Chapter 1 Cage

Cage couldn't understand why Nanfu would forgo the credit right in front of him, preferring to hand over the opportunity rather than fight for it himself.

Before becoming an affiliated state of the EU, Cage was a young, successful, and ambitious military officer in his own country. But since becoming a vassal of the EU, his status plummeted. He went from being a favored son of heaven to a "slave of a fallen nation." At naval headquarters, he had to bow and scrape even to EU officers of lower rank.

This sense of loss and humiliation was unbearable for Cage!

At this moment, he had just seen an opportunity that could change his life, but in the next second, Nanfu was about to personally ruin it.

At this moment, Cage's long-suppressed dissatisfaction and anger towards Nanfu surged up in an instant. His eyes were bloodshot, and he silently drew his sidearm from its holster, quietly aiming it at Nanfu's back.

Nanfu was holding the communicator, still waiting for the naval command to answer, completely unaware of what was happening behind him.

*Pfft!*

The suppressed gunshot rang out.

Nanfu's body froze.

A bloody hole appeared in Nanfu's back, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

*Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!*

Cage's eyes were fierce as he pulled the trigger again, firing three shots in a row. Blood splattered on his sickly pale face, making him look like a madman!

"Thump!" Nanfu knelt straight down on the ground, vomiting blood in large gulps. He turned his neck stiffly, looking at Cage with disbelief, and stammered, "You... you, why..."

"You think you're so great? You think you're so kind? So right?" Cage panted heavily, his eyes twisted. "I've endured your stupidity for a long time! You already missed one chance on Ross Island! Do you want to make the same mistake twice here?"

"Do you know that your choices will make us suffer with you?"

"You think you're kind, so you want to let those prisoners go!"

"You think you're right, so you want to hand over our credit to others!"

"What gives you the right?"

"This time, I will never listen to your decision!" Cage roared. "The credit is mine, and no one can take it away!"

A look of pain and sorrow appeared on Nanfu's face. He vomited blood as he stammered, "Cage... child, you're crazy... Believe me, this island is definitely... definitely not as simple as you think. Don't... take risks!"

"And the EU... won't change its view of us because of this... We are subsidiaries. No matter what we do, we can't compare with the orthodox..."

"Listen to me, don't take risks. This seems like a trap..."

Nanfu spoke with difficulty, saying these words as if he had exhausted all his strength.

But Cage couldn't listen anymore. His face was twisted as he wiped the blood off his face, looked down at Nanfu, and said coldly, "You just wait and see, you'll soon know how stupid your decision was! When you see me building merit on your corpse in hell, you'll regret not listening to me today!"

After saying this, Cage didn't stop and strode towards the door.

*Bang!*

The door of the captain's room was closed. Nanfu fell to the ground, and blood quickly spread from under him. His eyes gradually lost focus, and he muttered to himself, "Trap, this is a trap... Cage, you fool..."

...

Cage walked out of the captain's room and immediately notified his trusted team to guard the door. Then, in the command center, he issued a cold order: "The captain has a sudden illness. I am now in command of the entire fleet!"

"From now on, all communication devices in the fleet must be handed over, and no contact with the outside world is allowed!"

"Communications Department, do not send any signals to the outside world without my order!"

"If command calls, I will answer it!"

*Whirr!*

In the command center, many officers seemed to have guessed something, but because Cage's prestige in the fleet was already not low, and now they saw Cage leading a large number of soldiers fully armed to take over the fleet, they suddenly had no desire to resist.

Anyway, they were already vassals, so who was the leader... did it matter?

Seeing that everyone was very cooperative, Cage nodded in satisfaction, and then said coldly: "Tomorrow morning, we will officially land on Mad Sand Island!"

After taking control of the command center, Cage led people directly to the confinement room where Lu Chi was being held.

Two guards saw Cage arriving aggressively, and immediately crossed their guns in front of the door, saying, "Sir! The captain's order is that no one can contact the prisoners without his permission!"

Cage smiled and said, "I brought the captain's warrant!"

He reached into his arms and pulled out a black pistol.

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

The two soldiers didn't have time to react and were shot dead on the spot. The bodies were quickly dragged away, and the door of the confinement room was violently broken open.

Lu Chi sat expressionlessly in the corner, his hands and feet shackled with sixty-kilogram electric restraints. This kind of heavy instrument of torture was very non-lethal. If he resisted forcefully, it would unleash a powerful 220v current, enough to kill!

Cage stood in front of Lu Chi, had two soldiers hold him up, and said very simply: "Tell me the location of the 098 crystal ore deposit and the number of your armed forces!"

Lu Chi stared at the blood on Cage's face and sneered, "Why isn't that big-bearded officer interrogating me?"

Cage smiled, then raised his hand and slapped Lu Chi across the face twice, followed by a storm of punches and kicks.

Cage was tall and strong. Compared to him, Lu Chi seemed very thin. He was cornered, enduring Cage's frantic punches and kicks.

"Damn it... Has this yellow-haired devil gone crazy?" Lu Chi muttered in a low voice as he covered his head.

Although these punches and kicks weren't enough to hurt him, the mental humiliation was still very effective. Lu Chi hadn't been beaten like this since he was a child. Several times he couldn't help but want to fight back, but thinking of Li Tianran's plan, he held back.

"I'll talk! I'll talk!" Lu Chi gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice.

"Tui!" Cage kicked Lu Chi in the head again, then spat viciously and cursed, "Yellow-skinned monkey, son of a bitch..."

Lu Chi took a deep breath, raised his head and looked at Cage with a cold gaze, and said in a low voice, "The 098 crystal ore deposit is located..."

"We belong to Yanhuang Tianhe Company, and we brought a total of..."

A few minutes later, the interrogation ended. Cage led people out of the confinement room, leaving a few soldiers to watch Lu Chi, telling them not to let him escape.

Lu Chi sat in the confinement room, gritting his teeth in a low voice:

"Damn yellow-haired devil, when I get out, I'll let you know what Chinese *gongfu* is!"