Looking at the noisy crowd, Lieutenant Colonel Lei finally made a decision.

"I'm going to meet him. You must ensure the safety of our personnel. I will do my best to control him and take the detonator from his hands!"

As soon as Lieutenant Colonel Lei finished speaking, Lao Guo immediately pulled him up.

"Team Leader Lei, are you crazy? That guy is insane, you can't be unaware of that, can you? Going there like that is just throwing your life away. I won't just stand by and watch you go!"

"Old Guo, let go of this matter. I need to settle this score with him. He escaped last time, and I don't know how many people died at his hands. I'll settle this score with him sooner or later. I was just looking for him anyway, and he came knocking on my door!"

However, Lao Guo still wouldn't let go, holding tightly to the other person's clothes.

"Team Leader Lei, your leg is already like this, how can you fight him? You're no match for him at all!"

"I told you to let go, or I'll kill you right now!"

Lieutenant Colonel Lei pulled out his pistol and pressed it against Lao Guo's forehead, but Lao Guo's hands remained firmly gripping the other's collar. The two remained locked in a standoff, neither willing to give way.

Meanwhile, Zheng Sen, holding a walkie-talkie in the distance, shouted again with a mocking expression, "Old Lei, are you chickening out? I know you're in there, now you're playing the coward, fine, let's try it then. I have one minute left, if I don't see your man by now I'll detonate it!"

Just then, a wheelchair slowly appeared in the middle of the firefight zone.

"Zheng Sen, I advise you to think twice. Put down the detonator you're holding, or you'll all die here today!"

Zheng Sen squinted and looked into the distance. He saw that the man in the wheelchair was none other than Lieutenant Colonel Lei, whom he had been thinking about killing day and night.

"Hahaha, Old Lei, I never thought you'd become such a pathetic sight!"

"Hmph, enough nonsense, just tell me what you want, I don't have time to waste with you!"

"Ha, really? Alright, then I'll get straight to the point. I have three requirements. If you meet my three requirements, I'll let these people go!"

Lieutenant Colonel Lei frowned: "Stop fantasizing. I still have three demands. If you've got the guts, let's have a real fight right now. You kill me first, then we'll talk!"

"Hehe, Lao Lei, you're overthinking it. Of course I'm not going to let you call me. At this point, I wouldn't do something so foolish!"

"You bastard, what exactly do you want?"

"Haha, what do I want? That depends on what you do!"

"Alright, go ahead and tell me. If your three requests are too unreasonable, of course I won't agree!"

"Alright, you're a straightforward person. Here are my three conditions for you to consider!"

Then Zheng Sen pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a deep drag, and slowly said, "My first request is that you come with me and become my new sacrifice!"

Lieutenant Colonel Lei frowned, while his men behind him glared angrily, eager to rush forward and kill them. However, they hesitated, fearing that Lieutenant Colonel Lei would be the first to fall if the fighting started.

"Alright! I agree! Tell me your second request!" Lieutenant Colonel Lei said after a moment's thought. Right now, all he wanted was for this damned battle to end immediately so he could live a normal life. He was fed up with this war.

Zheng Sen was also somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected Lieutenant Colonel Lei to agree to his request so easily. So he asked, "Old Lei, do you not know the rules for our sacrificial offerings? Do you need me to explain them to you?"

Lieutenant Colonel Lei sneered, "You don't need to worry about that. You can do whatever you want with me! Anyway, I'm just a worthless life, so take it!"

"Haha! Old Lei, I respect you as a real man! Don't worry, I keep my word!"

"Hmph! Enough with the nonsense! Tell me what's next!"

"My second demand is that you hand over your warships to me!"

Upon hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Lei immediately burst into a tirade: "Bastard, don't even think about it! The warships are our last resort. If we give them to you, we'll all die. Now tell me about your third one!"

"Old Lei, all you're worried about is that Qiao Zhuang will swallow you up when you don't have any warships! Don't worry, as long as you hand over the warships to me, I'll help you take him down! How about it?"

"No good. I can't agree to that. Besides, this warship isn't mine. Even if I gave it to you, you wouldn't know how to operate it. Just give up on that idea! Let's find another condition!"

"Okay, let me tell you my third request first. My second request remains the same. I'll give you some time to think about it."

"My third request is to hand over those outsiders who fled here and the sacrifices we made before. As for my second request, I can discuss it with you!"

A cold glint flashed across Lieutenant Colonel Lei's face. The other side clearly didn't want to negotiate properly and was deliberately offering such unacceptable conditions, relying on the detonator in their hand.

At this moment, Du Kaiwen and his men, holding their guns, were quite annoyed. They were about to surround Zheng Sen, but when they got close, they were being threatened by him. This was simply outrageous!

Then, a thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately realized that the other party might be bluffing him. So he quickly instructed the men beside him, "You guys, first quietly return to our escort ship, then take the speedboat to Qiao Zhuang's territory and see if there are any mines!"

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