Life Dungeon Game

Yang De didn't look very kind; on the contrary, he looked a bit serious and fierce.

The moment Nini saw Yang De, she shrank back to He Ao.

Yang De squatted down and looked at Nini. "Uncle is going to help Nini find her mom and dad later, but I need Nini's help with something. It might hurt a little, okay?"

Nini looked up at He Ao, then at Yang De, and nodded gently.

"Then Nini, close your eyes."

Yang De said softly.

Nini obediently closed her eyes and nodded.

Yang De took out a small red box from a cabinet next to him, and slowly opened the lid to reveal the contents.

It was a lifelike finger, as if it had just been severed from a person, floating above a round, bright red base, seemingly pointing in a certain direction.

As Yang De moved the box, the box rotated slightly, and his finger moved slowly, rotating back to its original direction.

No matter how Yang De moved the box, the finger always pointed in the same direction.

Yang De gestured to Ye Feng to lift the little girl's hand, bend her index finger, and then take out a small silver knife. With a flash of silver light, a thin line of bright red seeped from the little girl's index finger.

The crimson blood gathered together, forming a drop of blood that fell onto the crimson base and completely merged into it.

The box vibrated the moment the blood dripped into the base, and then the lifelike finger trembled and slowly rotated, pointing in a direction diagonally behind the cruise ship.

Yang De turned the box around, and no matter how the box changed...

The direction, the fingers are all pointing in that one direction.

Yang De then closed the box and took out a band-aid to wrap around the little girl's neck.

The little girl didn't utter a single sound throughout the entire process.

"You can open your eyes now."

Yang De said softly.

The little girl opened her eyes and shrank behind Heo.

"This is an item that can be used to locate people. It requires a drop of blood from a close relative to point to the location of the person with the closest blood relation."

Yang De put the box aside and explained softly.

Since the goal is to rescue people, the location of the pirate mother ship is not that important; it's enough to locate the kidnapped tourists directly.

According to the pirates, all the tourists were locked up together.

Yang De then gathered the crew and announced that He Ao would be temporarily in charge of the ship.

The crew did not resist the news, after all, Heo's record and prestige were there, and it was only for a little over an hour.

Then Yang De, along with several field staff members, quickly set off in a speedboat.

However, he left Ye Feng with He Ao to be He Ao's assistant.

After all, the two had already collaborated once, so it was only natural for them to work together again.

When everything was over, the round trip only took about ten minutes, and Yang De steered the speedboat away into the night.

The little girl, Nini, held He Ao's hand. She looked at the band-aid on her hand, then looked up at He Ao and asked, "Big brother, can we really find my mom and dad?"

"Certainly possible."

He Ao smiled, squatted down, and rubbed Nini's head.

"Ah."

Nini looked at the open vegetable bag bobbing on He Ao's head in the sea breeze and asked, "Big brother, why doesn't the wind blow this bag off?"

“Because the older brother is a magician,” Heo said, placing his hand on the paper bag, “watch.”

The paper bag suddenly turned into a monkey mask, and then into a pig's head mask.

The little girl's melancholy was briefly dispelled by this 'magic,' and she looked at He Ao's transformation with surprise and curiosity, exclaiming "Wow wow wow!"

At that moment, a figure walked over under the light.

The commentator also came over, staring blankly at He Ao's changing expressions.

"This...is this magic?"

She said it in a loud and boisterous way.

"It's magic!"

The little girl raised her hands.

He Ao showed off the colorful ring on his left pinky finger, slightly opened his mouth, and mouthed, "Extraordinary item."

"Oh!"

The commentator suddenly realized.

Then He Ao transformed into an Ultraman suit, a humanoid armor suit, an Adam 1 suit, an Adam 2 suit...

After playing with Nini for a while, the commentator took Nini to her room to sleep. He Ao stretched and stood on the deck at the bow of the ship.

A gentle breeze ruffled his hair.

In the depths of the night, tiny lights belonging to ships twinkled.

Ye Feng emerged from the cabin at some point and stood behind He Ao, gazing together at the silent night.

More and more ships are appearing around us, and they are getting closer and closer to the port.

“Tell me,” He Ao suddenly spoke after a while, “would anyone use the same trick twice in such a short period of time?”

"Probably not,"

Ye Feng thought for a moment, "After he used it once, the other party must have become wary, so it won't be effective if he uses it a second time."

“Yes,” He Ao said, looking at the lights slowly approaching in the distance, “Do you have night vision binoculars?”

"I am searching."

Ye Feng ran into the cabin, and after a while, he took out two binoculars and handed one to He Ao.

Heo held up his binoculars and looked toward the light. It was a huge coal ship with the flag of the Tia Empire flying from its top. It was slowly rolling in on the waves.

"Check their Automatic Identification System (AIS) broadcast information for any anomalies."

He Ao said softly.

Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a navigational aid system used for maritime safety and communication between ships and between ships and shore. It exchanges information such as position, speed, course, and name with nearby vessels to avoid collisions.

Most ships sailing normally are equipped with this system, while pirate ships generally do not. Even if they do, they are hijacking normal ships, and their navigation records are very likely to be abnormal.

Although pirates rarely installed this system, they could obtain navigation information about ships by receiving broadcasts from it.

The research institute's cruise ship had been followed, possibly because of this signal.

This was one of the brief pieces of information that Yang De mentioned to He Ao before he left.

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Chapter 272 Nighttime Picture Frame (Please add to your favorites, subscribe, and vote with monthly tickets)

"This ship belongs to the coal mining company of the Tia Empire. It departed from Danba Port and is scheduled to pass through the Alano Sea to reach the Tia Empire."

Ye Feng came out of the cabin and spoke softly to He Ao.

At this moment, the coal carrier was getting closer and closer to the cruise ship.

He gazed at the high-rising awning on the deck of the coal ship, which seemed to be used to cover some cargo.

The other ship is turning its bow, indicating that it is adjusting its course to avoid colliding with the cruise ship.

"There seems to be nothing wrong with this ship."

Ye Feng said softly.

"Hmm, let's prepare a speedboat as a backup."

He Ao put down the binoculars and took out his phone to check the time.

It has been almost an hour since Yang De left.

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Under the thick, dark clouds, Yang De's speedboat, with its lights off, cautiously approached a huge cargo ship.

Unlike the fully loaded cargo ships on the sea, this cargo ship had a shallow draft, and its flat and wide deck was not piled with cargo, but instead had rows of empty speedboats.

At this moment, pirates carrying submachine guns were patrolling and keeping watch around the deck.

This ship was one of several motherships of the Free Marines as described by the captured pirates, but it was not the main mothership. Theoretically, the motherships should be close to each other, but at this moment there were no other ships nearby.

In fact, the ship had already deviated far from the location of the Free Marines' base camp that Yang had estimated when he set sail, and was continuing to sail in the opposite direction from the cruise ship.

Balan deliberately separated the ship carrying the hostages from the other mother ships in order to avoid Yang De.

He knew that some pirates had been captured and would reveal the mother ship, so if Yang De went directly to the pirate base, he would definitely find nothing.

Yang De glanced at the box in his hand, and after confirming that the finger inside was pointing to the ship, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

He signaled to the crew at the helm to shut off the engine, allowing the speedboat to carefully move closer using its momentum.

The pitch-black night became their disguise.

As they approached the cargo ship, Yang De gestured to the crew on the speedboat to wait there, then placed his hand on the side of the boat and, with a few quick movements, flipped himself onto the deck.

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Amidst a jumble of words and a barrage of gunfire like firecrackers, Yang De pierced through the pirates' defenses, felling them one by one to the ground.

Bullets grazed his body, and with almost every movement he made, he took down a pirate.

Although Yang De only managed to take down a small number of pirates, all the pirates were terrified by Yang De's terrifying combat power and scattered in panic. Some even started climbing onto speedboats to leave the cargo ship.

Yang De frowned slightly as he watched the chaotic scene.

Theoretically speaking, given the importance of these hostages, Balan should have imprisoned them personally. The men accompanying Balan should have been elite Free Marines, not such incompetent ones.