The Boat, the Island

"Get on! What are you two standing around there for?" Ye Jinghong shouted at Ying Gou and me.

Ying Gou and I exchanged a glance. He leaped onto the boat first, and I followed.

The boat was larger than an ordinary skiff, and it was actually powered by an engine.

That was far more comfortable and much steadier than one that needed oars.

"How did you end up here?" I asked her.

She gave me a slight smile. "Then why are you here?" She seemed not to take the danger of this place to heart at all, remaining as calm as before.

"Weren't we looking for you? By the way, where's Ding Qing?"

When I mentioned Ding Qing, her smile vanished. "Ding Qing was taken."

Taken? Though I was shocked, I still asked what they had experienced after entering Terror Park.

To my surprise, their experiences had been exactly the same as ours.

First there had been that Three-legged Golden Crow, then the Mass Grave, and only afterward had they arrived at this sea.

If it had not been for Ye Jinghong, Ding Qing probably would not have made it through a single stage alone.

"So you ended up stranded on a deserted island too, and then got attacked by a pack of sharks as well?" I asked.

"Yes. At the time, we were terrified. Even I felt uneasy facing those sharks. I even thought we might die here. On top of that, my teammate was useless. I thought that if I had been with you, things would have been much better. But just when I was about to despair, many eagles flew over from the sky..."

Her experience had been exactly the same as ours: eagles and piranhas.

After the piranhas retreated, she saw this boat drifting over the