While Ye Yuan was descending, he had already considered it.
If this shipwreck really had the map Old Xu had mentioned,
then that map had to be extremely valuable.
How could something so precious possibly be kept in the crew's quarters?
Therefore, Ye Yuan's main search areas this time
were the bridge, the captain's quarters, and the storerooms where treasures had previously been found.
But to Ye Yuan's disappointment,
no matter how he searched, he found nothing resembling a map in any of those places.
This made him, who had originally been full of confidence, begin to doubt.
Ye Yuan stood in the narrow passageway, frowning as he thought.
Did this wreck really contain such a map?
If it did, where would the captain have kept it?
He had carefully searched the areas the captain frequented more than once.
Even his perception had detected nothing unusual in those places.
But that raised a problem.
If it was not in those places, where else could the captain have put the map?
Or perhaps the people under Old Xu had guessed wrong?
Perhaps there was no such map on this wreck at all.
More than an hour had passed since he came down, and Ye Yuan believed there could not be anywhere aboard that he had overlooked.
Just as he turned, preparing to return to the surface and explain the situation to Xu Hang,
his foot suddenly seemed to strike something.
Looking down, he realized that when he turned, he had accidentally kicked a skeleton.
By reflex, he swept the skeleton with his perception.
The result brought him an unexpected discovery.
Perhaps Ye Yuan was superstitious, or perhaps he simply respected the dead.
Whenever he found skeletons beneath the sea, he rarely used his perception to inspect them.
The only reason he