Those charts were drawn in parchment and look very old. Since only islands and shipping routes are indicated on the charts, and there is no clear continental outline, it is difficult to determine where the islands are located.

Petru didn't take it too seriously, thinking that it was just some grave robber or antiquities dealer, presumably smuggled along with the mummy somewhere in Asia, where perverted rich people often like to collect strange things, such as rusty weapons, porcelain jars for ashes, and bones from dead people, and like to rub jade from the anus of dead people in their hands.

This is also in line with the rules he has made, all smuggling boats, unless you have greeted him beforehand, will be robbed, and he doesn't care which gang you belong to. It's just that the price of this robbery is a bit large, and it took dozens of elite men to get a mummy and a few broken maps, and the key is that the mummy was also thrown into the sea by the superstitious Somali pirate brothers.

I don't know which museum this mummy came from, although it may be valuable, but Petru doesn't want to go to the sea to salvage the corpses of ancient people, and the value of the mummy after soaking in water is estimated to be greatly reduced.

The parchment charts were good, he believed they had been drawn by some pirate centuries or more. The great seafaring undertakings on earth did not begin with trade, but with piracy. It was his ambitious and dedicated predecessors who found most of the continents and meticulously mapped the contours of the seas and land.

The islands marked on the charts may harbor pirate treasures. Petru carefully treasured them, and from time to time took them out to study, but was never able to find out where the charts pointed.

After this operation, Petrux continued to recruit troops and prepare for his great plan to transform from a pirate to a political leader.

At that time, he did not know what a catastrophe this incident would bring, so that he had to leave the Gulf of Aden, bypass most of the world, and hide in the South Pacific, and in the end it was those old nautical charts that saved him.

He had thought that there were very few people like the priest in the entire human society, and that the creature he met at sea who seemed to be much stronger than the priest should be even rarer, perhaps not much more than the number of black rhinos in West Africa. Once widespread in the savannah, the black rhinoceros subspecies became endangered due to overhunting and was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2011, but one of Petrus' henchmen vowed that he had seen it on the border between Cameroon and Chad.

However, over the course of a year or so, Petrux suffered the most horrific experience of being hunted down and fleeing in his life.

The first to come to the door was a small European, who was probably about the same mental ability as a priest, and that was enough to subdue Petru. However, the man's purpose was not to get revenge and kill him, but to get the mummy and the chart, so Petru found a chance to escape. When he met the man again, as the priest said, he didn't even think about it, and almost instinctively, he shot the man with a very decisive shot at a suitable distance. Although he wanted to know who they really were and what organization they belonged to, he knew better that his chances of killing his opponent were only two or three seconds.

Bullets flew through the jungle on the east coast of Somalia, knocking out half of the man's face. Petru remembered the priest, and the death was exactly the same. The man who killed the priest at the time probably knew the threat of the mentally strong as he did.

Petru began to suspect that spiritual powerhouses might not be uncommon. From then on, he began to practice spiritual power in the same way that the pastor had taught him.

However, in the subsequent pursuit of one group of strong men, he didn't have time to make himself stronger, so he embarked on the road of escape. The strong man's mental suppression and unguardable dream path once made Petru desperate, but fortunately, he was also improving, and his pirate empire was large enough, and countless pirate brothers paid the price of their lives to keep him alive.

Petru guessed that the mummy and the charts were not as simple as stealing antiquities, but he couldn't guess what they were. He also thought about going to the bottom of the sea to salvage the mummy, and hand it over with the charts to buy peace. However, the water depth of the place where the mummy fell into the sea may be 5,000 to 6,000 feet, and a small crystal coffin that can lie on only one person will drift with the ocean current in the process of sinking to the bottom of the sea, and no one can say where it will drift with the ocean current, and it is too difficult to salvage.

In addition, he understood that he was able to survive entirely because the chart was in his hands, and if he handed over the chart, he would probably be killed by the other party.

Unable to stay in the Gulf of Aden, he began a career as a fugitive, and after several journeys, he came to the South Pacific. After hiding for a while in the vicinity of the Cook Islands and the Tubuai Islands, he suddenly discovered that the islands marked on the ancient charts were on the edge of the South Pacific basin, about 700 nautical miles around 150°W and 30°S.

Not all islands on the charts can be found. At first, Petru thought that the chart was wrongly labeled, or that some of the islands had disappeared due to thousands of years of submarine volcanic activity, until one day, he saw an island that suddenly appeared, only to realize that many of the islands marked on the chart were ghost islands.

These ghost islands are weird, and if you go to the island, you won't feel anything special, it's just an ordinary desert island. But when you leave by boat, you may turn around and find that the island is gone, and you will never see it again for a long time afterward, even in this lifetime.

Petru didn't know what kind of great man had marked the ghost islands here, and it seemed like an impossible job. If he hadn't had these charts, he might not have been able to figure out how many islands there were, even if he had transferred all the Somali pirates.

A triangle is drawn in the center of the chart, around which there are many radial straight lines, connected to some of the surrounding islands. There is also a vertical line that shoots out from the vertex of the triangle and is drawn directly to the edge of the chart, which looks like it is going to connect somewhere other than the chart.

Petru didn't know what the triangle meant, but he had sailed his ship to see it many times, and there was nothing but the endless sea.

However, on the islands that are connected by a straight line to the triangle, Petru found some strange piles of stones, clearly showing traces of artificial masonry, like the remains of the island's primitive natives.

The islands on the map are not all ghost islands, some of them are real and even inhabited, the largest of which is Tubuai Island. There is also a hillside with such stones, which the locals say is an ancient altar, and they call it tab, which means "forbidden place", and mortals are not allowed to approach it, otherwise they will offend the gods and become insane.