Chapter 261: Twin Fears
Alka has arrived at No. 28 Mast Street. The door of the shop has been closed for a long time. It looks extremely conspicuous on a street with a lot of traffic.
After just a glance, Alka walked towards a corner alley not far away.
As we entered the alley, the whole world became a little quieter, and no one was willing to enter this alley.
Arka reached the spiral staircase and walked up.
“Ding Dong!”
A gentle bell rang as Alka pushed the door open.
As soon as he came in, he saw Balazs, still sitting in the corner where they had sat last time, waving at Alka who had come in.
The boss at the counter next to him looked at Alka with his one eye and nodded slightly.
Alka responded politely and went straight to the corner to sit in front of Balazs.
"Sorry for the wait."
"No, I should be the one who is sorry for making you wait on the island for a week," Balazs said with a smile.
After saying that, he poured a glass of wine for Alka.
After a gentle touch, the communication began.
A piece of yellowed parchment appeared in Balazs's hand. The border of the parchment was painted with a circle in golden lines, and there was the mark of the Virgin Mary on the back of the paper.
This is a contract, a contract of the Church of Our Lady. Anyone who violates it will be cursed by the Lady.
Baraz handed over the parchment.
"Take a look. These are the terms I drafted with the church pastor."
When Alka heard this, he didn't pay attention to the parchment, but asked curiously: "Is there a church on this island? Or is it the Church of Our Lady?"
"Ah? Don't you know? I thought you..."
Balazs was even more surprised . He felt that he was not mistaken. Alka must be a believer of the Virgin Mary. Why didn't he know that there was a church of the Virgin Mary on this island?
"We have been moving around in the town since we arrived on the island and didn't see the church."
Although Alka knew that there was also a Church of the Four Gods in the Infinite Ocean , he did not expect that there would be a Church of the Virgin Mary on the Southern Cross Island.
This is such a coincidence.
Hearing this, Balazs nodded and said, "The church is located in Lattes. You can go there if you have time. It's also a nice city."
Lates is the central city of the island. If pronounced in the language of the Vastva city-state, it means "shining star".
“Are there churches of other gods?”
Balazs shook his head at Alka's question.
"Of course not. This is the area where the Virgin Mary's faith is spread. Other churches will not come here to spread their faith." Balazs said after taking a sip.
I see.
No wonder the common language of this place is the same as the common language of the Home Sea.
The residents on the island basically communicate in the common language of their home sea, which means that the Virgin Mary has been spreading the faith here for a long time?
However, the religious atmosphere in this place is very weak. In daily communication, Alka has not even seen the prayer gesture of crossing hands.
It seems that these people don't actually have much faith in the Virgin Mary.
After collecting his thoughts, Alka turned his attention to the contract. Looking at the terms drafted by Balazs, they were all the same as what he and Balazs had discussed last time, without any additional terms.
The distribution of this treasure after it is obtained will be reasonably allocated by both parties based on their contributions during the treasure hunt.
Both parties shall not conceal the value of the treasure, steal it privately, or hide any information they know about the treasure.
During the treasure hunt, under the premise of ensuring your own safety, you must not intentionally harm others by any means.
Very reasonable terms, guaranteeing the interests of both parties during the treasure hunt.
Alka felt that he should prepare more contracts like this one, as they would definitely be useful in the future as they were a treasure hunting group.
"I'm fine."
"Okay, then let's press the blood mark."
As Baraz said this, a wound appeared on his thumb, and light blood gushed out, and he pressed it on the contract.
Then the blood evaporated immediately, leaving only black lines on the contract.
Alka then did the same thing.
When the contract was established, the paper of the contract turned directly into ashes and turned into two golden beams of light that were tied to the wrists of the two people.
As the light beam disappeared, a pattern of wheat ears wrapped around the wrist appeared on the wrist.
The wheat ear is the most famous and representative symbol of the Virgin Mary.
Represents the establishment of a contract between the two parties.
Then the two smiled and shook hands.
" Then it's a pleasure to work with you."
Next comes the exchange of information about the treasure.
Balazs said, "Let's go to your ship to exchange information. This place is obviously not a good place for communication."
Hearing this, Alka nodded without any objection.
The two of them walked all the way down and headed towards the port.
When passing by No. 28, Balazs glanced at it.
"I hope this operation goes smoothly."
Hearing this, Alka couldn't help but look at him.
This doesn't sound very auspicious, especially at a time like this.
After a brief chat, the two arrived at the port and walked through the crowded crowd to the side of the Sound of Dawn.
"Please."
Balazs walked up and took a close look at the appearance of the Voice of Dawn.
Actually, he had never been on this ship before.
"What a beautiful boat." He couldn't help but pat the edge of the boat.
At this time, on the deck, you can see some puppet girls practicing with each other.
As soon as Balazs came up, he saw these puppet girls, but fortunately he had seen them several times when he was on the island, so he was not too surprised.
However, he couldn't help but be a little surprised by the number of puppet girls on the boat.
"So there are so many girls on your ship? What race are they? Are they a race unique to the Four Gods Sea? To be honest, I have never seen them here."
Balazs asked curiously.
After all, he was also a traveling merchant who had been travelling around for more than ten years. He could not say that he had seen all the races in the Vast Ocean, but he had either seen or heard of most of them.
I never knew there was this kind of race of little girls who were only 30 cm tall.
This made him curious.
"They are doll girls." Alka simply said this without elaborating further.
Balazs nodded but didn't ask any further questions.
Several winged puppet girls flew out of the restaurant carrying a shelf.
"Anyone who can fly?"
Balazs couldn't help but say that he really didn't expect there would be such a difference.
Then, behind the puppet girl, Juanlu came out, seemingly holding some food.
He looked at Alka and said hello, then looked at Balazs next to him.
We had met each other several times on the island, so I nodded politely.
Alka took Balazs to the captain's room and sat at the large round table.
They took out the human skin maps they each owned and pieced them together.
"We each take a piece of paper and copy the map, and we each take our own half of the original," Alka said.
Balazs nodded.
I copied it very quickly, after all, a map is just some lines.
"Then tell me what you know about this pirate, and which island this map points to."
After hearing Alka's words, Balazs didn't hesitate and directly told him the information he knew.
"This pirate who was executed 20 years ago was known as 'Piranha'—Clarian. He was a treasure controller with a strength of the fourth stage. The pirate group he led was called 'Bloody Bite'."
"The tactics he often used were disguised sneak attacks. Since he often used stolen ships, he was always successful. He never favored any one ship.
According to pirates who had followed him, he would destroy the previous ship when he captured a better one, just to avoid being recognized.
Then he forced some members and sailors on the ship to recruit them, disguised them as this former ship, and used them to attack teams that were familiar with this ship. "
Listening to Baras's information, Alka had already constructed in his mind a man who was cruel and cautious, but also extremely despicable.
"What was he arrested for in the end?"
He was a little curious, how did such a cautious man end up being arrested and executed?
"The young king was out training at the time, and he attacked a ship that belonged to the king, which had the king's sister on board."
I see. It means that you have offended someone you shouldn’t have offended.
"So he was captured alive in the siege not long after, and then taken to Lattes to be beheaded."
Alka nodded and leaned back in his chair.
After briefly digesting the information, he asked, "So is there any information about his treasure? And where is he most likely to hide the treasure?"
"According to the pirates who invaded with him, and his enemies.
During the battle, two balls will appear on his body, which can bring fear to the enemy. The companions who fight with him are always brave and fearless, and are not afraid of death. "
"That's all the information I have. After all, it happened 20 years ago. These are the memories I got from people who experienced that period."
After saying this, Balazs took out a sea chart from his body.
Looking at the sea chart, Alka sat up straight. He didn't expect that there was a sea chart in the boundless ocean?
However, when he took a closer look, he found that it was not a nautical chart at all, but a few strange dots on the picture.
There are lines connecting them.
What does this picture mean?
"This is?"
"This is a map of the Endless Ocean. Although the oceans and islands here are always changing, the islands surrounding the target island are at least still connected."
As he said this, he pointed to the nautical chart and explained to Alka why this thing was called a nautical chart.
There are words on the nautical chart that say Broken Sea.
After the explanation, Alka had a simple understanding.
That is to say, the big dot in the middle represents the Southern Cross Island, and all the small dots extending from the lines represent the islands connected to the Southern Cross Island.
Although the distance of the far points above from the islands will change, the order of their distance from the Southern Cross Island will not change.
The distance range will not change much, although it will still fluctuate.
There are some data labels next to each island, which roughly mean when you will leave and when you will return to the link.
Through these data, Alka learned.
The closer an island is to the Southern Cross Islands, the shorter the time it takes to break away from the Southern Cross Islands chain.
Especially the two islands not far from the South Ten Star Island, which will basically only be away for no more than 10 days and nights out of 100 days and nights.
The rest of the time I will be held firmly by my side.
If it is far away, it may be that out of 100 days and nights, only 10 days and nights will come back.
Broken Island is actually one of the more advanced islands in the ranking of these island chains.
“As to which island he might have hidden the treasure, I don’t know.
But it is said that he should be hiding in the islands of the Southern Cross Island Chain, because since he became a pirate, he has never left the Broken Sea and has been active here. "
As he spoke, he marked a place on the nautical chart.
"He was trapped on this island. Although it is connected to the island chain, it is a very small abandoned island."
"This is all the information I know. I hope it can be of some help to you."
After Balazs finished speaking, he smiled awkwardly, because to be honest, he had no idea how the information he knew could help him find the treasure.
Because he didn't even know the most basic map of where the island might be located.
After hearing what Balazs said, Alka nodded.
Looking at the copied map in my hand.
Although the information he provided was really simple, if it were another treasure hunting group, they would probably give up cooperating with him.
After all, if they can't get useful information from it, it's useless.
But for Alka, this information was enough for him to have a certain understanding of the treasure.
Although he looked like he was thinking, his fingers gently tapped on the map, as if he was thinking.
Information appeared in the golden light on the map.
The information about the treasure was indeed expanded.
[Treasure information: The treasure hidden by a pirate named Kylian. This is his life's harvest. It is also ill-gotten gains, stained with the blood and souls .
The [Holy Grail] level treasure [Twins of Terror] is hidden here.
The treasure is hidden in an unexpected place, a place that is safe enough and only known to him. 】
The treasure information was expanded, allowing Alka to know the name of the treasure.
But the most important and crucial problem is that they don’t even know which island the treasure is hidden.
According to past experience, treasure information rarely tells Alka the island where he is located.
Because this was not included in the information expanded by the treasure information, he could only find it himself.
Now there are two ways.
One is to find an island where the treasure may be hidden. Then the answer will be revealed in a blink of an eye.
Another way is to get the maps of all the islands connected to the Southern Cross and check them one by one, using the most tiring but most effective method.
Just then there was a knock on the door, interrupting Alka's thoughts.
Xia Daiti walked in.
Alka looked and said, "Are they all back?"
“They are all back.”
"Then call them all over, let's have a small meeting."
After a while, Xia Daiti and the others came in one by one, sat at the round table, and nodded politely to Balazs.
Facing the professional treasure hunting team, Balazs sat there in silence and shut his mouth. He decided to take a good look at how this professional team actually hunted for treasure and learn from them.
He was still very curious about treasure hunting teams. He had only seen some teams but had never seen how they worked.
"I have already told you about this before, right? The information about the human skin map.
Today I have signed a contract with Baraz to search for this treasure together."
"Now I will tell you what I already know."
As Alka spoke, he succinctly told everyone the information he had just obtained from Baraz.
"Then the most important thing now is to know which island this treasure is hidden on."
Xia Daiti said as he looked at the copied map in his hand.
She had already seen that the map in her hand was of an island, and the detailed map of the previous area was completely useless.
Alka nodded and told everyone the two methods he had just thought of.
Jason thought for a moment, looked at Balazs next to him and asked, "Are those who still remember what happened still on this island?"
"Some of it is still there. I forgot some of the information and asked them again a few days ago." Balazs answered truthfully.
Jason nodded, thought for a moment and said, "If you don't mind, can you take me to visit them later? I want to ask again."
"No problem, of course no problem."
Everyone already knew what Jason was thinking, and he wanted to ask to see if he could get more information.
"Then could Mr. Baraz help me find relevant maps of other islands? I need to make some comparisons.
This way, we might be able to find where the treasure is buried."
Balazs nodded to Xia Deti's suggestion. This was not difficult for him.
After all, there are maps of other islands as well, but they are not sold publicly.
But he is a businessman after all. Although he has been suppressed recently, at least his connections are still there.
And this is Southern Cross Island, a landmark island connecting the surrounding islands.
It's relatively easy to get some maps here.
Afterwards, everyone continued to communicate with each other and determined the next course of action.
Assign each person the tasks to be done.
The entire short meeting was considered the end of the communication.
