Chapter 778: Cannon Fodder in the Real World (25)

Jiang Lai walked directly towards the harbor as he spoke. The translator struggled to get a word out but couldn’t.

Jiang Lai reminded her.

"You have one minute left."

"Spare me, I don’t want the money, I’m begging you, please spare me, it’s for my family."

"Family?"

Jiang Lai laughed.

"Earlier, you deliberately tried to stir up trouble between us and the Balrog Royal Family. Did you ever think about the families of the entire ship’s crew then? If the Balrog Royal Family gets infuriated and starts shelling our ship, what about those lives on the line, and here you are telling me it’s for your family?

How ridiculous."

After speaking, Jiang Lai clapped his hands.

"Wait for your boss to wake up and let him handle it. He’s more experienced than I am."

Jiang Lai considered himself too kind-hearted, unable to do anything so bloody.

Behind him, Jiang Xun hesitated for a long time and finally couldn’t help but ask.

"When did you learn the Balrog language?"

With languages from countries like England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Russia, if Jiang Lai knows them, he can understand them all.

But Balrog? A place barely visible on world maps, a tiny land built up by civil wars and looting, with over six hundred thousand permanent residents speaking dozens of mixed languages.

The locals don’t even speak standard Balrog, but Jiang Lai speaks it like it’s his native tongue.

Who wouldn’t be baffled hearing this?

Who wouldn’t be curious seeing this?

Jiang Xun originally didn’t want to start a conversation with Jiang Lai, but he couldn’t hold back.

"Of course, you don’t have to tell me, I’ll figure it out myself."

"Do you know the difference between a genius and an idiot?"

Jiang Xun, hearing this, glared at her with displeasure.

"Intelligence."

"A genius rarely uses interrogative sentences when they speak."

"Are you calling me an idiot?"

"See, there’s another question."

Damn!

Jiang Xun quickened his pace, wishing he could crush Jiang Lai.

No wonder the big brother, second brother, and third brother all detested her—Jiang Lai has this ability, making people want to kill her.

Just as he was focused on quickly returning to the ship, his back collar was suddenly yanked backward by a hand, causing him to lose balance and fall heavily to the ground.

Fortunately, it was just the beach behind him, so it didn’t hurt, but that didn’t stop Jiang Xun from cursing.

He looked back and, as expected, it was Jiang Lai who yanked him.

"Jiang Lai, are you crazy?!"

A roar, but before he could get a response, the sand before him exploded, followed by gunshots as bullets riddled the spot where he had been standing, the sand before him erupting into the air.

Jiang Xun was left frozen in shock until he heard Jiang Lai’s voice piercing through his ear.

"Still not running? Waiting to get shot full of holes?"

"Oh, shit..."

Cursing, Jiang Xun swiftly reacted, turned around, got up, and ran. Jiang Lai was right ahead, and he followed her without going anywhere else.

"Who the hell is it?! So bold?!"

In this tiny country, practically sustained by the Jiang Family and Huang Family, what’s the deal with this attack? Are they planning to knock out their own livelihood?!

"Jiang Lai, wait for me, dammit!"

Jiang Lai ran fast, and Jiang Xun gritted his teeth, following closely behind. Someone behind them had already fallen, and bullets almost grazed his ears. Except for video games, he had never experienced such a real gunfight in his life.

"Jiang Lai!!"

"Stop yelling, dammit! I’m not a bullet, yelling won’t do any good!"

Jiang Lai was annoyed by the shouting.

She was also one of the fugitives now, shouting like summoning ghosts! Completely messed up her running pace!

"Jiang Lai! I’ve been shot!!"

Jiang Lai glanced back, no wonder there were shouts, he had been shot.

Jiang Xun stumbled backward, bleeding all over the sand. Seeing bullets grazing around him, Jiang Lai unhesitatingly turned to keep running.

Then, rounding a corner, she saw over a dozen people holding guns waiting by the shore.

Three seconds later, she started to turn around and run the other way.

"Shit!!"

Jiang Xun looked up and saw Jiang Lai racing toward him. His eyes instantly reddened.

He hated her so much, always bullying her secretly from a young age. He didn’t expect that, in a life-and-death moment, she’d risk her life to save him.

"Sis!"

"Stop yelling, dammit!"

Concerned that those people wouldn’t hear that someone was over here.

There was only one place to hide, Jiang Lai worried that Jiang Xun would give her away, so she simply dragged him and slid into a self-made underground sunshade hole on the beach.

One hole typically fit only one person; Jiang Lai tossed Jiang Xun in first, then stood over his head.

Finally, she covered the entrance with sand.

The sunlight vanished, along with the air.

At the last moment, Jiang Lai whispered.

"Hold your breath, stay quiet."

The sand blocked his nose and ears, but even so, Jiang Lai could clearly feel people walking back and forth above her head.

After a few muffled Balrog utterances, the sound gradually faded.

Below, Jiang Xun, who was already injured, now had to hold his breath and soon couldn’t hold on any longer.

Seeing him about to struggle, Jiang Lai decisively kicked him.

This settled the matter, he passed out.

After a while, thinking those people had left, Jiang Lai was about to burst out for some air when sudden rapid footsteps and the sound of muffled bullets shooting arrived again.

The usually silent Little Buding suddenly spoke up.

"Jiang Lai, don’t move!"

Jiang Lai dared not move.

Prolonged breath-holding was making her brain hypoxic; the only sound she could hear was bullets crashing into the sand.

They figured out she was hiding in the sand, and now they were firing indiscriminately.

These people were after her.

There were plenty who wanted her dead, but only one was capable of hiring local anti-alliance troops.

Damn Jiang Li.

Jiang Lai felt she was about to pass out; the intense sensation of asphyxiation and the pain in her lungs made her wish she could rush out and die with them all at that moment.

But her rational mind kept her clinging to that last breath and hope, waiting.

Suddenly, there was a burst of intense gunfire above.

Little Buding said something, but Jiang Lai didn’t hear clearly.

Because she had passed out.

Vaguely, she felt a pair of strong arms pulling her up; she gasped for air and then widened her eyes at the person above her.

The person had a faint smell of disinfectant and some blue stubble on his chin.

Realizing Jiang Lai’s gaze, he looked down.

"I’m sorry, I came too late."

Jiang Lai took a deep breath and then completely gave up, relaxing her body and letting herself be held.

Shi Yubai walked steadily, and Jiang Lai looked around; lying on the blood-drenched beach were over a dozen anti-alliance soldiers.

It was then that she noticed the bloodstains on Shi Yubai’s clothes.

Not his, someone else’s.

"Business is taken care of, the ship can just sail away."

"And you still have time to worry about business right now?"

Shi Yubai couldn’t figure out what was going on in Jiang Lai’s head.