Chapter 112
Li Mu approached the man in the bathtub, tapped his shoulder with the machete in his hand, and heard the gurgling sound in his throat, knowing that he had not had water for a long time, so he took out water from his wrist bag and wanted to feed him.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, Qiao Sheng put it under the man's feet, wanting to drink it himself. This made it hard not to suspect that he had some disease, what if he suddenly took a sip.
Li Mu pulled out the cork, put the water in the end of the bathtub, stood up and took two steps back, and the man in the bathtub moved, struggling to sit up and reach the glass bottle under his feet. I don't know how long he was thirsty, but he just gulped down the whole bottle.
"Is there any food?" The man in the bathtub asked after drinking the water, panting.
The meat buns they prepared were all placed in Qiao Sheng's bag. Li Mu's bag only had some sweet potatoes just in case
. He took a piece and handed it over. He started to gobble it up without even peeling the skin. After eating, he asked Li Mu for a bottle of water. Only after eating and drinking enough did he have the energy to explain the situation to them.
He is the captain of this ship, Lou Ping'an. Their container ship is responsible for transporting supplies to various islands. Due to the rise in water levels, the entire area where humans live has now become an island. Only a few large islands have been built into cities, and there is still modernization inside.
However, due to the bad climate, some small and medium-sized islands are no longer suitable for human habitation. Some smart ones built their own ships and went to sea to find large islands to save themselves, while some died on the islands.
"You are the ones who built their own ships to find large islands? Which small island did you come from?" Lou Ping'an spoke more and more weakly.
Li Mu did not answer his question, but asked him what happened, why, and whether he was the only one on the ship.
Lou Ping'an was terrified and panicked for a moment, and then screamed. It took him a long time to calm down and answer their questions.
It turned out that the ship encountered a series of attacks by pirates and sea monsters. After two rounds of attacks, the few crew members on the ship were all gone. He himself escaped because he hid deep enough.
"Pirates and sea monsters? When did you encounter them? In this sea area?" Qiao Sheng asked quickly.
"The pirates attacked five days ago and killed most of the crew members. Not long after they robbed the ship, the monsters came up and the remaining crew members and pirates were all gone." Lou Ping'an shuddered as he recalled the situation at that time.
Qiao Sheng and the other two looked at each other and exchanged glances. They felt that what this guy said was not true. If he had not eaten or drunk for five days and had been hiding in this bathtub, he should not be in this state now.
When Li Mu gave him water, he was still able to sit up and hook the bottle of water under his feet. If he really had no food or water for five days, he should not be able to lift his hands.
However, they were not prepared to wipe out the Viper in the current situation, so Li Mu continued to get information, such as whether there was anything in the container on the ship, how many pirates there were, and what the sea monster looked like.
Lou Ping'an answered unclearly, saying that he had been hiding in the toilet in the captain's room and had no idea. He did not see how many pirates there were. The sea monster came and went in a hurry, killed everyone and ran away, and he did not see what it looked like.
Li Mu saw that he was dry-mouthed, so he handed him a bottle of water and added something to it while rummaging through the bag. Lou Ping'an thought he had fooled these three foreigners, until he drank the water and felt dizzy. Just before he fainted, he realized that these despicable foreigners were not as stupid as he thought.
"Hey, why did this guy faint?" Xia Beibei was still confused.
Li Mu and Qiao Sheng tied Lou Ping up with a rope, stuffed hay into his mouth, and then looked at the bewildered Xia Beibei.
"Didn't we communicate just now? Don't you also doubt this person's identity?" Qiao Sheng tilted his head and looked at her.
"When did you talk? How did I doubt him?" Xia Beibei looked innocent.
"It was just the look in our eyes just now. Your look didn't mean that there would be problems with this person in the future. We have to be careful. Didn't the meaning of shaking your head slightly and looking outside the door mean that we should withdraw if it doesn't work?" Qiao Sheng suddenly felt as if the communication had failed.
"Ah? You and Li Mu were looking at each other. I thought you two were in love. The first question mark in my eyes was to ask you two why you didn't distinguish between occasions. The meaning of shaking my head and looking outside the door was that you two have no bottom line. I can't bear to watch it." Xia Beibei accidentally said what was in her heart.
Qiao Sheng raised his hand and gave her a slap in the face, saying that she really lived by luck. How could such a simple communication be misunderstood? And did she treat them as fools and run to show off in front of NPCs.
Xia Beibei immediately hugged Qiao Sheng's arm and shook it wildly, saying that she was wrong. She also whispered in Qiao Sheng's ear that her eyes were firm at that time, and the problem was Li Mu, who had a spring in his eyes and a flirtatious look. It was his wrong expression that caused her to misunderstand.
Qiao Sheng decided to ignore this silly girl and focus on his business.
After discussing with Li Mu, it seems that this Lou Ping An might be a pirate. The real captain and crew on the ship were killed. As for the other pirates, maybe there really was a sea monster and they were eaten.
"Then why can't this Lou Ping An be a sea monster, hiding here to fish and enforce the law, waiting for other players to take the bait, and then eating them one by one. His current appearance is his own illusion. Do you think my idea is reasonable?" Xia Beibei suddenly raised his hand and made a comment.
Li Mu's eyebrows slightly raised. Fortunately, the person who was thinking this way was not his student, otherwise he would be easily pissed off.
Qiao Sheng actually listened to it and thought it might be possible. Don't underestimate Jinli's strange divergent thinking. It might be possible.
After discussing with Li Mu, they decided to go into the cabin and look around. If they really couldn't find anyone else, they would collect the containers outside and leave without considering the completion of the mission. The most important thing was to keep people alive
. Before leaving the bathroom, he took a look at Lou Pingan lying in the bathtub. Li Mu was worried and poured some water with knockout drugs into his mouth. If this guy was really a sea monster, the rope might not be able to trap him. He still had to drink more drugs.
When they passed by the containers while looking for the ship's door, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu walked straight ahead without looking around. Xia Beibei looked around and even reached out to touch the containers, and then she found a new bug. The containers can be directly put into the bag, but only one container can be put into one compartment.
The three of them stopped and decided to put away all the containers on the deck first. Qiao Sheng's 15-compartment bag was full of storage boxes, which was equivalent to 375 containers. Li Mu's 30-compartment waist bag was filled with 20 medium-sized storage boxes and 10 large storage cabinets, which could hold 1,100 containers.
The containers on the deck were stacked high, possibly tens of thousands of them. The two of them discussed whether to fill them up and then go back to make some large storage cabinets to store them.
Just as they were worrying, Xia Beibei jumped out and said that she could at least store 5,000 containers here. When she said this, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu all had question marks on their faces.
"My shoulder bag has 80 compartments, and this small coin purse has 30 compartments. I only use two of them. One compartment is for water. Didn't Sister Qiao say that I don't need to worry about food? The other compartment is for the elevator that Sister Qiao just took back. The rest is all stored in my lockers. There are not so many at home, so I made them now. Wait for me to calculate how many can be packed." Xia Beibei counted on her fingers to figure out the number of containers that can be packed. "
Don't count it, 6480, plus the 1375 we have, more than 7,800. The containers here should be over 10,000, and we can take away more than half." Li Mu gave accurate data.
"Let Beibei choose, we will follow her to collect the boxes, or Li Mu, you can collect them yourself, forget about me, this wave depends on Jinli and Ou Huang, come on, both of you." Qiao Sheng had a clear self-awareness at this moment, and he was not willing to take the blame at all.
Li Mu had a fishbone bracelet on his hand, so it was not a big deal to pick some containers, but it was not too far from Qiao Sheng and the others.
Xia Beibei picked the boxes as she pleased, one moment the top one, the next the bottom one. The elevator that was put away before was really the right one to bring, and it was put to use right away.
However, the one at the bottom was really difficult to collect, and it would affect the progress of the two of them collecting the boxes, so they simply marked it, and when Li Mu had collected almost all of them, they would move the top one down and collect the one at the bottom.
Soon Qiao Sheng's bag was full, Xia Beibei handed her her coin purse, and the two continued to select and collect. When they collected less than 8,000 boxes and half of them were collected, it was time for lunch. The three of them took three storage boxes from their bags and used them as stools.
Because the weather was too cold, the food in the bags had already cooled down. The three of them lit two fires on the open space on the deck. Qiao Sheng took out the frying pan that Li Muxin had made a few days ago and started heating the meat buns. A small iron pot was hung on the other fire, and meatballs with black fish were cooked inside.
The soup in the pot was specially cooked before, and the fish meatballs were also cooked and frozen. Now put them on the fire and heat them up to make a bowl of hot soup.
After the meat buns were heated, they were broken off for the Arctic fox and the snowy owl to eat first, and the remaining three people shared them. After the black fish meatball soup was cooked, each person had a big bowl, and all the black fish meatballs were divided. The remaining soup was used by Qiao Sheng to cook shark meatballs, which were for the Arctic fox and the snowy owl.
While heating, Qiao Sheng thought that he kept hearing the sound of the cassock cubs howling. Li Mu said that she thought too much. They were not close to the stern of the ship now, and the smell would not float away. The key point was that the family had left food for those animals, so there was no need to worry.
Qiao Sheng was relieved, and he put shark meatball soup in iron basins for the Arctic fox and the snowy owl, and the three of them began to eat peacefully. They were
still studying while eating, because Li Mu had to go to the bathroom to give Lou Ping An some more medicine, and it would be bad if the medicine was not strong enough and he woke up.
The Arctic fox and the snowy owl ate very quickly, and Qiao Sheng had just started eating for a while when the two animals stopped. Qiao Sheng saw that there were three meatballs in each iron basin, and the soup was drunk up.
The snowy owl also used its beak to put all the food in the Arctic fox's bowl into its own bowl. The three people sitting there watching thought that the snowy owl had successfully snatched food. The Arctic fox was not one to eat nothing, so it didn't resist at all.
The crowd waiting to see the fight was soon attracted by the actions of the actor Xue.