Hearing someone shout like that, the captain was flabbergasted.
With people crammed against each other in the compartment, where could a fire have come from?
The captain shot a look at two smugglers.
"Go check what's going on quickly. If there's nothing serious, keep them quiet. It'll be troublesome if we run into a sea patrol boat later."
When the two smugglers opened the partition, they immediately saw flames shooting up.
"Damn, it really is on fire!"
"Quick, get a bucket and start scooping water to douse it!"
Luckily they were at sea; the two smugglers grabbed buckets and started filling them with seawater, pouring it directly into the compartment.
After a lot of back and forth like this and once the compartment flooded, the fire was finally extinguished.
The smugglers urgently inquired, "What exactly happened; how did a fire suddenly start? Whoever has a lighter, hand it over!"
The smugglers were extremely angry.
