Then Qin Xuanling and I came to the wooden box and took a closer look. There was a bronze mirror-shaped object in the box, with some patterns engraved around it.

Qin Xuanling took the thing and turned it over, then said to himself: "Maybe... this is what he dreamed of."

And I also clearly saw that there was a strange beast with a human face and a bird on the back of the thing, looking very strange.

Professor Wu's eyes suddenly widened, and he opened his mouth as if he was saying something, but there was no sound in his throat.

Qin Xuanling silently put the thing on Professor Wu's hand, then turned his back and said to me, "Let's go!"

I asked, "What should Professor Wu do?"

Qin Xuanling said: "How long do you think he can hold it in the water in this situation? Why not just leave him here, why bother with that effort?"

I said again: "Then what he has in his hand..."

Qin Xuanling said calmly: "It doesn't matter what it is, let it stay here with Professor Wu forever."

I sighed and stopped thinking about what was there or not.

When we floated up again, Jinhu and the others had already swam on the shore and were lying on the beach to rest.

Seeing that we didn't bring Professor Wu up, Xiaoqian immediately asked nervously: "Where is my godfather, why didn't he come up?"

I thought to myself that this little girl values ​​friendship quite well. Although I already know that she was kidnapped by Professor Wu, I am still willing to care about Professor Wu's whereabouts.

Qin Xuanling said directly: "He is almost dead, so we didn't bring him up."

Xiaoqian immediately collapsed on the beach, then covered her face and started crying.

Baipai Fan hurriedly asked us what was going on. Qin Xuanling just said that Professor Wu found a hole below and asked us to go down and take a look. Then he was not exhausted and had no chance of carrying the box.

Everyone was silent for a moment with a cloud of clouds on their faces. After so many dangers along the way, several more people died, but in the end they got nothing.

Jinhu looked at the boat we were riding on when we came and suddenly said, "The old man, the ship owner, is so instructive, why did he just hang up below? No one has taken us away now."

Bai Paper Fan said angrily: "There are a few lucky people who stay below, and it is already good that you can come out alive."

Siyans continued again: "Even if there is no ship owner, it may not be easy for us to leave. Didn't the ship break long ago?"

As soon as these words were said, everyone sighed for a long time. It was not going well when they came, and even more so after they went down. Now they are still not going well at all.

Jin Hu suddenly turned over and picked up a wooden stick from a distance and said, "Whoever has a knife on you? I will cut my tip and get into the sea to get some fish. I haven't eaten much for several days. If I don't eat anything, I'll starve to death in this ghost place."

After hearing his greeting, we all felt a little hungry, so we hurriedly found a knife for him.

I have to say that Jinhu is really good at it. He only fumbled in the shallow water area for a long time and then inserted seven or eight fish into it one after another.

Everyone didn't care whether the variety was delicious or not, so they rushed up to wash the fish and then picked up some dead branches and leaves from a distance, and lit the fire and roasted them with a bunch of tree branches.

While waiting, Siyan went to the distance to get a few pots of water for everyone, which immediately relieved everyone's thirst.

Maybe it was because we didn’t eat fresh food for a long time. Although we didn’t have oil, salt and seasonings, we ate all the grilled fish.

After eating and drinking, we should consider how to leave. We swayed to the other side of the boat and saw a lot of garbage silted around us. It was probably because we went down there and it was several heavy rains outside these days, and the wind and waves were blown by the wind and waves.

But then Siyan said, "Why does this garbage look so fresh?"

Jin Hu joked: "Hey, I think you are fresher. If you don't focus on other people, you will be the one who is the one who is a trash outside."

Qin Xuanling took the conversation and said, "I think he wants to say there are people nearby!"

Siyan followed and said, "Yes, yes, that's what it means. I see that there are instant noodles bags and other items in these garbage, and the packaging is still very new. I guess it was thrown into the sea one or two days, and then rushed here by the wind and waves."

Jin Hu said again: "What's the point? He didn't come here again!"

Four-eyed eyes said: "This is not necessarily the case. Let's try to ask for help on the radio, or do something to attract their attention, what if they are still nearby!"

At this time, Xiaoqian suddenly shouted excitedly: "No need, look, they are rushing here!"

We hurriedly looked in the direction she pointed, and indeed saw a tugboat slowly moving towards us.

Jin Hu shouted several times excitedly, then took off his coat and kept waving it, fearing that others would not see it.

As soon as the tugboat approached, several fishermen with steel forks came down from above, staring at us with bad intentions.

I thought to myself, could I meet a pirate?

Baipai Fan immediately greeted, "Brothers, where did you come from? Can you help me take us out from here?"

I heard one of the older fishermen ask back fiercely: "I want to ask you, what's wrong with A Cai? His boat is here, where are the people?"

We were stunned and confused.

Qin Xuanling responded quickly and continued: "Are you talking about the boss of this ship?"

Everyone then realized that the old fisherman was talking about the ship owner.

Then they questioned us in a verbal way, why we had lost sight of the shipowner and where was we getting the shipowner again?

It turned out that these fishermen were all the owners' homes. Since we arrived on the island, they found that the owners suddenly lost contact.

So they organized fishermen from all over the village to search for the sea, and finally found only the boats parked on the shore here.

Therefore, they suspected that we killed the owner and destroyed the body, so they went back to the port to find a tugboat, intending to take it to the Coast Guard to report the case.

We explained it with some amused and crying for a long time before they believed that we were not bad people, but we really couldn't explain the death of the shipowner.

After all, Jinhu cleared the siege for everyone. He first lied to the fishermen that we encountered wind and waves while we were going to sea to see, so he drove the boat here to shelter the wind.

Then he said that the shipowner went to the island to find water for everyone, but he never came back. After all, we went through a lot of hardships to find someone, but almost lost our lives.

Then he pretended to be crying and howled, "We are useless. The shipowner is so good. We just can't find where he goes. A living person disappeared so unknown. Oh, wuwu..."

Unexpectedly, the fishermen really believed in his evil spirit and even cried.

After their emotions stabilized, the old fishermen's attitude also eased a lot and said politely: "It turns out that you are also people who value friendship. We are here to seek life on the sea and come and go in the wind and rain. We have been ready to feed the fish at any time. This is how Acai's life is.

But since you are his friends, I, the old man, will definitely help you. Please get on the boat and I will take you ashore!"

Everyone was relieved after saying this, and they didn't bother to clean up and hurriedly pulled onto the tugboat.

The old fishermen settled us in the rest cabin and found food and hot water to fill us.

When everyone thought that they were about to go back, they couldn't help but feel a little excited, and the burden that had been weighing on their hearts for several days finally fell.

On the way back, we exchanged our own experiences with each other and talked about our plans later.

Jin Hu said that he would find a serious job after returning to Wuhan and would never do such things again.

Siyan said that he planned to continue studying, and it would not be enough to come out without a doctorate.

Baizhifan said that he would first heal the gardener's injuries, and then go to Xi'an to find their Mo family organization.

I said curiously: "How many organizations do you Mohist family have in the country?"

He just smiled and didn't answer.

Later I asked Qin Xuanling what he had planned. He simply said that he wanted to go back to Malaysia, and then he fell silent.

I guess he was also very distressed this time. After experiencing so many things, he regained his past memories. I believe he is more confused than any of us now.

As for Xiaoqian, I plan to settle her in my place after returning to Wuhan, and then take some time to take her back to Qinghai to recognize her relatives.

Although we were eager to return home, the tugboat was unable to get faster. It was not until after 2 a.m. that we safely reached Quanzhou Port.

Since Jinhu, Siyan and Xiaoqian were going back to Wuhan, and Baipaofan had to take care of the gardener staying in Quanzhou to recuperate, Qin Xuanling planned to buy a plane ticket directly to Malaysia, so we separated as soon as we left the port.
Chapter completed!