. It was so close to Serbia and Gibraltar that almost every half hour, they could see merchant ships from other countries on the sea.

Some of these merchant ships sailed from the Mediterranean, laden with European goods, to the New World, Africa, and Northern Europe. There are also merchant ships returning to Mediterranean ports from all over the world, and the nationalities of almost all the coastal countries of Europe are included. Through the merchant fleet lined with sails and masts on the sea, the people of the old K regiment felt the magnificence of the Age of Discovery and were deeply shocked.

On the second evening of his separation from Raphael, Xu Mo reduced the number of sailors on duty at night. They had to pass through Gibraltar in the early hours of the morning, and now more people could rest so that they had the energy to deal with any contingencies on the sea. However, the plan could not catch up with the change, and Xu Mo had just fallen asleep when he was woken up by the alarm bell on the Vasa.

"The bell of the first level of alert!" When Xu Mo listened to it, his face changed.

In order to issue a Alert Order of Rank 3 or higher, only the Captain, First Mate and Stormtrooper are eligible. The man on duty tonight was the Iron Rite Column, and it was clear that the Vasa was in a major crisis to get the well-informed young navigator to issue a first-class alert order.

Xu Mo grabbed the admiral's uniform and put it on his body, walked out of the captain's room quickly, and ran towards the bow of the ship.

"Tie Lilie, what's wrong?" Xu Mo came to Tie Lilie's side and asked in a deep voice.

"Alfred, come and see!" Tie Lilie frowned, handed the monocular to Xu Mo, and pointed in a certain direction on the sea.

"What is this?" Xu Mo was a little confused, although there was a bright moon hanging in the sky, the picture in the telescope was still a little blurry. He could only see a small whirlpool echoing on the surface of the sea indicated by the Iron Rite Column, and from time to time several long strips of objects would protrude from the whirlpool and fly strangely.

"This is a very powerful sea beast - the king squid, judging from those tentacles flying on the surface of the sea, I estimate that this king squid may be more than 20 meters long, and the tentacles are 30 meters long!" Tie Lilie stared at the sea with an ugly face.

"Squid?!" Xu Mo blinked, looking at the tentacles on the surface of the sea in disbelief, not much thinner than marble pillars.

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