Why would there be blue light coming from the dried corpse’s mouth?

Ji Yunshu was puzzled. She quickly pulled out a handkerchief from her waist, wrapped it around her finger, and reached into the dried corpse’s mouth.

She felt around inside several times!

Carefully extracting the glowing object.

She held it in her hand to examine it—it was a night-luminescent pearl.

Extremely small!

The pearl was wrapped in a layer of slightly dried, sticky liquid. It seemed that due to the recent turbulence, it had been expelled from the dried corpse’s stomach.

But why would a night-luminescent pearl be inside the dried corpse?

However—

She had no time to consider this now. She had to find a way to get out of this coffin quickly!

But this heavy coffin was tightly sealed against the deck boards, completely airtight. It was impossible for her to lift it open with her strength alone!

Moreover, the foul odor inside the coffin grew increasingly intense. Ji Yunshu felt her throat becoming uncomfortable, her heart racing extremely fast. That feeling was like being strangled by the neck, gradually suffocating, her head growing dizzy and heavy.

She couldn’t possibly die here, could she?

She clenched her fist and desperately pounded on the coffin wall!

“Is anyone there? Is anyone there? Luo Yang, Xiao Ba…”

She shouted for a long time, but still no one responded.

After quite a while, she suddenly felt a chill at the soles of her feet, as if something had pressed against them, ice-cold, gradually spreading to her back, seeping through her clothes with bone-piercing coldness.

She reached down to touch it and was shocked to realize it was water!

Water?

This meant the ship had been breached!

She realized the crisis. If she couldn’t get out from under this coffin, she would likely sink to the river bottom with Prince Jing’an’s corpse and lose her life.

No, she couldn’t die.

If she died, how could she find Li Chuan? Her ten fingers tightly gripped the coffin opening, trying with all her strength to lift it open, but her strength was too small. The coffin opening didn’t rise even an inch. Instead, more water flowed inside. At this life-or-death moment, though she thought of Li Chuan, she still had to consider Prince Jing’an’s remains right now. So, after failing to lift open the coffin, she braced both hands on Prince Jing’an’s shoulders and pushed upward with all her might, raising Prince Jing’an’s corpse up a few inches to prevent it from touching the water.

After all, this was a dried corpse. If it got wet, it would be ruined!

Outside, due to the hull tilting and being struck three times in succession, the lower cabin was taking on water!

The servants on the ship had originally been hiding inside. These impacts caused them all to sustain injuries, though fortunately not severe and their lives weren’t in danger. Seeing water flooding the bottom of the ship, they quickly rushed out.

As for Shu Tian, with Luo Yang and Xiao Ba’s help, he had killed those several black-clad assassins.

“Second Young Master?” He quickly rushed into the storage room and saw Wen Yu’s entire body pressed against the ship’s wall.

That arm was dripping with blood, extremely terrifying to behold.

Shu Tian rushed in and immediately lifted Wen Yu up.

He carried him out of the storage room!

Xiao Ba and Luo Yang were also injured, their arms cut by broken wine bottle shards, though fortunately the wounds weren’t deep—just minor injuries.

Seeing water suddenly flooding the ship’s bottom, Xiao Ba raised his voice and shouted loudly: “Brother, we’re taking on water, the ship is flooding!”

Luo Yang rubbed his head and got up from the ground. He saw Shu Tian carrying Wen Yu out of the storage room on his back and asked, “He… didn’t die, did he?”

Shu Tian’s brows were tightly furrowed, his heart worried and anxious as he said, “Second Young Master has lost a lot of blood and needs immediate treatment! Thank you for your help just now. Hurry up and go, this ship is about to capsize!”

He then carried Wen Yu on his back, wading through the water covering the floor as he went up.

The hull swayed unsteadily, river water continuously pouring in through the breach created by the impact.

Xiao Ba pulled at Luo Yang, “Brother, the ship’s going to capsize. We should hurry up too.”

Luo Yang nodded: “Let’s go!”

However—

Just as the two had run to the stairway entrance preparing to go up, Luo Yang’s steps suddenly halted. Thinking of something, he looked back and realized with alarm, “Why don’t I see Miss Ji!”

Wasn’t she here too?

Xiao Ba also reacted, “That’s right, where is Miss Ji?”

“I’ll go find her.”

“Brother, the water’s about to rise. Don’t go—Miss Ji might have already gone up?”

“Impossible!”

Luo Yang turned back.

He searched every cabin but still found no trace of Ji Yunshu.

Finally, he searched the cabin where Prince Jing’an’s coffin was placed. Inside was complete chaos. The coffin lid had been knocked to the ground by the impact, and the coffin itself was now overturned on the floor.

“Miss Ji?” he shouted loudly!

Ji Yunshu heard the voice inside the coffin and quickly responded, “I’m here, Luo Yang, I…”

Her entire body was weak!

The sound coming through from inside the coffin was extremely faint, drowned out by the noise outside. Luo Yang didn’t hear it.

Seeing the water had already risen to their ankles, Xiao Ba quickly pulled at Luo Yang, “Brother, Miss Ji must have gone up already. Let’s hurry and leave.”

Perhaps… she really had already gone up!

But Luo Yang’s heart felt somewhat uneasy. He glanced at that coffin, paused for a moment, and could only leave.

Ji Yunshu could only desperately kick at the coffin wall with her feet, shouting loudly, “Luo Yang!”

Just as Luo Yang turned to leave, he suddenly heard a sound from behind.

“Xiao Ba, did you hear that?”

“What?”

“There’s a sound.”

The two fell completely silent, straining their ears to listen carefully.

“Thump thump…”

Someone was knocking on something!

“Luo Yang!” Ji Yunshu’s faint voice thus reached them.

Xiao Ba was excited, “Brother, it’s Miss Ji!”

“It’s her voice.”

The two quickly returned to that cabin and listened very carefully again. The sound was indeed coming from inside the coffin.

“Miss Ji is in the coffin!” Xiao Ba pointed at the coffin.

Luo Yang quickly crouched beside the coffin, shouting: “Miss Ji, is that you?”

Hearing the voice, Ji Yunshu knocked even harder on the coffin, responding with the loudest voice she could muster: “Yes, it’s me!”

Her voice was already somewhat hoarse!

And completely weak!

Confirming the person was inside, Luo Yang called to Xiao Ba, “Quick, hurry and lift open the coffin!”

“Okay!”

They weren’t burly strongmen, nor were they martial artists!

Moreover, one had been bitten by a snake on the hand, the other on the ankle, and both had sustained minor injuries when the ship was struck. They simply didn’t have the strength to lift the coffin.

Watching the water rise higher and higher, Ji Yunshu’s voice growing weaker and weaker, Luo Yang suddenly found strength from who knows where. He suddenly roared with effort, his arms straining as he lifted the coffin open.

“Bang!”

The coffin lid crashed to the ground when lifted!

Splashing up water!

Ji Yunshu lay inside, water having already risen past her ears and about to enter her nose.

Yet she still desperately supported Prince Jing’an’s remains pressing on her body.

This scene immediately frightened Xiao Ba badly. He violently shuddered, his entire body falling to the ground, his bottom sitting in the water, eyes full of terror.

He pointed at the corpse, “This… a dead person!”

Ji Yunshu was finally able to breathe, but the first words she spoke upon being rescued were: “Protect this corpse, protect…”