Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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Content Warning; Violence
Soon, the “Sea Shark” radar detector issued an alarm to warn that an unknown vessel was approaching.
Huo Shanglin stood nervously on the side of the ship and watched the sea with night-vision binoculars. On the sea, there were several maritime police speedboats coming towards them at a high speed.
This was the border of the territorial waters. It was commonplace to encounter the maritime police boarding and inspection. Everything was within the scope of Huo Shanglin’s plan.
He patted Qiu Li on the shoulder: “It’s up to you to act.”
The “Sea Shark” stopped, and two marine policemen in uniform night patrols boarded the ship and asked, “What are you doing?”
Huo Shanglin pointed to the fishing rod on the bow and said with a smile: “Going to the oil well to fish.”
The coast guard took a look at him with a flashlight and saw that he was wearing a white trousers and shirt. He was dressed very carefully: “You don’t look like a fisherman. Your boat is also not like a fishing boat.”
“I’m just… a fishing enthusiast. It doesn’t matter if I can’t catch any fish, I just want to take a picture.”
“It’s the high seas ahead. Going so far to fish?”
“Yes, I heard that big guys can be caught in this area.”
After the question and answer session, it was obvious that Huo Shanglin had prepared a coping strategy.
The Coast Guard also knew that there were indeed many rich second-generation sons who liked to spend a lot of money to go fishing far away. Although they were not professional, what they were doing was not illegal.
“Is there a permit to go to sea?”
“Of course there is.”
Huo Shanglin immediately asked the captain to bring the permit over for inspection by the maritime police.
The two marine policemen saw nothing wrong, but still did not relax their vigilance, and asked again: “Do you mind if we check your ship.”
“No problem, no problem, just check it out.”
Huo Shanglin said, winking at Qiu Li.
Qiu Li followed the two coast guards as they inspected the small fishing boat. There was nothing wrong with the deck, but the bottom compartment was locked.
“What’s down there?”
Qiu Li replied with a gentle voice: “It’s just some fish caught along the way, even though they are frozen, but it is inevitable that there will still be a smell, so we locked the door. Do you smell the fishy smell? The sea fish smell’s quite heavy.”
A marine policeman sniffed: “It’s kind of smelly.”
“Is your fish spoiled? It smells too bad.” Another sea policeman waved his nose at the tip of his nose, dispelling the muddy air: “It’s disgusting.”
The crew looked at each other, and they really bowed down to Qiu Li in their hearts.
Qiu Li said, “The two… do you want to go down and see?”
“This…”
The crew gathered around the door of the bottom cabin, strained, looked at them nervously, and said, “We won’t look at it, we can smell it, there is a bunch of stinky fish below.”
“Yes, don’t look at it.”
The two coast guards looked at each other and said, “We still have to go down and take a look.”
After all, it was so late, and it was hard not to doubt that this lone fishing boat which was on the border of the high seas.
“Yes.” Qiu Li looked back at Huo Shanglin: “Boss Huo, where’s the key?”
Huo Shanglin cursed Qiu Li in his heart, obviously he could handle these two people outside the cabin, but once they entered the lower cabin, his goods could be laid out there. As soon as the door opened, everything would be exposed!
Qiu Li said solemnly: “Boss Huo, my family is still waiting for me to go back, so please hurry up and finish work earlier.”
The corner of Huo Shanglin’s eyes trembled slightly, and he slowly took out the key from his bag.
No need for suspecting, since he had brought Qiu Li on board, he naturally believed in his strength, Jiang Yu was still in his hands, this guy would dare not do anything wrong!
Huo Shanglin threw the key to Qiu Li, Qiu Li opened the bottom hatch, and then pinched his nose: “Boss, you can’t ask for this fish! It’s too fishy!”
The two coast guards also showed disgusting expressions on their faces, as if they really smelled the fishy smell.
Huo Shanglin asked nothing as he didn’t smell it anyway, so he followed dubiously.
Qiu Li took the marine police to the bilge room, and looked for the rice bag with a flashlight as a cover: “Good guy, that one… see if you see it, let’s say 50 catties less.”
The marine guard glanced at the corner of the bronze cauldron in front of him: “It’s more than fifty catties, I think it’s seventy catties.”
“Boss, the ice cubes are not enough, you see it melted, no wonder it smells so bad.”
Huo Shanglin looked at the two marine policemen who were deeply hypnotized in front of him, grinning inconceivably.
If he hadn’t tried Qiu Li’s hypnosis personally, he would never have thought that such a fantasy could happen in this world.
The cultural relics were laid out in front of the coast guards in this manner, but they were caught in the terrible hypnotism, and they regarded the rice bags and cultural relics in front of them as dead fish and rotten shrimps.
“Do you still need to go in and have a look?” Qiu Li pinched his nose and asked angrily.
The marine police frowned and hurriedly left the scene and went on the deck, breathing in the fresh air: “Don’t look at it, there is nothing wrong. You should be careful not to go out of the territorial waters.”
“Got it.” Huo Shanglin accompanied them with a smiling face and sent the two marine police back aboard the speedboat.
Seeing the speedboat disappear into the vast night, all the people on the boat breathed a sigh of relief. Huo Shanglin returned to the control room and watched the ships drifting away on the radar scanner. There was nothing around him.
“How long will it take to enter the high seas?”
“Twenty nautical miles.”
“Speed up.”
In the early hours of the morning, on the endless darkness of the sea, a searchlight on the mast appeared to the southeast of the ship. It should be the ship that came to trade-the “Resurrection”.
Huo Shanglin glanced at the calm radar scanner, felt a little strange, and asked the captain: “It did not enter the range of radar monitoring?”
“No, the radar should have detected it at such a short distance.” The captain frowned: “I’m still surprised. For such a long time, there isn’t even a ghost, so the radar shouldn’t be broken.”
However, as soon as the captain’s voice fell, the “Resurrection” seemed to have sensed the coming of danger, suddenly turned the bow of the ship, and began to move forward at full speed, moving away from the “Sea Shark”.
“What’s the matter? What are they running?”
“Boss Huo, look!”
The captain pointed to the radar scanner, and the screen suddenly displayed more than a dozen unknown ships around!
These ships approached the “Resurrection” and “Sea Shark” in an instant, showing a tendency to encircle, as they were approaching them.
“Boom.”
After snapping his fingers, Huo Shanglin’s chaotic mind suddenly awoke.
He didn’t know when, he actually fell into Qiu Li’s hypnosis unconsciously, completely unaware of the abnormality of the radar.
Not only him, but everyone on the ship was hypnotized and played by him!
At this time, the originally dark sea suddenly lit up, and the ship nearest to them turned on the high-watt masthead light, and the sky became bright in an instant.
Around the “Resurrection” and “Sea Shark”, more than a dozen ships surrounded them, “This is the Chinese Coast Guard. You have been surrounded. Give up meaningless resistance and surrender.”
“This is the Chinese Coast Guard. You have been surrounded. Give up meaningless resistance and surrender.”
The loudspeaker began to play this generous and powerful persuasion in a loop, which completely angered Huo Shanglin. He rushed to the lounge and yelled at the computer screen: “Kill that woman! Kill her!”
Jiang Yu’s haggard face on the computer screen instantly changed to that of Police Officer Chen Yan: “Huo Shanglin, we have a record of all your crimes. Now put down the resistance, immediately surrender, and strive for leniency.”
“I’m going to your mother!”
Huo Shanglin pushed away the computer violently, turned his head and took out the gun from his bag, held it against Qiu Li’s forehead, and pulled the safety switch: “Bad guy! I will kill you!”
The corner of Qiu Li’s mouth raised faintly, showing no fear of Huo Shanglin’s threat.
He was a dying man.
For a long time, being alive… only made him scared.
Seeing that the gun couldn’t threaten Qiu Li, Huo Shanglin became more irritable, and the handle of the gun hit his abdomen, making him bend down.
However… there was still a cold smile on the corner of his mouth.
Just like the school violence that happened many years ago, when Huo Cheng beat him like a mad, and he was like a lamb, unable to fight back, and could only respond with a grin.
But he had the last laugh.
Seeing Qiu Li’s evil smile, Huo Shanglin’s mind became more dizzy and furious.
At this moment, with a “bang”, a shot was fired in the sky.
Song Yuhe had targeted Huo Shanglin, as long as he dared to hurt Qiu Li, he would never be soft.
Within a few minutes, the Coast Guard had boarded the “Sea Shark” and “Resurrection”, and soon subdued the crew on board. Only Huo Shanglin was left standing on the bow of the “Sea Shark” deck.
The loudspeaker sounded loudly to persuade surrender: “Huo Shanglin, you are already surrounded, give up unnecessary resistance and surrender immediately!”
Huo Shanglin stared fiercely at the marine police and criminal police on board, and suddenly tore open his clothes.
After seeing the things around his waist, the smile on Qiu Li’s face gradually disappeared, and everyone was suppressed.
Around his waist was TS34zhayao, which was powerful enough to blast the entire ship into the sky, not to mention the precious cultural relics under the bilge.
It seemed that he was already ready to burn the jade and the stone if the action failed.
“You all return for me!” Huo Shanglin, like a hungry wolf forced into a desperate situation, went crazy and began to scream: “Go! Otherwise I will blow you all up! Go!”
The marine police looked at each other, looked at the commanding captain Fang Ping, and Fang Ping solemnly said: “We have to protect the cultural relics, leave the ship temporarily!”
So the marine police who had boarded the ship returned to the speedboat, and Song Yuhe noticed that Qiu Li did not seem to leave.
His heart tightened, and he shouted at Qiu Li: “Qiu Li, you also get off the boat!”
Huo Shanglin was going to enter the control room and set off. He saw Qiu Li standing on the side of the ship and shouted angrily: “He should stay!”
Of course Qiu Li would not leave. He could not allow Huo Shanglin to carry this ship of cultural relics into the high seas. It had nothing to do with patriotism or a sense of responsibility. He would just never forget what Song Yuhe said to him—
“Go back to her with an open mind.”
This was his last salvation.
Song Yuhe was really anxious. He snatched the blowhorn and shouted in it, “Let Qiu Li get off the boat, we can retreat!”
Huo Shanglin held the ignited instrument switch in one hand and pulled the trigger in the other. He pointed to Qiu Li’s head and shouted violently: “No matter what, today, you have only one dead end. I will kill you! No matter what, you must die!”
A relaxed smile broke out at the corner of Qiu Li’s mouth, then he stretched his tone, and said to him: “You can’t kill me.”
“Why!”
“Aren’t you afraid this is hypnosis?”
Huo Shanglin’s face went slightly dark, and he was obviously panicked: “This is hypnosis? No! Impossible, this can’t be hypnosis!”
“Otherwise, try to ignite now?”
Huo Shanglin’s hand holding the ignition switch trembled slightly. He hesitated. He didn’t realize that behind him, Song Yuhe and a group of people were approaching the “Sea Shark” silently in a rowing boat.
“I can’t be hypnotized by you anymore! I’m already awake!”
“I can make you blind to the approaching ships on the radar, and likewise, I can make you believe that the real world has turned into ruins.”
Qiu Li still smiled casually: “Maybe, you didn’t board the ship at all; maybe on the first day you saw me, you had fallen into the lie that I carefully prepared for you.”
Huo Shanglin shook his head vigorously: “Impossible! This…this is impossible! How could this be? I have already boarded the ship, I am at sea!”
“In the world of hypnosis, even people’s memories can be tampered with. Do you still think this is impossible?”
“Okay, then I will use you to do the experiment!” Huo Shanglin pointed his gun at Qiu Li and pulled the trigger abruptly.
“Boom”
With a muffled sound, the bullet hit Qiu Li’s left calf knee.
However, what surprised Huo Shanglin was that Qiu Li still had a calm smile on his face, and he didn’t even move! He couldn’t seem to feel the sharp pain of a broken knee at all!
He didn’t seem to be a person, but a messenger from hell.
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