The people who were running to the door immediately froze on the spot.
They trembled with pale faces. Some of them slumped on the floor.
They had witnessed everything earlier. They knew that they were no match for the kid’s power, and their only hope, Grandmaster Oda, had run away.
Their hearts were filled with despair.
Makoto Miki was also trembling. His heart was filled with fear and regret.
All this must have been caused by that female police officer. Unfortunately for him, the female police officer should be already sleeping with the fishes by then.
His only lifeline was gone.
“Where is she?” Tang Hao roared sternly as his gaze swept across the room. His eyes eventually fell on Makoto Miki.
Tang Hao walked up to him, grabbed his collar, and lifted him off the floor.
“I’m asking you, where is she?”
Tang Hao’s face was horrific when he asked that question.
“She’s… She’s been… taken away… She should be at the bottom of the sea by now. She’s dead!” Makoto Miki’s face was ashen when he said that. Suddenly, he realized something was wrong, and he quickly shook his head.
“No… No! She might be still alive! She’s thrown into the sea in a crate. She might be still alive!
“You can’t kill me. I know that there’s an informer in the police who wants to set her up. The informer gave us a phone call and told us about her.”
Tang Hao’s expression changed drastically when he heard that.
He had thought that Zhao Qingxue was discovered because she was careless. He did not expect that there was an informer among the police.
“We didn’t want to harm her at first, only drive her away. Unfortunately, she saw something that she wasn’t meant to,” Makoto Miki shouted frantically as though he was a drowning man grasping for a plank.
“Let me ask you then, where did your men throw her?” Tang Hao asked sternly.
“I… I don’t know. Nobody knows. They carried her on a helicopter. But it shouldn’t be too far away,” Makoto Miki said frantically.
Tang Hao furrowed his brows.
How was he going to find her? The sea was unimaginably vast. He did not know where to start searching.
“Where’s the helipad?”
“It’s at… at the stern!”
“If she’s dead, I want the entire Miki Group to die with her!” Tang Hao grunted. He then knocked Makoto Miki out with a karate chop.
He knocked out everyone else in the room, then rushed out of the door and toward the stern.
He faced the endless sea, closed his eyes, and cast the Heaven Eye and Earth Ear spell. His sight and hearing were enhanced by countless times and spread throughout the entire sea.
For a while, he could only hear the sound of the wind and waves.
A while later, he could hear the faint hum of a helicopter rotor.
He opened his eyes and dashed away from the cruise ship. Soon, he noticed a small white helicopter in the sky.
Ferocious gusts of wind immediately rose. He rode on the wind and clung onto the helicopter. Then, he opened the door and pulled the pilot out.
The helicopter pilot was utterly dumbstruck.
He was piloting a helicopter, so where did the person come from?
“Where is she? Where did you dump her?” Tang Hao roared.
The pilot was shocked but eventually came to his senses. With a trembling finger, he pointed behind him and spoke in halting Chinese, “Over… Over there. Not far away.”
The helicopter wobbled and began to lose altitude.
“Hmph,” Tang Hao grunted coldly. He dragged the pilot out of the helicopter and threw him into the sea. Then, he leaped off the helicopter, glided in the air for a while, and dove downward.
The crash of the waves rang loudly in his ears as he descended toward the bottom.
Meanwhile, in the dark and silent sea, a wooden crate was gradually sinking.
The crate was beginning to distort under the crushing water pressure. Seawater was gradually seeping through the cracks.
A figure was curled up in the box.
She was dressed in a red evening gown. Her jet-black hair was scattered across her face and shoulders. Her impeccable face was pale, and her half-shut eyes were unfocused.
Her ankles were chained to two steel balls.
She was in a daze. She wanted to move, but she had no strength. She could only watch helplessly as the box continued to distort and crack.
Cold seawater rushed in, threatening to drown her.
“Am I going to die?”
The thought came to her mind. Sorrow overcame her. She did not want to die, but there was nothing that she could do.
“So cold!” She shivered.
She was slowly losing consciousness.
Many memories flashed past in her mind. Different faces flew by like a carousel.
Finally, the images stopped at a young and handsome face.
She smiled.
Finally, the crate buckled under the pressure and splintered into many pieces. The ice-cold seawater swallowed her up.
Her red evening gown danced in the sea like a blooming rose.
She slowly sank into the pitch-black abyss below.
Her eyes slowly closed and her vision began to blur.
She could vaguely see a hand. The hand was shining brightly and was reaching out to her.
‘This is…’ She was shocked.
The hand that was reaching toward her touched her fingertips. As though being jolted by electricity, she trembled and her eyes struggled to open wide.
She saw a face.
‘It’s him! But why is he here?’ She thought, but she was already losing consciousness. Her eyelids became heavier and heavier and eventually closed.
At the moment she lost consciousness, she could vaguely feel something warm on her lips.
The two people locked in an embrace in the cold, dark sea.
Tang Hao transferred qi from his body to hers through the lips. Her ice-cold body slowly regained temperature. Then, he grabbed on her waist and swam toward the surface.
Splash!
They broke through the surface of the ocean. He took out a plank from his pocket dimension and placed her on it.
He felt her wrist for a pulse and breathed a sigh of relief. She was safe.
He pushed the plank and swam toward the cruise ship.
When he neared the cruise ship, he saw two military helicopters circling the ship. There was also a warship nearby. General Bai must have arrived.
Speedboats appeared from the cruise ship. Those were the people who tried to escape. However, the helicopters fired warning shots at them and forced them back.
A speedboat came and picked up Tang Hao and Zhao Qingxue.
Once on the warship, several paramedics came to bring Zhao Qingxue to the infirmary.
The warship anchored next to the cruise ship and set up a gangplank. Soldiers rushed across the gangplank +and captured the surviving Dongying people.
Tang Hao immediately went to the security control room, slapped Makoto Miki awake, and interrogated the truth out of him.
