The deafening shouts boosted my confidence and I told Ryu to arrange for a group of men to go down to the bottom wheelhouse and wait for my orders, while I ran with a few men towards the captain’s cabin on the eighth floor.
On the fourth floor deck, I met Baldy who was watching. Baldy was also surprised to see me and asked me why I was here.
“It’s too late to explain, Baldy, look around the ship, inform everyone to put on their life jackets and be ready to board the lifeboats and abandon ship!”
Without asking any more questions, Baldy turned around and left.
By this time, apart from the gale and heavy rain on the cabin, we were the only ones left on the boat going upwind, and we had to hold on to the ropes or the wind would have blown us right close to the sea.
We managed to get to the captain’s cabin, got into the general control room, took down the torch on the wall, shone it on the floor and were outright dumbfounded.
The captain and first mate were on the floor, eyes wide open, blood dripping from their temples and dripping all over the floor, the stench of seawater overpowering the fishy smell of blood, as well as the rest of the crew, who were on the floor, not breathing.
“It must be He Zhitian’s doing, he really wanted to kill us.” Moon Fullbow said.
Undeterred, I felt the pulses of several people on the ground and sure enough, they were all dead.
How many people had He Zhitian killed?
“Zhang Chao!” Suddenly, Baldy snatched the door from behind, gasping in panic, “All the lifeboats have been destroyed, they can’t be lowered.”
“What?!”
“The shipwrights in the engine room are all dead too!”
My head buzzed, He Zhitian the beast!
Yue Man Gong asked, “Have you found He Zhitian?
“No, we found some guards, but one of the lifeboats was missing, so I think he let it escape.”
I gritted my teeth and said, “It seems He Zhitian just wants us dead. He killed all the boatmen and chose today to go out to sea just to have the boat wrecked. Baldy, find some men to go down there and just get the boilers fired up again. Ask if there are any surviving shipwrights yet.”
Baldy was really not afraid of death, and after he heard me say that, he still looked pretty much the same as he did a moment ago, put his duck-top hat back on and went out into the storm again.
“What the hell is He Zhitian up to?” Moon Man Bow asked, “Are all these people on board going to die with us?”
“How do I know what he’s up to? If I catch him, I’ll beat the Sh*t out of him!”
I tried it, the ship’s backup motor still worked, it hadn’t been destroyed, it could power the lights and radio out a distress signal.
Maybe He Zhitian didn’t understand the structure of the ship so that the backup power supply hadn’t been destroyed, but there was no way for the backup motor to bring the ship back to power.
The dog-headed waves were one after another, getting higher and higher.
“Let’s escape this storm first and talk about the rest later! Let’s wait for the men below to get the boilers back on.”
The waves grew violently and the surge rolled underneath our ship, I felt the ship rush upwards, the whole view out of the window lifted rapidly and became unbelievably open, and for a moment I felt that everything in the world had stopped, all sound had disappeared and it was unbelievably quiet.
Those unbeatable jianghu people were also stunned, their supreme martial arts skills were nothing more than fists and legs in front of the majestic and terrifying nature.
Qian Xiaoqian could no longer hold back her tears, Liu Ruyi was also weak in the legs, and only Yue Man Gong was still normal, though her face was also blue.
“Ma …… I don’t want to die.”
I don’t know who started shouting first, but the situation in the captain’s room instantly got out of hand, with screams and cries clamoring for help.
“Somebody help us!”
“When will the rescue boat come?!”
We were arched by the waves as high as a mountain and then thrown down, the boat let out an unbearable groan and was immediately arched again, higher than a moment ago …… wave after wave, the boat didn’t know how much longer it could hold out.
The engine was still not making any noise at all, so maybe we were really going to die here today.
We sat against the cabin, at this time I only had Chu Xiaoxiao in my heart, if I died like this, how sad she must be.
I laughed bitterly, “Moon Man Bow, we’re all going to die anyway, and when people are dying their words are good, I heard your conversation with Jiang Ming. Think of it as doing yourself a favour and just tell me why my parents died.”
Moon Man Bow didn’t answer me, instead he stared at me with a deadly stare that gave me the creeps: “You really have been to the casino, did you take the thoughtless mountain?”
After he finished, he lunged at me like a madman and grabbed me by the neck, “Did you take the thoughtless mountain?
This madman was so strong that my neck was about to be broken.
“Are you F*cking crazy, what time is it?! What proof do you have that it was me?!”
“Only you would hide the thoughtless mountain, we of the Jianghu Alliance wouldn’t hide the painting as long as we knew exactly what the suicide note on it said!”
A suicide note, what kind of bullSh*t suicide note?
“Let go of your mother’s bullSh*t, let go of my hand or we’ll all die!”
I couldn’t breathe with both eyes blackened by his choking.
Just then, the whole boat buzzed and the engine went off!
I turned red and threw a fist at Moon’s face with all my strength: “Get out of the way, the engine is buzzing, it’s the sound of the motor, the boat can move!”
Moon’s face was swollen, and he tried to fight me, but was quickly held down by the others.
“Little brother, you go and drive the boat, leave Moon Man Bow to us!”
The group of men were like hungry wolves at this point, they just wanted to live and punched and kicked at Moon Man-bow, who could only protect his vitals even if he was mad.
Liu Ruyi was full of ruthlessness and grabbed Yue Man Gong’s collar, “Surnamed Yue, we just want to live now. I don’t care who Elder Ge has chosen as the alliance leader, whoever can lead me to live now, I will recognize as the alliance leader. If you dare to touch one more finger of Zhang Chao, I’ll send you down to the F*cking sea to feed the fish!”
I climbed to my feet, the numbers on the dashboard were climbing and Baldy’s voice came over the intercom.
“Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao, the boiler’s firing up and the turbine’s spinning! Do you hear me?!”
Baldy’s voice had been drowned out by the sound of the waves almost close at hand, and I exerted all my strength to turn the rudder.
“Full right rudder! Full speed against the waves!!! All hold on tight, we’re going out on top of the wave!!!”
I let out a roar, grabbed the wheel and turned it twice, the boat turned 10 degrees and went off like a sharp blade into the heaving waves.
The wave hit the deck and turned into snowy white foam as our boat jerked lighter and went through the other side of the wave unscathed.
