The clothes hanging on the deck railing were the clothes of the strong man who was found to have disappeared from the cabin.
"What's going on! Why are his clothes here? Did he discover that the water ghost was about to board the boat, so he jumped into the sea to escape in advance?" Tang Mianmian couldn't help but guess.
"Do you need to take off your clothes if you want to jump into the sea to escape? You only need to take off your clothes if you want to commit suicide!" Xiao Tangqiu retorted.
Tang Mianmian continued to speculate: "So he discovered that the water ghost was about to board the boat, and in despair, he jumped into the sea and committed suicide?"
"He chose to jump into the sea to commit suicide. Wouldn't that mean he jumped directly into the lair of the water ghosts? And given his personality, he definitely wouldn't commit suicide."
Xiao Tangqiu analyzed the situation calmly. Although he didn't know this guy beforehand, judging from the fight between him and the coward for the bed, this guy was arrogant and self-centered, and definitely didn't look like someone who would commit suicide. He might even believe that the coward had committed suicide. After all, the coward looked very cowardly, like someone who would commit suicide to escape everything.
Tang Mianmian thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so she gave up. "Forget it, this isn't important. This isn't a case study on finding the murderer! The most important thing now is how to escape from this boat!"
More and more water ghosts climbed onto the boat, and the small broken boat began to sink bit by bit. If they could not find a solution before the boat completely sank into the sea, they would sink to the bottom of the sea with the boat.
"How can we escape?" Fei You asked with a wry smile, "Unless we can find an island... or another ship." However, in this vast ocean, how could it be such a coincidence that they could encounter an island or another ship just when their ship was about to sink?
Zhang Zuo said with a cold sweat on his forehead, "I've been observing since I got on the boat. So far, we haven't encountered any islands, and we've never encountered other ships."
Xiao Tangqiu frowned. What did this mean? Was there no other ship on this ocean besides theirs?
"Oh right! The map! The map in the captain's cabin!" He suddenly remembered something and shouted, "Could the map in the captain's cabin mark any nearby land? Let's go back and look for it!"
Xue Junli glanced at him and said calmly, "The map is in my hand."
Xue Junli spread out the yellowed old map. Due to its age, the writing on it was a little blurred, but it was barely recognizable.
"Ghost Sea... Siren Bay... Treasure Island..." Xiao Tangqiu tried to identify them for a while. "Ghost Sea? Could we be in the Ghost Sea now? After crossing the Ghost Sea, there is Siren Bay. After crossing Siren Bay, there is Treasure Island. This Treasure Island is probably the destination of this pirate ship."
Xue Junli suddenly asked, "Do you recognize the words on this map?"
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned: "I know him, don't you know him?"
Xue Junli said calmly, "This map is not in Chinese."
Xiao Tangqiu nodded. He knew that the text on the map was not Chinese, but he could understand it.
Xue Junli continued, "...and it's not English, or even any other language I've ever seen."
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned again: "You mean..."
"This might be an unknown script. The historical context of this instance might not necessarily be the Age of Exploration we know of," Xue Junli observed Xiao Tangqiu with an inquiring gaze. "Actually, I just flipped through the logbook, and I couldn't understand it either."
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned. Although he realized that the text on the logbook and map was not Chinese, he assumed that the system had a built-in translator after he found that he could understand it. After all, they had experienced situations before where they could not read the text but could understand the NPC's language. But now Xue Junli said that he could not understand those words...
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