"What do you mean your residence was invaded last night?" Zhang Heng asked Vincent, who looked a little nervous across the desk.

"To be honest, I don't know exactly what happened, I went to bed early last night, and when I opened my eyes in the middle of the night, I saw that the window was wide open, and a dark figure was standing by my window, with his back to me, rummaging through the cupboard."

"How do you know he's looking for this?" Zhang Heng pointed to the book of love poems brought back from Clark's ship on the table and asked.

"Because he turned my bedroom upside down, I got thirty-three Spanish gold coins on this trip and put them in the cupboard, but he didn't touch them, and there was some change on the table, and there was not a penny, and he only took the supply record and the list of goods from the shelf, but I put this book of love poems under my pillow."

"Wait, why did you put this thing under your pillow?" Anne raised an eyebrow.

The young ship doctor's face turned red, and he opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Zhang Heng felt his embarrassment, took the initiative to change the topic, and asked, "Have you seen his face?" ”

Vincent nodded, a look of fear appeared on his face, "He's not human, his clothes are wet, as if he had just been fished out of the water, and he has a strong salty smell, water droplets drip down his sleeves and trouser legs and fall to the ground, and his hair and clothes have seaweed and shells hanging from them." ”

"I pretended to be sleeping, but I secretly opened my eyes and saw his hands, and the side of his face, which was covered with scales, and then he seemed to have spotted me, turned his head and grinned at me, and I was frightened and fainted, and when I opened my eyes again, it was already dawn, and I ran out of the house." ”

Vincent took out three notebooks from his body, "Actually, I've almost translated these things, and there are only a few pages left in the supply record, I'm sorry I didn't protect them." ”

"No, you've done a good job, it's been a hard time." Zhang Heng took the note, "I still have a reluctant request, can I go to your place to have a look?" ”

"Of course." The young ship doctor nodded, "You're welcome." ”

The three of them came to Vincent's residence, it was a small wooden house, but it was enough to live alone, there were many plants planted nearby, including some of the more rare species on the island, Zhang Heng remembered that Billy had said that he liked botany when he introduced Vincent.

The walls of his house were covered with vines and looked beautiful, and next to the fence was Billy's house.

The helmsman of the Jackdaw, who was now walking in the yard with his little daughter, who was only two years old, saw the three men coming from not far away, said hello, handed over the daughter to his wife, and then came over.

"You're here for that."

"Can you wait a minute?" Vincent opened the door, glanced at Anne on the side, and said a little embarrassed.

"This is your home, it's up to you." Zhang Hengdao.

With a look of gratitude on his face, the young ship doctor slipped through the crack in the door, and then led it as fast as he could, and in a moment there was a clanging sound from inside.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Heng asked Billy, "You live next door to him, did you notice anything unusual last night?" ”

The latter shook his head, "I'm going to sleep so hard as soon as I get back on land, I didn't know what happened until this morning when he knocked on my door in his pajamas, the kid was really frightened last night, I haven't seen him so flustered." ”

After a moment's hesitation, Billy asked, "Do you think this has something to do with the ghost ship?" ”

"I can't be sure." Zhang Heng thought of the strange storm that the Jackdaw encountered on the way back to Nassau, all kinds of signs showed that they had indeed encountered a supernatural phenomenon, so it was also the most reasonable explanation for the owner of the ghost ship to get his things back, but he didn't know why he always felt that something was not right.

That's why I proposed to come to Vincent's house to have a look.

After a while, the young ship doctor reopened the door and invited the three of them in, somewhat awkwardly.

During this time, Vincent had already cleaned up the living room, and he also turned out a bag of tea leaves to make water, but Zhang Heng didn't care about drinking it.

When the three of them entered the young ship doctor's bedroom, they were greeted by the dense herbarium and sketches on the wall, followed by clothes and boots scattered on the floor.

Vincent's expression was a little embarrassed, he hadn't had time to clean up this place yet, but as far as a bachelor was concerned, in fact, his bedroom was not too bad, Zhang Heng had seen more deadly dormitories than this when he lived in the school.

Just glanced at Zhang Heng twice and looked away from those plant specimens, and then he squatted down and touched the floor with his fingers, there were a few pieces of water stains before, and now they were still a little damp, it should be the place where the uninvited guest stayed for a long time, including the cabinet and the bed.

In addition, Zhang Heng also picked up two small shells on the ground, as well as a scale, which seemed to confirm the story told by the young ship doctor before, as for the salty taste, it had faded a lot because of the ventilation.

Zhang Heng walked to the window again, this is also the place where the uninvited guest came in and left, there were two pots of unknown plants on the windowsill, but one of them was knocked down, and below was a small garden.

"Is that okay?" Zhang Heng glanced at the young ship doctor, and after getting the latter's permission, he climbed onto the windowsill and jumped into the garden from here.

Zhang Heng tried to step on the soil under his feet twice, "How often do you usually water it?" ”

"Well, once a week, I'll ask Nettie when I go out, she last watered five days ago."

Nettie is also Billy's wife, and she helps Vincent a lot after he moves in, which is why Vincent is willing to work as a ship doctor on the Jackdaw after Billy speaks.

Zhang Heng walked around the garden and saw that there were still a few residents nearby, so he and Anne went to visit them one by one, but unfortunately they didn't get any useful information. Vincent's house was invaded in the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep, and no one saw the suspicious figure described by the young ship doctor nearby.

Lunch was eaten at Billy's house, and Vincent was still in a trance, apparently the events of the previous night had irritated him a lot, and it was not until the young ship's doctor had gotten Billy's permission to borrow him at his house for two days that he showed a little gratitude.