Endless route

Chapter 2 2. Charts

Three days later, Jinhuai Road.

Zheng Yun handed the shop keys to two young men at the door of the pawn shop. By the time they pulled up the rolling shutter to check and accept the pawn shop, the shop had already been tidied up.

Oh, it's really clean.

Brother, you are a real person.

The expressions on their faces were indescribably weird, not bad at all. After all, they were serious business people who wanted to do some business. Who doesn't like a clean shop?

But there was a bit of disappointment in their eyes. This was a pawn shop. If no one took care of it, they might be able to pick up some strange and good items.

Zheng Yun didn't answer. He didn't find anything good himself, so how could it be anyone else's turn to pick it up?

I didn't see them coming around when the pawn shop opened, but they were very interested when it closed down. It can only be said that there is still some potential market for this business, but not much.

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

The pawn shop fell into his hands.

The foster father's hard work was gone.

Zheng Yun sighed silently. When he got in the car, he glanced at the two brothers again:

Not necessarily.

Many things are uncertain. Maybe in half a year, I will be able to take the shop back.

Opening a hot pot restaurant in such an old street is not because Zheng Yun is evil and hopes that people will go bankrupt. He really feels that this business is not good. As long as he works hard, he can take it back at a low price sooner or later, and he can also pick up some good pots and pans...

After everything happened here, Zheng Yun had only 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 accepted the job introduced by a college classmate and went to Lake Krogalt in the North Continent, 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 foggy sea is located.

Not everyone has the opportunity to go out to sea to pan for gold. If you don't have any connections or knowledge, you will just wander around blindly, or you will be cheated out of your money.

Where there are good things, how much they are worth, how to get there, what you will encounter on the way, and how to take action in the end, you need someone to figure it out.

Just the literal meaning of gold mining has dozens of ways. As for other meanings, it is even more diverse, and each faction has its own way.

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

There were seven people in the group, five men and two women. Professor Zhang personally led the team, and the others helped, reimbursing the travel expenses and giving them 100,000 in cash.

The time is two months later.

Meet at W-06 Ennshamn.

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 course he taught at that time was biological environment.

Strictly speaking, this trip to sea is not gold mining. The task is relatively simple and not very dangerous. It is more like a way of employment for college students.

But Zheng Yun's college classmate has some clues. Last night, he took on another private job of looking for someone in W-06 somewhere, and the reward was as high as two million.

They can set off early, get to W-06 early, and look for someone first. Even if they can't find them, they won't run in vain. Professor Zhang will definitely give them 100,000 yuan and travel expenses.

The only drawback is that it's a bit urgent.

Others have already set off by boat. If Zheng Yun also goes, he will have to go to sea today.

This caught Zheng Yun off guard, but after thinking about it, he still nodded. Go as fast as you can, and try to make money first.

He started packing up in the morning. After finishing the matters at the pawn shop, he was ready to leave at any time.

Lake Krogalt is a tropical rain forest. It is the rainy season now, which is different from the season here. You don’t need to bring too many things, just a few pieces of clothing.

As for other equipment.

Let’s talk about it when we get to W-06.

It’s useless to bring too many things, the luggage fee is quite expensive, and others buy them locally.

…

Didi.

Driving the small truck with the pawn shop's phone number on it, Zheng Yun walked along the old street toward the seaside. Just after passing an intersection, he detoured into an old neighborhood.

This old community is directly behind the pawn shop, and my adoptive father has a basement here that serves 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 down the things in the car.

Park the car at the entrance of the corridor.

He pulled out a key and got out of the car, then picked up the broom and planned to sweep the warehouse as well.

Go down the corridor.

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

After finding the basement of No. 306, he took out the key but could not find the keyhole. The sensor light was dim and yellow. Zheng Yun fiddled with his cell phone flashlight for a while before unlocking the door.

The black iron door creaked, whether it was due to lack of oil or aging, and it was very difficult to pull.

Zheng Yun used all his strength to pull the door open. It was pitch black inside, dust was stirred up by the airflow, and the flashlight couldn't shine in. 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 didn't rush in and went in. He waited at the door for a while until the dust gradually settled. Then he used his flashlight to touch the switch and turned on the lights in the basement.

Snap.

There was a bright golden light.

Zheng Yun was startled, and upon closer inspection, he discovered that there were several transparent display cabinets deep in the basement, and there were some small golden lamps in each cabinet.

He flipped the switch.

All the lights are on.

A cabinet from a gold shop?

Zheng Yun subconsciously closed the door and looked at the display cabinets, which looked like those from a gold shop. They were probably taken back at a low price by his adoptive father when the shop collapsed.

The adoptive father was very cruel to his old neighbors. The refrigerator at home was used to freeze fish in restaurants. As soon as the person said he didn't want to work anymore, the adoptive father came to the door.

I took a few steps forward and looked inside the display cabinet. As expected, there was no gold at all.

But there was something else inside.

At first glance, he saw an ancient scroll, spread out on a soft red cloth. The paper was yellowed and torn but the writing was clear. It was more than one meter and a half long.

...

Zheng Yun was shocked.

His eyes suddenly became sharp.

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

This long scroll seems to be...a chart of an endless sea route? What era is this from?

Something doesn't look right.

These display cases are oxygen-free.

Zheng Yun's eyes were strange. He had been studying these things with his adoptive father since he was a child. Although he was not proficient in them, he could tell at a glance that they were navigation charts.

And this display cabinet is not cheap either. It is a professional antique store. It has a semi-vacuum chamber and a curing lamp. It costs tens of thousands for a set. I don’t know where I got it.

Look carefully at the details of the ancient scrolls.

The drawing method of this chart is very strange. It is not drawn by conventional ancient methods. It is difficult to tell what era it is from. The more I look at it, the weirder it becomes. I cannot tell the difference between east, west and north.

In addition to the sea route, the map also shows the continents that the sea route passed along the way and a large number of place name annotations. It looks like a flat earth chart, but in many places it extends and protrudes into semicircles, like an earth chart.

The first volume is written in regular script:

[Picture of the Immortal Mansion of Immortality]

Those densely packed annotations in small characters are full of place names and legends about gods and ghosts, and they are also marked with geomantic treasures, and the appendices contain heavenly materials, earthly treasures, rare and rare animals, which look like legends, monsters, or the Book of Mountains and Seas.

This kind of thing is not surprising. Historically, before the middle Ming Dynasty, the Sea of ​​Mist and alien planets were regarded as fairyland where immortals lived for many periods.

It only decreased after the mid-Ming Dynasty.

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

Then came the founding of the country in modern times.

All the names of gods and monsters have been changed. In order to eliminate superstition, they have been made more down-to-earth.

There is Sangou County next to Fu'en City, and there is 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 does look more like a sheep's head. Although there are many phoenixes in the world, and he has never seen a phoenix, a phoenix's head shouldn't look like that.

Shen'en State?

Zheng Yun saw a place name on the map and took out his mobile phone to search to see where the Shen'en State was.

The results were unexpected.

This Shen'en State is actually the old name of the southern continent of W-07, with the astronomical number TRRC-A. It is more than 390 light years away from the earth.

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

Count roughly.

There are thirty or forty continents on the right side of Shen'en State, all of which are continents passed along the endless route. People can't help but sigh at the distance explored by the ancients.

There's also W-06.

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

But it seems incomplete.

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

Turn your head and look elsewhere.

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

The waistband looks like jade or iron, and the material is unknown. There are a few lines of words engraved on it: [Imperial Commissioner] [Marine Guards of the Ming Dynasty] [Commander of the Western Region Capital Division]

In addition, he also discovered that there were a large number of books and manuscripts stored in the locker at the bottom of the display cabinet. They were all ancient books and appendices related to sea charts.