Chapter 1186: Chain Strategy, Plan to Escape 2

The old man stood outside the window the whole time, carefully observing the couple.

After watching for a full hour, he was finally reassured—they were truly fast asleep.

This couple was too cunning, especially the woman; he could not afford to be careless.

He left the window and returned to his own room.

He pried open the bed board and lifted the floorboards, revealing a pitch-black, tile-like iron plate.

The old man pressed his palm onto it; instantly, the pitch-black iron plate sensed it, and where his palm touched, circles of red light waves emanated, then the iron plate moved silently to one side, revealing a square secret passage entrance!

There really was a secret passage on the Island, and it wasn't anywhere else, but under the old man's bed.

A faint light emitted from the secret passage; although not very bright, it was enough for illumination.

The old man walked down, and the pitch-black iron plate closed silently.

Half an hour later.

Sheng Hanyu and his wife appeared in the old man's room.

Shi Youxuan stood guard at the secret passage entrance and complained: "Being old really doesn't work; he's too conservative, building the secret passage in his own room and hiding it under the bed. Please, can you have some innovation? Eighty percent of secret passages are hidden under beds; you hide yours where others hide theirs? It's so easy to find, it's practically an insult to my intelligence..."

Sheng Hanyu looked at his wife helplessly.

She was far too smug.

This woman was beaming with joy, and every pore on her body was proclaiming her arrogance.

In fact, the couple had already discovered the secret passage hidden under the bed in the old man's room when they dismantled the bed frame to smash the surveillance camera last time!

The reason they didn't escape immediately.

Was because they didn't know the situation below, and it would be bad if they alerted the enemy.

For the past half month, everything the couple had done was in preparation for today!

The various situations Shi Youxuan kept creating were actually just smoke screens.

But they weren't entirely useless.

Zhu Qingrui voluntarily turned off the surveillance, making it convenient for them to sneak from their room to the old man's room without being discovered.

During this half month, through Shi Youxuan's close observation, she discovered that the old man was particularly concerned about his hands; for even the slightest bit of heavy work, he would put on gloves to protect them.

If it were a vain young girl, protecting her hands would be easy to understand.

But for an old man, and one who usually didn't care much about himself, to take such meticulous care of his hands, one couldn't help but think more of it.

Shi Youxuan had stealthily obtained the fingerprints from the old man's hands, and Sheng Hanyu had preserved the fingerprints using an even more secretive method.

Now, they came in handy.

Sheng Hanyu carefully took a small cloth bag from his bosom, and after opening it, he applied the fingerprint patches made from fish bladders onto his own hands with even more cautious movements.

Throughout the entire process, the couple was silent, fully focused.

Sheng Hanyu pressed both hands onto the iron plate above the secret passage entrance, a circle of red light flashed, and the secret passage opened silently!

The couple smiled at each other, then quickly went down, and the iron plate behind them closed afterward.

The secret passage was not wide, only allowing one person to pass through, but the air inside was fresh, and there was not much difference from the outside.

Sheng Hanyu walked in front, his right hand gripping a sharp blade ground from a shark bone.

If danger appeared, this sharp bone knife could come in handy.

For the past half month, Sheng Hanyu had been fishing openly, but in reality, he had secretly done two things—making the fingerprint patches and the bone knife!

Shi Youxuan was a little scared, but she didn't say it.

The couple moved forward quickly in the secret passage; apart from the sound of hurried footsteps, there was no other sound at all.

The secret passage twisted and turned; sometimes they needed to go down steps, and sometimes they had to climb up, but fortunately, it wasn't like a maze; it was all one path, so they wouldn't get lost.

The person who built this secret passage back then seemed very confident; they never thought that one day someone else would discover it.

There were no traps in the secret passage, just a smooth path all the way to the end—they finally came out; it was the other end of the Island, still the Island!

The couple stood in the center of the island, without much joy of regaining freedom.

This was a desert island, a true desert island.

The small island was oval-shaped, less than a hundred meters in circumference; one could see the end at a glance.

On the desolate island, apart from rocks, there was nothing else.

There were no animals, no plants, and of course, even less so any people or Architecture.

Moreover, judging from the traces on the island, this place should be frequently hit by seawater, which means it's uncertain when this place will be submerged by seawater; staying on the island might be life-threatening!

The couple exchanged a look, then separated to both ends to search individually.

Since the exit was here, this small island must not be simple.

Perhaps there were other secret passages or hidden boats; in any case, it definitely wouldn't be as bare as it appeared on the surface.

Soon, Sheng Hanyu discovered a strange place.

The place was very hidden and also very peculiar.

It was a natural groove formed by a large rock; if one didn't observe it closely from a short distance, one wouldn't discover it at all—the middle of the rock was actually empty!

The groove was about two meters wide and three meters long; the peculiar thing was that there were also drainage holes.

If a speedboat were placed inside or someone were hiding here, they wouldn't fear ordinary waves and storms.

Even if it were temporarily submerged, it would be dry here after the waves passed.

The couple had no time to marvel at the wonders and craftsmanship of nature; the two of them had basically already determined that a speedboat had once been hidden here!

It was very simple; there were hemp ropes and copper chains in the groove.

On the side, there were also traces of heavy objects being dragged.

It seems this is a transit station; this discovery made the two of them extremely excited; they almost simultaneously thought of a way to get out... A full moon hung in the sky.

Early morning.

The sound of a motor came from the sea surface, and the sound grew louder and louder, until finally, it stopped.

The old man pulled the speedboat, appearing as if it had no weight, quickly pulling it into the groove and fastening the copper chain with practiced ease.

He took a large bag of things off the speedboat, carried it on his back, and walked toward the secret passage.

This bag of things weighed at least eighty or ninety jin, yet the old man carried it on his back as if it were a toy, walking with ease and moving as fast as if flying.

The old man had kung fu; Shi Youxuan had discovered this long ago.

The two held their breath, not daring to let out a single sound.

If the old man discovered that the two of them were also on this island, they were afraid they would be no match for him alone!

Fortunately, the old man did not discover them, and the door to the secret passage opened and then closed.

They did not come out immediately, but instead waited quietly for another five minutes, and only after confirming that the old man would not come back out from inside did they quickly run out from their hiding place.

The two prepared to untie the chain, but discovered it was locked with a padlock.

Shi Youxuan was furious; are you crazy, there isn't a single person on this island, what are you locking it for?

If you forget to bring the key, do you have to walk back and forth for over an hour to go get it?

No, that's not right.

She felt the key should be nearby.

Perhaps it was locked just to prevent the waves from washing the speedboat away.

She said to her husband, "You search this side, I'll search that side."

There was not much time left for the two of them, and they had to find the key quickly; if the old man returned to Shark Island and discovered they were gone, it would be troublesome if he chased them back.

The two had no lighting equipment, but fortunately, the moon tonight was very round and bright, illuminating the deserted island like daylight, so they could see clearly without lights.