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The next morning, he visited Professor Calculus. The half-deaf genius was calibrating a new ultrasonic depth-finder. “Calculus, does ‘UN-7’ mean anything in naval history?”

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

And as the tide began to rise, washing away their footprints, the secret of the Unicorn —hidden for three centuries by a single, humble serial number—was finally safe. The next morning, he visited Professor Calculus

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. On it, in Sir Francis’s own hand: The