Niu Ying
Chapter 44 Doubt (II)
What was his purpose? Did he want to die together with everyone, or did he leave himself a way out?
Jia Wenjun breathed in the salty, humid air unique to the sea, forcing her mind to calm down. After some thought, she decided not to tell everyone about this for the time being. After all, this was just her guess, and she didn't know if White Horse Mountain had any accomplices.
She wanted to sneak into his room to look for clues before White Horse Mountain woke up. If she found evidence, she could catch him red-handed and leave him with no room for argument. Even if she didn't find anything, she could observe him first and reveal it at a suitable time.
White Horse Mountain and Lu Maowang were staying in room six, which happened to be another room that hadn't been flooded. She came out of room seven and crossed the corridor to room six.
Jia Wenjun looked around to make sure no one was there, pushed the door open, and then closed it halfway from the inside.
Although White Horse Mountain and Lu Maowang were both drunk on the deck last night, they had both come in to rest. They each occupied one of the two beds, and the quilts and pillows showed signs of having been used. Their belongings were still on the table.
Just now, to make room, everyone had moved White Horse Mountain and Lu Maowang's suitcases to the captain's cabin.
She could only temporarily rummage through the beds and the things on and under them to see if there were any clues.
At this time, Lu Maowang had already tied up the last bucket of water and brought it up. There must be more food in the storage room below that hadn't been salvaged, but he didn't have the strength to dive down again.
Sun Jiaojiao and Hu Sixiang had already taken the things that White Horse Mountain and Lu Maowang had salvaged to the deck in batches.
Anna, Old Man Wang, and Teacher Lin were counting them to determine everyone's daily rations.
Lu Maowang was soaked and wanted to go back to his room to dry off and change into dry clothes.
He had just reached the door of room six and was about to push it open when Jia Wenjun inside heard footsteps. She knew that at this critical moment, she should stand up, compose herself, and give Lu Maowang, who was about to come in, a pre-arranged excuse. But at this moment, she was attracted by something. She squatted down to look under the bed and found a soft thing hanging down in the gap between one of the beds and the wall.
Just then, she heard Lili stop Lu Maowang outside the door. They said something, and Lu Maowang left.
Jia Wenjun breathed a sigh of relief. The room was dimly lit, so she took out her phone, turned on the flashlight function, and saw that what was caught in the corner was a bright red lace panty.
This was a new ship. Anna said that it hadn't been out to sea before, which meant that this panty belonged to someone on the ship.
This was a room shared by two men, White Horse Mountain and Lu Maowang. Suddenly, a woman's panty appeared by the bed, which was strange no matter how you looked at it.
In connection with the scratch marks on White Horse Mountain's arm, Jia Wenjun shivered. If she wasn't mistaken, this panty should belong to Zhao Di.
Thinking this, she turned on the video recording function, crawled under the bed, stretched out her hand, and enduring the nausea, hooked the lace edge of the panty.
Caught red-handed, she could finally expose him.
At this time, Lili was speaking nicely, pulling Lu Maowang to accompany her to her flooded room to find something.
Lili also knew how to swim. Seeing that Lu Maowang and the others had salvaged so many things just now, she had the idea of going back to the cabin to find more things.
When she took her suitcase, she forgot to take her flashlight because she was packing in a hurry. It was a military-grade, three-proof flashlight. She used it for self-defense. It was an essential artifact that she had to bring when she went to unfamiliar places. It was of moderate length and could be used as a hammer or for lighting.
As long as she found the flashlight, she wouldn't be afraid when the ship was in complete darkness at night. Not only that, but she might also be able to use the flashlight's light to attract passing ships nearby so they could be rescued.
Lili wanted to take advantage of the fact that it was still daylight and there was still some light shining into the cabin to go in and find the flashlight and see if there was anything else useful.
Hearing that she had a three-proof flashlight, Lu Maowang was moved. There were still a lot of things in the storage room. It would definitely be better to have a flashlight than to grope around blindly.
Because of this, he agreed to go back to the room with Lili to find things.
The cabins weren't like the storage room. Even if they were flooded, the water wouldn't be so deep, so he didn't have to dive down again. But the further back they went toward the rooms at the stern, the deeper the water became.
When they reached the door of room two, stainless steel cups and some food packaging bags from the trash cans were floating in the room. These were all small packages of snacks that Lili had eaten yesterday.
Lu Maowang stood in waist-deep water, watching Lili trying to go in and find something. For safety's sake, he tied the safety rope around his waist and gave the other end of the rope to Lili, asking her to tie it around her waist.
Lu Maowang took a deep breath and plunged into the water. After a few minutes, he struggled to surface. "It's a little dark down there. Are you sure the flashlight is in this area?"
"I'm sure." Lili wasn't really sure where it was, but in order to get him to dive down again, she could only say that she was sure.
Lu Maowang plunged down again, and after half a minute, he struggled to get out of the water. Before his body was completely out of the water, he was already exhausted and sat down.
"Did you find it?"
"I didn't find it. I can't do it anymore. My eyes just won't listen. The sea salt is stinging them painfully."
When Lu Maowang said this, Lili noticed that his eyes were already red and swollen.
"Are your eyes okay?"
"I'm fine! Although I didn't find the flashlight, look what I found." Lu Maowang raised his hand, and hanging between his fingers was a child's swimming goggle. It was probably brought by Tao Tao because he thought he was going to swim in the water. He didn't know where it had been hung, but it had been washed here by the water.
This swimming goggle, which was meant for playing, could now be used as a tool for salvaging supplies.
But Lu Maowang tried it on several times and couldn't get it on.
"I can't get this over my head. It should fit you just right."
Lu Maowang handed the goggles to Lili, who tried them on and they fit perfectly.
With this, she had a better chance of finding the flashlight.
Without saying a word, Lili plunged into the water.