Treasure hunter, sailing on the blue sea

The line that divided the sky crossed again.

The curtain of darkness was pulled aside, revealing the radiance of the scorching sun.

Simon, who was assembling something by the campfire, immediately took out his ball as soon as he felt the dawn.

"18 hours..."

This time the night and the adjacent daytime were exactly the same.

It can even be described as accurate, which is very outrageous.

"Is it a coincidence? Or must it be so."

Simon murmured to himself and put the ball away again.

They have only been here for a few days, so they cannot be certain rashly.

At this time, with the arrival of daylight, everyone else who was still in the room came out and gathered around the bonfire.

Alka looked at everyone and said, "Then let's divide them into two teams according to the teams divided last night."

Jason, Juanlu, Lucilia and Zero and One, they stayed in the town.

Lucilia is the only person who can speak both languages, and Jason is also the main force in gathering intelligence.

The rest of the people naturally explored outside with Alka, helping Xia Detti detect the surrounding environment so that she could accurately draw the map.

For a normal treasure hunting group, information is obviously much more important than the so-called map.

But for their team, intelligence and maps are equally important.

Even maps have priority over intelligence.

Alka had already asked the residents on the island yesterday if they had such a thing as a map.

They answered yes, but the question is what do they say about their map? It can be described as graffiti. Only dangerous areas are marked, and other areas are not marked.

They even drew the outline of the entire island in a rather sloppy way, with very low accuracy.

To put it simply, only those who draw can know how to use this thing. It can be said that it has built-in encryption.

If he doesn't use it for a long time, he might not be able to understand it himself.

It cannot be used as a map at all, which is obviously a bit incredible for a small town that has lived on this island for many years.

But Alka had no choice but to paint it themselves.

However, this rough map can also bring them some help, such as deciding which area to draw first.

Then everyone acted together.

Followed Alka to the port behind the town.

Although it is in the rear, the gate of the town is 3 kilometers away from the port.

Fortunately, they built a small road.

On this road, you can also see two teams of hunters from small towns patrolling.

Besides them, there were some fishermen from the town dragging fishing tools along the path.

Hunt, plant, fish.

From this point of view, there are many food sources in the town, and it is obvious that they do not have to worry about food.

They did not see any thin or hungry people in the town yesterday.

All the way to the port.

As Shiraishi said before, this port is a small port. Although it is a small port, there are two large ships of about 40 meters parked on it, as well as many small fishing boats.

The two boats were towed ashore, apparently the town's own boats.

Alka came to the port and called briefly, and a ship came from a distance.

If Alka hadn't used the harmonica to instruct the Sound of Dawn, he might have floated up from the bottom of the sea in front of them.

Dock Dawn's Voice at the port.

"Okay, I'll leave the rest to you." Alka said, looking at Jason and the others.

"Do not worry."

After saying goodbye, the two teams said goodbye.

Alka and others walked directly out of the town, but he did not stay away directly. Instead, he circled the wall of the town and came to the place where they entered before.

Sure enough, they saw Bai Shi, who had brought them here yesterday, patrolling the city wall with a group of hunters.

"It's you, what's the matter?" Baishi looked at Alka and asked.

Judging from the actions of these people, it was obvious that they had come early.

Hearing this, Alka smiled and said: "We don't know much about this island, and you also said it is very dangerous, so we hope to find a guide. He will take us around the island first and tell us some things that cannot be done. Going to a dangerous area."

After speaking, Alka added: "Of course, we will pay."

Hearing Alka's words, Shiraishi nodded clearly.

He is familiar with this life. Among the strangers who come to the island, 5 out of 10 strangers want a guide, and 4 out of the remaining 5 will look for a guide in the next time.

The last one died on the road.

Although it is an exaggeration, this is the rumor among the hunters.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Okay, then I will be your guide."

"You?" Alka was a little surprised.

Isn't this man the captain of the patrol? And also a toucher.

Does this count as AWOL?

"What? I can't do it? I also grew up on this island. Don't worry, I have been a guide several times before."

Shiraishi said with a smile, dispelling Alka's concerns.

Okay, after all, the person in front of you is quite powerful, and he doesn't mind what he and others care about.

Then he said: "Actually, looking at the gate is too boring. If wild beasts really rush to the gate, then our town can be declared over."

Alka nodded in agreement and said, "Of course, I wish I could."

Hearing Alka's agreement, Shiraishi smiled, then called one of his team members to say a few words to him, then directly picked up his bow and arrows and walked over with a few pots of arrows.

"Let's go, is there any place you want to explore? This island is huge, you can't expect to see it all in one day."

Hearing this, Alka nodded, then turned his hand, and a palm-sized golden sail appeared in his hand.

"One golden sail until you take us around the island, is that enough?"

Looking at the golden sail in Alka's hand, Shiraishi took it with a smile and said, "Of course it's enough. I have to say that you strangers are quite generous."

Put it in your pocket.

"Is your ultimate goal to visit all the islands?"

Alka nodded.

Understanding Alka's purpose, Shiraishi said directly: "Three days, if you want to visit the entire island, it will take three days. After the last day is completed, you need to pay another golden sail, is that okay? "

"no problem."

Although the specific value of these currencies on the island is unknown, the price is acceptable to Alka.

And if Shiraishi is the guide, it will be more convenient than Alka thought.

He is the leader after all.

It can also better convey to the leadership of the entire town that Alka and the others have no malicious intentions.

After watching Alka nod, Shiraishi took out the rough map Alka had seen yesterday from his arms.

No, do you really want to use this map?

Looking at the looks in their eyes, Shiraishi felt slightly embarrassed and said, "Although this map is a bit cruder than the maps you strangers use, it is enough for the people on our island."

He has also seen the maps used by these outsiders. In comparison, their simple maps can indeed be called graffiti.

But what can be done? After all, they are just a small town with a population of only a few thousand.

Seeing Shiraishi's slightly embarrassed expression, Alka nodded without saying anything.

Then he put the map in front of everyone and gestured and said: "If you want to visit the entire island in three days, you have to follow what I say, otherwise it will take more time and it will be very dangerous."

"Let's start here, the bay where you came up yesterday. It's safer there."

After seeing that no one had any objections, he led everyone in that direction.

Then he began to take Alka and others around seven times and eight times, which was still the same route as when they came yesterday.

The first place they arrived was a ruin they had never seen before, but they could tell from the stones and patterns on the ruins.

The ruins they saw yesterday should belong to the same force.

And obviously, this is also the reason why Shiraishi brought them here specially.

"What interests you outsiders must be these ruins."

"If you are interested, you can take a look. This is one that has been activated."

Everyone looked around the ruins, but obviously they couldn't understand it unless Lucilia was around.

However, their main purpose this time was to draw a map, so a cursory glance was enough.

Alka asked curiously: "It was activated. How did it happen after being activated?"

"After being activated, the plants on the island have become denser." As he spoke, he pointed to the surrounding area.

The plants around the ruins are indeed more lush than in other places, and the ruins are also located in a dense forest.

"This place used to be very desolate."

As he said that, after seeing that everyone was not very interested, he continued to lead everyone around this ghost place.

Calculated according to the time of a day, if they were really allowed to walk around unscrupulously, they would be able to visit this island in one day.

But the way things are going now, it's obviously impossible.

And they also saw that the place they were bypassing was indeed dangerous.

It didn't take long before a different road took them around to the bay they had landed on before.

There are still footprints of their landing on the beach, scattered in a messy manner, but they did not cover them up.

"According to the older generation, this place was not actually a bay hundreds of years ago. It's just that I don't know who activated a ruin here and blew it all up into the sky."

Hearing this, Alka and others turned their heads to look at him in surprise.

There is absolutely no trace of that in this bay.

"Will the ruins explode?"

"Of course." Bai Shi nodded.

The side shows that some of these ruins are really dangerous.

After looking around here, he led everyone to move on.

As he walked, he took out a kind of dust he had seen yesterday from his arms and sprinkled it on everyone.

While throwing it away, he explained: "This kind of dust can disgust some of the monsters around. If you continue to move forward here, the number of monsters will increase, and meaningless battles will be very troublesome."

After all, they basically didn't encounter even a single magical beast along the way. Shiraishi used his skilled experience to lead Alka and others around the territory of almost every magical beast.

Moreover, he didn't know the specific strength of Alka and others, so it was better to avoid fighting as much as possible.

After walking a few steps, Alka saw a ruins not far away, but Shiraishi did not stop.

"Don't you want to go there and have a look?" Materissa asked weakly, she was a little curious.

Hearing this, Bai Shi, who was leading the way, turned his head and took a look, and said casually: "That is a section of the city wall that leaked out. The ruins of this city wall circle around the island, but they are very large. It's just that part of it was buried in the soil, there's nothing surprising about it."

As he walked, he said: "This island must have been a huge city in the past, and it spoke the same language as us, so it should be regarded as our ancestors.

It's a pity that there is no specific record or inheritance, otherwise we wouldn't have to suffer from these damn ruins.

I believe you all know how big the ruins of a city-state are without me telling you. How can every exposed ruin be useful? Most of them are like this, just some rotten rocks piled together. "

"It's just that there are strange things buried in some ruins that can be activated by some languages. You have to be careful, but don't be too careful."

He was like a tour guide, taking Alka and the others on a tour of the island.

It is like introducing the story of a scenic spot, introducing these ruins and some dangerous areas.

While walking and chatting, he pointed to a short distance away and said: "We have to go around again because there is a ruins in front of us that were activated a few years ago. Although it was finally closed, it also affected the surrounding areas and made it dangerous."

Not every ruin is useful when closed.

"And the brat who activated the ruins still has a broken leg and is staying in the town."

At this point, his tone could be heard to be a little angry.

Without waiting for Alka and others to ask curious questions, he said to himself: "After the ruins are activated, the surrounding stones seem to be alive. They will attack those alive when they see them."

At this time, he had stopped walking, and everyone followed his line of sight and saw what he was talking about, the living stone.

It looks like a humanoid stone giant made of countless large and small stones, with a height ranging from 2 to 4 meters.

The lower body is made of rolling gravel, while the upper body forms a stone head and irregular fists.

These rubbles were surrounding the ruins, moving aimlessly.

I saw the magic power gathered in Bai Shi's hand, forming a ball of water, which he threw out with force.

The water ball slid past and accurately hit the stone man closest to them.

The stone man looked at Bai Shi who attacked him and moved over angrily.

The speed of movement is not fast, probably equivalent to a normal person's trot.

And Shiraishi just stood there with his hands on his hips.

He said in a relaxed tone: "Don't be afraid, just watch."

The stone man who came over raised his stone fist and was about to hit the white stone, and then he turned into pieces and scattered on the ground.

Only then did Shiraishi explain: "They can only move in a circular circle surrounding the ruins. When they come out, they will turn into pieces like they are now."

"And their stone heads obviously can't understand the difference between inside and outside."

Then everyone saw another pile of stones gathering around the ruins, forming a new stone giant.

"However, we can't kill all the stone monsters around the ruins. The number is fixed. Killing one will reunite one." Shiraishi said helplessly, and then kicked away the stones scattered in front of him.

This is also the reason why this ruin cannot be solved.

Julia's voice rang in everyone's ears: "These are all stone elements. There should be some mantra creation or mantra array activated in the ruins, which makes all the magic power around here move closer to the earth element, so Only then would something like this happen.”

She said as she keenly felt the changes in the environment around the ruins.

Everyone nodded, but Shiraishi didn't understand what they were talking about and didn't care.

Because Julia spoke the language of White Crocodile, not the common language of Home Sea.

They walked around like this, listening to Shiraishi's explanations from time to time.

Along the way, I also killed some prey that I couldn't see.

After walking for more than ten hours, we finally returned to the town.

"We'll continue tomorrow. I'll wait for you at the gate then." Shiraishi waved to them and said with a smile.

They communicated with each other all the way and became relatively familiar with each other.

Alka is also convinced that Shiraishi is really a chatterbox.

Very expressive.

He actually talked like a tour guide all day long.

But this is obviously a good thing for them.

"He said it was getting dark. How did he feel it?" Simon couldn't understand.

Hearing this, Alka said: "The white bird has returned to its nest, which means that the night is coming."

There is obviously no timing tool in the town, and this chaotic day and night is obviously not a problem that timing tools can solve.

As for the people in the town, whether they want to live day or night depends entirely on a kind of bird on the town island.

A kind of bird with pure white feathers, but only the size of a palm. When they return to their nest, it means that the night will come soon.

"Really? It seems that we can observe those birds later." Simon thought for a while and said.

He has been studying the days and nights here.

Then they came to the corner of the town, where they rented the house yesterday.

When I first arrived, I saw Juanlu making dinner with his portable boiler.

After watching everyone in Alka return, he smiled and said, "I just thought it was going to be dark soon, so you should come back."

Lucilia also walked out of the room.

"Where's Jason?" Alka looked at it and asked.

"He met a hunter who traveled outside today and went drinking." Juanlu said.

Alka nodded.

Although it is dangerous at night, it was outside at night and the town was still safe.

Everyone took a rest.

Pororo also began to tell Lucilia and Juanlu about some of the things they experienced today.

The two of them were also very curious about the specific situation of this town, especially the ruins that could be activated.

"When you finish drawing the map, you must take me out for a walk." Lucilia said.

Xia Detti came to Alka and asked: "Do you want to draw it? Or should you wait until you have visited the entire island?"

Alka thought for a while and said: "First draw the places we visited today. You don't need to draw too carefully. After a few days, you will have visited the island all over and then draw the map of the entire island."

"How is it?" He looked at Xia Dai and asked.

After all, Xia Detti has a habit of perfection when drawing a complete map. I wonder if this is the case when making a partial map.

Xia Detti nodded: "No problem, I'll leave it to you after dinner and do a rough drawing."

Regarding this kind of drawing a partial map of an island to practice her skills, she was not overly demanding on herself.

Just as he was about to start eating, he saw Jason coming back. A faint smell of alcohol could be smelled on him, but he seemed to be in good condition.

Judging from his smile, the information gained was obviously good.

after eating.

Xia Detti has also completed the first draft of her practice painting and handed it to Alka.

"have a look."

Alka took the map.

It was indeed crude, with only simple lines, but as the eyes blinked, light flickered out from above.

Densely packed white spots.

A few flashes of blue light.

And a point of light that has never been seen before.

An orange beam of light.

So conspicuous.