This Damned Thirst for Survival

Dinner in the downtown area.

After choosing what he wanted to eat, just as Ye Xun and the others sat down, the young woman who had been humiliated on stage and her husband came over and sat down with them.

The husband's eyes were slightly red, and he said gratefully: "We searched for several days before we found you... On the night of the dance, were you the ones who helped me protest? I really thank you very much."

This couple is newlyweds, the man's name is Li Wei, and the woman's name is He Yao. They boarded the boat because they had no money to buy a house.

He Yao is a woman with a beautiful appearance but a virtuous temperament. She has been wiping her tears silently. Li Wei regretted holding her, wishing to slap himself twice, "I shouldn't have taken you to the dance that night."

He Yao clapped his hands, "There's no way, if we don't participate in other activities on board, even if we successfully disembark, the money we get won't be enough to buy the fancy house."

Li Wei was suffocated, and said in a low voice, "I'm worthless, I'm sorry."

After the two of them calmed down, Zhuo Zhongqiu coughed and asked, "How did you know that boarding a boat can make money?"

Li Wei wiped his face, "The two of us work in a bathing center, she learns massage, and I give customers pedicures. One day when we were at work, we met a rich customer, and he chatted with me. After saying a few words, he gave me two tickets and said that as long as he boarded this ship, he could earn a lot of money."

"We thought the guests were playing tricks on us," He Yao followed in a low voice, "but we checked online and found that these two tickets are worth several thousand. We thought about it all night, gritted our teeth, and hired half of them." The month's leave is on board."

"It's quite strange to say," Li Wei turned to her and said, "When I was giving a client a pedicure that day, I accidentally cut his foot. I thought I would be deducted from my wages, and I was frightened for a long time, but it turned out that The boss didn’t feel any pain, didn’t even mention it, gave me the ticket and left in a hurry.”

While talking, several waiters appeared pushing small carts and put bowls of fish soup on everyone's table.

The fish soup is mellow and fragrant, and there is a piece of fish in each bowl.Wenren swirled the soup several times with a spoon, and the delicious aroma flooded into his nose.

He suddenly remembered what Lisa once said to him, "Don't drink fish soup."

Wen Renlian's hands stopped, and he whispered to the people around him: "Do you remember what I told you before? Don't use fish soup."

Zhuo Zhongqiu nodded and whispered this sentence to another person.

Lu Yi sat next to the couple, and pushed the fish soup aside after being reminded.The husband and wife picked up the bowl without hesitation, but Lu Yi stopped them, "Don't drink."

Li Wei held up the bowl, smelling the umami taste in the bowl and couldn't stop drooling, he asked strangely: "Why?"

Lu Youyou faltered and couldn't speak.

He didn't know why, but there must be a reason for Wen Renlian to say that.

Seeing that he couldn't tell the reason, the couple couldn't resist the temptation of the fragrance and took a sip with the fish soup on their lips.

Kuang Zheng silently checked the contents of the soup with a spoon.

In addition to fish and spices, there are some transparent things like pulp in the soup.

what is this?

He lifted the spoon to his nose and smelled it, and the mouth-watering aroma emanated from the flesh.

This bowl of fish soup can be so fragrant, these pulps should be the key.Even if Kuang Zheng is not greedy, he will feel hungry after smelling this smell.

Li Wei and his wife on the side had already finished their two bowls of fish soup, they smacked their lips, savoring the taste of the fish soup, "This soup tastes really good, there are no thorns in the fish, it makes people want to eat it. "

Li Wei looked at the soup in front of Lu Yi with a look that was not enough, his eyes lit up, "Aren't you going to eat it?"

Lu Yi swallowed, shook his head firmly, "I won't eat."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Wei reached out and took his soup away. Before Lu Yi could stop him, he took a sip from the bowl and said vaguely, "Then give it to me."

For one dinner, they watched others eat in full swing.The six people ate some bread without a taste, and returned to the room.

After carefully closing the door, Ye Xun asked first, "Wenren, what's in the soup?"

Wenren shook his head, "I don't know what's in the soup, the captain's daughter told me this sentence."

Zhuo Zhongqiu dragged his chin and thought for a while, "We still have to listen to what the captain's daughter says, so we don't want to eat it. Anyway, there is no shortage of this bowl of fish soup."

Seeing Kuangzheng's hesitant look, she took the initiative to ask, "Kangzheng, what did you find?"

"The smell of fish soup is very strong, it may be addictive." Kuang Zheng said uncertainly.

Speaking of the aroma, Lu Yi's stomach groaned, and he said with a bitter face: "The smell is too overbearing, smelling like fish soup, I couldn't eat anything just now."

"Be patient," Wen Renlian took out a bag of instant noodles and handed it to him, "Eat this to satisfy your craving."

Lu Yi didn't want to eat it, but couldn't bear the hunger, so he made instant noodles anyway. As soon as the aroma came out, the others joined in and finished the instant noodles with two mouthfuls, leaving no soup leftovers.

Lu Yi was about to cry, "When will this hard life end?"

Late at night, they returned to their respective rooms.In the middle of the night, Seriol was sleeping soundly on the bed, when Kuangzheng suddenly heard two footsteps outside their door.

After a few seconds of silence, the door lock was opened with a "click".

Kuang Zheng's hands under the quilt were clenched into fists.

He kept breathing steadily, and the two people outside the door walked into the room lightly, one walked to Kuangzheng's bed, and the other came to Seriol.

Kuang Zheng's forehead was swept by some machine, and someone whispered, "No fever."

Immediately, the man lifted Kuangzheng's eyelids and took a look, and illuminated them with a lamp, "The eyeballs haven't changed."

In the moment when his eyelids were lifted for a moment, Kuang Zheng recognized that this person seemed to be one of the crew members on the ship.

Another replied: "This one is asymptomatic too, let's go."

After a while, the room returned to silence.

Kuang Zheng waited for a while before opening his eyes.He first got out of bed to check on Serior's safety. Serior's hair was disheveled and he looked extremely happy.After making sure that he was fine, Kuang Zheng walked to the door and looked out through the peephole.

Under the light of the corridor, two crew members in dust suits entered the civilian's room one by one, and occasionally moved a civilian out to the ground.

These civilians seemed to have passed out, and there was no reaction to such a big movement.Their faces were flushed and their breathing was short of breath, as if they had a fever.

Soon, the whole area was inspected.The two crew members dragged the people in the corridor away, and Kuang Zheng saw Li Wei and He Yao among the people being dragged away.

Li Wei's face was even scarier, and his chest heaved violently.

The two crew members dragged away dozens of people, and it was already an hour after the last person was dragged away.

Kuang Zheng loosened his stiff muscles, he put a glass against the door, sat beside Seriol and watched over him until dawn.Kuang Zheng woke up Seriol only after there were sounds of other people's activities outside.

At breakfast, the six met.Thankfully, none of them were taken by the crew.

Ye Xun's first sentence after seeing them was: "The fish soup last night was given sleeping pills."

There are many more problems before them.

Why did the crew give them sleeping pills?Where did they take those people?

There were more than 20 people missing at once, not only a few of them were corrected, but other people found something wrong.People around me disappear without a sound, which is an extremely frightening thing.The crew member on duty in the dining room is Cheng Li. Someone kept asking him where those people went. He was too lazy to answer at first, but finally got annoyed by the question, and said distractedly: "Those people had a fever last night. In order to prevent Infected, we moved sick people to another location."

"Where is the other place?" A girl asked anxiously.

Cheng Li cursed impatiently, "The hold, it's all in the hold!"

Some people couldn't bear it anymore, "Why do you have such an attitude?"

Cheng Li smiled coldly, "If you have the ability, go and complain to me."

The friction between the civilian area and the crew soon spread to the wealthy area.

Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu looked at each other, planning to find a chance to visit the friends in the civilian area.

The day passed without incident.In the evening, Jiang Luo and the two went to the auction hall and sat at the end of the crowd.

The person who presides over this auction is the captain.Before the auction, the captain gave an affirmative time with a smile on his face, "Three days later is the most suitable time to eat blood eels, and the first batch of diners are only ten people. We do not adopt the form of bidding on the surface, but by All the guests write down their names and the prices they can afford on the paper, and we use the top ten from high to low."

This method is quick and simple, but it has great psychological torture for the rich.Jiang Luo and Ge Zhu didn't care, they had no money at all.

When writing the price, the two of them directly voted on the blank roll.

The captain led the crew to sort out the price list, and 10 minutes later, the captain returned to the stage with the list: "Congratulations to these ten gentlemen and ladies who have won the qualification to taste blood eels in three days' time."

"Mr. Zhao Juezhi, Miss Yin Na..."

Every time the captain uttered a name, the faces of the rich people who were not uttered turned pale.Jiang Luo was just about to eat melon seeds to watch a play, he said to Ge Zhu, "Look at the one in the first row, his face is all yellow."

After reading the ninth name, many rich and powerful people had already looked downcast, and some people raised their hands unwillingly: "Captain, can we still bid again?"

The captain glanced at him apologetically: "I'm sorry, the list cannot be changed after selection. But you can wait for the second batch of blood eels to taste, and the results of the second batch are also very good."

He then read out the last name: "...Mr. Zhong Wei."

Before Jiang Luo realized who "Zhong Wei" was, Ge Zhu had already turned his head to look at him dumbfounded, "How could it be you?"