Tabb is an ancient forbidden place, which cannot be entered by anyone who has not been inspired by the gods. In both the Tubuai and Bath Islands, there are many stories of people being punished by the gods for trespassing into Tab, some people contracting strange diseases, others becoming blind or mute, and more often becoming insane.

Petrux was skeptical. He wasn't a complete atheist, but he wasn't superstitious either. If the tabb was an altar erected by the ancestors of the indigenous people, why were there special markings on these charts? He believed that the man who drew the picture was a great pirate and could not have been the ancestors of the Maori people who lived in the Southern Isles. Pirates may revere the god of the sea, but never care about a few small indigenous altars.

Moreover, nautical charts show that these things are distributed on islands within a radius of 1,000 nautical miles, and the indigenous people of the Pacific Ocean are very different in race and religion, and it is impossible to have a unified ritual of worship to the gods in such a large area. If the Maori or some other race had unified the area and left such extensive remains, New Zealand, Australia, and even intelligence should have found clues.

So Petru thinks it's likely that these tabs are not relics left by Maori ancestors, but by pirates who painted them back then. It's likely that some secret is hidden, such as a priceless shipwreck, the location of a great treasure, or a hidden pirate's lair.

Petru guessed that the triangle in the center of the chart was the real secret, and that all the clues were on the surrounding islands with tabs.

The islands in the Pacific Ocean were hidden enough, and the presence of the Tabs kept the locals from approaching, giving Petru the best place to hide.

He first found an uninhabited desert island with a tabb near the Bath Islands and hid on it.

In the beginning, he only lived outside of Tab, after all, there were so many rumors about the taboo of Tab, and he didn't want to become a madman himself. However, as a pirate, the clues left by his predecessors were too tempting, and driven by curiosity, Petrux still walked into the messy pile of stones.

Once inside, Petru quickly understood why anyone who casually entered the Tab would become insane.

These piles of stones are like a huge spiritual energy array, as soon as people come in, their consciousness will be subjected to a strong spiritual impact, and ordinary people entering here, their self-consciousness is likely to get out of control, and they will either become crazy or stupid.

Even though he was trained for awakening under the guidance of a priest, Petrux almost fell into the Tao. It took a long time for him to get used to this mental shock. And according to his observations, the spiritual power here may come from some kind of ancient remnant, and these tabs must have been more powerful and terrifying in some distant past than they are now.

He didn't know why the stones here had spiritual powers, as if there were thousand-year-old demons buried underground. It reminded him of a lot of things-

The mummy that was smuggled at the beginning and is now sunk to the bottom of the sea, the nautical chart that was originally put together with the mummy and is now in his hand, and the spiritual powerhouse that is stronger than the priest escorting a cargo ship alone......

These things are linked to these mysterious tabs on the islands of the South Pacific, sketching some vague outlines of the truth of events. He knew—

The ship he had robbed was not a smuggling ship bound for some part of Asia, but its real destination was some ghost island in the South Pacific, or the triangle enclosed by ghost islands.

Why bring here a mummy that has been dead for maybe thousands of years?

Petru had a vague sense of unease.

He wanted to get out of here, and he probably broke into the other party's lair. But on second thought, perhaps the most dangerous place is the safest. Moreover, since they were chasing him for a chart, it means that this chart may be unique, and they probably don't have the exact coordinates here, at least not the location of all the ghost islands.

So, Petru continued to hide on the island. For the convenience of life, he moved to the island of Tubuai. There are more than 2,000 indigenous people here, tourism is well developed, and life is quite convenient in the underdeveloped islands on the edge of the southern archipelago. And this island also happens to have a tab, right in the most inhospitable corner of the whole island.

He took up residence in the ravine behind the slopes of Mount Tab, where there was a bay where his ships could be docked. He laid many traps around him, and there were weapons he hid everywhere.

Petru didn't go incognito, knowing that, as the world's most famous pirate, his whereabouts were unlikely to be a secret. If those people must find him, they will find this place sooner or later. So he simply continued to use the name Petru and deal with the inhabitants of the island.

Of course, he only made contact with others when necessary, and spent most of the rest of his time in Tabu on the mountain. The people of the island wanted to expel him at first, believing that the outsider had offended the gods and ancestors of the place, but where could they deal with this pirate king who dared to fight the Indian Navy and caused a lot of headaches for the governments. Many of the island's young men had been taught by him, but he was clever and well-measured, and with his strategy of "beating you with a stick and giving you a piece of candy to eat", he made the natives both frightened by his force and made them fall in love with his generosity. For the sake of money, the inhabitants of Tubuai did not drive him away, but only said behind his back that he was a madman punished by the gods, and kept the young men and children away from him.

Petru also understands the truth of the three holes of the cunning rabbit. In addition to Tubuai, he also stockpiled food and weapons on two other uninhabited islands.

Once settled, he sailed his ship from island to island, trying to find all the ghost islands on the chart, so as to further discover the secrets between mummies, tabs, and psychic powers.

Other than that, he hid in Tabri, where no one invaded, and it was a good place to cultivate his spiritual power. During this time, his mental power grew rapidly, although because he did not have a famous teacher to guide him, he did not know what to do next, so he could only practice blindly by feeling.

Then, in a chance shot, he discovered that the spear and bullet that had been in the tabp for a long time actually had a faint spiritual energy, as if it had a primitive consciousness, such as the earliest chaotic consciousness that was conceived in the fountain of life at the beginning of the growth of all things.

When he aims at his prey, the bullet seems to be able to calculate its own flight trajectory and match Petru's mind to lock onto the target. This allowed him to get rid of the scope and use the naked eye to aim at the target from a distance, and the accuracy of the shot was no worse than using an instrument, if not better.

Petru knew that this might be an illusion, because long-range sniping is not a simple straight line shot, it also needs to make precise calculations based on the mass of the bullet, muzzle velocity, wind force at that time, wind direction, air humidity, and finally add a little experience and feeling of the sniper himself. Even if the bullet had a primitive consciousness, it would not have been possible to suddenly learn Newton's three laws on a desert island. It should be Petru himself who locked onto the target, and the bullet only played a subtle mental bridging role in it, but in the conscious sense, it was as if the bullet automatically locked onto the target.