Chapter 726: Stop in Time
"Huh? What did you say?"
As he is old, the old man seems to have some hearing problems.
Wen Lueyan had no choice but to bend down even deeper and raised his voice to shout in his ear,
"I say—do you know when the Costa cruise ship docks?"
"Oh, the Costa."
This time the old man finally heard clearly, frowned and waved his fan and said to him seriously,
"That's the big cruise ship that a very wealthy company invested in. It was abandoned years ago!"
“…”
The boy blinked, and a blank appeared in his amber pupils for a second, as if he didn't understand what the old man said at all.
His voice also became vague.
"What...what does abandoned mean?"
His voice was too soft for the old man to hear. He just continued with his original words.
"It was after that fire! Four out of five people in the family died! It was so pitiful! Costa was abandoned after that accident. They even blew it up in the middle of the ocean a year ago! The debris sank to the bottom of the sea!"
"I heard that the girl who died in the sea was the radio host on the ship! She was the only one who fell into the sea. Her mother and siblings were all burned alive! How pitiful!"
"That radio station is quite famous! It's called Deep Sea Radio! My wife used to listen to it every day! The girl's voice was so beautiful!"
“…”
Wen Lueyan's whole body gradually became stiff.
The sinking sun cast an increasingly dim light on his eyebrows. He raised his eyebrows slightly, like a mechanical movement that he couldn't react to.
The huge shock made it impossible for him to make any expression, and every nerve in his body seemed to be solidified as if it were coated with glue.
The sound of the sea tide surges.
Gradually, it merged into the girl's clear and pleasant voice in his ears, flowing out from the radio grid slowly and with a smile, shining on him like moonlight in those gray nights.
She said she was on a cruise ship called Costa.
She said the cruise ship only returns to port on the 15th of every month.
She said maybe others didn't call her because they couldn't receive the radio waves.
She said maybe it was because they were destined to be together that he was able to call this hotline.
She is familiar with all the beautiful scenery on the sea, and she knows the streets and alleys of Haitian City.
But her radio station was always on an uncertain channel, like a message in a bottle hidden among those radio stations, and it took him ten minutes to find it every time.
All she described to him was the sea at night. On what she called "the delicious street," the familiar things had long since changed, but she was completely unaware of it.
It was as if time passed by, and only she stayed forever.
Wen Lueyan slowly straightened up.
He heard a crackling sound from his stiff bones, like the sound of endless waves crashing into each other and breaking, just like the waves in his memory that played in the background of the female DJ every night.
He left the beach step by step like a robot.
The dim afterglow painted his back.
The harbor was empty, without the cruise ship named Costa, and without the female DJ named Lin Zhifan with a beautiful voice.
At some point, when the afterglow completely buried the boy's facial features in shadow, a newspaper suddenly appeared in his head.
Before it all began, at the beginning of those nights.
He searched for the answer in the English newspaper in his parents' room, an old, accidentally pulled-out newspaper.
In that black and white photo, there is a huge cruise ship with thick smoke.
Wen Lueyan's pupils suddenly constricted, and then he ran with all his strength.
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