When he went to sea, he was penniless, but when he returned, he was already rich.

There are more than 40,000 units of crystals, and if other players know about it, I'm afraid they will all get pink eye.

The Hero Altar, the Crystal Device, and Alice's Class Tech Tree only require about 10,000 crystals.

In addition to these 10,000 units, the extra 30,000 units of crystals are a good choice whether they are exchanged for other resources or as strategic reserve resources.

Calculating the time, Raymond now estimated that he had loaded the first shipment of the trade with the Ocean Tube and was ready to go.

If you move a little faster, you probably are already on your way to the Crescent Islands.

The extra crystals may also be traded for other high-level resources such as Mithril and Adamantite.

It's so versatile.

In addition to these crystals, two treasures were obtained from the secret realm - the mana pendant and the power talisman.

Both are 4-star treasures, and their preciousness goes without saying.

Three class recruiter cores, Tidal Spirit and Deep Sea Ranger.

These two types of troops are extremely rare even if they are placed in the outside world, and they are unavoidable.

Finally, there is the profession of the Tide Lord, which makes Ji Chen suddenly have a powerful spell power and become the most powerful legal unit in the territory.

When you raise your hand, there is a storm and stormy waves.

Calculating the time, it has been eight or nine days to go to sea.

The territory's food reserves can last for twenty days, so there is still plenty of time.

Ji Chen thought for a moment and took out a parchment map from his backpack.

【Treasure Map】

[Rating]: 2 stars

[Effect]: Records the location of a great pirate named Edward who buried the treasure

Want my treasure? Go find it! I put all my treasure there]

This treasure map was caught from the sea from fishing before, and because I haven't been out to sea, I temporarily put it in my backpack to eat ashes.

Since there is still plenty of time, I just happened to find this treasure by the way.

The treasure map marks an unknown island, but the overall depiction is very vague, and it can only be roughly recognized as being located in the middle of the West, and there are no useful clues from other wives.

If other players get this map, they will probably only be confused.

But Ji Chen is not an ordinary person, as early as when he got this map, he had a faint premonition in his heart that he could find this place.

He couldn't tell what the reason for this strange feeling was.

Thinking about it, it always feels like a hidden effect of the lord's talent.

Ji Chen didn't think too much about it, and soon stopped being entangled.

It's not surprising that I, a person who is favored by Mother Ocean, have such strange abilities, right?

Q is quantum mechanics.

The direction of progress was roughly determined, and the formation of three ships, led by the Crescent, began to move at full speed.

Sailing is boring.

Boredom, Ji Chen also studied the artillery on the pirate ship a little.

It is not much different from the artillery of the Blue Star Age of Navigation, and it also uses solid iron cannonballs and firing charges.

In terms of lethality, this kind of artillery is not even as good as a few water arrows of the Sea Elves, but because of its superiority in range, it can be mounted on a large scale on warships.

However, this world is not only this kind of low-level artillery, it is rumored that those principalities and kingdoms on the continent are equipped with some more terrifying alchemy artillery, magic energy artillery.

However, these guns are expensive and strictly regulated and forbidden to be sold, so there are not many warships equipped with alchemy artillery in the middle of the ocean, and only the main fleets of the principalities and kingdoms will be equipped with them.

Leaving the Silver Islands, the three warships were replaced with white sails, stripped of their bells and whistles, and disguised as three ordinary merchant ships.

This morning.

Traveling along the course, they suddenly saw a two-ship formation on the horizon.

The draft was deep, apparently fully loaded with cargo, and there were no frigates around.

Seeing this scene, Ji Chen was overjoyed.

It was decided to carry out the plunder plan immediately.

Is that a ship? It's a fat sheep!

So he immediately scattered the three warships, raised the black skull sails and chased after them.

When the two merchant ships saw the sudden appearance of three heavily armed pirate ships, they immediately panicked and quickly turned around and began to flee.

But how can two merchant ships laden with cargo compare to a powerful pirate ship?

They were quickly overtaken and sandwiched between three pirate ships.

At first, the guards on the ship were still trying to fight to the death, but when they saw the dense cannon ports sticking out of the pirate ship, they immediately lost the will to resist and stopped the merchant ship.

Everyone consciously gathered on the deck and squatted honestly one by one.

With the sound of several hooks snapping on the ship's side, hundreds of pirates boarded the deck of the merchant ship from the pirate ship and took them under complete control.

Look at the vicious pirates around them.

All the caravan guards and sailors were very worried.

The cargo will definitely not be able to be saved today, so let's see if we can let the pirates spare their lives.

But looking at the sails of these pirate ships, they are the famous Black Skull pirate group in the West and the Middle Sea, and I heard that they never leave a living mouth, robbing fire and killing people.

All of a sudden, their heads were sweating profusely and their faces were pale.

But at this moment, they suddenly saw that these pirates all bowed their heads in awe.

Turning his head, a handsome and majestic man, with a woman as beautiful as a fairy, had come from the plank connecting the two ships to the deck of the merchant ship.

No pirate dared to look at him as far as the eye could see.

What surprised them even more was that the man was followed by dozens of Naga warriors.

A tall body, a hideous bone blade, and a snake body dragon head.

Looking at their cold gaze is like looking at a dead person.

Suddenly, their hearts were cold, and a sense of pathos couldn't help but gush out.

It's over, I'm going to leave my life here now.

A few of the timid ones even cried in fright.

Ji Chen couldn't help but be stunned when he saw someone crying suddenly.

What are you crying before I can do anything?

Not understanding the train of thought of this group of people, Ji Chen pursed his lips and asked, "Who is the owner of these two ships?" ”

A lean middle-aged man stood up tremblingly, "Your Excellency... I, I, the consul of the caravan on these two ships..."

It scared the child and stuttered.

Ji Chen sighed secretly, "Don't be nervous, I only rob money and not my life, as long as you cooperate well, none of you will die." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone cried with joy.

is extremely well-behaved and squatting on the ground, looking like a good child.

Ignoring these people, he looked at the caravan consul, "What are these two ships carrying?" ”

When the consul of the caravan heard that there was no need to die, he also instantly cheered up and hurriedly replied.

"Your Excellency, one of the two ships is loaded with cotton and the other is loaded with flax, which were originally destined for the Western Continent."

Cotton, flax?

In his memory, both of these things seemed to be materials used to make cloth and clothing.

Alas, it just so happens that the territory is very short of decent clothing materials, and these two ships of materials can solve such a problem.

And there is no need to pull it to other places to sell the goods, and it is directly digested internally.

It can only be said that this wave of grabbing is just right.

"Then I'll take all this cotton and flax, do you have no problem?"

"No, no, I am honoring you."

Seeing that this caravan consul knew him so well, Ji Chen also patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction.

Then, with a wave of his hand, the pirates began to carry the merchant ship's cotton.

Bags of cotton were loaded into the pirate ship, and the empty cabin was finally filled.

The consul of the caravan was puzzled when he saw that the pirates were only carrying cotton from this ship, but not with flax from the other ship.

"My lord, why don't you remove the flax from that ship?"

Ji Chen glanced at him, "I'm too lazy to move that boat, I'll just take it with me, anyway, if you squeeze it, you should be able to take this boat back." ”

“....”

In this way, the two parties happily reached a "deal".

The men of the two merchant ships were forced into one of them, and the waterline was almost as good as when it was fully loaded.

Ji Chen also kindly left them food and fresh water, enough for them to use on their return flight.

In a flurry of attention, the merchant ship staggered and set sail.

Leave with endless sorrow.

Ji Chen, who had completed a single business, was in a good mood at this time.

This wave got two truckloads of cargo, and there was no damage at all, and the good ones couldn't be better.

He's a good person.

You see that these two merchant ships look heavy, and they must be burdened a lot.

He's helping to lighten the burden of transportation!

Well? You say this is proper piracy?

But what does this have to do with me, isn't it the Black Skull Pirates who are robbing? What does it have to do with someone else?

You see, the ship was originally owned by the Black Skull Pirates, and the pirates on it were originally Black Skull Pirates, and the sails were also Black Skulls.

So the equation is established, and the one who robs it is the Black Skull Pirates!

Thinking of this, Ji Chen secretly laughed.

With a wave of his hand, let the fleet move on.

Because of the addition of a merchant ship full of cargo, the fleet sailed much slower.

The journey that was supposed to take two days was delayed to three days.

Along the way, you will encounter a number of other merchant ships, but most of them are protected by frigates or equipped with a lot of artillery.

In order not to affect the speed of progress, Ji Chen did not make any more raids, and went to the destination honestly.

It was noon on the third day.

Finally arrived at the island where the treasure map is located.

It is an island with a majestic mountainous terrain.

They first circled the island to observe the terrain.

The island is concave in shape, the main part is almost occupied by mountains, the edges are almost all steep cliffs, and at the end of the depression is a gentle tidal flat, which is the only landing position on the entire island.

Unexpectedly, the recess was spacious and the water was deep enough for all four ships to moored here.

But in order to be safe, he still let the boats stop at the offshore sea, and landed on the tidal flats in small boats.

Behind the tidal flats is a dense forest.

Ji Chen took out the treasure map and looked at it.

The place marked above, right in the depths of the island.

With a wave of his hand, the army began to march in formation.

The island is so pristine that no one would have thought it would be a pirate treasure without a treasure map.

Going deeper into the woods, I gradually saw the traces of people.

Cobwebbed dilapidated houses, rough decorations, white bones tied to wooden stakes, tattered pirate flags...

These remnants indicate that this was once a pirate den.

Could it be that this is the lair of the pirate Edward?

Passing through the woods is a long, narrow river valley with steep rock walls on both sides of the banks.

The treasure is hidden at the end of the river valley.

Seeing that there is nothing noteworthy here, Ji Chen has no leisure to explore the secrets hidden here.

Now all he wanted was to find the treasure and take it and leave.

As soon as I entered the valley, I instantly felt the temperature drop all of a sudden.

There is a stream flowing in the valley, the clear and clean water flows slowly from the upstream, and the midday sun shines down from the sky, reflecting a golden light in the water.

Beneath that golden light, there is one place that shines out.

Ji Chen narrowed his eyes and raised his right hand.

The flow of water down the river was cut off, revealing a golden round object beneath the shallow riverbed.

This discovery made the pirate who was following him exclaim, and he hurriedly ran over to pick it up.

After looking at it carefully, his face was overjoyed, and he handed it over to Ji Chen.

"My lord, it's gold!"

Looking at the gold coin in his palm, Ji Chen showed a smile on his face.

Sure enough, there was no mistake, perhaps Edward accidentally dropped the gold coin in the river when he was burying the treasure.

It seems that the treasure is at the end of this river valley.

With this discovery, the crowd was uplifted and the pace of progress accelerated.

One after another, scattered gold coins were found in the streams.

This made them even more convinced of the authenticity of this treasure, and they couldn't help but get excited.

These pirates are the most excited.

From their mouths, it was revealed that Edward was no ordinary pirate.

"Edward was a great pirate a hundred years ago, who terrified all the merchants of the West, and even now his legend is still circulating in the West."

"The Blackbeard under his command was the most powerful warship in the Western Ocean at that time, and I don't know how many merchant ships it plundered."

"In the past ten years, he has accumulated incalculable wealth by plundering, and he even dares to attack the warships of the kingdom. It was precisely because of this that he angered a kingdom and was sent to encircle and suppress it with an entire main fleet. ”

"Legend has it that although Edward escaped from the siege, he was also seriously wounded, and before he died, he returned to a hidden island and buried all his looted wealth."

The pirates described it vividly.

Listening, Ji Chen couldn't help but be a little interested, he didn't expect that there was such a background story.

In that case, let's hope this treasure doesn't disappoint him.

After two hours of progress along the river valley, they finally came to the end.

It is a circular valley surrounded by towering rock faces.

On the left is a waterfall that flows straight down, which is the source of the stream. On the right is a dilapidated house with vines and weeds crawling all over the eaves.

And in the center of the rock wall, a rock building is inlaid with it.

At the center of the building is a stone gate.

On it together