The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 158: Deep-Sea Stealth

But he said that for my sake, so I tolerated his annoying smile and didn’t punch him.

I saw the scenery outside the window changing, clearly indicating the Shell Ship was still moving.

"Are we out?" I observed the strange fish outside and couldn’t tell if we had left the Sea of Sunken Ships.

"No, we’re circling the small island." Just as Qinghan finished saying this, there was a soft knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Qinghan asked.

"Professor Chen, come and take a look." Judging by the voice, it was the team leader outside the door.

"Okay." Qinghan responded and walked over to open the door.

I jumped off the bed and followed him out, the team leader saw I was awake and called us to go see.

Earlier, they had checked all the ship’s compartments and moved the bodies of dead teammates into one room.

The team leader took us to that room, inside it was empty, all the bodies were gone.

Some bodies were chopped into pieces by the fake Meng Qingyu, so it’s unlikely they could have walked away themselves, someone must have stolen them.

"We checked all the cabins and found no one or anything else," said the team leader.

Qinghan and I were in one room, the team leader and Guan Hai were in another, all had witnesses, unless it was a group crime, no one had a chance to secretly transport the bodies.

"No, there’s still one person," I said, "Beauty Snake, did you check the control room?"

The team leader was stunned, "No."

The only person who could move alone on the ship was Beauty Snake, but since the ship had been moving, the team leader and the others assumed she couldn’t have been active.

The Shell Ship is a submarine used by the residents of White Jade City, since their ancestors were Undersea People and could build such a magical Shell Ship, it’s possible they developed an autonomous navigation function.

The team leader found the bodies missing, searched for them but found nothing, so he notified Qinghan.

Qinghan asked where he looked, and the team leader said he checked the control room and the fishing compartment, and searched everywhere else.

"Let’s do this, I’ll go to the control room with the leader, you check the fishing compartment, and we’ll split up to search." Qinghan drew the large treasure sword from his back, "If we can’t find it, we’ll break down the door."

The team leader nodded and agreed, they told me how to get to the fishing compartment, and then we went our separate ways.

The fishing compartment is upstairs, a small open room, half of it is a pool.

The pool is a meter deep below the floor, and seawater rushes in from outside, never overflowing the edge of the pool.

Fish swim in and out, I don’t know the principle behind it, perhaps it’s another piece of Undersea People’s hidden technology.

The pool is connected to the outside sea, even if the Shell Ship sinks to the bottom, the outside seawater won’t flood this room.

I crouched by the pool to see its structure, and when I looked down, I noticed a bloodstain on the inner wall of the pool.

It was a half-dried bloodstain, its semi-congealed state made it conspicuous against the white wall.

But it could only be seen if you looked down inward, it had been a while since the team leader discovered the bodies missing, and he also searched outside, so if the bodies were thrown out from here, the pool wouldn’t have traces left.

The constant washing from the outside sea had cleaned the blood in the water, only because the seawater never overflowed the pool edge, this inner bloodstain remained.

Who would throw the bodies out?

The only one who could move alone was Beauty Snake, but why would she throw the bodies?

Just as I was pondering, the ship suddenly accelerated, so fast it was unsettling, then it seemed to hit something.

This feeling was like poking a plastic bag with your finger, with a slight effort, you can pierce a hole.

The Shell Ship seemed to have broken through an obstacle and regained its freedom, the fish in the pool were sucked out by a current.

The fish swimming back in were all common species, no longer having sharp fins and teeth.

I walked out of the fishing room to the bow of the ship, and the glowing fish school was gone.

Suddenly, there was a banging sound from the bow, it must be Qinghan and the team leader banging on the control room door.

I walked over quickly, from afar hearing Beauty Snake speaking loudly, complaining that Qinghan and the others were disrupting her ship navigation.

The team leader shouted back, saying Zhou and Lu Xiaodao were still on the island, leaving like this meant abandoning them.

Beauty Snake said she couldn’t manage that, we could go out first, then send someone back to pick them up.

As the argument ensued, the Shell Ship kept moving, Qinghan took the chance while Beauty Snake wasn’t paying attention, slipping into the control room behind her.

But he quickly slipped back out, wearing a strange expression, as he saw me approaching, he glanced into the control room.

He seemed to want me to take a look inside, so he joined in the argument to draw Beauty Snake’s attention, mediating, but the more he mediated, the fiercer the argument became.

The three soon tangled with each other, and I crept along the wall to sneak into the control room behind Beauty Snake.

There was only one seat in the control room, the bow was semicircular, with transparent sides providing an open view, and something glowing on top of the bow, like an oversized bulb.

The light not only illuminated the surrounding sea area but also made the control room bright and clear.

In front of the pilot’s seat, there was no control panel or other equipment, seated in the pilot’s seat was a dried corpse.

Qinghan must have seen this corpse and wanted me to take a look.

Beauty Snake was still arguing outside with the team leader; whether it was arguing or secretly transporting bodies, her leaving seemed not to affect the Shell Ship’s sailing.

So, from the start, was the person piloting this ship... this dried corpse?

I moved closer to observe the corpse on the seat, its hands were on the seat’s armrests, below the palms was a circular groove, perfectly covered by its palms.

Apart from the seat, there was nothing else in this control room, so the Shell Ship’s navigation must be controlled by this seat.

I crouched down, looked closely at the circular groove on the armrest; it might be a fingerprint or palm print recognition device, glowing faintly blue.

Inside, a light beam moved up and down, resembling a miniaturized scan device.

Suddenly, I felt being watched, and when I looked up, I met a pair of eerie blue eyes!

The corpse’s head had unknowingly turned and was staring down at me, its skin and muscles withered, brown skin clinging to the bones, mouth wide open, yet the eyes were like artificial, not shriveled or dehydrated.

At this moment, the pair of blue eyes were fixed on me, as the eyelids had shrunk, making the eyeballs especially large and protruding as if they were about to fall out.

"What are you staring at? Learn some navigation skills, steer the ship properly, and keep your eyes on the route!" Things that could scare me are indeed very few, besides, I’m quite familiar with cadavers and the dead.