Li Ke's initial thought was to cut off their food and weapons first, then capture the person in charge and negotiate terms.
The moonlight faded, and suddenly there was movement on the boat opposite. Li Ke saw many people walking around the side of the boat, seemingly trying to pull something out of the water.
Looking through the binoculars, Li Ke saw rows of iron chains being slowly hoisted up. Hanging on the chains were huge nets containing all sorts of furniture or packages whose contents were unclear.
Below, a submarine appeared, and people crawled out of it, climbing up the iron chains onto the ship. They had chains on their hands and feet.
Looking up, besides the boatmen who had pulled them aboard, there was a circle of guards holding machine guns, aiming them at them.
Looking at this scene, Li Ke thought of the many chains hanging on the side of his own ship and wondered if anyone else would be boarding, and when.
She had taken over all the guards on this floor. When someone came up, there was no one to help them. All the people on the other side had already climbed onto the ship and were being escorted inside by the guards.
Li Ke took a closer look and found that the locked-up people were of several races, but there were also quite a few people of Asian descent. There were more than twenty people in total, and none of them were familiar to her.
Without lingering any longer, Li Ke changed direction, planning to go to the cockpit and captain's cabin first to settle things with these people before collecting the other items.
According to the information she had gathered earlier, there were nearly 7,000 people on the ship, most of whom were low-level laborers who were locked in the hold every day and only released when they were needed to do something.
These laborers included both captured people and ordinary citizens. Li Ke had to get everything he could think of within the limited time available.
As dawn broke, Li Ke, who had successfully emerged from the captain's cabin, headed towards the cargo hold dressed in crew clothes. "It gets light so fast at sea," Li Ke thought to himself, his steps unwavering.
Meanwhile, underwater on the giant ship where Li Ke was, Niu Dazhuang, who had been working for twelve hours, had been ordered to gather with the others and wait in line to enter the submarine. Many net bags were already hanging on the iron chains.
A guard began pulling on one of the smooth ropes, waiting for the people above to receive a signal to retrieve the supplies. Once the supplies were retrieved, they would allow the laborers to enter the submarine and return to the surface.
After pulling the signal rope three times and waiting for five minutes, the chain still didn't move. The people underwater weren't anxious; they just pulled the signal rope again. Sometimes, the people above would slack off.
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