Fu Luo surfaced, bewildered and confused.
He still wasn't sure whether the aura of Endless Madness had been too terrifying and the other party had been too perceptive, causing him to scare away the "Diving Merchant" outright, or whether the other party had some other scheme in mind.
In any case...
Looking at the motionless starfish, limp and corpse-like, Fu Luo confirmed it...
That guy had probably really fled!
"Is this thing really that intimidating? Or is the other party just extremely cautious?"
That made sense... After all, according to the "Professor's" records, this guy had always been very cautious—after "marking" a player, he would wait through several Instances before taking action.
So it wasn't impossible that he had scared off the Diving Merchant!
After all, once every option had been eliminated, the remaining option, no matter how impossible, had to be the truth—this was the creed Fu Luo had always believed in as a "famous detective."
Of course, compared to being impossible, this time's "truth" was more like something that was "off."
"It couldn't be that the Diving Merchant returned through the portal because he had already entered the 6th Island, encountered Old Yao, who might be hiding somewhere on the island right now, struck a deal with him, and then voluntarily withdrew, could it?"
Fu Luo thought self-deprecatingly.
How could that be possible? It wasn't that he looked down on Old Yao... but what kind of ability did Old Yao have?
Admittedly, Old Yao seemed to be highly capable socially, but that guy didn't look like someone with such courage and resolve. He wasn't qualified to lay his cards on the table with the "Diving Merchant."
If it hadn't been Old Yao who came this time, but Old Yao and his other good friend, "May May," then it