Chapter 282 Black Stone
The banshees gathered around, looked at the building carefully, and discussed in low voices.
"It does look like a treasure house. It's quite large, with no windows. Well, the walls are pretty solid."
"Yeah, I think so right away. Look how big this door is. There's a sentry next to it."
"Will this place be filled with gold coins? I read that in novels."
"Where did you get the novel?"
"Knock on Zoe's door at night and she will tell you about the church's secret library."
Ash didn't look at these noisy tribesmen. She frowned and looked for a while, then nodded: "It should indeed be an important warehouse, but it shouldn't be used to store gold coins."
"Why?" The tribesmen looked at Ash curiously. "Pirates should have a lot of treasures, right?"
"The pirates do have a lot of treasure, but it's not here - this warehouse is too big."
The banshees then noticed that this warehouse was indeed absurdly large.
Its area is almost as large as that of a factory, which is why it was discovered first.
"If such a large mask contained treasures, the pirates would have to rob the entire world to have made it possible. I think it must be some kind of more important material."
"Important materials?"
Ash walked forward and hammered the wall. "The overall quality of this building is much better than the surrounding ones. Look at these sentries. There should have been a lot of guards here before. I think it is likely that they are carrying important large items such as guns, ammunition, and weapons."
"That makes sense. We have to open it carefully. At least we can't blow it up directly with explosives."
Several banshees put away the bombs angrily. In order to prevent accidents, they carried a lot of these things. These bombs were specially sealed in pottery jars, specifically for the banshees to carry across the sea.
Finally, a few banshees discussed it, picked a location, and used the fossils to turn into mud together.
The solid stone quickly turned into liquid and slid down, leaving a large hole in the wall.
There were no windows in the house and it was very dark, but the banshees had dark vision and they walked straight in.
"This is"
“How is it possible!?”
"It's this thing? Why are they in the pirates' warehouse?"
Ash also opened her eyes wide. The things in the warehouse were completely beyond her expectations. All the banshees had guessed wrong. The warehouse was neatly filled with—
"Black Stone?!"
Black stone, the banshees are not unfamiliar with this kind of thing. They have been dealing with this kind of strange mineral deposit for a long time.
Before the banshees arrived at the Abyss and signed the symbiotic contract, they were still slaves of the fishmen and had to do hard labor every day.
Their hard work is mining.
Digging a kind of seabed mineral, which is the black stone in front of us.
Black Stone is just a name given by the banshees. It is black and looks like stone. That is all the banshees know.
The banshees had no idea what it was used for or why the fish people were digging it. But now they knew where the black stones they dug day and night were transported.
Are these things used on land? Are they even important enough to require a warehouse to store them?
Looking at the black stone ore piled to the ceiling, the banshees were shocked.
"Those murlocs have been mining blackstone for Gem Cove?"
"That's impossible! Didn't the Pirate King become a monster and the fishmen obeyed his orders?"
This was somewhat inconsistent with the known information. Ash's face darkened slightly. The deep sea, the murlocs, the Black Rock, and the Gem Bay, perhaps there were bigger secrets buried in them.
"Don't touch these black stones yet. Take some samples back and we will continue searching other places."
The banshees looked at each other, then finally nodded and left.
The island was not big, and the banshees searched separately and quickly searched the entire island.
The banshees discovered a total of four similar warehouses.
There are four warehouses filled with black stones. A quick calculation will reveal that the amount of black stones stored here is simply an astronomical figure. Although it is not known how much black stones the fish people have mined, it is very likely that they are all piled here.
This result made the banshees silent. It seemed that the pirates might not have perished under the influence of the Pirate King, but they had various connections with the murlocs long ago.
In addition to these conspicuous Black Stone warehouses, other warehouses were gradually discovered.
This made the banshees feel somewhat relieved. If the Gem Bay was full of this kind of black stone stockpiles, it would be really chilling.
Several banshees were inspecting a new warehouse, and one of them was counting with a pen and paper.
"A little bit of coal, steel, what else?"
"Ugh, wood."
"wood?"
The banshee scratched her head with the pen in confusion: "What does wood mean?"
"It's just a piece of very long and thick wood." The banshee stretched out six hands and gestured. "There are quite a lot of them piled up inside."
"That should be for shipbuilding." Ash interrupted. "I asked the shipbuilders. The keel and mast of the ship require a whole huge piece of wood, and they have to go through various complicated processes and need to be prepared in advance. These should be it."
Ash paused, then suddenly asked, "Where did you find it?"
"Look, over there, not far from the sea."
"Isn't that near the dock? Is there a shipyard over there?"
The banshee who reported the information was stunned for a moment, then realized something and nodded excitedly: "Yes, there is a huge shed on the beach there, and I don't know what it is used for. Now I think it should be a shipyard!"
Before landing on the island, the banshees looked around the island and found no fleet docked, not even at the pier.
The whole island seems to be in order, but the sea is empty, which is not normal.
Now that we have found a shipyard, there may be unfinished ships there. Without a ready-made fleet, some semi-finished products can be taken back and modified for use.
"Take me to see it."
They soon arrived at the beach, and Ash heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the wooden boat in the shed with its deck already laid.
Although there was no trace of the pirate king's treasure, their trip was not without gain after all. Except for the mast, the other parts of the ship were in good condition. Perhaps it would require careful design for long-distance voyages. If the purpose was only to go to Tis, they could just install a steam engine and add a few propellers.
Although Ash's grades were average, he had completed the basic courses in the advanced class and had at least a general understanding of various machines.
"Take a few people and drive this boat back." Ash looked at the empty deck and sighed, "Tie a rope and pull it back."
(End of this chapter)
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