Don't Try to Escape, My Wife! novel Chapter 255

“What strange thing?”

 

Samuel spun around, and Dick was startled by him.

 

"The supplies of our ship are rationed, but since we left the Back Sea, the supplies have been reduced, and the ship's medical kits have disappeared. Everyone thought there was a thief, but no one suspicious was found. As you know, this is a freighter, and we have a certain number of sailors on board, but we have less food every day, and at last, we had no choice and went ashore the city nearby to gather some food, and then we came back. Otherwise we wouldnt have survived.”

 

Hearing this, Samuel's hope lit up again.

 

"Your food is all rationed?"

 

"Yes!"

 

“No one stole it?"

 

“It can't be! Our sailors are professionally trained, and as they have been at sea for a long time, it is impossible to be unruly. Everyone knows that, at sea, food and fresh water are the basic things that keep us alive, so no one would do that. But since we pass by the Back Sea in the United States, our food and fresh water have been decreasing, and we cant find who ate it. It is really strange. A lot of people said the ship might be haunting.”

 

As Dick said so, he looked not well.

 

Sometimes after a long time at sea, many people would believe some legends. No matter whether they were scientific or not, they had to believe them. After all, no one could find a reasonable explanation.

 

Samuel didn't think so.

 

The food and water couldn't disappear into thin air, especially that they lost the medical kit.

 

Medicine kit?

 

Did someone get hurt?

 

Could it be Nicole?

 

“Can I go up and check it?”

 

"Yes!"

 

Dick knew that Samuel, the President of Eternal Group, had shipped cargo too, and of course he would not mess up with anything. Besides, the Director of the Port always brought in people himself who wanted to see the cargo. He couldn't stop them.

 

Samuel and Jacob followed Dick to the freighter.

 

The freighter was large and wide, and seemed very empty with all its cargo unloaded.

 

When Samuel got on board, he asked, "Where do you usually rest?"

 

“We have our own room. All rest in yonder room.”

 

Dick pointed to the rest room.

 

Samuel went to check it. It was a dorm room, because all men lived in there, it was messy, and it smelled stinky feet!

 

He held his nose for a look, then stepped back to make sure Nicole wasn't hiding there.

 

“Are there any other places where you can hide people?”

 

"Yes, but we've been down there, and there's nobody. We checked it several times.”

 

“Here,” said Dick, pointing to the store-house under the cabin, "We usually keep our private cargoes for our families and children, which are piled up here. It is strange that the food and water is getting less, but none of these private cargoes are lost.”

 

And when he heard Dick say so, Samuel went down and checked it.

 

Jacob stopped him at once.

 

“Mr. Green, let me go down. It's narrow down here, and it is damp.”

 

“I'll do it.

 

Samuel didn't care.

 

If he could find anything about Nicole, he wouldn't mind the dirty place at all.

 

Seeing him like this, Jacob did not stop him and made way for him.

 

Samuel walked down from Jacob.

 

The storehouse was so low that Samuel had to bend down, unable to straighten himself all the way.

 

The warehouse smelled damp, but because the goods had been removed, it was empty and clear.

 

There was no way to hide people here.

 

Samuel felt a little disappointed.

 

Where would Nicole be if she weren't here?

 

Would it be possible that she did not climb up all alone, but with others?

 

Samuel guessed.

 

Jacob could not see any clues. It was very smelly there and he said in a low voice, “Mr. Green, we'd better go up first.”

 

Samuel didn't say a word, looked at it again, and even walked around every coke oven in the warehouse. Suddenly, he found some hairs.

 

Those were woman's long hair!

 

They were about the same length as Nicole's, and a few of them were stuck in a corner of the warehouse. Because it was dark, it was hard to see them. Samuel would not have found it if he had not walked very carefully round it.

 

He quickly pulled back the long hair, carefully put it up, then whispered, “Let's go back."

 

"Yes."

 

Jacob helped Samuel out of the warehouse.

 

When Dick saw them coming out, and they seemed to have found nothing. “That's all I know, Mr. Green,” he whispered.