Chapter 246: Rest and Recovery: Stealing Back the Personal Belongings Hidden in the Car
At the moment, the only real risk in hiding Everly and Misha’s identities was that the police might discover the phones and identification documents the two had hidden earlier.
Still, even if that happened, Old John could lie and claim that Everly and Misha’s luggage had been stolen, and that the people who boarded the vehicle carrying those belongings were not actually his granddaughter and Misha. That might barely be enough to fool them.
What they feared most was a gap in information between the police and Old John, causing contradictions to appear in the story he fabricated.
Therefore, even though Everly was fairly confident that she and Misha could conceal their identities, the two still decided to keep a low profile and use fake identities until they fully understood the situation.
After following the highway to the edge of the city, Everly and Misha finally stopped for a while to clean themselves up a little.
Honestly speaking, the two of them looked terrible.
They had drifted at sea for a long time. During that period, aside from a single tube of toothpaste, they had no toiletries whatsoever, nor enough fresh water to bathe. At most, they could only dampen their clothes with water and wipe themselves down carelessly.
As a result, the two girls looked like they had just crawled out of a coal mine — dusty and grimy, with greasy hair, filthy foul-smelling clothes, and sunburn marks all over their bodies. If someone got close enough, they could even smell the strong fishy scent of the sea clinging to them.
Dressed like this, nobody would find it strange if they were mistaken for homeless people.