Pirates: The Salary Is In Place, The Four Emperors Are Kicked Out

Guevara took the dragon to the deepest cargo room of the ship. Most of the storage was huge stone, but there were also things like old books and glass items. Every item inside was covered in sand, and the room smelled of earth.

Lucy stood in front of the table in the corner of the room, staring at the book spread out in front of her, with a groaning "uh..." in her mouth. When she accidentally discovered the arrival of the dragon, she was shocked and stared at Guevara.

"Really, Mr. Guevara! Why let Mr. Long come too!"

"Mr. Long is also a partner on the same boat with us. Why can't he come to visit?"

Guevara smiled and said, "Besides, these cultural relics unearthed in the war zone can only be obtained with the help of Mr. Long, right?"

After Guevara said a few words, Lucy couldn't help but puffed up her cheeks: "Mr. Long is not necessarily interested in these cultural relics, and I don't know if the interpretation will go smoothly..."

"I'm actually quite interested in these things, Miss Lucy,"

Long said, "But I also know very well that interpreting historical relics is definitely not an easy thing, so don't put too much pressure on yourself..."

"……Um"

After looking at the dragon, Lucy's heart began to slow down again, she whispered "um", her big eyes hurriedly looked away, and then she immediately removed from the piles of books on the table. He took out a slate and showed it to the dragon and Guevara.

Strange symbols that look like pictures but not pictures and words that are not words are densely engraved on the stone slab at equal intervals.

"What is this? Miss Lucy."

Long asked curiously,

"Mr. Long, do you remember the ancient site where we found these cultural relics under your protection?"

After entering her professional field of archaeology, Lucy's whole person seems to have changed. Not only has she recovered her usual generous and casual personality, but she is also in high spirits, "I have communicated with the locals, and I have confirmed that there are hundreds of people there. The ruins of the city-state royal palace from a few years ago are called the Yuriga civilization.”

"Is Yuriga civilized..."

Long nodded while listening, his fingertips slid across the stone piled up in the room, and their surfaces were covered with a thin layer of dust, "Every time I communicate with you, I feel that you archaeologists are really amazing."

"……Eh?"

"Is not it?"

Long smiled and looked back at Lucy, who returned to the previous state of cramped and bewildered because of the sudden exchange of eyes, "If these precious cultural relics are placed in the monuments in the warring area like this, If it doesn’t matter, it will definitely be destroyed by people who don’t understand its value, and then disappear along with the civilization and history it carries... Although I don’t know anything about archaeology, I can also judge how much it must be. A bad situation. And…”

Long looked down—the notebook on the table was filled with Lucy's handwriting that he had occasionally seen this week, and the young female archaeologist had transcribed these historical documents. Although Long hadn't picked up a pen for years, he could read between the lines of Lucy's troubled process, as if he had experienced it himself.

"The word I've heard to describe it is, Lucy, you 'want to listen to the voices of history that has disappeared'... I was very happy to help you get these historical relics before."

The dragon smiled at Lucy, and Lucy followed him and smiled shyly. Guevara's expression on the side was also softened by the soft atmosphere present.

"...Mr. Long, how much do you know about Yugari civilization?"

Like a child sharing her favorite snack, Lucy asked Long with a little smugness.

"I've never known that before."

Facing Lucy's question, Long was very calm and shook his head gently.

Lucy then looked at Guevara on the side.

"Unfortunately, Lucy, I've only heard names."

Yugari was supposed to be a city-state that existed about 600 years ago. It was born in the midst of disputes between great powers as if it had been quietly isolated. Destruction - it's rumoured to be, but no one knows the truth. The area where the Yugari civilization once flourished is still a disputed area at the junction of the borders of various countries, and the research on it in the world today has not made much progress. Even among archaeologists, few people know its name.

"However, what I can tell you is that this is not a stone slab, but a fired clay slab."

Lucy said confidently.

"Clay slab?"

Long looked at the board on the table in surprise.

The words written on the soft clay have dried with the years and lost their original appearance. By default, the information that he needs to keep for a long time should be written on the slate, so he takes it for granted as a slate. And in fact, the writing board in front of him was as hard as a stone.

"Mr. Long, you still remember when I said this was a stone slab unearthed at the palace site, right? The palace may have suffered a fire more than 600 years ago, and the clay slab burned by the high temperature became as hard as pottery, so it has been preserved to this day... …”

Lucy stroked the surface of the clay slab with her slender fingers. Because it was buried in the soil for a long time and not exposed to the air, it was in extremely good condition.

"The palace suffered a fire more than 600 years ago... Can you archaeologists speculate about this historical accident? It's amazing!"

Long praised sincerely.

However, Lucy shook her head: "Mr. Long, this fire is not an accident... According to the phonetic text on this clay board and the rest of the cultural relics around it, I speculate that the fire that happened in the palace that year should be a group of people. by outsiders."

"...Alien? Pirates?"

Long subconsciously remembered his old rival in Marine - no, he is still Marine now, only in the exile stage of being punished.

"No, it should be a group of slaves who rebelled against their master, the ruler of the Yuriga civilization. In the end they burned the Yuriga civilization's ruling class and their palace in a fire, and these slaves called themselves 'Revolutionary Army'..."

"..."

This time it was the dragon's turn to begin to stall uncontrollably.