“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 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

Nan Chen. “How did

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 village

sweat bullets on his forehead because

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

is 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

It's not as if your legs can take you far in that condition. I can't send you

have a lot to say, but when he does talk, I have to admit that he's pretty good at convincing people! My goodness! He negotiated as though he did that for a living. The things he said made so much sense that I doubt anyone would disagree

the province to Gerton our alternative?” inquired Nan

We'll cross the province if we don't head in

this reservoir extend all the way

get to the other side. And even then, we'll only reach a village far from the

friendly with your village?” questioned

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

Guo Si could say more, Nan Chen waved his hand to

rarely had anything to

your village head if they see

because,

way to Gerton. We

sure we should go

too much because you have to row the boat

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