endless route.

Chapter 2 2. Nautical Charts
Three days later, on Jinhuai Road.

Zheng Yun handed over the keys to the two young men at the door of the pawn shop, and when they rolled up the shutters to check and accept, the shop had already been cleaned up spotlessly.

"Oh, it's really clean."

"Brother, you are a real person."

The expressions on the faces of the two of them were indescribably weird, not to mention bad, after all, they were serious about doing business, who doesn't like a clean shop.

But there was some disappointment in their eyes, this is a pawn shop, if no one cleaned it up, they might be able to pick up some strange and good things.

Zheng Yun didn't answer, he didn't find any good things himself, so how could it be outsiders' turn to pick them up.

I didn't see them coming around when the pawn shop opened, but they were very interested when it closed down. I can only say that there are still some potential markets for this pawn shop, but not many.

After taking a deep look at the shop, Zheng Yun turned his head and left, with more complicated emotions than those two buddies.

The pawn shop fell into his hands.

The adoptive father's hard work is gone.

Zheng Yun sighed silently, and when he got into the car, he glanced at the two brothers again:
"Not necessarily."

There are many things that can't be said well, maybe after half a year, I can take the shop back.

Opening a hot pot restaurant in this kind of old street is not because Zheng Yun has bad intentions and hopes that people will go bankrupt. He really thinks that this business is not good. As long as he fights a little bit, he will be able to get it back at a low price sooner or later, and he can pick up some good pots and pans...

After the incident here, Zheng Yun only had one last thing left before going to sea: move the things that couldn't fit in the basement to another basement of his adoptive father.

last night.

He took over the job introduced by his college classmates and went to Crogalt Lake in the North Continent with route number W-06 to look for a very rare plant.

W-06, W refers to the west route of the endless route, and 06 is the planet where the sixth sea of ​​mist is located.

Not everyone has the opportunity to go out to sea to pan for gold. If you don't have any connections and knowledge, you will just wander around when you go out, or you will be tricked away and lose your money.

Where is something good, how much is it worth, how to get there, what you will encounter on the road, and how to get rid of it in the end, you have to be accompanied by someone to find out.

Just the literal meaning of gold panning, there are dozens of ways. As for other meanings, there are many kinds of ways, and each faction has its own way.

This time he went to the academic school, and the employer was a professor at their university, and he was going to do research overseas.

There were a total of seven people traveling together, five men and two women, led by this Professor Zhang himself, and other people would help, reimburse travel expenses and give [-] in cash.

The time is two months later.

Assemble at W-06 Ennsport.

Zheng Yun had listened to Professor Zhang's class before, but he didn't know what his main research was. He only knew that the class he taught was biological environment.

Strictly speaking, the sea trip this time is not gold panning. The task is relatively simple and the degree of danger is not high. It is more like a way of employment for college students.

But Zheng Yun's college classmate has a clue. Last night, somewhere, he took another private job to go to W-06 to find someone. The bounty is as high as 200 million.

A few of them can leave early, get to W-06 early, and go to find someone first. Even if they can't find them, they won't run in vain. Professor Zhang will give you [-] yuan and travel expenses.

The only downside is the rush.

The others have already set off by boat, if Zheng Yun also goes, then he will go to sea today.

This caught Zheng Yun a little off guard, but after thinking about it, he still nodded. If you are in a hurry, go in a hurry, and try to earn the money first.

He started to pack up in the morning, and the pawn shop's affairs were done, so he could leave at any time.

Crogalt Lake is a tropical rainforest, and it is the rainy season now, which is not the same season as here. You don't need to bring too many things, just a few clothes.

As for other equipment.

Let's talk about it at W-06.

It's useless to bring too much stuff, and the luggage fee is quite expensive, and other people also buy it locally.

……

drip.

Driving the pickup truck with the pawn shop's phone number on it, Zheng Yun walked along the old street towards the beach, and just after passing an intersection, he detoured into an old community.

This old community is directly behind the pawn shop, and my adoptive father has a basement here as a warehouse.

Zheng Yun had never been here before, so he didn't know the size of the area and whether he could put the things in the car down.

Park the car at the entrance of the corridor.

He took out a key and got out of the car, picked up the broom, intending to sweep the warehouse as well.

Go down the corridor.

The aisle is narrow, the wires hang overhead, and the sensor lights flicker on and off. This kind of old basement is full of moisture, and I feel chest tightness and shortness of breath as soon as I come down.

I found the basement of No. 306, took out the key but couldn't find the lock hole, the sensor light was dim and dim, Zheng Yun fiddled with the flashlight of his mobile phone for a while before unlocking the door.

The black iron door creaked, and it was hard to pull it because it was out of oil or old.

Zheng Yun pulled the door open with all his strength, and it was pitch black inside, the dust was rolled up by the disturbance of the airflow, the flashlight couldn't get in, and there were white flowers everywhere.

But there is light reflection in the depths, and white light shines through the dust, as if there are several mirrors.

The picture is quite weird.

But what can I have in my own place.

Zheng Yun was not in a hurry to go in, and waited at the door for a while until the dust gradually settled down, then touched the switch with a flashlight and turned on the light in the basement.

pat.

A piece of golden light is shining brightly.

Zheng Yun was taken aback, and after a closer look, he found that there were several transparent display cabinets in the depths of the basement, and there were some small golden lights in each cabinet.

He pressed the switch.

All the lights are on.

"A cabinet from a gold shop?"

Zheng Yun closed the door subconsciously, and looked at the display cabinets, which seemed to be in a gold shop, probably because the shop closed down and his adoptive father took it back at a low price.

The adoptive father is very cruel to the old neighbors. The refrigerators at home are used for freezing fish in restaurants. As soon as the man said he didn't want to do it, the adoptive father came to the door.

I walked a few steps forward and looked inside the display case. Unsurprisingly, there was no gold at all.

But there are other things in it.

At first glance, he saw an ancient picture scroll spread flat on a soft red cloth. The paper was yellowed and torn but the writing was clear. The length was more than 1.5 meters.

"..."

Zheng Yun was startled.

His eyes suddenly became sharp.

He quickly wiped off the light dust on the cabinet, and looked at the ancient scroll by the golden light. There were mountains and rivers on it, and a wide river was drawn in the middle.

"This long scroll seems to be... a sea chart of an endless voyage? What age is this?"

"It doesn't look right."

"These showcases are anaerobic."

Zheng Yun's eyes were strange. He studied these things with his adoptive father since he was a child. Although he was not proficient, he could tell at a glance that this was a navigation chart.

And this display cabinet is not cheap either, it is a professional antique raising, semi-vacuum chamber plus curing lights, a set costs tens of thousands, I do not know where to get it.

Look closely at the scroll details.

The drawing method of this sea chart is very strange. It is not drawn by the conventional ancient method. It is impossible to tell what age it is. The more you look at it, the weirder it becomes.

In addition to the route, the map also shows the continents passed along the route and a large number of place name annotations. It looks like a flat sea chart, but many places protrude into semicircles, like a sea chart on the earth.

The beginning of the volume reads in regular script:

【Picture of Immortal Mansion of Longevity】

Those densely packed annotations in small characters are all place names and legends of gods, gods, ghosts, and ghosts. They are also marked with geomantic treasures, and appended with treasures of heaven and earth, rare and exotic animals, like ghosts and classics of mountains and seas.

This kind of thing is not surprising. Historically, before the mid-Ming period, in many periods, the Misty Sea and the alien planet were regarded as fairylands where immortals lived.

Only after the middle of Ming Dynasty did it decrease.

Because of large-scale migration and immigration, ordinary people can go to fairyland, and it is no longer fairyland.

Then came the founding of modern times.

All the names of gods, gods and monsters have been changed, in order to get rid of superstition, and each one has been changed to be more down-to-earth.

There is Sangou County next to Fuen City, and there is a Yangtou Mountain in the county, which was previously called Xianhuang City and Huangtou Mountain.

Zheng Yun went there when he was a child.

To be honest, that mountain looks more like a sheep's head. Although there are enough phoenixes in the world, he has never seen a phoenix, but the head of a phoenix should not look like that.

"God State?"

Zheng Yun saw a place name on the map, took out his mobile phone and searched, wanting to find out where this state of grace is.

The results were unexpected.

This state of grace is actually the old name of W-07's southern continent, with the astronomical number TRRC-A, and the astronomical distance from the earth is more than 390 light years.

Even today, this W-07 has not been developed by humans on a large scale, but on this ancient sea route chart, it is just the beginning.

Approximate number.

There are thirty or forty continents on the right side of Shenn State, all of which are passing through the endless air route, which makes people marvel at how far the ancients explored.

"There's also W-06."

Zheng Yun looked to the left, and there were several continents on the left side of Shenen State. If the charts were drawn in order, they should be the continents of W-06.

"But it appears to be mutilated."

Looking sideways at the edge of the chart, there are obvious clipping marks. The chart is cut off out of thin air, as if this part was cut out from a complete chart.

Turn to look elsewhere.

There are also some strange things in other display cabinets, the most conspicuous one is an ancient waist card.

The waist card looks like jade or iron, and the material is unknown, with a few lines engraved vertically on it: [Imperial Envoy Governor] [Daming Haiwei] [Commander of the Western Territory Commander]

In addition, he also found that in the locker at the bottom of the display cabinet, there were a large number of scrolls and manuscripts, all of which were ancient books and appendices related to nautical charts.

(End of this chapter)