The ship was indeed empty, and we searched inside and outside the cabin, but we didn't even see a single figure.

What's even more bizarre is that the ship is extremely clean, as if it has just been cleaned repeatedly, all the windows are transparent, every plank is shiny, as if waxed, including the furniture, documents, and even small objects at the head of the bed and table in every cabin, are extremely clean.

It was so clean that it was almost impossible to tell that the boat had ever been inhabited.

I stepped out of the cabin again and returned to the deck, and I couldn't help but frown at the bright reflection of the sun on the deck.

"Boss Gai, look at that!"

Monceau suddenly shouted at such a voice that succeeded in attracting my attention.

I turned to look at him, and he raised his hand and pointed to the upper part of the mast.

Looking in the direction of his finger, he noticed that there was an irregular row of small holes near the lookout.

I walked over to him and asked, "What's that?" ”

Monceau shielded his hand from the sun and replied with some pain: "Bullet holes, it should be fresh, the sea is stormy, if someone accidentally misfires and injures the mast, under normal circumstances, the crew must reinforce the mast at the first time, and the injured mast will not be able to withstand the wind and waves." ”

With that, he quickly shrank back and retreated into the shadows.

I don't know why many people think that vampires will turn to ashes as soon as they are exposed to the sun, they are indeed more afraid of the sun, and the sun does burn them, but that kind of injury is not fatal, at most it can make them peel off their skin, anyway, they have a strong recovery ability, even if they have experienced a whole day of burning, they will completely heal themselves at night.

However, Monceau himself said that whenever he was in direct sunlight, he would feel very uncomfortable, as if his body was crawling with ants, first itchy, then painful, but fortunately, due to the perennial similar pain, the ability of the whole group to bear pain has improved a lot, and there is no problem in moving freely in the sun.

I can't figure out why Lilith, one of the ancestors of this group, is not afraid of the sun at all.

Staring at the bullet holes in the mast, I was actually thinking nonsense, because these bullet holes didn't inspire me at all, and I didn't know anything about firearms, and I couldn't tell what it meant when a gun misfired and hit the mast.

But after staring at those bullet holes long enough, I can really see something wrong.

In the sea breeze, some fine pieces of black powder were floating intermittently from those bullet holes, in small amounts, and they were quickly blown away by the wind after they floated out, and there was really no way to find them if you didn't keep staring at them.

I asked Monceau, what was the powder, the gunpowder in the bullets?

Although Monceau's eyesight was much better than mine, he did not dare to stare at the bullet holes because he was afraid of the sun, and when I said this, he raised his head and looked at the bullet holes despite the discomfort caused by the sun.

After a moment, he retracted his gaze and shook his head at me: "No, the gunpowder is in the cartridge case, and there is no gunpowder on the warhead." I can't tell what the powder is. ”

Seeing that Monceau couldn't tell the origin of the black powder, I simply climbed up the mast and checked it myself.

The particles floating out of the bullet holes look a bit like lead powder just by looking at the color, but if you pinch a little and smell it on your nose and mouth, you can smell the smell of Panax notoginseng powder and dendrobium.

I suddenly remembered that the poison scripture that Gu Jianping gave me recorded a special kind of insect powder, which included two raw materials, Panax notoginseng and Dendrobium, which were special products of the Seven Peerless Mountains and were specially used to drive Gu worms.

Looking back now, I always feel that the sect of the Seven Peerless Mountains seems to have heard of it somewhere.

Later, I used the blade of my gun to widen one of the bullet holes, and dug out a hemispherical copper cover from it, and the diameter of the hemisphere corresponded to the caliber of the bullet hole.

I reckon that the first half of the ball should be a complete copper ball, the second half of which is driven into the mast and the second half of the ball falls off so that the insect powder can spill out, and the front half is stuck in the wood.

Someone has been on this boat and has been on the Gu.

Back under the mast, I showed Monceau the brass cover and asked him if it was the bullet of a bullet, and Monceau said with great certainty that it was definitely not.

At this time, Sif came over with a sad face, and Monceau asked her from afar, "What have you found?" ”

Sif replied sullenly, "I've walked around the boat many times, but I haven't found anything from us. ”

Monceau didn't seem to realize what Sif meant, and was stunned for a moment.

I was quicker than he was, and Sif meant that I hadn't found anything that the Sea Worms had taken from their boat.

Did the people of the Sea Worms work so hard to get those things, but they are too heavy on the way and throw them into the sea again?

That doesn't make sense.

It wasn't long before Monceau came back to his senses, and he stared at Sif, his face as ugly as Sif's.

The current situation suggests that the Sea Worm must have been forced to this side of the reef by other ships, and after the ship ran aground, they were attacked by another group of people, who were either killed and abandoned to the bottom of the sea, or were taken away, and the other group attacked the Sea Worm for the same reason as the Sea Worm attacked the Oak team.

Both are for the same thing.

In other words, from the moment the Oaks left the harbor, they were targeted by two forces at the same time, and even if they were not knocked over by the Seaworm, they would be attacked by the other group.

And I think this group is even more terrifying than the Sea Worms, and if they were allowed to do it, by now, the Oak team would not be able to leave a single living person.

I glanced at the deck, the sunlight shining on the overly clean board, the more I looked at it, the more strange it became, and then I thought of the insect powder on the mast and the pictures on the hull, and my heart suddenly twisted into a ball, and I felt indescribably uncomfortable.

It was only now that I thought of that very critical question, why did the other teams find other ships to go to sea, but the Sea Worm team drove their own main ship?

I asked this question, but Monceau and Sif didn't think it was a problem at all, Monceau said that the Seaworm was able to drive the main ship, which meant that they had received special care from the Seacourt, anyway, the Seaworm was already very close to the Bishop, which was not unusual.

The Sea Worm and the Bishop are close?

Could it be that the Sea Worms are the team that the Bishop has set out to disrupt the situation?

At this time, Sif spoke: "It seems that the person who kidnapped the Sea Worm Team can only be the Flying Fish Team. ”

The word "hijacking" is not very accurate, and it is possible that the people on board the Sea Worm have been killed.