The Lost Tomb : The Southern Archives Mysteries

Chapter 36: Bai Zhu

He Jianxi hid in the lifeboat. The place was very cold as he huddled in the corner next to the seat.

He had been an accountant for a private winery. Every day, he had to withstand other people's negative emotions whenever he collected the accounts. Then, his boss suddenly committed suicide. After getting on a barge, he was quickly robbed and then thrown off the ship. He floated on the sea for a long time with no island in sight. He then climbed onto an iron ship and became a stowaway. Ten minutes after that, he witnessed a mass murder and then turned into an abductor.

He had been cautious all his life. There were some flaws with working in the bootleg business, but he was frank and had a clear conscience. But in the span of three or four days, he had committed a lot of serious crimes.

No matter how honest he was, he didn't have the confidence to explain everything clearly.

He couldn't even imagine how this kind of situation would end anymore. He could still blame Zhang Haiyan in the beginning, but now that he was in a daze, he understood it all clearly. He had encountered this kind of change because he was unlucky.

What else would happen? Would he be shot dead? He thought of his boss. Death wasn't unusual in this kind of world, right? Or could he get away and act as if everything had been a dream?

At this moment, he suddenly heard a noise outside. He secretly opened a gap in the canvas covering the lifeboat and saw Steven walking outside. He was dragging a young girl behind him.

The girl had been shot and was tied up with a belt, but she wasn't dead yet.

He Jianxi recognized her. He had met her when Zhang Haiyan asked him to smell the people in the third-class cabin's steerage area.

She was one of the two girls who had attacked Zhang Haiyan after the two of them had climbed onto the ship. At that time, he remembered one girl had shoulder-length hair and the other girl had hair that reached her ears. This girl had shorter hair, so her name should be Bai Zhu.

Bai Zhu gritted her teeth through the pain as Steven pointed a gun at her head and furtively looked around. When he saw that no one was around, he took a deep breath and said to Bai Zhu, "You're my first Asian woman. I hope we'll both feel impressed at the end of the day." With that said, he pushed Bai Zhu's upper body against the lifeboat that He Jianxi was in and started to take off her pants.

Bai Zhu's figure was very good, and people could tell at a glance that she was good at swimming since she had long legs.

Bai Zhu clenched her teeth as Steven began to take off his pants. The pain made her break out in cold sweat and He Jianxi wondered if she even had the strength to sense what was about to happen next. He then heard Bai Zhu say, "Kill me first."

"I heard that Native American women used to say things like this as well." Steven was so excited that he was panting. "My uncle told me that I can't cut the scalp first. I have to grab the woman by the hair while I fuck her. Otherwise, the flies will soon show up." As he lifted Bai Zhu's shirt up, her blood began to flow down the side of the ship. When Steven saw the blood, he decided to put Bai Zhu's upper body into the lifeboat.

Bai Zhu saw He Jianxi inside the lifeboat. He Jianxi looked at her, but didn't know what to do.

Steven was still trying to take off his pants. When he finally succeeded, he spit in his hands, looked around again, and then put the gun on the edge of the lifeboat. From He Jianxi's position, all he had to do was raise his hand and he could reach it.

Bai Zhu didn't know who He Jianxi was, but she didn't scream. Instead, she looked at him calmly and said, "Kill me."

"I'll shoot you in the back of the head the moment I feel comfortable," Steven said from outside the lifeboat. "I heard you'll squeeze tightly if I do that."