reckless detective

Chapter 240 The Empress Departs (10)

A crew member opened the door and entered the room, and whispered something in the first officer's ear. Yan Ruyu vaguely heard "I found it", and saw the first officer hurriedly followed the crew out of the room.

Yan Ruyu looked around and saw that there was no one else guarding her, so she whispered to Wu Cuo: "What's going on? What did you two see?"

Wu Cuo also wondered: "I didn't see anything. I was beaten unconscious for no reason. Beast, did you see it?"

Qin Shouru nodded, then shook his head again, "I seem to have seen so many people..."

"and then?"

"I didn't know what they were doing, and I was beaten unconscious without saying a word."

"Grass!" Wu mistakenly cursed, "It's too damn injustice."

Yan Ruyu thought for a while and said, "It's not wrong, they must be doing something bad, they probably broke the law, that's why they are so afraid of being discovered, and even kidnapped the police to cover up the truth..."

Clang...clang...clang...

There was a strange sound.

The three of them were silent, Yan Ruyu raised an eyebrow at the two of them, asking if you heard it too?Two people nodded in reply.

The sound came from a corner of the room.

The room is very large, at least [-] square meters, and it is long. It is loaded with various goods. The large ones include speedboats, motor boats, etc., and the small ones include life jackets and wooden boxes of various colors. I don’t know what is in the wooden boxes.

The three of them were tied up in the middle of the room, their line of sight was blocked by the goods, and they couldn't see the specific situation of the corner where the sound came from.

"Wait a while... soon...success..." Sweat dripped from Wu Cuo's forehead, his shoulders trembled from time to time, and he was obviously struggling to untie the rope that bound his hands.

"call……"

After about 10 minutes, Wu Cuo let out a long sigh of relief, relaxed his body, and finally put his hands in front of him.

His wrists were red from being strangled, and his hands were a little purple from lack of blood.

"I... huh... I'll untie it for you..." Wu Cuo was exhausted, the other party tied a professional sailor's knot, and it took a lot of effort to untie it with the forehand, and Wu Cuo used the backhand.

Soon, all three were untied.

Although he knew that it was unlikely that he would get out, Wu Cuo went to twist the doorknob.

Sure enough, the door was locked from the outside, and someone outside could be heard talking vaguely, who seemed to be the person in charge of guarding them.

"Fuck! Damn it! Damn! I'm scared to death!"

In the corner, Qin Shouru cursed three times in a row, showing that he was really frightened.

"Keep your voice down!" Wu Cuo whispered, walking towards the corner where the sound came from.

When he got closer, he realized that not only Qin Shouru, but also Yan Ruyu was so frightened that his face turned pale and he covered his mouth forcibly so as not to make a sound.

It was an iron cage, like it was used to keep large dogs.

There are two locked in the cage... I don't know if they can still be called human beings.

People are not people, ghosts are not ghosts.

They were swarthy, foul-smelling, and babbling.Their mouths were palpitatingly hollow, with neither teeth nor tongues—the tongues seemed to have been cut off.

One of them was missing an arm—Qi Gen's severed arm, the wound had healed, leaving a hideous scar.

When they saw Yan Ruyu and the others, their eyes were full of longing, and they wanted to reach out and grab them.

"This...you...this is..." Qin Shouru was so frightened that he backed away again and again, and tightly hugged Yan Ruyu's arm.

"This is probably the reason why the chief mate imprisoned us." Yan Ruyu said.

Wu Cuo also frowned and said: "No matter what the situation is, save people first."

"Now is not the time to save people. If we can't communicate, we may cause some trouble."

While talking, Yan Ruyu stretched out her hand and grabbed the arm of one of them protruding through the iron cage, and checked it.

"These marks... black... are they tattoos? It's not like... too rough... It seems to be a wound after healing, but why is it black?
And their tongues..."

Yan Ruyu picked up one of them and carefully observed his mouth, "The wound is smooth, the tongue was cut off with a knife, and it's an old wound...Who cut their tongue?"

Wu Cuo was afraid that the two men would be mentally disturbed and hurt Yan Ruyu, so he stood nervously on guard.

"Which countries does the Empress pass through?" Yan Ruyu asked.

No one answered.

He had no choice but to pat Qin Shouru beside him, and when Qin Shouru recovered, he repeated the question again.

"Ah... that... the countries I passed through... Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore... I can't remember exactly, anyway, I just wandered around in Southeast Asia."

"How long does this ship stay in China?" Yan Ruyu asked again.

"Just half a day, the cruise ship set sail from Vietnam, first to China, then a three-day sea cruise, then Singapore, Hong Kong, continued sea cruise, and finally to Thailand..."

"Vietnam...Vietnam..." Yan Ruyu carefully looked at the two people in the iron cage, "Could it be that they got on the boat from Vietnam?"

Yan Ruyu tried to search for clues from them, but the clothes of these two people were too tattered, as if they were wrapped in several sacks, and they couldn't find any identifying things.

While Yan Ruyu was searching, Qin Shouru who was at the side murmured a few words.

As soon as he said that, the emotions of the two people in the cage instantly became extremely agitated, and they kept scratching the iron cage with their hands.

"Do you understand Vietnamese?" Yan Ruyu asked.

"Some temples and trails in Vietnam are quite beautiful. When I traveled there, I learned a few words from the tour guides. They seem to understand...they should really be Vietnamese."

Yan Ruyu nodded, "Aboard the boat from Vietnam, were they stowaways who boarded the boat secretly? Or were they caught on board?
Who would catch such a person?It wasn't caught on board, it should be a stowaway... Can't survive in the local area? ...and the black mark on the body... I know! "

Yan Ruyu clapped her hands, "It's coal!"

"what?"

"I read a news report in [-] about absentees imprisoned in black coal mines.

The working conditions are extremely harsh, there is a danger of landslides at any time, the food is poor, and the working hours exceed 14 hours a day, almost like slaves.

If he dared to escape, he would be beaten severely if he was caught, and severe enough to have his arms and legs severed.

Those mine owners were devoid of conscience, they killed one to make an example to others, they didn't care about human life at all.

They should have escaped from this small coal mine.The black marks on their bodies were left by injuries.After being injured, he went down the mine without any protection, and the soot fell into the wound, forming the current black mark like a tattoo. "

Yan Ruyu rushed to Qin Shouru and said, "Can you communicate with them? Ask them why they are locked up here."

Qin Shouru spread his hands and shook his head, "I can say hello with my little foreign language, and besides...he is dumb."

Wu Cuo interjected: "I may know why they are locked up here, and what the chief mate plans to do with them."

"Oh?"

"I used to chat with the coast guard when handling cases, and they mentioned this kind of situation - that is, there were stowaways sneaking onto the freighter. Do you know how the people on board deal with these stowaways?"

"How to deal with it?"

"On the high seas, force them to jump into the sea."

(End of this chapter)