John was blocking Adrian's path. The latter had intended to blend into the crowd and take a downwind ship to Obscura. However, this plan had gone up in smoke.

"Didn’t you see me coming out of the sea?" Adrian said plainly.

John was speechless. Of course, he saw Adrian come out of the sea, but no normal person would do such a thing.

"You should be a guest of our ship, but I'm in charge of the upper-class cabins and I've never seen you before." John’s confusion stemmed from this.

Although the possibility was very slim, it couldn't be ruled out that someone had plotted a sinister hero-rescues-damsel plan against the Wainwright daughter. In the chaos of the storm, this person might have relied on their fighting skills to launch an attack from the middle and lower-class cabins, thus dragging Lucy into the water and then rescuing her, all to achieve his goals.

The key question was how this young man appeared in the middle of the ocean and rescued Lucy. Only guests from the upper-class r