Chapter 188: The Age of Discovery (11)
Gloria's room was small, with a maximum of three single beds, and only one bed, a table, a wooden box under the bed, a few items of clothing, two candles on the table, and a knife.
After all, the room was only so big, and Ye Qing and the three of them quickly turned it over, but unfortunately, they couldn't find the navigation chart that Rhodes said.
"Are you sure you're here?" Hu Yingfeng leaned against the wall, looked at Ye Qing and Rhodes and continued to look for the map: "There is no smell of parchment here. ”
Neither of them paid attention to Hu Yingfeng, they carefully inspected the wooden box, dismantled the bed board, used candles to light and study the wall, and finally, Ye Qing stayed on the table.
"Perhaps, she recorded the map in some other way."
Ye Qing picked up the knife, the blade was small, the tip was sharp, suitable for engraving, and turned the bulky table upside down, she really found something.
Although not a nautical chart, it should have some specific meanings.
"Rod, do you know what this is?"
"Oh...... This ......" Rod frowned and looked at it for a while, and finally shook his head: "I only know that this symbol represents the direction of the wind, and I don't know what the other symbols and patterns mean, and these numbers, I seem to have seen them somewhere, it's a pity, I can't remember where I've seen them now." ”
Hu Yingfeng said: "With these things that have nothing to do with us so far, we can't find the Lost City. ”
"Rod, you tell me about that day again, let's think about it together, is Gloria hinting at something else."
"That day......" Rhodes said in front of Hu Yingfeng, arresting Barrio and then executing him, "She said that she had always liked the wooden doll I gave her, and then knocked me off the boat. ”
"Those people didn't arrest you? Just let you float away like this? ”
"They killed the rest of the crew and attracted sharks." At this point, Rhodes buried his face in his hands.
"Then you ......" Ye Qing couldn't help but think that the gift given to Rhodes by the soul of the sea should not only be the ability to improve physical fitness, perhaps, he has other abilities.
Not only sharks, but also many creatures in the sea will grab human flesh, Rhodes was injured at the time, as soon as the wound touches the seawater, even if it is only a drop of water, it will spread rapidly in the seawater, sharks have an extremely sensitive sense of smell, how can they let Rhodes go?
What kind of luck did Rhodes have to have to escape from the sharks and float to the sea area of Ye Qing and the others?
And at that time, the sea was full of sharks, and Gloria pushed him down, and being eaten by sharks and being killed by Barrio didn't seem to be much different, and the ending was death anyway.
Unless, Gloria knew that Rhodes wouldn't die, and he would be able to survive the sharks.
Rod let go of his hands and looked at Ye Qing: "Sharks won't eat me." ”
"Why?"
"When I was seven years old, I was pushed off the boat, and when a shark swam in the sea, they drove the boat away, leaving me in the sea, and I was so scared that I thought I was going to be bitten to death by a shark, and I had heard of the most powerful killers at sea - sharks, killer whales, king squid, whoever they were, they would definitely die if they met! I didn't expect the shark to let me go, I just prayed that the shark would swallow me in one bite and not torture me too much, but the shark, just swam around me and left. ”
"After that, I always thought sharks were very kind."
"Until Gloria and I were thrown into the sea by pirates, and I saw how the shark brutally tore Tom's arm and how he bit Phillips's thigh, I hugged Gloria tightly and prayed for the protection of the sea god, just as I did when I was seven years old."
"The god of the sea still favored me, me and Gloria."
"Gloria said that it must have been because of the shell-like thing I ate when I was a child that kept the creatures of the sea from harming me, and she said that it might be a sea crystal."
"Haijing?" Ye Qing glanced back at Hu Yingfeng, and there was also doubt in his eyes.
Shi Zhen said that the sea crystal is at the bottom of the deep sea!
"Legend has it that the sea crystal has the divine power of the sea god." "Many years ago, there was a tsunami in the waters near Ebins, when I was picking up seashells that had washed ashore on the coast, trying to find pearls and exchange them for money in the market, and I stumbled upon something that looked like a shell but was not a shell, and it was hard to the touch, but it disappeared in my mouth. ”
"How did you remember to eat it?"
"When Barrio heard that I was on the shore and wanted to clean me up, he told me to swallow a piece of shell or he would kill me."
"It's Barrio again......"
Rod was reluctant to mention anything about Barrio, saying, "That's it. ”
"Tell me about Gloria, what we might have missed."
Rod thought about it, and still talked to Ye Qing and the others about Gloria: "She's like my sister ......"
Gloria's father and Rod's father were like brothers, and together they set out on a ship to find the lost city, the Conqueror, but this ship was set sail for ten years.
Some say that they were attacked by pirates, who robbed the ship of all its supplies and killed everyone, and the plate with the word "Conqueror" floated to the island of Naples; Some say that they were caught in a storm, the ship capsized, and the people died; Some people say that they encountered a fog, and the fog of the sea is like a labyrinth, where the living enter and the dead come out; Some say that they landed on an isolated island inhabited by cannibals, who were devoured alive......
It has even been said that the sea monsters in the southern waters swallowed the entire ship, so no one has really found any fragments of the conqueror's debris so far.
Either way, no one says they found the Lost City.
Perhaps, they were lost on the way back.
Or maybe they stayed in the Lost City to serve the god of the sea in the Golden Temple.
"Gloria believes they must have found the Lost City."
Gloria was adamant that her father would return, but her mother, Dia, could not persevere, and she was too tired to bear the burden of the family and the blame of the family members who had set foot on the Conqueror and failed to return.
When Gloria was ten years old, Dia married Dowling.
Gloria never complained about her mother's choice.
Remarried to Dowling, she left three sons for Dowling one after another, which made Dowling have a slightly better face for Gloria.
Compared to Dowling, the three half-brothers did more than what Gloria said.
"Her eldest brother, Duke, took advantage of her absence to set fire to everything in her house about navigation, including the voyage notes left by her father."
"The wooden doll burned too?" Ye Qing asked.
"Oh my God!" Rod suddenly stood up and patted himself on the head a few times: "I'm so stupid!" That's not what Gloria said at all! ”
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