48 Hours a Day

“What do you mean your place was invaded last night?” Zhang Heng asked Vincent, who looked a little nervous across the desk.

“To be honest, I don't really know what happened either. I slept early last night, and in the middle of the night I opened my eyes in confusion, and I saw the window wide open, and a black shadow stood by my window and turned my back on what I was looking for in the cabinet. ”

“How do you know he's looking for this?” Zhang Heng pointed to the book of love poems brought back from Clark's boat on the finger table and asked.

“Because he turned my bedroom upside down, I split the sea this time into 33 Spanish gold coins and put them in the cupboard, but he didn't touch them, there was some change on the table, and it wasn't much. He only took the supply record and the manifest from the bookshelf, but I put this love poem under my pillow. ”

“Wait, why did you put this thing under the pillow?” Annie picked out the eyebrows.

The young boat doctor looked red and opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word for half a day.

Zhang Heng felt his embarrassment and took the initiative to shift the subject away. "Did you see his face? ”

Vincent nodded his head and a colour of fear appeared on his face, "He is not human, his clothes are wet, as if he had just been fished out of the water, and there is an intense smell of salt, water dropping down his sleeves and legs, and seaweed and shells hanging from his hair. ”

The young boat doctor remembered the horrible scene before and began to shake again, “I pretended to be asleep, but I secretly held my eyes open a stitch, saw his hand, and his side face, it was full of scales, then he seemed to find me, turned around and smiled at me grinning, I was scared to death, and when I opened my eyes, it was already dawn, I ran out of the house. ”

Vincent took three notes out of him, "Actually, I've translated almost all of these things, and there are only a few pages left in the supply record, and I'm sorry I didn't protect them properly. ”

“No, you've done well. It's been a long time.” Zhang Heng picked up the note, "I have an unsatisfactory request. Can I go to your place to see it? ”

“Of course.” The young boat doctor nodded, “You are welcome to be guests. ”

The three of them came to Vincent's residence, which was a small cabin, but it was enough for one person to live alone. There were a lot of plants planted nearby, not to mention some of the rarer varieties on the island. Zhang Heng remembered that Billy had said in introducing Vincent that he liked botany.

His house was crawling with vines, looking beautiful, and next to the fence was the Billy family.

The helmsman of the Cold Raven was walking in the courtyard with his little two-year-old daughter, and he saw three people coming from a short distance saying hello, handing her over to his wife, and then walking over.

“You're here about that. ”

“Can you give me a minute?” Vincent opened the door and looked at Annie, a little embarrassed.

“This is your home, you're in charge.” Zhang Hengdao.

The young boat doctor's face was filled with gratitude and slipped in through the door seam, then brought the door at the fastest speed, and a clanging noise came from inside.

On this occasion Zhang Heng asked Billy, "You live next door to him. Did you notice anything unusual last night? ”

The latter shook his head and said, "I'll be dead asleep as soon as I get back to land. I didn't know what happened until this morning when he knocked on my door in his pajamas. The kid was really freaked out last night, and I haven't seen him so panicked. ”

Later, Billy asked, "Do you think this has anything to do with that ghost ship? ”

“I'm not sure yet.” Zhang Heng thought of the strange storm on the way back to Nassau from the Cold Raven. There are signs that they did encounter a supernatural phenomenon. So it seems that the owner of the ghost ship's desire to get his things back is also the most reasonable explanation, but I don't know why he always felt something was wrong.

That's why the communication was submitted. Take a look at the Saints' house.

A little while later, the young boat doctor reopened the door and some rushed to invite the three of them in.

Vincent had cleaned up the living room for some time, and he turned out a packet of tea and soaked it in water, but Zhang Heng couldn't handle it.

The three walked into the bedroom of a young boat doctor, first reflected in dense numb plant specimens and sketches on the walls, followed by clothes and boots scattered across the floor.

Vincent's splendor is a little awkward, he hasn't had time to clean up the place yet, but as for a bachelor, his bedroom isn't too bad. Zhang Heng had seen more bedrooms than this when he stayed at school.

Zhang Heng just swept his eyes away from the plant specimens, and then he squatted down and touched the floor with his fingers. Several pieces of water had been damaged before, and now there is some moisture. It should be the place where the uninvited guest stayed longer, including the cabinet and in front of the bed.

In addition to this, Zhang Heng picked up two small pieces of shells on the ground, as well as a sheet of scales, which also seemed to confirm the story told earlier by the young boat doctor, as for the smell of saltiness, which had faded considerably due to ventilation.

Zhang Heng walked to the window again. This is also where the uninterrupted guests came in and left. There are two pots of unknown plants on the windowsill, but one of them was knocked down and a small garden underneath.

“Is that okay?" Zhang Heng looked at the young boat doctor, and after obtaining the latter's permission, he climbed onto the windowsill and jumped from there into the garden.

Zhang Heng tried to step on the soil under his feet twice, “How often do you usually pour water? ”

“Well, once a week, when I go out, I'll ask Nettie, she last watered five days ago. ”

Nate was also Billy's wife and helped Vincent a lot after he moved here, which is why Vincent was willing to be a boat doctor on the Cold Crow after Billy spoke.

Zhang Heng circled the garden and saw several other residents nearby. Then Annie went to visit again, but unfortunately she did not get any useful information. Vincent's home was invaded late at night, when everyone was generally asleep and no one saw the suspicious figure described by the young boat doctor nearby.

Lunch at the Billy's was served at noon, and Vincent's spirit was still a little tranced. Apparently, what happened last night was very exciting for him until the young boat doctor, with Billy's permission, agreed that he would not show a little gratitude until two days after lodging in his own home.