"Since you're afraid he's still alive, let's just wait here for a while until he dies before we leave. The sea stretches vast all around us; if he shows his head, he certainly can't escape our eyes," the man holding the dagger said.
Soon, the two men on the boat turned on the lights and began to search the surrounding waters. After He Weiqi fell into the sea, he felt both cold and stiff. Seeing that the people on the fishing boat were searching for him, he didn't dare to surface and court death, so he hid in a blind spot beside the boat to evade their search.
After waiting for about half an hour, the people on the boat didn't catch sight of He Weiqi, seeming to believe that he had drowned, and only then did they start the boat and leave.
By this time, He Weiqi was nearly freezing into unconsciousness, but before he passed out, he tightly grabbed onto a piece of wood floating on the sea, drifting aimlessly with the waves...
