The people who had been fighting just now followed the direction she pointed and saw the distant twinkling lights.

Teacher Lin and Hao Jiening were excited. "A ship! It's a ship! We're saved!"

Anna suppressed her emotions and wasn't as excited as they were. She wanted to determine if they were friends or foes first. If the police had arrived, she would immediately carry out the last step: destroy the evidence.

"Quick, light the torches!" Old Man Wang shouted. Lili wasn't acting spoiled now. She rushed to the broken deck, pushed aside the suitcase blocking the hole, and forcefully broke off several wooden planks.

In the dark cabin below, Jia Wenjun and Bai Ma Shan held their breaths. Even though the sound of the wind and rain was still loud, they heard the commotion above about a ship arriving.

Jia Wenjun was so excited that her hands and feet were trembling. Even though she knew the situation she might face after returning could be even more difficult than here, she believed she could prove her innocence with her parents' company and support.

After the clothing-wrapped torch was lit, bright orange flames surged from the stick along with thick smoke.

Hu Si tried his best to climb onto the roof of the boat, shouting for help towards the vaguely visible ship in the distance, waving the torch in his hand with all his might.

The rain continued to fall, drenching the orange flames. The flames grew smaller and smaller, but stubbornly refused to go out. Instead, they reflected the surrounding raindrops in an exceptionally fiery red, like leaping sparks erupting from a steel furnace. And these flames were the hope of everyone on the ship at this moment.

Everyone on the deck shouted loudly towards the distant ship, afraid that the ship might suddenly sail away or disappear.

After shouting for an unknown amount of time, the people on the boat finally saw a white yacht, similar to Anna's boat, sailing towards them. The ship didn't sound its horn, and slowly stopped not far from the Seashell.

"Sea Wolf?" Hu Si thought looked at the approaching ship from the roof of the boat. A huge wolf head pattern on the side of the ship was particularly striking in the rain.

"Is this the Maritime Safety Administration's ship?" Although Hu Si didn't know what the Maritime Safety Administration's rescue ship looked like, he also understood that official maritime vessels usually didn't have such exaggerated decorative paintings printed on them.

Hu Si thought climbed down from the roof of the boat and said to the others below, "It's a yacht called Sea Wolf. It probably isn't a ship from the Maritime Safety Administration."

"Who cares where the ship is from? As long as they can get us out of here," Lili said.

The others echoed her, especially when Anna repeatedly said they were her people. Everyone cheered and shouted with tears in their eyes.

"My people, this is my friend's boat." Anna cheered excitedly, telling the people on the other ship to come aboard quickly.

The people on the Sea Wolf didn't respond. The only sounds on the sea were the noisy calls for help from the people on the Seashell. After several minutes, Old Man Wang finally saw someone pushing a small rubber raft into the sea from the stern of the Sea Wolf.

"They're coming to save us." Old Man Wang realized that the draft of the opposite ship was relatively deep, making it prone to running aground, so they were using a small rubber raft to pick people up. The stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. "This maritime nightmare is finally coming to an end."

Old Man Wang quickly lowered the rope ladder on the side of the boat. The heavy rain beat erratically on the sea surface, and the rising height of the seawater could no longer be determined with the naked eye, but for the rubber raft, this height was passable.

Before long, the sound of the rubber raft's motor was already at the side of the boat.

Old Man Wang and Hu Si and the others helped each other at the side of the boat. With the sound of several heavy boots landing, five strong men were already standing on the deck.

One of them, slightly thinner and shorter, looked like the leader of the other four. A man behind him was even holding a black umbrella for him.

"Brother Ji, you're finally here!" Anna recognized the skinny man in the middle at a glance, and greeted him with a smile.

Everyone saw that Anna was on such familiar terms with the other party, and assumed they were close friends. After all, who would come to rescue Anna in such dangerous stormy weather if they weren't in an unusual relationship?

But to everyone's surprise, Brother Ji only gave Anna a cold glare. The strong man next to him reached out and stopped Anna two meters away in place of this "Brother Ji."

Everyone had a look of surprise, especially Anna. But she didn't dare to show it, and could only stand obediently to the side.

"Where's the stuff?" Brother Ji's voice was deep, and he went straight to the point, not wanting to waste any more time with Anna.

From the shadows under the dark umbrella, Anna saw the ferocity revealed in Brother Ji's eyes. She knew what kind of people these were. Not daring to delay, she quickly said, "It's in the hold below."

"Take me there." Brother Ji patted the shoulders of two other lackeys and led them away with Anna. The remaining two strong men tacitly turned their bodies, blocking the crowd of suffering people waiting for rescue on the deck with their fierce faces.

The group of people on the boat now vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

"Hey, what are you doing? Aren't you here to save us?" Old Man Wang asked with a puzzled look.

"That's right, we've been waiting for so long, let's just leave." Teacher Lin said.

"What exactly do you want to take? There's nothing on this broken boat now. If you want to carry anything, we can help. Many hands make light work. You've come all this way to save us, so don't be polite."

Hu Si thought just stood up when one of the strong men slapped him hard on the shoulder, and he fell back down.

"Hey, I want to help, why are you hitting people!" Hu Si wanted to argue with the other party, but he hadn't eaten much in the past few days, and was no match for these two strong men at all.

The other party pointed at his nose and said fiercely, "If you don't want to die, be honest with me."

As soon as these words came out, the people on the boat were so frightened that they took a few steps back.

Were these people really here to save them? This tone, this stance, how was it any different from robbers?

"What's going on with these people! Could it be that we've encountered pirates? But Anna said just now that they were her friends, how could she have friends like this?" Teacher Lin whispered to Hao Jiening, who was squeezed together with her.

Hao Jiening hugged her son tightly, afraid that her son would say something he shouldn't at this time, angering these men in black.

Old Man Wang, Lü Maowang, and Hu Si, the three men on the boat, were the main targets of the two black-clothed men.

Old Man Wang thought of Jia Wenjun saying before that Anna had hidden drugs on the boat, and even asked them to go down to the dark cabin to find them. No one believed her at the time, but now, Anna was leading those ill-intentioned people towards the dark cabin.

Could it be that everything Jia Wenjun said was true?

Lili also saw the clues. She had felt that there was something wrong with Anna smashing her phone before, and now seeing that her so-called friends were these kinds of people, she also remembered Jia Wenjun's words.

At this time, Jia Wenjun and Bai Ma Shan were both in the dark cabin below. Would Anna let the people who knew her secret live?

If Jia Wenjun and Bai Ma Shan died below, then what about them? Were they going to die too? In this vast sea, it would be easy for these people to kill them. They could create a false impression, saying that they died accidentally. When the people from the Maritime Safety Administration arrived, they wouldn't be able to find out anything.

Thinking of this, she felt a chill all over her body, and her hands and feet began to tremble.