Chapter 93 (1/2)

The clothing hanging on the deck rails were the clothes worn by the brawny man who had disappeared from the cabin.

“What’s going on! Why are his clothes here? Did he jump into the sea to escape after seeing the drowned ghosts climb onto the ship?” Tang Mianmian couldn’t help guessing.

“Do people take off their clothes when escaping into the sea? It’s suicides when people take off their clothes!” Xiao Tangqiu retorted.

Tang Mianmian continued to speculate, “Maybe he saw that the drowned ghosts were about to get on the ship and jumped into the sea to commit suicide?”

“He chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea, instead of jumping directly into the nest of drowned ghosts? And in terms of his character, he is definitely not a suicidal person.”

Xiao Tangqiu calmly analyzed it. Although he didn’t know this guy beforehand, judging from the bed-robbing incident between him and the coward, this guy has an arrogant and self-assured personality. He definitely didn’t seem like someone who would commit suicide. He might believe it if it was someone like the coward who would commit suicide to escape everything.

Tang Mianmian thought for a long time without direction and simply gave up, “Forget it, this is not important. This isn’t a murder mystery instance anyways! The most important thing now is how to escape this ship!”

More and more drowned ghosts climbed onto the ship, and the small broken ship began to sink little by little. If they couldn’t find a solution before the ship sank into the sea, they would follow the ship to the bottom of the sea.

“How to escape?” Fei You asked with a wry smile, “Only if you can find an island… or another boat.” However, in the vast sea, where was there such a coincidence of encountering another ship or an island when they were about to sink?

Zhang Zuo was covered with cold sweat, “I have been paying attention since I got on the boat. We have never encountered any islands or other ships here.”

Xiao Tangqiu frowned. What did this mean? Were there no other sea vessels besides their ship on this sea?

“Right! The map! The map in the captain’s room!” He suddenly thought of something and called out, “Will the map in the captain’s room mark where there is land nearby? Let’s go back and look for it!”

Xue Junli glanced at him, “The map is in my hand.”

Xue Junli unfolded the old yellowed map. Due to the age, the writing on it was illegible, but it was still recognizable.

“Ghost Sea… Siren Bay… Treasure Island…” Xiao Tangqiu tried to identify the things on the map, “Ghost Sea? Maybe we are here now? After crossing the Ghost Sea, it’s Siren Bay. After Siren Bay is Treasure Island. So Treasure Island is probably the destination of this pirate ship.”

Xue Junli suddenly said, “You can read the characters on this map?”

Xiao Tangqiu was taken aback, “Yes, can’t you?”

Xue Junli said lightly, “This map is not in Chinese.”

Xiao Tangqiu nodded. He also knew that the text on the map was not in Chinese, but he could understand it.

Xue Junli continued, “&#k2026;and it’s not in English, not even any kind of text I’ve seen.”

Xiao Tangqiu was taken aback again, “You mean…”

“This is likely an unknown text, and the era and background of this instance may not necessarily be the Age of Exploration that we know of.” Xue Junli looked at Xiao Tangqiu with a probing gaze, “Actually, I also flipped through the logbook earlier, it is also incomprehensible.”

Xiao Tangqiu was stunned. Although he realized that the text on the logbook and the map was not Chinese, he thought it was the system’s built-in translator when he saw that he could understand it. They had previous experience of being able to understand the NPCs despite the language difference, after all. But now Xue Junli said he couldn’t understand these words…

He subconsciously looked at Tang Mianmian, who shook his head, “I can’t understand it either.”

Xiao Tangqiu was completely lost. What’s going on? Could it be that after he died once, he dropped all his equipment but gained an awesome new skill?

Tang Mianmian asked Xue Junli curiously, “Under what circumstances can we read the text we don’t understand in an instance?”

Xue Junli lightly said, “When the plot needs it or if something happens to be an important plot item we are looking for, we can understand the text. If we don’t understand it, it’s not the plot clue we’re looking for. Or it’s a related plot we have yet to trigger. All important plot items are just ordinary items before the plot is triggered.”

Xiao Tangqiu more or less understood Xue Junli’s meaning. Although they appeared on the pirate ship from the get-go, it did not mean that they already triggered the relevant plot. The instance had only just begun. Maybe they still needed to do something else to trigger the plot, such as finding Treasure Island… Before that, everything on the pirate ship was just ordinary things, not story items, just like the quest items he needed to look for when playing games. A grass he often passed by, before receiving the quest, was just ordinary grass. Only the quest gave it value.

Xue Junli and Tang Mianmian couldn’t read the text in the logbook and the map because they had not officially triggered the plot on the pirate ship.

Tang Mianmian continued to ask, “Then under what circumstances can I understand the text on the plot items before triggering the plot?”

Xue Junli said lightly, “I don’t know the exact circumstances, but I know there is a type of person who can understand the text on story items before the story is triggered.”

Tang Mianmian immediately asked, “Who?”