In the moment we stepped out, we were hit with a sudden pain and fainted.

"Seize...the opportunity...soon...someone will come to save you, they're coming!" (The voice of Youxiang sounded like that of a child from the abyss)

When I regained consciousness, we were already locked up in a spacious dark room.

Judging from the constant impact of the seawater on the exterior, it seemed like we were in a cabin on the bow of the ship.

"How did the Alliance army end up here? I'm really curious!"

As members of the regular army of the Alliance, we should have nothing to do with those pirates who are nothing but a motley crew, and they should be considered terrorists.

But reality stared us in the face. A burly man dressed in the blue uniform of the Alliance lit a cigarette in front of us and stood with the pirate leader amicably. Behind us, there were even two submachine guns pointed at us. The situation was terrible!

"It doesn't matter. You don't need to know anything anymore as dead people!"

The middle-aged man breathed hot air onto my face and crushed the cigarette butt on the ground.

"Attack, kill him..."

Crash! At that critical moment, the upper deck of the cabin shook violently... It was the assault team!

Boom! With an explosion, the iron door in front of the ship was forcefully blown open.

"Darn it, bring everyone..."

The burly man ordered the pirate leader and the two underlings to tie us up. The two underlings first chose Yuanhui. Seizing this opportunity, I quickly used the concealed butterfly knife on the back of my pants to cut off the ropes.

"Hey kid, the ropes we pirates use are much stronger than the flimsy ropes you have!"

Watching me struggle for half a day without any "results," the old man walked triumphantly towards me.

"Are you sure?"

"That...uh!!"

In the moment when he said the second word, I stabbed the butterfly knife in my hand into his chin. He couldn't believe the fact that he was stabbed until his death. But as the burly man said, dead people don't need to understand anything anymore.

At this moment, their attention was still not on me, and I had already taken out the handgun from the pirate leader's waist, aiming at the two underlings who were tying up Yuanhui.

Bang! Crack!

The two underlings fell to the ground with the sound of gunshots, and only the officer of the Alliance Army, who had just realized what was happening, stared at me in horror and slowly retreated towards the gap caused by the explosion.

"Still retreating? If you retreat again, you'll fall to the sharks!"

As I said that, I aimed the gun at his head, and he put his hand into his shirt to search for something.

Click... click...

No bullets left. Are these pirates really so poor? Running out of bullets so often?

"Hehe, no more bullets, kid?"

After that guy saw the great change in my expression, he took out a dagger with an evil smile on his face and approached me. In my hand, there was only one butterfly knife left, and the handle was still stained with fresh blood.

"Kid, you better be careful," the old man raised the dagger menacingly, "none of you will walk out of here alive today!"

The waves grew larger, and some special forces began to prepare to forcefully enter the room. It was his time to die.

"Do you know? It won't do you any good to drag it out!" I reminded him so that he wouldn't still be deluding himself.

"Is that so?" The burly man suddenly threw his dagger into the sea and then walked towards me... Was he surrendering?

"I still have a trick up my sleeve, something you forced me to use!"

He once again unbuttoned his shirt and threw it on the ground, revealing rows of transparent test tubes filled with purple liquid tightly attached to his body.

"This is the crystallization of the technology developed by our Elena Corporation for five years. Let me give you a taste!"

Elena? He really is... He also realized that he had slipped up and instinctively covered his mouth with his hand.I grabbed him around the waist while he was momentarily distracted, securing his body to stop him from detonating those several cans of explosives.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Everything I did in that moment felt so helpless and confused. It should have been so simple to make someone die, but trying to stop someone from dying was simply absurd.

He broke free from my grasp and, with perfect timing, pressed the trigger button. The liquid in the test tube immediately began to boil violently... This person had gone mad!!!

"You bastard!"

I grabbed hold of his chest and dragged him towards the edge of the sea.

"Juxi, don't worry about me, just run!"

Yuanhui's face had already contorted into an unrecognizable form because of me. Tears streamed down his face as he shouted desperately, hoping to see me escape from that place. But all I could do was smile. If we tried to escape, we would both die. It was better to just let one person die!

"Don't be foolish," I smiled and glanced at him one last time. "Take care of Yuxiang for me, alright!"

With that in mind, without hesitation, I jumped into the vast sea with him. Then, I only heard a deafening explosion accompanied by a powerful shockwave... Finally, the world fell silent and plunged into darkness, without any means of escape...

Darkness, an eternal embrace, a hell where no life could survive!

It was like a vast swamp, pulling me deeper and deeper until I could hardly see what this world looked like anymore.

"So, this is death?" I couldn't help but mock myself. "It's nothing special!"

It seemed that this was truly the end. Just as I chose to despair and closed my eyes in the dark mire, a familiar and warm voice rang out.

"Juxi... little brother..." Yuxiang's voice rescued me from the remnants of darkness. She seemed somewhat anxious as she said to me, "You can't die yet. That guy is just a small fry in the Alliance Army, not worth mentioning. The real person we need to kill is still lingering in this world!"