CHAPTER 1527: CHAPTER 728 DOES THIS COUNT AS ELIMINATING VIOLENCE AND ENSURING PEACE?_2

All of these could be ignored, but what really caught Sean Knight’s attention were the other three boxes.

One was filled with US Dollars, while another surprisingly contained China’s red banknotes.

The last box was a mix of things, including golden bars, golden jewelry, and gemstone ornaments. Judging by their sizes, Sean guessed that they had probably been plundered from various people.

Could these two have also been involved in a trade of killing and robbing?

However, it was all Sean’s gain now.

The cabin doors on the yacht were closed, and astonishingly, despite being more than 100 meters underwater, the glass hadn’t broken. Although water had seeped in, it didn’t make entering the yacht significantly more difficult.

With Sean’s current physical condition, it still took quite an effort to squeeze in.

After putting the three boxes into his spatial realm, Sean surfaced with the one carrying weapons.

He hadn’t even reached the surface when he sensed that there were more than one speedboat nearby, besides the yacht.

The speedboats were fanning out around the yacht, with a small island not far behind it.

At that moment, Douglas Cooper was holding a rifle, confronting the people on the speedboats.

It was clear that these people wanted the yacht, they wanted the money, and naturally, Douglas wasn’t about to allow that.

Sean hadn’t expected to encounter a group of pirates here.

He stealthily approached the largest speedboat. This one had the most people on it, and with his Sky Eye, Sean could make out that their leader was on board.

He swam underneath the speedboat and straight from his spatial realm, took out a block of timed explosives and stuck it to the bottom, then quickly swam away.

He did the same thing to the others, leaving only one speedboat unrigged with explosives, and then took out an underwater propeller from his spatial realm to wait quietly.

Douglas grasped the rifle, but inside, he was a bit anxious.

He wasn’t afraid of getting hurt nor was he concerned about the yacht being in trouble, his main worry was that if something did happen to the yacht, he and the boss would have nowhere to go.

There wasn’t much signal on the nearby islands, and the satellite phone was on the yacht. If the yacht were to be sunk, then they would indeed be in trouble.

Fortunately, the other party’s goal was the yacht, so out of fear of damaging it, they merely threatened and didn’t open fire.

Douglas felt conflicted. He both wanted his boss to surface and surprise attack them, but also worried that if his boss surfaced at the wrong moment, he would be spotted by the other side first, which could then lead to threats or injury.

It was at that moment that the leader of the pirates grew impatient and told his subordinate:

"Give him a few shots to press him down!"

The subordinate raised his gun slightly and fired over the yacht!

"Boom!"

As the gun was fired, that speedboat instantly turned into a ball of fire and shot up into the sky!

In mid-air, the subordinate was left wondering if the recoil of his shot had been that intense.

The explosion acted like a trigger for a chain reaction, with successive blasts completely stupefying the pirates!

Douglas on the yacht was also stunned, wondering where on earth the boss had found these explosives?

The explosion was unequivocally Sean’s doing, Douglas was sure of that, but what was the source?

At that point, Sean, operating the propeller underwater, came up beside the yacht and said to Douglas:

"Douglas, I’m going to track that escaping speedboat and see where their hideout is. You take the yacht and move away from this sea territory for now, I’ll contact you."

Having said that, without waiting for Douglas to respond, Sean dove back down and pursued the already distant speedboat with his propeller.

It was then that Douglas realized that one speedboat hadn’t exploded.

He understood clearly that this must have been intentionally done by Sean.

But Sean’s warning was timely. The successive explosions had made quite a commotion, and sooner or later ships would come to investigate.

If the yacht were still in the vicinity, it would certainly be problematic.

Douglas drove the yacht around in a large circle and eventually arrived in a sea territory close to land. Here, they could see fishing boats and passing cargo ships.

Clearly, they had reached a regular waterway.

But Douglas had no idea where Sean had gone.

Although Douglas was a bit worried, he also knew that worrying was futile right now.

With the boss’s current abilities, there was no need for him to be concerned.

As the speedboat fled in desperation, Sean, operating the propeller to its full extent, could just barely glimpse the outline of the speedboat.

To Sean’s surprise, the ultimate docking point of the speedboat was not an island, but rather the land by the seaside.

This place was a small bay, with no fisherman villages nearby. The speedboat disappeared into the crevices of the mangroves and was soon out of sight.

Sean Knight, sharp of hearing and keen of sight, poked his head out and quickly heard the sound of the speedboat’s engine shutting off, followed by the noise of several people arguing and footsteps.

He poked his head out of the mangroves, looked around to make sure no one was there, then stowed his underwater propeller and diving equipment and swam to the shore.

The speedboat was tied to a simple dock hidden within the mangroves. The people had already vanished into the nearby jungle.

Sean Knight guessed that the pirate’s hideout must be in the jungle.

There were quite a few pirates; he estimated that many must have remained at the hideout.

He stealthily made his way ashore, following the footsteps into the forest.

The trails in the tropical jungle were tortuous and difficult to navigate, obstructed at times by vines and frequented by blood-sucking bugs. If it weren’t for Sean’s "Sky Eye" and the fact that he could now exert his aura outward, he would probably have been covered in bugs before he even reached his destination.

It had to be said that the spiritual energy from the Bronze Dragon brought many benefits to Sean Knight.

After about fifteen minutes of walking, Sean could faintly hear voices ahead, and the path became more open—several forked roads began to converge, and now the paths in the jungle could accommodate a tricycle.

Sean hid in the bushes, coming up to the edge of a cluster of buildings.

The structures were all wooden cabins, enclosed by two-meter-high wooden fences. There were about twelve or thirteen stilt wooden cabins inside.

Through the gaps in the fence, Sean could see about twenty or thirty people moving around inside and outside the structures.

To Sean’s surprise, at least seven or eight young women were confined in two cabins—these women were very young, of various skin colors, and Sean suspected they had been kidnapped!

A scan with his "Sky Eye" revealed that many of the robust-looking men were carrying guns, signifying that these people were definitely pirates, and the professional kind at that, not like those in some places where fishermen moonlight as pirates.

His "Sky Eye" took another sweep around, quickly discovering a large quantity of treasures inside the largest two-story wooden cabin.

Some were stolen goods, blood-stained jewelry, valuable clothing, antiques, jade ware, and the like.

There was also cash in boxes: mostly US Dollars, with Euros, yen, RMB, Ringgit, and Singapore Dollars.

The amount was significant!

Additionally, there were many illicit items present, which would lead to execution in China.

These were not in short supply here!

Sean then focused his attention on the armed men.

There were seventeen men carrying rifles in the pirate den, all in their prime, and there were a few women as well.

Guns were also scattered around inside the wooden cabins.

In a small wooden cabin near the tallest one, several boxes of weapons were locked up, including machine guns, rocket launchers, hand grenades, and other powerful firearms.

Counting it all up, the firepower of this pirate lair wasn’t inferior to those notorious pirate-infested countries on the East Coast of Africa.

But how could such a notorious pirate lair exist so close to a busy waterway without the nearby government knowing or caring?

This thought was fleeting; Sean immediately dismissed it.

It had nothing to do with him; he just needed to retrieve what he wanted and do what he intended to do.

His gaze settled on the largest cabin.

The people who had just run over from the speedboat, as well as several who were already there, were talking inside that cabin.

The escapees spoke rapidly in the local language, probably reporting the incident of the speedboat being blown up.

The others didn’t seem too concerned; they all had guns, and one even seemed pleased.

Sean suspected there might be power struggles among them.

However, his attention quickly shifted to several people outside.

Two young men carrying rifles entered the cabin where the women were locked up.

Each dragged a woman outside, and by the looks on their faces, they clearly intended no good.

One of the women shouted loudly:

"Let go of me!"

She was speaking in Chinese!

Sean was immediately enraged!

Although her accent was a bit stiff, this was without a doubt spoken by a Chinese person!

This, he could not tolerate!

He drew his gun!