Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 48 Pirate Library

Just as the news of Count Walesa's treasure being found spread to all parts of the world along with the flapping wings of trustees, and even reached the ears of various forces in the pirate city, the pirate cemeteries in various main cities were also targeted.

Anyone who had been here before or after the treasure map disappeared was put under surveillance.

This is just an opportunist casting a wide net. They are not sure, or even do not know whether Count Walesa's treasure is hidden in the pirate cemetery, but why not give it a try? What if they are lucky enough to find it?

Just when the Pirate City was in an uproar because of Count Walesa's treasure, and the business of all the taverns was much busier than before, Cheng Lang, who was soaked all over, changed into a set of clothes that Yun Ji had prepared for him in advance in the carriage.

After sending the captain back to the Valkyrie, Yun Ji drove away from the dock without stopping.

Not long after, on the rooftop of the abandoned building where she had once taken Cheng Lang to share snacks from Yuwei Lane, a not-so-beautiful firework flew into the night sky.

After waiting patiently for a while, a woman in a cloak came to the rooftop of the abandoned building.

"We meet again," the woman said.

"Yes," Yun Ji nodded, "In the name of friends, I want to get the answer to a question from you."

"If it's a question of who found Count Walesa's treasure, then forget it. We don't know either," said the cloaked woman who came over.

Hearing this, Yun Ji was shocked, but on the surface, she shook her head in disappointment. "What a pity, but the fireworks have already been used. I guess you won't give me a new one, so you don't mind if I change to two less difficult questions?"

"Tell me about it," the cloaked woman who came over sat down on a cargo box.

"I want to know about the Green Saint"

"Sorry, the Wandering Circus doesn't have an answer to this question either."

The cloaked woman didn't wait for Yun Ji to finish her words before she apologized, "Many dark elves are looking for that seed, whose existence they don't know, or for Saint Barbaya, whose life they don't know. But the Wandering Circus really can't help you with this matter."

"So I get the chance to continue asking questions?" asked Yun Ji.

"Please keep asking," the cloaked woman said patiently.

"Our ship is not going very fast. Is there any better way to increase the speed?" asked Yun Ji.

“I can answer this question for you.”

The cloaked woman breathed a sigh of relief. "Go to Dragonfish Island on the edge of the Sea of ​​Despair and find a one-eyed boatman named Wilton. If you can offer him a satisfactory reward, he will equip your boat with dragonfish fins, which will make your boat much faster."

"Can I know his preferences?" Yun Ji asked.

"Mr. Wilton is a gourmet"

The cloaked woman said, "But dragonfish fins come at a price. Just offering delicious food probably won't convince him to install them for you for free. Also, I'll send a nautical chart to Dragonfish Island to your inn before dawn."

"Thank you for your help," Yun Ji said sincerely.

"That's nothing. Do you have anything else to ask?"

The cloaked woman took the initiative to say, "If it's just that question, it would be a waste of that firework. Since we are already friends, I don't mind letting you ask a few more questions."

"Um"

Yun Ji hesitated for a moment, then said, "I want to find an exiled black elf named Yun Hai."

"The circus will help you keep an eye out for a dark elf with that name. What are her characteristics?" asked the cloaked woman.

Seeing Yun Ji shake her head, the cloaked woman sighed, "If we find her or any news about her, will we also send it to your inn?"

"Let's send it to Mr. Shenge's tavern in Duoban Lane," said Yun Ji.

"As long as she's still alive, the circus will find her." Before she finished speaking, the cloaked woman had already stood up and left the roof of the abandoned building.

Almost at the same time, Shenba, who was hiding in the shadows not far away, also came out, "Sister, she just said..."

"Shut up!"

Yun Ji glared at Shen Ba, and took him out of the abandoned building, taking a shortcut back to the hostel.

"Don't mention what just happened or ask about it again, or you'll get into trouble," Yun Ji warned. "Just stay home and wait for the circus to send you the sea charts. Don't go anywhere, and don't answer any questions. I'm going to see the captain now."

As she spoke, Yun Ji hurriedly left the hotel and headed towards the pier.

At this time, Cheng Lang had already installed the large ship bottle filled with water on the boiler. He was in the captain's office chatting with Magic Mirror, who had just returned from a "business trip and study", about the emergency situation in the Pirate City.

"You mean, Count Walesa's treasure map just disappeared?" Cheng Lang confirmed again.

"Yes, absolutely true."

The magic mirror accidentally let out, "I saw with my own eyes that treasure map burned to ashes in the treasure map archive room of the Pirate City Library."

"You can sneak into the library of Pirate City?"

“I always have to acquire some knowledge.”

The magic mirror replied nonchalantly, "Thanks to the collection of the Pirate City Library, I have almost made up for the excitement I missed in the past hundred years."

"In that case, let me ask you a few questions."

Cheng Lang said with interest, "There is a seed in this world that can grow into a giant lush tree in the Sea of ​​Despair. Do you know where it is?"

"I," the magic mirror stammered for a long time, then said with a sad face, "I don't know."

"Saint Barbaya went to Iron Oak Island to build a ship and look for the seed. Aren't you called Saint Barbaya's Magic Mirror? How could you not know?" Cheng Lang asked.

"I really do not know"

The magic mirror said with a sad face, "When I was sent out, there was no poisonous fog around the Iron Oak Forest."

"Okay, you know where Misty Island is, right?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Misty Island?"

The Magic Mirror, which was originally full of confidence, blinked its not-so-big eyes and looked at Cheng Lang. "Dear Captain, are you sure there is an island with this name in this world?"

"It's in the Sea of ​​Despair," Cheng Lang continued.

"Where did you hear that?" the magic mirror asked.

"In Count Walesa's treasure," Cheng Lang replied, "Haven't you heard of it?"

"I"

The Magic Mirror said dejectedly, "I'm sorry, Captain, I have never heard of the existence of Misty Island."

"Okay, next question."

Cheng Lang had already walked into the stairwell as he spoke. Not long after, he opened the wooden box he had obtained on Savage Island, pointed at the things inside and asked, "Do you recognize these things?"

"Something? What?"

The magic mirror asked in surprise, "You opened this box? It's empty?"

"empty?"

Cheng Lang picked up the badge and asked, "Can't you see it?"

"You have something?"

"What about this?" Cheng Lang threw down his waist card and replaced it with the pair of cup blocks.

"Dear Captain, please don't make such a joke that makes me nervous." The magic mirror said with tears in his eyes.

"You can see this, right?" Cheng Lang picked up the metal bowl without giving up.

This time, the magic mirror didn't say anything at all, and directly played its most basic function as a mirror.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Cheng Lang couldn't help but be stunned. There was really nothing in his hands in the mirror.

Not giving up, I took out a few other things and tried them, but none of them left any image in the mirror. This was really strange.

"Are you really holding something in your hand?" the magic mirror asked cautiously.

“I really hold something.”

"I must have seen something I shouldn't have seen, and this is Saint Barbaya punishing me."

The magic mirror lamented in despair, "I'm broken. I'm a useless mirror. I can't help you at all."

“Not really.”

"I'm going to go to the library in Pirate City again. There must be something I missed. I'm sure I can find records about Misty Island and that seed!"

The magic mirror became silent after it spoke, leaving only the mirror on the table showing Yun Ji walking on the gangplank towards the boat.

I didn't expect he still had a glass heart.
Cheng Lang muttered to himself, but then he thought, that is a mirror, isn't it a glass heart?

Shaking his head helplessly, Cheng Lang glanced at the three things on the table, and after a little hesitation, he did not put them away.

A moment later, an urgent knock on the door came from outside.

"Come in," Cheng Lang said, deliberately picking up the badge.

"Captain, I just got some unexpected news." Yun Ji said as she walked in.

"Has Count Walesa's treasure just been found?" Cheng Lang asked.

"That's right"

Yun Ji obviously heard Cheng Lang's hint.

"It seems that the cup of Poseidon's blood was not wasted." Cheng Lang raised his chin towards the table.

Seeing this, Yun Ji took a few steps closer and reached out to pick up the wooden box that had been unable to be opened before. "Did you open it?"

"Um"

"What's in it?" Yun Ji asked curiously.

"You can not see it?"

"What can't you see?" Yun Ji looked at Cheng Lang in confusion.

"That's weird," Cheng Lang muttered, then said, "Open your hands."

Hearing this, Yun Ji stretched out a hand, and Cheng Lang placed the badge in her palm.

“I can feel its weight and shape”

Yun Ji held the badge in her hand. "But I can't see it. I can't see it at all."

“This is interesting.”

Cheng Lang took the badge that the other person had put back in his palm, motioned her to sit down on the sofa, and changed the subject by asking, "Have you used that firework?"

"Used"

Yun Ji nodded and recounted her conversation with the cloaked woman in detail without reservation.

"Dragonfish Island?"

Cheng Lang repeated the place name the other party had just mentioned, "Is it far from here?"

"It's not that close, but it's right next to the Sea of ​​Despair."

Yun Ji said, "We just don't know the exact location of Misty Island yet, so we're not sure if we'll have to take a detour to get there."

"I've got the chart of Misty Island."

Cheng Lang put away his badge and other belongings and said, "We'll set sail immediately after we get word from the honest man."

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. He did not mind speeding up the boat before going to the Sea of ​​Despair to visit his "fellow countrymen".

"The next problem is how to bribe Mr. Wilton, the boatman."

Yun Ji wisely didn't ask about the location of Misty Island, but continued the topic of Dragonfly Island. "We only know that he's a gourmet."

"Think about it while you're walking, there will be a way."

Cheng Lang was optimistic about this. He didn't believe that there was anything in this world that couldn't be traded with Poseidon's blood and armor pieces.

"Do you have any plans for Pirate City next?" Yun Ji took the initiative to change the subject and asked.

"Is there anything else worth visiting in Pirate City?" Cheng Lang changed the subject.

"Pirate Library Bar"

Yun Ji said without even thinking, "This is also the most worthwhile place to visit in Pirate City."

"Why do you say that?" Cheng Lang became interested.

"Just like the Pirate Cemetery, the library was also built by Panini the Nine-Headed Octopus."

Yun Ji explained, "Most of the books in the library were looted at sea. In order to encourage pirates to learn, Lord Panini would select a book from the library during the annual off-season and hide a treasure."

"Hidden a treasure?" Cheng Lang raised his eyebrows. "What kind of treasure?"

"Only the person who found it and Master Panini will know, but they will keep it a secret."

Yun Ji said, "The only certainty is that only after you have carefully read the entire book will you know whether it contains a treasure."

"Why is Lord Panini so...?" Cheng Lang thought for a moment, "Encouraging people to study?"

"I'm afraid that Panini-sama knows about this."

Yun Ji spread her hands and said, "Captain, do you want to try your luck in the library?"

"I forget it, and it's so late."

Cheng Lang waved his hands in disinterest. If he had studied well, would he have to work on his family's fishing boat? Would he have jumped into the sea and been stung by a jellyfish and transported to another world?
"The library is open even at night," Yun Ji said. "Will you stay on the boat tonight?"

"That's right, I won't be going back to the hotel tonight."

Cheng Lang said that he was planning to appreciate the mermaid atlas carefully tonight, no, to study it.

"In that case, I won't bother you any longer," said Yun Ji as she stood up and said goodbye and left the captain's bedroom.

"Dear Captain"

Almost at the same time that Yun Ji stepped onto the pier, the magic mirror that had just said it wanted to go to the library to study more jumped out.

"Are you back?" Cheng Lang asked with a smile.

"I never left. I just hid out of shame. Now that I know no one else can see what you take out of the box, I feel much more balanced."

The Magic Mirror flatteredly changed the subject immediately, "Respected and honorable Captain, if it is convenient for you, please go to the Pirate Library now."

"Now?" Cheng Lang looked at the mirror suspiciously.

"I know which book contains the treasure hidden by the giant octopus that Yun Ji mentioned just now." The magic mirror said proudly.

"you know?"

"Of course I know"

The magic mirror said, "I am a mirror. Nothing is secret in front of the mirror."

After saying this, the magic mirror seemed to feel that it was too full, and added, "Unless the mirror can't reflect it."

Smiling inwardly, Cheng Lang simply asked, "Okay, what should I do?"

"The Pirate Library has seven floors underground and nine floors above ground."

The magic mirror explained, "You need a silver coin as a ticket to enter, and you need to pay an additional silver coin for each level you go up, and an additional gold coin for each level you go down.

Also, you can stay inside for a day and a night after each payment, but you are not allowed to drink alcohol inside."

"That big octopus really knows how to do business," Cheng Lang couldn't help but mutter.

“It is true”

The magic mirror taunted, "Pirates are all gamblers. The more diligent and studious a pirate is, the more likely he is to be tricked into gambling."

"Let's talk about that treasure."

Cheng Lang said, "Where is it?"

"On the fourth floor underground, in the middle of the 28th bookshelf, at the bottom, is a book with a cover full of flowers."

The magic mirror said, "It's a reference book that teaches gardening techniques. It's called Princess Bakra's Secret Garden on the Sea."

"What kind of weird name is this?" Cheng Lang asked curiously.

"Princess Bakra is a very famous pirate"

The magic mirror explained, "She was originally a princess of the Principality of Ricca. Unable to accept the viscount's unattractive appearance, she chose to lead the Princess Guard, fleeing on a warship purchased by the Principality of Ricca for the Royal Guard, and became a pirate."

"and then?"

Cheng Lang asked with great interest. He really loved the gossip about the royal families of the countries in the Star Sea Continent.

"The heart of the ship gave her the strange ability to make flowers grow on anything within a certain range on the sea."

The magic mirror explained, "But this princess has no interest in fighting or plundering. Her daily hobby is gardening on her ship. It is said that even the sails of that warship are covered with precious golden roses."

"Is this how she became famous?" Cheng Lang asked curiously. "Isn't she a pirate? If she doesn't plunder, how does she eat?"

"Look at the poor questions you ask."

The magic mirror couldn't help but say, and then quickly admitted his mistake, "Ah! Please forgive me, respected Captain, I secretly brought in the role of Princess Bakra."

"Go on." Cheng Lang was too lazy to correct the other person's minor faults.

"She doesn't even need to plunder. In fact, not only will all the merchant ships from Lika offer themselves up for her to plunder and demand ransom, but also several other countries—I mean, Gotland, Borland, and some princes from Murphyta—will also offer themselves up for her to plunder."

"Is it still possible?" Cheng Lang asked in surprise.

"Princess Bakla is known as the most beautiful princess in Rica in the past century, and also the most favored princess in the past century."

The magic mirror said, "So even though she's a pirate, if any ship dares to harbor ill will towards her, I'm afraid not even a single intact nail will be left."

"Forehead"

Cheng Lang scratched his head. "Is this Princess Bakla still a pirate? When did this happen?"

“About 20 years ago”

The magic mirror explained, "Now Princess Bakra has returned to the Principality of Ricca and serves as the captain of the Ricca Royal Guard Fleet. Of course, she did not end up marrying anyone."

"Outrageous."

Cheng Lang said, but then asked, "What does she look like?"

"I don't know either"

The Magic Mirror spread his hands. "I was napping on the Savage Island when she was seducing men at sea. And in all the portraits and rumors about her, she always wears a veil covered with flowers."

"Okay, what's the name of her book?"

As Cheng Lang spoke, he had already taken off his purse and started counting the gold coins inside. He was determined to be a good person in this strange world. How could a good person not love to study and read?

"Princess Bakra's Secret Garden on the Sea"

The magic mirror continued, "On the bottom shelf in the middle of the 28th shelf on the fourth floor of the Pirate Library, there is a book with a cover full of flowers.

You can pay a few extra gold coins as a deposit and take the book home to read slowly. This will not affect your chances of finding the treasure inside."

"How much is the deposit?" asked Cheng Lang, who was counting gold coins.

"100 gold coins, seventh floor underground. The deposit for any book is 100 gold coins. If the book is not returned in time within one year, the deposit will not be refunded." The magic mirror reminded.

"What a fat octopus!"

Cheng Lang muttered to himself and had to get up and walk into the stairwell of the bedroom. He took out an extra hundred gold coins and put them into his purse. He wanted to see what treasures were hidden in the book of the beautiful princess.

(End of this chapter)