The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 182 - 183: Masters of Lying

In the morning, someone discovered a string of wet footprints on the deck, which is also the basis Captain Jack used to announce that an unidentified creature had boarded the ship.

The footprints stretched from outside the deck railing to the cabin entrance, but nobody knows where it went next.

Captain Jack has already dispatched people with instruments to conduct a thorough search on the ship.

But the little creature may have learned to ’wipe itself off’, as the water stains on its body disappeared after entering the cabin.

Although Captain Jack doesn’t believe in ghosts, he seems to think that the little creature and I are in cahoots, so he sent people to lie in ambush in my room.

I couldn’t find the little creature outside, so I had to return to my room and wait, with Jack’s men hiding in the wardrobe and bathroom.

As a result, they waited in vain all day; the little creature didn’t come to me. By evening, the guards on the deck heard something jump into the water, but they only saw splashes and nothing else.

The crew, somewhat neurotic from being tormented by the little creature, suggested throwing me into the sea.

But Captain Jack didn’t agree because we were already close to our destination, and we’d enter the target sea area by morning.

Bi Shi’s ability to gather information surprised me. She secretly told me and Qinghan during dinner that the ship had another mission.

Picking up Meng Qingyu was just incidental, and they hadn’t originally planned to rescue others; we were an additional ’bonus’.

Therefore, their plans changed, and the upper echelons of ’Shield’ requested Captain Jack to take us to his second meeting point.

The team leader and Guan Hai woke up gradually over the past few days and were interrogated separately. They were very cooperative and thus weren’t physically punished.

However, from Captain Jack’s reaction, they definitely withheld some information, such as about the Undersea City.

Having a fake Meng Qingyu is a big scoop for ’Shield’ to chew on for several days; they would verify his identity and try to find out who he really is.

The team leader, Lu Xiaodao, and Guan Hai all reported consistently, saying that Qinghan and I were temporarily taken into the jungle by the fake Meng Qingyu, posing as enthusiastic adventure university professors and his assistant.

As for Bi Shi and He Su, they only knew they were cruise passengers, seemingly quite wealthy.

Their feigned ignorance was spot on; it would be too fake to say the fake Meng Qingyu didn’t know who He Su was when he joined forces with He Su’s subordinates to lead the cruise into the Sea of Sunken Ships.

But Meng Qingyu disclosed little information to the team leader and the others, so they didn’t know He Su’s identity, which is understandable.

As the leader of the operation, the fake Meng Qingyu didn’t need to explain every detail to his underlings.

They only knew that the fake Meng Qingyu insisted on taking He Su along, and Bi Shi wanted to protect He Su, so they went together.

The fake Meng Qingyu is dead, and now only she can tell Captain Jack what He Su’s value is; everything depends on her waking up.

Qinghan, Bi Shi, and I chose to remain silent, while the leader, Lu Xiaodao, and Guan Hai opted for half-truths; Captain Jack’s constructed event course probably looked like this: the fake Meng Qingyu wanted to intercept ’Shield’, led the team to the island, and accidentally encountered four survivors of a shipwreck.

For some unknown reason, He Su got the fake Meng Qingyu’s attention, so he half-forced and half-coaxed us four into the jungle.

Along the way, we encountered another treasure-hunting team, namely Old Shi and his crew.

The two teams supported each other to reach White Jade City, and in a vicious fight with the city’s monsters, Old Shi unfortunately contracted an unknown virus.

At the time, the others didn’t foresee him going berserk suddenly and he launched an indiscriminate attack during the night while everyone was asleep.

In the end, Old Shi was killed, but the fake Meng Qingyu also was sadly wounded and infected.

The team leader and Guan Hai relocated everything that happened on the ship to within White Jade City.

The remaining people, fearing virus spread, cremated the deceased on site.

As for Cong Zhibo, the leader said he only ate some poisonous mushrooms after getting separated from the others in the jungle and was discovered this way.

Qinghan ate too little, so he woke up by himself, while Cong Zhibo’s greediness makes it uncertain if he will wake up.

Captain Jack could certainly investigate, as now I have records and an identity, listing me as Qinghan’s assistant.

No direct or indirect contact with either the real or fake Meng Qingyu, nor with the wealth heiress He Su or Bi Shi.

You could say that before boarding the cruise, we were complete strangers.

The only irregularity was that Qinghan, Bi Shi, and I didn’t have boarding records.

When Captain Jack came to inquire about this, Bi Shi irritably said that she and He Su were in a secret lover relationship. They were in a cold war, and He Su, wanting to surprise her and reconcile, sent people to take her for a vacation on the cruise.

At that time, she was traveling and unwinding in another place and befriended a couple who were also traveling. Seeing someone come to pick her up, she casually invited the couple to join her.

Bi Shi said she couldn’t disclose her real name and identity, with a firm attitude, her look and expression seemed to say, ’Sorry, my identity is very sensitive’. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

A secret affair between a young wealthy woman and a cold-blooded female assassin?

A forbidden love between a billionaire heiress and an icy female agent?

In an instant, I imagined countless clickbait online novel titles that might infect your device upon click.

Captain Jack’s capacity to digest this was way better than mine; he didn’t show any sign of surprise or absurdity, nodded, and politely asked us to return to our rooms for rest.

He’ll surely verify Bi Shi’s tale, and I worried a little that Bi Shi might be exposed.

Depending upon each other, if one link is proven false, other aspects may be completely overturned.

The meticulously crafted testimony by the leader and the others would then go to waste?

Luckily, we survived this night in peace, with Captain Jack not coming to trouble us.

The following morning, Captain Jack began arranging the reception task, and his attitude towards Bi Shi subtly changed.

I guess he had confirmed that He Su was indeed a wealthy lady, also trusting Bi Shi’s ’secret lover’ identity.

I was just curious why Captain Jack would believe such a ’bizarre melodramatic’ story.

But I didn’t plan to really probe these insider details; instead, Bi Shi spoke up on her own, saying she eavesdropped on sailors guarding He Su discussing that young girls were always around He Su, but they’ve never seen her interact with men. That longstanding subordinate of hers even complained to his friends that his boss didn’t seem interested in men.

The most important piece of information was that all trusted subordinates knew He Su was going to meet someone very important during this sea trip.

Hence, people fooled by appearances believed they saw the truth, like tabloid reporters connecting dots in photos.