Chapter 18Cairns
Jochi and Stefan flew from Vladivostok to Shanghai and then took the direct China Eastern flight down to Cairns on the North Queensland coast of Australia. The sweet feel of success after finding the head of the Battle-axe helped conquer their tiredness as they contemplated their next steps. Jochi had arranged for a translator to decipher the Chinese symbols on the Axe head. They were found to be incomplete and he was beginning to realise the whole Artefact chase was one gigantic jigsaw puzzle. They needed the shaft to give them the complete set of directions to somewhere in northern Asia which he assumed would be Mongolia. The diary told them the shaft was down there on the reef exactly as Cook had left it. Jochi had thought long and hard on the flight, his backers were
