Niu Ying
Chapter 41 Self-Help 2
Lili turned to leave. She didn't want to look for Zhao Di, nor did she want to move things. After hesitating for a long time, she turned and went to the captain's cabin.
She thought there would be no one inside, but unexpectedly, Anna was there.
Both of them were a little surprised.
"What are you doing here?" Anna's expression was slightly flustered, her hand pressed firmly on the chair. She didn't know when this uninvited guest had come up.
"I... I came to find the first aid kit. Gong Dalong needs bandaging," Lili said casually.
Anna said unceremoniously, "There isn't one here. Look for it in the recreation room downstairs. You're all doing property management, how can there be such a big difference?"
Lili couldn't refute. Anna had indeed introduced the placement of some fixed items, such as life jackets and first aid kits, to several of their property management staff when everyone boarded the ship. At that time, she was only focused on taking pictures and chatting with others, and didn't pay attention at all.
"Then I'll go downstairs first." She glanced at Anna, who was pretending to be calm. When she came in just now, she saw that Anna seemed to be hiding something, and her face showed obvious panic when she saw her.
Seeing Anna staring at her warily, Lili didn't linger and walked down from the captain's cabin.
Seeing her leave, Anna went over and locked the door. She stepped onto the chair and took out a box from the high cabinet. Opening the lid, inside was a palm-sized, orange-colored, old-fashioned alcohol lamp-shaped device.
This was an emergency radio beacon, which could contact the ground station through the low-level orbit search and rescue satellite system. As long as they had it, no matter where they were in the sea, maritime rescuers could find the ship based on the specific location it sent.
What was even more amazing was that this device could not only be triggered manually, but if the situation was urgent and there was no time to trigger it, it could automatically pop out of the water after sinking into the sea, and still send out a distress signal.
Anna was a person who cherished her life, so she had prepared this thing when she bought the ship.
She checked it and confirmed that the device was working properly. Then she wondered if Lili had seen anything just now, but even if she did, she probably wouldn't know what it was. Anna felt it was a waste of time to say another word to this kind of stupid and self-righteous woman.
She looked around again to make sure it was safe, then unscrewed the four screws that fixed the floor and chair, pulled the chair away, and revealed the neatly spliced wooden floor under the chair.
She squatted down and used a flat-blade screwdriver to pry hard into the seam of one of the wooden floorboards. A drawer-sized piece of wood was pried off, revealing a safe deposit box inside.
Anna steadily placed the device into the sealed waterproof safe. There were also some first aid medicines and food in the box. Anna covered the wooden floor of the secret compartment, fastened it, and then put the chair back to cover it up.
No one but the person who put it in knew that there was a treasure here that could save everyone on the ship from disaster.
Anna had checked, and the food on the ship should last for three days without any problem. Based on the tide and the ship's water intake, as long as there were no storms, it should last for two or three days without any problem.
Two days, just two days, and Anna could use this treasure after she finished the important things.
But before that, she couldn't let anyone discover it, and she couldn't let anyone contact maritime rescue. So after discovering that there was no signal here and the ship's control system had been sabotaged, she simply threw all the hand-held flare guns into the sea.
Although she didn't know who sabotaged the ship, she could only make the best of it since things had come to this.
Before things were done, she couldn't let the police board the ship.
After finishing these things, Anna locked the door when she left the captain's cabin.
Lili was thinking about what Anna was doing so sneakily just now, but before she could figure it out, she saw Jia Wenjun carrying a pile of sleeping bags and quilts from the cabin.
She said, "Gong Dalong is injured. He said you learned bandaging. He wants you to go over and bandage him quickly."
After Lili finished speaking, she turned around and left, with no intention of helping to carry things.
Seeing that she wasn't doing anything, Jia Wenjun stopped her, "Go and move the kitchen supplies with Sister Hao and the others."
"Why should I move things? I'm going to find Zhao Di, I don't have time."
"Because you're on this ship, because you want to eat. The elderly and children can do the searching. You're young and strong. If you don't want to work hard, then go hungry."
"You" Lili glared at her, "Jia Wenjun, you actually know that Zhao Di isn't on the ship, don't you?"
Jia Wenjun stared at her coldly, "I'm not sure whether Zhao Di is on the ship or not, but if you talk nonsense again, you won't be on the ship for long!"
Lili looked at her serious face and suddenly felt a burst of fear.
Jia Wenjun stuffed all the things in her hand into her arms and turned to get the first aid kit.
In room seven, Gong Dalong's face was pale. He wanted to reach out and pull Sun Jiaojiao, but Sun Jiaojiao leaned back, looking towards the door from time to time, regretting that she hadn't left earlier.
Gong Dalong's pants had been soaked through with blood. With such a large amount of bleeding, she was afraid he would die in front of her.
"Jiaojiao..." Gong Dalong pleaded in a low voice, "I, I don't have a relationship with Lao Hu's wife. I, I mistook the room number. I thought the person in the room was you, that's why I came in."
Sun Jiaojiao sneered as she listened to his nonsense, "I live in number 1, Hao Jiening lives in number 7, and now you're telling me that you can't tell the difference between 1 and 7, do you think I'm a three-year-old?"
Gong Dalong's face was covered with sweat, "Jiaojiao, believe me, I... I only have you"
"Let go!" Sun Jiaojiao disgustedly甩掉了 him his outstretched hand.
Jia Wenjun walked in with the first aid kit and saw this scene.
Although Jia Wenjun didn't want to get involved in these messed up things, she still instinctively looked down on this kind of extramarital affair.
She frowned and came directly to Sun Jiaojiao and said, "Can you bandage?"
Sun Jiaojiao didn't even think about it, "No."
"Then take off his pants first."
Sun Jiaojiao's instinctive reaction was, "Why should I take them off?"
Jia Wenjun looked at her, "Should I take them off?"
These words were equivalent to telling Sun Jiaojiao that she knew about their dirty deeds, so if she didn't want to cause trouble, she should just do it.
Thinking about the good things that Gong Dalong and Hao Jiening had done, and now being provoked by Jia Wenjun, Sun Jiaojiao vented her anger on Gong Dalong, and regardless of his injuries, rudely pulled down his pants, revealing a five or six centimeter long scratch on the root of his thigh.
Jia Wenjun sat next to her expressionlessly as she listened to Gong Dalong howling.
The wound had a certain depth, but fortunately it was cut on the muscle rather than on the artery. She first cleaned Gong Dalong's wound with mineral water, then applied anti-inflammatory medicine, and finally wrapped a circle of dry, clean white gauze around the wound, applying a certain amount of pressure to tie it tightly to stop the bleeding.
Gong Dalong was extremely weak, "Thank you, Xiao Jia."
"You're welcome." Jia Wenjun organized the medicine box and stood up to say to Sun Jiaojiao, "In a while, everyone will successively move clean quilts, clothes, food and mineral water into the room. You sort out these bloody clothes and sheets. Now only this room and the one opposite can be inhabited on the ship. There may be storms tonight, and everyone will have to squeeze into the two rooms, so we have to clean them up immediately."
Sun Jiaojiao agreed without saying a word.
Now, this is the safest place on the entire ship. Although it made her sick, she still had to stay here.