Chapter 94

Chapter 94

-Can a person swim automatically while unconscious?

-Can a person lose consciousness and still keep repeating the actions they were doing before they passed out?

Wang Zheng couldn’t help laughing when he saw what Qiu Ziyu was searching online.

It was true that people sometimes performed repetitive actions while not fully conscious. For example, someone might zone out while driving and still neither run a red light nor take a wrong turn. Or someone might drift off mentally on the walk home, only to arrive safely without even feeling tired…

But that did not mean the body could continue functioning normally after consciousness was lost.

After being roasted by Wang Zheng until he could hardly stand it, Qiu Ziyu tossed his phone aside and turned to question him in annoyance. “This is impossible, that is impossible… Then you tell me, what exactly happened?”

Wang Zheng answered with perfect confidence, “Whether or not I know the truth has no bearing on my ability to criticize the direction of your thinking.”

Qiu Ziyu: “…”

Help. He had already graduated, so why did he still have to suffer through this kind of torment? Teachers and professors and the like… Sure enough, he hated them the most.

Qiu Ziyu rolled his eyes and decided to refuse to engage with Wang Zheng. He turned to speak to Nan Mu instead. “Who do you think got you onto that floating board? Could there have been a third person among the passengers from the sinking ship who was with you at the time?”

“We can’t rule that out, but I think the probability is relatively low.” Wang Zheng inserted himself between the two of them and offered his own thoughts. “If that person was capable of getting Nan Mu and Xu Yang onto the floating debris, why wouldn’t he hold on to it himself? I won’t deny that there may have been especially noble, self-sacrificing people on that ship, but that doesn’t mean he would give up his own life when he was about to die, right?”

Qiu Ziyu had spent a long time at the police station, so in truth, he understood human nature even better than Wang Zheng did. He also agreed with that idea. But if someone else had brought it up, he definitely would have had no objection. Since the idea came from Wang Zheng, however, then sorry, he had to argue a little.

“Maybe he originally planned to save other people too? After he rescued Nan Mu and Xu Yang, when he turned around and was about to go back for someone else…” Qiu Ziyu clapped his hands together, then spread them. “The ship sank.”

“Do you have any idea how wide the massive whirlpool is at the instant a hull goes under? Nan Mu and Xu Yang were both unconscious at the time. Do you know how much effort that person would have had to expend, and how much risk they would have had to take, to drag two unconscious people that far in the ocean? And that’s not even mentioning the fact that while saving the two of them, with someone like Xu Yang who had already choked on seawater, that person would even have had to perform emergency treatment in the water to make sure both of them were still breathing… Exactly how badass do you think this person would have to be for them to save two people like that and still think, I have the stamina to go back, and I’m confident I can get someone else out before the ship sinks?”

Qiu Ziyu was left speechless by the barrage.

“Rather than believe in that possibility, I’d sooner believe Nan Mu got himself and Xu Yang out on his own, only he lost the memory of that period…”

Qiu Ziyu’s eyes widened, his face full of disbelief. “He didn’t hit his head. He can still lose his memory?”

Wang Zheng spoke as if every word were justified. “Of course he can. The human brain is extremely complex. After some people go through a major accident, they forget certain details from the incident. That’s because the brain triggers its self-protection mechanism and automatically deletes that portion of memory.”

Qiu Ziyu subconsciously cast Nan Mu an inquiring look.

Nan Mu calmly glanced at the two of them, his tone unhurried and even. “I don’t think I lost any memories. At least right now, I remember very clearly everything I experienced yesterday before I lost consciousness.”

Qiu Ziyu turned back to Wang Zheng with a scoff. “Just thinking about your hypothesis makes it sound ridiculous. If we have to pick one, mine is definitely more reliable…”

“How is yours reliable? In this shipwreck, other than Nan Mu and Xu Yang, the total number of victims was sixty-six. Of those sixty-six people, aside from a small dozen or so who were employees of Wisdom Biotech Company, most were crew members and staff providing service for the banquet aboard the cruise ship… In other words, among those people, they all had friends they knew personally… Even if someone really wanted to save people, there’d be no reason for them to save Nan Mu and Xu Yang first. Even if they were going to save someone, their first reaction would definitely be to save someone connected to them… If you can find one person on that list who knew Nan Mu and Xu Yang, then I’ll admit your theory has a pretty high degree of credibility.”
Qiu Ziyu pulled up the list of victims from the shipwreck. Wang Zheng had been right about one thing-husband and wife might be birds of the same forest, but when disaster struck, each flew off on their own.

In a life-or-death maritime disaster like that, if someone really did still have the strength to save others, they would most likely save the people they knew first. In that case, there shouldn’t have been a situation where only Nan Mu and Xu Yang survived. There should have been other rescued survivors too.

If no one else was alive, then that meant whoever had saved them had to have been deeply connected to both Nan Mu and Xu Yang. Otherwise, who would go to all that trouble to save two people who had already lost consciousness?

Doing good without leaving a name?

And then dying themselves?

Wasn’t that way too unlikely?

Wang Zheng crossed his arms and looked at Nan Mu. “After you lost consciousness… did anything strange happen?”

Nan Mu’s fingertips trembled slightly. He lifted his eyes and stared at Wang Zheng, his expression unchanged. “What do you mean?”

Those cold, indifferent eyes seemed to contain an abyss with no bottom. Wang Zheng was actually startled by Nan Mu’s gaze, and his voice dropped involuntarily as he stammered, “I mean… I want you to think about it again, carefully… Didn’t you say you lost consciousness back then? During that period, until the other person pulled you up… could you have choked on water too? How did that person make sure you woke up? Did you really not have any… brief moments where you regained a little awareness?”

Nan Mu gave an “oh” and looked away. After a long pause, he replied, “I think… I dreamed about you. Does that count?”

Wang Zheng had been drinking water to calm his nerves. When he heard that, he couldn’t hold back and sprayed all the mineral water in his mouth.

He thought Nan Mu was joking with him, but the other man’s expression didn’t look like it. After mumbling for a long while, he finally managed, “That… that’s a pretty good joke.”

Nan Mu tilted his head and glanced at him, his expression serious. “I’m not joking.”

Wang Zheng scratched his head. “Then what did you dream… about me?”

Nan Mu said, “I dreamed you told me to drink water.”

Wang Zheng: “…”

Qiu Ziyu couldn’t help slapping his thigh and bursting into laughter.

Wang Zheng couldn’t help complaining, “Are you joking with me, or are you deliberately making fun of me?”

Nan Mu sighed. “I’m not joking. I really did dream it. It was like I had gone back to when we were in college. You handed me a bottle of mineral water… in the basketball court lounge at A University of Science and Technology.”

Nan Mu described it in such detail that Wang Zheng was sure he wasn’t joking. But of course, Wang Zheng couldn’t possibly have appeared there at the time. So Nan Mu really had just been dreaming? Or was it the legendary life flashing before his eyes on the verge of death?

When Qiu Ziyu heard Wang Zheng’s guess, he was very unconvinced. If they were talking about their relationship, he was the one who had grown up with Nan Mu, practically sharing the same pair of pants since childhood. No matter how you ranked it, he should come before Wang Zheng.

Qiu Ziyu hinted to Nan Mu, “If your life was flashing before your eyes, why was it him? Didn’t you think of anyone else?”

Nan Mu nodded. “I did.”

Qiu Ziyu couldn’t help smiling and was just about to say something.

Then he heard Nan Mu add, “There was also Wen Miao.”

Qiu Ziyu, whose smile froze on his face and then gradually disappeared: “…”

Wang Zheng, on the other hand, couldn’t help sighing when he heard Wen Miao’s name. “You didn’t know how to cherish her when she was still around, and now that she’s gone, you start missing her endlessly… Nan Mu, oh Nan Mu, you’re honestly even worse than those people who don’t appreciate someone right in front of them and then make the entire internet search the ocean for them afterward!”