Chapter 1 Someone Wants Her Dead

Jia Wenjun looked at these people, gritting her teeth. Someone wanted her dead, but she wouldn't let them get their wish.

But if she insisted they go down there now, they definitely wouldn't. So she had to do the opposite.

She took a deep breath. "I've already told you there are drugs on the ship. Believe it or not, it's up to you. Leaving aside whether everyone on board can clear their names when the police arrive, maybe someone else will come and silence us all before the police even get here. Anyway, we all die together, so I have nothing to lose."

After she finished speaking, she tightened the dog leash, pulled Dahuang, and turned to leave.

Seeing her suddenly turn back, the people who had been shouting they didn't believe her suddenly fell silent.

People only care when their own interests are at stake. What if there really were drugs on the ship? Would they be silenced by drug lords?

Thinking of this, it didn't seem so difficult to go down for a look.

Hu Sixiang looked at Anna. "Sister Anna, since she says you're hiding drugs, for everyone's safety, why don't you take us down there to take a look?"

Anna glared at Jia Wenjun's back. Now that she was being pressured by everyone, she could only grit her teeth and say, "Fine, I, Anna, am not afraid of scrutiny. Let's go look."

Anna took the key, thinking that once they were down there, she would lock Jia Wenjun inside and never let her out again.

Bai Ma Shan stopped Jia Wenjun and told her to lead everyone in through the way she had come out.

Jia Wenjun knew her plan was finally working.

She nodded. "Okay, follow me."

Lili, who was standing at the back, suddenly said, "I don't think we should all go down there with her. We need to leave someone on top. I volunteered to stay up here just now. And I twisted my ankle when I was collecting shells, so I can't walk."

Hao Jiening pouted. "I twisted my ankle too. I don't want to go down."

Bai Ma Shan knew what they were thinking. Afraid that Anna would find an excuse not to let them see, he said sternly, "This concerns our lives. It won't take more than a few minutes to go down. Lili, if you can't walk, stay up here. The rest of you, follow me."

Hearing him say this, the others stopped objecting.

Except for Sun Jiaojiao, Wang Dalong, and Lu Maowang, who was lying down and couldn't walk, everyone else went.

Jia Wenjun walked in the front, Bai Ma Shan was second, Anna was third, followed by Hu Sixiang, Old Man Wang, Hao Jiening, and Teacher Lin, who was holding onto Nao Nao, bringing up the rear. The group went in one after another.

"Shouldn't we take some kind of weapon for self-defense? What if she set a trap inside?" Hao Jiening held her son's hand, looking worried.

"If she dares to play tricks, I'll kill her." Hu Sixiang, who was walking in front, was already holding a piece of wood in his hand, and said fiercely.

Dahuang barked at Hu Sixiang a few times. Hu Sixiang shook his fist at the dog. "Damn it, even a beast dares to bark at me. I'll slaughter you."

Dahuang seemed to understand, and stopped barking, sticking close to Jia Wenjun.

At this time, the sky outside was already getting dark, and the tide was slowly rising, but the passage was still passable.

Jia Wenjun quickly led them towards the bathroom.

She had seen Anna shake the drugs off that small carpet. Those things were hidden in those black plastic tubes. She was going to expose Anna's crimes.

Anna watched Jia Wenjun lead the way in front, suppressing the fire in her heart. That troublemaking woman, she would deal with her sooner or later.

If the news of the drugs got out, it would be a dead end for her anyway. If she died, these people would have to be buried with her.

The group followed Jia Wenjun into the secret passage. To enter the secret compartment, they had to go through the passage behind the hidden door in the toilet. This passage was not wide, and only one person could pass at a time. Everyone entered in a line.

Walking into the secret passage, Jia Wenjun took out her phone. The battery was only at twenty-seven percent. She hadn't wanted to use it for lighting before, but now it was too dark inside, and she couldn't see anything, so she had to use her phone's power.

A group of people followed her footsteps, and the group slowly groped their way into the secret compartment.

Teacher Lin looked back from time to time as he walked. "There are so many twists and turns in here. If we locked the door outside just now, wouldn't we all be trapped inside?"

Hao Jiening tightened her grip on her son's hand. "Teacher Lin, don't say such scary things. We're already inside. And Lili is guarding outside. Who would lock the door outside? You're just scaring yourself."

Teacher Lin quickly said, "Right, right, right. Jia Wenjun is already inside. Who would lock the door outside?"

The secret passage suddenly widened, and a table and chair that had fallen to the ground appeared.

"This is where I saw Anna taking drugs. She hid some of the drugs in that small carpet." Jia Wenjun pointed to the small carpet, about the size of a washcloth, under the table, and bent down to pick it up. She wanted to pick it up to show everyone the powder in the black tubes on the carpet, but when her hand touched the carpet, she found that the carpet was wet. It had been soaked by the tide, and there was no way there could be any powder on it.

"Spreading rumors is easy, huh?" Anna said with a look of displeasure, "Where are the drugs?"

"Where are there any drugs here?" Old Man Wang picked up the carpet with his hand. The carpet, soaked in seawater, was still dripping water. One side of the carpet was badly damaged.

"This carpet has been soaked in seawater. The things inside can't be found, but there are still carpets in the secret compartment. There must be more there." The reason why Jia Wenjun was so sure was because when she first entered the secret compartment, she touched a layer of white powder on the rolled-up carpet. At the time, Jia Wenjun didn't know what it was, until she saw Anna pour out something from the carpet, and guessed that those black plastic strips in the carpet were all filled with drugs.

Anna gritted her teeth. "Jia Wenjun, you're going to pay the price for framing me like this."

"I'm not framing you. You'll know if it's true as soon as you look." Jia Wenjun clenched her fists. It would be a lie to say she wasn't afraid, but she couldn't back down at this time.

Everyone arrived at the secret compartment. Bai Ma Shan and Old Man Wang also turned on their phone flashlights. The light from the three phones finally made the place look brighter.

Lili kept looking down from the deck. She had only heard the voices before, but now that the lights were on below, she could see the scene inside.

In the space below, there were many rolls of carpet with packaging. Some had rolled into the corners because of the tilting of the ship.

The bundles of carpets were scattered and stacked, some long and some short. The long ones were several meters long, and the short ones were less than a meter. The outside was all wrapped in waterproof packaging bags, and only a few bundles with torn packaging bags revealed the true appearance of the woolen carpets.

Anna looked at Jia Wenjun coldly. "Didn't you say there were drugs in my carpet? Then find them."

Jia Wenjun squatted down, opened the back of the carpet, and pointed to the rows of black plastic strips neatly arranged on it. "The drugs are hidden here. You can see them if you cut them open."

She had seen Anna cut open the black plastic strip on that small carpet and pour out the white powder.

Everyone lowered their heads to look at the packaged carpet at their feet.

"Can drugs be hidden inside this thing?" Old Man Wang didn't understand.

Hu Sixiang came to the carpet and looked at it carefully. He used to work in a carpet factory. Even in the dim light, he could recognize the patterns and logos on the carpet at a glance. Anna said that the carpet was produced in her factory, which meant that he had been working in Anna's factory all along?