Chapter 474: The Terrain of Gaya Island and the Whereabouts of the Golden Land

'That's not necessarily true.'

Zhang Jie silently complained in his heart.

Although he didn't have a good impression of Blackbeard, Zhang Jie had to admit,

that the line he shouted, "A man's dream will never end!", was very infectious.

But this guy was definitely not a good person: in order to realize his dream,

he first endured for decades in the Whitebeard Pirates; as soon as the Dark-Dark Fruit was born,

he killed his good friend Thatch without hesitation;

later, in order to become a Warlord of the Sea, he captured Ace and offered him to the World Government,

and exposed the fact that he was the evil bloodline of Pirate King Roger, starting the Summit War,

directly burying Whitebeard, the "Old Man" who had always treated him like a son.

Later, for the sake of his dream, this guy didn't miss out on burning, killing, and looting.

Compared to him, Big Mom Charlotte Linlin, who had been hiding in the New World for decades without coming out, was as pure as a white lotus.

"Regarding the existence of the golden land of Shandora, what insights does Lord Black Star have?"

Cricket, who had reached a dead end in searching for the golden land, was desperate.

Perhaps Zhang Jie, whose strength far exceeded his, could give him some useful advice?

Zhang Jie didn't answer directly, but dipped his finger in some beer and drew a picture on the bar counter.

"A map of Gaya Island?"

Boss Boss Boss Taili looked at it for a few moments and interjected uncertainly.

Seeing that Zhang Jie was not as cruel as other pirates, he also dared to talk to Zhang Jie.

"Yes."

Zhang Jie nodded, and then asked: "What do you think the terrain of Gaya Island looks like?"

"What does it look like?"

Looking at the map of Gaya Island on the bar counter, Boss Boss Boss Taili and Cricket both fell into thought.

Boss Boss Boss Taili concluded: "This should be a crescent moon, right?"

"No."

Zhang Jie shook his head like a riddle-maker, rejecting Boss Boss Boss Taili's guess.

"Then what does it look like?"

Boss Boss Boss Taili was confused for a moment.

He looked at Zhang Jie with some resentment, just wanting to say "Riddle-maker, get out of Gotham~"...

It was to drive Zhang Jie, this riddle-maker, out of his Boss Boss Taili Bar.

Unfortunately, considering the huge gap in strength between them,

he very submissively stifled this tempting idea in the bottom of his heart.

'Hehe.'

Looking at Boss Boss Boss Taili's expression, which looked like he had been constipated for a week, Zhang Jie laughed secretly.

He suddenly understood why some characters only said half of what they meant — the feeling of being a riddle-maker is really cool!

Of course, whoever dared to be a riddle-maker in front of him,

would have to first think about whether they could take his fist, which was as big as a sandbag.

Zhang Jie: There can only be one riddle-maker by my side~

Suddenly, Cricket, who was racking his brains, had a flash of inspiration thinking about the geographical data about Gaya Island left by his ancestor Norland:

"A skull's jaw! The terrain of Gaya Island looks like the jaw of a skull!"

"Exactly."

Old riddle-maker Zhang Jie gave Cricket a look of "you can be taught."

"Eh, it really does look like it."

With the riddle revealed by Cricket and Zhang Jie, Boss Boss Boss Taili looked at the terrain map

drawn by Zhang Jie again, and the more he looked, the more it looked like the jaw of a skull.

The eastern cape is the tip of the skull's jaw, and it is also where Mont Blanc Cricket lives.

Mocker Town in the west is located at the root of the jaw, a town surrounded by forests.

The terrain here is relatively flat, but full of chaos and violence, a lawless zone where pirates gather.

The south is a vast primeval forest, where a magical bird named the South Bird

(a bird whose head always points south) lives, which can cope with the chaotic magnetic field of the Grand Line.

"Bu... but what does the terrain map of Gaya Island have to do with the golden land?"

At this time, the clever pirate who gave up his seat to Zhang Jie and introduced Cricket interjected weakly.

"Fool!"

Zhang Jie glared at this ignorant guy with a look of "hate that iron doesn't become steel."

Boss Boss Boss Taili kindly explained: "If Norland's words 400 years ago were not a lie,

the golden land existed on Gaya Island 400 years ago. And if we deduce the map of Gaya Island at that time,

or even before, we can follow the map to find the location of the golden land of Shandora."

"My ancestor absolutely did not lie!"

Facing the subtle questioning in Boss Boss Boss Taili's words, Cricket became excited at once,

and his arm waved as if he was about to have a one-on-one duel between real men with Boss Boss Boss Taili.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Norland absolutely did not lie."

Boss Boss Boss Taili could only speak to appease the excited Cricket,

and reached out to pick up a beer glass that had been swept to the edge of the bar counter and was about to fall to pieces.

"Sorry, I was a bit too excited."

Cricket calmed down and apologized to Zhang Jie and the others.

"Understand, understand."

Zhang Jie expressed understanding for his performance.

If he didn't have absolute confidence in his ancestor, Cricket couldn't have wasted so many years on Gaya Island.

Moreover, after so many years of persistence, that his ancestor was not a liar had become his spiritual pillar,

whoever questioned Norland was denying the value of his existence.

Just like if someone in the 21st century suddenly said that the Yan and Huang Emperors were not the ancestors of the Chinese nation,

then the next day, kind friends would bring gifts to "visit" them.

Kind friends: We brought the big slaps and fists as big as sandbags you love to eat~

"The current outline of Gaya Island looks like the jaw of a skull...

Could it be that Gaya Island used to be a complete skull?"

Boss Boss Boss Taili rubbed his chin and speculated thoughtfully.

"Yes."

Cricket gave an affirmative answer in a muffled voice: "From the map left by ancestor Norland,

when Gaya Island was complete, it was indeed a complete skull.

It's just that when he returned here again, the skull's cranium was gone, leaving only the jawbone."

As he spoke, he also learned from Zhang Jie and dipped his finger in beer to draw on the bar counter,

continuing to draw the cranium on the original skull jawbone, completing it.

Boss Boss Boss Taili then suddenly realized: "I said why you have been diving around here all these years.

So you suspected that the golden land sank to the bottom of the sea together with the upper part of Gaya Island."

Before the "half-house" where Cricket lived, there was a huge cliff,

which might be the relic left when the island split, symbolizing the history of the originally complete island being cut off.

Being recognized, Cricket was a bit depressed, picking up the beer on the bar counter,

and without caring that he had already dipped his finger in it, he poured it all into his mouth.

After swallowing the beer in his mouth, he spoke:

"Ancestor Norland already had this speculation before he was sentenced to death.

Unfortunately, I have been diving near Gaya Island all these years, almost turning the sea surface here upside down,

yet I haven't even found a shadow of the golden land of Shandora."

Long-term futility gave him a strong sense of frustration.

If it weren't for wanting to wash away this shame that had lasted for four hundred years for himself, for the Mont Blanc family, and for ancestor Norland,

he would have given up. ===== CHAPTER 475 =====