Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Chapter 207 Backup

"Boom——"

The sudden explosion disrupted everyone's plans. Sang Siqing glanced at the time on her smartphone in astonishment. It was only 8:43, seventeen minutes before the explosion was announced over the loudspeaker.

She glanced solemnly in the direction of the explosion, and her heart skipped a beat—that direction led to the control room!

On the other side, Ying Wuchou asked Lilith, "The central control room?"

Lilith did not answer, but instead pulled up the last surveillance video of the road in the control room before the explosion.

In the scene, Chu Deng exits the empty control room, and as he turns around, flames erupt.

Chu Deng blew up the control room himself.

“That is one method,” Ying Wuchou said.

Chu Deng couldn't do anything about the artificial intelligence in the two datasets, and he didn't want to sit and wait for death in the control room, so he simply blew up the control room to completely free it up, since the ship was going to explode sooner or later anyway.

The ship remained stationary, the power room was still providing energy, and the lights were still on, but the anchor had gone out of control and was plunging straight into the sea.

On the deck, amidst the panicked crowd, Lu Shan remained calm and composed. As a space-elemental user, what was there to be afraid of? Not only was he unafraid, but he also had the leisure to ask others, "It shouldn't be a lie, how do I get there?"

All-Knowing Ming smiled. "The Adonis is fully equipped, with a helicopter and rescue boats at the stern. Since that person dared to say the explosion started at the stern, there should already be people on the rescue boats. In the chaos, good people are always more concerned than bad people."

"That makes sense." The villain Lu Shan nodded in agreement, clinking glasses with Quan Zhiming. "Cheers!"

The kind-hearted Sang Siqing notified her team members to go to the stern to help maintain order, while she continued to keep an eye on Lu Shan.

Chu Deng, who was neither a good person nor a bad person, was thinking about Jin Dahai and Liu Zixiang at the stern of the ship, and would occasionally look at the situation through the eyes of the dark clouds.

It's unclear who spread the news that there was a rescue boat at the stern. Apart from a few people who went to the bow and some who were contacting helicopters, almost everyone was heading towards the stern. Fortunately, the crowd in Adonis was relatively dispersed at night, which prevented a stampede.

At the stern, the compressed rescue boat, following the vines, fell into the water and instantly expanded. The Fire Tree, somewhat disdainfully, stretched its branches into the sea, lining up the rescue boats and waiting for people; once they were full, it would row away. Jin Dahai, hiding in a corner, wiped away cold sweat and blocked Liu Zixiang, who was entangled in a ball and pinned under his feet by the Fire Tree. Dark Cloud stood on his shoulder, preening its feathers.

"Mommy, little bird!"

Hey, little brat, it's the Queen of Clouds!

The dark cloud glanced at the child, who smiled back. The dark cloud cackled twice, in a good mood, and was about to respond when it saw the child being pushed to the ground.

Jin Dahai frowned and pulled the child who was almost trampled by the crowd behind him, and couldn't help but say, "Don't push!"

"Fuck your ass! I'm in a hurry to escape, I don't have time to play house with some little brat! Who do you think you are!" the man cursed, shoving his arm directly into Jin Dahai's face. The people behind him also shouted, "What's all the noise about? Hurry up!"

As time became increasingly tight, those at the back, fearing they wouldn't make it, swarmed and pushed forward.

Fire Tree had already retrieved several unfortunate souls who had fallen into the sea. As they shoved the people into the lifeboats, vines quickly weaved through the huddled crowd, binding them together like knots and sending them one by one onto the lifeboats.

"Holy crap! There's a snake!"

"Snake?! What snake?! This is the sea!"

"There are sea snakes in the sea too!"

"Help! Help!"

Jin Dahai couldn't help but facepalm. He helped the child and her mother onto the lifeboat, and to prevent the person who was pushing them from doing anything else, he even stopped him and made him get on another lifeboat.

"You fucking own this place! I want to use this! Get lost!" The man was enraged and, if he wasn't satisfied the first time, he threatened to hit Jin Dahai.

"Gah!" The dark cloud was enraged and opened its mouth to spew flames.

"You little beast! Your grandpa isn't an ordinary person either!" Unexpectedly, the man raised his arm to block, and with one hand covering the metal, he crushed Wuyun's head.

Sang Siqing's teammates, who had rushed over, noticed that the dispute was unusual. One of the guys who had witnessed the whole thing saw that Jin Dahai and his bird were about to suffer a loss, so he simply stepped in.

An unseen wind blade slashed diagonally at the man's hand, producing a crisp sound and stopping his attack.

"The Chinese military has temporarily taken over this ship. Please maintain order." Sang Siqing's teammate revealed his identity, and the man immediately became obedient upon seeing it, only to be handcuffed.

"No, what right do you have to lock me up?" the man shouted.

"Special talents require special management. Your abilities are not a means for you to act as an accomplice to evil," Sang Siqing's teammate warned. The man was still struggling when another teammate fired a spray. The man felt heavy all over and tried to use his powers again but found no trace of them.

"Someone's recording!" someone suddenly shouted.

The guys quickly tried to get the recording deleted. Although the higher-ups didn't care if the spray used to suppress superpowers was leaked, they didn't want outsiders to know about their family's treasure too early. Making money quietly was the only way to go.

Once order was restored, the young man finally had a chance to shake hands with Jin Dahai. "Thank you for your efforts. You have wood-type abilities? Your level must be quite high."

The young men glanced at the Fire Tree, who was still busy in the sea, and respectfully saluted the Golden Sea.

"Ahem, it's all as it should be." Jin Dahai didn't say that he was an ordinary person, and he didn't have time to explain about the fire tree, so he simply accepted their guess and played the role of a big shot for a while.

The guys looked like they wanted to befriend Jin Dahai but were afraid of being disliked by the big boss, which made Jin Dahai so happy that he was completely overjoyed. Fortunately, Jin Dahai remembered the living person under his feet, told the guys who were on a mission, and boarded the lifeboat first.

While protecting Jin Dahai, Huoshu swept people into the lifeboats like dumplings being dropped into a pot. She even had the leisure to add a few small flowers to the lifeboat Jin Dahai was sitting in. Wuyun cackled and ate the small flowers full of fire elements, feeling quite at ease.