Chapter 884: The Lights of Shandora
After a brief discussion, Kira and others decided to divide the team into two groups.
One group is a search team, whose mission is to go to the Shrine of God to find Laxus; the other group is an adventure team, whose mission is to search for gold in Arpaiado.
Kira was not interested in men, so he gave the signal receiver directly to Erza, asked her to lead the team to find Laxus, and took out the ore detector to start the adventure of looking for gold.
There were many people who joined his team. After all, most of the wizards of Fairy Tail were poor and could not say "no" to gold. If they did, they would definitely say something like "don't go".
Robin also joined the adventure team. She already knew that Arpaiodo was the half of Gaya Island in Qinghai, that a surging ocean current had brought them here four hundred years ago, that there was a golden country here, that there was a golden bell in the middle of the golden country, and that there was a historical text on the bell tower, so she couldn't wait to find out.
After learning that Kira and his group's goal was gold, Wapa and other Shandia people did not care much about their actions. These people had never seen gold and had no interest in it. They truly regarded money as dirt...
That doesn't seem to be right, they value land very much.
A group of people repeatedly warned Kira not to cause any damage, otherwise they would resist Kira and his group even at the risk of their lives, and their attitude was very determined.
Kira just nodded and smiled, agreeing casually - everyone knew that he was a weakling and would have to fight to the death to resist him, what else could he say?
The 'Golden City' Shandora was thrown onto the Sky Island 400 years ago and was buried by the clouds of the White Sea. In the end, only some of the buildings on the top remained.
After Enelu arrived here, he spent several months to find Shandora, looted all the gold inside, and built a golden ship - the Ark 'Proverbs'.
There are two places that were missed. One is the golden treasure in the Lord of the Sky's stomach, which was later sold by Luffy and others for 300 million. The other is the top of the huge vine in the middle of Arpaiodo, where the golden bell is and a huge golden pillar.
Kira vaguely remembered the following points about the description of the Golden Bell: The Golden Bell was called the 'Light of Shandora', its sound could be heard over a distance of ten thousand meters and could be clearly heard even in a storm, and its original function was to 'comfort the dead' so that the dead ancestors could return to this land at any time without having to worry about getting lost.
If we connect all the plots before and after the Sky Island chapter, we can basically infer that the sound of the golden bell was originally intended to be conveyed to the people on Sky Island, that is, those moon people staying on Sky Island!
The story also mentions that the lights of Shandora were extinguished once, 800 years ago, because of the existence of historical texts, the Shandiya tribe was destroyed once.
You should know that the text here is not an ordinary historical text, but a historical text that records the location of the three ancient weapons of Poseidon. It can be seen that this place is very important.
Kira even suspected that this was one of the places mentioned in the guidestone...
wrong!
Kira suddenly remembered that he seemed to have said before that he wanted to create a hundred-year history for the people of Qinghai?
Great! Regardless of whether this is one of the four indicators or not, from now on, it is!
Of course Kira is not an idiot. Considering that the historical text was written eight hundred years ago, the location it should point to should be Gaya Island in Qinghai today, not Arpaiado which is ten thousand meters above!
"Where should we choose the four locations? We have Sky Island, so we need Fishman Island, right? And then... Wano Country? And the last one... How about Elbaf?"
Based on the adventures of Luffy and his crew, Kira selected four important places from his memory. Unfortunately, he did not have a nautical chart of Qinghai at hand, otherwise he would be able to see where these four places would be when connected.
"Wait! If Angel Island is the first stop for the Moon People to go to the Pirate Planet, then this place is as important as Gaya Island. It is not impossible to be one of the four indicators?"
But Sky Island is ten thousand meters above the sky, and Fishman Island is ten thousand meters below the sea. These two places are basically the highest and lowest islands that appear in the entire comic. If Raftel is at the intersection of the four indicators, these two places should be in a diagonal relationship, right?
Doesn't that mean that Raftel is probably on the sea level? That's too disappointing!
No, no... What if one of those places is the moon? Is it possible for the moon to appear on a nautical chart?
In addition to these four places, the sunken waterfall on Judicial Island is also suspicious. Maybe it was once the location of a huge kingdom? Or is it a light that was extinguished?!
When lights go out, it most likely means the destruction of civilization.
If the sunken waterfall on Judicial Island was indeed the predecessor of a certain civilization, the only one who could have destroyed it without leaving anything behind could be Uranus, whose true identity is still unknown.
Some people speculate that the Heavenly King is most likely a flying mechanical dragon, which can be used to explain the titles such as "Celestial Dragon" and "Celestial Dragon's Flying Hoofprint". Kira is still very convinced.
The mechanical dragon fired cannons from the air and destroyed a civilization at the Judicial Island, causing the earth's crust to move and the sea level to rise wildly. That's why Wano Country built high walls to resist the outside seawater, and Fishman Island built Noah's Ark to survive.
This speculation is very similar to the story in the Bible, and there are believers in Qinghai. For example, Bartholomew Xiong is a missionary who always holds a Bible in his hand.
The images of the Sky Island people and angels are exactly the same, and the Celestial Dragons regard themselves as "descendants of the Creator". So this "Creator" probably got his name from leading humans to climb onto the Red Earth Continent to escape the sea. Maybe his name is Mary Joa.
Amidst a chaotic thought, the metal detector led Kira and the others closer to the giant vines. When they arrived at the location of the commander, they found that the detector pointer was pointing downward. Kira was not surprised and directly dug open the clouds under his feet, then jumped and came to the ruins of Shandora.
The dilapidated streets, collapsed buildings, ruins and ruins were in a mess.
Looking around, there are buildings everywhere that are similar to the style of Mayan civilization, full of a strong historical atmosphere.
"Is this the site of Shandora?!" Robin's face was filled with shock. To an archaeologist like her who was obsessed with excavating history, everything in front of her was like a strong man placed in front of a thirsty young woman, full of infinite temptation.
At this moment, Robin only felt his scalp tingling, his face flushed, his blood boiling in his heart, and the nerves in his brain kept trembling, as if they were about to burst in the next second.
"Is this our hometown?!" The girl Aisha who came with us already had tears in her eyes.
Although she was still young, all her concepts of "hometown" and "ancestors" came from the adults in the village, and she had no concepts of her own, but when she stood in front of the ruins, her body reacted before her mind did, because that was a memory imprinted in her blood.
In the dark, Aisha seemed to hear the cheers of the souls of her ancestors who remained here, and the hymns sung by the homeland beneath her feet. They were all welcoming her, the descendant who had finally found them after four hundred years.
The two of them were completely attracted by the ruins of Shandora. Robin suppressed his excitement and began to tour around the place; while Elsa turned and ran. She wanted to inform everyone to come here and return to their hometown.
As for Kira...
Beep beep! !
"Huh? The gold is here?!"
Holding a metal detector in his hand, Kira strode past the ancient buildings that had been buried for four hundred years. Like a very vulgar person, he didn't even look at these historical relics and was only thinking about finding gold.
Finally, he came to a cave, where the metal detector was pointing.
"Yes, it's here! I remember the golden ship was parked in a cave!!"
"The scent of gold, it's really Sparacyne~"
