The sixth volume, the thirty-first chapter, cornered
Volume 6, Chapter 31: Forced into a desperate situation...
Ling Jie's body was in the sea water. He held his breath and kept his eyes open. He watched the black man gradually disappear from Ling Jie's sight and sank until he could no longer see him. Ling Jie then stepped on the water hard and tried his best to move forward.
The water surface swam up.
"Cough cough cough..." As soon as his head came out of the water, Ling Jie began to cough violently. Ling Jie, who was originally very watery, was able to hold it underwater for so long just because of Ling Jie's extraordinary physique and a strong breath.
The hatred in his heart supported him in fighting the black man, and now Ling Jie only felt a burning pain in his lungs, as if it was tearing.
As soon as his head came out of the water, his hearing returned to normal. Although the stowaway boat did not stop at this moment, its speed was much slower. As soon as Ling Jie emerged from the water, someone on board the crew saw Ling Jie and immediately
Ling Jie heard a shout, and then he saw several crew members raising their guns and aiming at Ling Jie.
Ling Jie quickly took a deep breath and dived underwater again.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh...
The bullets shot into the sea and passed by Ling Jie one after another. Ling Jie kicked his legs and waved his arms desperately to swim downstream.
People can always unleash their potential in desperate situations! Ling Jie actually swam far away after struggling all the way.
Then Ling Jie had already swam from the boat to the other side, looking at the big boat from a distance.
The boat was still full of noisy sounds, there were also sporadic gunshots, and from time to time there were sounds of people falling into the water. It seemed that all the stowaways were almost gone.
Ling Jie floated on the water, treading water with his feet and looking around. Ling Jie was also very anxious!
Ling Jie is in the sea without even a lifebuoy or life jacket. He can only rely on his own strength to swim. But Ling Jie can't swim forever! Once Ling Jie runs out of strength, he will be dead!
On the big ship in front of them, the crew was still cleaning up the stowaways, and Ling Jie couldn't get on the ship.
The boat in the distance that had been chasing was getting closer and closer, and Ling Jie could even clearly see the flag flying on the boat...
It was a maple leaf flag, with a number on the hull. It seemed to be a military ship, and the warning whistle was still ringing loudly at this moment.
Ling Jie didn't know if this ship was from the Coast Guard or the military...
Ling Jie hesitated for a moment and then made up his mind.
Rather than being drowned or beaten to death by those crew members, Ling Jie might as well surrender to the police. At least it would be a way to survive.
It was a small gunboat-like vessel. While it was chasing the stowaway boat, it fired guns from time to time to intimidate the other party. However, the gunfire was very careful and landed far away on both sides of the boat. It seemed that it was not in a hurry to hurt people. It was purely
Earth means deterrence.
Ling Jie had no sailing experience, so he only felt that the gunboat should not be far away from Ling Jie through visual inspection. Unfortunately, it was not until Ling Jie swam for a while that he felt it. The distance seemed not far at sea, but it was actually very long.
!
Although the waves are not big, swimming in the sea is very strenuous because you have to use a lot of physical strength to fight against the waves, and the waves will pull you away from your direction.
Ling Jie's experiences these days have determined that Ling Jie's physical strength is much worse than before. After swimming for a while, Ling Jie suddenly felt a twitching in the soles of his feet, and his heart immediately became cold!
Ling Jie knew that Ling Jie might have cramps!!
His physical strength was already in a bad state, and with such cold sea water, a person's physical strength would be exhausted very quickly. Lingjie's water quality was really average, and swimming was even more strenuous... A wave came over and he was immediately submerged.
When Ling Jie got out of the waves, Ling Jie coughed a few times, but helplessly saw that he had been carried away from Ling Jie's direction by the waves. Both stowaways and gunboats were far away from Ling Jie's direction.
direction.
Ling Jie shouted feebly, and Xie Li raised his arms, hoping that the people on the gunboat could see Ling Jie. Unfortunately, Ling Jie's actions did not attract anyone's attention.
Ling Jie felt that his legs soaked in the sea water were getting heavier and heavier, and his kicking movements gradually slowed down. It seemed that he didn't have much strength anymore... Ling Jie sighed inwardly and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Is Ling Jie really going to die here?
After being in trouble for so long, going through so much, and suffering so much, Ling Jie still can't get through this level in the end?
Just when Ling Jie was almost giving up all hope, Ling Jie suddenly heard a sound coming from far to the left, along the wind...
It seemed to be a few shouts and curses, but when carried by the wind, it was slightly unpleasant and intermittent.
Ling Jie immediately turned his head and looked over, only to see a scene that gave Ling Jie a glimmer of hope again!
About a few dozen meters away from Ling Jie, among the swaying waves, there were three figures who seemed to be struggling there... Because the ups and downs of the waves blocked Ling Jie's sight, Ling Jie could not look very carefully.
But it was enough for Ling Jie to determine their identities!
Surprisingly, these were not the stowaways who jumped into the sea to escape, but the crew of the ship!
Each of these three people were wearing life jackets and were soaking in the sea water. They seemed to be trying to swim in one direction, but they seemed to be arguing loudly about something.
What made Ling Jie even more strange was that...the three of them seemed to be holding a piece of black stuff together...a big piece, floating on the sea.
Ling Jie felt that their eyes were scanning towards Ling Jie, and he immediately dived under the sea surface with vigilance, then swam to the other direction and emerged from the sea surface.
At this time, the gunboat was already far away from Ling Jie and the others, and seemed to be chasing the stowaway boat.
When the three crew members saw this scene, they seemed to cheer, and then on the sea, they suddenly sorted out the dark thing...
Ling Jie's eyes lit up!
I immediately recognized what that thing was!!
That is an inflatable life-saving valve!!! It is the kind of escape device at sea!
Obviously, this is a small life-saving valve. This kind of inflatable life-saving valve can only be used once. There is a valve on it. When using it, you just need to throw it into the sea, and then someone twists the valve, and it will inflate itself immediately.
It expanded and finally turned into a rubber boat!
Under Ling Jie's gaze, the three crew members watched the gunboat go away, and after making sure that it would not be discovered, they carefully opened the valve...
laugh……
With the sound of airflow, the raft, which was originally just a piece of folded rubber, immediately expanded and turned into a small boat in a moment. The three crew members cheered, and immediately one person tried to get over. Ling Jie saw each of them
Everyone was carrying a bag, and there was something bulging in the bag. I didn’t know what it was. Then the second person also turned over and put the bag on the bag...
But at this time, something went wrong!
It was obviously a very small life-saving device. It could originally bear the weight of three people. But the problem was, Ling Jie observed from a distance, it seemed that the bag they were carrying was too heavy! He didn't know what was in that bag.
Things... After the third person threw the bag up, he also wanted to turn over, but as soon as his body was halfway up, the lifeguard was severely tilted under his weight!
With an exclamation, he quickly let go, tried to adjust, and swam to the other side to turn over again... But he still failed. As soon as he climbed up a little, the hull began to tilt again.
At this time, the two crew members on the boat started talking loudly to him, and the guy who was still in the sea spoke loudly, with a very angry and dissatisfied tone. Then he pointed at the bags on the boat and said loudly
A few sentences.
Ling Jie couldn't understand what they were saying. It probably meant that the crew member at sea thought the bag was too heavy and should throw away some of the items to let him get in.
However, his request was immediately rejected by his two companions!
They started to quarrel, and at the end of the quarrel, the two people on the boat winked at each other, and one of them immediately pulled out a dagger from his waist, and then moved towards the guy in the sea with a murderous look on his face. The man in the sea
The guy also realized that his companion had bad intentions. He stepped back a little, and when the other party rushed towards him, he immediately struggled with him, and then with a strong force, he dragged the one holding the dagger into the sea.
The two of them struggled in the water, and the third guy on the boat also pulled out a knife and looked at the two guys in the water warily. He leaned against the edge of the boat from time to time, preparing for a sneak attack.
Ling Jie patiently hid himself behind the waves. At the same time, he tried his best to tread water and quietly followed these guys, keeping a distance of dozens of meters, trying not to be thrown away by them.
At this time, Ling Jie suddenly heard an exclamation from them, and then a person on the sea struggled a few times and stopped moving... The sea water was dyed red... One of them coldly pushed away the man who was not there.
Then he pulled out the knife from his body, bit it in his mouth, and continued to look coldly at the guy on the boat in the water.
Ling Jie realized that it was the man who jumped into the water from the boat just now, but was killed by the people in the sea. Now the man in the sea looked at his companions on the boat... Both of them were looking at each other, as if they were considering whether to continue.
Work hard.
At this time, the man on the boat suddenly spoke a few words, and after the two talked, they quickly reached an agreement. The man on the boat let go of the knife in his hand, and reached out to pull the man in the sea onto the boat.
Ling Jie understood... It turned out that three people were too many, so one companion had to be given up. The people on the boat originally planned to give up the people in the sea. But now one person died, and two people were just right, so they both compromised with each other and decided to stop fighting.
.
The two people who were hostile just now are holding hands together again!
The reality is so cruel!
Before Ling Jie had time to sigh, Ling Jie suddenly saw that the man in the sea had just boarded the boat. When the other guy turned around, he hugged his neck from behind and then stabbed him with a knife.
Quickly rub it on his neck...
thump!
The body was thrown into the sea, on the boat
The guy leaned to the side and breathed heavily.
This man is very powerful. He was originally at a disadvantage, but when his two companions boarded the ship and were about to abandon him, now he single-handedly killed the two companions and dominated the ship.
Ling Jie thought that he must be very lucky at this moment...
But Ling Jie had already waited for the opportunity that Ling Jie wanted to wait for! Taking advantage of this moment, Ling Jie immediately dived into the water, and then quietly swam towards him...
A few minutes later, while the man was still breathing on the rubber raft, Ling Jie suddenly emerged from the water behind him. Before he could react, Ling Jie had already stabbed him accurately from behind.
His neck, and then before he could violently fight back, he dived into the water again, and tried his best to swim to a safe distance before emerging again.
This man is dead.
He struggled to sit up from the boat and covered his neck with both hands... In fact, Ling Jie's dagger just now was inserted crookedly and did not hit his neck. It was slightly closer to his shoulder, but it was still fatal enough. This man
After struggling for a while, he stared at Ling Jie in the water, his eyes full of anger, surprise, and despair!
Suddenly, he yelled, opened his hands and rushed towards Ling Jie...
Unfortunately, halfway through the attack, his life had left his body. His body stiffened in mid-air, and then he fell into the sea.
Ling Jie slowly swam over, tried his best to get on the raft, and got out of the water. Ling Jie finally let out a long breath and started breathing heavily.
Ling Jie is very tired!!
From watching the three crew members killing each other, Ling Jie turned from a stalker to a hunter and took away the lifeboat. Ling Jie felt that he had exhausted all his strength and lay on the raft.
I can barely move my little finger.
But after taking a breath, Ling Jie still managed to get up, looked at the three bags on the boat, and struggled to move over.
Ling Jie wants to check the supplies on the ship now!
Ling Jie has never believed in any gods in his life, but now Ling Jie prays to God...
Please God, there will be some food in this bag... Even if there is no food, there must be at least some fresh water!!
"..." Ling Jie stared blankly at the contents of the bag in front of him, then frantically opened the other two bags...
"Hahahahahahahaha" Ling Jie burst out laughing wildly. He laughed so hard that he almost shed tears! Ling Jie laughed and coughed. He gasped and the muscles on his face were trembling. Ling Jie knew that he was now
This look must be crazy and scary...but Ling Jie really wants to laugh!
It's so ridiculous!
So **** ridiculous!!!
The three bags in front of me were three canvas bags. After opening them, each bag contained US dollars!
Thick stacks of US dollar bills!!!
A total of three packages of US dollars, probably several million!!
But there is... not even a drop of water! Not even a drop!!!
Unfortunately, Ling Jie is facing a situation where he is about to die of thirst or starvation!
A millionaire who died of thirst or starvation!
Is there anything more ridiculous than this??
Ling Jie laughed for a while. He felt his body getting weaker and weaker, and he fell weakly on the boat. He looked up at the sky, wheezing and panting.
No! No! Impossible!
There must be a place for food and there must be water!
When the three crew members escaped, it was impossible not to bring food and water with them! This is the most basic common sense!
Ling Jie immediately seemed to have found a glimmer of hope for himself, and tried his best to get out of the boat, but he searched all over the lifeguards, but found nothing...
Ling Jie tried hard to recall, and then vaguely remembered. The three crew members seemed to have some skin-like things hanging on their bodies... Could they be water bags?
They carry food and fresh water with them!!
"*****!!" Ling Jie roared in grief and anger, and immediately searched for the bodies of the three crew members on the sea... Unfortunately, it was already too late.
The rubber raft has been floating for a while, and now the waves have become a bit bigger. The three corpses have long gone. Ling Jie is surrounded by the vast sea... Ling Jie does not have the guts to abandon the boat and jump off alone.
Go into the sea to look for their bodies...even if you find food and water if you pretend...without a boat, Ling Jie is still dead!
"Leave it to fate." Ling Jie sighed.
Where can I find food and drink on this sea?
Just when Ling Jie had decided to give up, Ling Jie heard a cry coming from the wind on the sea...
"Help, help..."
Ling Jie regained his energy, turned over and sat up, and saw a person on the sea in the distance with a lifebuoy on her body, rising and falling in the waves. She seemed to be swallowed by the waves at any time, but she worked hard and tried her best.
He was struggling and paddling desperately.
It was Li Wenmei. Without hesitation, Ling Jie immediately picked up the paddle on the rescue boat and rowed towards Li Wenmei...
Li Wenmei reached out to pull her onto the boat. Li Wenmei's face was pale, even a little gray and blue. After breathing hard and coughing, she looked at Ling Jie in surprise and said intermittently: "It's... it's you, Ling Jie? How could you do that?"
...here? This ship is..."
Ling Jie leaned on the boat and was too lazy to move: "Don't ask, I stole the boat."
Li Wenmei was lying there exhausted and seemed unable to move, but she still struggled and smiled at Ling Jie: "Ling Jie, thank you... you saved my life."
Ling Jie said calmly: "Don't thank me so early. I didn't save you. Both of us are dead."
Li Wenmei breathed for a while and struggled: "What's wrong?"
Ling Jie had already sat up, pointed at the three bags, and glanced at Li Wenmei: "Did you see them?"
"So much money?" The expression on Li Wenmei's face changed slightly. Then she turned to look at Ling Jie: "This..."
"It's a lot of money." Ling Jie smiled bitterly: "A lot of money...if the money is used to buy food, the rice you buy can crush me to death a hundred times! The water you buy can drown me a hundred times.
!But the problem is...Miss, this is the sea. There is no supermarket nearby!
Ling Jie took a breath, looked at Li Wenmei, and told her in a low tone: "There is no food or water on the boat, so Ling Jie and the others are dead, both of them! So don't thank me for saving you."
Ling Jie just helps you have one more choice about death."
Ling Jie's smile became more and more ugly: "If I don't save you, you will have no choice but to drown. Now... you can at least have some choices. You can choose to drown, or stay on the boat and die of thirst."
Or starve to death."
Ling Jie and the two looked at each other for a while, and suddenly they both laughed.
This is a very helpless smile. People in desperate situations seem to put aside all previous grudges...
resentment?
The grudge between Ling Jie and Li Wenmei, whether she hates Ling Jie or whether Ling Jie despises her...does it matter at this time? Ling Jie and the others are the only two left on such a small boat in the vast sea.
, maybe a big wave in the next hour will send the Lingjies to King Yama...
Besides, at this point, do people still have the strength to hate each other?
After laughing for a while, Ling Jie saw that Li Wenmei's face was getting paler and paler. Her laughter gradually weakened, and then she started coughing again.
Ling Jie moved a few times. He moved to her side, then pinched her wrist and felt her pulse.
In fact, Ling Jie didn't understand Chinese medicine, let alone take a pulse. But at least Ling Jie had studied martial arts and knew some basic principles. Her pulse was a little disordered, and her breathing was very rapid and short.
"Have you been sick?" Ling Jie sighed.
Li Wenmei forced a smile: "I've been sick for a few days. I don't seem to adapt to the climate at sea. I started to have some asthma, which has become more and more serious in the past few days."
Ling Jie was silent for a while.
Originally, there was some food in the bag that Ling Jie was carrying. Ling Jie even put one or two anti-inflammatory tablets in the bag. But... when Ling Jie jumped into the sea with the black man in his arms, he was prepared to die together.
As planned, Ling Jie's bag had already fallen into the sea!
Her condition is very bad and even serious. In this case, what she needs most is a doctor! If there is no doctor, she should at least have a cup of hot water, and then a dry place and a warm bed for her to lie down.
It will take a while.
But there was none of this. Ling Jie could only look at her and sighed.
Li Wenmei saw the expression on Ling Jie's face, and she forced a smile: "Okay, Ling Jie, I know my situation. It's like this now anyway. It doesn't matter how I die."
When she said this, Ling Jie thought about it and simply lay down: "By the way, I never asked you, how did you end up on that boat?"
"What else can I do, run away!" Li Wenmei's tone was filled with resentment. At this time, there was a tough and hateful expression on her face... This expression reminded Ling Jie of her original appearance.
"Aren't you very curious, why did I come to the south to do pyramid schemes?" Li Wenmei said with ridicule in her tone: "Since the Northeast Petroleum Company was destroyed by you, the power of the Xiao family has been seriously weakened. My place in Shandong
I can no longer survive here, so I have no choice but to go south to make money..."
Things became simpler later on. After Li Wenmei went south, she met a sister who was also making money in the entertainment industry, and Li Wenmei was dragged into the water.
"Don't look at me like that." Li Wenmei said coldly: "I know what you are thinking... You are right, I slept with those men all the way! Otherwise, how would I have the ability to climb to that position? Hum.
!" Her tone was disdainful, but also filled with resentment: "What kind of man have I never seen before? When those guys saw me, there was a light in their eyes, and I knew what they were thinking about in their lower bodies! Isn't it just spreading their legs?
Well, it’s not like I didn’t open my mouth.
Yes! I was lucky. One of them fell in love with me. I used all my skills to make him fascinated. Later, the guy even handed over his account to me. I officially walked into their company.
That inner circle... When you saw me, I was basically the leader of one party. If you hadn't appeared in Shandong and destroyed the power of the Xiao family, maybe I would have controlled most of the Xiao family now.
The power of..."
She suddenly sighed and said with a wry smile: "After what happened, the power of the Xiao family quickly collapsed. All major forces were chasing the remnants of the Xiao family. I was not included in them. I had no choice but to involve them.
The money was gone! I came all the way from Shandong
I went south, went to Vietnam, and stayed in Vietnam for more than ten days before I found a way to get on a boat and prepare to smuggle to the United States. Isn’t the United States known as one of the most suitable countries in the world for survival? I just prepared to bring money to enjoy it.
Enjoy it for the rest of your life.”
It turns out that this woman ran away for this reason.
"Not only am I wanted by the police, I'm also being traced by people in the Xiao family. I've involved them in a large sum of money. If they find me, I'll be dead. So I can't stay in Southeast Asia anymore, so I'd better go further and further away."
Okay." There was a hint of pride in Li Wenmei's tone.
Ling Jie had no interest in these things about her, and he didn't want to continue hearing about them. Anyway, they were some evil things, and Ling Jie felt very unhappy after listening to them.
Gradually, Li Wenmei said she was tired, and she really couldn't hold on any longer. She slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Ling Jie also fell asleep in a daze...
Ling Jie was dreaming... The funny thing is, Ling Jie didn't dream about Yan Di or Fang Nan or anyone else this time... Ling Jie never dreamed about Brother Huan and the others again...
Ling Jie only dreamed that he was running desperately through the streets of Nanjing. Ling Jie had a lot of money in his pocket, but Ling Jie went to every store and told Ling Jie that there was no water for sale.
No Coke, no soda, no fruit... nothing!
Ling Jie saw a KFC all the way. Unfortunately, when he entered, he found that there were no burgers, no wings, no Coke! Nothing!
Finally, Ling Jie woke up in despair, feeling his mouth was bitter and dry.
Looking at the US dollars in the bag, Ling Jie suddenly thought, if someone told Ling Jie now that a bottle of Coke is worth one million, Ling Jie would probably break his head and be willing to buy it!