Chapter 288 The meaning of the map
.I don’t know how long I have been recalling, but a light of inspiration flashed in the darkness of my thoughts, which made me suddenly open my eyes and slapped on the table with one hand. This scared Quentin beside me, and Secretary Qiushu, who was sitting by the fence, also narrowed his eyes and turned to look at me.
Regardless of their reaction, they stood up immediately and turned the map on the table back, just like when I opened the map before.
After this map is reversed... some places look like an area on the world map in my previous life, just like a map of the Western Continent. Although it is different from the map of my previous life, similar outlines also exist... Will this map be the same? For example, some places on the map are very similar to the inaccurate nautical charts in the early years of the previous life. At that time, the outlines of the world around the world were also deformed on the map. This map can clearly recognize the outlines of the "South Ocean Region". In addition to seeing the "South Ocean" archipelago on the map, I can also see "Australia", and the other part to the west is the deformed "East Africa" and "South Africa". The entire "south end of Africa" points to the direction of "Australia", and the "Cape of Good Hope" is a sharp corner facing the east.
But...just look at the size of this map, even if I complete it all, it seems that I can't draw the whole world.
There are two possibilities now. The first is that this is indeed an unfinished world map, and now someone has reached the "Cape of Good Hope" and "Australia". Of course, this is just a title in his previous life, and I have never heard of anyone who has been there in the Western Continent today... It is only possible now.
Second, this is indeed a treasure map. When the map is completed, a treasure location will be displayed. However, the outline of the island near this location is similar to the world map of my previous life in my mind after being inverted. However, at this moment I expect this map to be the former, because the value of the former is much higher than a treasure.
"Mr. Qiushu..."
"Hmm?" Secretary Qiushu turned around. "Is there anything I can do to serve? Dear sir."
"Haha, please don't have to do this..." He smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he didn't have to be so restrained. "In fact, I really need your help."
"Honor is coming, sir." Secretary Qiushu stood up and nodded slightly, then walked over.
"Look at this map, this unfinished map was found by the Navy of the Wingliu City State on a captured Mutu Empire ship..." As I said that, I looked at Atu and others outside the shed, and then lowered my voice a little. "The guess on the Wingliu City State is that... this is an unfinished treasure map. But after accidentally flipping the map, I got a very coincidental message, that is, this map may reveal to us a complete world, including all places we have not reached, a complete world containing thousands of worlds..." After saying quietly, I looked at Secretary Qiushu and Quentin respectively. Quentin, the boy had grown up with his mouth in surprise. Although Secretary Qiushu narrowed his eyes, I could still see the glimmer of light flashing in his eyes.
"Mr. Qiushu, does Stone Fort have a map from Sara World to the Ying-Germany region? A map of the coastline is drawn."
"We have the East Land. When we first expeditioned the East, we kept a large number of maps of the Sara world, which were brought back after we retreated. But the distant Ying-German area... This must be found from the information list of the trophys and documents obtained in the East. Among the trophys we obtained in the East, there may be a map of the Ying-German area drawn by the Sara navigators in ancient times. But it may not be, after all, there is too far away from us. It does not have very important military value for us."
"Okay, let's go back to the stone fort now and find out the map."
"Well... OK, sir."
A moment later, we rode the carriage of the Qiushu Register, escorted by a team of knights. We left the test wall construction site and ran towards the stone fort. The test wall construction site was an open and uninhabited area north of the stone fort. It was half a day away from the stone fort, so it was already evening when we arrived at the stone fort. As soon as we entered the castle and informed the father-in-law of Mengniu, the servants in a tower of Shiba were busy. Those servants were under Secretary Qiushu, who were responsible for preserving and sorting the information obtained for the purpose of searching in the future. The father-in-law and I were waiting in the study of the stone fort. The father-in-law of Mengniu was placed on the desk of Mengniu's father-in-law, and there were several maps of the East and Mouland Empire. Those maps were connected to the "East Africa" area where the map was not completed, which made me more convinced that my guess was correct.
While waiting anxiously, the door outside was finally knocked, which made me jump out of the seat immediately and quickly walked to the door to open the door. The person outside the door was startled by me.
What touched my eyelid was a face full of soft beauty, and was my wife L'Oreal.
"Han, I made some soup, you and my father should drink some." The wife holding Xiao Tianke had already felt very sleepy. She had usually fallen asleep at this time. After saying that, she stepped a little further and signaled the servants to bring the soup in.
"Well..." Nodded gently, and stepped forward and kissed L'Oreal and Xiao Tianke in her arms. With a smile, she pushed away a strand of hair hanging from L'Oreal's hair and stroked L'Oreal's face. "Go to sleep quickly, you should be very tired, I'll go back to the room later."
"Yes." My wife L'Oreal nodded with an unconcealable sleepiness, and then hugged Xiaotianke and left. After my wife L'Oreal left, I lost my sleepiness and was full of energy.
Back at the desk, I picked up the hot soup made by my wife L'Oreal. The stewed soup in my mouth slid down the esophagus, and a warm current spread from my stomach to all parts of my body. At this moment, happiness was in the faint heat rising from the bowl in my hand.
The father-in-law and son-in-law were not eating each other and ate all the stewed soup at the desk. After that, the father-in-law threw the bones of the chicken legs into the bowl and burped the domineering burp. Then the father-in-law and son-in-law looked at each other and laughed... Ge Dun's royal family is probably the most rustic royal family among the vassal states in the Western Continent, although the appearance outside is not much different from that of the royal families in other countries.
Finally, Secretary Qiushu came in with a few maps before we fell asleep on the desk. After putting the map on the table, he reported to Mengniu's father-in-law: "Sir, our database does not have the map you need, but I have a few maps of the Alexandra Empire here. This was what the Eastern Expedition Army got when the Fourth Eastern Expedition ransacked New Rana City. It was this coastline..."
"Haha...try it..." He stood up with a smile, took the map from Secretary Qiushu's hand and placed it on the desk. Yes, the Stone Fort Database, there are even such treasures.
In my opinion, the demise of the East Rana Empire and the two lootings of the New Rana city are historical regrets. Just like the fire in the Grand Library of Port Alexandra in the era of Queen Ethius of the Golden Snake VII, the conquerors after discovering the New World in the previous life burned all the documents retained by Maya as heretics.
In that era when most of the documents were only lonely, what they burned was not books and materials, but human history. This was a history that even the technology of the information age could not be repaired. Most archaeological discoveries were based on documents and information recorded in the documents for purposeful searches. Even so, the discovery process was full of uncertainty. If even ancient documents were burned, it could only depend entirely on luck, or... never known. In fact, human history is much more exciting and richer than those recorded in the chronology.
I copied the map with a pen and white paper and pasted it on the unfinished map. I found that the old Alexandra Empire map was still very far away from passing the qualification.
After seeing me trying to give up a few times, Secretary Qiushu comforted him: "Don't worry, Lord Han, there should be a Winglien City State. After all, our Gedun is an inland country, and it is impossible to collect maps and sea charts from those distant foreign countries. But Winglien City State is different. Some of their merchants have visited the Ying-German area in person. It should not be difficult to find such a map."
"Well..." nodded and accepted Secretary Qiu Shu's comfort. After all, I couldn't be anxious for a while. It's still good to have some hope.
"Han...I want to know why you are so nervous and such a complete map? If you look at it from the perspective of discovery alone, I can't think of a reason why you value it so much. Can you tell me?" After a while of silence, Mengniu's father-in-law suddenly asked me.
Mengniu's father-in-law waited with me for half a night, and now he asked me. He is limited by his perspective, but can I not pay attention to this world map? My attention to such a map is unimaginable to Mengniu's father-in-law.
What is a map? What is a guide? It guides humans to find a destination and achieve a certain purpose, military, commercial, or other life purpose. This is the role of a map. When you can predict what is on a map and others don’t know it, military or pioneering response plans around this will give it a fundamentally different meaning from the original purpose of exploration. This is also a leading technology, a leading preparation, and a leading overall lead resulting from its results...
Chapter completed!