Chapter 564 - 575
Li Yifei parked the car not too far from the dock and asked Li Xinyue to wait inside. Li Xinyue was worried and suggested going with Yifei, but he dismissed the idea with a single sentence, "You being there will only slow me down. Just wait here."
Li Xinyue wasn’t someone who couldn’t grasp the gravity of a situation, and she completely understood Yifei’s words. She was extremely disappointed that she couldn’t witness Yifei in his element, but in the end, she obediently waited in the car.
There was a hill next to the dock, dotted with trees that weren’t very tall. Although it was just the beginning of September, the branches were thick with leaves, making Yifei hard to spot as he blended into the background.
Observing the dock from the hillside, Yifei noted a speedboat moored there, likely the thugs’ getaway vehicle. They seemed ready to hop into the boat and take off without a delay. To rescue the hostages, Yifei had to make his move before the boat set out or sneak on board before it started. Once the boat was moving, it would be much harder to catch up.
A few minutes had passed since he arrived, and two vans were nearly at the dock. Time was running out.
Yifei walked down the hill and directly toward the speedboat.
"Stop, this is a private vessel," two men on the dock called out to Yifei, their faces wary.
Yifei gave a slight smile and said, "I’m looking to charter a speedboat for the high seas. Name your price."
"We don’t do rentals. Look somewhere else if you want to rent a speedboat," one of the men replied coldly, a fierce expression on his face trying to intimidate Yifei away, while the other reached for something under his shirt, where the outline of a gun was unmistakably visible.
The behavior of these two confirmed for Yifei that they were indeed the thugs he was after. He curled his lips, dissatisfied, and said, "If it’s not for rent, fine, no need to be aggressive about it."