Chapter 179

, the captain proposed to continue sailing one nautical mile, and I requested to make the last dive tomorrow. July 31st. I succeeded. Who would have thought that the ship was right under our feet? I found a statue of a mermaid with two tails in the boat. It looked like an antique. But how dare the captain tell me that everything in the sea belongs to the sea? How old-fashioned, I am the hero of this operation! August 1st. I secretly hid the statue so no one knew. If I sell it when I get back, maybe I'll have money to buy my own boat. August 15th. Maybe it was an illusion, but I kept dreaming about it. The statue looked wrong, but I couldn't throw it away. August 27th. I was sick, so bad I could barely move... Where was the statue? Where did it go? Someone stole it, don't even think about it! August 33rd. The ship is lost, where are we? It was very foggy, but I was in a good mood and in good shape. August 59. Who's talking to me? Who is there... Damn, everyone on the boat is missing. What are they planning behind my back? We must not let them succeed! August 175. I woke up, but it was too late... too late. This is all a curse, all Two-tailed Mermaid's fault! I shouldn't have done this, we were both wrong! Where is it hidden? I'm going to find it, it's on the boat! It must be there! *Li Wen frowned. The handwriting at the front of this sailing diary is relatively neat, but the writing becomes more abstract toward the back. Judging from the content, the diary should be written about thirty years ago when Old Joey was still a sailor, and it was most likely the voyage where they met with disaster. The origin of everything seems to be the statue that was taken away by Old Joey. From that moment on, Old Joey's mental state seemed to begin to decline, and finally he went completely crazy. What about the original members of the ship? Are you going crazy too? Or were they killed one by one by the crazy Old Joey and thrown into the sea? It is difficult to deduce all the circumstances at that time based on a crazy sailing diary, but the good news is that she at least understood what Old Joey was looking for. That statue, the culprit of all his sufferings, Old Joey is still looking for it even though thirty years have passed. That statue was most likely the culprit that pulled her and Victoria into a different space. Li Wen put the box back to its original place, only taking away the wet sailing diary. The existence of the diary proves that Old Joey is not Joseph Wilblood, so things become complicated. On the surface, Old Joey is nowhere to be found, and the statue he brought back seems to have some kind of consciousness and evil intentions, making it extremely dangerous. Secretly, the existence of pirate Joseph is not known to be true or false, perhaps he is watching everything that happens on the ship with eagerness. Chapter 189: As Li Wen expected, Colonel Curse's search did not yield any substantial results. Old Joey seemed to have evaporated without a trace, and the sailors who were suspected to be players were like kites with broken strings, neither online nor on the ship. As for the navy's target, the brutal pirate, not even a trace was seen. All this made the atmosphere on the ship more depressing and tense, and everyone was filled with uneasiness and anxiety. Colonel Grant's face was so gloomy that he could drip water. He stopped the unnecessary search and ordered all passengers except the crew not to leave their rooms. Otherwise, it would be regarded as provoking Kingdom Navy's authority. This order will naturally arouse dissatisfaction among some people, but under the current circumstances, due to the prestige of the navy, no one dares to defy it head-on. The bright sunshine was swallowed up by dark clouds at some point, the sky became gloomy and terrifying, and rough waves began to surge on the sea. Apparently another storm is coming. After returning to his room, Li Wen spread out the wet sailing diary on the table and studied it carefully. Most of the contents in the diary are disorganized, and there is very little valuable information. Judging from this, Old Joey's behavior of keeping this diary for so long in the past is very questionable. Li Wen guesses that there may be hidden content in the diary that has not been discovered. She tried baking the diary in front of the light, hoping to make the writing clearer, but this had no effect except making the diary more wrinkled. Li Wen tried several other methods, such as using magic to dispel it, soaking it in developing magic potion, etc., but they all ended in failure. Or maybe the method is wrong? Li Wen frowned. After carefully reading through the diary from beginning to end, she found that some of the contents in the diary were written in different shades and were incompatible with the surrounding text. The handwriting seemed to have been written later and was very sloppy, as if it had been written hastily in some kind of panic or eagerness. This seems to be consistent with Old Joey's later mental state. He was tortured by the statue and went crazy. He only had a chance to wake up under very rare special circumstances. If he wanted to record something important, this was the only time. The content added after these licks are all numbers, ranging from single digits to four digits, and there is no logic at all. These numbers are squeezed into the original content and seem out of place. After thinking for a moment, she decisively tore off the pages with abnormal contents, then rearranged and stacked them according to the size of the numbers. When she put the last page of the diary up, something magical happened - the pages soaked by seawater stuck together inseparably, and the contents of the diary also overlapped each other to form a strange pattern. It was the pattern of a beautiful girl with two entangled fish tails on her lower body, a completely naked upper body, and scales on her cheeks. Obviously, this was the pattern of the Two-tailed Mermaid statue brought back by Old Joey. But what does this pattern mean? Li Wen blinked. At this moment, Two-tailed Mermaid on the page suddenly came to life. She opened her eyes, and her eyes had vertical pupils like sea snakes. A dark, moist and cold light suddenly penetrated Li Wen's eyes. At that moment, she felt as if a heavy object had hit her brain, and her whole body was spinning in a daze. She reluctantly raised her hand and released Poem of Paradise to herself continuously. It was not until the soft and warm light of Gift of Temperance enveloped her that she finally recovered. Two-tailed Mermaid is Demonic Beast who is good at casting curses. If you are not careful, you may suffer disaster. Li Wen calmed down and looked at the stacked pages again, but this time she was prepared and used Prayer Incantation on herself in advance. It's a pity that the Two-tailed Mermaid pattern on the page has disappeared, and only a distorted and scrawled handwriting remains there. This seemed to be a spell, written in some unknown language, but when Li Wen looked at it, their meanings and how to pronounce it automatically came to mind. And when Li Wen tried to look away, the things in his mind disappeared in an instant, as if they had never existed. So that's the case, no wonder Old Joey wants to keep the diary with him. Li Wen already has an idea about the function of this string of mantras. She guessed that the statue of Two-tailed Mermaid might be a relic of an ancient civilization. When she followed the members of Strategy Group to explore the world in her previous life, she saw similar things frequently. Such relics usually have powerful and even subversive power, but if used improperly, they will bring bad luck or terrible curses, and even activate the relics, giving them a certain degree of autonomous consciousness and instinct. What happened to Old Joey back then may have been caused by this, and the curse of Two-tailed Mermaid in his mouth should be from this origin. This string of spells may be what controls that statue.