Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1399 Forty-one. Set foot on land

  Kate opened the curtain, and there was a blurred, continuous shadow outside the porthole.

  Lu Li moved the passenger who knocked unconscious in front of the door, and opened the door. The cold, silent and restless sloping corridor outside the boiler room was enveloped in darkness.

  Removing the oil lamp that gradually stopped shaking, Lu Li walked towards the stern. Light reaches into the gloom. Footsteps came from behind, Lu Li tilted his head slightly, and Kate came out with bare heels, holding the flintlock gun that was more of a psychological comfort,

   Lu Li and Kate's departure led some survivors to follow. More people stayed behind, hiding in the boiler room and waiting for rescue and dawn.

   The misty hallway was silent, but as they walked to the fork, a loud noise came from an indistinguishable direction.

"what sound…?"

  The noise-like repetitive frequency gradually became clear, like the sound of a distorted radio or the echo of the tide.

   "The cabin is flooded."

  Lu Li looked down at his feet, the sea water hadn't come over yet.

  Let the people behind tell the survivors who were still in the boiler room, and Lu Li continued to move forward.

  The leaking part of the hull was on their way, and the echoing tidal sound gradually became clear. At a certain moment, the barefooted Kate stepped on a wet blanket that looked like moss.

  The cold stimulated her to breathe harder.

  The damp blanket quickly became soaked in the icy seawater, and the sound of the tide became clearer. Not long after, a half-covered cabin with seawater gushing out appeared in front of my eyes.

  Lu Li came to the rushing door with the sea water submerged to his ankles, and closed the door. The noise and the water are blocked behind the door—but the sound of new tides looms in the distance.

   There are more than one damaged places.

   When Lu Li came to the elevator, the remaining power in the boiler room kept the place running, but the faint sound of chewing and the scarlet sea water seeping out of the fence reminded him that he had better not go there.

   "Is there any other way to the deck besides here?"

  Lu Li asked the dozen or so figures following behind.

   There was a brief silence, and a boiler worker said, "I know..."

   "Lead the way."

   At the fork in the road when returning, Lu Li asked the young man to follow behind and guide the way.

  The good news is that the leak is at the stern, and the bow of the stranded ship will not be submerged by sea water.

   The bad news is that the stairs are also in the stern.

   Flowing in the corridor submerged in the knees, the noise of the noisy water flow became louder and louder, and a torrent of water like a river lay in front of them.

  The survivors hesitated, but Lu Li had already raised the oil lamp and stepped into the water. The splashing water suddenly submerged his thighs, and the impact caused Lu Li to shake slightly, and then he reached the other shore like a rock.

  Kate followed closely behind, pulled up her messy skirt, and moved slowly against the current, but when she was about to pass by, she accelerated her speed so that she couldn't stand still.

  Before falling into the water, Lu Li reached out and grabbed her hair, pulling her back.

"thanks…"

   Panting Kate sat panting in the icy water.

   Lu Li looked at the "opposite shore", Kate's danger made them hesitate to go through.

  The sea water is rising, from the calf to the knee.

   "Come here quickly, or go back."

  Lu Li looked at them.

  There is still a long and short window period between the crash of the immortal giant and the arrival of the black ring. Although it will get worse and worse, it is enough for rescue to come.

  So some survivors retreated, and returned with nearly half of them one after another.

  The rest of the group began to make their way through the rapids.

   But they delayed for too long, more and more sea water poured into the cabin, to the point where Lu Li needed to be careful to stand still. Even as they held hands, the last woman was swept away by the roaring current.

  Lu Li wanted to pull her back but it was too late. The sea water with spray rolls the woman rushing to the unknown depths.

   "I...don't we save her?" No one could be heard from the noisy water.

  Lu Li crawled out of the water, held up the oil lamp to drain the seawater.

"too late."

  The existence of the disaster of darkness makes it impossible for human beings to survive in places without light.

   "Go ahead."

  It is not only sea water that prevents them from returning to the deck, but also danger.

  A middle-aged man stopped to rest for a while, gradually fell behind the team, and then fell as if he lost his strength. When the survivor who heard the sound turned back, he saw only ripples, and he was gone.

   "Don't stay too long in deep water."

  Lu Li raised the oil lamp to look around, and returned to the front of the team.

Passing through a last-class cabin, the waving oil lamp reveals the "corpse" lying on the bedside table - the porthole is broken, a middle-aged man's leg is stuck outside the porthole, and something outside is dragging that leg, making the snoring The middle-aged man trembled.

  Lu Li stepped into the cabin, grabbed the fat man by his collar and fell into the stagnant water, quickly exited the cabin and closed the door.

   Until then, they didn't pay attention to the fat man's left leg, which was bitten off even the leg bone.

   And he was still asleep.

  The pungent smell of bad wine penetrated into the nostrils, and Kate frowned: "Wine can really make people happy?"

"do not know."

  The door was knocked and there was a scream, Lu Li made people carry the fat man who didn't know if he would survive, and continued to move forward.

  The closer to the stern of the ship buried in the shallows, the deeper the water. When the survivors had to tiptoe to avoid the water drowning their panting chests, the stairs leading to the upper deck finally appeared.

  Stepping up the stairs, the patter of sea water dripped along the steps, they climbed out of the cabin and stood on the deck.

  Dawn is breaking in the distance.

  Lu Li asked them to stay here to rescue the survivors and wait for rescue.

   "Where are you going?" Kate asked Lu Li who was walking towards the side of the boat.

   "Nearby towns."

  Kate was stunned: "Didn't you come to save us?"

"no."

   "Is that to save Gengdiyuan?"

"That's too late."

   "What do you mean it's too late?"

  Lu Li didn't answer, looking to the south, there was no black ring in the sky. At this moment, the mutation has not yet come.

   Righting the lifeboat lying on the ship's corridor, and tying the cables, Lu Li remembered that he needed a local guide as he knew nothing about this place.

   "Are there any natives of Cultivated Land?"

  The survivors stare blankly at each other, and Kate points to the drunk: "He's a local."

"how do you know?"

   "This is a short hemp shirt from a plow garden, only a lumberjack would wear it."

  But the drunk man who had a broken leg and didn't wake up would have to wake up at least a few hours later.

  Lu Li dragged him to the lifeboat, then stepped up to ask the survivors to help lower the lifeboat.

  Kate also jumped off at this time, and the lifeboat that landed against the hull of the ship fell into the sea with the shaking.

  Lu Li grabbed the oars, and soon ran aground in the shallows.

  Some planks were pushed onto the beach by the waves. Lu Li saw a wooden boat on the beach. There should be a village nearby.

   After simply bandaging the drunk man's thigh, Lu Li carried him on his back. If you can't find the village, at least there is a local person to ask.

  Kate followed silently.

  Claire's teasing was verified again.

  Every time he takes an adventure, a woman will appear beside Lu Li—

  (end of this chapter)