"I..." Xia Chuan looked at him, his words slipping a little. He furrowed his brows, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down in his throat, before he spoke again, "I never thought I would meet you in this way either."

His voice was still a bit cold, but there was warmth in his tone. Faced with this situation, he, who had always been a man of few words, had no idea what to say.

He had never been good at sentimentality, and to be honest, he had never had the concept of family since he was a child, so it was hard for him to come up with a rich response on the spot. And what Xia Liang said was just a sigh, without questions or confusion, so he didn't know how to respond.

But blood ties are always magical. He couldn't find more images of Xia Liang in his mind, let alone deeper memories and feelings, but he subconsciously wanted to say a few more words to Xia Liang... no matter what the content, just a few more words would be good.

However, just as he moved his lips, he felt the lights in the room suddenly flicker and then go out without warning.

Everyone was once again plunged into an unsettling darkness. Except for Xia Liang, the other three couldn't adapt. In front of their eyes, apart from the residual light from the lamps, they couldn't see anything.

"What the hell is going on?" Confused, Dennis remembered that he was standing near the switch, so he hurriedly raised his head and fumbled around, finding the switch and trying it several times with a "click-clack".

"Don't bother, it's not a problem here," Shen Lan spoke up to stop him, then "shushed" to signal everyone to be quiet.

He and Xia Chuan were both aware of the soundproofing effect of this cruise ship. In the silence of everyone's cooperation, he heard a commotion coming faintly from above. He listened intently for a while, then said, "It seems that this cruise ship was renovated before, and there may be some problems with the electrical system. Now there's a power outage."

"Huh? The whole ship is out of power? What a crappy ship," Dennis couldn't help but mutter.

Xia Chuan's eyes gradually adapted to the sudden darkness, and he began to see some blurry outlines in his field of vision. He saw Xia Liang's figure, who had been standing in front of him, move. Then he felt someone pat his shoulder twice, and Xia Liang's voice sounded in his ear, "Something's not right, I have to go out and take a look."

As he spoke, he moved towards the door.

Without thinking, Xia Chuan turned and followed closely, "Let's go together."

Xia Liang grasped the door handle and turned his head with a smile, "Alright, you can also see what you looked like when you were little. It must be a very amazing experience." With that, he suddenly pulled the door open a little and slipped out through the crack.

Following him, three figures emerged one after another. They were his son Xia Chuan who had fallen from the sky, his son's large follower Shen Lan who had also fallen from the sky, and... Dennis, who didn't dare to stay in the room alone.

Xia Liang probably wanted to be as silent as possible, and as far as he was concerned, he could completely do it. However, the people in this team were taller than the other, and there was a sense of grandeur. He had originally planned to stick to the wall and quickly return to the room, but after walking a few steps, he looked back at the three people behind him, then gave up and straightened up, striding along the center of the corridor towards the other end.

Their actions were much faster than ordinary people. After them, the doors of the passenger rooms were opened one after another.

"Where are the emergency lights? Where are the flashlights? At the very least, give us a few candles," someone grumbled and complained.

"Huh? You brought a flashlight? Great!"

"What? Oh no, the battery is almost dead. Why is it running out of power at a time like this..."

A string of intermittent conversations reached Xia Chuan's ears. He and Shen Lan were following behind Xia Liang, and they were about to run to the corner, but he felt that something was wrong.

"Oh my god," Dennis suddenly let out a low moan in a trembling voice, as if he was about to die, causing the three people in front to pause.

"What's wrong?" Xia Chuan thought he had bumped into something, so he pulled him back with his hand and asked.

"So many doors have been opened behind us, but why is there only one person standing at the door muttering and talking?" Dennis stumbled as he was pulled, rolling and crawling to Xia Chuan's side, pointing behind him with a trembling finger, "Or am I blind?"

There were no windows in the corridor, so it looked extremely dark, but the opened doors still had an outline in that long stretch of darkness, like holes with color differences. Although Xia Chuan's eyesight couldn't compare to Xia Liang's, it was still much better than ordinary people's, and these outlines looked clearer to him.

Dennis was not shaking for nothing. In the corridor behind them, there was only one human-shaped silhouette standing in front of a door, raising its hand and saying something to the void in front of it.

Xia Chuan suddenly realized why he had felt strange just now... because of those few lines of dialogue, they were actually the voice of only one person.

There was only one person there, standing in a deep darkness and talking, and there were only answers, no questions. Each sentence sounded very incomplete. It was as if they were talking to something invisible in the void.

"Let's go," Xia Liang, who was at the front, was blocked by the people behind him and couldn't see what was going on behind him. He didn't have the time or mind to look. He peeked around the corner to make sure there was no problem for the time being, then raised his hand and patted Xia Chuan's shoulder, urging him.

After turning the corner, they didn't go far, only passing one door before stopping under Xia Liang's lead.

When Xia Chuan and the others reached the door, it had already been opened a little by Xia Liang.

"Ah Liang? The power is out. I listened to your advice and stayed in the room without going out, but we need flashlights or candles." A gentle and weak female voice came out from the door, startling Xia Chuan and the others.

The woman spoke in Chinese. Dennis, who had studied a bit of Chinese culture, could understand half of it, while Shen Lan couldn't understand a single word and looked at Xia Chuan in confusion.

Xia Chuan waved his hand at him, indicating that he would explain later. Thinking that Shen Lan, the blind man with his eyes open, probably couldn't see clearly, he accurately grabbed his hand, smoothed out his palm, and started writing and drawing on his palm with his slender fingers.

While explaining to Shen Lan, he held his breath and listened to Xia Liang and the woman's conversation, feeling his heartbeat speed up a little more.

The only person who could appear in Xia Liang's room at this time and speak to him in this tone, besides his wife, there would be no one else.

However, the woman's voice sounded a bit weak, as if she lacked strength and was feeling unwell. She was wearing white clothes, perhaps a nightgown or a dress, outlining a faint silhouette in the darkness. When she spoke, Xia Chuan could feel Xia Liang's shoulders in front of him slump slightly, as if he was relieved.

"Awake? Still feeling dizzy and uncomfortable?" Xia Liang reached out to feel her forehead, his voice low, "Still a bit feverish..."

He sounded a bit worried.

"It's okay, I took both medicines and slept for a while, feeling much better. Why are you standing at the door?" The woman pulled his wrist and leaned out a little, only to discover several men standing behind Xia Liang and against the wall. "Who are they?"

"I'll explain later. Where's the little one?" Xia Liang asked again.

"Probably tired from playing with Amos. When you went out, Buddy sent him back. He fell asleep next to me." The woman answered, turning sideways and pointing to the bed's location, although nothing could be seen clearly in the pitch-black darkness.

Xia Liang patted the back of the woman's hand and said, "You go inside and close the door first. I'll check the next room. We may need to change locations."

The woman in white inside the room clearly sensed some urgency. She didn't hold onto Xia Liang to ask about the situation. Instead, she said "Mm," politely nodded to Xia Chuan and the others at the door, and then closed the door without another word.

Xia Liang moved his steps and walked to the door of the next room. He raised his hand and knocked on the door, "Knock, knock, knock."

This time, Xia Chuan didn't follow closely. His feet remained still, guarding beside the just-closed door. While staying alert to the movements around him, he stared at the door Xia Liang had knocked on.

However, after a moment, Shen Lan hissed and asked doubtfully, "I didn't hear any footsteps inside. Did he knock too lightly?"

Xia Liang's eyesight was much better than Shen Lan's, but his hearing was only slightly better than ordinary people's. Compared to Shen Lan's thirty-fold amplified sensitivity, it was still somewhat lacking. Hearing Shen Lan's words, he raised his hand and knocked on the door three more times, knocking a bit harder this time.

"Could the person inside happen to be taking a shower, and the sound of the water is masking it so they can't hear?" Dennis hesitantly spoke up and guessed.

"It shouldn't be..." Xia Liang quickly turned his head to scan the corridors on the left and right, and knocked on the door again. "Buddy and Gardner are rooming together. It's unlikely that both of them can't hear it."

Just as he was speaking, he suddenly raised his head to look to the left side, and saw a dark figure walking towards them.

The muscles on Xia Chuan's body instantly tensed up, raising his alertness by twelve-fold. His eyes stared coldly at the figure without blinking.

"Who's there?" The person probably noticed Xia Liang and the others, abruptly stopping in his tracks and shouting.

This voice sounded a bit familiar. Xia Chuan was stunned for a moment before realizing that it seemed to be Gardner's voice.

"It's me," Xia Liang calmly replied, and then asked in return, "Why did you go out?"

"The power went out. I was afraid your wife and kid in the room would be scared, so I went to find the ship's attendant for an emergency light or candles or something. At times like this, I feel not smoking isn't a good habit. I can't even find a lighter on me." As soon as Gardner heard it was Xia Liang's voice, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking over.

"Where are Buddy and Amos?" Xia Liang asked.

"In the room. I'm just getting something, do we need a team for that?" Gardner walked over, opening the door while saying "Huh" and then, "What? You knocked and he didn't open it?"

The door opened with a "click." Xia Liang only glanced inside the door, and his face changed: "Not good."