Chapter 88

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Fei You and Zhang Zuo turned pale and immediately wanted to shake their heads to refuse. But when Duan Hongzhen raised his brows, they still obediently ran to pull out the corpse. As newbies, they didn’t have much choice.

After a while, the body was finally freed. ugE9UJ

Duan Hongzhen stretched out his foot and stepped on the corpse’s belly, “It’s hard, there’s probably also gold coins inside.”

He did not hesitate to use a knife to divide the corpse into two. As expected, the corpse was filled with gold coins and all the internal organs were gone.

Tang Mianmian stroked his chin, “Are these the lost treasures?”

Duan Hongzhen scoffed, “Do you think it’s possible to be that simple?” PVtRaJ

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly keenly noticed something. He overcame his inner discomfort and reached out to fish out a ruby ring from the pile of gold coins.

It was an ancient ruby ring with a huge ruby inlaid in the center. The ruby was crystal clear, crimson in color, and sparkling with dazzling luster.

“Wow! What a big ruby!” Tang Mianmian’s eyes flashed, “How much is this worth? I really want to wear it!”

Xiao Tangqiu’s mouth twitched, “This was dug out from the corpse. You want to wear it?” UyYz0o

Tang Mianmian, “…Nevermind.”

“Huh? What kind of ring is this?” Duan Hongzhen took a look, “Could it be an important clue?”

Xiao Tangqiu stared at the ruby ring and felt something was wrong, but he couldn’t tell what.

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“It’s opened!” As soon as Duan Hongzhen pushed the door open, a cloud of choking dust hit their faces, “This is the kitchen. Looks like that guy just now really was a cook.”

Xiao Tangqiu walked into the room and saw that it was indeed a kitchen. It was filled with dust everywhere and there was an extremely strange smell.

“Is this really a kitchen? There is nothing here!” Tang Mianmian looked around. “Where are the vegetables? The fruits? The meat?” IbDTrA

“It’s been so many years, even if there was food, they would’ve rotten long ago!” Fei You cautiously put forward his own thoughts, “But it’s really strange, even if the food is rotten, something should be left behind? But it’s completely empty here! If it weren’t for some cooking utensils, it wouldn’t look like a kitchen at all!”

“Wait! There is a diary here!” Xiao Tangqiu took a few steps, suddenly finding a yellowed diary on the ground, and immediately bent over and picked it up.

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The logbook they found in the captain’s room earlier didn’t contain any valuable information at all. This diary might be an unexpected clue.

“Wow! Qiuqiu, you have found an important plot clue again!” Tang Mianmian immediately leaned over, “Hurry and look! What’s written on it! Read it out loud!” Et4xH3

Xiao Tangqiu opened the diary without hesitation, and surprisingly could understand the words in the diary even though it was not in Chinese.

X year X month X day

Then came a crazy string of curses. At the end of the diary was a large pool of black stains that looked like dried blood.

“…That’s it, it ends here.” IRvd70

Tang Mianmian stroked his chin, “He? Who is he? The captain?”

“It might be the captain but it also might be someone else,” Xiao Tangqiu went through the diary again. “This guy should really be the cook. After the food shortage incident on the ship, he secretly hid some. The food might be hidden in the kitchen, or it might be hidden elsewhere.”

Duan Hongzhen scoffed, “Those sailors who were about to starve to death must have desperately searched for food in the kitchen. How could he hide food in the kitchen?”

Xiao Tangqiu paused, “That’s true, it might be hidden somewhere else. But where can it be?” W5pkrY

At this moment, Fei You, who had been silent, cautiously asked, “Don’t you think it’s weird? Even if this guy is the cook, no one on the boat has any food. Maybe even the captain had no food. So how could he have food to secretly hide?”

Duan Hongzhen raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean?”

Zhang Zuo thought for a moment, “It might be grilled fish? Doesn’t he often mention grilled fish in his diary?”

Fei You shook his head, “There are fish everywhere in the sea, how could these sailors not know? Also, what did this guy mean by the curse? Is it possible that they fell into desperation because they couldn’t find the course nor could they catch any fish, so he thought it was a curse?” qObdES

Xiao Tangqiu frowned, “It is true that the sea may lack freshwater resources, but there shouldn’t be a shortage of food for a group of experienced pirates…”

Tang Mianmian blinked, “So you mean…”

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Xiao Tangqiu and Fei You nodded, “Yes, the food this guy found may not be food at all, but…”

At this moment, Duan Hongzhen suddenly kicked over the trash can in the corner and something rolled out. Zhang Zuo’s expression changed, and he sat down on the ground, covering his mouth and retching- wh8ogX

A dozen or so bloody severed fingers rolled out of the trash can and a rancid stench rushed over them.