Facing Sun Jun, the desperado, Chen Ge swallowed hard and muttered to himself as he shrank to one side. He wasn't one of those hot-blooded youths lost in heroic fantasies; he had a large sum of money saved up in a foreign bank, enough to see him through the second half of his life in comfort, and it wasn't worth getting into trouble with a desperado like Sun Jun.

Ling Feng couldn't help but glance at Sun Jun, who was leaning lazily against the wall. Sun Jun's delicate features did not betray the fact that he was the number one wanted criminal who had killed over a dozen people.

Noticing Ling Feng's gaze, Sun Jun flashed him a toothy smile. Ling Feng frowned slightly but ignored him.

After eating their dry rice balls, the group couldn't help but feel parched. Sun Jun walked to the door and knocked, "We need water!"

The door creaked open, and Tiezhu walked in with a bucket of water, saying with a smirk, "Want to drink? No problem!"

Setting the bucket down, he said, "Whoever's thirsty, feel free to drink to your heart's content."

Chen Ge's eyes lit up. He hadn't managed to grab a rice ball earlier, and if he could drink more water, he might not feel so hungry.

"I'll drink, I'll drink!" Chen Ge lunged forward, filled a ladle with water, and began to gulp it down greedily.

"Wow!" Just as the water was swallowed, Chen Ge spat it all out and said angrily while spitting, "Why is this water salty?"

Salty? The other stowaways looked at each other with uneasy expressions. Everyone knew that, in the next thirty or so hours, water and food were vital for survival.

Tiezhu sneered, "Of course, sea water is salty. Are you guys dumb or what?"

"Sea water, you're giving us sea water to drink?" Chen Ge couldn't help but rage, "Is sea water meant for drinking?"

Tiezhu said indifferently, "All we can provide is this sea water. Take it or leave it! However, if you're willing to pay for some boarding costs, fresh water isn't out of the question."

Extortion, blatant extortion!

But what could they do? They were under someone else's roof, and they had to bow their heads.

Chen Ge was already thirsty and hungry, and now that he'd suddenly ingested a belly full of sea water, he felt even worse: "I'll pay, I'll pay, alright?"

"But fresh water is very expensive at sea!" Tiezhu said with a grin, "Are you sure you want it?"

Chen Ge felt as if his tongue was about to crystallize from the salt, and he nodded saying, "I have money, bring me fresh water quickly!"

Tiezhu pulled out a bottle of mineral water from behind and swayed it, saying, "Tiezhu has always been fair in business, one bottle for ten thousand yuan, cash for goods, how about that?"

"Ten thousand yuan!" Chen Ge couldn't help but exclaim, "Is this a robbery?"

Tiezhu's expression changed, "Robbery? I'm not forcing you to buy. I'm working on friendly, voluntary principles."

Tiezhu said flatly, "Keep in mind, we don't have much fresh water stored on the boat either. I only have three bottles here. Does nobody else want any?"

Three bottles? Chen Ge looked around at the others and hurriedly shouted, "Give me one, I'll pay you right now!"

"That's the spirit!" Tiezhu handed the water to Chen Ge, who reluctantly pulled out a stack of cash from his wallet and handed it over to Tiezhu.

The other two bottles of water were bought by another man and a mother-daughter duo.

"Very good, very good!" Tiezhu stuffed the thirty thousand yuan into his pocket and said with a smile, "I wish you all a pleasant journey!"

After Tiezhu had left, Chen Ge had already consumed half of the bottle. With half the bottle down, he finally emerged from the salty, damp sensation.

About an hour passed, and everyone, except for Ling Feng, had reached their limits.

"Water, water, we need water!" The eyes of several men around glowed with a thirsty hunger.

Chen Ge and another man felt a chill in their hearts and quickly gulped down the rest of the water in their bottles.

"Dammit!" Seeing this, everyone was extremely irritated and turned all their attention to the mother and daughter!

Now, only the mother and daughter still had a bottle of fresh water in their hands, and they had not drunk any of it yet.

"Yingzi, eat something and drink some water," the older woman whispered into the young girl's ear, "There's almost thirty hours left in our journey. You can't go without eating or drinking, can you?"

The sadness was etched into the young girl's eyebrows, and she nodded her head.

The older woman took out something round from her bag, but the boat suddenly shook. She didn't manage to hold on, and the round object fell straight to the floor.

It was a rice ball made of white rice!

The pure white rice shone with a sacred light in the dim cabin, and it seemed as if the people present could smell the fragrance emanating from the rice.

"Rice, it's actually rice!" Finally, someone couldn't resist shouting, "That mother and daughter have food in their bags!"

This statement ignited like dry grass on the plains, and everyone's eyes were filled with a ravenous wolf-like glow.

"Hand over the food you have!" a man said, unable to restrain himself, and stepped forward, trying to snatch the mother and daughter's bag.

"No, this is our stuff!" the older woman held tight to the bag, refusing to let go.

The man attempted to pull it away twice with no success and, in a rage, he kicked violently at the woman's stomach, "You damned bitch, let go! Or I'll kill you!"

Killing Aura emanated from the man, like a wild beast that had been provoked.

"It turns out, among those who smuggle themselves, few are of good nature!" Ling Feng observed coldly from the sidelines, with no intention of stepping in to help.

If one chooses to smuggle, one should be prepared for such consequences.

The woman winced in pain, her brow furrowed deeply, but her hands remained gripping the bag tightly, without loosening her hold.

"Let go!" The girl, seeing the woman being hit, rushed forward to help her.

"Yingzi, no, get back!" the woman cried out in alarm.

With a sweep of his hand, the man grabbed the girl's clothes and flung her aside.

With a ripping sound, the girl's outer garment was torn off, exposing her pale and smooth shoulders, which were so enticing under the dim light.

With a gulp, several men, upon witnessing the scene, couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

At that moment, another man noticed the smudges on the girl's face, grabbed her, and thrust her head into a bucket filled with seawater.

The girl struggled desperately, but how could she, a frail young woman, break free?

After about ten seconds, the man let go of the girl, who then lifted her head. Now, the smudges on her face were washed away, revealing her stunning beauty and delicate skin.

"Hahaha, I thought this was going to be a very boring trip, but I didn't expect there to be such a pretty little girl here, what luck!" a man said with a grin, "With over thirty hours to go, wouldn't it be boring to have nothing to do?"

The eyes of the other men also revealed a lustful wolf-like gleam, and all the negative emotions — hunger, thirst, the fear and anxiety of leaving their homeland behind — erupted in that moment!

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