Chapter 791: Neon Pirates

Chapter 791: Neon Pirates

Zhang Yi arrived on the deck. Just as Old Tian had said, around the Golden Edge, a dozen small boats were rapidly approaching.

Each boat carried three neon pirates, armed with firearms and rocket launchers.

Zhang Yi leaned against the railing. Several pirates spotted him and immediately started shouting loudly.

Through the translation system, Zhang Yi clearly heard them yell, "Stop the ship! Don't resist, and we'll spare your lives!"

But their neon accents still made people feel physiologically uncomfortable.

Without a doubt, these were pirates colluding with the Neon Sea Authorities.

Judging by their proficiency, this was definitely not their first time doing this.

Any civilian ship passing through Neon waters would be immediately surrounded by them.

A cruel smile appeared at the corner of Zhang Yi’s mouth.

He flipped his hand and took out a rocket launcher from his dimensional space.

But after a moment’s thought, he gave up on using that thing to blow up the neon pirates’ boats.

Zhang Yi switched to his Sacred Executioner blade.

"Hey, you guys! Heard that? Are you so scared you’re wetting yourselves? Hurry up and stop the ship, give up resisting!"

A neon pirate wearing a fleece-lined straw hat, his face marked with a scar, shouted arrogantly. He raised his AK high, aiming at Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi lightly jumped.

His body became extremely light, and his toes touched the railing in an instant.

Then he leapt from the ship’s deck, over ten meters high, diving toward the neon pirates’ speedboat on the sea!

Black void energy clung to the blade. Only this world’s hardest metal could withstand such terrifying power.

Meticulously refined, Zhang Yi’s grasp of spatial power was far beyond what it had been before.

The neon pirates on the speedboat hadn’t even reacted yet when a slash descended midair, turning into a crescent-shaped blade of light.

“Crack!”

The speedboat was cut cleanly in half, the cut surface smooth as a mirror.

“Puff!”

The two halves of the boat sank into the icy sea. The neon pirates aboard screamed in terror.

Falling into such frigid water would certainly mean death!

And before dying, they would experience their bodies freezing solid.

After cutting one speedboat, Zhang Yi’s figure quickly vanished midair, then reappeared above another.

With another plain but brutal slash, he cleaved the second speedboat in two.

Repeating the same trick, within moments three speedboats had already been sliced and sunk.

The neon pirates fell into the water, screaming in panic and begging their comrades for rescue.

But before any other pirates could come to save them, their bodies gradually stiffened in the sea, their skin turning bluish-purple, looking terrifyingly like zombies.

This method of death was especially chilling, and it was exactly Zhang Yi’s intention.

Killing them instantly would be too easy for these beasts.

These bastards didn’t even know how many innocent people they had killed in these waters!

“They’re superhumans! He’s a superhuman!”

The pirates finally realized something was wrong. This time, they had met a tough opponent!

But their vicious nature made them reckless—they were determined to kill Zhang Yi at all costs!

They fired all sorts of weapons in Zhang Yi’s direction, bullets from AKs and rocket launchers blazing.

Yet they couldn’t catch Zhang Yi’s movements at all. He flickered through the air like a ghost.

These clumsy fools even managed to sink their own comrades’ ships.

Even if some bullets accidentally hit Zhang Yi’s location, they were all absorbed by the dimensional space.

Zhang Yi killed one after another like a dragonfly skimming water.

He sank ships but didn’t end the neon pirates’ lives immediately.

He wanted them trapped in the icy sea, to feel the despair of freezing to death before their end.

Only now did the sailors rush up, and surprisingly, Zhu Yunque also came to the deck to observe the situation.

Then, they saw Zhang Yi’s effortless and graceful killing method.

Over a dozen ships were all sunk with incredible ease by Zhang Yi.

They could even hear the desperate screams of the neon pirates as they sank into the icy sea.

“Save me! Save me!”

But those screams didn’t last long before being completely swallowed by the blue ice sea.

The sailors on deck exchanged glances and smiled, some helplessly scratching their heads.

They hadn’t even fired a single shot, yet Zhang Yi had taken care of everyone.

That’s the advantage of having a strong teammate in the group.

Zhu Yunque looked at Zhang Yi’s figure. The cold sea breeze blew her hair beneath her fleece hat, causing a strange gleam in her eyes.

“Actually, finding a man who can protect you isn’t bad. Although his manners are a bit lacking, he’s still a decent choice.”

Zhang Yi returned to the deck and said lightly to everyone, “Keep moving forward!”

Encountering pirates was not surprising; perhaps more would try to intercept them later.

But with Zhang Yi around, safety was absolutely guaranteed.

Zhang Yi didn’t put much thought into the matter.

However, after returning to her room, Zhu Yunque reported everything in detail to Zhu Zheng via her portable communicator.

“I understand. Since it happened in international waters with pirates, it’s hard to make a big deal out of it. With Zhang Yi here, don’t worry about safety.”

Zhu Zheng looked serious as he stared at Zhu Yunque.

“Just tell me, how is the mission I assigned to you going?”

Zhu Yunque’s expression stiffened, and she said with some grievance, “He came with his girlfriend. Since boarding, he has been eating in his own room. I barely had a chance to get close to him.”

The weather was too cold; everyone tried to avoid the deck and stayed in comfortable places even to eat.

Zhang Yi brought his own food, so he didn’t join Old Tian and others in the mess hall.

But Zhu Yunque didn’t have such treatment; she ate the same canned and prepackaged food as the crew.

Hearing this, Zhu Zheng said sternly, “Think of more ways. You can’t expect me to teach you everything. You have to learn to rely on your own abilities to get things done.”

Zhu Yunque pouted, “The overall situation is bad now! In the past...”

Zhu Zheng interrupted her, “Why is the environment bad wherever you go? You’re the one causing trouble!”

“Stop acting like a lady all the time; take the initiative.”

Zhu Yunque stammered her agreement.

But she felt somewhat wronged inside.

She opened her phone and looked at her own face from left to right.

“How am I worse than Zhou Ke’er? Why doesn’t he come to win me over?”

Zhu Yunque didn’t understand.

She was only a bit less pretty than Zhou Ke’er, with a slightly less good figure, and a bit more temperamental.

Besides that, what else made her inferior to Zhou Ke’er?

The Golden Edge left this sea area.

A few hours later, a ship nearby discovered the frozen corpses.

Physics was strange—bodies frozen into ice blocks would float on the water surface.

The people on the ship saw the bodies were intact.

This meant they hadn’t died from firearms but drowned in the water.

But how exactly had a group of water-savvy pirates frozen to death in the icy sea, and where had those speedboats gone?

“There seems to be a very powerful superhuman on that ship.”

At the bow, a leader of the pirate group said cautiously.

“That’s a ship from the Huaxu Kingdom. Their people rarely leave the Southeast Sea area; this time they’re voyaging far offshore. Something’s off.”

Someone nearby added.

“This is very strange.”

“But we can’t do anything. Our strength is too far below the Huaxu Kingdom.”

“Hehe, we can tell the Colombian troops about this. They’ll definitely be interested in this news!”

After the discussion, the pirates dared not chase the Golden Edge.

They chose to return to Neon Island and pass the information to the Colombian troops stationed on Ropefly Island.

Author's Note