"What the hell is this?" Ah Yue looked at the bracelet that she took off, and found that there were words in the inner circle of the bracelet, so she immediately leaned in to look at the flashlight, but she couldn't understand what kind of text it was after looking at it for a long time.

Gu Huaiyi on one side also took off the bracelet, looked at the words inside carefully, and then shook his head and said: "I don't know, it should be an ancient script, a bit like an ancient Egyptian font." ”

"No, absolutely not, I know what ancient Egyptian words look like." Ah Yue shook his head, "I once helped people escort mummies, and it was together with the coffin outside, the words on the coffin were obviously different from this, and the words in the bracelet seemed to contain a lot of words we saw, strange, like a hodgepodge of world fonts." ”

"Take the bracelet away and see if the tulle can be taken off." Gu Huaiyi leaned over to take off the tulle, and found that he couldn't take it off, the tulle seemed to grow directly on the surface of the dried corpse's body, and he had to give up after trying it a few times.

"Two pairs of bracelets, a total of four, I'll take two, you take two, it's fair, right?" Ah Yue took the one in Tang Shuxing's hand and held it up to show them, Tang Shuxing glanced at Gu Huaiyi, remembering that this woman was a person who regarded money as life, so he had to nod.

Ji Kefeng was still observing the dried corpse, and after observing for a long time, he didn't find anything strange, and then he and the others climbed along the side of the boat towards the top of the sailboat.

In the process of crawling, Tang Shuxing calculated the height, and found that the hull was at least as high as a normal building about 5 floors, close to 19 meters in height, and when he was calculating, he heard Ah Yue who was climbing on the side: "This kind of ship is unimaginable if it was built in ancient times, judging from the appearance of the hull, it is close to the sailing ship of the 18th century, but such a large volume, the full load displacement is at least nearly 8000 tons, I remember the largest French sail battleship in the 19th century, the displacement is less than 6000 tons, And it can load more than 1,000 crew members. There were also more than 100 iron cannons, and this kind of ship was even bigger than that kind of sail battleship. ”

"Maybe aliens." Tang Shuxing looked up at the top, and there were still several meters to climb to the side of the ship.

"I can guarantee that these things have nothing to do with aliens." Ah Yue stopped there and looked at Tang Shuxing, "There is no trace of alien activity around Philadelphia, and the United States has tried to get in touch with aliens since World War II, but it has never achieved its goal." ”

Ah Yue said and waved to Ah Ling, who had climbed to the deck and was squatting there looking at her, asking her to be careful.

Tang Shuxing shook his head: "You really know everything, you are worthy of being an intelligence trader, I guess those people in the Dead Ear are not as good as you, right?" ”

Ah Yue shook his head: "I am interested in a different field from the group of people in the Underworld, in terms of understanding foreign arts. I'm not as good as them. ”

"Awesome. That's what I'll say. You even know that there is something in this world that you don't know? Tang Shuxing had already climbed to the side of the boat, riding there panting and looking at Ah Yue on the side.

"I don't know the numbers for the next lotto and whether you're good or bad. I don't know. Ah Yue said and sniffed around, and after making sure that there was no combustible gas in the air, he lit the burning rod and distributed it to everyone, and then began to observe this huge strange sailing ship.

"A strange ship, with only one mainsail." Ah Yue stood on the spacious deck and looked around, "And the appearance of the hull is very strange, similar to the combination of ancient sailing ships in the East and the West." ”

"Explain?" Tang Shuxing looked at Ah Yue, except for Ah Yue, who was present. Knowledge of sailing ships is almost nil.

"Generally speaking, the ancient sailing ships of Europeans were like fishes, and the shape of ancient Chinese sailing ships came from the shape of ducks, that is, the surface resistance is different from the underwater resistance. In addition to buoyancy and seakeeping, the ship type is also related to the speed of the ship. That is, the smaller the water resistance of the hull, the faster the speed of the ship......" Then Ah Yue said a bunch of terms about air resistance above the waterline and water resistance below the waterline, plus air density and water density, etc., and everyone except Gu Huaiyi was in a fog.

Before Ah Yue finished speaking, he saw the confused eyes of the others, and immediately changed the topic: "To put it simply, this ship is like a combination of Eastern and Western ships, with the advantages of the ships of both sides at that time, and the main sail seems to be just a simple driving role, the main power does not rely on this, and there is no oar mouth on the side of the hull before, that is to say, this ship should not need manpower to row." ”

Gu Huaiyi nodded: "That's weird, you don't need manpower or wind power, what does that rely on?" Motor? ”

"Not necessarily, there are already too many strange things, and even if there are any more strange things, I won't find it strange." Ah Yue said and walked towards the building pressed against the hull, and climbed into the building with the help of Gu Huaiyi.

It is a typical English building, with a classical principle of symmetry and harmony, a decorative door, and attention to detail – triangular roofs, fine diagonal panes, large chimneys, and so on. The materials used in the construction of the house are bricks, cement, wood, and mosaic stones, which can indicate that although the owner of the house is not very noble, he should also be a wealthy merchant in the colonial era.

When you open the door to enter the building, you will be greeted by a lavish foyer with a corridor that connects to the main hall inside, which is not large in size, but because of the rational layout, it looks like a small palace.

Ah Yue squatted down and looked at the cracks on the floor: "This building can't fall directly from the ground, at this height, at least a few tens of meters, the weight of the building itself can definitely crush the hull of the ship, even if it is connected to the foundation." ”

"What do you mean?" Tang Shuxing looked at Ah Yue and asked.

Gu Huaiyi interjected on the side: "What she meant should be that after this ship hit the ground, the foundation was loosened, the building sank to the hull, and the position of the bridge collapsed, and because of the weight of the building, this strange ship was pressed to where we are now." ”

"You mean the strange ship floated? Impossible, no water! Tang Shuxing stood at the window and looked at the square cave outside, this cave was like a dock for a submarine to dock, but there were no water fillers and outlets around it.

Ji Kefeng stood on the side and said, "Maybe there is another way to enter the water." ”

"There's a dried corpse here." Ah Yue stood in front of the chaise longue near the fireplace in the main hall, looking at a dried corpse in a strange costume, which was said to be weird, but it was actually the costume of a British Army officer during the American Revolution.

Ah Yue looked at the small table next to the dry corpse and there was a flintlock pistol on the small table, picked it up and said while looking at it: "The French 1733 pistol, the first flintlock pistol that France was equipped with at that time that can be called a standard pistol, is what we are talking about now." Judging from the location of this building and the clothing of the dried corpse, etc., I estimate that this person should be an officer during the American Revolutionary War, but the blame is that this person is wearing the costume of a British Red Coats officer, but the weapon he is holding is a French pistol purchased by the American ** team at that time. ”

"There's still a rifle here, it's falling apart." Ji Kefeng found another rifle next to the fireplace, the barrel of the rifle was very long, and it looked incredible.

Ah Yue squatted there, turned on the flashlight and leaned over to look at it carefully, and then looked at the pattern on the gun, and said to himself: "It seems to be a Jaeger rifle." No. No. It was the Kentucky rifle, a flintlock rifle of several calibers and a modification of the German-made Jaeger rifle, with metal parts made of copper and silver. It was more delicate, the breech was loaded, but the loading was slow, but this gun was one of the few rifled rifles of its time. ”

As she spoke, Ah Yue went to grab the gun again, and with a slight pull, the butt of the gun was shattered, and she took the gun and looked at it carefully: "The thing that made this gun famous was in the Battle of Saratoga in the Revolutionary War. Murphy's U.S. Army rifleman. Now it can be called a sniper, and at a distance of more than 400 meters, he killed a British general, using a Kentucky long-barreled rifle. ”

"Wow-" Tang Shuxing gave a thumbs up to Ah Yue on one side, "I took it." You really know everything. ”

Ah Yue glanced at him and didn't say anything, just touched the dried corpse with gloves on, and said to himself: "There must be something to prove his identity." ”

Ah Yue used a dagger to cut open the clothes of the dried corpse, wanting to see how he died and what the fatal wound was, but what he didn't expect was that after cutting the man's clothes, when his chest was exposed, he found pieces of scales on his chest.

Everyone was surprised when they saw this, and then helped Ah Yue carry the body to the ground, took off all his clothes, and found that in addition to the scales on the body surface, the soles of this person's feet were also different from normal people, only three huge toes, and the soles of the feet looked very similar to lizards, and no obvious injuries were seen.

"Wait!" Tang Shuxing suddenly thought of something, pried open the mouth of the corpse with a dagger, and then touched it carefully, and finally touched the obvious pit in the mouth, he shook his hand, looked at Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng and said, "This guy is a corpse!" ”

Gu Huaiyi also hurriedly stepped forward to touch it, shook his head after touching it for a while, and said: "No, it should be the first generation of corpses, strictly speaking, like the demonizers among the Shiva people, they are completely different from us, they can be regarded as ancestors and other characters." ”

Ah Yue stood there looking at the sofa where the corpse was sitting before, the sofa was facing the fireplace, although the hands of the dry corpse were on the armrests, the index fingers of both hands seemed to point to the fireplace, and the flintlock pistol on the small table also seemed to be pointing at the fireplace, did it mean that there was something in the fireplace?

Thinking of this, Ah Yue began to dig into the fireplace to look around, and finally found a notebook wrapped in a leather case that had been burned off most of it in the ashes of the fireplace, but the handwriting on it was blurred, and it was completely impossible to see what was written.

Ah Yue shook his head, threw the notebook back, and was about to turn around to leave, Ji Kefeng squatted down and shone a flashlight on the inside of the fireplace, and asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

"Found what looked like a diary, but it's almost all destroyed." Ah Yue pointed to the diary that was thrown back in the ashes, and was just about to leave, when he accidentally saw that there seemed to be words on the wall of the fireplace where Ji Kefeng's flashlight was shining, so he immediately shone his flashlight over, and sure enough, there were words carved with a dagger on the wall in the fireplace, like English but not.

Ji Kefeng looked at it closely and asked, "What kind of text is this?" It's not the same as the one on the bracelet before. ”

Ah Yue shook her head: "There is English in it, but it is not all English, which is very weird." ”

"It's a combination of Anglo-Saxon and English, in short, Old English." Gu Huaiyi, who was standing behind the two of them and slowly squatted down, said in a low voice, "Interesting, this kind of writing was finally formed in its entirety after 900 AD, but during the American Revolutionary War, there should be very few people who can write and read this kind of writing." ”