"It's you!" Xiang Xueyuan shifted his gaze to Lu Yaoyang. Just as he was about to lash out, he remembered that Nie Qingkong had taken his gun. So, Xiang Xueyuan coldly commanded, "Kill him!"
Hearing this, Xiang Xueyuan's subordinates immediately prepared to strike.
"Hey, hey, hey, if you ignore me like this, I'll have a headache," Miao Tong said, crossing his arms.
"Do you really think I'm easy to bully if I don't speak?" Er Ya pouted, hands on her hips.
With these two stepping in, Xiang Xueyuan's subordinates were no match. It only took a few exchanges before they were all taken down.
Xiang Xueyuan's expression darkened. Just as he was about to erupt, he noticed that the light from the stone he treasured was dimming at a visible rate.
"No!" A bad premonition arose. Xiang Xueyuan immediately stepped forward, his hands trembling as he used the instrument to detect the stone. Indeed, he saw the energy value contained within the stone plummeting drastically.
The moment the last bit of light from the stone vanished and it fell to the ground, shattering into pieces, a voice simultaneously echoed in Xia Qingtian and Lu Yaoyang's minds: [Hiccup~]
[It actually dragged on until now...] Seeing this, Xia Qingtian knew the system had drained all the energy from the stone.
[Heh heh, it's about time. I'm going to go through my tribulation~] The system said and then disappeared again.
[You jerk...] Xia Qingtian's mouth twitched. Could this damned system be any more unreliable?
It left this troublesome guy holding two nuclear bombs and then snuck away!
Just like that, it snuck away!
Who knew what she was supposed to do now!
Lu Yaoyang was also having a headache at this moment. Without the threat of massive energy leakage, the nuclear bomb explosion was also terrifying!
And there were two of them!
"Ruined... it's all ruined..." Xiang Xueyuan muttered, his knees buckling as he sank to the ground. He stared at the shattered stones for a long time before raising his bloodshot eyes to glare at Xia Qingtian: "It's you! It must be you! It's you again!"
Xia Qingtian didn't know if she should utter a certain vulgar insult.
In the end, all that remained was a roar in her heart: Damn system! You've screwed me over again!
"You might not believe me," Xia Qingtian said, looking at Xiang Xueyuan. "This really has nothing to do with me. You... why don't you take a deep breath first? Don't be impulsive. What if... I'm just saying, what if you really can't recover from this, then your... that thing is quite dangerous too, right?"
Xia Qingtian didn't care about Xiang Xueyuan's life or death, but she cared more about what would happen if this guy really kicked the bucket and the nuclear bombs detonated.
Xia Qingtian couldn't bear the title of this century's sinner!
"You destroyed all my hopes. Do you think I'll let you go?" Xiang Xueyuan's face was grim. "Everything of mine is gone, and this world should be gone too."
"No, no way!" Everyone looked at Xiang Xueyuan with grave expressions.
"Tarik, you still don't know where I hid the other nuclear bomb, do you?" Xiang Xueyuan looked at Tarik and curled his lips. "Just a little bit more, and the whereabouts of that nuclear bomb would have been revealed to the Wen family by your biological parents."
Xiang Xueyuan raised his hand and touched his chest. "It's quite a coincidence, it's not far from here. But thanks to the magnetic field there, I was able to hide it so successfully."
"It's that sea area that can disrupt signals!" Xia Qingyu's expression changed suddenly as if she remembered something. "It's there!"
"As expected of my own daughter." Xiang Xueyuan's smile grew brighter.
"This... it's this close!" Bai Yuqi was stunned. "If it's this close, then not only this small island, but the entire Z country would be instantly finished!"
"Wait a minute!" Xia Qingtian immediately raised her hand, trying to stop Xiang Xueyuan.
"Too late." Xiang Xueyuan immediately activated the signal transmitter connected to his pacemaker.
Seeing this, Bai Yuqi immediately closed her eyes in fear, while everyone else looked around with solemn expressions.
Then, time passed by, and nothing happened.
"Wh-what's going on?" Xiang Xueyuan's face was filled with disbelief.
It shouldn't be like this.
At this time, it should have already turned into ashes!
"We're just saying, could it be that in that magnetic disturbance sea area, your signal is... not very accurate?" Er Ya asked Xiang Xueyuan, tilting her head.
"Impossible!" Xiang Xueyuan's brows furrowed. His signal transmitter was the most advanced equipment in the world; otherwise, he wouldn't have installed it in his own body.
But what was going on?
"Could it be that after the nuclear bomb was discovered, someone dismantled it?" Xia Qingtian guessed, blinking her eyes.
"Bingo~" a familiar female voice chimed in. Then, from amidst a pile of casually placed gold ornaments, a person suddenly sprang out.
"Wen Jiu?!" Seeing this person, Xia Qingtian was also surprised. "Didn't you stay on the ship to direct the overall situation or something?"
"That was a lie. How could someone like me do something like directing the overall situation? It's too troublesome," Wen Jiu said, waving her hand. "Of course, digging for treasure is more fun~"
Walking over step by step, Wen Jiu smiled at Xiang Xueyuan and said, "Now, I arrest you for endangering national security. You have the right to remain silent, but anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Do you have any objections?"
"Wen family..." Xiang Xueyuan gritted his teeth, his face no longer showing the usual calm he had before. "What exactly did you do!"
"We just dismantled your broken junk," Wen Jiu said with a smile. "But it's also thanks to you choosing that sea area with weird magnetic fields that the signal interference was so chaotic, and you didn't receive accurate news, right?"
After saying this, Wen Jiu smiled again and looked at Nie Qingkong. "It's also thanks to your parents' risky delivery of this message."
Nie Qingkong's gaze shifted slightly upon hearing this. His heart was incredibly complex, and the gradually fading images of his parents in his mind seemed to become clearer.
"So that's how it is..." Xiang Xueyuan chuckled. So, from that moment on, he had miscalculated one step.
He just hadn't expected that this one miscalculation would lead him to be so passive now.
Xiang Xueyuan tilted his head back and laughed coldly, his laughter somewhat unsettling.
Wen Jiu covered her ears with a hint of disgust. After Xiang Xueyuan stopped, she asked, "Are you done laughing? If you're done, cooperate, so I can hand you in, okay?"
"Hand me in? With what? My life?" Xiang Xueyuan looked towards the crowd and let out a cold laugh.
Immediately after, the ground began to shake once more.
"What's going on!" Bai Yuqi looked in Lu Yaoyang's direction. "Troublemaker! What did you do again?"
"I didn't do anything!" Lu Yaoyang was also a bit confused. He had only activated the temporary shutdown mechanism and hadn't touched anything else.
What was going on?
"Bomb the island!" Xia Qingtian suddenly said, as if she had remembered something. "He wants to bomb the island!"