Aside from Xiao Tangqiu, everyone else had an indescribable look on their faces. Even Duan Hongzhen frowned, and Tang Mianmian's face changed drastically. She pinched her nose and took a dozen steps back. "There's poison gas!"

Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously glanced at Shen Yuan, but saw that Shen Yuan still had an expressionless face... He lowered his eyes and sighed softly in his heart.

After regaining his memory, Shen Yuan seemed to become even more indifferent than before.

...But for some reason, he could always feel a vague gaze falling on him, but every time he looked at Shen Yuan, he found that Shen Yuan's eyes were unfocused, as if he was looking at something, but also as if he was not looking at anything, as if nothing in this world could catch his eye.

When the dust settled, the situation in the wine cellar finally became clear. There were dozens of large wine barrels stacked densely together. Because they were so old, the wooden boards of some of the barrels had rotted and broken.

It is conceivable that these wine barrels should all be empty. After all, there was a famine on the ship. Even if there was wine originally, it would have been drunk up long ago... Having lost their way home, the sea that once brought wealth has become full of dangers. Without food and suffering from hunger, the pirates with little hope of survival can only numb themselves with alcohol and escape the desperate reality by living a life of drunkenness and dreams.

Tang Mianmian walked around the wine cellar and found nothing: "It seems that there are only these big wine barrels in this wine cellar!"

Xiao Tangqiu knocked on the seemingly empty wine barrels one by one. A hollow echo came from the first barrel, and the same was true for the second barrel. However, when he knocked on the third barrel, a dull echo came from the barrel. He was immediately cheered up: "There is something in this barrel!"

Duan Hongzhen came over immediately and knocked on the wooden wine barrel. After confirming that there was something inside, he raised the knife in his hand and with a flick of his hand, the wine barrel was smashed into pieces.

The moment the wine barrel shattered into pieces, a corpse fell out.

Like the previous chef, this corpse was also forced into this wooden wine barrel. Because it had maintained this posture after death, the joints all over the body were dislocated and the limbs were twisted and deformed. The moment it hit the ground, several gold coins fell from the mouth of the corpse and rolled away.

Duan Hongzhen kicked the corpse and calmly judged: "This corpse also seems to be full of gold coins."

Xiao Tangqiu paused for a few seconds, then knocked on the wine barrel next to him. A dull echo was heard. He and Tang Mianmian looked at each other, and they immediately worked together in tacit understanding to pry open the top of the wine barrel. Sure enough, there was a corpse in the barrel.

The corpse was seen "sitting" in the wine barrel with its head up and its buttocks down. Because the space in the barrel was too small, its limbs had to be twisted together, and its head was almost sunken into its body. Xiao Tangqiu picked up a broken piece of wood from the ground and pried open the mouth of the corpse, which was indeed full of gold coins.

Next, they opened several more wine barrels, and without exception, they were filled with corpses, and the corpses were all filled with gold coins.

Xiao Tangqiu murmured, "If nothing unexpected happened, everyone on the ship should be here..." The pirates on this ship either died at the hands of the chef or were buried in the wine cellar.

Tang Mianmian touched his chin and said, "Who did this? The chef seemed to have died in the same way. Could it be the captain?"