Chapter 20 Red Light

Though she had her swimming goggles, the inside of the cabin was dimly lit, so Lili could only open her eyes wide and feel her way forward.

Finally, she arrived at Room 3. Without lights, the open doorway revealed only pitch blackness.

Lili recalled the location of the flashlight, trying hard to swallow the air in her mouth into her stomach. With this single breath, she mustered her courage and swam into Room 3.

Disordered clothing floated around her in the room. In the darkness, they felt like living sea creatures. The waves had rearranged everything in the room.

When a piece of clothing wrapped around her foot, Lili panicked. The air in her mouth rushed out instantly, and seawater poured into her mouth.

In a fluster, Lili quickly swam towards the door. Just as her body emerged from the doorway, she suddenly saw a faint red light in the water.

What was that?! Though Lili was choking and uncomfortable, she was still drawn to the red light.

Hadn't Anna said all the equipment on the ship was down? Why was there a red light?

A series of questions made her forget the discomfort in her lungs. She kicked off the door frame with her feet and plunged towards the red light.

As she got closer and closer to the light, Lili's oxygen ran out. Her heart raced, but she didn't care to see clearly what it was. She grabbed the device emitting the red light and used her last bit of strength to float upwards.

The thing in her hand wasn't big, just a flat square, shorter than a cigarette case. Lili broke the surface and gasped for breath. Suddenly, she remembered: it was the ProGo that Zhao Di had been wearing on her chest for her livestream.

Seeing Lu Maowang not far away, Lili subconsciously slipped the square object she'd found into her jeans pocket.

Seeing her surface, Lu Maowang pulled on the rope, dragging Lili out of the water with all his might.

"Did you find anything? Did you find the flashlight?" Lu Maowang asked.

Lili wiped the water from her face and shook her head. "No, it's too dark. I couldn't find anything."

Lu Maowang was speechless. "Such a big thing, and you don't know where it is?"

"It's been washed away by the sea. Who knows where it rolled to."

"I'll go look again." Lu Maowang wasn't giving up. After all, a flashlight would be extremely useful at this time.

After Lu Maowang dove back into the cabin to search for the flashlight, Lili looked around to make sure no one was watching, and then secretly pulled the action camera out of her pocket. The device only had one bar of battery left, so it kept flashing a red light to remind her to charge it.

Lili looked at the small box repeatedly, not thinking it would be of much use. But when she turned on the action camera, the screen on the back suddenly lit up, showing the contents of Zhao Di's livestream from the night before.

Zhao Di's disappearance was already known to everyone on the ship. Now that she had found Zhao Di's livestream camera, maybe she could find out who was the last person to contact her last night.

With this thought in mind, Lili prayed that the battery would last a little longer as she fast-forwarded through the contents.

At one point, Zhao Di seemed to have fallen. The camera fell onto the deck, but the angle still captured Zhao Di's whereabouts. She seemed to be in great pain, crawling towards the stern.

The deck was swaying, and the lens was unstable. Plus, it was dark, so the picture was a bit blurry, but Lili could still vaguely make out the people and the general location on the ship.

Lili watched as Zhao Di swayed and crawled to the stern, when suddenly someone grabbed her and pushed her into the boundless, black sea.

The whole thing happened so fast that Lili couldn't believe her eyes.

She rewound and watched it again, confirming that Zhao Di had indeed been pushed into the sea, and that the person who pushed her was on the ship. Only then did she shut off the machine with trembling hands.

At this time, Anna and the others had already finished counting the supplies on the deck. Each person got three small compressed biscuits, a small piece of ham, and a 500ml bottle of mineral water per day. This would last everyone on board for three to four days. Even if the food ran out, they could still fish as long as they had fishing gear and cooking utensils, so food wasn't the biggest problem. To survive on the ship, fresh water was the key.

Yesterday at this time, no one on the ship would have expected things to turn out like this today, so they were extremely wasteful with water. As a result, the eight large barrels of water that could have lasted four or five days were half-gone in just one day. Now there were only four large barrels of mineral water left on the entire ship.

In addition to these salvaged barrels of water, there was also a case of twelve bottles of mineral water, which Gong Dalong and the others had brought on board to quench everyone's thirst. At the time, he and Lili each carried a case. One of the cases had been distributed, and now there was only one case left. After Zhao Di's disappearance, there were exactly twelve people on the ship, just enough for one bottle per person.

Everyone had to keep their water bottles after they were empty, because the next day they would need to use them to refill with fresh water from the large mineral water barrels to survive.

Dark clouds loomed, and the weather was bad. Anna banged on an iron basin she had brought from the kitchen, telling everyone to gather on the deck.

Before Lu Maowang could return to his room to change, Jia Wenjun had already come out of her room.

In the small bag she carried, she had the "evidence." Seeing Bai Ma Shan, who was still lying unconscious in Room 7, Jia Wenjun felt complicated. Once again, she sighed that you can know a person's face but not their heart. Before this, she had always thought that Bai Ma Shan was the easiest person to get along with on this ship. Now, thinking about it, it was truly laughable.

She hesitated whether she should immediately expose this matter to everyone. If she did, in the heat of the moment, she couldn't predict or prevent what would happen next. After all, even if Bai Ma Shan was the murderer, the people on the ship had no right to deal with him.

After much deliberation, she decided to wait and see. Although Bai Ma Shan was still unconscious, there might be accomplices of Bai Ma Shan on the ship. If she rashly produced the evidence, she might even be framed instead.

Of the people on the ship, besides Gong Dalong and Bai Ma Shan, who couldn't move, only Lili hadn't arrived.

Lu Maowang assumed she had gone to the bathroom to change clothes, so he told everyone. Anna didn't wait any longer and told everyone about the food distribution.

"How can we eat our fill with so little?" Lu Maowang, who had put in a lot of effort just now, was the first to complain, looking at the food he had been given. For him, it was just two or three mouthfuls. If he only got this much each day, he would starve to death before the rescue came.

Anna said angrily, "You still want to eat your fill? Just be glad you don't starve to death."

"It's not a solution to keep going like this. Even if there are more supplies, it won't matter if no one comes to rescue us. Anna, is there really no way for you to contact rescue?" Teacher Lin said with a worried look.

Anna wore a bitter face. "Teacher Lin, if I had a way, would I still be so anxious?"

The sky gradually darkened, and dark clouds roamed across the night sky. The moon was nowhere to be seen.

On the deck, Jia Wenjun used the wooden planks she had dismantled earlier and the gas tank from the kitchen to light a small fire. This small cluster of dancing flames became the only light in the dark sea and sky under the oppressive clouds.

With this small flame, everyone's suppressed and anxious hearts were slightly calmed.