Chapter 281 — The Secret in the Shark's Belly: "Ugh!" Gu Mengyao Gave Shen Yushu a Strange Look: "If You Like Arrow Brother, Just Admit It, Why Do You Always Drag Me Into It?"

Gu Mengyao finally understood what this "bedchamber maid" business was all about, but why did her best friend always have to drag her into everything?

"No, Yaoyao, didn't we agree before that whoever you marry, I will marry too, so we two sisters will never be apart?" Shen Yushu said with a perfectly serious face.

"Oh? Then if I do not marry Wei Zhao and marry Zhong Yongliang instead, will you marry over with me too?" Gu Mengyao glanced at Shen Yushu and thought to herself, you wretched best friend, do I not know you? We grew up together since childhood, eating and living together every day, who does not know whom?

"Uh..." Shen Yushu froze, never expecting Gu Mengyao to ask that. Her face turned red and she did not know how to answer.

"Why so quiet?" Gu Mengyao shot Shen Yushu a fierce glare. "Is it that you cannot bear to part from me, or that you want to marry Wei Zhao?"

"Yaoyao..." Shen Yushu shook Gu Mengyao's arm and acted spoiled. "Of course I cannot bear to part from you..."

"Hmph hmph." Gu Mengyao snorted twice as she looked at Shen Yushu.

Shen Yushu felt a little guilty and said with a red face, "All right, all right! When you marry, you should at least marry someone pleasing to the eye... That Zhong Yongliang is just too hateful!"

"So you finally told the truth? You find Wei Zhao pleasing to the eye?" Gu Mengyao asked.

"No, I just think he is all right, not annoying, that is all." Shen Yushu explained.

"Little liar." Gu Mengyao tapped Shen Yushu on the forehead. "Do not worry, I will not marry him. If anyone marries him, you do it yourself!"

"Oh..." Shen Yushu sounded quite indifferent, because she felt Yaoyao always said one thing and meant another!

Wei Zhao was in the kitchen cleaning the shark. In truth shark meat did not taste good at all. He figured that once Gu Mengyao tasted it tonight, she would find it nothing special. But since they had already brought it back, if Gu Mengyao did not try it, she would surely never give up.

Back on the beach, Wei Zhao had only dressed it roughly, cutting a few pieces of meat from the shark's tail, just enough for him and Shen Yushu to eat.

Now that he split the whole shark open down the middle, Wei Zhao sighed at just how enormous this shark was!

"Clang!" A crisp sound of metal striking rang out. The knife in Wei Zhao's hand seemed to have hit a piece of metal. He froze. Could there be something inside this shark's belly?

He had long heard people say that when someone caught a shark, they had taken rings and other jewels from its belly, most of them swallowed together when the shark ate people. Since rings could not be digested, they remained in the belly all along.

Could he have hit the jackpot too?

Wei Zhao quickly cut the shark open and took out the foreign object from its belly. But clearly this was no ring, nor any jewel! For the object was very large, not just large, but astonishingly large, so that even Wei Zhao could not help being startled when he pulled it out!

It was a small instrument, like something that controlled a motor, with a big airbag dragging behind it! It looked like some kind of remote-controlled balancer, but it was covered in rust. Judging by the degree of corrosion, it must have been there for many years!

This was a shark that had been trained and modified by someone! If Wei Zhao guessed right, this motor-like balancer-like instrument should control the direction and speed of the shark's swimming, while that airbag controlled how high or low the shark rose and sank in the water!

No wonder that while he swam ahead with Shen Yushu, towing a shark behind him had not felt like much of a burden. It was about the same as towing an inflatable raft!

But who had modified this shark? And what was the purpose of the modification?

Clearly, this controller had already lost its function. Otherwise, this shark would never have run into him.

Wei Zhao took out the controller and examined it carefully. It was no high-tech product. With present technology, making such a thing would be no difficult task.

The key question was, what was this shark used for? But since the matter had nothing to do with him, Wei Zhao did not think much about it. He was about to toss the controller aside when he suddenly found a small door that could be opened at the bottom of the controller!

Wei Zhao pulled at it, but the small door was locked. There was a keyhole on it, probably just an ordinary lock. Wei Zhao casually found a toothpick in the kitchen, picked at it a few times, and the small door opened.

A small box sealed in plastic wrap fell out, and Wei Zhao picked it up casually.

The small box was not exquisite, but it was sealed very tightly, rather like the popular Lock and Lock boxes nowadays, only made of metal.

Wei Zhao tore off the plastic wrap and waited a little while. The jade pendant on his body gave no warning at all, and only then did he force the metal box open.

He would naturally be careful, for no one knew what might be inside the box. What if it was a bomb? If it blew him straight to death the moment he opened it, that would be too tragic.

"Eh?" Wei Zhao took out what was inside the box and was slightly taken aback.

Inside was a piece of sheepskin. To be precise, a map made of sheepskin, but not a complete map, only a fragment. As for what fraction it was, Wei Zhao could not yet tell.

And the writing on the map was in a script Wei Zhao had never seen before. He knew something of the writing of most countries in the world, and even when he did not know a script, he could generally tell which language it belonged to when he saw it.

But the writing on this map belonged to no language in the world. Of course, he could not rule out some small country or small tribe he did not know, or some lost ancient civilization.

Of course, what Wei Zhao leaned toward most was that this was a secret code, a cipher! Only someone who knew the rules of decryption could read its meaning.

And by now Wei Zhao roughly understood that this shark had been used as a courier for intelligence, or rather for this drawing! Some accident must have happened along the way. The shark lost control and never finished its mission, so both the controller and this map remained in its belly.

In the vast sea, finding such a shark again would probably be very hard. It was only by coincidence that Wei Zhao had run into it.

What the map was for, Wei Zhao did not know for now. He could only slip it into his pocket to study when he had time. As for the control device, it had no research value and was tossed by Wei Zhao into a corner of the kitchen.

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