Xiao Tangqiu suddenly struggled to wake up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he met Shen Yuan's dark and deep eyes.

Shen Yuan's eyes were solemn, as if a storm was brewing. It wasn't until Xiao Tangqiu woke up that the storm dissipated in an instant. He frowned deeply and asked, "You had a nightmare? What did you dream about?"

Xiao Tangqiu didn't react at first. Dreaming? What dream?

It was not until he found that he was still lying on the bed in the room that he came to his senses with a sudden shock. Could it be that he had been dreaming?

But soon, Xiao Tangqiu looked down and found that his body was covered with scars of various sizes. These were clearly the wounds left when he had just fought with the mermaid. How could there be scars in a dream?

He suddenly remembered something and quickly asked Shen Yuan: "Dagger! Did you see the dagger in my hand?"

Shen Yuan frowned: "Dagger? Didn't I give you a crossbow?"

No dagger?!

Xiao Tangqiu's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that he was really just having a nightmare?

"Deck...I want to go to the deck and take a look!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped out of bed and ran towards the deck.

Shen Yuan frowned and chased after him.

Xiao Tangqiu ran all the way to the deck. The sky gradually turned white and it was almost dawn. The night had passed unnoticed.

He ran to the place where he had just fought with the mermaid, but found that there was no mermaid at all. Just when he couldn't help but doubt that everything just now was really just a dream, he suddenly found something in the corner...

He walked towards the corner and found the coward's body.

The coward was dead, his body mutilated, leaving only some bones.

"He's dead, he's really dead..." Xiao Tangqiu murmured.

Shen Yuan also followed, frowning and seeming a little confused.

Xiao Tangqiu said firmly: "That was not a dream, it was definitely not a dream."

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly noticed something shining next to the coward's body. He quickly squatted down to pick it up and found that it was a silver fish scale.

"That wasn't a dream..."

He became more and more certain of his inner thoughts, and just as he was about to stand up, he discovered that the corpse seemed to be holding something in its hand.

He paused, pried open the corpse's hands, and a shiny object rolled out - it was exactly what had just fallen out of the mermaid's chest.

Xiao Tangqiu picked it up and saw that it was a silver key.

Shen Yuan frowned: "Key? Where is the key?"

Xiao Tangqiu also wanted to know, and he guessed, "Could it be the key to a secret room on the ship?"

Shen Yuan shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

Xiao Tangqiu hesitated for a moment, then couldn't help but ask Shen Yuan, "I want to know, some players can pick locks, or have special lock-picking items. Can they pick all the locks in the dungeon? If not, under what circumstances can they pick them, and under what circumstances can they not? If Duan Hongzhen can pick any lock, why do we still need to look for keys?"

Shen Yuan said calmly, "If the plot requires you to find a key to unlock the door, you must find the key."

Xiao Tangqiu's mouth twitched. It was necessary for the plot again. This reason was too strong.

At this moment, someone else came to the deck. When Tang Mianmian saw Xiao Tangqiu, she immediately greeted him loudly: "Qiuqiu! How did you sleep last night?"

Before Xiao Tangqiu could answer, Tang Mianmian also saw the coward's body and shouted again: "Is he dead?"