章 1887: Bizarre Death

"That's impossible, right?" The more she thought about it, the more bewildered she became. Shaking her head, she voiced her thoughts. "They've been gone for months. If something had happened to them, their bodies should've long decayed…"

"I had the same thinking, too, but the police told me that they couldn't confirm the time of death yet. The body was found tied to heavy rocks when it was recovered from the sea. It's also badly mangled due to strong water pressure. From their preliminary assessment, they believed that the body had sunk to the seafloor as deep as a few thousand meters. Few creatures could survive at that depth, and the corpse would take at least a year to disintegrate fully. The ropes broke apart after a long time of impact from the sea, and that was how the body slowly floated up. One-third of it had been eaten by fishes by the time they recovered the corpse. It was a revolting sight."

His daughter had a sudden urge to throw up when she heard that.