Is this right?

[hakanai]

I've been studying this code a lot lately, and it seems odd to me that there's this one branch where you run into pirates, they let you be, and then the code proceeds, but without advancing the clock. The destination for the ship has already been set, so it seems like the effect of this branch is that you instantly teleport to your destination without time advancing.

CymonsGames/taipan/main.c

Line 1187 in ac905e1

return;

On consulting the original, it seems that if Li Yuen lets you off, the game proceeds as if no battle had occurred.