Chu Ge wanted to call his dad, but unfortunately, there really was no signal now.
He would talk to him once he got back... Before, he had always felt that if his parents had things they did not want to discuss, he could leave it at that. There was no need to keep asking. Now, there was no way he could hold back his questions. This already touched on the field he cared about and valued most. It was time to lay everything out in the open.
The young couple returned to the ship, which was already heading back. Although the towering waves that had been stirred up had subsided, the sea could not possibly be as calm as if nothing had happened. The waters were still treacherous, and the ship rocked and swayed.
The helmsmen and sailors aboard were tensely working to steer the ship home. These helmsmen were locally recruited veterans who regularly sailed the coastal waters, and they knew this stretch of sea very well. Almost all the foreigners aboard were dead. Only a few attendants who had watched over the casino remained. The furious crowd had rushed in, beaten them all half to death, and locked them in the cabins.
The Secretary-General and several implicated officials, dragged out of their VIP suites, had also been beaten. At this point, who cared what office they held? Weren't those heavily armed foreigners who wanted to kill people working with them?
So they had all been beaten black and blue. Even when Chu Ge returned aboard, he still saw people kicking them.
The thousands of people aboard were in utter disarray, with no one organizing them. Women and children were crying, while others ran around trying to find lifeboats, convinced that the rocking ship was beyond saving.
Some had