Chapter 56: Chapter 52: Military Warning

“Raise the anchor—!”

The sailor shouted loudly, yanked the anchor lever fiercely, but it didn’t budge at all, forcing him to shout urgently, “Report! The anchor won’t move!”

“Engine room! Reverse the main engine!”

“Reverse the main engine—!”

In an instant, the sound of waves rolling came from the bottom of the cabin, accompanied by the reversal of the main engine’s propellers, the hull began to gradually swing to the left.

Gu Ji stared intently at the ship’s dynamics on the screen, watching as the stern completely swung out, aligning the entire hull nearly in a straight line with the anchor, and shouted again, “Activate the auxiliary engine!!”

As the main and auxiliary engines regained forward power, the hull started moving forward.

“Pull the anchor!”

“Still can’t move it!”

The sailor gritted his teeth and shouted.

Gu Ji controlled the helm, “Pull! Keep pulling!”

At this moment, a foreign white man wearing a white cap and a blue uniform suddenly rushed in from outside the cabin, quickly assessing the situation for half a second, and then dashed to the sailor’s side, stomping on the floor, helping him pull the anchor lever, “One! Two! Three!”

Click!

With the sound of mechanical gears turning, the hydraulic jack finally started to work, retracting the chain section by section.

The navigation screen showed that the bow also lost its fulcrum.

“Control room, activate the left thruster.”

The foreign man in uniform suddenly called out, then looked at Gu Ji, taking off his hat and wiping the sweat from his forehead, “My God, you saved the lives of everyone on the ship!”

“Huff…huff…”

The sailor collapsed on the floor, his hands uncontrollably trembling, seemingly unable to snap out of the terrifying scene just now.

“Don’t speak yet, you two quickly leave the cabin, the first officer’s condition has erupted, it’s very easy to get infected with the virus here.”

Gu Ji was not immersed in the joy of saving the ship from losing control, and simultaneously picked up the intercom, “Medical team! Cleaners! Hurry and take the first officer to the treatment room and conduct a comprehensive disinfection of the cabin!”

After saying this, he glanced at the mainland map displayed on the radar screen, steeled his heart, and abruptly turned the helm toward Jeju Island Port.

Soon, a rush of footsteps came from outside the cabin door.

However, it was not the medical team and cleaners that arrived, but the police from the police bureau, perhaps due to him having a gun, almost all of the ship’s police forces were dispatched this time.

Four or five gun barrels simultaneously aimed at Gu Ji.

“Don’t move! Drop your weapon and don’t resist!”

“Hey! What are you doing! He just saved all of us on this ship!”

Unexpectedly, it wasn’t Gu Ji who spoke first, but the third officer standing outside the door, “You must be mistaken, if he were really a terrorist, why would he go to such lengths to save the ship?”

The leading officer swallowed a gulp of saliva, feeling a bit shaken by this statement.

“Move! Clear the way!”

Dr. Matsushima also arrived with the medical team and cleaners.

The officer hurriedly cautioned, “Don’t go in yet, the terrorist is still inside!”

“Anyway, I don’t believe she’s a bad person, a terrorist wouldn’t go to the trouble of finding a viral source, that’s digging their own grave.”

Dr. Matsushima spoke firmly, intending to rush in with the team.

“Wait! She has a gun!”

The officer once again stepped forward to block, and Gu Ji at this moment pulled out the handgun from his waist, causing all the officers’ faces to change drastically.

But in the next second, he threw the gun onto the ground, “I did this purely out of desperation.”

“You…”

The officer was truly baffled this time.

Indeed.

Everything Gu Ji did didn’t conform to typical terrorist behavior, like a murderer who wouldn’t “kill and then save.”

“Platinum Star Cruise Ship, you are prohibited from docking, please return immediately!”

As everyone was stuck in stalemate and hesitation, a warning came suddenly from the radio of the cruise ship’s control cabin, issued by the Jeju Island Port control center.

Upon hearing this, the third officer quickly spoke up, “Miss Jian, the first officer just tried to dock, and we were already warned once by the Korean side, we can’t advance further, otherwise the military district might intervene with mandatory control!”

“That’s exactly what I want!”

At this moment, Gu Ji’s eyes were like a famished tiger’s.

Just now, after going through a cruise ship out-of-control crisis, the infected group suddenly increased by more than thirty, and four people died on the spot. If we return from Jeju Island Port now and continue to delay, who knows how many more people will die!

Therefore, he picked up the radio intercom, and with an incredibly calm voice said, “This is the Platinum Star Cruise Ship! Calling Jeju Island Port Control Center, the cruise ship is currently severely infected, many patients are dead or injured, we must dock and seek medical help, otherwise everyone on the entire ship will be in dire straits!”

“I fully understand your feelings, but the news that the Platinum Star Cruise Ship suffered a terrorist attack has already spread online, Jeju Island’s populace is very panicked right now, and due to safety considerations on our side, docking permission is not allowed! Please return!”

The woman from the control center responded.

“174 critical patients, over 430 close contacts, more than 3000 innocent tourists, are you really leaving them to die?”

Gu Ji knew that the relationship between South Korea and Japan wasn’t great, but the outbreak on the Platinum Star Cruise affected not only Japan, but there were also many foreign tourists on board!

Upon hearing the refusal to dock, everyone showed a look of panic.

A female cleaner, confused and unaware of the situation, asked, “Why aren’t we allowed to dock? Didn’t they say that the cabinet minister had already arranged for us to dock at Jeju Island Port yesterday?”

“Haven’t you seen the videos circulating online? Now netizens are saying that this incident was deliberately designed as a biological terror attack, potentially involving an unknown new virus. Without a vaccine or antigen, who dares to shelter us rashly, isn’t that just asking for trouble!”

“Then what should we do? Are we just supposed to wait for death at sea?”

“I… I don’t want to die…”

…

Just as the panic started to spread among everyone.

“We are very sorry, we are powerless to help! Final warning! Please return immediately! Otherwise, we will take necessary military measures to forcibly drive you away!”

The control center still rejected Gu Ji’s application.

And then, the next second, three rapidly moving red dots suddenly appeared on the radar screen of the bridge.

“Miss Jian, if we forcibly dock like this, the South Korean Navy might sink us!”

Seeing that Gu Ji had no intention of stopping, the third officer could only pick up the intercom, “Engine room, stop all power to the main and auxiliary engines immediately!”

“Sink?”

Upon hearing this word, everyone became even more scared.

But Gu Ji gritted his teeth and said, “Don’t stop! Trust me, don’t stop! Even if we can’t dock, we have to find a way to get medical assistance from South Korea!”

Dr. Matsushima understood best why Gu Ji insisted so strongly.

Because now the number of patients on the cruise ship was increasing exponentially, and the consumption of medical resources was terrifyingly high, it was estimated that they couldn’t even make it back to Japan without the whole ship succumbing.

Gu Ji stared at the red dots surrounding him on the screen, half-closing his eyes, and picked up the radio broadcast, shouting to the tourists on board, “Hello everyone, I am Jian Na, and I need your help now!”

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