Pulling a lifeboat and its occupants aboard a ship moving at full speed was a near-impossible task. Fortunately, the lifeboat had been tossed about several times, jolting everyone inside awake. Despite their panic and fear, they scrambled up the rope ladder one after another, back onto the Night Castle. That not a single one of them fell from the ladder into the sea amidst such violent waves was nothing short of a miracle.
Perhaps they also understood that if they fell into the sea, the Night Castle could not possibly stop to save them a second time.
When Dao Mingke fell onto the deck with a THUD, he was already soaked to the bone by the waves, his skin a ghastly white, devoid of any sign of life.
