problem lies in

Even though Giselle Hayes felt that what Ling Xia said could not be fully believed, he now had to admit that his analysis was reasonable and well-founded.
Even if he really can't produce any ironclad evidence, I still feel that his analysis has almost no major contradictions, and it should be pretty good both logically and in other aspects.
But Giselle Hayes couldn't figure out the time. Apart from the pirates, could something have happened before?
That shouldn't be the case. Judging...