After saying that, Anda kept his mouth shut and looked at Ruan Chen with a smug and arrogant look.
Ruan Chen casually commented, "Killing even their own people, that's ruthless."
"What do we do now?" Lin Fengzi's knuckles turned white as she gripped the gun, pressing Anda for an answer. "How do we send a signal to your base that everything is going well?"
“If our esteemed guest follows us obediently, everything will proceed smoothly.” Anda glanced at Ruan Chen sideways.
Lin Fengzi scoffed and cocked her gun. "You really think I wouldn't dare kill you?"
Anda wasn't buying it at all, and retorted provocatively, "Then let's all die together. It wouldn't be a loss to have a bunch of geniuses like you by my side."
Ruan Chen interrupted Lin Fengzi, "Fengzi, don't waste time with him. Go find Ruan Luo. Let's hurry up and get out of here. Maybe we still have a chance to escape this sea area."
"What about him?" Lin Fengzi still held Anda hostage.
Without a second thought, Ruan Chen said, "Take him with you. Don't let him die. This is our breakthrough in identifying the real culprit."
Lin Fengzi was much taller than Anda, and with little effort, she dragged and pulled him toward the southeast corner. The pirates along the way were afraid of hurting Anda's life, so the two of them reached the southeast corner without much effort.
All the students had boarded the ship in an orderly fashion, and they realized that the side with the blood skull engraved on the hull was secretly protecting them.
The Blood Skull group had just subtly eliminated several waves of pirates who were trying to ambush them.
But at this critical moment, Anda launched a desperate counterattack, completely disregarding Lin Fengzi pointing her gun at him, and roared hoarsely at all the students on the ship, "You don't really think you can get away, do you? If I don't take the person I want today, in three minutes, the entire sea will be turned into a sea of fire! None of you will leave alive!"
"Stop talking nonsense. Who the hell knows if you're just exaggerating?" Lin Fengzi cursed.
Anda glanced at Ruan Chen, "Distinguished guest, are you willing to take this gamble? Believe me, the speedboat's speed is simply not fast enough to leave before the attack arrives! Unless I send a signal to base!"
"Ruan Chen, don't listen to him! Let's go!" Ruan Luo stood up on the nearby speedboat and reached out to Ruan Chen.
Ruan Chen pursed her lips slightly and remained silent.
Anda is right, I don't dare to take this gamble.
Her family, her friends, and the future of China were all in this sea area. Moreover, as she got closer, she could see the model of the Blood Skull speedboat. She only needed to do a little calculation in her mind to understand that if an indiscriminate attack was to come at five o'clock, then indeed no one would be able to escape from here alive.
"Sister, come quick! Don't believe his nonsense!" Ruan Yu'er's crisp voice rang out.
She gripped Ruan Luo's hand, her gaze towards Ruan Chen filled with anxiety.
Anda's words were clearly heard by the other students on the ship, and someone muttered quietly, "Only two minutes left."
Ruan Chen's hand, hanging by her side, trembled.
But someone quickly chimed in, "Who cares? We're not easily intimidated."
"That's right. We all came to the US to compete. If someone gets robbed of their place, I'll be too ashamed to go back to my school."
"Anyway, I would never push a girl out to take the blame for me. Ruan, let's go quickly, don't overthink it."
"They're just a bunch of pirates. If they really dare to kill us all here, China won't let them off the hook. Anyone can brag, right?"
Lin Fengzi whispered to Ruan Chen, "Don't be confused, I think he's just exaggerating."
However, both Anda and Ruan Chen remained silent.
Ruan Chen looked somewhat solemn, his face pale and unhealthy, while Anda had a confident smile on his lips.
He fully opened his mental network to Ruan Chen, whose mental energy was currently searching through his complex memories.
This was Ruan Chen's first attempt to use her mental power to search someone else's mental world. After all, she had never received professional training, and even with a completely clean body, she found it somewhat difficult.
She was now certain that Anda hadn't lied and that the indiscriminate attack was real. However, Anda had clearly received professional mental training, and he had placed important information in the deepest part of his consciousness. Ruan Chen couldn't find a way to send a signal to the so-called base that everything was going smoothly in the short term.
She sighed softly, effortlessly snatched the gun from Lin Fengzi's hand, and handed it to Anda along with all the guns she owned, saying calmly, "I'll keep it."
Lin Fengzi's expression suddenly changed. "Ruan Chen, what's wrong with you! We came here to compete together, we'll leave together!"
“He wasn’t lying. If I don’t stay, none of us can leave.” Ruan Chen shrugged, still looking relaxed. He slowly untied his hair tie, lazily tidied his hair, and let Anda signal the pirates to surround him with guns.
Seeing Ruan Chen being pointed at by more than a dozen dark gun barrels, Anda finally breathed a sigh of relief, pressed a button on his wristwatch, and a signal flare soared into the sky not far away.
“The crisis is over,” Anda said with a smile. “Our distinguished guest is Ruan Chen, right? You should have listened to us sooner. After all this fuss, you still had to come back with us obediently.”
“Now that the crisis is over, let them go,” Ruan Chen said, having tidied her hair and tied it into a high ponytail. She seemed relaxed and carefree, having shed her previous tense state. “Let’s hurry back to your base and take a look. I’m really curious.”
"Ruan Chen!"
"elder sister!"
Ruan Chen lowered her eyes, seemingly unmoved as if she hadn't heard at all, and urged Anda again, "It's almost dawn. If you don't want to cause any more trouble, hurry up and have your people send them away."
"I'll stay!" Lin Fengzi didn't board the ship. He gritted his teeth, looked at Ruan Chen, and repeated, "I'll stay with her. I'm sure your side won't mind having one more person."
He really didn't dare to go back.
He didn't even dare to imagine what would happen if, after he returned safely to China, his father and grandfather heard about what had happened here today. Would they break his legs and nail him to the pillar of shame for the family?
It's utterly shameful that the grandson of Marshal Lin, a man of great stature, needs a high school girl to protect him.
Anda carefully examined Lin Fengzi's face in the dim morning light and shook his head, "It would be fine if it were anyone else, but Mr. Lin, you're not suitable."
He pronounced the "Lin" in "Mr. Lin" very clearly.
"So you know my background?" Lin Fengzi stared at Anda. "Ruan Chen is someone I need to protect. If you take him away, I won't be able to explain it to the Lin family."
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