Chapter 551: Zhu Yiwen is Not Dead

No need to go back; Shi Yucheng, under the protection of the captain, arrived shortly after.

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"What's going on?" Shi Youxuan asked.

The captain said, "Unfortunately, Madam, we have encountered Pirates."

Shi Youxuan: ……

Pirates again?

She asked, "How are there still Pirates in these waters? Wasn't it said that the Pirates had all washed their hands of it and quit?"

Back then, the group of Pirates led by Big Guy was the most vicious in these waters; after they were uprooted, the coast guards of the surrounding countries took the opportunity to sweep through these waters, and it had indeed been peaceful for a few months.

But not all Pirates were wiped out; some were caught, while others simply hid, and after the heat died down, they gradually made a comeback.

The captain explained briefly, and so they knew that although the current Pirates were still called Pirates, they were far less brutal than those under Big Guy.

Encountering fierce resistance, they ran away.

The ship was busy but not chaotic; the sailors, led by the captain, took guns to the deck, preparing to fight the Pirates!

The first mate in the cockpit had already contacted the nearby coast guard to report their position.

Just as everyone was fully prepared, someone on the Pirate Ship suddenly shouted, "Are there any people from Jiangzhou on the ship?"

"Yes."

The captain considered it and chose to tell the truth.

Once this was said, they heard a commotion below: "Go, go!"

Very quickly, the Pirates all ran away.

They were safe, but everyone was left looking bewildered.

Why did they run away?

Not a single shot was fired, the battle hadn't even started, and the Pirates suddenly lost their nerve and ran off?

This was just too unprofessional.

But regardless, they had won without a fight, so everyone was in a good mood.

The cruise ship continued its voyage; the captain dared not let his guard down and arranged for sailors to be ready at all times in every corner of the ship to prevent the Pirates from returning.

They couldn't return; on their way back, they ran into the coast guard and were rounded up without any effort at all.

After the Pirates were caught, they revealed the real reason they didn't attack the cruise ship.

And the reason had to do with Shi Youxuan and Sheng Hanyu.

The leader of these Pirates was Shouhou!

Shouhou was just an unknown small fry under Big Guy back then, but he had seen them when Big Guy ambushed the cruise ship, the Fishing Village, and fought with Sheng Hanyu and Shi Youxuan.

Big Guy was from a family of Pirates and had grown up on the sea his whole life, yet he hadn't been able to defeat these two people who came from Jiangzhou.

Therefore, the words "people from Jiangzhou" left a very deep shadow in Shouhou's heart.

And just now, when Sheng Hanyu rushed out and held Shi Youxuan to run back, he had seen them.

Shouhou had good eyesight; otherwise, he wouldn't have been sent out by Big Guy to observe the terrain back then.

He recognized who these two were at a glance, but he wasn't quite sure, so he asked.

Upon receiving a definite answer, he hurriedly took his men and ran.

It was just bad luck that he was caught red-handed by the coast guard while retreating!

The coast guard sent word that they had caught that group of Pirates, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Shi Youxuan requested to see the Pirate leader.

Others didn't understand, especially Shi Yucheng: "Better to avoid trouble than to invite it; the Pirates have already been caught, what is there to see? It's better to hurry on our way and get to shore; with all these Pirates and storms, who can stand it?"

He had never seen such things in his life, and on one trip to the sea, he had experienced them all.

His heart was beating "thump-thump" fast, and his blood pressure was "zooming" upward!

Shi Youxuan knew her father was timid and comforted him: "Don't worry, we'll just go see him and come right back; nothing will happen."

Sheng Hanyu said: "I'll go with you."

"Okay."

Since both of them had decided, it was useless for Shi Yucheng to object.

The two took a speedboat to the coast guard ship and saw the imprisoned Shouhou!

"You were one of Big Guy's men, right?" Shi Youxuan looked at him, finding him familiar, but couldn't remember where she had seen him.

Actually, she was just bluffing, but she didn't expect to guess the truth.

Shouhou was terrified, trembling like a sieve, and kept begging for mercy: "Spare my life, I promise you both, everything Big Guy... no, everything Big Guy did in the past had nothing to do with me; they forced me to do it, I had no choice..."

This was not an honest statement.

When Big Guy was around, he was indeed forced to do bad things.

But Big Guy had been dead for a long time, and he had become the Pirate leader; could it still be that others were forcing him?

Shi Youxuan didn't expose him; they had come here mainly to ask one thing.

As for how Shouhou would be dealt with, that was the police's business!

She asked: "I'll ask you, is Zhu Yiwen dead or not?"

"Who is Zhu Yiwen? I don't know him."

Sheng Hanyu said: "It's your Military Advisor Zhu Henjiang; his original name is Zhu Yiwen."

Zhu Yiwen had been rescued by Big Guy from Shark Bay; originally, he intended to torture him to death, but before he could, Big Guy died.

After Big Guy died, the Pirates scattered like birds and beasts; who would care whether the Military Advisor was dead or alive?

Shouhou's eyes rolled around a few times; he was thinking about how to use this matter to gain an advantage for himself.

Shi Youxuan saw through his thoughts and said directly: "You have committed a capital crime; we don't have the power to save you."

"However, you still have four young children at home, right? I can provide your children with a sum of money every year, enough for them to be well-fed, well-clothed, and able to attend school. What do you think of this deal?"

"Why should I believe you? What if you don't keep your word?" A glimmer of hope shone in Shouhou's eyes; he was already tempted, but he worried that Shi Youxuan would not keep her promise.

He used to be one of the big guy's subordinates, so he could be considered an enemy of the two people in front of him.

If the two of them bribed the coast guard to torture him, he would have just endured the suffering.

But now that they had offered such generous terms, Shouhou found it hard to believe instead.

He was from R Country, where ninety percent of the people were illiterate.

Those who could afford to read and attend school were all children from wealthy families in R Country.

He had become a Pirate in the first place just so his family could have enough to eat; such a luxurious thing as an education was something he didn't even dare to imagine.

Shi Youxuan said, "If you choose to believe us, your children will have the opportunity to study. If you don't believe us, of course we have no way to prove it, but one thing is certain—your four children will definitely not have this opportunity."

He fell into deep thought, pondered for a long time, and finally said, "When I last saw Zhu Henjiang, he wasn't dead. I heard he was rescued by someone called... something like Eagle."

"Feiying?"

"Feiying!"

The two of them spoke in unison.

"Yes, yes, that's it, he's called Feiying. But even if he was rescued, he wouldn't have survived; he only had one breath left at the time."

When Shi Youxuan and Sheng Hanyu left the coast guard ship, their moods were very heavy.

Sheng Yukai had escaped from Prison and hadn't been caught yet, and now it turned out Zhu Yiwen wasn't dead either!

Both of these people harbored deep-seated hatred for them, and now that they were both hiding in the shadows, no one knew when they would jump out and take a vicious bite out of them.

Sheng Hanyu pulled his wife into his arms: "Xuanxuan, don't be afraid, I'm here."

"Mm."

She smiled and rested her head on her husband's shoulder: "I'm not afraid, I have you!"

When the two returned to the cruise ship, Shi Yucheng was finally relieved to see them return safely.

He hurriedly urged them to leave this godforsaken place quickly and vowed never to go out to sea or take a boat again; it was too terrifying, and he had nearly been scared to death.