Chapter 564: Treasure Hunt Heat
After the relevant news came out, Skull Bay immediately became a tourist hotspot in the whole world, and a large number of people from all over the world hunted for treasure in the waters of Skull Bay every year, and even many people made a home in Skull Bay.
Today, Skull Bay has become the most prosperous sea area in the Pearl Island Chain, and more than a dozen islands of all sizes have been settled, with a total of hundreds of thousands.
These people are not only Inge people, but also people from other countries, because of the special immigration policy of Skull Bay, so that the people who live here can still retain their original nationality, but after a long time, they don't care about their original nationality, they prefer to call themselves Skull Bay people.
Although a large number of treasure hunters have gathered in Skull Bay, there is still no news about the treasure of the five pirate kings, and over time, except for a few people who are still interested in this legendary treasure, the rest of the people have begun to look for other livelihoods, and by now, the Skull Bay treasure hunt has become an attractive entertainment project for people to travel.
Now some of the passengers on the Ice Queen ship are finally destined for Skull Bay, needless to say, they are here for the treasure, because a month ago, the newspapers of various countries on the Velonite continent reported that you have a set of priest ornaments belonging to the extinct tribes of the Moisan continent appeared in Skull Bay.
At first, people in various countries did not pay much attention to this news, because this kind of news of the discovery of the Pirate King's treasure in Skull Bay often appeared in the newspapers of various countries, and its value fell from the front page of the first major newspapers to the last few pages of third-rate newspapers.
The people of various countries obviously took this news as one of the unreliable rumors they had heard before, but they soon found that this rumor was somewhat unusual, because just after the rumor appeared in the last few pages of the third-rate newspapers, the front pages of the major newspapers reported it the next day, as if the Pirate King's treasure had returned to its original heat in an instant.
Subsequently, relevant reports appeared in various newspapers in more and more detail, and at this time, people from all over the world realized that this was no longer those unreliable rumors, but real things.
It turned out that this set of priest ornaments was discovered by a fisherman, who was fishing in the inland waters of Skull Bay, and accidentally found a box floating on the sea in the distance, because from time to time he would see the wreckage and other items left by some shipwrecked ships at sea, so the fisherman also took this box as one of those things and salvaged it.
When he salvaged the box and pried it open, he found that it contained a set of ornaments with strange shapes but extremely fine workmanship, just because the ornaments were made of copper, and the surface had a layer of green rust and emitted an unpleasant smell.
After returning to the shore, the fisherman directly took the ornaments to the local pawnshop, pawned the ornaments, in order to be able to exchange for a high price, he also told the pawnshop people the process of finding the ornaments, and the sea area where the ornaments were found.
At that time, the fisherman sensed that something was strange, but he didn't think too much about it, until he heard the treasure rumors later, and realized that he had found a Pirate King treasure ornament.
The fisherman was annoyed and didn't dare to go to the pawnshop to ask for extra money, because the pawnshop was opened by a big force in Skull Bay, and it would only be self-defeating to run to ask for money, but soon a local reporter found out the source of the jewelry, and found him, willing to pay for the news, he was naturally willing, so he told the whole process in detail, which led to a follow-up report.
Later, under pressure from the outside world, the local forces that got the set of ornaments had to take out the set of ornaments and auction them off, and finally bought them for a big nobleman in the United States, and then the big nobleman organized a professional treasure hunt team, based in Skull Bay.
At the same time, some experts who study pirate treasures believe that the reason why this set of ornaments appeared at sea is related to an earthquake that occurred in Skull Bay not long ago, in that earthquake, there was a large whirlpool on the sea, so there must be a huge cave at the bottom of this sea, and the treasure of the pirate king may be hidden in the cave.
As soon as the news broke, Skull Bay became a mecca for treasure hunters from all over the world, people like the Ice Queen were already considered late, and those who were late also had the benefit of going late, at least they had a lot less places to explore, so they didn't have to waste too much energy.
Leo was not interested in the Pirate King's treasures, but when he saw the list of some of the Pirate King's treasures taken from the treasure hunters, he was immediately attracted by the contents of the list, as he found a tower wizard's magic book among the drawings drawn on the list.
Leo was able to recognize the book of spells because he had seen it in the collection of the Wizards Tower of Death Valley, a spellbook that belonged to the Ramblers closest to the gods among the wizards of the Tower.
There wasn't much about the Rambler in the book that Leo saw, and the only thing he knew was that the Rambler had the ability to travel through different worlds, and that he was a man who could see through the world.
Leo did not suspect that the drawings on the list were fake, because this list was compiled by more than thirty experts in the study of the Pirate King's Treasure, and it can be said that it is the most authoritative information on the Pirate King's Treasure in the entire Velen world.
It was also a coincidence that Leo was sure that this was the Rambler's spellbook, or if it was because the book that recorded the Rambler's experience mentioned that the Rambler had finally appeared in the Wakada tribe, and that the treasures of the Wakada tribe were also on the list, and were listed alongside the spell book that Leo had seen.
Although Leo is interested in this magic book, he does not plan to stay in Skull Bay to hunt for treasure, but only plans to try his luck in the time when the Ice Queen repairs the hull and replenishes supplies, and if he doesn't find it, forget it to see if he can find it in the future.
As for being found by someone else, this is a good thing for him, because then he will not have to spend the trouble of looking for a needle in a haystack in Skull Bay, but directly find the owner of the book, or buy it with money, or directly rob it, which is a very simple matter.
In the next two days, Leo stopped studying the three-dimensional root array, and instead found various books related to the Pirate King's treasure and carefully looked through them to get a general understanding of the situation.
Two days later, with a crisp whistle from the lookout at the top of the mast, the first mate told the passengers that the ship had entered the waters of Skull Bay, and that it would not be long before the most famous pirate graveyard would be seen.
The passengers of the ship came to the deck and looked out towards the front of the ship, and after the ship had gone some distance, suddenly one of the passengers standing at the bow of the ship pointed to the distance and shouted loudly twice, and everyone looked in the direction of his finger.
I saw that on the distant sea surface, I don't know when a fog appeared, this fog was very strange, they were entrenched on the sea, and the strong sea breeze could not blow them away at all, as if they had nailed down a stake, and said that the clouds and mist were fixed.
The fog, which was supposed to be a patch, was like a cut cheese, with a huge gap in the middle, the cloud was divided into two halves, and the gap was very wide, equivalent to the width of a dozen large ships like the Ice Queen side by side, and from a distance it looked like someone had opened a sea channel for ships to enter Skull Bay.
The pirate cemetery originated from the battle of the Ange Kingdom to annihilate the pirates of Skull Bay, after the five pirate kings were captured, the pirates began to go their separate ways, and planned to scatter and escape, with the advantage of numbers, so that the navy of the Inge Kingdom had no time to take care of it, and finally there were always some people who could escape the round-up of the Ange Kingdom Navy.
However, under the encouragement of the kingdom's internal response among the pirates, these pirates, who had lost their leader, and were extremely uneasy, thought that it would be safer for people to gather together to act, and even if they encountered the kingdom navy, they would still be able to rely on such a large fleet that those kingdom navy would not be able to deal with them.
So, they quickly agreed on a time, and when the time came, they chose the route they thought was the safest, like sailing outside Skull Bay.
However, they did not know that their whereabouts had already been intercepted by the Kingdom Navy, and they had set up an ambush on the route they thought was safe.
One was unintentional, the other was intentional, and the final result was self-evident, the pirates were all wiped out, and all the pirate ships sank into this sea area.
Just as the last pirate ship sank to the bottom of the sea, a large amount of fog suddenly created in the sea, covering the entire area of the sea with the pirate shipwreck, and anyone who came close to the sea would be dragged into the sea and trapped inside, and their ship would become part of the shipwreck.
For a long time, to enter Skull Bay, you had to go around this area and pass through a reef area to enter. But then, for unknown reasons, a crack suddenly appeared in the fog, and ships were able to pass through the passage again, entering and exiting Skull Bay faster and safer.
As the ship passed through the cloud passage, the passengers did not leave the deck, but stood on the deck again, signaling the old captain to take the Snow Queen closer to the edge of the fog wall.
The old captain knew very well what these people were thinking, and did not refuse, and skillfully drove the ship to a close distance of only about ten meters from the fog wall, and then drove parallel to the fog wall.
The passengers were so excited that they made their way to the side of the ship near the wall of fog, and then looked towards the wall of fog, and then someone let out an exclamation and pointed to the wall of fog for the others to look over.
I saw that in the depths of the thick fog that the man pointed to, several huge old-fashioned sailing ships loomed in the fog, and a large number of fighting and painful wails could be heard in them, as if there was a tragic battlefield behind the fog.
In fact, it is not wrong to say that it is a battlefield, because in the dense fog on the sea, it is the battle of the destruction of the pirates of Skull Bay that year, as if the fog has the power to freeze time, it also solidifies the souls of the dead at that station, so that they always repeat the scene of that battle, this is the most famous wonder of Skull Bay, the eternal battlefield.
There are many theories about the formation of the eternal battlefield, and there are all kinds of magical theories, but in the eyes of ordinary people, the explanation of the Royal Academy of Sciences of England is the most accepted. They explained that there was a certain ore in this sea area, and this ore would automatically record the surrounding images in a specific environment and climate, and that when the war broke out, it was exactly in line with the characteristics of this aggregate ore, so that the scene of the naval battle was recorded, and now everyone sees only the images recorded in that year.
As for the dense fog that envelops this area, the explanation they give is that there are a very large number of submarine volcanoes here, and because Skull Bay is an earthquake-prone area, this explanation makes sense.
It's just that for some transcendents and clans in the dark world who have great powers, these explanations are not true at all, because they can all feel the power in the dense fog, just like Leo can easily feel the energy fluctuations in the dense fog through the spiritual network now.
After learning some things about Skull Bay, Leo was also curious about the various mysterious scenes in Skull Bay, including the famous wonder of the real battlefield.
As the ship approached, Leo first extended his psychic web into the fog to check the situation, and also saw through the camouflage of the fog through the power of the True Eye in his vision.
Under the dual effect of the spiritual network and spiritual vision, no matter how powerful the power contained in the dense fog is, it cannot resist Leo's prying eyes.
The so-called ore recording image hypothesis of the Royal Academy of Sciences of England has been equated with absurdity in Leo's mind at this moment, because it found that the ships in the dense fog, as well as the slashing and shouting sounds, are all real, but they are swimming in the fog-covered sea area because of some unknown force, and they are constantly performing with each other, and those fighting and shouting are not from living people, but from a black unknown creature similar to a human.
These black unknown creatures let out a fight-like cry and attack each other, and those who fail will be attacked by other black unknown creatures, and then a new black unknown creature will crawl out of the sea and continue what was just done.
In fact, not only are there a large number of black unknown creatures on the wrecks of those ships on the surface of the sea, but even the bottom of the sea is also full of such black unknown creatures, they hovering on the edge of the sea wall of fog, trying to break out of the wall of fog, but from this thick fog, or this sea area, there is always a powerful energy that seals all the supernormal things in this sea area, and cannot leak a single thing.
It seems that the old captain also had some scruples about the scenery of the real battlefield, and after driving some distance close to the fog wall, he immediately turned the rudder, drove the ship to the center of the course, increased the speed of the ship, and drove towards the opposite side, and soon passed through this sea area covered in dense fog.
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