Yang Yi halted all his actions to watch the news, and then he increasingly felt that if this passenger ship capsizing incident was not an accident or coincidence, then it must be insurance fraud.
The news had already reported that all the passengers on the ship had been rescued, especially that over three hundred children had been safely evacuated.
Nowadays, TV stations are very powerful, having thoroughly covered everything from the ship capsizing to organizing the rescue, to the reactions of the children’s parents onboard.
Until the afternoon, everyone including Yang Yi believed it was just a normal accident, perhaps the ship had just hit a reef, but with no casualties, it wasn’t considered a particularly major disaster.
The Coast Guard Command organized a special rescue team, but when the Coast Guard Command announced that the search and rescue were suspended due to bad weather, the sea surface clearly appeared very calm on the news footage.
Civilian rescue teams were also told there was no need to proceed with the rescue, and everything seemed as if there was nothing serious.
However, in the end, Yang Yi, as a bystander, discovered everything was a vicious lie.
There were still over three hundred people trapped inside the ship, and the vast majority were children from the same school.
When Yang Yi stood up in shock and remained motionless while watching the news, Kate shrieked, "Oh God! This is murder!"
The atmosphere began to shift with the explosive news that passengers were still trapped onboard.
From an insignificant shipwreck incident, it turned into a major accident with a large number of casualties because the loss of a sunken ship was just about money, but over three hundred lives couldn’t be measured with money.
Yang Yi said tremblingly, "This is murder, this is really murder!"
From the footage seen on the news, Yang Yi felt an incredible shock at the incompetence of the Daxinganling government, but after a brief period of shock, what he felt was indescribable anger!
This was a conspiracy.
The news continued, the Blue Palace was still issuing instructions to the Coast Guard’s rescue department, private rescue teams began to move, and the trapped children’s parents started to cry out in despair.
But Yang Yi, as a bystander, was so consumed by the fire of anger in his heart that he was about to lose his reason.
Perhaps Yang Yi was indeed one of the earliest people in the world to come into contact with the truth, so while the majority of people were still distressed and grieved by the accident, Yang Yi only felt anger.
"So this is the ’big event’ Park Ji-yi and Bu Cunzai were talking about, they really joined forces to pull off something big!"
Just then, Yang Yi’s phone rang, he answered the call, and then he heard Anton speak in a heavy voice, "Someone from the Anderson Research Association has come to Park Ji-yi’s house, they got into an argument, here is their recording."
An extremely angry voice was heard screaming, "You really did it! How dare you do this! Don’t you know how foolish it is to draw the whole world’s attention to yourselves?"
Park Ji-yi responded coldly, "This is none of your business, and who are you to be accusing me?"
After a moment of silence, the speaker said with hatred, "You’re crazy, all of you are crazy!"
The dialogue ended, and Anton’s heavy voice continued, "Just these two sentences."
Yang Yi took a breath and said, "Just these two sentences, it seems the Anderson Research Association had some inkling of Park Ji-yi’s intentions, but they didn’t realize the consequences would be so severe. I knew it, the Grey-cloaked People wouldn’t be this insane."
Anton asked in a heavy voice, "What shall we do?"
"Park Ji-yi is the owner of Zhenhai Shipping Company, and he will definitely be implicated in this matter; keep a close eye on him."
After hanging up the phone, Yang Yi stared at the television screen, mumbling to himself, "But why would this happen?"
Xiao Ran said coldly, "The slanted teaching, don’t you know about the mass suicide incident involving more than 900 people of the People’s Temple in ’78?"
Yang Yi exhaled deeply, his voice trembling, "I thought of that, but I scarcely dare believe it. If those trapped on the ship are not part of the slanted teaching, then they are, they’ve been..."
Xiao Ran coldly said, "Sacrificed!"
Some events occur that seem utterly inconceivable, absurd, an insult to human intelligence, yet they happen all the same.
Yang Yi sat in his chair momentarily stunned, unable to accept what was happening before his eyes. Although he disliked this country and its people, and lacked a compassionate heart, he still felt sorrow for those innocent victims, and his anger was a normal human response.
Finally, Yang Yi picked up the phone, and his first call was to Anton.
"Ghost, no matter where Park Ji-yi goes, track him and absolutely do not let him escape!"
After speaking with Anton, Yang Yi called Brian. Once Brian answered, he said in a grave tone, "It’s now quite clear that Park Ji-yi isn’t the main character in this affair. Find a way to keep an eye on Bu Cunzai. I know it’s hard, but find a way to track him."
Brian whispered over the phone, "This matter is actually none of our business. Our target is the Grey-cloaked People, not to act as justice-spreading superheroes. If we focus all our efforts on this, we won’t be able to maintain the necessary attention on the Grey-cloaked People."
Yang Yi spoke softly, "I understand, but an event has occurred, and we might be among the very few who have touched upon the truth, and we also have the ability to do something about it. So, do you want to be a superhero, just this once?"
Brian was silent for a long while, finally saying, "Sometimes, it feels pretty good to be a superhero."
"Then go ahead and do it."
"I’m giving you a piece of advice. You can be a superhero, but it’s best not to be a hero who reveals the truth. We aren’t suited to play that role."
Yang Yi let out a sigh, saying, "I understand, and as for the superhero you mentioned, in our tradition, we call that a knight-errant."
Yang Yi ended the call, and Xiao Ran spoke beside him in a grave tone, "What now, you want to be a chivalric hero who can’t pass injustice without getting involved?"
Yang Yi said with a serious expression, "If there’s injustice on the road and someone steps in, I will not expose my identity, but I don’t want to be a silent bystander either. Sometimes, silence is complicity in evil. We aren’t moral paragons, but if I ignore such matters, my conscience will trouble me."
Just then, Yang Yi’s satellite phone rang, and he answered the call only to hear Elvin’s voice gravely saying over the phone, "The situation is more serious than we imagined."
"Yes, the situation is serious."
Elvin whispered, "I mean, the whole affair is much more serious than I had imagined, especially concerning the Anderson Research Association and the CA Information Resources Company behind it. The intelligence from CA Information Resources Company is the first we’ve obtained. You’ve all done very well."
Yang Yi spoke softly, "I thought you were talking about the sinking ship incident."
"The sinking ship incident is serious, but the CA Company is more important, Sea God. Now we’d like you to find out if there’s a relation between Mei Zheren and the CA Company, and what that relation is."
Yang Yi let out a sigh, saying, "I understand. I’ll look into it. If there’s nothing else, I’d like to hang up now; I’m very busy."