Niu Ying
Chapter 39 Internal Strife Part Two
Zhao Di's disappearance had already put the crowd on edge, and now the dwindling hope of rescue was driving everyone mad.
Those who had previously fawned over Anna now surrounded her, their words sharp enough to devour her. Sun Jiaojiao threw a tantrum, grabbing Anna's clothes and refusing to let go, even tearing the collar of Anna's silk dress. Jia Wenjun quickly stepped forward to stop her.
"Everyone, stop!" Jia Wenjun blocked Anna, pulling Sun Jiaojiao's hand away from Anna's dress.
Anna had known that this group of headless flies would collide and bite each other in a confined space. She was no pushover either, pointing at Sun Jiaojiao and sneering, "Do you think I'd risk my tens of millions on this ship just to kill you all? What good would that do me? Don't overestimate the value of your lives. I dare say I'm richer than anyone on this ship. Why would I give up my comfortable life to die in the sea with you? I don't want to die any more than any of you!"
Sun Jiaojiao pointed at her, "Who else but you has the ability to raise the anchor and let the ship drift away?"
Anna grabbed Jia Wenjun, who was standing in front of her, "Last night, I taught Gong Dalong and Jia Wenjun how to raise and drop anchor."
As soon as she said that, everyone's gaze turned to Jia Wenjun.
"Was it you?" Li Li, a colleague, was the first to question her.
"Why would you do this?" Teacher Lin rushed over and grabbed Jia Wenjun's clothes, his previous kindness and patience gone.
Jia Wenjun didn't expect Anna to pass the buck to her at this time. She felt wronged and angry at being stabbed in the back. "It wasn't me! After I finished checking the control room last night, Lao Hu and Big Brother Bai were still drinking. If I had raised the anchor then, they would have heard it. After I came down, I went to the stern with Zhao Di, and then I felt sick and fell asleep. I didn't go back to the control room at all. Anna did teach me and Manager Gong some simple operations, but that was to help us check the situation on the ship. It doesn't mean I raised the anchor."
Sun Jiaojiao said sharply, "Gong Dalong was busy stealing someone all night. Only the three of you know how to raise the anchor. If it wasn't you, who else could it be?"
Jia Wenjun felt that they were just looking for a scapegoat to vent their anger, and hadn't thought about whether the whole thing made sense. They just wanted to beat someone to death, without considering whether the other party was wronged.
She told herself to calm down, took a deep breath, and stared at Sun Jiaojiao, saying in a deep voice, "I'll say it again, it wasn't me. Although Anna taught me and Manager Gong, it doesn't mean that only the three of us know how to operate the ship's equipment. Besides, if I raised the ship's anchor and caused the ship to run aground, what good would it do me other than die here?"
Li Li had seen Jia Wenjun's ruthlessness before and knew that she was not a simple person.
At this moment, all the previous events suddenly formed a closed loop in her mind. She seemed to have figured out some difficult secret and jumped out excitedly, saying, "The benefit is that you finally got rid of your enemy, Zhao Di. You've always resented her for stealing your boyfriend, so you instigated Anna to take the yacht, and used the property fee lottery to get on the yacht, which led to this event. You deliberately rigged the system so that Zhao Di also won the prize. We are all pawns in your plan. You pushed Zhao Di into the sea when you went to the stern with her last night. You didn't plan to go back alive when you boarded the ship, so you wanted us all to be buried with you, right!"
Since she came to this company, Jia Wenjun had always been one step ahead of her, and still acted like she wasn't competing.
The promotion channels in the company were so narrow, and they were all in competition. Li Li relied on her relationship with Gong Dalong, thinking that she could suppress Jia Wenjun, but she didn't expect that Gong Dalong couldn't do anything about it, and kept using Jia Wenjun as an excuse, just not promoting her.
Over the years, she had secretly given Jia Wenjun a lot of trouble, but she hadn't seen Jia Wenjun have any reaction. She didn't expect that this woman was settling all the scores with them here.
Li Li felt hatred in her heart, and wished that every word she said was stained with blood.
After listening to Li Li finish in one breath, everyone gasped.
Looking at Li Li's "brilliant" look, Jia Wenjun really wanted to press her head into the sea and let her go down to find Zhao Di to see if she was in the sea.
She was upright and not afraid of shadows, without a trace of panic, and retorted word by word: "Do you want me to remind you that Manager Gong and you were the ones who confirmed the event with Anna, and you were the ones who determined the lottery box and the list. I didn't want to come before, but you and Manager Gong asked me to draw, and Anna saw it at the time. You expressed dissatisfaction with Zhao Di before, so can I also put your previous rhetoric back on you?"
Li Li's face turned red with anger: "You have a guilty conscience, a thief calling to catch a thief!"
"If you have the ability, show some real evidence. If you can't, then shut up. The ship is already like this. If you don't want to die, hurry up and think of a way to save yourself, instead of launching baseless personal attacks."
"Everyone, calm down, let's talk nicely." Bai Ma Shan stepped forward: "Time is life. Our top priority now is to find a way to save ourselves, not to waste our energy fighting among ourselves."
"It's easy for you to say. We're surrounded by the sea, without even a marker, and there's no signal. What can we do except wait for death?" Sun Jiaojiao stroked her belly. Her son hadn't come out yet, and she might not have a chance to see him again. How could she calm down?
Lü Maowang suddenly kicked towards the cabin compartment, the loud noise silencing everyone.
"Alright, stop with the depressing talk. If anyone says 'die' again, I'll be the first to kill him." Lü Maowang's asymmetrical, bulging eyes glared at everyone, making them shudder.
No one complained anymore, not even Sun Jiaojiao.
The atmosphere on the ship became even more oppressive. When they first boarded the ship yesterday, everyone felt extremely lucky to have won a spot on the ship. Now they all wished they could slap themselves hard. What kind of luck was this? This was extremely bad luck. What bad luck had they encountered to win this ticket and embark on this adventure with a slim chance of survival?
Of course, Jia Wenjun didn't want to die here either. She couldn't let her parents suffer the pain of losing a child. She still had to pass the exam and stay by her parents' side for the rest of her life, so she must find a way to save herself.