American Warehouse Taobao King

Chapter 434: 【Spencer Treasure Map】

  The sharkskin scroll is not a letter written in ink, but the characters and patterns branded on the sharkskin with a soldering iron. The text is very complicated, but Yang Yong doesn't know what the words are on it? It looks like Latin, especially a small nautical chart that was sintered with a soldering iron at the end of the scroll. Some of the islands in the sea met with marked names, the largest of which was marked at the foot of a hill with an x-line letter.

  Yang Yong didn't know the text on the scroll. Looking at the things on the scroll, Yang Yong felt more and more like a treasure map. As soon as he thought of the three words of the treasure map, Yang Yong's adrenaline began to soar sharply, and he was so excited that his eyes were about to burst into tears. As the business of the Yang family gradually entered the right track, Yang Yong's chances of personally selling Taobao plummeted.

   Those underground vaults that satisfy curiosity and desire for exploration have not been encountered for several months. Unexpectedly, he participated in a charity auction, bought a strange Buddha statue, and found a treasure map from hundreds of years ago, which made Yang Yong’s suppressed exploration and curiosity for several months begin to rush up. . Unable to hold back, my whole body trembled with excitement, and even after smoking two cigars, I calmed down my excitement.

   Then use the computer to check what the text on the sharkskin scroll is? What exactly does that mean. Thank God, thank God, the world of gods and Buddhas, the Internet, an all-knowing and all-knowing encyclopedia, actually appeared in the world. After careful investigation, Yang Yong learned that the writing on the sharkskin scroll was indeed ancient Latin, a very obscure and difficult way of writing and language. Few people can speak and understand ancient Latin anymore. Even with the omniscient Google search, Yang Yong can't figure out what kind of hints are written where these lives are.

   There is no way, Yang Yong can only find another way and start playing bounty. An online reward of $5,000 was offered to translate an ancient Latin text, as well as the meaning of the English written text. In order to keep the ancient Latin text on the sharkskin scroll, Yang Yong disassembled 100 short sentences. And each short sentence is not connected with each other, to outsiders, the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth.

However, Yang Yong has marked the ranking order of the short sentences on the split short sentences. After all the short sentences are understood, they are ranked in the order of the short sentences, and a complete treasure map text information will be displayed. Appeared in front of Yang Yong. It sounds complicated, but it is actually some literal code words. Only the mother who masters the code words can compare the translation meaning of the short sentences and summarize them into a complete article.

   For every sentence, Yang Yong offered a reward of $5,000 on the Internet, which only Yang Yong could do. The whole article has more than 100 ancient Latin sentences, so the cost of translating a 100-sentence ancient Latin text actually exceeds 500,000 US dollars. Only a person like Yang Yong who takes money improperly is willing to spend such a big price? Translate a treasure map whose authenticity cannot be determined.

   As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and there is no more attractive existence than money in the money society. In the eyes of college students, a reward of $5,000 is equivalent to a lottery ticket falling from the sky, solving half a year's living expenses. Therefore, after posting the bounty announcements on major websites, someone took it in more than three hours, and sent all the translated ancient Latin and English to Yang Yong.

   Moreover, Yang Yong keeps his word. As long as the translation is correct, Yang Yong will transfer 5,000 yuan to the designated account of the other party. It took three hours for an ancient Latin text with more than 100 sentences to be successfully translated, and then Yang Yong began to arrange the translated Latin according to the number of short sentences.

   It took ten minutes for Yang Yong to understand all the information about the treasure map. That’s right, this is the treasure map. The creator of the treasure map has a very strange name, Spencer. He is the captain of a pirate ship named Greek Desperado. The name of Greek Desperado is really weird, but Yang Yong can also understand that pirates, especially the ancient Caribbean pirates, have a few cultured. I don't even know how to name it. From the name of the pirate ship, it can be seen that the captain of this Greek outlaw ship, or most of the people are descendants of Greece, and the pirates are all outlaws, so it is so strange to choose one. name.

   The name is the Greek Outlaw pirate ship. It was active in 1725, and it was active in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. He has looted and robbed some passing merchant ships, and he has accumulated a lot of gold, gems and treasures over the years. As the saying goes, there is no reason to walk by the river without getting wet shoes. Unfortunately, when he robbed a Spanish gold ship, he encountered an escorting fleet.

   Even though the Greek Outlaw was fast and shallow, it was mortally wounded. Most of the crew died in the battle, and even the captain was seriously injured. There was no way to fear retaliation from the Spanish fleet, which was called the Armada at the time, so he fled to a lair known only to the crew to recover.

   However, the seriously injured captain and most of the crew were still worried, and shipped all the treasures accumulated over the years from looting to the cabin of the Greek Desperado. It sailed into the Caribbean Sea with a ship of gold and silver treasures, and on a deserted island no one knew about, the gold and silver jewels looted by the Greek Desperados for more than ten years were hidden.

   But unexpectedly, on the issue of burying and not burying the treasure, the pirates had infighting, and some did not agree to bury the treasure on the desert island. The gold, silver and jewelry that these pirates robbed should be divided equally, and then they should escape back to Europe to live a quiet rich life. But the captain agreed to bury the treasure on a desert island, and then come back to take the treasure back to their respective hometowns and live a stable life after the limelight has passed.

  One party wants to share the money and go home now, and the place will wait for the limelight to pass before sharing the money. There is no room for reconciliation at all, so the two sides have had an infighting fight. In the end, a group of pirates led by the captain won the final victory, buried the treasure in a natural cave on a desert island, and then used a hammerhead shark to brand a treasure map with a branding iron.

   Then he drove the severely damaged pirate ship, the Greek Outlaw, and wanted to return to Cuba, which was the base camp of pirates at that time, to recuperate. But I didn't expect to encounter bad weather on the way. The seriously injured Greek outlaw pirate ship could not withstand the ravages of the wind and waves, and unfortunately sank on the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Only the captain with a broken leg survived with a treasure map, climbed a board and fluttered back to Cuba.

  The captain returned home after his death. He just hid the treasure map of sandfish skin in the Buddha statue he made by himself, and was caught by the Spanish Royal Navy. Sentenced to hang to death in the hands of Spain, as for why the captain of the Greek Outlaw hid the shark skin treasure map in a Buddha statue, it is also very easy to explain. Because both Catholicism and Christianity regard Buddhism as idol worship, in the eyes of these Westerners, the strangely shaped Buddha statue is a kind of devil statue.

  It’s not bad if you don’t use it to chop it into firewood and burn it for fire. No one will take the Buddha statues carved from wood back to their homes and collect them, so why did the Buddha statues survive for hundreds of years? At that time, because the captain of the pirate ship had some brains, the Buddha statue carved from precious agarwood, although the Buddha statue was not valuable, but the wood was valuable, so it was preserved.

   This is why this Buddha statue made of agarwood has such a strange shape? In many details, it does not conform to the aesthetic point of view of the Orientals. And the way of carving the Buddha statue, even the face of the Buddha statue is carved into a square instead of a very round Buddha statue shape.

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