"Could he have gone onto one of the Sirens' ships?"
Hit by the bad news out of nowhere, Fu Qian didn't question Shu Lan's words at all. Seeing Laurie stay silent, he even casually offered a guess to help out.
Big search, big show, then end up finding nothing—this is almost standard plot at this point, especially with dangerous work like this. A little "accident" isn't exactly rare.
This was even why Fu Qian had commented earlier that hiding here was only "theoretically reasonable."
On paper it all looked great, but don't forget one thing: Lady Selana had literally gone over to the Sirens' ships to look for him.
She followed the name "Ji Yin" all the way here, and the docks and surrounding area would obviously have been her key search zone.
This ship under their feet might look like a good place to hide with all these people onboard—but that's only true under normal circumstances.
