The second grandfather asked a few more questions, and the martial artist stammered out answers.

Only then did the old man say to him, "This matter ends here, you did look at it wrong, don't spread it around anymore so as not to cause unnecessary panic."

"Yes, Second Grandpa, I hear you." The martial artist cupped his fists and responded.

Second Grandpa waved his hand for him to back off and turned his head to Li Mu and asked, "Brother Mu, do you believe him?"

"I believe, in conjunction with Hope's words, I'm certain that the men on that three-masted schooner were the thieves."

Second Grandpa nodded, frowning as he mulled the matter over.

Fourth Grandpa asked, "Brother Wood, what do you think about this."

"The matter is not complicated, there are only three possibilities."

"Which three?"

"The first possibility, a certain family is pretending to be a pig in a poke. The second possibility, the hidden secrets of the treasure site were known by outsiders, and, they found the secret passage. The third possibility, the ancestors of the Lin and Shen families left a backdoor, and those thieves were the backhanders they arranged."

Second Grandpa nodded gently and said to the crowd, "Brother Mu is right, it's pretty much these three possibilities, let's analyze them one by one."

The crowd was vocal in their opinions, everyone was speaking freely, even the Bai Jing siblings were actively involved.

After some discussion, the group finally agreed that the first possibility had the lowest probability, the third possibility the next highest, and the second possibility the highest.

There is a natural reason why it is so scheduled.

Let's start with the first possibility, if a certain family was pretending to be a pig in a poke, why would he give it up, a good opportunity to wipe out the families in charge.

Need to know that if you don't eat well, sooner or later you will be caught.

A theft of that magnitude, which could not possibly go unnoticed, and once discovered, the result would surely be a siege.

In order to guard against this hidden danger, taking the opportunity to get rid of the core figures of the great families and plunging the families into chaos was naturally a no-brainer.

How could he let go of such a good opportunity, so the first possibility had the lowest probability.

Plus the third possibility, if it was a backhanded move reserved by the ancestors of the Lin and Shen families, why would the descendants of the Lin and Shen families not know about it.

Was the ancestor's purpose in reserving the backhandedness for the sake of cheapening outsiders?

How is that possible, so the third possibility has the next highest probability.

The highest probability would be the second possibility, that the secret of the hidden treasure was known to outsiders, and that someone had gotten to it first and stolen part of it.

They were not as strong as the ten great families, so they were cautious and measured in their actions.

They stole only a small portion of the treasure, not daring to steal the entire treasure, so that it could be done seamlessly.

As for how they had been informed of the secret of the treasure and found the dark passage, Li Mu and the others had roughly surmised the reason.

The Bermuda hidden treasure was so spectacular that it was impossible for the Lin and Shen family ancestors to accomplish such a vast project with their own strength, and there must be many people involved.

It's not unlikely that someone got a bad idea and left a cul-de-sac for their descendants.

After analyzing the matter together, the people felt that the matter had more or less come to a head, and the next step was how to dispose of the matter.

Lin Wan asked, "Hubby, should we inform the other clans of the news?"

Li Mu was silent for a long time and shook his head, "My opinion, keep it a secret for the time being and don't reveal this matter to the other clans."

The crowd looked at him in disbelief.

Li Mu explained, "Gentlemen, we are now only thinking that the second possibility has the highest probability, not that the other two possibilities have no chance of appearing."

The crowd knew he had concerns and listened quietly.

Li Mu's idea was simple.

If it was the first possibility, notifying the other clans of their actions would certainly spook them and make tracing them afterward a difficult task.

And, there will be a downside.

Once the tracing is ineffective, there will be a lot of conflicts between the families, especially Danxia Island, which will become the key object of suspicion of the other families, and the situation will definitely be very bad.

And in case it was the third possibility, making a big public announcement would not ruin the old ancestor's backhandedness.

The reasoning was easy to figure out, if this matter was really arranged by the Old Ancestors before, then their purpose must have been to benefit future generations.

For the descendants of the Lin and Shen families, all they needed to do was wait for the good news, so why bother themselves.

Li Mu's opinion is that this matter is kept secret and strictly confidential, but everyone should not be idle, send people around to secretly visit, and find the gang of treasure thieves as soon as possible.

Once we find the person, we'll know what's right and what's wrong once we ask.

At that point, then decide what to do with it.

The crowd chimed in, all feeling that his idea was the safest.

Lin Wan and Shen Xingyue immediately gathered their men and quietly laid out the candidates for the secret visit.

After the meeting was adjourned, the Bai Jing siblings refused to leave and dilly-dallied in the cabin.

Li Mu was surprised and asked, "Why aren't you guys leaving yet, could it be that there's something going on?"

Shan Tingyan muttered, "There's nothing going on."

"There's nothing going on, so why don't you go back to rest and stick around my place?"

Shan Tingyan was thin-skinned and embarrassed to say so, but Bai Jing was bold and discussed with Li Mu, "Big brother, my senior sister and I want to live with you."

Li Mu hurriedly went to look at his wife and realized that the latter was thinking about something on her mind and didn't hear what they were saying at all.

Relieved, Little Brother Li passed a look toward Demon, signaling him to be careful what he said and not to spill everything out.

Demon Brother, however, didn't care and directly asked Lin Wan, "Sister-in-law, my senior sister and I would like to live with you, do you think it's okay?"

"Huh?"

"Sister and I want to stay with you!"

Niang Lin finally reacted and asked with a frown, "What happened?"

Demon's cheeks reddened, her head lowered, and she whispered, "Those people are annoying, always pestering us, it's very annoying!"

Lin Niangniang crowed that she knew about this matter.

Ever since they met at the marriage ceremony, the young masters of the Wang and Duan families, have launched an intense love offensive.

Originally, the pair of infatuated lovers from Zhou and Lian's families had already made this pair of siblings unbearable.

Now there are two more suitors, it's like a bombardment.

The most devastating thing was that besides Lian Widow, there was even a man who was also pursuing Demon Brother, Young Master Duan's boldness was impressive.

Because of his presence, the six of them were in the spotlight.

Of course, many people were watching with a hunter's mentality, and there were naturally many cold words.

Whenever Duan Xiongnan heard that someone mocked him, he would always say contemptuously, "You don't understand that true love knows no race, border or gender."

After this matter reached the ears of Mr. and Mrs. Li Mu, Niang Lin laughed for three days.

One kept asking her husband what we should call Young Master Duan in case they really became a success, should we call him brother-in-law or brother-in-law?

Strangely enough, Little Brother Li didn't laugh at the matter; he had a strange expression and a complicated look on his face, and from the beginning to the end, he didn't say a word.

The pursuit of those four men grew more and more violent.

Later, it simply stayed at the Quinns.

Frightened Bai Jing siblings to hide around, today there is really no way out, simply hide in the cabin of the big brother.

Niang Lin swept away the depression in her mood and couldn't help but laugh so hard that tears came out of her eyes.

Laughing enough, he said to them, "Fine, you guys can stay here if you want, I have no problem with that."

Li Mu stole a glance at Demon and realized that the latter was also sneaking a look at him.

He hastily withdrew his gaze and said to the siblings, "I don't have that many beds here, so you'll have to deal with the Violet Star sisters on the sofa , so don't feel aggrieved."

Bai Jing hurriedly said, "No complaints, no complaints, the sofa is quite good, we'll just sleep on the sofa!"

A few people chatted for a while longer and were about to lie down to rest when Cheng's couple knocked on the door to visit along with several of the Shen family members in charge.

Something's wrong!

These three words immediately flashed through Li Mu's mind, and after letting everyone in, he directly opened the door and asked, "What's the situation?"

"You tell it!" Cheng Kunan said, pointing at a person.

It was then that Li Mu realized that the captain of the Kunan was also among the crowd.

"Master Li, we're going around in circles and can't get out of this sea."

The captain's words were concise, but Mr. and Mrs. Li Mu were astonished.

"You elaborate!" Li Mu commanded.

"Master Li, everything is fine with the ship's navigation and radar, but I always feel as if we're circling in place, anchored and never able to leave these waters."

"Do you have anything to go on?"

"No, just a hunch!"

Cheng Kunan said from the side, "Nephew, Captain Pang is an old sailor by trade, experienced and sharp-witted, his intuition has always been accurate, there is something fishy about this matter."

"Go on deck!"

The crowd came to the deck together and found that Zhou Yi and the others were also up there, their faces grim, and it could be seen that they were all slightly alarmed.

Li Mu asked, "Brother Zhou, what abnormality has been discovered?"

"Brother Li, something doesn't seem right, we should have run into trouble!"

The crowd looked at him in disbelief.

Zhou Yi explained, "You guys look up to the sky first."

Everyone looked up.

Zhou Yi said, "There are no clouds in the sky, and with a vast line of sight on the sea, you can see the stars without any cover."

He didn't go on, but the crowd understood what he meant.

The sky was dark, not even a hint of light, not to mention the stars.

"You guys look behind the ship again!" Zhou Yi reminded.

The crowd came to the back deck and together they looked toward the stern of the ship.

The ship's searchlight duly hit the water and that's when they noticed the anomaly.

I could just see the oars churning up waves in an arc dragging behind the boat, and they were really going around in circles.

"What's going on here?" Reimu asked to Captain Pang.

"Master Li, I don't know what's going on, the ship clearly hasn't turned the rudder, the course is an arc, I can't figure out what's happening."

"Anything on those three ships?"

"They don't seem to be reacting!"

"Hurry up and notify those three ships so they can confirm that we're not trapped as well?"

The master of the handle was awakened in his sleep, and after the attendant had explained in a few words the purpose of his visit, the old man immediately jumped out of bed.

While dressing, he asked, "Have the heads of the families come?"

"Here they are, they're all waiting for you in the parlor cabin!"