Miss Ruth said she was a little tired and went back to rest. Didn't you see her?" As the saying goes, lies come easily. As a social person who has been struggling in society for more than ten years, how can I not tell lies?
Ruth is indeed sleeping now, but where she is sleeping and why she is sleeping are questions best not delved into.
"Um, then I'll go back and check later!" Karl didn't know the ins and outs of it. After hearing that his fiancée was tired, he didn't ask any further questions.
"Li, we'll be in New York the day after tomorrow. When can we expect that investment you mentioned?" After learning of Ruth's whereabouts, Karl began to ask about other matters.
By the way, other people also came over with their wine glasses.
There was no way around it. The more you exaggerate, the harder it is to cover up the lies.
Fortunately, Li Qingyuan knew that he would never have to meet these people again, so he chatted with them casually with an indifferent attitude.
The more fearless he was, the more mysterious others found him. The atmosphere of the entire banquet was very harmonious, with nothing out of the ordinary.
Until—
'Buzz, buzz, buzz...'
Everyone saw the chandeliers overhead and the wine glasses on the table buzzing, and the entire ship seemed to be shaking violently.
"What's going on?"
Li Qingyuan held onto the table with one hand and asked the person next to him.
"I don't know, maybe we've encountered a storm!" Karl replied while wiping the wine stains off his body.
He was just holding his wine glass, ready to drink, when the ship shook, causing the wine to spill directly.
"Please rest assured, everyone. The Titanic is absolutely able to withstand the test. It is the safest ship in the world. It was just an occasional storm, and everything is fine now!" Before long, someone stood up to speak, telling everyone that it was just a false alarm.
Everyone in the banquet hall immediately calmed down and continued singing and dancing.
But!
Li Qingyuan excused himself, saying he couldn't hold his liquor, and left the banquet hall, then returned to his cabin.
Ruth was still lying limply on the bed. This little girl ran over to tease him, not thinking about who was the hunter and who was the prey.
"Slap, slap!"
Two slaps woke Ruth up, and the silly, sweet girl mumbled groggily.
"No, let me rest for a while, I really can't!"
"Get up, the ship is sinking!"
Logically speaking, he shouldn't care whether she lived or died, but after all, the two of them had just had the most intimate contact, and Li Qingyuan felt that he should at least give her a hand.
The Titanic now wouldn't last for more than two hours on the surface like in the original story, because to prevent his craftsmanship from being insufficient to sink it, he had worked overtime to smash all the floors of the eight sealed compartments.
By the way, he also smashed the central keel and the load-bearing walls. Anyway, he was idle, so smashing a little more would increase the insurance rate, wouldn't it?
The reason for the explosion just now was that he had stuffed all the yellow explosives he had made these days into the coal pile.
As a steamship, the Titanic needed to consume a huge amount of coal every day. Even a god wouldn't be able to detect a dozen pounds of explosives stuffed into thousands of tons of coal.
Those boiler workers were already dizzy from the harsh working environment all year round. Even if someone found that the coal they shoveled out might be a little abnormal, they would definitely not bother to observe what was going on.
What does it matter? Wouldn't anything thrown into the boiler be burned to ashes anyway!
So, after the explosives were thrown into the boiler, there was no need to explain in detail what happened next.
The boiler room exploded instantly. The boilers, which were already at the critical point, would trigger a chain explosion once one exploded, directly turning the boiler room into a twisted mess.
Originally, if only the boiler room had exploded, it wouldn't have been a fatal impact on such a behemoth. At most, the ship would no longer be able to move.
But when the floors of the surrounding sealed compartments were shattered by the aftershocks of the explosion, then the fate of this ship was immediately sealed.
Even if Li Qingyuan didn't understand architecture or excel in mathematics, he knew that this ship could barely survive at sea for another hour at most.
Maybe the bottom compartments were already flooded with water.
"What? The ship is sinking? How is that possible?" Ruth drowsily climbed up, thinking he was joking.
This was the Titanic, known as the unsinkable, the greatest masterpiece of the British Empire. How could it sink?
These days, British manufacturing represented the best in the world. Moreover, this ship was the face of the British Empire, so even though Ruth was very infatuated with the man in front of her, she firmly believed in the credibility of her country on this issue.
"Get up!" There was no time or interest to argue with her. Li Qingyuan slapped Ruth twice and ordered her to put on her clothes quickly.
Ruth was a little dazed by the two slaps, but even though she was quite dissatisfied, she obediently put on her clothes.
The two quickly walked to the deck. At this time, there was no one on the deck except for a few staff members, which shows that no matter where you are, public opinion control is very important.
As of now, apart from Li Qingyuan, probably only the captain and a few senior executives knew what was going on.
"You stay here. I'll go get something. When the lifeboats are launched, you leave immediately. I'll catch up on the next boat." Holding Ruth's hand, Li Qingyuan instructed her.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that he had to leave after completing the mission, he would really like to stay in this world for a few more days.
"Qingyuan, I'll wait for you!" Although she didn't know what was happening, Ruth felt that if she let go now, she might never see this man again.
"Be good. We oriental men don't like disobedient women!" Patting Ruth's hand seriously, Li Qingyuan knew that this silly girl was stubborn. If he didn't explain it to her clearly, God knows if she would sink with the ship.
After all, she could be considered his trophy in this world. If she died like this, he would probably be sad for a while.
Probably for several minutes!
Fortunately, Karl also ran out of the banquet hall at this time and ran into the two of them.
Karl was originally attending the banquet, but when he found that his wife and Li Qingyuan were both gone, he felt something was wrong and rushed out.
"Karl, you've come at the right time!" Seeing this victim, Li Qingyuan felt that he should entrust Ruth to him.
No matter what, this was her real fiancé, okay? At least Ruth would be better off with him than with that scumbag Jack.
As for whether Karl would go bankrupt and commit suicide like in the original story?
He had told him so much about the economic development laws of the later period these two days. If he insisted on walking down a dead end, he couldn't stop him, could he?