Chapter 665: Chapter 665: A Ship
The ship swayed violently as Asarina helped Bai Youwei up, “Are you okay?”
Bai Youwei shook her head, “Just fell, nothing serious. Let’s check our surroundings first.”
Upon hearing this, everyone dispersed and went to check the boat’s bow and stern.
Bai Youwei settled back into her wheelchair, grabbed the railing, and started observing the environment.
This was an old small fishing boat. The wood on the deck was wet and decayed, and the outer layer of the hull was covered in rust. She gripped the railing, her hand full of rusty dirt.
There was no sail, and no noise coming from an engine, but the fishing boat was bobbing up and down on the waves, driven forward by the tide.
The sky was a heavy, oppressive dark. The roiling clouds covered the whole sky. Within the gloom, they could see a massive shadow in the distance – an island, no doubt the location of this maze.
Asarina stepped out of the cabin and immediately felt a blast of cold air. She quickly zipped up her jacket and sighed, “It’s a bit cold…”
“Let’s go inside,” Bai Youwei turned her wheelchair, “We can’t reach the shore yet. This boat is heading towards the small island ahead.”
Asarina nodded, “Most likely. I looked around in the cockpit just now, none of the buttons were responsive. The boat is on autopilot.”
One of her underlings climbed up from below the deck and shouted, “Boss, there are loads of fish below the deck!”
“Call me ‘big sister’!” Asarina shouted back, unimpressed, “Call me ‘boss’ again, see if I don’t cut your ears off!”
The underling immediately bowed and nodded, “Big sister, big sister!”
Pan Xiaoxin appeared holding a pile of life jackets, “Sister Weiwei, there are life jackets on this boat, exactly five.”
Bai Youwei noticed the life jackets in his hands and furrowed her brows almost imperceptibly.
Pan Xiaoxin was puzzled. He looked at the life jackets, then at Bai Youwei, “… Is there a problem, Sister Weiwei?”
“We’ll talk about it later, let’s go inside the cabin first,” Bai Youwei responded with a frown, “The wind and waves outside are too strong, let’s all go inside and put on the life jackets.”
The cabin was small, with two rows of benches that could barely fit six people when squished together. In the front was the cockpit, even narrower and only enough room for one person.
The wind and waves were strong at sea. They sat wobbly inside the cabin as it got darker outside. The dim yellow boat light made a creaking sound, as if it would suddenly be extinguished under the jolts at any moment.
Asarina sniffed the smell of the life jacket on her body and grimaced, “It stinks of fish. I bet the fish on this boat are supposed to be our food supply for the maze.”
“The food we brought can last for two days …” said her underling, in a whisper.
Asarina’s two underlings were almost of the same height and build, both stocky and sunburned, with short cropped hair. Bai Youwei could not distinguish between the two of them; she only knew one was called Along and the other Aqing.
Bai Youwei asked them, “Are you good swimmers?”
Asarina was taken aback, “Why, are you worried something might happen to the boat?”
Bai Youwei nodded, “In the mazes I’ve encountered before, the system doesn’t specifically provide tools. If this maze really is on that island, I don’t think the system would have provided us with life jackets. We might be forced into a situation where we have to swim.”
Everyone was stunned and turned their heads to look outside through the mottled glass window.
The sky was dark, and visibility was blurred, but they could still see the fishing boat heading towards the island, and it was getting closer.
“Could it be, something will happen to us on the way? Or is there something wrong with this ship?” Asarina looked out, puzzled, “What kind of a maze is this…”