"Danny, Danny Stewart," the astrologer's apprentice opened the door excitedly and shouted, forgetting for a moment that he was still naked, and the man from the Stewart family ran over in a panic, "What's going on? What's going on? There are enemies. Is it close, or is Chicha having indigestion again,... Bah, why don't you put on some clothes, I'll get a needle eye,"
Jonah looked down and his face turned red. He grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his waist. Regardless of his shyness, he grabbed Danny's hand and said, "I'm going to read a sentence. Please listen carefully and tell me after you finish listening." Can you think of any clues, any clues, do you understand?"
Danny withdrew his hand timidly: "Okay, let me listen,...what's wrong with you, cargo brother?"
"The place where everything begins and ends, the four elements merge into one, revealing the secrets of the five hundred and forty suns for travelers. Do you remember anything? The relevant scene, what location, a certain place, the picture in your memory , any information," Jonah read the prophecy of the traitor Segres to the other party, staring into Danny's eyes expectantly.
Danny obviously didn't understand the situation and said confusedly: "Say it again, I don't understand..."
"Is it clearer to reveal the secret of the five hundred and forty suns, that is, to reveal the secret of fifteen years ago," Jonah explained.
"Fifteen years ago...that's what dad mentioned in his last words, the secrets of the thirty-three Zhawi people," Danny's eyes suddenly lit up, "You found the clue to the inheritance,,, it's amazing Now, the clue of the time to take a bath will appear by itself. If I had known that I would take a bath every day, wouldn't I be a treasure hunter in the endless sand sea? Every year, countless manned sand-loving insects are swallowed by quicksand or storms. There are countless unknown gold and silver treasures buried under the sand. If someone can detect the location of these treasures... within a year, he will definitely become richer than the Tocharian Emperor Isaibaink,"
Tinkering little stars appeared in Danny's eyes, crackling and hitting Jonah's face, making his eyes dazzle for a while. The astrologer's apprentice made a serious face and interrupted the other person's daydream without mercy: " Stop talking nonsense. This clue cannot be repeated. Just recall it carefully and see if you can find any information."
"I, I don't know..." Danny scratched his nose, looking a little helpless, "What you said is too mysterious, too... literary, I'm not sure."
"He's talking about queen beetles, brother," Hannah's voice came. At some point, the current head of the Stewart family came to the bathroom at the stern of the ship. At this moment, he was standing behind his younger brother, looking toward the endless sea of sand without looking. Half-naked astrologer's apprentice, "Do you remember that when we were little, my father and seven sailors captured Chacha and built a simple shack on her back. You and I slept on small bunk beds next to each other. Looking out the window, opposite our bed, there is an embroidered tapestry of the Tantuha people hanging, which was a trophy that Dad snatched from the indigenous people."
Seeing Hannah standing just a short distance away, Jonah felt a bang and all the blood rushed to his face. He hurriedly grabbed the clothes and put them on randomly, regardless of how wet he was, which made his underwear soaked through. , after putting on the large, ill-fitting astrologer's robe, Jonah took a deep breath and wiped the water stains on his face with his sleeves. Hannah glanced at him and smiled at the corner of her mouth.
The thin 17-year-old boy now looked like a naughty boy wearing his father's coat. The corners of his coat hung long on the ground, and the sleeves were too wide to show his hands. Yona helplessly gathered his sleeves and tightened them. Belt, tie up the empty collar.
Danny, who would usually make excuses, was surprisingly quiet at the moment. He frowned, "When you said this, I seem to have an impression. Hannah, I sleep on the upper bunk and you sleep on the lower bunk. Every time I wake up from a dream, , I tilted my head, and I could see the scarlet embroidered tapestry. The inexplicable horrific patterns on it gave me many nightmares. I remember that there were many little people with weird movements on the tapestry, as well as huge beasts. ,Many spear-like weapons..."
Hannah walked out from behind her brother and entered the small bathroom. Jonah couldn't help but take a step back, as if a woman's body was covered with invisible spikes. Hannah Stewart took a towel off the hook and threw it to the astrologer's apprentice, signaling to him. After drying his hair, Jonah took the towel and felt that his curls were still dripping with water. He nodded and gave Hannah a grateful look.
"Yes, that was the scene of the Tantuha people's festival celebration," Hannah recalled as she walked out of the hut and faced Danny: "Dad said that the tapestry depicts the situation near the node of the hindworms during the mating season every year. Tantuha During the heyday of the Tuha people, grand festivals were held every year. Since the 'Ten Years' War', the indigenous peoples fell apart and such festivals have never happened again. Dad analyzed that this tapestry is at least a hundred years old,"
"I don't think it's some kind of ghost festival," Danny said with lingering fear: "It's more like a terrifying sacrifice or something. I seem to remember that there is a line of ghost symbols written under the tapestry, which is said to be the writing of the indigenous people."
Hannah affirmed: "Yes, one of my father's seven companions, my uncle the navigator, secretly told me that the meaning of that passage is 'the place where everything begins and ends'. The indigenous people regard the hind insects as the spirits of the world." They come to worship the mother, believing that the hind worms bring new life and control the death of their offspring.”
"The place where everything begins and ends," murmured Jonah, "exactly as prophesied,"
"What prophecy?" Danny's ears were very good and he immediately asked.
"No, it's nothing," the astrologer apprentice who was not good at lying quickly waved his hand to deny, "I mean, the legacy of the King of Sand Thieves is in the Houworm node. This information has been confirmed. So, as long as it is found in the Houworm node Where 'the four elements become one', you can find the treasure left by your father,"
Danny beamed: "Of course, of course, what's the difficulty? We're already so close, there's only one step left, only one step left,"
Hannah said coldly: "You are too optimistic, brother, don't tell me that you don't know how big the hindworm is. Even if you climb the pilgrim stairs dug by the indigenous people to the top of the known main peak, it will take a day and a half. , it may take a lifetime to find an unknown place in an unknown area with no roads,”
"Let's not stand here talking, sit down and study slowly," Danny seemed confident, pulling Jonah's sleeve and walking towards the bow, "Hannah, you should also take care of the wheel. The closer the node is, the denser the ships will be. Don't collide with other sand-loving insects. The 'Bactrian Wind' will not be able to withstand another collision."
"Just do your job, sailor," Hannah glared at him, swung her cloak, and walked away first.
Jonah, who had taken a half-bath, was dragged around by the excited Danny, and found a shady place on the deck to sit down. The man from the Stewart family took out a sketchbook and charcoal pen from somewhere. He raised his finger: "Look, let's use our brains together now. With my extraordinary intelligence and your little luck, we will definitely be able to find this mysterious place."
He quickly wrote in his sketchbook: Elements are the basic components of everything in the world.
The astrologer apprentice nodded secretly. Although the astrologer's research scope is limited to the starry sky and things on the ground are not among their interests, the definition written by Danny is still very scientific and reasonable.
"That's right," Danny said.
"Exactly," Jonah nodded.
Danny moved the charcoal pen and continued to write smoothly: "There are as many kinds of elements in the world as there are things in the world."
Jonah frowned secretly. This statement seemed a bit idealistic. Objects are composed of elements, but the types of elements are limited, while the number of objects is infinite.
"That's right," Danny raised his head.
"That's right," Jonah said hesitantly.
Danny's pen took the initiative and wrote in the sketchbook: "For example, fire is composed of fire elements, rice is composed of rice elements, women are composed of female elements, and iron pots are composed of iron pot elements."
"Cough cough cough..." Jonah choked and coughed due to the Stewart man's messy theories.
"That's right," Danny raised his eyebrows.
"..." Jonah was speechless.
Danny casually drew four circles representing the elements on the paper, then stared at the sketchbook with a serious expression, and kept thinking to himself: "If the treasure is buried here, where the four elements exist at the same time, it represents The fire element represents the power of heat, the rice element represents the power of life, the female element represents feminine energy, and the iron pot element represents strength and abundance..."
"Well, let me tell you something," the astrologer apprentice couldn't help but say, "there seems to be a little problem with your working methods..."
Danny raised his palms and blocked Yona's mouth: "Shh, I'm getting closer to the truth. Don't mess up my train of thought. The four elements coexist. It turns out that this is how it is...I know," he raised his head suddenly and said with Sharp eyes stared into Jonah's eyes, "This is the truth. It turns out that the legacy of the dead ghost dad has been buried beside us. This is really a genius design... Hannah, Hannah, I found it,"
Hannah Stewart stood motionless in front of the wheel, with no intention of turning around to ask, "Yeah, okay," she responded calmly.
"Fire, rice, women, iron pot, what did you think of?" Danny looked into the depths of the cabin with burning eyes, "Humph... The legacy of the King of Sand Thieves is hidden around us, right in... the kitchen. ,"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man from the Stewart family jumped up and rushed towards the gangway, rolling and disappearing at the top of the stairs.
Hannah looked back and said, "Don't worry, every family will have a scum, it's a natural law,"
Jonah smiled bitterly and said: "It's okay, I have some ideas, look."