Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 627 - 409: Unexpected Gains - Isn’t this Island Master a fool? _2

Chapter 627: Chapter 409: Unexpected Gains - Isn’t this Island Master a fool? _2

Lincoln Harrington was quite familiar with this cargo ship.

He had told Sean Knight and the others where the cargo hold was—that being the place where most of them had been confined.

Only some selected girls with specific qualities were kept in the crew’s dormitory.

Of course, the current specific conditions were still unknown.

Sean Knight’s suggestion was to reach the captain’s room first and take care of him.

This plan was agreed upon by Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington. To capture a thief, you must first capture its master, most Chinese people understand this principle.

Upon arriving at the captain’s room, Sean Knight’s Sky Eye detected that the captain was already resting, and there were two girls in the room.

The two naked girls had obviously been already taken advantage of by the captain.

Sean Knight stayed outside while Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington quietly snuck in. Even though the captain was on high alert, he was slow to react due to exhaustion and was shot dead in bed by Lincoln Harrington.

After pacifying the two girls, they moved on to clear out the remaining crew members.

From the First Officer to the ordinary crew members, all were initially very compliant, setting Sean and the others into relaxation.

"That’s the dormitory which contains the selected girls," Lincoln pointed discreetly at a room and murmured:

"Normally there are two thugs guarding. Preventing the girls from escaping, also stopping any sailors from messing around with the girls."

But there were no guards outside.

They quietly sneaked over, hearing beatings and crying sounds from inside the room.

Just as they were about to break in, they heard someone from behind holler:

"What are you guys doing?"

Elijah at the back turned around and raised his gun, only to find that the person had already darted into another room, and shut the door!

Sean guessed that the person must have shouted unconsciously, realized something was off, and then hid.

Otherwise, his reaction shouldn’t have been faster than theirs.

However, this shout had alarmed the thugs guarding the girls in the dormitory, and the noise inside immediately stopped!

"You guys stay here, I’m going there!" Sean commanded immediately:

"I’ll go finish that guy off. You guys take care of inside!"

After finishing speaking, he charged toward the closed room.

Elijah and Lincoln knew they had no choice at this point, so they promptly opened the door and tossed a smoke bomb inside.

However, prepared for what was coming next, each thug held a girl in front of them, neither making a sound nor speaking. Despite continuous coughing sounds, no thug emerged from the room.

Elijah and Lincoln were somewhat anxious. They were invisible, so how were they to proceed?

Upon reaching the locked door, Sean realized it had been locked from the inside.

But this was not a problem for him. He took out a portable electric saw and started sawing through the door crack.

The person inside immediately panicked, making a clanging noise – probably stacking something against the door.

Sean was afraid this person would alert his comrades – there was no guarantee how many people were still on the cargo ship. If they found their comrades and came down, it would be a hassle.

Fortunately, he cut through the door quickly. Sean stowed away his electric saw, took his pistol and pushed the door open.

Then a stick came smashing his way.

Sean was prepared, dodged the stick, and quickly sized up the person, shooting him a few times.

The guy fell to the floor, lifeless.

Sean was relieved that the guy didn’t have a gun. Otherwise, it would have been tricky.

Having dealt with that person, Sean hurried back, only to find Elijah and Lincoln at a stand-off at the door.

Smoke filled the room and coughing was incessant, but the two thugs hadn’t emerged.

Nor did Elijah and Lincoln dare to go in.

Sean made a hand signal to Elijah and then came to the door, carefully peering inside.

The Sky Eye saw through the smoke, showing the two thugs holding the girls in front of them, on high alert, watching the door.

They had guns in their hands too, but at this moment, they dared not shoot as well.

After all, an errant bullet could cause trouble if it wasn’t aimed correctly.

Sean Knight silently raised his gun, aiming at one of the thug’s exposed heads:

"Bang!"

A single shot killed that thug!

The other thug, hearing the gunshot, didn’t care about stray bullets anymore, he raised his gun and started shooting towards the entrance!

Sean Knight quickly dodged, as Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington both dropped to avoid bullets.

Sean Knight realized that the thug was shooting wildly, but the girls inside weren’t aware, most were covering their ears and screaming, some were already scared enough to consider running out!

Sean Knight knew he needed to act or else some might get hurt. He waited for the thug to run out of bullets, and through the smoke, he fired a shot at him!

The moment the thug fell, Sean Knight rushed over and shot another to put his heart at ease.

"Nobody move, we are here to rescue you! The thug is dead now, you are safe, but don’t run around; you might get hit by a stray bullet!"

Sean yelled a few times, then let Elijah and Lincoln soothe them one by one.

They weren’t done yet, as soon as the gunfire sounded here, the other remaining guards would surely notice, what came next could be more troublesome.

Having calmed the girls, Sean and the others continued to deal with the sailors on the cargo ship.

Fortunately, there weren’t too many of them left. After clearing the entire cargo ship, they could finally relax.

Adding the two girls found in the captain’s room, there were a total of eighty-six girls.

Gathering all the girls, Sean took batches of girls to the island using a small boat.

Only then did he have the time to untie all the men.

Sean now knew of the possible fate of these people - the men were taken to a place where they could possibly be castrated, while the girls had different outcomes, some might be auctioned, some could be directly sold off.

Fortunately, they were all rescued now.

A vast majority of the people were extremely grateful to Sean and his team, the minority, like the ones who threatened Sean and said they’d expose them if Sean didn’t untie them were among the few.

This included a few privileged individuals such as Alston Cooper, who resented Sean’s impartial treatment.

However, the loudmouth got beaten up by others, his face was all bruised and swollen.

As for Alston, his brother Douglas Cooper personally handled him-

At this time, Sean also found out why Douglas Cooper and Lincoln Harrington were caught: Douglas was so excited on seeing his brother, he yelled out loud and alerted the guards.

The guards had guns and Douglas and Lincoln were in front of all these captives, so they had to surrender to avoid hurting the captives.

Fortunately, they were not killed and instead became hostages - in the captor’s eyes, killing would waste a bullet, while selling them would earn money!

The captives were allowed to move around the island, but not allowed to enter the small building.

Before Sean and his team let go of the people, the bodies of all the defeated guards were gathered in the small building.

Such a thing was better left unsaid.

Not only did people come from the cargo ship, but there were also a lot of convenience foods, which Sean distributed to each person evenly, then he entered the small building.

After a tiring night, Sean decided to take a rest and check for any unexpected gains in the island master’s place.

As expected, in the personal room of the island master, Sean found a considerable amount of cash, gold and some documents.

Sean read the documents, which primarily dealt with the ownership of the small island and some real estate.

After storing everything in his spatial realm, Sean stood in the small building, looking out from the north-facing window; his yacht was not visible from here yet.

He subconsciously activated Sky Eye and glanced at a ruined stone building behind the courtyard walls.

This ruined building was just like the fallen stone walls on the island, heavily weathered.

Sean guessed it to be at least several hundred years old.

However, when the Sky Eye swept over it, Sean was surprised to discover there was something more beneath the middle of the stone wall!

Really?

The island’s master built the courtyard here without ever clearing the area beneath those stone wall ruins?

Did he think it was unnecessary, or had he not found the right place?

Sean genuinely felt that good people were rewarded!

He came out this time purely with the intention of rescuing people.

He never thought he would have another form of gain!