New Identity

Ivy opened her mouth, bewildered and uncertain. "Who exactly are you?"

Ling Chu lowered her head and adjusted her clothes. "People who can get you out."

Get her out?

Ivy froze. From the moment she had been tied up and brought aboard the Nautilus, she had never dared imagine she could leave.

She did not take Ling Chu's words too seriously. If these two could safely retrieve the source of infection from the lower hold and cure her sister, she would already be thanking the heavens.

Ling Chu and Lingering Wind and Fading Moon each picked up a basket of sprouted potatoes, while Xiaoyue carried the basket of moldy green beans. The three of them left the storage room together.

As Ling Chu passed the door, she casually pulled it shut. Ivy then took out a key and locked it from the outside.

The Back Kitchen was at its busiest as lunch was being prepared.

Steam rose from the pots, knives never stopped on the cutting boards, and several kitchen hands were busy washing and chopping vegetables, processing the meat and sea fish that had just been delivered.

No one noticed that the two vegetable delivery workers who had gone in earlier had not come back out.

Ling Chu and Lingering Wind and Fading Moon pretended to throw out the spoiled vegetables, then went back into the Back Kitchen.

Just like that, they had acquired new identities.

Ivy had deliberately found them work that required the least cooking skill. Ling Chu sat down on a low stool, trimming bean sprout roots while opening the Crew Channel.

Ling Chu: "@Stay Away From Gambling, Drugs, and Vice, how's your progress? Xiaoyue and I have successfully blended into the Back Kitchen."

Meanwhile.

Huang Xiaowen had just followed Raine into the reception area on