Chapter 129: Hidden

When ordinary people could only see the black outline of the large ship on the sea, Zuo Zhicheng had already clearly seen the specific appearance of the ship’s hull through the farsightedness and Night Vision ability of his left eye.

It was a large ship completely made of steel. Not only that, the entire ship had no mast at all. Instead, a large chimney was continuously emitting thick smoke.

Seeing this, Zuo Zhicheng’s heart sank again. The ship driven by these Ghouls was actually a steamship. He did not know whether they sailed it from the West or built it on the East Coast. No wonder the army of Great Qi had never discovered them. This kind of steamship could run day and night, had stronger power than human force, could sail against the wind, and was much faster than ordinary ships.

Zuo Zhicheng frowned tightly. It seemed impossible to rely on the passenger ship under his feet to escape from those Ghouls. But if he wanted to fight them on the ship…

He switched the mode of his right eye. In his Infrared Vision, dozens of purple sparks rose from the sea in the distance, mixed with a few orange flames, showing the strength of the other side.

It seemed that when Zuo Zhicheng interrogated Victor before, the other party did not lie. The strength of this group of Ghouls was enough to sweep across the entire Xinlu. Even Zuo Zhicheng might not be their match.

And now they were on the sea, with nowhere to escape, lacking strategic buffer.

‘It’s impossible to fight them head-on…’ Thinking of this, Zuo Zhicheng looked at Lin Hongsheng and the others behind him. ‘We can only find a way to hide first.’

With this thought, he turned and walked towards Lin Hongsheng and the others.

They were still excited and happy, seeing a ship coming from afar.

“Great, it should be another cargo ship. We can ask them to help us.”

“No one on our side can sail the ship. We can ask them to come aboard.”

But while they were still immersed in the excitement of surviving the disaster, Zuo Zhicheng rushed forward and knocked them out one by one with punches.

The others saw that the situation was bad and wanted to leave, but they were injured or unconscious. How could they escape from Zuo Zhicheng? In a short while, everyone on the deck was knocked down and unconscious.

Zuo Zhicheng estimated that with the heavy blows he had dealt, each of these people would be unconscious for more than ten hours, and some might even have aftereffects. But he could not care about such details now.

After knocking out Lin Hongsheng and the others, Zuo Zhicheng ran to his room, removed the arrangements in the room, and pulled Jiang Qing out from under the bed.

“What happened?” Jiang Qing saw that Zuo Zhicheng was covered in blood and asked worriedly, “Are you injured?”

“I’m fine.” As he spoke, Zuo Zhicheng took off his clothes and washed the blood off his feet. “I took care of everyone on the ship, but they have accomplices. Come with me now to hide.”

“Hide? But where can we hide?”

While speaking, Zuo Zhicheng had already changed into a spare set of clothes and burned his blood-stained cloak and coat. Then he took out two special sets of clothes from the wardrobe.

“Put this on.” Zuo Zhicheng said coldly.

Seeing the clothes made of unknown animal skin, Jiang Qing asked doubtfully, “What is this?”

“It’s a Diving Suit I prepared, made of goat skin. It can waterproof and keep warm. You wear the spare one.” As he spoke, Zuo Zhicheng had already put on the Diving Suit himself. “But both are made to my measurements. Try to wear it as best as you can.”

“Diving? But why do we need to dive?” Jiang Qing also started putting on the Diving Suit upon hearing this, but she was still somewhat confused.

“I took out their vanguard. After they occupy the passenger ship, they will definitely search the entire ship. There is nowhere to hide on this ship, so we need to go into the water and dive onto their ship.”

The more critical the moment, the calmer Zuo Zhicheng seemed. He said with a composed expression, “Although it is already summer, the sea temperature here at night is only 15 to 20 degrees at most. Wearing the Diving Suit is to help you maintain your body temperature. If you get a fever or catch a cold at such a time, it would be too dangerous.”

“And we also need to prepare for the situation where we cannot dive.” While explaining, Zuo Zhicheng prepared a grappling hook. “If we are left on the sea surface without a Diving Suit, we would die after being in the water for at most twelve hours.”

After he finished all the preparations, he looked up at Jiang Qing. “Ready?”

“Ready.” Jiang Qing followed Zuo Zhicheng somewhat nervously, but looking at his calm and composed demeanor, she felt a sense of reassurance for some reason.

As they spoke, the two had already reached the deck. Zuo Zhicheng suddenly turned back and asked, “By the way, can you swim?”

Jiang Qing grew up in Xinlu Port, so of course she could swim. Zuo Zhicheng saw her nod and immediately held her as he jumped towards the sea surface.

With a splash, the two jumped into the water together. Jiang Qing placed her hands on Zuo Zhicheng’s shoulders, while he swung the grappling hook and hooked it onto the edge of the ship.

Just a few minutes after they entered the water, the vast and distant sound of a horn rang out again. But this time, to Zuo Zhicheng’s ears, it was already close at hand.

‘They came so fast.’ As Zuo Zhicheng thought this, the sound of the horn in his ears became more urgent and closer.

‘That’s right, do they communicate with each other through the horn sounds?’ Just as Zuo Zhicheng made this judgment in his heart, the ship suddenly shook. It was because the other side’s large steel ship had lightly bumped into the passenger ship.

However, Zuo Zhicheng had specifically chosen the back of the passenger ship, so the other side could not spot them.

After waiting for a while, they heard bustling noises from the deck, with various kinds of wild laughter, clamor, and curses continuously coming through. There was the language of Westerners as mentioned by Victor and others, the native tongue of the New Continent, and the official language spoken by people of Great Qi.

‘It seems this group of Ghouls has a complex composition.’ While thinking this, Zuo Zhicheng had already retrieved the grappling hook and, holding Jiang Qing’s hand, slowly swam towards the other side’s large steel ship.

As they swam, bursts of angry shouts and curses came from the ship. Zuo Zhicheng guessed that the other side had already discovered the deaths of Peter and Victor. However, the other side was speaking in Western languages, so he did not understand the specific meaning.

But this did not stop him from continuing to swim towards the other side’s large steel ship.

It took more than twenty minutes for Zuo Zhicheng and Jiang Qing to swim along the edges of the two ships and slowly reach the north side of the large steel ship.

Jiang Qing looked at the ship’s hull completely made of steel and the height almost twice that of the passenger ship, surprise flashing in her eyes.