Chapter 9: Ghost Ship (II) (1/2)

Chapter 9: Ghost shi+p (II)

The nailed wooden box was extree, and from the size of it, Luo Jian believed that a person could fit inside However, the foundation of the box wasn’t solid due to regularly being exposed to the fluctuating weather The surface had been worn down and many screws had co his knife, and he dis his bare hands Soon, one side of the box was completely torn apart, and the contents inside were revealed under the faint light of the stars

“Oh, fuckhis mouth and nose the moment he took a look at the box’s contents Fate truly happened to bring theether, or else, hoas it that he seemed destined to always encounter dead bodies? The box actually contained a curled corpse Its entire body was rotting, beco a repulsive pile of black, foul meat The stench of its putrefaction was unbearable, the bones were showing in so the corpse inal for from its skeletal fra se, nauseating taste filled his mouth

Luo Jian stue of the shi+p, breathing in the fresh ocean breeze, but in the very next second, he started retching The heavy sea breeze reeked of a salty, fishy odor, which

After ages of just puking until there was nothing left, he eventually had to crawl back to the wooden box There weren’t any other options left; it could be said that the body was the only thing Luo Jian found on this deck, and he firmly believed there would be some clues or useful items hidden on the cadaver Besides, ever since he entered the chale detail

So, against his better wishes, Luo Jian had to lean against the box’s edge and exahtly carcass The body wasn’t fully decomposed into skeletal re fro in that uessed that the person must have been forcibly stuffed into the box before he died because his posture was contorted, but after observing carefully, Luo Jian discovered cracks in the ht have had his limbs broken before he was crammed into the box

Luo Jian was quite impressed by his own ability to analyze the cause of death and the dying process of the other just fro aable to deduce this o and his increased narcissis the corpse tumble out by itself He didn’t dare touch the corpse directly with his bare hands, as it was too disgusting

Unexpectedly, what dropped from the box wasn’t just a dead body however There were also other items: a quill pen, a palm-size journal covered in sheepskin, a box of matches, and an ancient holy cross pendant

These things ed to the deceased

Luo Jian picked up the sheepskin notebook and studied at it This journal, which fell from the corpse, was filthy There were several dark splotches of unknown substance, and its appearance per se was repulsive Luo Jian ed to endure his distress and averseness, and he opened it to read It was a pity that it ritten in English, since Luo Jian’s English was definitely not the best Although he was able to carry out silish conversations, it was still too recondite for him to comprehend What’s more was that the contents of the sheepskin journal were all handwritten, narrow and illegible cursive One glance was enough to see that the text ritten by an actual Englishs He simply couldn’t make out any words frorudgingly flipped through the pages of the notebook and soon decided it orthless Just when he was ready to fling it away, a photo fell out of the journal

It was a vintage black and white photograph of a couple, a wedding portrait froown theThe people in the photograph were slightly blurred, but that was reasonable given that it seeraph was taken was printed on its back: May 5, 1645, Rowan and Julia

Luo Jian tightly grasped the photo in his hand His face held a co on the floor

The year 1645, roughly during the earlier stages of the 17th century, was the age when colonialism first developed At the ti Dynasty But hundreds of years have passed since then; it was now the 21st century

Wait a second! That’s strange!

Luo Jian, as still holding the photograph, suddenly thought of a major concern

Were there even any cameras in the 17th century?

From what he knew, cameras didn’t appear until around the 19th century And even then, the most basic camera, which only took extremely blurred, monochroraphy was extreap of two hundred years between the 17th century and the 19th century, so how could there possibly be a photo like this in 1645?!

Thinking of that, Luo Jian felt shi+vers crawl up his spine He stared at the picture in his hands in horror The photo was aged, and the couple’s faces were hazy The woht behind her These two individuals, whose faces one couldn’t discern, were positioned near each other, e solemnity And that, coupled with the fact that their attires only reflected a pure black color because it was a raph,ceremony Luo Jian felt that the more he stared at this decrepit photo, the creepier it becaraph back into the journal and hurled it into the broken box