Chapter 166: Chapter 166 I Just Want to Survive Chapter 166: Chapter 166 I Just Want to Survive What’s going on?
Lin Qi was frantic.
She saw that everyone else’s collars were unlocked one by one, but only hers remained stubbornly locked.
Everyone gathered around, “Little girl, why isn’t your collar open yet?”
Soone questioned, “Is her collar different from ours?”
Lin Qi said, “I don’t know, it just won’t open.”
Everyone reassured her, “Little girl, don’t worry, the priority is to figure out how to leave this place. Once we’re back to safety, we’ll definitely find a way to unlock this collar!”
“Yeah! Little girl, do you have any other plans?”
Lin Qi put down the code machine and stood up: “Strip them of their clothes.”
The others imdiately set to work, stripping the clothes off the group.
They were all wearing uniform uniforms, which was also a way of recognising identity.
Lin Qi asked, “Who said earlier that they could navigate the ship?”
A short man stepped forward: “I can.”
“Change into this uniform,” Lin Qi handed him the clothes.
The man quickly slipped into the garnts.
Lin Qi also donned a uniform, pinned up her hair, and put on a cap.
Pulling her jacket together, she concealed the collar around her neck, looked around, and addressed them, “Who here can shoot? Or… has decent combat skills?”
The crowd hesitated, full of trepidation.
They didn’t know what Lin Qi’s next step would be, but they were aware of the dangers aboard the ship.
Every mber of this organization was ard.
Naturally, they didn’t dare risk their lives.
The short man turned and mocked, “There are plenty of n here, do they expect a woman to lead the charge? This young lady has such courage, are none of you n up to the task?”
Suddenly, a man in the crowd raised his hand.
“I… I’ve served in the military.”
“I… My ancestors were hunters, my great-grandpa taught to use a hunting rifle.”
Lin Qi instructed, “You four, co here.”
There were a total of six sets of uniforms.
Lin Qi tossed the clothes to them, and after they changed, she led them to the corner and spoke in a low voice: “Next, I’m going to the control room to take over it first, then, we need to send out an alarm.”
She looked at the man who claid he could navigate ships, “Can you handle a cargo ship?”
The man replied, “I’ve piloted fishing boats, not sure about cargo ships! Young lady, my surna is Zhang, Zhang Nan.”
Lin Qi said, “Regardless, we send out an alarm first, wait for rescue. If you can control the cargo ship, change the course, that would be best.”
Another burly man said, “There are spies all over the ship. If we rashly head to the control room, we might get ambushed.”
Lin Qi responded, “That’s why we must take control of those in the control room first. The first objective, send out an alarm, the second, change course. Besides that, we shouldn’t engage in prolonged battles. If we encounter too many enemies, we retreat first.”
“You’ve been in the army, haven’t you?” the man asked, “You truly have the bearing of a commander! If we can be saved, we’ll be forever grateful for your imnse kindness.”
Lin Qi just smiled it off, “It’s nothing big, I just want to live, sa as you.”
“My surna is Li, Li Feng, a retired Marine Corps soldier.”
“Hmm, I’m Lin.” Beyond that, Lin Qi did not reveal her full na.
She took a deep breath and said to them, “Let’s go.”
“Mhm.”
Everyone temporarily returned to their cages.
A few n followed Lin Qi out.
Many days had passed.
Lin Qi had been locked in the hold for so long, once stepping onto the deck and seeing the moon overhead, it felt almost surreal.
A few people in uniforms approached them.
Lin Qi lowered her head and adjusted her cap brim.
Another “Li-surnad” man who had served in the army positioned himself in front of her.
“Why are you covered in blood?”
Suspicion arose in the man’s mind.
Li Feng imdiately said, “So ‘livestock’ were rebellious, and we had to teach them a harsh lesson.”
He had service experience and kept his composure well, playing the part convincingly.
The man warned, “Those are goods that have been bid on. Don’t kill them, or you’ll all be executed.”
“Yes.”
As soon as the man left, Zhang Nan whispered to Lin Qi, “The control room of a typical cargo ship is behind the ship, just go forward to get there.”
“Mhm.”
Lin Qi nodded.
A group of them groped their way to the control room.
Lin Qi knocked on the door.
Soon, footsteps echoed from inside.
The door had just opened when Lin Qi entered. The man inside saw Lin Qi in a uniform, bloodied, with a pungent odor of blood, and covered his nose, “What happened?”
Li Feng also entered, pulling out a small knife and sliced the man’s throat from behind.
The man whimpered and collapsed to the ground.
Lin Qi imdiately called to Zhang Nan, “Co in.”
Zhang Nan entered, glanced at the control room and excitedly said, “I’m familiar with this console!”
Lin Qi commanded, “First, send an alert to the Mariti Bureau.”
“Got it!”
Zhang Nan operated swiftly, sending an alarm to the Mariti Bureau, then opened the radar. Just as he was about to change the course, he was startled to find nurous signal dots appearing on the radar screen nearby.
Zhang Nan alerted, “Ships approaching.”
Lin Qi walked over and looked at the radar screen, “What’s the situation?”
Zhang Nan replied, “Looks like a shipping convoy. I’ll check their identification numbers.”
A minute later, Zhang Nan stated blankly, “Can’t identify, these ships seem to be Ard Ships, identifiers are encrypted.”
Ard Ships?!
The military-experienced Li Feng beca suspicious, “Which country’s Ard Ships?”
Zhang Nan replied, “Don’t know… no national identifiers.”
Li Feng suddenly paused for a while, “Unless they’re private rcenaries, any national ships would show their country as a prefix to the identification number in international waters.”
Lin Qi was stunned, “rcenaries?”
Li Feng continued, “There are many rcenary organizations globally, they’re not affiliated with any country, freely serving anyone who pays.”
Zhang Nan added, “These Ard Ships are closing in on this ship. It’s over, we can’t change the course now, we’ll collide with them, they’ve surrounded us, we have to anchor first.”
Lin Qi decided, “Then we anchor first, and we need to leave imdiately.”
The group left the control room and shut the door.
Lin Qi returned to the hold for a mont, and as soon as she entered, a man approached her, “Trouble… big trouble…”
Lin Qi asked, “What’s wrong?” She thought sothing had happened.
The man said anxiously, “There’s a lot of explosives stacked here in the hold.”
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