1199 Behind the Scenes 1 (2/2)
”Do you have an emergency channel?” he asked the pilot with his final ray of hope.
”N-no…” The pilot was even more panicked now. ”But I'm bringing up the naval map now, there should be some decently-sized supply islands nearby, we always go there to replenish our everyday supplies!”
”Then let's head there!” Garen decided.
Beside him, Kong Xinxue also began to stir right about then.
Mmgh…
”Where is this?” She massaged her head, opening her eyes slowly.
”Over the sea.” Garen turned around to glance at her.
”I remember… being kidnapped, I think,” Kong Xinxue said hesitantly. ”How long was I out?” Her words began to flow better.
”How would I know how long you were out? All I know is that it was quite a while,” said Garen, annoyed. ”You're the reason I came vacationing all the way out here in the ocean.”
”Well, it was your fault for neglecting your guard duty and leaving your post, otherwise I wouldn't have been kidnapped, would I?”
”Yeah, yeah, it was my fault. I shouldn't have left my position like that.” He did promise to watch everyone's backs, and Garen was not an irresponsible guy, so he decided not to argue.
This was indeed his fault.
”What should we do now?” Kong Xinxue frowned, looking at the black man flying the aircraft in front of them.
”We need to find a way to contact the outside world, and then wait for help to arrive,” replied Garen, cutting to the chase. ”It would be best if we could reach Nine-Tailed and the others. Still, the most important thing now is to first figure out exactly which faction attacked us.”
His gaze fell on the pilot in front of him.
”I'll talk! I'll talk! According to international law, you can't torture prisoners of war!” yelled the black pilot hastily.
”First off, tell me, who are you guys!?” asked Garen directly.
”White Crab, I'm just a regular aircraft pilot under the White Crab Army!” replied the black man immediately. He did not dare to pause for breath, lest his slow response ended his life. He had just watched Garen kill off more than a hundred elites without batting an eyelid, and most of those elites were terrifying killers who had been half-machinized and modified, usually they were the ones who killed indiscriminately.
But Garen had destroyed and obliterated each of them as though he was merely slicing through watermelons. The survivors had mostly gone into hiding, the killing had scared them away.
”White Crab?”
”That's right!” The black man nodded his head like a chick pecking at feed. ”The White Crab Army is an independent mercenary troop, we don't know what faction we actually belong to, but most of our missions are passed down from the Commander-in-Chief above us, our small island base is only one of the twenty-or-so such islands under the Commander-in-Chief's control. Our codename is the Biochemical Army. There are a lot more armies besides us.”
”Who's the White Crab Army's Commander-in-Chief?” asked Kong Xinxue coldly. This question was crucial, this White Crab Army could very well be related to the traitor among their midst, or else the enemy would not be able to follow their tracks so easily, capturing Kong Xinxue as soon as Garen left.
”What about Kong Yuan? He's fine, right?” Garen asked Kong Xinxue in a low voice.
”About time you remembered!” Kong Xinxue rolled her eyes at him. ”He's fine, he's just under temporary protection for now. He has no idea what happened, so we told him that he was aiding the investigations of a murder case, and he's at the police station now.”
”That's good.” Garen nodded. Then he began to listen to the black man's explanation.
”I'm just a regular soldier, how would I know the Commander-in-Chief!?” the black man yelled. ”I'm just a low-ranking soldier, a low-ranking one!!” he kept repeating.
”Fine, fine, I know you're just a low-ranking soldier.” Garen was exasperated. ”Tell me everything you know.”
”Got it! Got it!!” The black man heaved a long sigh of relief.
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On the cruise
Nine-Tailed Fox and Li Hua stared down the heavy-duty robot opposite them, as though readying for war.
On the surface, this robot looked just like a normal person, the only difference being it had a high-speed spinning metal sphere connected to its arm, and every inch of the sphere was covered in sharp thorns.
The robot was about 180 centimeters tall and appeared to be slightly thin, looking more like a man in armor rather than a robot.
But there was an evident gap in its neck, formed by a cluster of metal strips. From the outside, anyone could see that there was no flesh or blood in its neck, only metal strips and wires.
The waves were growing stronger, and there were corpses scattered all over the cruise ship. The cause of death was clearly the caving in of their chest cavities, as though something heavy had crashed ruthlessly into their chests, shattering it and killing them through their internal injuries.
There were crew members among the dead, and some special service personnel, but most of them were passengers.
That robot had suddenly dashed out from among the passengers, staying hidden and motionless when Garen, Nine-Tailed and the rest were fighting hard outside, only to suddenly attack and ambush Nine-Tailed Fox as soon as Garen left.
Although Nine-Tailed Fox noticed something amiss in time and managed to dodge, she still stabbed in the waist by that extremely quick poisonous needle. There was a great force behind that steel needle, so even putting aside the poison on it, merely the impact of it was enough to penetrate the muscles in her waist.
By now, the blood was slowly dripping down the right side of her waist.