Magic High School.

"Wait, he's seriously injured. Although only a small-caliber bullet pierced his left arm, it grazed his back, causing severe burns, and there are large areas of cuts and lacerations from rubble on his body. If we don't disinfect and stop the bleeding quickly, I estimate that eleven-year-old Li Ge will lose too much blood," Xiao Ye quickly described his injuries.

"Don't worry, it's not even a fatal injury. It's mainly because I'm only eleven years old and my constitution is too weak..." Li Ge complained.

Chapter 168 Escaping Fantasy Island

"Stop being stubborn, stop the bleeding first," Xiaoye said directly.

"I reckon if the paladins blew up the whole island, there would still be someone on the island saying something like 'a mere fatal wound'," Yi Lian added, adding her own comment.

Li Ge: "..."

Soon, the group hid in the shadows and then slowly made their way toward the cruise ship.

That was the ship the divine children took to the island, and now those powerful and influential divine children would certainly have priority to leave by helicopter, rather than being left at sea like sitting ducks. However, it was uncertain whether they could even fly out of the paladins' encirclement; they might even be hit by a holy light and crash halfway through their flight.

Therefore, these cruise ships became tools for celebrities who weren't particularly high-status individuals, or for other people, to escape.

Their goal was simple: to steal a small boat and escape.

As for the blockade by the paladins, these kids should be able to get through... right?

Judging from the paladins who kept telling them to escape on the radio, even though these paladins had all transformed into retribution paladins and judgment paladins, wanting to drag the pure faction down to hell with them, they still retained the purest conscience.

This is something worth taking a gamble on.

and so……

They quickly followed the shadows to the nearest escort boat.

They hadn't considered the cruise ship at all; there were too many people, and it was filled with the Divine Child and their bodyguards. In that environment, if they were to take another attack from the Holy Knights, it would become the Titanic.

So they might as well choose a small escort boat, which would only have three or five people on board.

Xiaoye gradually lost control of the shadows. Their bodies could now use psionic energy, but they had to bear the backlash themselves.

Therefore, they have been very restrained in using their abilities. Even that arrogant fairy, when chased to the point of having nowhere to run, did not dare to use her light magic lightly.

But Saya has already used her Noble Phantasm twice.

The shadow passed through the coconut trees and came to the shade under the dock, then climbed onto a patrol boat.

The sentry on the escort boat seemed to still be on guard with his gun, but the next moment, the water beneath his feet transformed into a human shape, striking him hard on the forehead with an elbow, sending him sprawling into the sea.

The others were also dealt with by Li Ge and Valerie. Although Li Ge was injured, he could still easily take on an ordinary person, though it was still a bit strenuous.

After the guards were thrown into the sea one by one, the group tied up the least skilled crew member and brought him to the control panel. Yilian held a knife to his neck and forced him to sail to the nearest land.

After seeing him operate it a few times, the others understood how to play it—it was a very simple operation. Once they got their hands on the map, they knocked him unconscious as well.

Xiaoye was completely exhausted, but she could leave the rest of the time to her brothers.

"Buzz!"

At this moment, the escort vessel began to sway and stagger as if it were drunk, heading towards the distant sea.

"What's going on with that escort boat over there!"

"It's been robbed! Attack! Attack!" A volley of gunfire erupted. Li Ge and his companions scrambled to dodge, their skills still developing, and the yacht's sides were riddled with bullets.

"We retaliated! We gave them a taste of their own medicine!"

Yi Lian continued steering the boat, while Li Ge and Valerie rushed outside, guns flying everywhere. Li Ge immediately activated the long-range sniping mode with his ace Joker, and Valerie was even more ruthless; this time, she didn't even summon a pony, but rather the Holy Light Pegasus appeared.

Li Ge: "..."

Seriously, are you kidding me? Are you really going this far? Aren't you afraid of the backlash?

"Whoosh!" The Holy Light Pegasus transformed into a flying fire meteor, hurtling straight towards the cruise ship. They stopped worrying about it; anyway, those on the other side were either divine children or their pet dogs—the kind of people born evil, whom killing a hundred times wouldn't be enough to send them to hell. So, they might as well blow it up.

Then, intense light and heat rose into a blazing mushroom cloud on the beach, shaped like Patrick Star, and then exploded a second time. If Li Ge could see KDA, he should have seen the number of heads above Valerie's head rapidly increasing.

In an instant, it seemed as if the world had fallen silent.

"Are you alright? Are you still alive?" Li Ge immediately stepped forward to support her, only to find that the girl could only groan and moan, unable to speak, and even started drooling.

Well, considering the cost of the Holy Light Horse and the backlash from her psionic energy, she probably won't be able to function like a normal person until the exam is over. Li Ge could only hurriedly carry her back and put her with Xiao Ye.

"What's wrong?" Although Xiaoye was still suffering from the backlash, she was at most like a seriously injured patient and could still speak.

Valerie, on the other hand, was completely unconscious.

"She's too reckless, she just blew up the Holy Light Pegasus..." Li Ge complained.

Xiaoye: "..."

She also wondered why this girl could be so reckless, instantly clearing all her spiritual energy, plus the most costly complete Holy Light Pegasus, instead of the Holy Light Pony.

It's clear that she probably hates those divine children to the core.

These people all seemed to have some serious illness, and each of them had a kind of reckless attitude towards it.

Using the light from the fire that engulfed the entire island, Li Ge looked into the distance and saw that the luxury cruise ship had been completely capsized, resembling a scene from the Titanic in the harbor. Even the seashore had been blasted into a huge crater, causing seawater to flood in. He wondered how many of the divine children would survive.

Valerie's attack, though launched from her eleven-year-old body, was probably comparable to a standard thermobaric bomb. If it were her full power unleashed, Li Ge and the others would likely witness the highest level of conventional explosion below a nuclear bomb. Although the cost was high, Valerie had always been their other trump card besides "The Seasonal Memorial," capable of launching a thermobaric bomb-level explosion at any time, or splitting it into three smaller, less powerful bombs.

Although it's like a firecracker, after it explodes once, the girl can only say "Aba aba".

In the distance, several helicopters seemed to be rushing towards them, but they were quickly attacked by the holy light.

The paladins have completely transformed into sinful knights who judge all!

The patrol boat, riddled with potholes and seemingly leaking, swayed and rocked as it sailed into the distance, as if it had finally escaped this damned island.

"Thump, thump, thump." An unusual sound seemed to be coming from the bottom of the boat.

Yi Lian needed to take charge of steering the boat, leaving only Li Ge as half a person in the entire team. Xiao Ye was completely exhausted, and Valerie had been so overwhelmed by the backlash that she was no longer aware of the world around her.

Li Ge limped into the bottom of the cabin and saw a figure in the hull, which was filled with nearly 30 centimeters of water. He immediately drew his gun.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me!" the man immediately cried out; it was a little boy's voice.

“Zero?” Li Ge asked.

"Li Ge?" Zero immediately became very excited and said, "Here, and here too, they're all leaking. Quickly find something to seal them up."

Li Ge: "..."

Dude, what are you doing hiding here?

He did remember. Zero said he would hide under a ship and escape. He didn't expect that he would hide right here.

Luckily he was hiding here. If he had been hiding under that cruise ship, he probably would have been accidentally blown up by Li Ge and his crew, which would have been a real disaster.

Thankfully, it wasn't just Li Ge, who was only partially able to move around, anymore; Ling could also do the hard labor. The two painstakingly carved a cone-shaped wooden plug to seal it. Although it didn't completely stop the leak, it was much better. Then they used the bedding and quilts from the bed inside to seal the surrounding area, and the two desperately used an iron bucket to scoop out the water, trip after trip.

Seeing the two people working like dogs, Xiaoye really wanted to help, but she was truly powerless to do so. Based on her previous experience, she estimated it would take her more than ten hours before she could move again.

Fortunately, the two managed to control the water ingress. Although some water will still seep in, it will only need to be cleaned up every few hours.

“I didn’t expect you to be here too. Where are the crew members?” Zero asked, finally having a moment to himself.

“Going to feed the fish…” Li Ge pointed to the sea outside.

zero:"……"

He was immediately choked up by that sentence and didn't know how to respond.

Li Ge led him to the driver's seat, where Yi Lian was sweating profusely as he operated the controls.

"How much longer until we reach land?" Li Ge asked.

"At least we can keep going until tomorrow morning, and that's assuming everything is normal. But I'll tell you a scary story: for some reason, the fuel is being consumed extremely quickly. I suspect that the fuel tank was hit during that previous round of gunfire," Yi Lian said.

Li Ge: "..."

zero:"……"

This...this isn't right, is it?

Although Zero didn't understand anything about fuel tanks or similar terms, he realized that there was a big problem.

But there was nothing they could do but pray the fuel tank was okay. However, the three of them stared wide-eyed at the fuel gauge icon, and it really did seem to be leaking. At this rate, forget about driving until tomorrow; it would probably be completely empty in a few hours…

It even appears that it wasn't punctured, but rather that the fuel tank cracked during a previous attack and is slowly leaking oil.

"What should we do? Logically speaking, the exam should be over by now, but it looks like we'll only be considered done when we escape to the mainland..." Li Ge complained.

"Then we can only leave it to fate and go with the flow, and see if we can get to shore..." Yi Lian sighed.

Li Ge thought for a moment and started fiddling with the radio. After all, they had been able to receive the Holy Knights' radio broadcasts before, and they should be able to now as well.

"What was the frequency before?" Li Ge asked.

"92.47, I think it's something like that, or maybe 92.74, anyway, try all of these."

Li Ge then started tuning the radio frequency. However, he eventually received that familiar voice again on channel 97.24.

Has anyone escaped?

"Have any children escaped?"

"The island is dangerous. Are there any children still alive?"

The familiar voice of the paladin came through the radio, a voice that made them feel extremely at ease.

"Yes, yes, we've escaped. We're now about 187 nautical miles northwest of the mainland. It seems like our fuel tanks have a problem," Li Ge tentatively replied through the microphone.

"This thing can only receive, it can't respond, right?" Yilian asked.

"do not know……"

Li Ge was just giving it a try.

However, just as they were scrambling to react, a bright light appeared in the distance. At first, they were tense and even prepared to attack. But soon, they saw the angel symbol rising in the light—the insignia of the paladins.

"The paladins are coming! Get ready. We'll say we're children from the island who escaped by following their announcements."

Chapter 169 The Ghost Hidden in Cyberspace

In the dark night sky, only in the far distance could a visible light burst forth—the flames burning throughout Gensokyo.

Whether it was the paladins or the divine children who did it, before they left, the entire island was engulfed in flames, as if both the paladins and the divine children wanted to burn it to the ground.

However, the paladins intended to burn the divine children to ashes as well.