Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 300 - 53_2

Chapter 300: Chapter 53_2

Xu Wen’s way of doing things was upfront, which made him feel that this approach was rather dull; he didn’t want his joy to be built on the suffering and manipulation of innocent others.

Interestingly, when he resolved to treat Li Lan as a collection of mistakes and did the opposite of her usual approach, he was indeed upholding humanity.

Outside, gazing through the glass, Tan Wenbin asked Run Sheng somewhat puzzled: "Why isn’t Brother Xiao Yuan speaking?"

Run Sheng shook his head: "When Xiao Yuan doesn’t speak, it means there’s no need to speak."

After pondering for a moment, Tan Wenbin said: "What kind of nonsense is that?"

But soon, a turning point occurred.

The woman calmed down and began to speak on her own. There were no screams, no hysterics, just sitting there, narrating normally.

Unfortunately, the volume was too normal, so it couldn’t be heard from outside.

This made Tan Wenbin so anxious he clawed at his head, wishing he could rush in and listen.

Run Sheng incomprehensively asked: "What are you anxious about?"

"Isn’t it obvious? If we go in now, we can hear everything firsthand. Once Brother Xiao Yuan comes out and tells us, it’ll only be his condensed summary."

"Isn’t that good?"

"My mistake, why am I even discussing this with you."

Looking into the visiting room, the woman’s demeanor had returned to normal.

Li Zhiyuan knew his "empathy" hadn’t failed him; he had caught the peach.

Xu Wen successfully provoked the woman, inducing her emotional breakdown, then she left, creating a better situation for herself.

If Li Lan were here, she would never have made such a basic mistake.

"I advised him not to go down with them, but he wouldn’t listen, and moreover, he persuaded me to go down too."

"You went down?"

"Yes, I went down, and I shouldn’t have."

"I’m curious, what’s down there?"

"A very, very big place, it has the sun, the moon, and stars."

"You mean, under the sea?"

"You don’t believe it?"

"I believe it."

"Outside there, there are many sunken ships."

"There should be many treasures then."

"There are, but they are hard to find, because these ships are broken, apart from a few special ones."

"How are they special?"

"Most are wooden and a few are not, all buried under the sea sand, only a bit exposed. It’s located in a turbulent area, impossible to excavate. Over the years, anything there would have been blown away or buried deep."

"What a pity, so that’s why you went in?"

"Yes, we went in, and once inside, we could remove our oxygen masks. There’s a dry land where we could surface and see the sun and stars."

The sun and stars...

Li Zhiyuan recognized that the woman was very lucid now, and this unlikely juxtaposition of sun and stars might carry a special meaning.

Limited by his lack of relevant professional knowledge, Li Zhiyuan could not scientifically determine whether such a place could genuinely exist underwater, but he felt the woman was not lying.

Still need to go to university, huh.

"Were you guys the first to go in?"

"I was, but not my husband; it was his second time."

"Does a sailor’s job include these things?"

"It depends how you interpret it. This is just a job, and a job isn’t everything in life. Actually, our salaries are quite high, but the profits from smuggling very little reaches us. My husband was envious and wanted to make big money quickly, so he would never have to go to sea again, and so did I."

"Got it, how many people went down altogether?"

"I can’t remember exactly, but it should be about a dozen."

"So many?"

"Because we were just leading the way."

"Who asked you to lead the way?"

"There were supposed to be two groups, both under the guise of marine ecological conservation organizations. One group’s leader was Honda, the other’s was Ashley, the latter being British."

"Supposed to be?"

"Another was a new sailor named Zhu Changyong, he was close to my husband, but my husband said he came for this place as well."

"So three groups asked you to lead the way, how was the profit shared?"

"The payment for leading was already quite high, with a share given afterwards too."

"Continue telling me what happened after you went in, I want to hear what’s really inside."

"Inside there was a wall, on which there was a very large door, but this door couldn’t be opened. Honda said it served a decorative purpose, it’s solid and sealed inside. From the time it was built, there was never any intention to open it again for outsiders."

"How did you get in then?"

"There was a crevice between the top of the wall and the cave, it might have been airtight at the beginning, but over time, it detached from the wall. We climbed up and then crawled through.

After entering, I then saw..."

The woman’s face betrayed pain and struggle.

Li Zhiyuan stopped pressing, patiently waiting.

After a moment, the woman composed herself, her voice trembling as she continued, "After entering, we realized it was the same place we came from."

Li Zhiyuan frowned slightly and asked: "How long did the crawling process take?"

"Ten minutes, because it’s very narrow, and we could only crawl forward with the equipment."

"That’s quite long, then what are you afraid of, even if you crawled in and came back out again?"

"That was the place we came from."

"Uh-huh, you mentioned that."

The woman looked at Li Zhiyuan and said word by word, "At the place we came from, there were also us from before."

Li Zhiyuan instinctively straightened up.

He understood the fear.

"And then...?"

"They started fighting."

"They?"

"I was the last one to crawl out. According to Honda and Ashley’s instructions, my husband and I had to be one at the front and one at the back.

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