Chapter 679: Chapter 679: The Woman in the Wardrobe
Rong Ling’s expression changed slightly: "You’re saying... your fiancé is dead. How did he die?"
The woman, with tears in her eyes, said, "They killed him..."
Rong Ling: "Murder? Why would they kill someone?"
Woman: "Because they wanted the keys to my fiancé’s account. My fiancé was in the coin circle, with assets worth over a billion, and just in his trading account, there was 500M."
M is the unit of measurement in the coin circle, representing millions.
500M, that’s 50 billion.
After speaking, she gratefully said, "Thank you for saving me... Once I’m safe, I will definitely repay you well."
Rong Ling chuckled: "Such a big thing happened, aren’t you gonna call the police?"
The woman suddenly showed a look of collapse: "Is this your first time on a cruise? Cruises like this don’t have police stationed on them."
Rong Ling, seeing this, became even more suspicious: "There may be no police on the ship, but you can still report it. The ship will arrive at the docking Port City tomorrow. If what you say is true, and a murder has occurred on the ship, it means the murderer is still onboard, then the police will handle everything."
The woman shook her head in despair and said, "Don’t you know? The entire cruise ship’s signal has been cut off, and it’s impossible to contact the outside world. My English is not good, but I heard them say... they have taken the Captain and First Officer hostage, and the cruise ship has already deviated from its original course and is about to head for the Public Sea. They’re hunting me down..."
The woman spoke intermittently, and Rong Ling couldn’t understand it for a moment.
He only knew that the woman’s fiancé boarded the ship intending to return to Port City.
Half a month ago, they did a deal in a Southeast Asian country, and that deal earned them over a billion coins, almost sweeping the entire market.
The coin circle is very chaotic.
And there are many Chinese who mix in the coin circle in those Southeast Asian countries, and those Chinese are wealthy and powerful, but all this wealth is ill-gotten.
Most people committed numerous crimes in their home country, evaded the law, smuggled to Southeast Asia, and expanded their influence locally using illegally obtained profits.
Among these people, many are involved in telecom fraud, and some have set up casinos in Southeast Asian countries.
The woman said, "Before this happened, I never knew what my fiancé did. I only knew that he was successful in business with billions in assets. He said he would marry me next year. I thought he was a rich second generation. I had no idea... he was involved in illegal transactions. Not long ago, we were vacationing in Cambodia. One night, he suddenly wanted us to rush back to our country, but we couldn’t book a flight, so we had to transit through Sea City. Once we boarded this cruise, he confessed to me. A while back, he offended a big figure, and that person had declared they would hunt him down. He didn’t dare to stay in Cambodia, so... I realized we were actually fleeing by boarding the ship! Who would have thought that the big figure hired top international assassins who chased us onto this cruise... Last night, they suddenly broke in, took us hostage, and forced us to reveal the blockchain keys."
The coin circle transactions are all conducted through blockchain keys.
Once you have the blockchain keys, you can transfer all the digital currency in the account at once, and unless you use special methods, it’s impossible to trace where it goes.
Rong Ling frowned slightly: "You just mentioned they took the Captain and First Officer hostage."
The woman nodded: "What should I do? I don’t know what to do... They will definitely try to track me down. If they find me, there’s no doubt I’ll be killed! What should I do..."
She was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, her eyes filled with despair.
After all, in the morning, she had watched these ruthless killers stab her fiancé more than thirty times, until the knife blade became dull.
Born in a peaceful era, she had never seen such cruel methods!
The woman said, "If I tell them the blockchain keys, they will definitely find a way to kill me to silence me! So, I pretended not to know, barely surviving until now, and escaped with great difficulty..."
Rong Ling fell silent for a moment: "Do you think hiding here with me, you’ll be safe?"
He grabbed the woman’s collar: "If what you’re saying is true, you will get me killed."
With her hiding in his room, if they tracked her to his room, he would inevitably be implicated.
In hindsight, he should have been less kind, just locked the door from the balcony.
He wasn’t so benevolent, just and unyielding, to risk his life saving a stranger!
The woman grasped his sleeve: "If you find a way to save me, if I manage to escape successfully, I’ll tell you the blockchain keys, and by then, all the money in my fiancé’s account... I can split with you."
Rong Ling shook her hand off: "I don’t need it."
The woman widened her eyes, tears pouring down again.
Just then—
The doorbell suddenly rang.
The woman screamed in fright, and Rong Ling quickly covered her mouth: "Why are you screaming so loudly!"
The woman looked at him helplessly.
Rong Ling said, "Hide, do you understand?"
After saying that, he looked towards the wardrobe behind him and pointed: "Get in!"
The woman scrambled to the wardrobe, crawled in messily, and Rong Ling tightly closed the wardrobe door. He walked to the door and, through the peephole, saw Li Yufei standing outside.
He calmed his mind slightly and opened the door.
Li Yufei stood at the door, seeing him in a bathrobe, his chest exposed, with wet hair not yet dried, looking somewhat unnatural: "Did you just finish showering?"
Through the door, she vaguely heard a woman scream from inside the room.
She was somewhat surprised.
He... wasn’t he alone?
Rong Ling said, "What’s up?"
Li Yufei said, "I can’t connect my computer to the Wi-Fi, my phone has no signal, and I can’t connect a hotspot. I’m here to ask if your phone has any signal?"
Rong Ling’s face turned grim: "Wait a moment."
He returned to the room to get his phone.
Li Yufei: "Can I... come in?"
Rong Ling: "...Hmm."
As soon as Li Yufei entered the room, she glanced and noticed the bed was a bit messy, and there was even a streak of blood at the end of the bed.
She glanced at it and frowned slightly.
Rong Ling picked up his phone and checked the signal—indeed, his phone had no signal.
Dammit!
Could everything the woman said be true!?
If the Captain and First Officer were indeed taken hostage by those killers, this cruise ship was effectively isolated from the world.
Now they were at sea.
Disconnecting all connections to the outside, the entire cruise was undoubtedly a cage on the sea.
While Rong Ling was annoyed, Li Yufei had already walked to the wardrobe.
She vaguely saw the wardrobe door was ajar and reached out to gently push it open, vaguely seeing a person hiding inside.
She was startled and took a step back.
Rong Ling, hearing the sound, looked over and saw her standing at the wardrobe door, slightly alarmed: "What’s wrong?"