SS Chapter 38

Long Xiuyu, Sha Rou, and the others were watching Yue Zhonglin and Long Xinyu. Seeing Yue Zhonglin leave, and Long Xinyu immediately trying to chase after him, Long Xiuyu grabbed Sha Rou and blocked Long Xinyu at the door.

“What are you doing?”

Long Xinyu: “He said he wanted to gamble with me. If I win, he’ll tell me the truth about everything I ask!”

Long Xiuyu was exasperated. “You believe what a bad guy says? Aren’t you afraid he’ll sell you off if you go with him?”

“I’m not worth much!” Long Xinyu muttered, then fell silent under Long Xiuyu’s stern gaze.

Rao Xian was about to speak when a crackling sound suddenly came from outside, completely different from the slow music in the banquet hall.

After the two of them distinguished it, they almost said at the same time, “Gunshots!”

“Why would there be gunshots?” Long Xinyu asked, puzzled.

Long Xiuyu listened for a moment, but because of the music in the room, he couldn’t hear clearly. He asked doubtfully, “Could it be the sound of firecrackers celebrating on the deck?”

Many people here had tasted blood, and their sense of smell for gunshots and danger was extremely keen.

Lu Ye notified Long Xiuyu through the communicator that the cruise ship was under armed attack.

Everyone was shocked. There was no time for nonsense. Long Xiuyu said to everyone with a serious expression, “Follow me.”

Sha Rou asked where to go, but Rao Xian stopped her with a look. What she wanted to ask was, shouldn’t they notify the other people at the banquet?

Long Xiuyu gave her a look while walking out, letting her figure it out for herself.

Obviously, they weren’t the only ones who noticed that something was wrong. Rao Xian and the others followed Long Xiuyu out and encountered many people with stern expressions, but everyone didn’t seem panicked. Some bodyguards even gathered around their masters in a trained manner, escorting them out.

Rao Xian originally thought that he was a police officer and should organize the guests to take refuge, but at this time, as he walked, he also discovered that the people on this ship had all seen storms. Even the waiters didn’t seem panicked. This was at sea, and he couldn’t control the situation, so he could only follow them out.

As Long Xiuyu walked quickly through a corridor, they turned a corner and stopped in front of a suite. There was a combination lock on the door. Long Xiuyu pressed a few times quickly, the door opened, and Long Xiuyu led them in, locking the door behind him.

This was a reception room, luxuriously decorated. Before Rao Xian could take a closer look, he saw Long Xiuyu quickly walk to the decorative bookshelf, take out a book from the bottom shelf, and press something behind it. The bookshelf clicked twice, then closed to both sides. Inside was a secret room. Long Xiuyu turned on the light at the door and let everyone in. Then he went in himself and pressed a button at the door, and the bookshelf slowly closed.

The few people were panting slightly after the quick walk just now.

Long Xiuyu said, “This is Jiang Lang’s safe house. Lu Ye and Jiang Lang both know this place. If the situation outside is resolved, Lu Ye will definitely know how to find us. If it can’t be resolved—” Long Xiuyu didn’t continue.

Everyone understood what he meant. If it couldn’t be resolved, it meant that Jiang Lang and the others had been wiped out by the armed men, then they would be in danger.

Long Xinyu thought for a while, wondering if he should take a gun for self-defense. Then he saw his older brother looking at the weapons on the wall and said, “Look and see if there’s anything you can use.”

Long Xinyu looked at the weapons on the wall and asked his brother, “Are we going to take weapons and go out to help?”

Long Xiuyu glanced at him, and then glanced at Rao Xian and Sha Rou who were skillfully taking weapons from the wall.

Long Xiuyu casually took a gun from the wall, stuck it behind his waist, and tried to open the communicator to contact Lu Ye again, but unfortunately there was still no signal.

At this moment, a strong collision sound suddenly came from outside. Rao Xian’s face changed. This room had a combination lock. If it were Jiang Lang or Lu Ye, it was impossible for them to open the door by force.

Sure enough, Long Xiuyu and Sha Rou also realized this, and the two moved to the door to prepare for defense.

The collision sound outside continued, followed by two gunshots, and then the sound of the door being kicked open.

Sha Rou leaned close to the door and heard the sound of rummaging inside, mixed with some languages ​​she couldn’t understand—certainly not English.

She turned to look at Long Xiuyu.

Long Xiuyu also heard the conversation inside. He was almost certain that the people inside were armed men, so his expression was very serious—their greatest reliance on the ship was Jiang Lang. This was the third floor, and now the armed men had rushed to the third floor. The captain’s room, control room, and cockpit were all on the first floor. If they were controlled by the armed men, it would be equivalent to the entire ship being controlled.

Then Jiang Lang and Lu Ye might be in mortal danger.

Before Long Xiuyu could analyze the situation, there was a “bang” sound outside, like something being overturned. The heavy impact sounded like drums beating in people’s hearts, making people tremble.

Long Xiuyu reflexively raised his gun to be on guard. Sha Rou next to him took half a step forward, lifted the skirt that was in the way and pinned it behind her waist, held the gun with one hand and aimed at the door. Rao Xian also raised his gun.

According to Rao Xian’s visual estimation, if Long Xinyu fired from his position, it would definitely cause crossfire and injure his own people.

Long Xinyu put his hand down sullenly.

However, everyone waited for a long time, but there was no sound outside.

The four people in the secret room looked at each other, all unsure of the situation.

Sha Rou put down the gun, put her ear close to the door and listened outside. She could faintly hear sporadic gunshots. She didn’t dare to speak loudly and used her mouth to ask Long Xiuyu what to do now.

Lu Ye and Jiang Lang were cousins ​​with no blood relations. After Long Xiuyu met Jiang Lang, he heard him talk about many things at sea. Jiang Lang said that the current armed men are organized and large-scale forces that can be compared with military forces. They are organizations of desperadoes and are extremely difficult to deal with.

Long Xiuyu looked at his own side. He knew how to use a gun, but he was definitely not proficient. His brother was just an ordinary person with no combat experience. Rao Xian’s combat power was halved because of his leg disability, and Sha Rou was a woman. In summary, their overall combat power was too weak.

Mixing in the business world, Long Xiuyu deeply understood the principle of recognizing strength and weakness, knowing how to advance and retreat, and avoiding the enemy’s edge. He told everyone what he was thinking and let everyone judge based on the current situation—stay here to protect themselves or go out.

Just as the four were making a decision, a huge explosion suddenly came, and the entire secret room shook. Then there were several consecutive explosions, and the secret room trembled along with it.

The expressions of Long Xiuyu and others changed. This was at sea. If there was an explosion and the ship sank, they would only have one way to survive. They had to hurry out. Long Xiuyu went to press the door switch, but when he pressed it, he realized—the door of the secret room couldn’t be opened!

This automatic switch device may have been affected by the explosion just now. No matter how you pressed the button, the door of the secret room would not open.

“Damn it!” Long Xiuyu couldn’t help but curse in a low voice. He took a short knife from the wall to pry the door, but the steel blade was bent, and the door was still motionless.

Sha Rou, Rao Xian, and Long Xinyu all came to help. The four used all their strength but couldn’t pry the door open.

After trying for a while, Long Xinyu gave up first: “No, this door can’t be opened by brute force. We have to find tools.”

However, this secret room had guns, bullets, knives, and medicines, but there were no tools that could be used to pry the door.

Long Xinyu thought discouragedly, the situation outside was unknown, and they were trapped here again. This life was too bitter!

Given the current situation, if he made too much noise and alarmed the armed men outside, he would be asking for death himself.

Everyone else understood the current situation, and no one acted rashly.

Rao Xian tried to use his cane, but the cane was too wide and couldn’t be inserted into the door seam. He also checked the design of the door—it couldn’t be opened without violence.

Rao Xian studied the switch for a while and asked Long Xiuyu, “Is this controlled by electricity?”

Long Xiuyu nodded.

Rao Xian asked, “What will happen if the power is cut off?”

Long Xiuyu shook his head, indicating that he didn’t know.

Rao Xian thought for a while, took a dagger to unscrew the button. Just as he twisted the second screw, the lights in the secret room flickered twice and went out.

The secret room suddenly fell into darkness.

Long Xiuyu: “Yeah!”

Long Xiuyu was speechless. The secret room had no light. He heard Long Xinyu’s voice and was trying to find the sound to slap him, but he didn’t expect to accidentally injure Sha Rou.

Sha Rou didn’t really want to fuss about it, but the sense of oppression brought by the darkness had a suffocating feeling.

Rao Xian asked puzzledly, “Didn’t you all bring your phones?”

There was no signal on the ship. Sha Rou was wearing an evening dress, and her phone was left in the room. So were Long Xiuyu and Long Xinyu’s.

Rao Xian couldn’t believe that he was the only one who brought his phone.

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