The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 114: The Wretched Duo

The Ghost Ship vanished, leaving the makeshift plank bridge suspended outside the ship’s railing, disappearing silently just as it had appeared.

Just like when it came, without a sound, Qinghan was on the other side of the deck, yet didn’t hear a sound of its departure.

I hurriedly looked towards the sea surface below the ship, but unfortunately, the fog obscured the view. I tied a rope, climbed down to take a closer look, but there were no passengers fallen in the water. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

When the captain was transferring passengers, he had given them life jackets to prevent anyone from accidentally falling into the water, considering the plank bridge wasn’t wide.

So as long as someone fell into the water, even a dead person, we would be able to find them on the sea surface.

In just a few minutes, it was impossible for anyone who fell in the water to drift out of our video range.

This sea area was calm and serene, even humans couldn’t drift far, surely a giant ship would move even slower.

"Strange, could it have come just to pick up people?" I thought my guess was reasonable, the Ghost Ship drifted along not slowly, it didn’t leave early, didn’t leave late, it filled with passengers and then left.

If people on the ship found it moving, it would have made a sound. Even if the captain discovered it, he would have used a loudspeaker to notify us.

Unless they didn’t know, or as the ship was leaving, they had already...

Now the whole sea area was left with just the three of us and the cruise ship. The elite man was half-dead, with no doctor to attend to him, who knows if he’d survive until the fog cleared.

"Hey—is there anyone up there??"

As I was pondering whether to suggest to Qinghan that he paddle a lifeboat with me to find a way out, I heard a shout coming from below the ship.

Moreover, the voice sounded very familiar, so I called back: "Wang Baishi?"

"It’s me, you ghost, save me~" A second voice rang out, making me shiver all over.

I untied a life buoy and threw it down, and heard an "Ouch" from below.

"She finally woke up for a moment, and you knocked her out again, damn, so heavy!" Amid Bi Shi’s cursing, there was the sound of effort being exerted.

She should have been putting a life buoy around the fainted He Su, but when a person is unconscious, they’re heavier; to prevent her from sinking into the sea, Bi Shi had to hold up her body.

I was puzzled, didn’t they have life jackets? Why did it seem like they were struggling to keep afloat to avoid sinking?

Qinghan threw down a rope to pull the two of them up one by one. Once up, I noticed that indeed neither of them were wearing life jackets.

"What’s going on here?" Up close, I found not only were they not wearing life jackets, but the clothes they originally wore were torn with large gashes, and the wounds on them were unhealed.

Judging by the shape of the wounds, they seemed to be claw marks, with three parallel lines and four parallel lines.

"There was something on that ship." Bi Shi simply tore off the sleeve that was almost torn into two, turning the long sleeves into short sleeves.

"The fight was so fierce, why didn’t we hear anything?" I looked at Qinghan, he looked puzzled too.

"I encountered them in the bottom of the ship, everyone else was in the hall. I found a hole at the bottom of the ship, and there was no time to go back up, so I crawled out through the hole." Bi Shi wrung the water out of her hair and exhaled, "Didn’t expect the distance to be so far, I swam for nearly an hour to get back."

Bi Shi’s stamina couldn’t be measured by regular standards, for her to swim an hour, how far must that distance have been? And dragging a sleeping He Su, truly not easy.

Qinghan suddenly asked, "Can you confirm the cruise ship’s position?"

I raised an eyebrow too: "Yeah, the sea’s all fog, I can’t even see the sea surface, how did you make your way back with such a distance?"

Bi Shi said without thinking, "There was a light on the mast."

Previously, the captain had hung a light on the mast to seek help from the outside world, but that light was rechargeable, and after so long, it had already run out of power.

We all looked up simultaneously to see above us, finding no light on the mast.

"Hmm?" Bi Shi walked a few steps away, adjusted the angle, and looked again, muttering to herself: "The light was quite big, maybe it just ran out of power."

"It ran out long ago, it was out since the middle of last night." I also looked up, the sky was dark, not a single star could be found.

"Have you heard of the Sea of Sunken Ships?" He Su, waking as if revived from the dead, suddenly spoke.

"Never heard of it." I shook my head immediately.

"Someone led the cruise ship here, someone must have altered the navigation data." He Su clutched her head, using a rare normal tone to speak.

"Can’t be, there were more than one person watching the control room, could they all have been hypnotized?" I said casually, but after speaking, the other three were staring at me without blinking.

"No, no, Qi Xiuyuan had no reason to lead the cruise ship here, there’s no benefit for her either." I waved my hands repeatedly.

"Who’s Qi Xiuyuan?" Bi Shi asked.

"Someone who can hypnotize." I replied simply.

"No, I know who did it." He Su’s gaze was unfriendly, clearly with anger in her eyes.

"Who?" Bi Shi and I asked simultaneously.

"Hmph, ..." He Su gave a cold laugh, then fell to the side, falling asleep again.

"Look what you’ve done!" I was so angry I wanted to kick Bi Shi.

"You just knocked her out, you have the face to blame me?" Bi Shi immediately retorted.

"So when you jumped off the ship, did anyone else notice?" Qinghan’s light question slipped in.

"Those scaredy-cats, no one dared to search the ship compartments below the deck, they all crowded in the first floor hall. Let’s put it this way, it wasn’t us who startled those things, it was those things planning to come up to feed, and we happened to run into it."

Bi Shi said fortunately her reaction was quick, she didn’t run back but kept rushing to the end, escaping to the very bottom of the ship, where she found that broken hole.

With so many people upstairs, those things would definitely go up. If she ran back, she’d be caught by those things.

"With things like that and in such numbers, heh, even the senior brother couldn’t save them; I guess, who knows how many times they’ve had a meal."

The passengers on the ship had no weapons, and that ship was in ruins too. Honestly, if those things could scratch Bi Shi and He Su into such a sorry state, tearing even life jackets, the others were no match and were indeed lambs to the slaughter.

Humans without tools or weapons, facing ferocious beasts, really stand little chance.

"But even if there were beasts on that ship, who piloted the ship away? If it didn’t leave, perhaps I could have saved them."

My doubts were shared by the others, Bi Shi mentioned when she got to the lower ship compartments, she went to check the ship’s power equipment, but found that those devices were long damaged, and it was intentionally vandalized, so that ship had no power at all, just like our cruise ship, it could only drift, couldn’t be started.