Chapter 42: This “wu” Is That “wu”
The storm still caught up with them.
The difference was that this time everyone on the ship was prepared; no cargo fell into the water, and no one was injured.
Well, Old Master Gu did vomit everywhere and bumped his head.
Wu Yong couldn’t wait to go out of the cabin as soon as the wind and waves subsided a bit. From his curious and excited expression, it was clear he definitely wanted to take the opportunity to get up close before the storm got closer. No one knew whether to say he was reckless or what, and no one knew where a tech geek like him got such curiosity from.
Lin Yan gave Wu Xie a look: Shall we follow along?
Wu Xie hesitated: Just say we’re going to persuade him to come back?
Lin Yan quietly gave him a thumbs up.
So before the others could react, they followed Wu Yong out, with Wu Xie shouting from his mouth: “Professor Gu, you all keep resting, we’ll go persuade him to come back! It’s too dangerous outside!”
After leaving the cabin, they saw Wu Yong clinging to the railing looking out. Wu Xie was startled and quickly went up to pull him back: “Are you reckless? Forgot how you just fell down?”
Wu Yong was still grinning at him: “It’s fine, this time I’ll hold on tight and won’t get swept away!”
At this moment, a crew member came from behind, saw them in a standoff here, quickly changed course, brought them three ropes, and gestured for them to tie them around their waists.
Wu Yong at least knew a bit, while Lin Yan and Wu Xie were fumbling around clumsily.
Taking advantage of everyone being busy and no one paying attention to them, Wu Xie gave Lin Yan a look: You mean there’s a clue outside?
Lin Yan hesitated, not sure if the ghost ship would come: I don’t know, but if I’m not mistaken, it should come over.
Wu Xie looked around: There’s only our one ship here, where would the clue come from? We can’t go into the water either; if we do, we don’t know where the waves would sweep us to.
Lin Yan thought, it seemed that ghost ship was found after he went into the water, just didn’t know who was rescued.
With a glance, Lin Yan saw Wu Yong, and a spark flashed—could the one rescued be this guy? But it made sense; he was the only reckless one on the whole ship! But was he rescued in the end? He remembered not being rescued, right? Surely they wouldn’t throw Wu Yong in again just to find the ghost ship?
Although they hadn’t interacted much, he still had a good impression of this curiosity-driven sunny tech geek Wu Yong. Since he’d already rescued him once and changed the plot, there was no need to let him go to his death again.
This wasn’t a novel; for him, this was reality. In a novel, a human life lost might just be two lines of text, but in reality, it’s vivid separations of life and death.
He hadn’t witnessed Da Kui falling from the Nine-headed Serpent Cypress into the sea of fire, but he was certain he didn’t want to see Wu Yong swept away by the waves to his death in the ocean.
So the question was, if they didn’t go into the water and didn’t let Wu Xie go find it himself, would the ghost ship still come?
How was the ghost ship found by the fishing boat in the original work?
Since it was definitely meant to give Wu Xie a clue, what method did they use to ensure Wu Xie could get on the ghost ship? Wu Xie had no tracker on him, so the only possibility was that the ghost ship could locate him.
On the ghost ship… could there be people? But wasn’t there only sea monkeys up there? If people were on it, how were they not discovered?
There’s only one answer.
The person on the ghost ship is the one Wu Xie is meant to save! In other words—he looked at Wu Yong, who had just tied his rope knot securely and was excitedly looking outward.
It seems Wu Yong’s name really isn’t that simple. If this “Wu” is the same as Wu Xie’s “Wu,” then it fully explains why Wu Xie finding him would lead to the ghost ship, and why this ghost ship so coincidentally has clues about his Third Uncle!
He is a Wu Family member lurking in A Ning’s foreign force!
Lin Yan’s gaze toward him instantly changed.
After figuring this out, when he looked at Wu Yong again carefully, he noticed something off.
Why, when he came out, did he bring a satellite phone and necessary equipment? He said it was curiosity, but he was fully prepared to go into the water. He might be waiting for an opportunity right now! An opportunity to take advantage of the storm to find the ghost ship and then let the ghost ship encounter Wu Xie!
Damn! When Third Uncle wrote this book, did he not think that far, or did he forget his own foreshadowing? He had no such impression.
Thinking of this, he tugged at Wu Xie, who was finding something to secure his waist rope to, and gestured with his eyes for him to look at Wu Yong.
“Don’t tie the rope too tight; we might have to go into the water later!”
“Huh?” Wu Xie was stunned.
“Why do I need to watch Wu Yong, and prepare to go into the water? We didn’t bring any equipment!”
Lin Yan glanced at Wu Xie; indeed, he had nothing: “Did you bring your dagger?”
Wu Xie nodded: “Since the last time we went underground, I haven’t parted with it.”
Lin Yan nodded in satisfaction: “Then no problem! Later, watch when he goes down and follow him!”
“He has a clue on him?”
“No, but wherever he’s going definitely has one!”
Wu Xie’s eyes sharpened: “Their company really has issues, doesn’t it? Are they going somewhere without telling us?”
Lin Yan was momentarily stunned; how did he think that? But thinking that Wu Xie didn’t know the plot at all and hadn’t deduced the Wu Family member’s existence, and Wu Yong was still under A Ning’s company name, it was reasonable to think that way.
But after thinking it over, he decided not to remind Wu Xie; letting him misunderstand was actually good. At least when cooperating later, he could be more cautious and not be led around by the nose.
So he cheerfully gave an affirmative response.
Now Wu Xie perked up, pulling Lin Yan to pretend to observe everywhere, but keeping his peripheral vision on Wu Yong.
Sure enough, as a wave hit, Wu Yong exclaimed, and the not-tightly-tied rope around his waist instantly loosened, sweeping him into the sea with the wave.
“Wu Yong! Help! Quick, come save him!”
Wu Xie was the first to untie his waist rope and jump into the sea, and as soon as he did, he heard Lin Yan’s heart-wrenching shout.
Then, with a “plop” beside him, Lin Yan came down too, splashing water in his face.
Now with no one else around, they could speak freely. He loudly asked Lin Yan: “Where are we going now?”
Lin Yan shouted back: “Follow him! Find that ship!”
“What ship?”
“The ship your Third Uncle disappeared on!”
Wu Yong’s head popped up, already dozens of meters away. Wu Xie and Lin Yan swam toward him, but for some reason, he seemed to be getting farther and farther.
Lin Yan looked closely: Good grief, this guy was pretending to be unconscious on the surface, but actually riding the current! While he and Wu Xie were approaching from another direction, swimming half against the current! No wonder they couldn’t catch up!
So he felt the water flow, tugged Wu Xie: “Stop swimming! Learn from him! Drift together!”
The time that followed was something Lin Yan never wanted to experience again in his life.
Four hours!
A full four hours!
They drifted on the sea level for a full four hours. Midway, they pulled Wu Yong over too, but the ship was out of sight. They didn’t know where they had drifted to and could only occasionally swim in one direction while waiting for rescue.
Finally, a dark shadow appeared at the limit of their vision.
Wu Yong shouted first: “Look! There’s a ship!”
Lin Yan didn’t even need to look to know it was definitely that ghost ship.
Another half hour or so passed, and they finally approached the ship’s side and climbed up along the hull.
Worth mentioning, Wu Xie and Lin Yan were pulled up by Wu Yong! With such great stamina, and he claims to be a tech geek?
Heh, you think I believe that?
PS: Made it just in time without missing the update!
