After recovering from his shock, Shi Jin got up from the ground and prepared to contact Gua Yi to confirm the situation outside. As soon as he stood firm, he heard a vague plop from outside the captain's room. Is
there someone outside?
His expression changed, and he took out his gun with his backhand, and walked towards the captain's room door with light steps.
He had clearly ordered everyone below to hide in the cabin and not to come to the captain's room, but why was there a sound outside now? Could it be a spy? Everyone had been fighting all night and was exhausted. If there was a spy, now would be the best time to launch a sneak attack. He
couldn't relax yet, so he tightened his grip on the gun and leaned against the door.
Gua Er frowned upon seeing this, and he also stood up and took out his gun, lowering his voice and asking, "Is there anyone?"
Shi Jin nodded, his hand already on the door handle, and after gently pulling open the door, he ducked and dodged, aiming the muzzle of his gun at the source of the sound.
Gua Er stepped back to cover for Shi Jin.
Outside the door, where Shi Jin's muzzle was aimed, Fei Yujing was leaning against the wall with a tired face, holding a rope in his hand, and the other end of the rope was tied to Li Jiuzheng, who was lying on the ground facing the wall. The scene was very funny. Shi
Jin: "Uh..."
"He insisted on coming over, and I couldn't stop him, so I just tied him up to prevent him from bothering you." Fei Yujing explained, looking at him sideways, and asked, "Is the crisis resolved?"
"Ah... well, probably." Shi Jin responded, put the gun back into his pocket, glanced at Li Jiuzheng who was tied up tightly on the ground and couldn't move at all, wanted to laugh but felt it was too inhumane, so he coughed softly and stepped forward, stretched out his hand to help Li Jiuzheng untie the rope, and said, "Second brother, how can you tie up fifth brother? What if he hurts fifth brother's hand? Fifth brother is a doctor."
Fei Yujing said with indifference: "After discovering that the ship was surrounded, he suddenly went crazy. He's charging here, and he can't be stopped. He's also threatening people everywhere with a scalpel. In order to prevent him from holding you back or hurting innocent people, I can only tie him up."
Shi Jin imagined the scene described by Fei Yujing. He paused while untying the rope. He looked at the way Li Jiuzheng twisted his head and refused to look at him. His eyes warmed up. He reached out to touch his head, asked Guaer for a dagger, and directly cut all the ropes on his body, then reached out to help him up.
Li Jiuzheng got up, but lowered his head so that no one could see his face.
"Xiao Jin, don't worry about him. He just cried out of fright. Now his face is probably covered with tears and snot. He's too embarrassed to show it to you." Fei Yujing was still adding to the knife.
Li Jiuzheng took out a scalpel and reached out to cut Fei Yujing's face.
"Fifth brother! Don't be impulsive! It's okay, we are safe, it's okay." Shi Jin hurriedly grabbed Li Jiuzheng's hand and found that his hand was shaking slightly, and there were even rope marks on his skin, which showed how hard he struggled when he was tied up. His heart softened, and he pressed his tense shoulders with his other hand, went around to his front, pressed his head on his shoulders, shielded his face, and comforted him, "It's really okay, fifth brother, we are all alive and safe."
Li Jiuzheng's body froze, and then he dropped the scalpel with a clang, and hugged him tightly with his backhand.
"It's okay." Shi Jin patted his back and looked at Fei Yujing.
Fei Yujing looked very disheveled now, his suit was wrinkled, buttons had fallen off, and it was covered in dust, as if it had rolled on the ground. His forehead seemed to have been hit somewhere, with a small bump on it, which had already turned purple. But even so, his expression remained calm. Seeing Shi Jin looking at him, he pulled the corners of his mouth, reached out and patted Shi Jin's forehead, and said, "It's good to be alive."
He smiled, but Shi Jin inexplicably felt a little sour in his nose, and said with a smile, "I ate the longevity noodles made by the fifth brother. People who promised to live a hundred years will of course be alive. Everyone will be alive... I'm sorry for putting you in danger."
"It's okay." Fei Yujing patted the dust off his body, looked at the scene after the naval battle around him, and said, "I don't think I will encounter such an experience again in my life. I have to thank you for letting me see this scene."
Shi Jin looked at him looking at the distant sea with his head tilted to the side, trying to downplay it. He felt Li Jiuzheng's body slowly relax after hearing the longevity noodles. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, his legs softened, and he leaned against the wall.
Who would want to encounter this damn experience again?
...
Gua Yi led Gua San and Gua Jiu to kill the enemy at the fastest speed, cleared the battlefield, and then protected the main ship, which had been severely damaged, and left the vicinity of the channel.
Half an hour later, Gua Yi led his men onto Shi Jin's ship and reported the situation, "One third of Meng Qing's flying team escaped, four enemy ships escaped, and the rest were all destroyed or sunk. Nearly a hundred prisoners were captured and locked up in the cabin." Shi Jin
forced himself not to think about how many casualties the enemy had suffered in this ambush. He nodded to show that he understood and asked, "What are the casualties on our side?"
"There are 28 injured, none of them are seriously injured." Gua Yi answered, glanced at his face and advised, "Young Master Shi, you've been up all night, go eat something and take a rest."
Shi Jin did feel a little tired, but he still forced himself to confirm the situation of each department. Only when he was sure that everything was arranged did he say, "I'll call Zhang Zhuoyuan and then go to rest. Everyone should take a break after taking a shift. Thank you for your hard work."
Gua Yi responded, then left the captain's room, walked to a deserted place, took out a satellite phone from his pocket that showed it was on a call, put it to his ear and called respectfully, "Young Master Jun."
"Did he go to sleep?" Lian Jun asked.
"Not yet. Master Shi said he would call Director Zhang before going to rest." Guayi reported, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Why don't you contact Master Shi directly? Master Shi will be very happy to receive your call."
Lian Jun was silent for a while, and replied, "Let him rest first, you summarize the situation on the scene and send it to me, remember to pay attention to the surrounding situation at all times, and then contact." After that, he hung up the phone.
Guayi put down the phone, looked back at the captain's room, turned around and left.
...
On the other side, the four-way call ended, and finally everyone decided to retreat immediately, minimize the losses, and then prepare for the aftermath and be in trouble with Zhang Zhuoyuan in advance.
After Meng Qing arranged the escaped flight team members, he sat in front of the route map with a sullen face. Thinking of what Qi Yun and Lu Shan had said before, his expression changed for a while, and finally he made up his mind and made a phone call.
"Hello? It's me... Well, the meeting is over... Lend me some firepower... I know you'll be of great benefit... Yes, I'll tell you the approximate location, but there's only this person, no matter what, I'm going to let him die at sea today!"
...
After contacting Zhang Zhuoyuan, Shi Jin and the others on the old ship were all transferred to the new ship that Gua Yi had found, he finally felt relieved, went to the bedroom on the new ship, threw himself on the bed, and fell asleep in a second.
I don't know how long I slept, Shi Jin was awakened by Xiao Si, got up and asked painfully: "What's wrong?" I felt dizzy and I hadn't slept enough.
"Jin Jin, don't sleep anymore, your progress bar suddenly started to rise, it has risen to 700 again!" Xiao Si's tone was anxious, and he was a little bit collapsed.
"What?" Shi Jin woke up and took a look at his progress bar. He saw that the value of the progress bar jumped from 700 as Xiao Si said to 800. He was so shocked that his scalp exploded. He hurriedly threw off the quilt and got out of bed. He didn't even have time to tidy up his clothes and ran quickly towards the captain's room.
It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. Outside, the sky was blue and the clouds were white. The sea was rippling. Seabirds flew in the sky from time to time. It looked peaceful and comfortable, but Shi Jin's heartbeat was very fast, because even when he ran out, his progress bar was still rising, and the speed was super fast!
"What's going on? Didn't the enemy get wiped out? Lu Shan also said that everyone has retreated. Why is the progress bar still rising? Could it be that the route issue is not enough to force them to stop? Someone sent a second wave of people over!" Shi Jin was about to collapse. He stepped out of the cabin and ran towards the captain's room.
"8, 880, Jin Jin, the progress bar is rising too fast. There must be danger nearby - wait, there are enemies in the sky behind!" Xiao Si's voice suddenly rose. Shi
Jin was startled and asked it to give him the Clairvoyance buff. He ran to the guardrail and turned his head to look at the sky behind him. Sure enough, he saw three small aircraft with strange shapes approaching this side quickly in the distant sky. He couldn't help but gasp.
That was a fighter plane, a real one... He grabbed the guardrail fiercely, turned around and ran towards the captain's room.
Gua San was guarding outside the captain's room. When he saw Shi Jin rushing over in dishevel, he frowned and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, Master Shi?"
"There are enemies!" Shi Jin said, and walked past him into the captain's room. He saw Gua Yi and Gua Jiu chatting together, and the captain and others were also chatting. Everyone looked calm, so he knew that the fighter planes that came this time must be equipped with anti-surveillance devices. Without time to explain, he ran to the captain's seat, increased the ship's speed to the highest, and then opened the local communication, and ordered, "Attention all ships! Speed up, there are enemies approaching, be alert!"
The captain was startled by Shi Jin's actions and asked in confusion: "There are enemies? But the radar doesn't--"
Beep beep beep--
the alarm sounded suddenly, indicating that an unidentified flying object appeared in the sky behind the ship.
The captain shut up, looked at the radar in disbelief, and widened his eyes--what is this? Did Shi Shao know it before it happened?
"There are indeed ships approaching us, everyone! One, two... four in total! And a helicopter is approaching." Guajiu, who was typing on a strange laptop, suddenly stopped and reminded with a frown.
Guayi hurried over, took a look at his computer screen, and then raised his eyes to look at Shi Jin.
There are also ships? Shi Jin
was surprised, and then he breathed a sigh of relief - it seems that the monitoring system here is still very powerful and can detect the enemy's attack, but the range is not as far as the clairvoyance buff can see. He also followed to Guajiu's side. Although he knew that his behavior was a bit suspicious, the situation was critical and there was no time to cover it up. He quickly said: "It is definitely not a helicopter. Helicopters can't go that fast!" If it's not
a helicopter, then what could it be?
Gua Jiu thought of something, his expression changed, and he started typing on the computer again. After more than 20 seconds, the screen changed to satellite images, and several fighter planes flying at high speed appeared on the screen.
"They are really here." Gua Yi suddenly spoke. Shi
Jin was stunned and asked with frowns: "What do you mean? Did you know that the enemy would come?"
"Wu Men has a secret cooperation organization over in the LS Islands. Jun Shao guessed that with Meng Qing's personality, he would not be willing to accept the loss and would continue to send people to chase him, so he asked me to pay attention at all times." Gua Yi answered, but he had something to say. But he never thought that Shi Jin would find out that the enemy was coming faster than the instrument... Is this also a kind of crisis perception? It's too sensitive.
Shi Jin was getting more and more confused, and asked: "Did Lian Jun guess it? He told you to be careful at all times? When did he tell you--"
Boom--!
An explosion sounded behind the fleet, the sea water was turbulent, and the ships began to shake.
The enemy was coming with great momentum, and they opened fire without even waiting for the ships to enter the range.
The alarm rang wildly, Shi Jin's expression sank, and he ordered: "The whole team maintains the fastest sailing speed, keeps a steady course and does not get affected by the aftershocks of the explosion, and must not be caught up by the enemy, otherwise--damn it! Why do violent organizations have things like fighter jets!"
Why do violent organizations have things like this, which the official does not own in large quantities? This is unscientific!
"The environment over there in the LS Islands is complicated. Some large violent organizations are secretly supported by the government. It's not surprising that these things happen." Guayi was very calm and tried to comfort Shi Jin, "Don't worry, Mr.
Shi, we will be fine." How could Shi Jin not worry? He said, "That's a fighter plane, not an armed helicopter or anything else. We-"
"We have it too." Guayi replied.
Shi Jin was stunned: "What?"
"Fighter planes, we have it too." Guayi emphasized, raised his hand to take off the wireless headphones on his ears, and pressed a button on Guajiu's computer.
The next second, Lian Jun's voice came over, his tone was steady: "How many?" Shi Jin
stared at Guajiu's computer in disbelief, suspecting that he was hallucinating.
Gua Yi replied, "Three, Gua Jiu has locked the position."
"Send me the coordinates, the reinforcements are on the way, you guys keep going, don't panic." Lian Jun ordered calmly.
Gua Yi responded with a "yes" and began to help Gua Jiu send the coordinates to Lian Jun.
With Lian Jun's words, the captain and others immediately calmed down and went back to work. For a while, the only sounds in the captain's room were Gua Jiu's computer and the alarm sounds of various instruments. Although there were still enemy troops harassing behind the fleet, the atmosphere in the room stabilized and there was no tension or anxiety. Shi Jin
was no longer anxious because he found that his progress bar was stuck at 900 and did not move. And... He glanced at Gua Jiu's computer, swallowed his saliva, slowed down his steps, and tried to leave the captain's room.
Although Lian Jun only said a few words, he was very sure that Lian Jun was angry, and why was Lian Jun angry...
"Shi Jin." Lian Jun's voice suddenly sounded, as if he knew that he was going to run away, and his words contained a warning. Shi Jin's
body was shocked, and he hurriedly stopped and stood up, raising his voice to reply: "I, I'm here! I'm not running away, I swear! Um, did you just get up from lunch break? I just got up too, haha... ha..."
The captain's room was dead silent, and everyone looked at Shi Jin at the same time, with expressions that were hard to describe.
Shi Jin: "..." Oops, I think I said the wrong thing.
Lian Jun was silent for a few seconds, and then his voice sounded again, even deeper: "You stay by Guayi's side and don't go anywhere before I see you, otherwise..."
Click, the phone was hung up, and Lian Jun didn't finish his words.
Shi Jin was frightened by the sound of the phone being hung up, and his heart skipped a beat. He couldn't help but think about what Lian Jun hadn't finished saying. The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. He didn't care about the progress bar and the pursuers, and he turned around in circles in a panic - it was over, Lian Jun was really angry, what should he do, what should he do. When did Lian Jun contact Guayi, and did he already know that he had taken the initiative to set a trap for Meng Qing and the others?
Should he have called Lian Jun to report that he was safe before going to bed in the morning? But it was so early, what if Lian Jun was not awake yet... It was over, he missed the chance to confess and be forgiven, and it would probably be a storm in the future!
Gua Yi glanced at Shi Jin and wisely did not disturb him.
A not-so-tense escape battle began. About three minutes later, the alarm began to sound - the fleet had entered the range of fighter planes. If it was attacked again this time, it would probably be impossible to escape.
"Reinforcements are coming." Gua Jiu suddenly spoke.
Shi Jin came back to his senses, followed his line of sight to look at the computer screen in front of him, and then his eyes widened - he saw on the satellite map, near the symbol representing the enemy, several other symbols representing fighter planes suddenly appeared. After the latter quickly approached the former, they formed a fan-shaped up and down formation and surrounded the opponent.
"We are safe." Gua Yi also spoke, motioning Shi Jin to look ahead. Shi
Jin turned his head stupidly and saw in front of him, several huge ships that were obviously military supplies were approaching this side in a formation, and then after approaching the fleet here, they tacitly split into two columns and dispersed, letting the fleet pass, and then gradually stopped, regrouped in formation, formed a wall, and steadily protected the passing fleet behind.
Shi Jin was stunned. After the captain stopped the boat, he couldn't help but stand up. He looked at the big ship protecting them and asked, "Who is this..."
"The reinforcements brought by Master Jun." Guayi answered, took out a pair of binoculars, and walked out of the captain's room. Shi
Jian also hurried out when he saw this. He stood on the balcony outside the captain's room and pretended to find a pair of binoculars to watch the excitement with the buff of clairvoyance.
After the big ships were lined up, they immediately began to adjust their guns. The enemy ship that was chasing them probably found something wrong and stopped before entering the range of the big ship, presenting a strange confrontation with this side. His heart tightened, and he hurriedly glanced at the sky. Seeing that the fighters in the sky were also confronting each other, he became nervous unconsciously.
If a fight really came to pass, with the current firepower of both sides, the scene would be absolutely terrifying, and there would definitely be serious casualties.
The situation froze for a moment, and the two sides faced each other in silence. Time seemed to be stretched infinitely. Shi Jin stared at the enemy ship without blinking, fearing that if he lost sight, the enemy would rush over without a care.
Finally, more than ten minutes later, just when Shi Jin couldn't help but want to do something, the pursuers suddenly retreated in unison, changed course, and retreated neatly.
Shi Jin: "Huh? So they're not going to fight anymore?"
"It seems that Master Jun's negotiation was successful." Guayi put down his binoculars and explained, "The other side is not our local organization, and there is no need to fight us to the death. When it seems that there is no chance of winning, it is normal to retreat."
"Wait, negotiation?" Shi Jin finally realized that something was wrong. He put down his binoculars and turned his head to look at Guayi. He frowned and asked, "What negotiation? Who is negotiating? Lord Lian is on the island, how can he negotiate with the enemy? Didn't he send the reinforcements from afar? Also, how do you know everything? How much important information did I miss while sleeping?"
"It's not that you missed the message, it's that Young Master Jun didn't let me tell you. He said you were too tired and needed a good rest. He will arrange the next things." Guayi answered honestly and pointed to a large ship in front. "Also, Young Master Jun didn't send reinforcements from afar. He led the team here in person, and they are on that ship. Although these ships are our own things, they cannot be used casually because they are officially registered. In order to mobilize them as soon as possible, Young Master Jun had to set sail in person."
Lian Jun led the team in person... How could he lead the team in person with his physical condition!
Shi Jin's mind went blank for a moment. He remembered Lian Jun's coma, pale and weak appearance before he left. He instinctively looked at the progress bar in his mind, and saw that the value of the progress bar had risen back to 490 from 470, which had been dropped with great difficulty before. He shuddered in his heart and turned around and ran towards the deck.
Gua Yi was unable to stop him and hurriedly called Gua Liu. Shi Jin
quickly came to the deck, lowered a lifeboat, jumped into the sea and climbed onto the lifeboat, heading towards the ship where Lian Jun was.
Gua Liu had received Gua Yi's notice and had already lowered the gangway in advance to facilitate him to come up.
Shi Jin approached as fast as he could, then stopped the boat neatly, jumped into the sea, swam to the gangway, and climbed up in two steps. After he got on the deck, he saw Lian Jun sitting in a wheelchair, parked in the shelter connecting the deck and the cabin, staring at him. He held his breath, paused for a moment, and then ran over quickly, stopping one step away from Lian Jun. He stretched out his hand to hug him, and his eyes swept the water on his body, and he hesitated to take his hand back.
"Lian Jun..." he called in a low voice.
"Shi Jin." Lian Jun interrupted him, raised his hand and held the hand he wanted to take back, pursed his lips tightly, as if suppressing something, and said solemnly, "Didn't I tell you... to stay by Gua Yi's side and not run around? Why don't you listen?"
"I'm sorry." Shi Jin heard that his voice was shaking with anger, and hurriedly held his hand back. He was afraid that the water on his body would wet his clothes, so he only dared to bend over carefully and move closer, and said softly, "I'm sorry, I made you worry, it's my fault, don't be angry."
"You mess around when I'm not watching you." Lian Jun was really furious. He grabbed his hand tightly. He was able to suppress his emotions when they were communicating over the phone, but when he saw Shi Jin's wet and frightened appearance, his anger instantly collapsed and his eyes were red. "Shi Jin, why can't you just stay here? If I had come a little later this time, or if the second wave of pursuers had gathered faster... sometimes I really want to lock you up with an iron chain to prevent you from running away where I can't see you!" Shi Jin
saw that his eyes were red and he couldn't care less. , leaned against him, her throat seemed to be choked by a lump of lead, and she repeated: "I'm sorry, it's my fault, don't be angry, I won't run around or do anything wrong, don't get angry with yourself."
Lian Jun tilted his head, and resisted hugging him for more than ten seconds. After finding that he was shivering slightly from the cold, he couldn't help but let go of his hand and stretched out his arms to hug him in his arms, holding him down with all his strength, and said: "Don't think you can get away with it this time. You actually used yourself as bait to do such a dangerous thing... Do you want to piss me off to death!"
"No." Shi Jin hugged him back, touching his skinny body. Worry, longing, self-blame, guilt, and other emotions rushed out at the same time. He closed his eyes, buried his head in his chest, and whispered, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I missed you so much, I'm sorry."
Lian Jun wanted to scold him, but also wanted to comfort him. He had too many things to say, but in the end he just lowered his head and hugged him tightly, unable to say a word.
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