books44 Chapter 118 Sinking
Chapter 118 Sinking
The man called Third Brother was furious to see the completely empty cabin; he was utterly bewildered. These people owned a yacht like this; surely there must have been some seafood, even if it was some kind of half-zombie fish.
However, there was nothing in the cabin. The sound of something falling into the water just now clearly indicated that the people on the ship jumped into the sea to escape. Even if they wanted to escape by jumping into the sea, with the temperature so low, jumping in would basically mean saying goodbye to this world. There was no need to take the entire ship of supplies with them. Moreover, it was just one sound, and it didn't sound like several things falling into the water.
The other men searched every possible hiding place on the yacht, but returned empty-handed. However, they were not too discouraged, as they had at least gained the yacht.
At the third brother's call, some of the group returned to their cargo ship, while five strong young men remained behind. They were all people who made a living by the sea, and even though Lu Yuan had taken the yacht's keys, they still managed to sail the yacht back to their base in the port.
Wearing the special protective suit he had retrieved from his spatial storage, Lu Yuan sank deeper and deeper into the sea after falling in. This feeling made him panic, and he desperately wanted to paddle towards the surface. However, the weight of this protective suit far exceeded any type of protective suit he had worn before. He tried for a long time, but even moving a finger was difficult.
Despite wearing protective clothing, Lu Yuan still felt immense pressure coming from all directions, and the oxygen supply system inside the protective suit began to beep warningly due to the pressure.
These "beep beep beep" sounds hit Lu Yuan's brain directly. He was already dizzy from the pressure, and now that the oxygen supply system was malfunctioning, he panicked even more.
"I'm not going to die in the sea like this, am I?" Lu Yuan thought to himself, and suddenly found himself quite amused. If he hadn't accidentally obtained this strange space, he probably would have died in the zombie horde from the very beginning.
Think about it, every day I'm barely surviving now is actually a bonus.
Suddenly, Lu Yuan felt relieved. He relaxed his whole body, stopped trying to paddle, and just swayed with the waves, slowly sinking into the deep sea.
Amidst the beeping of the pressure alarm, Lu Yuan grew increasingly drowsy due to insufficient oxygen supply, and his breathing became labored.
Until the "beep beep beep" sound in my ears turned into a "buzzing" echo in my mind...
After Lin Yun and Pei Sihao filled their stomachs in the villa under the snow, they sent a message to Qin Yuan and the others in Morse code via walkie-talkie. Although Qin Yuan and the other six were temporarily under guard, they were not in any danger, so they decided to sneak back to the dock under the cover of night to check on Lu Yuan's situation.
The two arrived at the dock and were about to find a safe spot to send a signal for Lu Yuan to bring the yacht back to pick them up. They needed to return to the base to get reinforcements. According to Qin Yuan's intelligence, although the trench coat man's base had nearly a thousand people, there weren't many superhumans.
Although there aren't many superhumans in the South China base, most of them are soldiers, who are certainly more capable of fighting than ordinary people.
Just as the two were about to fire a signal flare into the air, they saw a group of people disembarking from several cargo ships that had just docked. It turned out there was another survivor faction in the port city…
And this is their base?
"What's going on? Why is there another group of people?" Lin Yun pulled Pei Sihao, who was about to launch a signal flare, back into the warehouse where they had been hiding.
“It could also be the trench coat guy’s men. They have so many people on their side, it’s hard for another group to be in the port city.” Lin Yun answered Pei Sihao while leaning out to observe the situation at the dock.
There appeared to be only two cargo ships docked at the pier, but several more were lined up behind them, presumably to prevent the ships from freezing over at the pier.
Lin Yun looked carefully for a while and discovered that their yacht was moored at the very back of the cargo ship.
"What's wrong?" Pei Sihao noticed that Lin Yun's half-leaning body trembled slightly. Although the movement was not very loud, he still caught it quickly.
"The yacht has been taken over by this group of people." Although Lin Yun's eyesight has improved a lot due to his evolution, it is now completely dark. Although the group of people had brought several hand lamps, the light was still too dim for Lin Yun to see clearly. He could only roughly judge that there were about thirty people on the other side.
"What about Lu Yuan..." Upon hearing that the yacht had been brought under control, Pei Sihao also wanted to lean out to observe and check on Lu Yuan's condition.
"Although it's hard to see clearly, the group is all tall and strong, and none of them look like Lu Yuan." The group of people carrying lanterns left the dock in an organized manner, heading towards the villa area along the route Lin Yun and the others had taken. Because they didn't know if there were any superhumans on the other side, to avoid being discovered, he stopped Pei Sihao and quietly followed the group from the side in the same direction.
"They seem to be carrying something?" As they followed, Pei Sihao noticed that several people in the group were carrying an oval-shaped object. He couldn't tell what it was, but he didn't remember having it on their yacht.
"I can't tell what it is, and I don't see Lu Yuan either." Lin Yun looked over and checked several times. The oval-shaped thing was white, and he couldn't tell what it was made of, but it was definitely not a person. Of course, he also looked through the crowd several times and confirmed that Lu Yuan was not there. "He must have escaped."
“Hmm…” Pei Sihao and Lin Yun both knew that Lu Yuan must have sailed the yacht to a wide open sea. Now that the yacht had been brought back by this group of people, the chances of Lu Yuan being alive were actually not high. However, they were still unwilling to admit it and tried to think of the best possible outcome. After all, Lu Yuan was someone who possessed a spatial ability…
"Team Leader Lin, what do we do now?" Pei Sihao was just an ordinary medical student after all. Although his family was in the military, he was also at a loss.
"Let's follow them first. They should be heading back to base. We'll see if we can rescue Qin Yuan and the others then." Without a yacht and without Lu Yuan, they had no way to go back to base for reinforcements, so they could only take it one step at a time.
Pei Sihao didn't say anything, but silently followed Lin Yun who was walking ahead.
The two followed the group for a short while before arriving at the central area of the villa district. There was a large commercial plaza there, the largest commercial center in the port city. As soon as the group approached the outer perimeter of the commercial center, Lin Yun spotted the lookouts. It seemed they were right; this group was with the man in the trench coat.