125. Ancient and accurate nautical charts

Lin Jue took this nautical chart, which seemed to be made up of several pieces of parchment, and there were many traces of stitching at a glance. Since it was folded and handed to him, the first impression given to him was that it was relatively thick.

Lin Yue reminded in a whisper: "I don't understand this chart, I don't know any of the place names marked on it, except for the Haber Continent." ”

"Haber Continent, that is, the Eastern Continent, but with human characters, why do they mark it as Haber Continent?" Lin Jue wondered.

He unfolded the chart, but what he didn't expect was that the area of this chart was not small, and it was still not fully unfolded after opening the three folds, Lin Yue saw this situation and hurriedly stepped forward to take over a corner of the chart.

A total of five folds were exhibited, and the original palm-sized chart ended up in an area about the same as the wide long table in the captain's room, with a length of three meters and a width of nearly two meters.

The two of them worked together to carry the clutter on the long table, and it took a long time to empty the table.

The chart was eventually laid out and placed on the table, and although it was daytime, the empty captain's room did not receive much light, and it was impossible to observe the chart in close proximity with sunlight alone. Lin Yue went to the side to light the fuel lamp, and Lin Jue took advantage of the faint sunlight to look at the chart directly.

"This ......"

Although he couldn't see clearly, he recognized the edge of the land depicted on the chart.

This is not so much a nautical chart as it is a map of the world.

At this time, Lin Yue had already lit the oil lamp and sent it over.

The glow of the oil lamp was still faint, but at least it was much clearer than the sunlight that was seen in the poorly lit captain's quarters.

At a glance, you can tell that the chart is very old, and the paper in the corners has become as if it will turn into powder at the slightest touch.

Although the route is marked on this chart, it is extremely rare, and the routes in various places in the Haber Continent are marked, but there is only one route from the Haber Continent to other continents.

To Lin Jue's surprise, the depiction of land in this chart was surprisingly detailed, even in the hands of the Yan Empire, the map of the East Continent was only more than 3,000 kilometers on the west coast, but on this chart, the entire East Continent was clearly depicted, where there was an island, and where a peninsula protruded was clear.

Unlike the central continent in the west, only the center of the entire central continent has a line of large characters, which seems to be only marking the name of this land, and there is no indication in other places. On the other hand, in the Eastern Continent, the marked words are very compact, although I can't understand the meaning of these words, but looking at their locations, Lin Jue is guessing that maybe this represents towns and villages.

Thinking of the brandon characters used in the labeling, as well as the unusually clear coastline of the Eastern Continent, as well as the title of the Eastern Continent as Haber Continent, Lin Jue couldn't help but have a magical idea in his mind.

"Perhaps, this is the map of the Magic Empire?"

But in the next second, he vetoed the idea. Because, the land depicted on this chart is not only the eastern continent, but also the central continent, and the tundra inhabited by the cannibal tribes in the north.

When he first came to this world, Lin Jue once complained that the map of this world was very bad, after all, there was no aerial photography, there were no professional surveying and mapping tools, many places were drawn according to feelings, and the general terrain could be drawn, and there were not many distortions, which was actually very good.

However, when he saw the central continent depicted on the chart, he fell into a deep amazement.

Because the coastline of the central continent is drawn in too much detail, at least this nautical chart that has existed since I don't know what year and month it is, the depiction of the coastline of the central continent is actually more complex and clear than the maps of the major powers now.

This kind of boundary depiction actually made Lin Jue have a strange feeling, as if he was looking at a world map professionally mapped on the earth, not a map drawn by this backward world based on feeling. The only difference, I'm afraid, is that there are no latitude and longitude lines on this chart, but it draws the equator.

What surprised Lin Jue was that on this chart, in addition to the Eastern Continent and the Central Continent, there was actually a continent in the southwest of the Eastern Continent, although the area was not as good as these two continents, but the overall area seemed to be much better than the territory of the Yan Empire.

The whole map, in addition to these continents and dense markings, also uses thin lines to divide the oceans into pieces of sea, and also marks the text.

In addition to these, there is a red line on the chart, which is very eye-catching.

The red line is presented as an irregular curve, the two ends of the curve, one end is in the inland sea surrounded by the central continent, although there is no text marking, but Lin Jue can see that this is in the north of the Harappan Empire, the south of the Brandon Commonwealth.

At the other end, it is located at the southernmost point of the Dawn Sea in the gap between the central continent and the East Road, which is surrounded by a thin line and marked with a line of text, which seems to be a sea area, and the two places are connected together.

"Well, you translate it. Lin Jue pointed to the line of text and said.

Lin Yue glanced at it and said, "The meaning of this line of words is the Sea of Mist. ”

"Sea of Mist?from the Federation of Brandon, destination Sea of Mist, ships of the Church, powerful armed ...... That...... Could this be the fleet that Lu Haoyue said? Isn't their target the artifact Agnes said?

Based on these clues, only this explanation can make sense. But if the other party's target is the Sea of Mist, how could they float to this place? Moreover, the news I got from Lu Haoyue is that the other party is a fleet, but there is only a dilapidated boat here?"

Lin Jue shook his head violently and threw the thought out of his mind.

Based on these clues alone, he could not conclude this possibility, and if he really wanted to find out about this matter, he would probably have to find out what was recorded in the logbook and the captain's diary, or wait for the unconscious victims to wake up and ask for themselves.

Maybe it was because of the light, after watching it for a long time, Lin Jue noticed that at the top of the chart, there was a line of big characters, and he frowned and looked over, which seemed to be the title of the chart.

Lin Yue naturally noticed Lin Jue's expression, she raised her head, glanced at it, and said, "The map that was actually surveyed and mapped according to the new doctrine." ”

"New doctrines, actual surveying, what the hell?"

Lin Jue raised his head, looked at Lin Yue, and said, "Can you translate these words?"

Lin Yue nodded, indicating that it was okay.

"Well, you don't have to worry about the small characters, just translate the big characters and write the results directly next to them. ”