Chapter 131 - The knife mountain and the sea of fire (2/2)

Those workers are very quick at work, but they don’t look at me at all. It seems that they are not surprised that there is a person hiding in the truck at all!

When I jump out of the truck, fat fellow sees the confusion on my face and says lightly: “The goods are all real, legitimate commercial goods. There is no problem. These workers are the porters of a logistics company. In fact, most of the logistics companies in HK’s freight terminal stations are controlled by societies. Many workers themselves are registered members of the societies. Take people across the border in their trucks, they’ve seen too many. No one would say a word, and no one would be surprised. I’ve been using this line for a long time. Their boss has relationship with me and won’t say anything.”

Here is a warehouse, next to the dock. The sea breeze is blowing. I suddenly have a feeling of being alive twice.

“This is HK?” I ask him.

“Strictly speaking…” Fat fellow is standing by the sea, pointing to the sparkling lights on the opposite shore: “That’s it.”

I nod and running down to the beach.

Fat fellow shouts: “What are you doing?”

“Taking a leak!” I am laughing and scolding, “I’m almost exploding!”

When I come up, I ask him: “Are you going to send me to HK?”

“No.” He shakes his head, “HK is too close to mainland, you are still within Juan’s sphere of influence.”

I look at him and ask: “Where are you going to let me go then?”

“As far as possible!” He does not explain again.

Then he takes me to the dock, where there are many containers, but most of them are empty. It looks like a container yard.

He takes me to an unlabeled container and opens the door. It’s a room with a bed, a cabinet, a chair, and a lamp.

“Sleep for a while, and a ship will pick you up at night.” Before he leaves, he looks at me, laughing suddenly, then says: “By the way, ask you a question. Are you seasick or not? If you are seasick, stop eating from now on.”

So, is it means to let me stowaway?

I sleep in the container and am woken up at night. When fat fellow wakes me up, he pulls me out of bed with a light expression on his face. He sighs: “You’re lucky… Well, at last a ship is found.”

I grin bitterly: “Don’t you just find it today?”

He curls his mouth: “Do you think I am running an airline? Are there regular flights to all of the world every day? Damn it. This kind of work depends on luck. I don’t belong to those snakeheads. If I find any ship is carrying, I just take a hitchhike for you.”

He takes me back to the dock. We wait for a while and a small motorboat is coming by. It’s very small, with canvas on the back.

I stare at him: “How can such a small boat go to the sea?”

He kicks me into the boat and scolding: “Are the police useless? Nowadays, it is very difficult to stowaway. They are all go from the Southeast Asia. Now there is a boat passing by on the high seas. We take this boat to there, and then let you board that ship! It all depends on my relationship, they just reluctantly agree to stop for an hour to wait for you boarding!”

The motorboat is driven by a black, strong man, with a fierce face, who is so absorbing in sailing that he does not look at me at all.

Fat fellow pulls me sitting behind the boat.

The first time I go out to sea, although there’s no wind, the boat is still very fluctuant. The man is sailing very fast. Fat fellow takes out a bag and sending to me. He is staring at me quietly for a moment and then says: “This bag contains clothes and some monies.”

He takes a breath and says slowly: “No much money, you just save spending.”

I nod.

“When you get there, you go ashore and change your clothes and tidy yourself up. If the police see you dress like a beggar, be careful to be caught.” Then he tells an address to me slowly, “When arrive, find this person at this address.”

He says a name, then let me repeat the address and name. Finally, he says: “When you see him, don’t say much, just say I let you go, you just say: The knife mountain and the sea of fire! He will know when he hears!”

“The knife mountain and the sea of fire!”

I nod to show that I have remembered.