Chapter 109 Golden Hook Fishing - Twenty-Three Drifting Trip
It turns out these people really wanted to kill him.
Lin Xingmian's eyes darkened. He was now genuinely curious about who had such a deep grudge against his family and was not afraid of the power of the Rong and Lin families, so they actually wanted to kill him.
Successfully rescuing Xingmian meant taking a step closer to a successful escape. However, Xu Zhiyu couldn't relax until she was completely safe. Her palms were sweating as she held her younger brother's hand. She led the way, and he followed behind. At that moment, her mind began to rehearse all sorts of possible scenarios, and the more she thought about it, the more nervous she became.
She thought that no matter what happened, she had to protect him.
To get from the basement on the east side to the emergency exit on the first floor on the west side, one has to go through the crowd in the lobby. If she takes Xingmian there, she will definitely be discovered. So, there is only one way to get him there smoothly—to make sure no one can see him!
Are you ready?
At the top of the stairs, Xu Zhiyu mouthed a question to Lin Xingmian, who nodded and said, "Don't be afraid."
His words always reassured people, even in such dangerous situations.
She smiled at him, and then—"snap!"—the entire ship was plunged into darkness!
"ah--"
"What happened? Why did the power suddenly go out?"
The people in the hall who were celebrating just a second ago were plunged into unknown panic, and some timid women screamed in fear.
In the nick of time, she immediately grabbed Lin Xingmian and started running wildly along the edge of the hall, shouting rhythmically amidst the noise: "Power outage! Power outage! I can't see anything, it's so annoying!"
Immediately after Xu Zhiyu's voice, other complaining voices rang out: "Hey, don't push! Someone stepped on my foot!"
"What's all the noise about? It's just a power overload trip, just turn it back on!" Chen Hui said impatiently.
After Chen Hui finished speaking, he took a deep drag of his cigarette. As he lowered his hand, he heard the woman in his arms cry out in a soft, sweet voice:
"Ouch—Brother Hui, your cigarette butt burned me!"
"Boss, boss!" A tall, thin man turned on his phone flashlight and squeezed towards Chen Hui from a distance, his face full of anxiety. "Boss, the lights have been on since evening, how could the power suddenly trip? Boss, should we send someone to the basement to check if there's anything wrong?"
Chen Hui roared, "Isn't there someone watching over that basement? Just call that person up and ask them!"
The young man who was originally watching people in the basement was now mixed in with the party crowd. However, the boss said he wanted to call him up for questioning, so he had no choice but to keep quiet and not dare to move, and quickly returned to the basement in the dark!
But when he rushed back to the basement amidst the chaos, his heart sank as he looked at the door that had fallen onto the lock. He scrambled to open the door, only to find it completely empty!
The guard was terrified, fearing that Boss Chen would blame him. Instead of reporting it immediately, he paced back and forth in the basement, trying to figure out how to cover it up or escape from the ship.
Unfortunately, just as he was walking up the stairs, the conversation between the skinny man and Chen Hui could be heard from upstairs. Chen Hui shouted angrily, "Does it really take this long to get from downstairs to upstairs? Call the doorman and give him a reply, stop dawdling!"
The commotion gradually spread. On the deck outside the hall, Lin Xingmian and Xu Zhiyu had already thrown their life-saving equipment into the water. The life pod opened instantly, and the two jumped in one after the other. The noise inside the hall grew louder and louder. No one had yet noticed the commotion outside the ship. Xu Zhiyu took out the scissors she had prepared in her pocket and frantically cut the rope connecting the ship and the life pod.
"I'll do it."
At the crucial moment, Lin Xingmian took the scissors from her sister. These were small pruning shears for potted plants, and they were quite difficult to use for cutting such a thick rope. Just as the rope was still hanging precariously, a shout came from the ship's railing above:
"Wow! It's here! The boss and the others are going to escape in the life pods!"
The man above shouted and turned around. When Xu Zhiyu heard what he said, her heart sank. This was it!
The person above immediately clung tightly to the rope and wouldn't let go. She hurriedly crawled into the life pod and rummaged through it to find some heavy objects, intending to throw them at him. However, the sea surface where the life pod was located was too far from the ship above, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't hit the person above!
After unlocking the lock and cutting the rope, and throwing several heavy objects, her arms were completely exhausted. Perhaps it was because the effects of the drug from the afternoon were kicking in again, Xu Zhiyu suddenly felt extremely weak all over. She slumped back into the life pod, her face filled with despair: "Are we finished?"
Lin Xingmian didn't say a word, but with all her might, she closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and angrily tore off the last thread of rope that she couldn't cut!
He took the oar from Xu Zhiyu's arms and pressed it against the ship's hull—creating a distance between the lifeboat and the ship.
The man on deck watched as their life pods drifted further and further away from the ship. He anxiously looked back to see why the captain and the others hadn't arrived yet!
He never expected that Chen Hui wasn't in the lobby at all, but in the basement!
Lin Xingmian looked at the person above, who anxiously turned around to go into the hall to call for help. Lin Xingmian raised the scissors, narrowed one eye, and pointed them at the person's back. Then, with a flick of her wrist, "whoosh!", the sharp sound of the scissors piercing flesh was followed by the sound of the scissors piercing flesh. The person on the deck clutched their shoulder and squatted down, screaming in agony.
This scene was witnessed by Xu Zhiyu, who had climbed out of the lifeboat after finding another oar. She opened her mouth in shock, looked at Lin Xingmian, then at the people above, swallowed hard, and said incredulously, "You have this skill? That's terrifying!"
Lin Xingmian's wet hair clung to his forehead. Without pausing for a moment, he found a suitable spot to sit and began rowing. He said to Xu Zhiyu, "Row first. We need to get further away from them. I only stabbed that guy in the shoulder. When Chen Hui finds him, he'll definitely tell Chen Hui that we ran from this side."
Xu Zhiyu nodded, extremely nervous, and quickly sat down at the entrance of the life pod, pursing her lips and paddling hard.
This type of life-saving capsule is an essential item for ship escape. It is made of special materials and is roughly oval in shape. After the hatch is closed, you can submerge in the water. The interior space is quite large and can accommodate about 4 to 5 people.
The two of them are now sitting at the cabin door, facing each other, each paddling forward with an oar.
After rowing for an unknown amount of time, Xu Zhiyu felt extremely weak. She swayed as she rowed, her nerves tense and her expression serious.
"Alright, that's enough. I can paddle by myself. You'll run out of strength if you keep going like this." Lin Xingmian looked at her sister's trembling arms, her heartache almost overflowing from her eyes.
Xu Zhiyu was indeed exhausted; she felt completely drained.
But she was still worried, and while crying, she paddled: "Luckily it's nighttime. If we paddle further away, waaaah... if we go further away they won't be able to see us. They have guns, I've seen them. I wanted to steal one but I didn't have the chance, waaaah. If we don't get further away now, I'm afraid they'll shoot you dead..."
"fool."
He looked at her, dressed in that little maid's tutu, her hair all messed up from her hasty escape, her face dirty, and she looked so pitiful crying.
"Stand up and look back. We're already quite far away. Even if they use an airship, they can't catch us. Besides, it's so dark on the sea now. We're in the dark while they're in the light. How can they find us?"
Upon hearing this, she stood up shakily, leaning on the cabin door. Looking back, she saw a small glimmer of light amidst the black expanse where the water met the sky. They had unknowingly rowed so far. Ah Yu took a deep breath and looked at Xing Mian, who was still rowing in front of her. Her tears fell like beads from a broken string.
Before she could finish crying, she inexplicably laughed again: "Was it exciting?"
This question caught Lin Xingmian off guard. He looked at his sister with concern and asked, "Are you alright?"
She wiped away her tears, sat cross-legged in the center of the life pod, and peered out at the clear sky. The sky seemed especially close to her on the sea, as if it were the ceiling of an ordinary room.
"To be honest, I never imagined I'd experience something like this in my life. It's like something out of a movie! My God, in broad daylight, in a society governed by law, how could I encounter something like this?! The clamor for violence is incomprehensible! I thought there were no more police in the world! I never imagined people could be this wicked? They actually want to kill you? Kill you? Really?"
Boss Xu gestured wildly at Lin Xingmian, repeatedly saying "this lifetime," vividly and concretely demonstrating the "unbelievable."
"Ha, ha... We managed to escape from all this, how about that? You're really something, Mr. Xu, aren't you?" She recalled the tension and danger of the journey and couldn't help but admire herself, but then she burst into tears again. "Waaah, it was so scary, so scary! You know what? I opened my eyes and was already in a bed I didn't recognize. I kept thinking, 'Is my first time going to be taken like that?' Waaah..."
Seeing his sister's alternating crying and laughing, Lin Xingmian realized that she was probably emotionally overwhelmed and had difficulty calming down.
The lifeboat had been rowed to a point where the ship was completely out of sight. His arms were sore and weak. He put down the oars, went to Xu Zhiyu's side, and pulled her into his arms, gently patting her back: "It's my fault. They were lying in ambush at my house for so long and I didn't even notice. I dragged you into such great danger."
Xingmian's embrace didn't carry the usual faint fragrance. He was soaked in sweat, and his clothes clung to his body, feeling icy cold in the night breeze. She rested her face against his collarbone, thankfully his body temperature was warm. Despite having gone through so much danger, Ah Yu felt only relief at this moment, nestled together.
"If you keep saying that, it's clearly because you're glad I got involved! Otherwise, who would save you? You really don't want to..." She stopped mid-sentence, suddenly looking up into the person's eyes, her voice choked with emotion.
"If I hadn't saved you today, you would have truly left me forever."
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