"And if it's not a disease, what's leaving, so many wounded in the hold..." Taras said, stopping and looking at the other two boys, as if seeking his help to understand the new dangerous situation the ship was facing.

"We could sneak into the cellar and ask the guys, the kitchen is on the same floor as the cellar, no one would realize that we went in to observe" Ricardo said, from the conversation with the captain, he knew that if he managed to solve this mystery, he would be promoted to sailor upon arrival at port.

'Shit, having these two in this matter is not convenient, both of them could be to blame, especially Ricardo, at any moment it explodes again and kills another sailor' Lucas thought with a lot of concern, while he said calmly

"You have to trust the captain, if he wants to isolate the boys, surely he has a good reason to do so, it may be that the disease is contagious and not simply eating spoiled food"

"The best thing is not to look for problems, there is little left to reach port, why waste yourself and get into such a complicated matter"

"I don't know if you noticed, Lucas..." Taras said approaching Lucas until his faces were glued together.

"We're already in the fucking problem!!!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, Taras into Lucas's face, almost making him deaf.

"They are accusing us of using rotten food in our kitchen, if the matter escalates, who do you think the boys are going to take it out on?" Taras told him quite angry, not so much with Lucas, but with the situation.

"The captain said that the boys are very stressed due to the lack of rest shift, it could happen that they end up shitting us with sticks in the cabins just to de-stress" Ricardo said quite scared, now he had tied the threads of how serious it could be the problem for them

Ricardo stopped his task, and sat on the large box in which they dumped the waste, and looked at the two boys in a serious way while he said:

"For a lot of these drunks, we're the ones responsible for taking 5 more sailors off their shifts and giving them even more work, we're really going to end badly, if we don't get the guys a good answer in the next few days."

"Yes the..." Taras tried to speak, but a noise cut him short.

*Puff* Lucas's table fell to the floor along with the turtle.

Lucas dropped the knife he had in his hand and stuck it on the floorboards, ran to the kitchen door and looked at both ends. There was no one in the hallway.

He closed the kitchen door and put a box to block it. Lucas looked at the other two boys, who looked at him without understanding why he acted like this, but he knew the seriousness of the problem better than these two lambs that he had in front of him, the shepherd was tempting the wolf and the lambs did not realize .

'Now I get it, I'm not the informant, I'm the bait, the captain's son of a bitch thinks the relic, or Galleon, is going to save me from these lunatics, which is why he's tempting everyone on the ship to kill the boys ...' Lucas thought, pacing the room, while the other two boys looked at him even more scared.

'Now I understand everything, his plan was not that he will help him discover the culprit, his idea was that the culprit will notice that we are looking for him so that he will try to kill us, in turn use us as a target for all future lunatics on this ship and that way identify them'

'This is serious... If he told Ricardo this, it is because he has already prepared everything for a long time... The sailors will probably be tempted to show their abnormal behavior towards us in the next few days... Even if we manage to solve everything, the son of a bitch of the captain is going to look for another 'illness', so that we continue to be the living shields of the rest of the crew, even sane'

Lucas looked at the two boys or 'lambs', who were looking at him with some fear due to his sudden change of attitude.

'No... idiot, this is a lot more fucked up than you're thinking, the son of a bitch used these two fucking weeks to form the ship's shield... These two idiots are scared of me... Everyone on this ship is starting to doubt me...'