Chapter Seventy-Eight: Wild Nature
The rainstorm is getting heavier and heavier, and the people on deck can only hide from the rain under the captain's cabin, but the narrow cover is not able to resist the storm at all, and the only function is to avoid being hit in the face by the rainstorm.
Lightning continued to explode overhead, like a giant electric centipede crawling between heaven and earth.
A few dead people fell on the deck, and no one dared to take care of it, and they couldn't care so much.
The wounded man curled up and clinged to the deck, both holding on to everything they could to avoid being swept away by the wind.
The faint cry is even more desolate in this bleak and cold rainy night, which makes people's backs chill.
Once upon a time, everyone was still friends, relatives, at least passengers on the same ship, everyone had a common destination, and they could even chat a few words when they met.
Chen Yaodong replaced the order established by Li Chaoyang and many people died, while Ruan Hao replaced Su Marie and died more, human life is as light as mustard at this time, worthless, whoever holds the power can easily take the lives of others.
Perhaps it was too tired, everyone was quiet, the people in the cabin unlocked the door and closed the door, no one in the hall was silent and did not want to speak, and the deck silently endured the storm, praying that the storm would pass quickly.
Time slowed down at this moment.
The storm grew stronger and stronger, and the cruise ship began to shake violently.
The dead bodies on the deck rolled around like oil drums, and no one paid any attention to them, and a few unlucky ones were blown by the wind without holding on to them, and they hit the railing and broke their heads.
Another thunderclap streaked across the sky.
A huge wave tens of meters high appeared in front of everyone's eyes, like a building collapsing head-on.
"Whoa!"
Tons of sea water rushed to the deck in an instant, and tourists who did not catch it were swept away by the waves in an instant, and disappeared into the long sea screaming.
Due to the lack of a gate, a large amount of seawater also poured into the hall, and the cruise ship swayed left and right completely uncontrollably, allowing the storm to rage, Ruan Hao and others had to retreat to the cabin and close the safety door.
As soon as they left, Hu Jun hid in the hall with the tourists on the deck, and ran to the billiard room, and everyone was drenched, huddled together and shivering coldly.
Nature finally showed its furious side, and the monstrous waves attacked the cruise ship in waves, and the welds at some of the joints clicked with oppression, as if they were about to burst at any moment, and everyone's eyes widened and looked around in horror.
Li Chaoyang took Han Xue Tongfei to hide in the room, Han Xue hugged Li Chaoyang and buried her head in Li Chaoyang's arms and kept trembling, Li Chaoyang held Han Xue with one hand, grabbed the bed railing with one hand, and straightened his body against the cabin wall with both feet to fix himself on the mattress.
Tong Fei curled up beside Li Chaoyang, her whole body trembled with fear while holding her knees, Li Chaoyang saw this and took her in his arms, while hugging one, Tong Fei did not struggle, and obediently stuck to Li Chaoyang's body.
The three of them hugged each other, and they could clearly hear each other's heartbeats, this moment had nothing to do with men and women, nor did it have anything to do with love, it was simply to keep warm and rely on each other.
"Are we going to die?" Tong Fei asked in a low voice.
"I don't know, it all depends on God's will, if you survive, this is the end of the world, and if you don't survive, this is our coffin." Li Chaoyang quipped.
Now their fate is out of their hands, and everything depends on providence.
"What the hell are you here for? Who are you looking for? Li Chaoyang asked Tong Fei again.
After a long time, Tong Fei spit out two words: "Find someone." ”
"Suspect?"
"Yes, to be precise, the killer of my father, I received news that the murderer was on the cruise ship, so I came."
"Is it WeChat?" Li Chaoyang asked.
"No, it's mail." Tong Fei suddenly realized that there was something wrong with Li Chaoyang's words, and hurriedly asked, "Why did you say it was WeChat?" ”
Li Chaoyang did not answer Tong Fei's question, but continued to ask: "I guess the message he sent you should be very brief. ”
"Yes, but he must know something, he mentioned some details in the email, so I'm here, and you seem to have gotten on board for similar reasons?"
"Do you know about Zhao Ya's family? Someone sent me a letter to get me on board, saying that they wanted to know the truth and came to the ship. ”
Li Chaoyang also glanced down at Han Xue when he said this, Han Xue's appearance began he thought that there was something wrong inside, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was unlikely, after all, Han Xue and herself had no grievances, she didn't need to harm herself.
If Han Xue was also a bad guy, she didn't need to follow her on the boat to take risks.
"It's really weird, I was chatting with a woman the other day and she was deceived by a similar reason, and I felt that there was something wrong with it from the beginning." Tong Fei said.
"What's wrong."
"The way of the lottery, I checked carefully, almost all the tickets for this ship are sold by lottery, but I asked the crew, they said that this ship can carry at least 300 people, such an important maiden voyage only brought 100 people, and it was so sloppy, this is also too strange, they all ran away in the last storm, why? Is it the fear that we will snatch the lifeboat or the fear of being held responsible? ”
This is exactly what Li Chaoyang can't figure out, the captain's log on the cruise ship, the chief engineer's log has not been touched, the crew is openly drinking in the engine room, the management is extremely loose, the cruise power system is seriously aging, and all the signs show that the crew doesn't seem to care about this trip, everything is like a perfunctory, it seems that all they want to do is just take everyone to this place and abandon the ship and run away.
But what is their motivation for doing so?
Everyone doesn't know each other, they are all strangers, and if the other party wants to retaliate, the scope of the blow is too wide, almost indistinguishable.
Wouldn't it be nice if they were going to kill someone and detonate the bomb?
"I can't figure this out either, Su Marie may know something......" Li Chaoyang said about Su Marie's old poster again.
"You mean it's just an old ship, repainted and on its way?"
"Yes, that's what it seems to be at the moment, but I've never wondered what their motives are, what's in it for them? I'd even thought about a battle royale movie, but the ship's surveillance system had long since been broken, and communications were completely cut off from the outside world, so they couldn't remotely control what was going on inside. ”
"Battle royale? Why don't you say it's Westworld, you think too much, it's definitely not, but there must be something wrong with it. ”
"You haven't found any clues yet?" Li Chaoyang deliberately diverted the topic and did not want to dwell on this issue.
"yes, nothing was found."
The two fell silent again, neither of them willing to reveal the details, and they were very interested in not asking any more questions.
Tong Fei's words gave Li Chaoyang a clear signal that there are not a few people like them who have been deceived, and there must be something wrong with the ocean travel company that controls all this.
There was another flash of lightning and thunder, and the wind swept the waves over and over again, and many people had only one thought at this moment.
It's just going home, and you don't want anything, as long as you can go back.
The seabirds, which could not find a place to stay, landed on the deck, some even flew into the hall, and some birds of prey roared in and landed on the table, and the black figure was like a child crouching on the table, its sharp claws scratching the table and making a sharp screeching sound, they shook their feathers and made a cooing sound from time to time.
Seabirds huddle together and make threatening cries to stop birds of prey from approaching.
A seal swept up by the storm crawled in with a twisted body and hid under the table.
There may be a chance of victory in the fight between people, but people are nothing in the face of nature's rage, and this night is an ordeal for all, fear hangs over everyone's heads, and the coming of the storm also makes each other temporarily let go of hatred.
The storm lasted until the morning before it eased a little, and although it was still raining outside, the wind was much lighter, indicating that the storm had passed and was gradually moving away.
The hall was filled with water, tables and chairs and some light things floated again, and the seals were dead, slumped in the doorway, with a large hole in their chests torn open by birds of prey, and the entrails inside were pulled out.
Several corpses floated above the water, swaying back and forth with the waves.