“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.”

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 have the village head as their leader, so how will a regular villager like you

“How did

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 or powerful. If they were rich, it'd be unlikely that they did this for money. Hence, it'd have to be someone powerful. Who in the

began to sweat bullets on his forehead because of his

You got me involved without

that more than one hundred kilometers away, but 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 is a no-brainer, wouldn't

you far in that condition. I can't send you to the

to admit that he's pretty good

the province

We'll cross the province if we don't head in the direction of Lightspring,”

the way to the

the other side. And even then, we'll only reach a

friendly with your village?” questioned Nan

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,

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

rarely had anything

if they see

them because, just

way to Gerton. We go

sure we

You'd better not drink too much because you have to row the

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