Chapter 16: Escaping the Ghost Ship (III) (2/2)
When Luo Jian entered the roo on the wall He took it down and checked it for any faults Feng Yu Lan shut the door securely behind hiether Both uncoh the telescope that they used as a radually came into view, one by one:
【The murderer buried the sole exit If you wish to live, kill thehed, “We’re just going in circles, back to the original question Who is the ator? Or one of the two surviving sailors?”
“Perhaps everyone’s a killer?”
“Why do you say that?”
“This pirate vessel couldn’t find a way out in this fog The entire shi+p was chaotic Everyone on board was panicking, and according to the description in the logbook, soust 9th We don’t knohat happened, but we can assume that it was a taboo subject for all This ravated the members, corrupted their minds In this situation, no one was able to keep coht’ve been other reasons too, such as a lack of food and water They probably couldn’t continue providing necessities to the people”
“The captainan attempt to attack the others, but his actions were just the start, a fuse And this fuse sparked aeveryone’s heart with an appetite for destruction”
“Thus, one after another, the crewree theh, while the rest were sile for their lives The captain wanted to record everything that had occurred on board when he was killed One of the additional sailors was killed by the other, and the one who had survived was the ulti his body up on the high observation deck
Luo Jian slowly narrated; his chronological order of events based on inferences and as already given was quite rational When he came to the last word, he paused, then reine ent doould the only ending left for the last, re survivor be?”
“Suicide?” This was the first thing Feng Yu Lan thought of “This shi+p obviously didn’t escape fro All of the members on board were dead as a doornail All of the food and water would eventually be consumed, and in addition, the loneliness and despair was probably unbearable Apart fro”
“What place would they possibly commit suicide?” Luo Jian inquired
“I don’t know” Feng Yu Lan shook his head “It honestly depends on the individual’s mentality If it were me, I would choose the deck Even if I couldn’t see a ray of light in this thick fog, I wouldn’t want to die alone in a dark, miserable place”
“And if it were a woman?” Luo Jian suddenly opened hisYu Lan had to adender of the sole survivor In his understanding, there were feomen ere actual pirates
“If it was an extraordinarily beautiful individual, whose heart was consu, and at the sas of low self-estee in self-abaseious, an individual with a warped personality, hiding within this deceptive fog, silently killing many members on board Such a woman…where do you think she would choose to die?”
Feng Yu Lan frowned for a very long time, then tentatively answered, “Perhaps, I would find a place where others can’t see me, or rather, a place that no one could find? But…Luo Jian, why do you think the last survivor is a woman?”
“Because of the first victim inside the wooden box on deck He had a photo on hiht of the old photograph that edged between the pages of the journal
“You think his wife could also be on this boat?”
“Possibly I’uesses here The incident detailed in the logbook on August 9th, the page that was ripped off, may have been related to his wife Perhaps she was subject to oppression, or maybe even…” Luo Jian minded his words and lowered his voice into a hushed whisper, “…soht have happened with someone, and it was soon discovered, one way or another, spreading around andknown to many on board, if not everyone The poor woe his oife He probably mocked and ridiculed the captain of the shi+p and, naturally,else too In the end, he became the first victim…”
“Then, this wise, deceptive wo her best to survive with these bunch of wolves Maybe she also paid with souiled severalthem to cause tur Yu Lan interrupted Luo Jian, adding on to his speculations
Luo Jian nodded “Just as she desired, everyone died She uilty deep in her heart, perhaps at a loss Her husband was a devote Christian, so she reckoned that since she premeditated many murders, she betrayed their Lord Therefore, she wanted to hide in a place where the light couldn’t reach her, co any trace of her existence from this world”
“But wouldn’t she ju a quick glance at Feng Yu Lan froiven to me on my note was to not jump into the ocean We can see a lot from that line That said, the woman definitely did not jump into the ocean”
“Okay, what should I address you as? The Whimsical Emperor of analysis2?”