Chapter 87 (2/2)

Tang Mianmian smiled helplessly, “Who can stop him? I can’t fight him, and he doesn’t listen to what I say. Do you think Xue Junli hasn’t tried to persuade him? Every day, I listen to them try to persuade the Great God, my ears have grown callouses. But the Great God is stubborn and persistent, no methods work.”

Xiao Tangqiu fell silent again. If Shen Yuan was unwilling to take a break, no one could force him to rest unless they knock him out. But who could knock Shen Yuan out in the City of the Abyss?

Tang Mianmian brought them back on topic again, “In short, although this is an S-rank instance, you don’t have to worry too much. The Great God is here!”

Xiao Tangqiu gave a wry smile. They came to the bottom of the deck just in time to see Duan Hongzhen opening the door of one of the cabins.

Duan Hongzhen straightened up and sneered, “Don’t always use me as a locksmith.”

Xue Junli nodded, “I know.”

He pushed the door to directly go in, dust billowing out into their faces. This cabin had obviously been sealed without sunlight and gathered dust for a long time. A rotten and unpleasant smell spread out from it.

Xue Junli frowned, but still pinched his nose and walked in.

The two ladies wore unspeakably hard to describe expressions. Only Shen Yuan remained unchanged. He looked inside the room coldly and did not seem to notice Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian who followed.

Xiao Tangqiu glanced at Shen Yuan from a distance. He wanted to approach Shen Yuan for a word, but he didn’t know what to say.

The Shen Yuan right now should have recovered his memory. Who knows if he still remembered what happened during the period he was amnesiac. If he still remembered, maybe he would be angry…

He felt a little lost. Compared with the Shen Yuan that stuck to him every day during his amnesia, this Shen Yuan was obviously much more normal. He should breathe a sigh of relief that Shen Yuan was back to normal, but for some reason, there’s an inexplicable melancholy in his heart.

This room seemed to be the place where the sailors slept. The small cabin was filled with many cot placements and divided into upper, middle and lower bunks. A big net made of thick hemp rope was around each cot, probably to prevent the sailors from falling off due to the swaying of the ship when sleeping at night.

While Xiao Tangqiu was still looking at the cots, Xue Junli had already discovered something. He found a big wooden chest in a corner and immediately turned to ask Duan Hongzhen to unlock it.

Duan Hongzhen crossed his arms and looked upset, “Didn’t I just say don’t always use me as a locksmith!”

Xue Junli nodded, “I know… come on, unlock it.”

Duan Hongzhen rolled his eyes and reluctantly walked over to open the lock.

The moment the big wooden chest was opened, a strong smell of decay immediately filled the room. Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian were able to stay calm, but Fei You and Zhang Zuo immediately changed their expressions and quickly took a few large steps back, covering their mouths.

A half-rotten corpse was in the chest. The corpse itself was very tall and fairly large. He should’ve been a stocky man with a thick and round waist in life. He was stuffed into this box for some reason and his limbs were twisted and folded together, occupying every inch of space in the chest.

He was a middle-aged man with distorted and terrifying features. His eyes bulged out, his seven orifices all bled, and his face was blue. His death was very miserable.

Xiao Tangqiu calmly judged, “Maybe he suffocated to death after being stuffed inside the chest.”

Fei You hid far away, pale and covering his mouth, “How can you be so calm!”

Tang Mianmian glanced at him sympathetically, “Get used to it.”

Duan Hongzhen was even calmer. He flipped through the body of the middle-aged man with a knife and found a key from his jacket pocket, “Where does the key go?”

Yu Fuling said lightly, “There are still the wine cellar and kitchen left.”

Duan Hongzhen ridiculed, “Looking at his fat and sturdy body, he might be a cook.”

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly found something. He hesitated, then turned to ask Duan Hongzhen, “Can I borrow your knife?”

Duan Hongzhen glanced at Xiao Tangqiu, then tossed the knife to him.

Xiao Tangqiu took the knife and pried open the middle-aged man’s mouth.

“Hey!”

Duan Hongzhen’s lips twitched. Not only did these people use his knife as a lockpick, but now they also use it to dissect?!

In the next moment, a shiny golden thing fell out of the middle-aged man’s mouth.

It was a gold coin.

Xiao Tangqiu pried the middle-aged man’s mouth as wide as it could go and saw that the corpse’s mouth was filled with gold coins and even the throat had strange bulges. It was easy to imagine that maybe the middle-aged man’s corpse was full of gold coins!