Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared
Chapter 650: Pirate Alliance

Chapter 650: Chapter 650: Pirate Alliance

According to Gu Fan’s speculation, Lisa and the other Wandering Sea Ghosts did not move far, indicating that the sunken island they were on moved slowly. This gave Gu Fan the opportunity to catch up and practice diving simultaneously.

Under Su Hui’s strict training, everyone mastered all the theoretical knowledge in one day and applied it to practice, studying even into the night.

There was no time for everyone to learn leisurely. Intensive training was conducted instead. By the second day, everyone became adept enough to maneuver underwater independently.

"My god, the underwater world is so beautiful." This was the exclamation everyone made after days of practicing diving.

While the sea had its beauty, it also held dangers, Su Hui wanted to remind everyone about this.

Three days of intensive training showed results: everyone’s diving movements became less clumsy, and they could barely function. Although this was still some distance from Gu Fan and Su Hui’s expectations, there was no other choice. The following days meant chasing the island, training, and getting enough rest.

However, a small incident occurred during these three days of training. A group of pirates found them and attempted to rob them, but instead were beaten blue and black by Gu Fan and his team and had to escape hastily.

The pirates remembered having seen photos of Gu Fan and Su Hui before. They knew that these were the people wanted by the Pirate Alliance. These very people had recently struck several pirate gangs in the heart of the Triangle Sea Area, creating a lot of troubles for the pirate community, and hence led to the formation of the Pirate Alliance to suppress them.

When the pirate boss discovered this, he was immediately invigorated. Locating Gu Fan and his team meant potentially regain their prestige. As such, he quickly ordered his men to notify the other pirate gangs, urging them to fulfill their alliance pledge and take out Gu Fan and his people together.

Upon learning of the pirate gang’s mass mobilization, Qiao Ya hurried over to negotiate with the pirate boss. He expressed concerns about the large-scale pirate action attracting external attention, as they desired to leave quietly after completing their mission.

To this, the pirate boss dismissed, assuring Qiao Ya that they had arranged vessels to transport Qiao Ya and his team away from the heart of the Triangle Sea Area.

Seeing the pirate boss’s disregard, despite Qiao Ya’s worries and disagreement, he ultimately remained silent because they lay in the territories of others. All Qiao Ya could hope was to avoid further complications.

Upon returning to their residence, Dong Ni and Su Lei anxiously awaited. Seeing Qiao Ya’s dejected face, they knew the negotiation was unsuccessful.

Dong Ni couldn’t help but ask: "What happened? You look depressed. Did the pirate boss not agree? We can offer him more money."

Qiao Ya simply shook his head: "The pirate boss is entirely focused on dealing with Gu Fan and his people. I fear he won’t pay attention to our matter, even offering more money is useless."

Su Lei was puzzled: "I really don’t understand. Gu Fan and his people are just ordinary people who have yet to even graduate. Yet they can disrupt the peace at the heart of the Triangle Sea Area. Is it necessary to mobilize so many pirate gangs to deal with them?"

"At this point, you still think they’re ordinary?" Qiao Ya’s face darkens, then continued: "A long time ago, when we were on their ship, I felt they were not ordinary. When Dong Ni offended Qin Jia, Gu Fan could exchange blows with Dong Ni."

After thinking for a moment, Su Lei finally agreed: "That’s true, how could ordinary people escape after being kidnapped by pirates, and even deal a heavy blow to the pirates."

"So, the more the pirates go after Gu Fan and his people, the more we should not follow. We have completed our mission and must absolutely avoid complications." After saying this, Qiao Ya entered a cabin, opened the door to reveal three bound and blindfolded individuals.

One of them asked in terror: "Who is it, who are you?"

Qiao Ya replied: "Who I am doesn’t matter. The research you’re doing is the critical part. You’re clever, disguising yourselves as ordinary crew members and going out to sea on a cargo ship to avoid others’ spies. However, you’ve let the cat out of the bag."

Dong Ni walked over and added: "You shouldn’t have tried to be clever, removing our blindfolds. Otherwise, those who were protecting you wouldn’t also need to be dealt with by us. The plan to disguise as a pirate attack was perfect at first, but it’s a pity that so many people ended up sacrificed."

At this moment, a pirate ran over, informing Qiao Ya that the ship was ready, asking them to board.

"Good, you indeed keep your promise." Qiao Ya, Dong Ni, and Su Lei each escorting a scientist, led them onto the ship, prepared to set sail.

On the dock, Qiao Ya saw the pirate boss had summoned all the available ships, with all the pirates setting out, their morale was high.

However, Qiao Ya felt that it was better not to have a conflict with Gu Fan and his people. He wished to remind the pirate boss so that he won’t buy a pig in a poke, end up being caught by Gu Fan, and interrogated by Gu Fan about why Qiao Ya and his team came to the Triangle Sea Area.

But seeing the prevailing mood, Qiao Ya sensed that convincing the pirate boss to give up would be unfruitful. So he chose to keep silent.

As the pirate gang set out from its territory and sailing for an hour, ships from other pirate gangs approached from the right. After a while, they encountered another pirate gang.

By midday, nearly all the pirate gangs had assembled. There were hundreds of ships and over two thousand pirates - it was practically an army.

Seeing this scale and formation, Su Lei exclaimed: "Is all this necessary just to deal with Gu Fan’s team?"

Qiao Ya replied: "Now is not the time to worry about others. We need to break away from this group immediately." After saying this, Qiao Ya went to the cockpit to communicate with the pirate who was navigating, asking them to divert and head back to the mainland.

The pirate controlling the ship immediately nodded. As they were about to turn around, a bolt of lightning exploded in the sky, followed by a deafening thunder that accelerated the heartbeats of everyone.

This sudden thunder gave Qiao Ya a bad premonition. He then noticed that the entire Pirate Alliance fleet was gradually slowing down. What was happening?

Just as Qiao Ya wanted to ask, the pirate’s walkie-talkie sounded: "What’s happening upfront, why have you slowed down?"

"Report, we have identified a strange ship with four women on it."