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They didn’t need the full map anymore. They had the serial number—UN-7—which told them exactly which Unicorn : not the ship, but the location. The wreck of Sir Francis’s Unicorn had been found by divers decades ago, stripped of its gold. But no one had ever searched for the seventh Unicorn —a sea cave, accessible only at low tide, marked by an iron-rich rock that bled red rust when wet. That evening, with Snowy barking at the gulls, Tintin and Captain Haddock stood in the cold Atlantic spray. The tide was out. The drowned church was a skeleton of black stones. And there, just as the silk said, was a rock streaked with ochre.
The real treasure was the truth.
Tintin lifted it. The hull slid open.
Inside was a sliver of silk. On it, in Sir Francis’s own hand: The seventh Unicorn sleeps where the tide writes its name twice a day. UN-7: follow the old pilgrim’s path from the drowned church at low tide. The rock that weeps iron is the door. The Adventures Of Tintin Secret Of The Unicorn Serial Number
Tintin’s heart raced. “Chart?”
They crawled inside. The cave smelled of salt and ancient wood. And there, wedged into a stone cradle, was a final model—smaller, crude, made of driftwood. It had no sails, no cannons. Only a single serial number carved into its hull: .
Tintin smiled, closing the folio. “Sometimes, Captain, that’s the only treasure worth finding.” They didn’t need the full map anymore
That night, Tintin couldn’t sleep. He stared at the photographs of the three parchments. Sir Francis Haddock’s log entries were clear: Latitude. Longitude. Three keys. But the number UN-7 scratched at his brain.
Haddock squinted. “That? Just a builder’s mark. UN-7. Probably the toymaker’s batch number.”
Behind it, a fissure in the cliff.
“Blistering barnacles!” Haddock bellowed. “The drowned church! That’s off the coast of Cornwall—St. Piran’s Old Chapel, swallowed by the sea three hundred years ago!”
Tintin carefully removed the stern section. Inside the cavity where the rudder chain ran, he found not parchment, but a tiny brass cylinder, sealed with wax. He cracked it open.