“The police should be here soon. If you do something before then, we'll testify for you and prevent you from getting locked away in prison. On top of that, you'll get to keep the one hundred thousand,” stated Nan Chen after exchanging looks with Ning Ran.

Filled with hope, Guo Si quickly inquired, “What should I do then?”

“Get us out of here after you finish your drink,” replied Nan Chen.

“Huh?” With his eyes widened in surprise, Guo Si immediately disagreed with Nan Chen. “Absolutely not!”

“Suit yourself,” voiced Nan Chen coldly.

Guo Si then explained with a hardened face, “I've already told you my situation. They're threatening me with my wife and children. If I let you all go, they'll harm my family for sure.”

“We've been here for days, but did they come to the island?” questioned Nan Chen.

“No.”

“So how did they know about our situation here?” continued Nan Chen.

“I told them about it, of course.”

“Then do you know why they never came to this island?”

Guo Si shook his head in response. “I don't.”

happening here since they've never set foot on this island. Who do you think will take the blame then? You may think you can explain yourself, but you have no one to back you up. There are many of them, so they can alibi each other and testify against you. What can you do about that? Besides, they

shocked when he heard Nan Chen. “How did you know they have the village head

Who's more familiar with the terrain than the villagers? Only they know the safest spot on the island and how to trap us here. It would take someone with great influence to get the villagers to do their bidding. That person had to be either rich

to sweat

to admit that I'm impressed. You got me involved without even lifting a finger!” Guo Si wiped the sweat from his

the road is also under maintenance. There's no way they can get here any time soon. Those people are going to have themselves a good time eating and drinking in the comfort of the city. Heck, they'll probably even get drunk. It'll be afternoon when they get to the village tomorrow, and the police will have already found us when they realize we've left the island long ago. Then, we'll tell the police you didn't kidnap but saved us, and you'll get off scot-free with one hundred thousand in your pocket. I'd say this one

take you far in that condition.

to admit that he's pretty good at convincing people! My goodness! He negotiated as though he

is crossing the province to Gerton our alternative?” inquired

cross the province if we don't head in the direction of Lightspring,” answered Guo Si

reservoir extend all the way

the other side. And even then, we'll

with your

We make deals sometimes since we're close to each other, but at the end of the day, we still belong to different provinces. The people of my village consider them outsiders, so we don't intermarry with them. However, some of their women have married into our village, and

hand to stop the man from digressing. “Is their village head close with

They rarely had anything to do

they report to your village head if they see us?” asked

them because,

Then we'll make our way to Gerton. We

sure we should go

you have to row the boat

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