Recognizing that it was Sheila's voice, Tina rushed to the guest room. "Don't be afraid, Sheila. I'm coming. I'll get you out of here right away." She twisted the handle and opened the door.
The suite was very large, and the decorations were gorgeous yet elegant. The layout consisted of a living room, two bedrooms, and a balcony with a mini swimming pool.
Tina saw her best friend in a sexy black lace lingerie in the living room after rushing into the door and passing through the porch. She was pressed on the carpet by a heavy sofa.
The girl was shocked and rushed over to move the sofa forcefully. "Sheila, you, why are you dressed like this in the living room and pressed down by the sofa?"
"It's all that damn coward Dubin's fault! I could see that he was sincere in pursuing me, so I invited him to the living room for a 'chat'. In the end, the ground suddenly shook and I was pinned down by the sofa. That damn coward ran away without even looking back."
"Oh? Chatting while dressed like this on the sofa in the living room? Looks like you've become more and more 'elegant' after Shittu left. Unfortunately, your partner is a bastard!" Tina lifted the sofa with all her strength and shouted, "Lisheng! Quick! Help me drag Sheila out!"
After following Tina into the room and seeing Sheila's revealing clothes, Zhang Lisheng calmly walked forward and only reached out to drag Sheila out from under the sofa when he heard the girl's scream.
"Hey Lisheng, I'm not a sack. Can't you be gentler?
Can I grab their shoulders? No one saves people by grabbing their hair and dragging them. "
"Stop talking, Sheila. Haven't I already rescued you?"
"Stop talking, both of you. Sheila, let me see how your injury is. Does it hurt here?" Seeing that her best friend was out of danger, Tina slammed the sofa down with a 'thud' and began to check Sheila's injuries.
Under the dim emergency light, she saw that there were no obvious injuries on Sheila's body. She breathed a sigh of relief and began to press the most vulnerable joints on her best friend's body. She asked, "Does it hurt here?"
"It doesn't hurt."
"What about here?"
"Haha … no."
"Here?"
"It doesn't hurt, but the places you touched are very itchy."
"That means you're not injured at all. You're just scaring yourself." Zhang Lisheng said in his deep voice by the side, "Tina, looks like you're really the wisest and calmest one among your friends."
Sheila was stunned for a moment. Hesitantly, she slowly moved her hands and feet before slowly standing up. "I'm really fine. Let's go look for Trish now. I hope she's fine too …"
While the girl was talking, Trish suddenly ran in from the open door.
"Oh, Trish, thank you for coming. I'm sorry for quarreling with you at noon. It's my fault …" When the three friends gathered together, Sheila looked at Trish's anxious look and her eyes turned red as she apologized guiltily.
"No, Sheila, I'm also at fault. I heard what you said just now. Thank you …"
"There's no time for this nonsense. Since everyone is fine, we'd better go to the deck and gather with the others."
Zhang Lisheng said as he strode out of the guest room. Outside the door, he looked left and right at the empty corridor while chanting witchcraft incantation 'pst shh …'.
Not long after, a giant sticky tongue that looked like a hammer penetrated the cabin wall in a flash. Then, a toad that was only a few centimeters tall with black smoke lingering all over its body leaped out of the hole in the wall. When it landed, its body expanded to the size of a basketball and jumped into the young man's arms.
"W-What's that?" Sheila, who had just walked out, asked in shock.
"Do you remember the story that I told you about the Amazon? That's Mountoad."
"B-Isn't that just a fairy tale?"
"That's real, Sheila. It's my and Trish's personal experience. Let's go, dear. It's better for us to stay by Lisheng's side now.
No matter what happens, he'll protect us, "Tina said as she pulled the two sisters' hands and strode forward. Following closely behind Zhang Lisheng, they ran to the deck along the cabin corridor.
"Protect us? Just with that giant toad?" On the way, Sheila asked while running staggeringly with the help of the dim emergency light.
"That toad can easily kill everyone on this ship and swallow them into its stomach. Don't ask anymore, Sheila. Let's talk after we're out of danger."
"Trish, you said so too? Sh * t! You're a Catholic! Oh …" Just when they ran out of the cabin, a strong searchlight swept across, causing Sheila to gasp in shock.
At this time, the Elizabeth Holiday's first deck near the bow was already filled with people. More than half of them were injured, but it was fortunate that most of them were insignificant skin injuries.
Many of the guests were only wearing their pajamas. Some of them even rushed to the deck naked with bed sheets and quilts draped over their bodies. As the searchlight that had just been turned on at the bow slowly turned, the two huge stone pillars that clamped the cruise ship tightly on both sides of the hull came into their sight.
The stone pillar had a diameter of at least more than ten meters and a height of more than 100 meters. When the searchlight swept across, a lifelike sculpture of a four-faced, three-headed ferocious giant appeared on the pillar wall, causing people to exclaim in surprise.
After passing by the stone pillar, the strong light shone on the mountains that were densely covered with trees in the distance. At first glance, the ship must have been stranded on a huge island or a peninsula protruding from the front of the mainland.
Upon seeing such a landscape, even an idiot who knew nothing about geography would not think that they were still in the sea area near New York.
"Oh my God! What the f * ck is this place? Where are we?"
The captain, who had already rushed back to the steering room of the ship, could not be bothered to scold his men anymore. Instead, he was urging his men who were already in a mess to try to restart the engine to see if they could make use of the one-in-ten-thousandth chance of the tide to return to the sea. When he saw the mountain jungle that flashed by outside the window, his body froze right away as he cursed loudly.
"S-Sir, t-this should be a big island in Africa or South America. I've seen this phenomenon in the TV show 'Strange Tales' before. W-We must have encountered a space door and crossed half of the ocean before crashing into the stone pillar …"
"Don't shirk your responsibility, Harry! If you'd stayed in the steering room, we wouldn't have crashed into the middle of those two damn pillars no matter what door we crossed.
To think that I recommended you to take over my position in front of Mr. Hofner two years later! Looks like there's something wrong with my eyesight! "
"S-Sir, y-you went to see the executive director of the Ocean Shipping Company to recommend me to take over as the captain!"
"This matter is no longer important. What's important is that we've encountered a shipwreck out of nowhere. It's fortunate that the damage to the ship's hull is not very serious, and it's not to the point where we have to abandon the ship yet.
Everyone, listen up! The first thing we need to do now is to comfort the passengers' emotions. Unlike in the past, most of the guests on our ship this time are young people in their teens and twenties. When they encounter an emergency, their emotions will fluctuate more and it'll be more difficult for them to control.
It's fortunate that our ship's service staff is also full for the sake of hosting this party. Manager Fernand, I need you to organize all the waiters on the ship to send a blanket, a bottle of drinking water, and a bag of convenient food to each of the guests.
Harry, gather all the sailors to be ready to release the life raft at any time. If any customer asks, don't hide it but explain that it's just a precaution.
Adelaide, as the navigator, you're the person who is most familiar with the nautical instrument on our ship. Now, it's time for you to show your professionalism. Go and carefully check the navigation coordinates recorded on the nautical instrument. You must be patient and carefully check meter by meter. If you find any abnormal records, report it to me immediately.
Alessandro, you'll stay at the helmsman's position and listen to my orders. Be ready to turn the rudder at any time and give your full attention, young man! You must give your full attention … "The captain calmed down from the shock and began to issue his orders in a solemn and methodical manner.
Looking at the old man's calm and dignified manner, the ship service manager suddenly whispered in his good friend's ear, "Buddy, I suddenly feel that you're still far from Captain Fjodna. No wonder he's not willing to let you take control of the ship's navigation alone."
"I think so too, Fernand. Looks like I'm really an idiot who overestimates myself. I don't have the ability to become a captain at all!" The first officer, Harry, gritted his teeth and whispered, "But I'll make up for it and prove that I can be a competent first officer.
Let's go, Fernand, let's carry out Sir's order. We must not make any more mistakes. "
Just like this, under the captain's order, the leaders of each part of the Elizabeth Holiday took on the responsibility of dealing with the situation. The entire shipwreck self-rescue system of the ship began to operate quickly.
Very soon, blankets, clean water, and bagged pastries were delivered to everyone. With the blankets blocking the cold wind on the sea at night, their mouths that were so nervous that they were parched were also moisturized by the cold clean water. The panic and excitement of the crowd on the deck soon calmed down.
Zhang Lisheng mixed in the crowd and drank a mouthful of clean water. Looking at the dark coast in the distance, he suddenly whispered, "Tina, I want to go to the shore to have a look since it's dark …"
"Don't go, Lisheng. The stone pillar that's blocking the cruise is so strange. I'm afraid that you'll be in danger if you go ashore at night."
"What you said makes sense." Upon hearing the girl's words, Zhang Lisheng pondered over it carefully. Without warning, his mouth moved slightly. "In that case, I'll clear a safe place first."
As the young man's mouth emitted a strange 'pst shh …' sound that was so faint that ordinary people would not be able to detect it, a loud sound of rolling waves resonated clearly on the dark sea next to the cruise ship.
After it appeared, the sound gradually drifted away. Not long after, the sound of trees and stones cracking resonated from the coast, along with a scream that sounded like a human's.
Due to the installation angle, after the ship was sandwiched in the middle of the huge stone pillar and was grounded, the searchlight could not illuminate the scene in front. The inexplicable sound that suddenly resonated from an unknown place immediately caused a new panic among the crowd on the deck.
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