Chapter 679: Chapter 461: Boarding the Ship_2
You should know that large ships are different from small ones. When a large ship is sailing, the waves it creates on both sides can easily capsize nearby small boats. Normally, if you’re rescuing someone at sea, a vessel absolutely will not start moving, because that wouldn’t be a rescue but a killing.
Seeing that the ship had started, he immediately reached for the safety rope tied around him and tugged hard. After feeling the safety rope tighten, the panic at the bottom of his heart dissipated somewhat.
At that moment, he understood why Fabian had earlier moved towards their location—it was out of fear that the ship would simply sail away and leave him behind.
Samuel Jenkins, standing on the deck, sighed in relief when he saw the crew member had gotten Fabian into the life ring. He then immediately called to the others nearby to work together and pull on the safety rope, aiming to quickly haul the three in the water back onto the ship.
When the few people on the deck started to pull the safety rope, the trio in the water felt their bodies being dragged back by the life ring and knew those standing on the deck had not given up on them, which brought them considerable relief.
However, as the ship’s speed increased, the three in the water, worried about accidents, also actively swam towards the direction of the ship along the safety rope, hoping to get closer more quickly.
Thanks to the cooperation from both parties, it didn’t take long for the three to be hauled onto the deck by those above.
Once Fabian stood safely on the deck, both he and the high-hanging heart of Samuel Jenkins finally settled down smoothly.
After calming their emotions somewhat, Fabian, with a somewhat embarrassed expression, accused Madeline, who stood by with crossed arms, "Did you really want me dead? Why did you drive the ship away from the area where I fell into the water when you saw me fall?"
In response to Fabian’s accusation, Madeline retorted quite shamelessly, "If I really wanted you dead, I wouldn’t have arranged for the crew to rescue you at all, or even if I did, I could have simply cut the safety rope. With the deck being so high above the water, you wouldn’t have been able to board the ship at all.
You can accuse me of dragging my feet because I hold a grudge against you, but you cannot say that I intentionally held others back to let you die in the water."
Hearing Madeline’s unapologetic retort, Fabian felt uncomfortable, but confirmed through the expressions of Samuel Jenkins and the others that what Madeline said was true.
But even so, Fabian was still indignant about the decision to start the ship during the rescue. After all, they were flipped into the water by the waves caused by the moving ship as they approached.
Had it not been for the safety rope pulling them out of the water, they could have been lost to the sea because of the waves.
Having had a near-death experience, Fabian was now seething with anger, but this anger was directed solely at Madeline, knowing that even if he lashed out, Madeline would at most talk back at him.
However, if he were confronting Dong Tianyu, with the earlier experience of being thrown into the water, Fabian, once bitten twice shy, did not dare to test Dong Tianyu while standing before him.
"Since you claim you didn’t actually want to see me dead, then why did you start the ship and even seem to go at full speed, even after arranging for someone to rescue me?"
Fabian was not merely an idiot; standing on the deck, he merely glanced at the waves below the hull to realize that the ship must be moving at full speed.
Facing Fabian’s accusation, Madeline did not hide anything but repeated to Fabian what Robinson William had explained over the phone just a little while ago.
Since Fabian was now safely on deck, there was no longer a need for them to stay there.
Still harboring doubts about the command given by Robinson William to start the ship, they decided to head to the other side of the ship to see if, as Robinson William had said over the phone, there was a mysterious ship colliding with theirs.
When they reached the other side of the ship, the large vessel, shrouded in black smoke and in tatters, had, unknown to them, come dangerously close to their ship.
At this moment, the small transport plane that had been circling above the deck had become disconnected from it due to the full-speed sailing of the ship, still lingering in its original position, not having departed.
Though the ship’s hull looked rather decrepit, its sailing speed was not slow at all.
After testing, even though Robinson had already ordered to proceed at full speed, that mysterious decrepit ship was still aggressively heading straight towards their location; from this situation, it seemed that Ye Liuyun’s large ship had been locked onto by the other party.
When Dong Tianyu saw the ship charging towards them, he simply raised the plane’s altitude a bit to ensure that the flight height was above the highest point of the decrepit ship’s mast.
While ensuring his own safety, Dong Tianyu still wanted to observe the ship as much as possible, since it appeared that, if this ship didn’t collide with the ship his parents were on, it wouldn’t stop.
Therefore, Dong Tianyu wanted to know the reason for this ship’s presence here, and if given the chance, he wouldn’t mind taking the initiative to strike and destroy it.
Just as the ship was about to approach the small transport plane Dong Tianyu was on, he began to carefully scan it with Divine Sense.
For some reason, Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense could only scan the area around the deck; when trying to peer into the cabin, he found that his Divine Sense completely failed to penetrate and explore.
Dong Tianyu sighed again at the limitations of his Divine Sense, feeling that the more he used it, the more it seemed like a neutered version that had been weakened countless times compared to the abilities in movies and novels.
However, since he had gotten used to the performance of his Divine Sense, Dong Tianyu was actually not too concerned with the feedback it provided.
Since no other people were found on the deck, and through the detection of Divine Sense, it was discovered that all visible exteriors were made of wood, Dong Tianyu simply decided to go all in and prepared to throw an incendiary grenade to the deck, wanting to see if setting the ship’s body on fire would cause anyone in the cabin to run out and extinguish the fire.
But just as Dong Tianyu positioned the helicopter above the deck of this ship, a sudden and severe magnetic pull abruptly dragged the small transport plane down and forcefully pressed it onto the deck, preventing it from taking off again.
Standing on the deck of the large ship, Ye Liuyun and the others saw Dong Tianyu’s plane ’voluntarily’ land on the deck of that ship, assuming that Dong Tianyu might have discovered something, which is why he would recklessly land on that ship’s deck, completely unaware that none of this was happening voluntarily on Dong Tianyu’s part.
However, since he had already landed on this ship’s deck, Dong Tianyu could only console himself with the saying, "Since I’m here, I might as well be content."
After several attempts to take off from the deck proved untenable, Dong Tianyu simply shut off the engine and, tentatively exiting the plane, stood directly on the deck.
But even so, on the bare deck, one could see neither people nor even the shadows of any miscellaneous objects.
Dong Tianyu took out a Flying Sword from the Cave, then tried to let the Flying Sword hover around him a few times.
After a ’very professional’ test, Dong Tianyu discovered that the deck beneath his feet, or perhaps the ship’s body itself, possessed a strong gravitational pull, seeming like a universal magnet, firmly adhering everything nearby to the deck.
Dong Tianyu, observing the deck that offered an unobstructed view, noticed there was nothing on the deck except a door that could lead to the interior of the ship; there was nothing else at all on the deck.
Dong Tianyu walked to that door and gently pushed it open, looking at the dark passageway, he had no desire whatsoever to enter and investigate.
He directly took out a barrel of oil from Storage Space, then split open the barrel, letting the gasoline inside the barrel spill down the stairs inside the passageway.
