Seeing Yang Jing holding the torn nautical chart with a beaming face, Gege asked in confusion: "Is this what you call a bargain? I don't think it's that great, it's just a torn nautical chart."
Yang Jing smacked Gege's face happily and whispered, "Wife, you will know in a moment whether your husband is a lucky finder or not. It's not convenient to show it here, let's find a secluded place, and I'll show you and you'll know."
This completely aroused Gege's curiosity. The girl immediately stopped clamoring to go to the flea market and pulled Yang Jing back to the hotel.
In the hotel room, several people gathered together. Not only Gege looked excited, but even Chris and the other four bodyguards looked expectant and excited.
When they were visiting the flea market in Beaumont, the four of them saw with their own eyes two torn nautical charts being put together. Now the third nautical chart has arrived, and it is very likely that it can be combined into a complete nautical chart. This makes these Americans who have been looking forward to finding a legendary pirate treasure since childhood full of expectations.
Yang Jing looked at the few people, smiled and shook his head, then carefully removed the plastic cover on the nautical chart he had just bought, and then pretended to take out two other nautical charts from his bag, and directly took out the two nautical charts he had obtained before from the space.
Three incomplete nautical charts were spread out on the table. Yang Jing first pieced together the two charts he had obtained earlier. As he pieced them together, he explained to Gege, "I bought these two incomplete nautical charts from the Wanfer flea market in Paris and the flea market in Beaumont, an oil city in Texas. Look, these two incomplete nautical charts can be pieced together. Isn't it amazing?"
As the two incomplete nautical charts were pieced together into one nautical chart, Gege covered her mouth with her hands and showed an expression of disbelief.
"It's amazing. One piece you bought in Paris and the other one you bought in Texas, and they can still be put together. It's really unimaginable."
Yang Jing smiled and said, "That's nothing. Take a look at the nautical chart we bought today!"
As he spoke, Yang Jing carefully took the nautical chart he had purchased today and began to piece it together. Before long, the incomplete nautical chart was pieced together with the one he had just pieced together, forming a complete sheepskin nautical chart!
The entire nautical chart was not very large, only about thirty centimeters square, but when the third nautical chart was pieced together, a complete nautical chart of the upper half of the Atlantic Ocean immediately appeared in front of everyone.
Yang Jing pointed to the shipping routes that went directly from Europe to Boston, New York and Philadelphia via Icelandic waters and said, "These routes are the North Atlantic routes. At that time, the North Atlantic route was the shortest distance from Europe to North America, but it was also full of dangers."
Gege continued: "For example, the big ship called Titanic."
Yang Jing nodded, "Yes, although this route is the shortest route from Europe to North America, countless ships have sunk on this route, including luxury cruise ships like the Titanic."
Gege asked curiously: "Yang Jing, does this nautical chart mark the locations of those sunken ships? And then you go to salvage those sunken ships?"
Yang Jing smiled and shook his head and said, "How is that possible? If I'm not mistaken, this nautical chart should have been drawn by pirates. How could those pirates know the locations of those shipwrecks? Well, the reason why the North Atlantic route appears on this nautical chart is that I guess the pirates copied it when they drew this nautical chart and accelerated the North Atlantic route."
Yang Jing pointed to the Caribbean Sea and said, "At that time, this area was the most rampant area for Caribbean pirates! Look here, Montego Bay in Jamaica, Havana in Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas... this series of islands has nurtured countless pirates. And if you look at this nautical chart, except for the North Atlantic route, there are no other routes from Europe to North America and the Caribbean. On the contrary, there are many routes in the Caribbean Sea, and there are also routes from the Caribbean to West Africa. Therefore, it can be clearly identified from this nautical chart that this nautical chart should be a hand-drawn nautical chart by a pirate in the seventeenth or early eighteenth century."
Gege nodded thoughtfully, "Now that you explain it, this nautical chart seems to be true. But what about this route? From the Caribbean... well, this should be Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea, right? This route goes north from Puerto Rico, passing through New York and Boston, and then continues north through the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, Baffin Bay and Smith Strait... My God, it actually reaches the northernmost part of Ellesmere Island. Yang Jing, what does this black hexagram mean? Why is the terminal of this route in this place? Why is it represented by such an evil symbol?"
In Christian teachings, the hexagram is considered a symbol of evil, so Gege asked this question.
Yang Jing shrugged and said, "I don't know about that. But I am sure that the place marked by the black hexagram is deep inside the Arctic Circle. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was difficult for anyone to sail so far north. Of course, it is not ruled out that pirates chose such a remote place for adventure or to hide treasure."
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