“It must have been Liu Bufan who hid to the upper echelons after learning that his accomplices had an accident.” Carl turned his head and knew what the problem was, and said dissatisfied, “You can’t just search the third-class cabin, why don’t you search all floors of the ship at the same time.” For example, the lifeboat placement where Qingguo’s braid was found, it needs to be searched again, and the poisonous snake cannot be allowed to exploit the loophole. ”

“Mr. Hockley’s advice is excellent.” The picket chief nodded again and again and ordered the guards, “Change the plan immediately, and at the same time search every corner of every hidden person on every floor of the ship, especially the gym deck, to see where the damn Liu Bufan can still hide.” ”

“Yes.”

“Knock knock…”

The sound of rushing footsteps sounded, and several guards rushed up to the gym deck and the cab deck above.

“Turn on all the lights, search. Every corner, every lifeboat, wherever people can be hidden, must be carefully searched. ”

The deck and gym became brightly lit, the guards conducted carpet searches, and the veils covering the lifeboats were all lifted and examined one by one….

“Not even a single ant is seen here.”

“Ghost weather, it’s so cold on the deck, it’s too frozen, let’s go.”

After working for nearly half an hour, the guards found no trace of people, so they had to put the cloth back on the lifeboat, turn off some of the deck lights, and leave disappointed, and the deck was quiet again.

“Finally escaped…”

Liu Bufan rolled over into the lifeboat from the outside of the collapsible lifeboat floor attached to the gondola column, rubbed his hands that were a little numb from the cold, and his pounding heart calmed down for a long time.

The lifeboats were placed on the side of the Titanic, and the guards could not see the outside of the lifeboat floor facing the sea. Just now, after Liu Bufan heard the footsteps, he knew that something was wrong, and quickly hung his hands and feet on the rope on the outside of the lifeboat’s bottom plate and escaped the search.

The party in the First Class Ballroom continues.

During this period, the irregular passenger ship of the Rayland Cruise Line closest to the Titanic, the Californian, sent three iceberg warnings to the Titanic in a row.

After the telegrapher Phillips went up, the control tower informed Captain Smith, who was partying.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the smoking room to smoke, Captain Smith privately told Ismay about this and made a suggestion:

“It seems that icebergs are haunted in a large area of the sea. Or we should really slow down the ship, or let the chart room change course and go a little further south from the Newfoundland Great Shoal Cold Current, which is delayed, but safer. ”

If the hull cutting had not occurred, Ismay might have taken Captain Smith’s advice out of fear that Liu Bufan’s prophecy would have come true, but after his trusted picket chief “debunked” Liu Bufan’s prophecy, he resumed the self-identification cultivated by the spring breeze in the business

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“Old Captain, this is the last voyage of your life, do you hope to retire with a dazzling brilliance, or do you draw a failure at the end of your sailing career? The Titanic is unprecedented, unprecedentedly huge, unprecedented luxury, and unprecedented speed, we should show all these “unprecedented” vividly in front of the media and the world, otherwise it will be a great disrespect for the Titanic. ”

Ismay said it so eloquently that Captain Smith did not know how to object for a while.

Seeing that Captain Smith was still hesitating despite having nothing to say, Ismay reminded in a deep voice: “Let’s not forget that there is also a bomb on the ship that can explode at any time.” ”

The No. 6 coal bunker on the Titanic had a fire before setting sail, and although it was extinguished, the hidden dangers of scattered Mars have not been completely ruled out, and the coal bunker may rekindle at any time unless it is completely cleared. But at that time, the Titanic was about to set sail, and there was no time to clear the warehouse and refill the coal, and finally had to go on the road with hidden dangers.

Only a handful of company executives, such as JP Morgan, Ismay, and Captain Smith, and J. Dilly, the stoker, and others knew about it.

JP Morgan personally ordered the news to be concealed and instructed Ismay to convey to the Titanic crew the request to cross the Atlantic at full speed.

White Star’s plan is to wait for the Titanic to arrive in New York to unload all the passengers before clearing the warehouse, so as not to affect the company that is in an unprecedented financial crisis after the Olympic ship is damaged and repaired.

If conspiracy theories are ruled out, perhaps because of this incident, JP Morgan was worried that the Titanic would have a serious explosion in the Atlantic Ocean due to the resumption of coal bunker fire before arriving in New York, so he suddenly and quietly canceled his ticket the day before setting sail.

“The Titanic is driving at full speed, and the sooner we get to New York, the safer we can be. My old captain, think about it, isn’t that so…”

After that, Ismay took two puffs of his cigar, threw the cigarette into the ashtray, and without waiting for Captain Smith to make a statement, he went back to the banquet hall.

Ismay believed that the old captain would not and did not dare to go against his opinion.

Captain Smith sighed, then returned to the banquet hall, told the rich people about the amount of alcohol, exited the party halfway back to the control tower, and discussed the effect of sea condensation on the ship and the visibility of the starry sky during the night voyage, and then left work to rest, and before leaving, he ordered that if the situation deteriorated, whether he slept or not, he would be notified immediately.

Less than half an hour after Captain Smith left work, the British merchant ship Mesaba sent a warning of giant ice and icebergs, and gave the exact location of the iceberg, less than fifty nautical miles from the Titanic.

The telegraph operator Phillips, who was sending and receiving private messages for the wealthy, ignored the warning.

An hour later, the first-class banquet hall party that lasted for several hours was basically over, and everyone except for some passengers who smoked and played cards in the lounge went back to bed.

At this time, the nearby Californian stopped sailing in front of the cold current ice floe and sent another iceberg warning to the Titanic, but was interrupted by the telegraph operator Phillips and responded recklessly:

“Don’t bother, stop talking. You’ve interfered with my signal, and I’m sending a message to Cape Rhys. ”

“You are busy earning tips from rich people, but Lao Tzu endures the cold and sleepiness to warn you over and over again, kindness is scolded, hot face sticks to cold pi stocks, guilty of slut, I am, don’t care, love what a thing.”

Californian telegrapher Cyril M. F. Evans burst into foul language.

Anyway, the ship stopped sailing tonight, nothing would happen on board, he clicked off the telegraph and went to sleep under the covers.

“Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu…”

Liu Bufan, who was frozen under the lifeboat blanket, heard a very slight call.

It’s Ruth’s voice….

Liu Bufan quietly lifted the veil and looked, only to see Ruth appear on the gym deck with something in her hand.


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