I carefully considered it and felt that what Yu Xiaobo said made a lot of sense.

I couldn't underestimate people.

Those who could come on this ship were all somewhat cunning. We were shrewd, but others weren't stupid either. We could figure out certain truths, and others could definitely figure them out as well.

Some people would rather give up treasures and take a fixed salary of 50,000 yuan. There must be a reason for this.

I couldn't help but ask Yu Xiaobo, "Brother Bo, why would someone rather choose 50,000 yuan than take a treasure?"

Uncle Mei pondered for a moment and guessed, "Could it be that these people don't recognize antiques and are afraid of making a mistake, unable to pick out a valuable treasure?"

Yu Xiaobo chuckled and said, "Uncle Mei, don't forget, this is a treasure ship from six or seven hundred years ago. Even if it's just a chamber pot, after being at the bottom of the sea for six or seven hundred years, it would be worth more than 50,000 yuan when salvaged. How much of a mistake do you think you can make to lose money?"

Uncle Mei nodded upon hearing this, saying, "That's right. Any of the salvaged treasures would be worth more than 50,000 yuan. Why would anyone prefer 50,000 yuan instead of a treasure?"

At this moment, Yu Xiaobo lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Because eight out of ten treasures salvaged from this ship are unclean!"

"Unclean?" Uncle Mei and I narrowed our eyes upon hearing this.

"How are they unclean?" I asked.

Uncle Mei was more knowledgeable than me and guessed, "Xiaobo, are you saying that these treasures are tainted with something dirty?"

"Yes." Yu Xiaobo said mysteriously, "This isn't the first time I've been on a ship. I've salvaged several sunken ships before. Sometimes the things salvaged are obviously not ordinary antiques. They are more or less tainted with something dirty."

The more I listened, the stranger it sounded. I couldn't help but ask, "How can you tell that they are tainted with something dirty?"

Yu Xiaobo said, "The specific situations are bizarre, and it's impossible to summarize in one sentence. Let me give you an example. I had a friend who went to sea with me to salvage. He was a taciturn person who rarely spoke, except when he was drinking. But that time, he salvaged a bone necklace. Some said it was made of ivory, some said it was made of tiger bone, and some said it was made of shark teeth. Anyway, it was a bone necklace..."

Uncle Mei and I listened attentively.

Yu Xiaobo continued, "Logically speaking, a bone necklace isn't worth much among antiques. After all, it's not gold or jade. Although it's an old object, its value must be limited. I told my friend at the time, 'Don't pick this one, it won't sell for much money.' But guess what?"

Uncle Mei and I quickly asked, "What?"

Yu Xiaobo said, "My friend was like he was possessed. He insisted on taking this necklace with him, and on the day he salvaged the necklace, he hung it around his neck and refused to take it off for a moment. He loved it very much!"

Uncle Mei thought for a moment and said, "To each his own. Maybe your friend just likes this kind of antique. It's not necessarily evil, right?"

Yu Xiaobo shook his head and said, "No, it's very strange, it's simply too strange. Because that's not all. On the night he got the necklace, when I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I suddenly heard my friend muttering to the necklace in his quilt, and he kept talking until the second half of the night!"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat!

Because Yu Xiaobo had just clearly said that his friend was a taciturn person who didn't usually like to talk.

Yu Xiaobo also said, "My friend usually didn't say that many words to me. That night, he actually talked to a necklace, and he said so much. I really thought he was possessed!"

Uncle Mei couldn't help but ask, "Did you hear clearly what he said to the necklace?"

Speaking of this, Yu Xiaobo's face turned even paler. He coughed and lowered his voice, "This is the even stranger part! I heard clearly that what my friend said to the necklace wasn't Chinese, but Thai! Although my friend usually knows a few words of Thai, he doesn't speak it fluently. That night, when he spoke Thai, he sounded like a local, and you couldn't hear any accent at all!"

Uncle Mei and I both felt our hairs stand on end when we heard this.

If what Yu Xiaobo said was true, then this matter was indeed too strange.

Uncle Mei couldn't help but say, "Xiaobo, your friend, could he have been possessed by a ghost?"

"That's what I thought too," Yu Xiaobo nodded.

I asked again, "Brother Bo, what happened to your friend later? Did he sell this necklace?"

Yu Xiaobo's face changed again, and he said in a low voice, "My buddy had an accident a few days after getting off the ship, before he even had time to return home. I heard that he was riding a motorcycle at the time, and collided with another motorcycle coming from the opposite direction. Both of them were going fast, and they were thrown out and died on the spot."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but gasp.

It is said that cars are metal wrapping flesh, and motorcycles are flesh wrapping metal. A car crash might still have survivors, but in this type of motorcycle accident, the driver basically has no chance of surviving.

"What about the necklace in the end?" Uncle Mei asked again.

Yu Xiaobo said, "This is also the strange part. Logically speaking, my friend always wore the necklace with him, he never took it off, but after the accident that day, the necklace wasn't found at the scene. I specifically asked the traffic police officer who was in charge of handling the matter at the time, and he said he didn't see it."

"Damn! This is a bit too strange!" Uncle Mei couldn't help but say.

I also felt that this story was too strange, so strange that I even began to doubt the truth of the story.

But looking at Yu Xiaobo's expression, he didn't seem to be lying to us, and he didn't need to make up such a story to deceive us.

At this moment, Yu Xiaobo said again, "What? Are you scared already? This is still the most ordinary thing. Besides my friend, there are many others who have lost their lives because of the salvaged antiques."

"What, there's more?" Uncle Mei asked with wide eyes in surprise.

"Of course there is," Yu Xiaobo said, "There was also a local who salvaged a set of pure gold jewelry. At the time, we all said he had struck it rich. This set of jewelry could easily sell for hundreds of thousands of US dollars. He also felt like he was going to get rich, and he even treated his brothers to a big meal before leaving, but..."

"But what?" I quickly asked.

Yu Xiaobo shook his head and said, "As a result, not long after he returned home, it is said that his entire family of nine people all died suddenly overnight. Even his three-year-old son was not spared. It was too tragic, it was simply too tragic!"