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Chapter 265: Backturn Spear! (Major - Please Favorite, Subscribe, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 265: Chapter 265: Backturn Spear! (Major Chapter Please Favorite, Subscribe, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

"Captain, what’s wrong?"

At this moment, Ye Feng also walked over, looking at He Ao with some confusion.

"Stop Underpants Superman."

He Ao’s body blocked the small chest, he said softly.

"Okay."

Although Ye Feng didn’t know what had happened, he still stopped the somewhat excited Underpants Superman.

He Ao approached the small chest.

He reached out to touch the chest.

Seductive voices seemed to echo in He Ao’s ear.

’This chest contains the treasures that pirates have accumulated over countless years. Open this chest, and you can obtain endless wealth.’

’Quick, quick, open it.’

He Ao reached out and touched the lid of the chest, then slowly slid his fingers down.

’Quick, quick, open it.’

The bewildering voice continued echoing in his ears.

He Ao slowly exerted force, gripping the lid of the chest.

Then he quickly picked up the chest and stuffed it into his clothes.

It was placed next to the Miracle Wand.

In an instant, the entire world fell silent.

Underpants Superman had also recovered by now, looking at Ye Feng holding him with some surprise, "What just... happened?"

"A Transcendent item that can bewitch people."

He Ao answered casually and walked out of the room.

This Pirate Treasure Box seemed to have no low rank; after all, Underpants Superman, a D-level, couldn’t resist its temptation. However, its overall rank should not be higher than the Miracle Wand.

It should be at the top of D-level or C-level.

Although he did not know what would happen after opening this chest, judging by the inertia of such Transcendent items, it was likely not something good.

The layout of this floor gave He Ao the feeling of an escalating series of traps.

Use sharks to eliminate E-level and below Explorers.

Use this chest to eliminate D-levels, or part of a D-level team.

Then what kind of trap would be set for the remaining, stronger people?

"Mommy! Sob! I’m scared! Daddy! Sob..."

Just then, a little girl’s cry reached the ears of the three people.

All three turned their gaze toward the front, where at the end of the corridor, the most beautiful door was tightly shut.

A bright sign hung above, Dance Hall.

Ye Feng and Underpants Superman both looked at He Ao.

He Ao nodded slightly, "Let’s go take a look."

The trio cautiously approached the door of the dance hall.

"Don’t open it yet."

Just as Ye Feng was about to push open the door of the dance hall, He Ao stopped him.

Then, under Ye Feng’s puzzled gaze, He Ao looked up at the ceiling of the corridor.

He prodded the ceiling with his bone sword and then looked back in the direction they had come from; they were already quite far from the stairs they had descended.

Even with D-level speed, one couldn’t reach the stairs and climb up in an extremely short time.

He Ao walked two steps according to his memory and stabbed the ceiling with his bone sword, drawing a circle about one meter in diameter.

Then he levered the circle open with the sword. Along with a ’crack,’ the iron sheet was pried open, revealing an opening.

Through the opening, one could vaguely see a door that was ajar and a smooth deck outside.

If He Ao remembered correctly, the position right above this spot was close to an open door.

He turned back, looking at the puzzled Ye Feng and Underpants Superman, "I’ll open the door later. As soon as I say ’run,’ you two immediately rush out through this opening and jump towards the sea. Be aware of sharks that may be attracted by the smell of blood."

With that, He Ao looked at the two and repeated, "Don’t hesitate for any reason, understand?"

"Understood."

Ye Feng nodded.

He Ao looked at Underpants Superman.

"Understood."

Underpants Superman also nodded.

Seeing both of them nod, He Ao returned to the entrance of the dance hall.

He knocked on the door but didn’t push it open.

Instead, he used the bone sword in his hand to cut a rectangular opening in the door, he pushed gently, and the cut piece of the door fell to the ground, making a thunderous noise.

There was no gunfire; there was no ambush here.

What He Ao saw was a darkened room and at the far end of the room, a little girl who appeared to be only five or six years old was tied to a chair.

A small flashlight was on, casting feeble light on the girl, allowing one to see her tear-streaked, pitiful cheeks.

She stared blankly at He Ao, even forgetting to cry for a moment.

He Ao activated Super Memory.

"These bastards!"

Underpants Superman, furious upon seeing this scene, wanted to rush in to rescue the girl.

But the cold voice of He Ao came to his ear, "Run!"

Underpants Superman paused briefly, then Ye Feng beside him pulled him, directly heading for the opening He Ao had made.

The little girl stared blankly at He Ao then suddenly reacted, "Big brother, don’t come over!"

However, by then, He Ao was already charging into the room like a sword.

The last scene Underpants Superman saw was He Ao knocking over the flashlight next to the little girl. The dim light illuminated the four walls of the dance hall, revealing piles of explosives.

A small mechanical clock hung at the top of the explosives, with its second hand moving swiftly.

Seven... six... five...

He Ao reached out a sword to cut the ropes binding the little girl, grabbed her into his arms with the hand carrying the briefcase,

"Close your eyes, it’ll be over soon."

He looked up at the ceiling and pressed the button on the briefcase.

"Mmm."

The little girl obediently closed her eyes.

The silvery Mecha suit unfolded instantly, covering He Ao’s body.

Simultaneously, his other hand lifted the sword, fiercely cutting a crack in the ceiling.

Then he leaped forward.

At the same time, Ye Feng and Underpants Superman also climbed onto the deck and jumped down from it.

Ye Feng looked back, trying to find He Ao.

Boom——

An intense explosion suddenly erupted, engulfing everything in surging flames,

The sturdy Mecha cracked open the fragile deck along the fissures as the jet engines spewed out beautiful fireworks.

These fireworks were masked by the violent explosion.

The blast wave from the explosion hit He Ao, propelling him a distance away, but the impact was absorbed by the shock absorption system of the Adam Mark I.

He Ao folded the Mecha, multiple layers of gleaming metal retracting backward, reconfiguring into a silver-grey briefcase.

The little girl tightly closed her eyes, curling up amidst the heat of the flames, her small hand clutched He Ao’s chest; right at that moment, the silver-grey metal precisely withdrew from He Ao’s chest, allowing the girl to grasp his collar.

He Ao adjusted his posture mid-air, holding the little girl, his back facing downwards as they fell towards the sea.

At this time, Ye Feng and Underpants Superman happened to land in the water, with Speech Master stopping a motorboat right beside them.

Ye Feng clung to the motorboat with one hand and looked up at the sky, finally spotting He Ao in the air.

He waved at He Ao, "Captain, we’re here!"

He Ao heard the call, turned his head, and gave him a smile.

A mutated shark leapt out of the water, lunging towards He Ao, who cut it in half with a backhand slash.

"Why does this guy have to be so cool?"

Speech Master held the motorboat’s steering wheel, smacking his lips as he gazed at He Ao in the air.

A drenched Ye Feng and Underpants Superman clambered onto the motorboat, looking up at He Ao.

Shark after shark emerged from the sea surface.

He Ao flipped over, adjusting his position as he had already set his landing trajectory when he retracted the Mecha.

Ultimately, he landed securely on a speedboat littered with pirate corpses, then leaped several times to reach the speedboat driven by Speech Master.

Only then did he finally have the time to look towards the cruise ship they had just boarded.

The huge cruise ship was torn in half like a piece of thin paper, with surging flames burning fiercely in the center.

Speech Master maneuvered the motorboat, swiftly moving away from the cruise ship.

Dark fuel oil leaked out from the split in the ship, slowly spreading out.

"What exactly are they trying to do?"

Ye Feng looked at the cruise ship sinking in flames, momentarily puzzled.

"They want to kill us."

He Ao’s expression was calm as he placed the little girl, who had opened her eyes, in the center of the motorboat, then took a life jacket from the side and put it on her. The rest aboard the boat didn’t fear falling into water, but the little girl did.

The entire cruise ship was a trap, meant to deplete the elite forces of the Research Institute.

After the probing attack in the morning, the adversaries had quickly adjusted their strategy.

They began by hijacking the cruise ship, sending a distress signal to lure the Research Institute’s rescue team.

Then, they counted on the fact that the Research Institute, having just been attacked, would become more careful and cautious.

Fearing a trap, the Research Institute decided to organize a reconnaissance team to scout first.

This reconnaissance team couldn’t be too weak; otherwise, they might fall into a trap and not be able to escape, which is why the team included some of the institute’s elite forces.

The pirates beneath the ship were the first test, meant to weed out the ordinary reconnaissance teams.

The sharks beneath the deck were the second hurdle, meant to eliminate the novice Transcendents.

The Pirate Treasure Box was the third layer, filtering out some of the stronger Transcendents.

The explosives in the ballroom were the fourth layer, and their potency was not low; judging from the blast effect, they were not ordinary explosives. If hit directly, Ye Feng and Underpants Superman would likely have died on the spot.

Of course, this trap had its flaws; no matter how well it was laid out, it was useless if the opponent didn’t step on it.

Therefore, at the epicenter of the explosives, they placed a ’live bait,’ an innocent little girl.

Even to make the girl’s cries carry farther, they drilled some sound-transmitting holes in the walls of the ballroom.

But the enemy was also greedy and set a timer to detonate the explosives after luring people in with the girl, planning a clean sweep in one go.

This gave He Ao a chance to rescue the little girl.

In fact, He Ao had considered the possibility of explosives before opening the door. After passing through the first three levels, He Ao realized it was a progressively layered trap.

The enemy was cautious yet greedy.

Setting traps that escalated from weak to strong was specifically to have weaker traps eliminate the weaker targets without wasting the stronger traps.

The enemy was greedy, wanting to use all resources to their fullest.

So He Ao grasped the opponent’s mentality and guessed that even if there were powerful traps in the ballroom, they would let people in first before triggering them to maximize the damage.

Of course, before opening the door, He Ao was not certain there were traps inside.

So He Ao first cut a hole in the deck, providing escape space for Ye Feng and Underpants Superman, to allow them to flee immediately upon detecting a similar trap.

To avoid any triggering devices on the door, He Ao simply cut the door open.

This indeed bought He Ao a second of time.

There was a mechanical trigger device on the door, and because He Ao had avoided it, the bombs activated some sort of backup triggering mechanism, likely a combination of infrared and light sensors designed to detonate when they detected light at the door and someone entering.

But this triggering mechanism wasn’t as direct as the mechanical device, so there was a brief delay.

This significantly increased the survival chances of Ye Feng and Underpants Superman.

And He Ao, taking advantage of the enemy’s ’greedy’ setup for delayed detonation, saved the little girl.

At its core, the trap was designed to lure out the Research Institute’s elites to eliminate them and undermine the Institute’s strength.

He Ao sat on the speedboat, explaining his deductions to Underpants Superman and Ye Feng.

Meanwhile, Speech Master was chatting with the little girl on the side, and her emotions gradually stabilized.

"Could they attack our ship now?"

After hearing He Ao’s analysis, Underpants Superman pondered for a moment before asking softly.

After all, they were among the stronger individuals on the Research Institute’s cruise, and having all been dispatched, the combat capabilities on the institute’s ship would be weakened.

It seemed like a ruse to draw the tiger away from the mountain.

"No," He Ao shook his head and pointed to the walkie-talkies Yang De had given them before they left. Before setting out, Yang De had provided each person with a set of communication equipment,

"Captain Yang is smart. The two cruise ships are close to each other. Should there be any trouble, he will immediately contact us. The enemy won’t be able to take down Captain Yang quickly, and by the time we get back, their effort will have been wasted. However,"

He changed the subject and looked towards the direction of the Research Institute’s cruise. In the dark night, several helicopters were slowly approaching,"Now it might be different."

The enemy was clever and confident.

From their mindset, once the trap exploded, they would believe their trap had worked, and the Institute’s elites would have been wiped out. Even if not, they would be injured and rendered combat ineffective.

’With the elites gone,’ the Research Institute’s cruise would be ’vulnerable,’ and to the enemy, the opportunity to strike couldn’t be better.

Indeed, if it weren’t for He Ao, Underpants Superman and Ye Feng would most likely have died there.

But since all three of them survived unscathed.

Now it was the perfect time to return and strike when they least expected,

a Backturn Spear!