The astrologer's apprentice reached out and picked up the charcoal, tore off the first page of the sketchbook, and simply drew the outlines of the horizon, mountains, insects, and the sun on the paper, "When I was studying, I briefly read the introductory textbook of magicians, and there are two hundred to three hundred kinds of magical elements known at present, and I can't remember the specific number; Lei et al., first of all, the carapace composition on the back of the sandworm should belong to the rock element, and the posterior insect is no exception, if the burial site of the treasure is on the high mountain on the back of the posterior, the rock element is indispensable. ”

He drew an inverted triangle sign on the mountain peak,

"There is almost no precipitation in the endless sea of sand, and the element of light is always there. ”

He drew an arrow-shaped sign next to it,

"We've been on the boat for a few days, and the northeast wind hasn't stopped for a day. ”

And he drew a sign with three diagonal bars,

"What the fourth element is, I don't know. ”

Jonah put down his pen,

"If the guess is correct, what we have to do is look for a place on the back of the worm with a fourth element, I don't know what it is, but it must be a very special landform, such as a waterhole, a waterfall, a cold ice, a lightning strike, or a vein of metal, and when we see it, we will be able to know it with our own eyes. The astrologer's apprentice picked up his pen and lightly drew a question mark next to the three symbols,

"As far as I know, the entire back of the postworm is covered with barren rocky mountains, and there is no such special location as you say. Hannah thought for a moment and denied,

"What is easy to find is not where treasure is buried. Jonah said,

Hannah nodded: "This makes sense, after arriving at the worm node, I'll try to see if I can find an indigenous guide, there are people who are familiar with the terrain, the chances will be much greater." ”

With a sparse noise, a black-faced man ran up the gangway, and Danny, whose face was covered with ash from the bottom of the pot, shouted excitedly: "Sister, I have rummaged through the kitchen, lifted every floor and wall, and now the only place where I can bury the legacy of my dead ghost father is the granite stove, help me resist a sledgehammer out, let's smash it to pieces, and dig out the treasure quickly." ”

"Jonah, are you afraid of blood. Hannah asked suddenly,

"I was scared when I first saw it, but after a long war, and so much blood had been shed by the people of St. Bourne, I had seen numbness, and now that I think about it, I didn't have any fear of the blood itself in the fierce battles at Cherry Crossing......" Jonah replied truthfully after a little thought, but then he reacted and suddenly realized: "Oh...... You mean......"

The contemporary head of the Stuart family took off the large gun "Lame Henry's Prosthetic" from behind, grasped the lower part of the barrel, and carried the spear in her hand like a club, she slowly walked towards her brother, who couldn't figure out the situation, and pointed to the gangway towards Jonah: "The personal belongings room is the last room on the left side of the hallway, you can go and see if there is anything valuable, don't move the red box against the wall, that's my locker." ”

"Okay, okay, thank you......" The astrologer's apprentice fled in despair, and had just walked down a few steps when the dull sound of metal striking on the ** and the miserable screams of men sounded on the deck behind him, and Hannah Stewart's majestic voice came between the two sounds: "Do you know why I beat you, sailor?" ”

"Sister, I'm close to the truth, don't make a fuss...... Is it your menstrual period...... Oh my god, don't, don't slap me in the face. ”

Jonah fled into the bilge in a cold sweat, as a fast three-masted galleon, the "Bactrian Tempest" was not very large, the only gangway led to the cabin corridor, directly opposite the staircase was the small room where he lived and worked, there were two or three closed doors on each side of the corridor, and according to Hannah's guidance, he walked to the end of the corridor on the left, and stood in front of a painted wooden door.

Like the condition of an entire unmaintained three-masted schooner, the door was rather dilapidated, flakes of red paint that had been brushed years ago peeled off, revealing a finely grained dark yellow wood, and Jonah couldn't help but raise his hand and knock twice on the door, and the dull sound told him that despite its dilapidated appearance, the texture of the wooden door was very solid,

"It's strange why the ship looks so old when it's only a dozen years old. The astrologer's apprentice scratched his head and tentatively pushed open the door, the poorly lubricated shaft creaked dryly, the door was unlocked, and as the angle of opening slowly increased, the dim light from the porthole, which was covered with ochre-yellow curtains, gradually increased, and as soon as he stepped into the room, dust rose on the floor, and Jonah covered his mouth with his sleeve and looked around,

The room was small, the door was facing an oval window, the yellow velvet curtains hung from the ceiling to the floor, it looked like it hadn't been pulled open for a long time, the floor was covered with thick dust, and a few lines of clear footprints extended from the doorway to the right wall, Jonah moved his gaze, and against the wall were two wooden boxes, one large and one small, the small box was red, presumably the personal belongings box that Hannah had mentioned, and the large one was painted green, and the top of the box had been scrawled and polished, and on it were some very familiar-looking items: Jonah's exercise book from Cherry Ferry, textbooks, astrologer's badges, and a fawn skin bag with a few miscellaneous items,

"It's great to be here...... "The astrologer's apprentice was overjoyed and walked over quickly, holding the badge in his hand, from the time when the Stuart siblings first got on the ship to dispose of themselves completely as cargo, to now the two brothers and sisters have given him enough trust to let him enter the storage room freely, this change has happened unconsciously, thinking of this, Jonah can't help but feel a little happy, he understands "the wind of Bactria" There is a strange symbiotic relationship between the two masters and themselves, on the one hand, they are the goods worth two gold coins, on the other hand, they are the most important support for them to find their father's inheritance, Hannah and Danny, although they have different personalities, but after a long contact, they can feel the purity of their personalities, Jonah suddenly thought at this moment, whether after a few more days and nights, he can rest assured that he can treat them as partners, and tell the truth the prophecy of the betrayer Segres,

The thought flashed through him, and Jonah put away his belongings, put the staff Syracina in the corner of the wall, and began to inspect the other items in the room, on the opposite wall of the two wooden boxes, there were large five-story shelves, and the shelves were densely packed with things, and all the surfaces of the objects were a finger's thick floating dust.

The height of the upper two floors exceeded the head of the astrologer's apprentice, and Jonah approached and began to inspect the third layer of the shelf, and when he blew lightly, the dust covered the dim light, and he choked with a cough, and finally the dust settled, and he could barely see what was on the partition, a broken cowhide boot, half a bottle of cactus wine that had been sitting for an unknown amount of time, two black stones of unknown texture, a glass bottle of strange sand of various colors, a large pile of parchment that had been bitten by insects and rats, and twelve blunt daggers that were not gold or wood, A thick, large book, a heavy belt...... With each object he picked up, Jonah's doubts increased, why should these messes be stuffed under some scruffy ghost's bed, why were they neatly placed here, like soldiers waiting for their master to review,

Turning over the third partition, as Danny said, there was nothing of value, it was all strange things that I couldn't figure out what it was for, Jonah patted the dust off his hands, and thought for a while, there seemed to be an item that brought back some memories of him, but it was fleeting, and he couldn't catch it accurately,

He frowned, and played with those items one by one from the beginning again, and as soon as he grasped the bottle of five-colored fine sand in the palm of his hand, the astrologer apprentice was stunned, he took off the glass bottle, took two steps back, and carefully observed through the dim light of the porthole, through the dirty bottle, it can be seen that the sand is composed of red, yellow, blue, white, and black particles of five colors, gently shaking the bottle, the fine sand flutters in the bottle, and after falling, a slender and beautiful little rainbow is formed at the mouth of the bottle,

"Stardust. Jonah exclaimed,

Stardust is one of the few astrological items that can amplify the ability to sense the starline, and it is a common and expensive spell casting material for astrologers, and Jonah saw a bottle of this in Mr. Coshawar's room, and when he accidentally spilled a little of it, the old man of Coshawar flew into a rage, accusing him of "wasting a whole year's food expenses for an ordinary St. Boren's family" , The origin of star dust is said to be the extreme north of the northern continent covered with ice and snow, where the natural conditions are extremely harsh, is a natural forbidden area for human beings, only a branch of the northern elves live there, loyally guarding the Creator's gift of all kinds of precious products, such as star dust and moon grass tea, every year countless stars fall in the far north, star dust is the powder of the remains of these fallen stars, so it has the magical power to communicate the starry sky,

From the large astrologer's robes on his body to the whole bottle of star dust in the storeroom, there is no doubt that this ship was once inhabited by an astrologer, this discovery made Jonah tremble, feeling both nervous and excited, as one of the members of the five guilds, astrologers are accustomed to living in the depths of the world, their lives are firmly locked to the astrological tower, rarely appear in the world, and a few practical astrologers are free from the rules of the association and the "Joint Decree" The general public's knowledge of astrologers usually comes from the greedy money-grubbers despised by this association, could it be that the astrologer on the "winds of Bactria" is such a senior, and where has he gone now?

Jonah cheered up and looked more closely at the items on the third storage shelf, a broken boot was indeed a broken boot, even if it was covered with dust, he could still smell the pungent stench of the previous owner's feet; half a bottle of wine was indeed half a bottle of wine, and when he uncorked the bottle, a spicy smell of inferior alcohol rushed into Jonah's shiny nostrils; the black stone turned over and over again to see nothing unusual, what about the dull dagger, how to look at it was still a blunt dagger without a blade, and finally, in the basically thick book, Jonah found a clue,

The parchment cover of the large book had been destroyed by drying and insect erosion, and as soon as it was opened, the astrologer apprentice slowly brushed away the fragments and dust, and found a blurred line of handwriting on the title page of the book, which was the owner's own statement and signature.

"September 17, 2269, a day to remember, the ...... of the Society," Jonah struggled to read the handwriting, "...... Therefore, the words are left for reading,,, Erlan Daintlier, an eighth-level astrologer. ”