"Oh... that's true."
After carefully checking the parchment that Celier brought, Heinav rolled up the map and returned it to him, with a slightly hypocritical relaxed smile on his face: "I'm sorry for questioning you, Mr. Sellier. If the map is correct, I will be able to find out where the treasure is buried soon."
"As expected of a big brother!"
Reiner looked at the man adoringly, but this didn't seem to be very useful to Heinav, he skipped Reiner and stared at Celil, with a shrewd light still shining under his glasses: "But not I know why, when I was studying this painting these days, I always felt that there seemed to be something important missing... Is there something I missed? What do you think? Mr. Celier, I don’t know where your progress is. Woolen cloth?"
"Not at all, I can't even understand these strange graphics." Celil shrugged, showing a look of helplessness, "I believe that with the wisdom of Brother Heinav, he will definitely be able to find the answer."
"Hehe... What a compliment, Mr. Celier." Heinav pushed his round glasses, narrowed his eyes with a smile and said, "I like people who can talk like you. Of course, except for those who like to think smart when… "
"Oh, thank you." Celil raised the corners of his mouth, not responding to Heinav's suggestive words.
"If there is anything you want to discuss with me, please come to me, Mr. Celier."
There would be no further progress in the conversation. Heinav took off his hat and bid farewell to Celil, then turned and left the place alone.
Even the dull Reiner could see that the atmosphere was a bit subtle. He watched his brother leave, and then looked at Celil with some hesitation and asked, "Hey... Celil, do you have something to hide from me?"
"Yes, I have."
"If not... wait, what did you say?!"
Unexpectedly, Celier's answer would be so straightforward. Reiner, who was still in a daze, was taken aback for a moment, then jumped up, and shouted loudly: "Damn! What are you hiding from me?!"
"Since it's something that's been kept from you, how could I possibly tell you?" Celil grinned awkwardly, and Reiner became even more upset when he heard the words, and immediately stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar, "Hey, you're not mean Ah, we obviously grew up together, so what can you not tell me!"
"It's something you can't talk about everywhere." Celier looked at him and responded with a smile.
"Damn!! I'll talk about anything!" Reiner rushed over angrily, "See if I don't beat you up!"
...
After seeing off Reiner, who had made a fuss with him, Celil returned to his room, locked the door behind him, and casually threw the parchment under the bed.
Then the boy returned to the window and carefully lifted the floor, revealing a very small space. He reached out and touched it, and took out the bronze short knife hidden inside.
Although Celier is not an expert in forgery, he just used old parchment paper and painted it with ink to diffuse the smell. At first glance, it still looks the same. But when Heinav found he couldn't decipher the hints, the man might have doubts about the clues he was offering—sooner or later. In fact, Celier didn't really care about being able to deceive Heinav. Anyway, he never planned to let that man join his side. I'm afraid it's the same for that man. When he can find the treasure, he will soon It is possible to find a chance to kill him.
Most importantly, Celier had no doubt that Heinav would betray Leiner in order to get the treasure of the great pirate. For Celil, what he is doing now is just delaying time. Reiner grew up with him, and he really knew that guy too well. He had already guessed that Reiner might not be able to resist asking for help from his knowledgeable and wise elder brother, but it was too easy for that straight-hearted little thought It's impossible for this guy to hide from Heinov. Therefore, when Leiner asked him for a copy of the map, even if he knew that he would encounter quite troublesome things later, Celier did not expose Leiner. That guy will soon understand how much he will eat if he is so naive. Fortunately, this may also be a good thing for him.
And Celier's own map is almost complete.
But when Celier rearranged and stitched the patterns drawn based on the known hints one by one, he found that it was impossible to put them together into a complete picture.
In other words, it's like a pile of fragments, with no connection between each other, and it's even impossible to tell its true order.
… What exactly is going on
Celier tried various replacements, but still couldn't find the feeling, and then he suddenly realized that the glyphs on the handle of this knife might not be a complete map.
Celier suddenly thought that the knife in front of him should have an exquisite scabbard, maybe they are put together to be the real treasure map.
Suddenly thinking of this, Celier couldn't help laughing at himself, and then rekindled the battle of wits.
Sure enough, it is not that simple to find the treasure of the great pirate...
...
"What do you guys have to say in person, can't you just call... What?! You said the treasure map is incomplete?!"
Reiner, who was called to the appointment early in the morning, just let out a sleepy yawn, but when Celier told him the situation, Reiner woke up in an instant, and couldn't help shouting, "Damn! It's not because you can't understand Is the map an excuse?!"
"Do you think I'm you?" Celil rolled his eyes and said angrily, "I've drawn the picture, but there's still a lack of information to make a complete map."
"Tsk, do you still want to go to that kind of place..." Reiner seemed a little reluctant, and said with a frown, "Although we found the knife there, we repeatedly looked through the pile of things at that time, but we didn't see it. There's something else."
"That only shows that you haven't looked for its stomach seriously." Celil took out a pair of gloves from his bag and threw it to Reiner as he spoke, "I'm ready, if you're a man, just go to the end ?"
"Nonsense, of course I'm going!" Reiner picked up the pair of gloves, "Wait for me to go back and prepare some water and food, or I will starve to death on the way."
"... It's only been a day, you can eat like a pig."
"Shut up! I'm a teenager! Of course I have to eat more and not go hungry!"
As Reiner said that, he ran away in a hurry, Celier shrugged, turned around and slipped into a tavern that was not yet closed.
...
"It's strange... there's nothing in the snake's stomach."
"Have you searched carefully?"
"Damn! Of course I found it! If you have an opinion, look it up yourself!"
Celier took the smoke to smoke away the little snakes wandering around, and at the same time directed at Leiner, and Leiner yelled back angrily. Enduring his nausea, the kid almost dug out the double-headed snake, even digging out its internal organs, but they still couldn't find what they were looking for inside.
"I just said that it is impossible for us to miss anything." Reiner sat down on the ground in annoyance, panting and complaining, "It turned out to be a waste of time. If I knew it would be like this, I would rather go to sea with my father... Alas, It seems that even the eldest brother can't solve the secret of the map... Forget it, let's take the snake belt back this time."
"Don't be so anxious, it's already here anyway, why don't you look around." Celil looked around and said, "Speaking of it, why is this knife in the basilisk's stomach, when did it swallow it, Both are interesting questions. Spirat himself went down with his ship, so who actually took the knife? If we can figure that out, maybe we can find its sheath gone."
"You're right! How could I not have thought of this!" Reiner threw away his gloves and immediately caught up with Celier, "Then what's your plan?"
"Let's take a look inside its lair." Celier lit the torch, threw an insect repelling stone in, and smiled sternly. "I hope there won't be any sons or daughters of the basilisk inside."
"Hey, don't say such horrible things!"
The two quarreled and walked straight to the depths. The cave was gloomy, with white rat skeletons everywhere, and the little snakes entangled moved away from the two of them after smelling the smoke from the insect repelling stone. Because of the basilisk's relationship with this place, anyone who comes here will disappear, and those who escape by chance tell others not to go there. Therefore, few people will step in for decades, and it has gradually become a restricted area on the island. one. Decades later, Celil and Lena decided to take risks here to prove the men's courage, but found that this place was no longer what it was rumored to be. The frightening two-headed basilisk already dead.
So far everything has been going well. It was something that I never thought about before. Now Celier thinks that if things go on like this, they may really be able to find the treasure of the great pirate, and then change the pattern of Cocoroni Treasure Island...
But as he walked step by step into the depths of the cave, Celier always felt that the atmosphere was not right.
Unknowingly, a strange sense of unease surged in Celil's heart.
I don't know why, and I don't know when it started. Every time I take a step forward, the feeling of uneasiness becomes stronger.
The Celiers slowed down, and he felt a little panic in his heart, which was very unusual.
In all the years he grew up, Celier had never been so afraid as he is now, but he didn't understand what he was afraid of.
Something must be wrong...
"Hey Reiner, do you feel..."
Celier suppressed the uneasiness, and wanted to ask Reiner if he felt something was wrong, so he stopped and turned around.
However, when Celier looked back, he found that his good friend seemed to have been frozen, as if he had neither seen him nor heard him, and kept a high-spirited expression on his face, staring straight at him. ahead.
... What's going on here? !
Celil took a step back in shock, and then he found that everything around him was different.
Not only Leiner, but the snakes scattered around also stopped moving, and the air seemed to freeze.
… has time stopped
No, what the hell is going on here
Celier stared blankly at all this, he suddenly realized that he might have forgotten a very important thing, but he couldn't remember it.
What the hell is that? Why does the whole world seem to be able to move alone
Obviously until just now, everything is still normal!
[If you keep going, you will lose everything]
Almost at the same time that Celier felt as if he had missed something, he looked around, unable to find his way, and didn't know what happened.
Everything came too suddenly, and then a voice rang in Celier's mind.
It seemed to be a voice from his subconscious, and it seemed extremely far away.
What surprised Celil the most was that the voice was extremely familiar to him.
That was Lena's voice.
Celier stood still for a moment, then slowly started to retreat, avoiding the strong sense of danger.
Celier couldn't remember what he was thinking while retreating. He only felt that his mind was in chaos. Many scenes seemed to be interrupted suddenly, and when they were connected again, they had already switched to another scene.
Not far back, on a corner road in the cave, Celil saw Heinav, who was wearing a long coat, following him.
The man also seemed to be frozen, his gaze was like a poisonous snake in the cave, secretly peeking into the depths with malicious intentions.
"..."
At this moment, countless pictures split apart, and countless pictures overlapped and spread out quickly. Everything is chaotic, as if a large number of fragments are still in a container, each piece is shining, and each piece has a memory.
The good and the bad.
Those fragments played back and forth in Celier's mind one after another, his mind became chaotic, and he couldn't think of anything else.
But Celil knows one thing.
These things seem to have happened a long time ago.
It was here that Reiner died.
The author has something to say: That is to say, those are all Celil’s memories before, and Reiner will die if he continues to move forward. If he doesn’t want to face that reality, he can just turn around and leave now, and he can continue to stay in this self-created world. There is no death in the world, and Jiyou will continue to live in his world.
In the next chapter, Brother Lin will be on stage! I’ve been stuck writing this chapter for a long, long time... Huh