Chapter 307: The Jackdaw's Misfortune
Leo didn't know if the Jackdaw's bow image was a sacred relic of the Church of the Jackdaw, but he was sure that the bow image would have been a powerful psionic item when it was intact, because even after all this time, it still possessed strong psionic energy in the sun and rain on the island's beaches.
When he touched the bow of the ship with his hand, the psionic energy of the bow of the ship attacked him uncontrollably, like a frightened beast, and the palm of the psionic energy was instantly wrapped in a layer of ice, and a chill continued to strengthen, penetrating into the inside of the hand.
Leo didn't use any sorcery, but simply used psionic energy to dispel the chill, and took his hand away from the bow statue, and the ice on his hand immediately disintegrated, and soon returned to normal.
A skirmish had already revealed some details of the remaining power in the ship's bow, which was not strong, but it was extremely penetrating and chaotic, and there was no possibility of control, so he also had the idea of cutting the bow and making it into a wizard's curiosity.
Leo, who no longer paid attention to the bow image, boarded the famous Jackdaw, and although the ship had decayed in many places, the keel and other structures were still intact, and it was clear that the keel should have been built from a different material than the deck and other places.
Leo wasn't too interested in the ship itself, he was interested in whether there was anything valuable on it, so he carefully looked up every detail on the ship.
Soon, Leo found a secret safe in the captain's room, located under the captain's desk, covered by a rotting velvet blanket.
Leo walked to the captain's room and looked carefully to see if there were any books such as nautical diaries, but unfortunately found nothing, but instead found several long scimitars and hand-wound short crossbows, which were popular among pirates at the time. These items are somewhat collectible, and at some auctions, there will be many people who are willing to buy them at a high price, and if it can be proved that it comes from the famous Jackdaw, then the price will be surprisingly high.
It's a pity that these items have no value to Leo now, and there are already a lot of things in the storage space, even if you can still put down these scimitars and crossbows, but you may find more valuable things when you think about it, and these few things that can only be regarded as historical items seem to have no value at all.
Throwing the scimitar and crossbow aside, Leo walked over to the captain's desk, moved it away, and swept away the rotting blanket and pulled the safe out of the rotten floor and tossed it to the ground.
After discovering the safe on the spirit network, Leo had already learned that this safe was not simple, and now after seeing this safe, he realized that this safe was far more peculiar than he expected.
The shape of this safe is a Rubik's cube, and each face of the Rubik's cube corresponds to a different basic root of the Gamori language, which should be opened by moving those panels on the cube to the correct position.
According to the difficulty of opening this safe, even Leo will not be able to open this safe in a hundred years.
However, the premise of all this is that this safe is good.
When Leo snatched the safe out of the floor, he found that a hole had been broken in the safe, which was not smashed by an external force, but caused by an extremely corrosive liquid, and from the location of the hole, the corrosive liquid came from the bottom of the ship, so Leo was able to see a hole the size of an arm leading to the lower cabin from the bottom of the groove that held the safe.
Judging from the current situation, Leo thinks that someone must have known that there was a safe hidden underneath, and then opened it in this method of gradual corrosion from the outside, and the person who did so was likely to be the crew of the ship, otherwise, it would not be possible to determine the location of the safe so accurately.
Leo wasn't too interested in who opened the safe right now, he was interested in what was inside the safe.
Although the safe was opened, the contents were not completely taken by the person who opened them, leaving behind some things, which were not valuables such as gold, silver, jewelry, etc., but some rubble.
Leo emptied all the rubble from the safe, then looked carefully at the size and shape of the rubble, and felt that the rubble should be a whole.
Thinking of this, Leo quickly put together these gravels one by one like a jigsaw puzzle, and soon put together a complete form, and after seeing the complete object of this rubble piece, Leo felt a little familiar, and quickly remembered that this object was the stone ball that sealed the True Eye, but it was only shrunk many times.
Leo put the pieced pieces in front of him and looked at them carefully, and found that there was indeed a magic array composed of a large number of Turing root characters on the surface of the fragments, but most of the contents were worn out for unknown reasons, and more importantly, he found that the reason for the stone ball to break was not smashed by external forces, but from the inside to the outside, which means that the forbidden things in the stone ball escaped.
Leo couldn't help but have a picture in his mind, when the Jackdaw returned from a naval battle, there was a traitor in Drake's crew, this traitor may have been planning for a long time, he took advantage of the fact that everyone was in a state of post-war exhaustion, sneaked into the cabin below the captain's quarters, and then through the plank under the captain's cabin by unknown means, and opened a hole in the safe.
However, when he opened the hole, the stone ball in the safe shattered, and the unknown object sealed by the stone ball and the safe escaped, eventually causing the fall of the Jackdaw.
The question that comes to Leo's mind now is whether the traitor in Drake's crew inadvertently destroyed the Turing root on the stone ball and released the banned unknown, or if he did it just to release the unknown.
Although he hadn't found any other clues yet, Leo preferred the second option, because judging from the stone ball and the traces on the safe, the traitor crew had prepared a method specifically to push the Turing root, as if it was a substance that completely restrained the Turing root.
This kind of magical substance is not to mention now, even in the past, I am afraid it is priceless, and it is even more catastrophic for wizards, and the church will definitely attach great importance to those who master this substance, money, status, and honor are at their fingertips, so the purpose of the traitor crew rushing to the safe is definitely not for money and other things that he can easily obtain.
After making a rough guess in his mind, Leo stood up and carefully searched the room, which was very clean, not because there was no dust, but because the owner of the room had cleaned up everything when he left.
Most of the things left in the house were ornaments, or trophies of special significance, as well as some precious wine and some old records of the voyage, and nothing else had any words on it.
The shelves on the walls of the room were empty, and it was not difficult to see from the traces on the surface of the shelves that a large number of books had been placed here before, and each book was very thick and heavy, and the wooden planks of the bookshelves were dented, and it was obvious that these books had been taken away.
After finding no other useful clues, Leo turned and walked out of the room, jumping off a hole in the deck next to him to the cabin on the ground floor. Then he stepped on some rotten planks and walked towards the cabin below the captain's quarters.
I saw that this cabin was supposed to be a supply compartment, which contained a large amount of food and drinking water, but now these things have completely decayed, only some broken cloth bags and barrels.
On the floor of the cabin, Leo quickly found a piece of rubble, which was supposed to come from the stone ball in the safe.
And next to the rubble, Leo also saw a sacrificial bottle and other items, and next to the sacrificial bottle there was a skeleton severed hand, judging from the wound on the severed hand of the skeleton, it was obvious that it was not cut off, but corroded, and it seemed that the person who broke the safe did not end well.
"Well, it's ......" Leo saw a ring on the phalanx of his severed hand, and the ring was a beautiful rose.
In the world of Velon, there are many people who use roses as family crests, but the most famous are the Red Rose Inge Royal Family and the White Rose Protector Family of the Kingdom of England, and only these two families use a fully blooming overhead rose pattern, but the red rose of the royal family is larger, and the white rose of the Protector is smaller, and a petal is missing.
Obviously, it's easy to tell from the face of the ring that it's the rose badge of the Inge royal family, and it's not surprising that Drake has a member of the Inge royal family on his ship.
Drake, with the covert support of the English royal family, has grown rapidly and has formed a fleet with numerous warships. Even if the Inge royal family has absolute trust in Drake, the noble council of the Inge Kingdom will not allow a commoner to have such a large fleet power, so some people will definitely be placed on Drake's ship, and the Inge royal family will naturally arrange some people to become Drake's deputies in order to balance.
It's just that Leo is a little puzzled now is that it stands to reason that the relationship between Drake and the Inge royal family should be excellent, and it is precisely because of Drake's actions at sea that the Inge royal family can get rid of the constraints of the noble council and obtain a large amount of power that was once occupied by the noble council, so that the power of the English royal family reached its peak at that time.
But the royal children arranged by the Inge royal family on Drake's ship betrayed Drake at that time, destroyed Drake's personal safe, and released the banned unknown, which is really a bit contrary to common sense, the only thing that can be explained is that the value of the banned unknown in the stone ball is far greater than Drake himself, otherwise the royal child would not have done such a thing.
Leo deduced as he removed the ring from his severed arm and looked closely at the inside of the ring.
According to the custom of the ancient aristocracy, they would engrave the name of the ring's owner, title or unique mark on the inside of the clan emblem ring.
Now there is a unique mark on the inside of the ring, which is a strange-looking motif of an octopus whose body has been extremely twisted and elongated.
Leo didn't know what the identity of this pattern represented, but he could be sure that the owner of the ring was definitely a high-ranking member of the Poseidon Church under the support of the Inge royal family, because in the Poseidon Church of the Inge Kingdom, the Poseidon's close servant was a huge octopus. It is said that the octopus guards the entrance and exit of the abyss at the bottom of the sea for the sea god, preventing any monsters from coming out of the abyss, and also preventing anyone from entering the abyss from there, so there is a huge octopus next to every statue of the sea god.
Leo made some conjectures based on the ring, and at the same time carefully inspected the cabin, and after finding no other clues, he returned to the deck, and then carefully checked the situation of each cabin above the deck through the spirit net, and after finding his target, he walked directly over.
What he found was the room of the Inge royal family member on the ship, in fact, this room is very recognizable, because the items in it should be some daily luxuries, and his room is not much smaller than the captain's room, which shows that Drake values the identity of this royal family member very much.
Compared to the neatly cleaned captain's room, the room of the Inge royal family was obviously much more messy, and it also provided Leo with more useful clues.
Because the Inge royal family died suddenly, and then the things that ran out of the stone ball were attacking the crew of the Jackdaw, the situation was very chaotic, so the room of the Inge royal family was not cleaned up, and maybe even what happened when he left, Leo saw what the scene was like now.
Leo entered the room and walked directly to the desk against the window, carefully opening the drawer that was about to decay, only to see a book with an unknown animal skin as the cover in the drawer.
When he scanned the room with the spirit net just now, Leo discovered the book for the first time, because he felt a very faint spiritual energy on the cover of the book, obviously the animal skin was derived from some kind of spiritual creature, and he also found that perhaps because of the effect of the spiritual energy contained in the animal skin, the pages in the book were not rotten and remained relatively intact.
After finding the book, Leo did not rush to read it, but took the book, returned to the deck of the ship, and looked at the sky.
By this time the sky was almost dark, so Leo found some dry wood, went down to the cabin below deck, found some iron pots and other items to keep the flames out, piled them up into a rudimentary fire pit, put the wood in the pile, and lit the fire, which was used as a makeshift shelter.
After that, Leo took out some food from the previous Queen Mary from the storage space, heated it up, and sat down next to the fire, while eating, took out the book just now, and looked through it carefully.