48 Hours a Day

The smell in the cabin was a little bad. Zhang Heng's eyes were full of moss. He tore off a piece of clothes and wrapped his nose around it. He walked a few steps. Several rooms passing along the way were open to the door. It was messy inside. The table and chairs turned over and there were several pieces of broken clothing.

This is normal considering the time the ship spent in the sea, but apart from that, Zhang Hengfa noticed that there was no one in every room, not only no living people, no bones, and for some reason the windows were nailed to death by wooden boards.

This is also why the cabin is so boring. Zhang Heng broke two windows with the military knife in his hand, allowing the sea breeze outside to pour in, and the smell in the cabin is much better. He also found three gold coins in the slab crevices beneath his feet as he walked, just wondering why their owners had left them here.

Zhang Heng did not stay in these rooms for too long, and soon arrived at the captain's office at the end.

It's also the only room in the hallway with doors closed.

Zhang Heng reached out and pushed the door, but accidentally didn't push it open. Something was stuck in the back, so Zhang Heng took a few steps back and hit it with his shoulder. After three consecutive times, he finally broke down the door. At the same time, he saw the thing with the back door, which was a seat, but the back of the seat had just been broken by him.

Zhang Heng simply glanced away, he quickly swept around, probably because the door was closed, the situation in the captain's room was much better than in other rooms, at least not so damp, the books originally placed on the shelf scattered all over the ground, and the vast majority of the paper had become yellow and moldy, but the table was still in place.

But like previous houses, there was no one here, and the windows were sealed to death. Zhang Heng hung the oil lamp in his hand on the wall hook, searched briefly, and found a string of pearl necklaces, a ring, and some silver coins in the drawer.

Coupled with the gold coins he had previously found in the floor stitches of the room, it would appear to prove that the accident on the ship was not caused by the encounter of pirates while sailing.

However, Zhang Heng then encountered a bit of trouble while searching for the captain's log. There was more than one notebook on the table, but he did not know the text on it. In his language reserves, he could only tell that it was neither English nor French. There were many languages in Europe, and he did not know which language it belonged in. He could only pack those notes with him in the dumbest way.

After that, Zhang Heng spent another minute carefully searching the house again, confirming that there was nothing of note, and then turned around to prepare to leave, but the next moment his footsteps suddenly stopped.

The condition of the previous empty rooms can be explained by the people inside hurriedly leaving, but the situation in this captain's room is obviously completely different. The windows here are also closed, and the only entrance and exit doors are jammed with chairs, but the question is how did the people who carry the chair door get out of here?

Even with Zhang Heng's calm, a chill could not help thinking about the problem. Of course, considering the boat's time at sea, there was a small chance that the chair would get stuck right in front of the door with the waves.

But that still doesn't explain the sealed windows, the necklaces and rings in the drawers, and the gold coins on the floor, all of which explain the haste with which the people on board left, so why do they have to seal all the windows? Are you hiding from something?

At this point, Zhang Heng heard the footsteps coming from behind him. He turned around at the fastest possible speed while drawing the British military knife from the waist.

But what you see is the face of a red-haired girl.

“What are you doing here? ”

“I just checked the warehouse down there and came up to take a look at the sound of a door crash. It's strange that there's no one on this boat, but none of the goods below are still there, nor are they sealed. Too bad the fleece in there is too damp to sell anymore.” Girl paused, "you just seemed a little nervous. ”

“Something's wrong with this boat. Since we haven't found anything of value, let's get out of here, shall we, Billy?” Zhang Hengdao.

“He and Monty are checking the bottom floor. Should I notify them? ”

“Forget it, let's go together.” Zhang Heng was worried that Annie left the captain's room alone with those notes and the oil lamp.

The red-haired girl was as big as ever, leading the way ahead, and they found the downstairs, but strangely, the armrest above didn't know where to go, as if someone had cut them all off.

“Is it true that Billy says this ship is more than a hundred years old?” Annie asked as she walked.

“From the decor and architecture here, they really don't look like things from this era.” Zhang Heng replied.

“Where's everybody up there? ”

“I would also like to know the answer to this question, which, by way of exclusion, should not have been done by pirates, there are no signs of combat in the captain's chambers, so the probability of sailor riots is also low, well, if there is a plague you should be able to see the remains… in fact, if there were not any extreme circumstances, there would rarely have been a sailor's quarters that had to abandon such an intact ship.” Zhang Hengzheng said he heard Billy's voice coming from not far away.

“You better come here. I found something. ”

The two of them came to the bottom of the floor, and Billy and the other sailor were standing on their heads, and their surroundings seemed normal together.

“What's the matter? ”

The helmsman of the Cold Raven heard that he raised the oil lamp in his hand, and Zhang Heng and Annie saw the scratch marks on the top of his head.

“Did the rat do this?” The red-haired girl frowned.

“I've never seen a rat on a boat do anything like this in my life.” Billy Dow, “what do you think? Anything on your side? ”

Annie shook her head, "Everything looks fine in the cargo compartment. ”

“There's still a lot of bacon left in the kitchen, and the people on the boat shouldn't be experiencing any food crisis, and we found two cases of silverware in the loft.” The rest of the group of pirates responsible for checking other areas also rushed back, and this time with some good news, although people still do not know how the crew on this ship disappeared, at least this adventure did not return empty-handed.

Billy and others then proceeded to move the boxes of silver onto the boat, and when the last person jumped on the boat, seven of them headed for the Cold Crow.

As the boat approached the Cold Raven, Zhang Heng looked back at the mysterious Clark boat behind him, wondering if it was his illusion. He saw a row of black shadows standing on the side of the boat, quietly watching them leave in the rain, but when he looked again, there was only the shadow of the mast.