Late at night.
Bright moonlight streamed lazily down from the sky, illuminating the brilliant starry heavens and draping a layer of silvery gauze over the rolling sea.
A faint phantom-like silhouette from a merchant ship drifted far away in the depths of the night. Amid the soft sounds of waves striking the reefs, an inconspicuous wooden boat quietly reached the shore, leaving a long indentation in the soft sand.
Taking advantage of the darkness, Xia Nan and the five members of the Iron Rock Shield Squad quietly arrived on Wildberry Cliff Island.
To minimize the possibility of their plan being discovered in advance, they had not only chosen the dead of night for their operation, but had also taken the disguised merchant ship they had arrived on and sailed in a wide circle around the island, reaching the northwest side of Wildberry Cliff.
The terrain here was considerably higher than that on the island's southeastern side, while dangerous undercurrents and sharp reefs covered the shore.
To a certain extent, it formed natural terrain defenses.
The Tide Retreat Gang and the pirates clearly would not station many guards on this side of the island.
Xia Nan and the others were taking advantage of the terrain to infiltrate the island in secret.
As for the jagged reefs and swirling undercurrents... if those approaching had merely been ordinary fishermen, they would have been extremely dangerous.
But with five experienced adventurers who had already obtained Profession Levels sitting in the small boat, they were hardly worth mentioning.
Xia Nan did not even need to use his Perception Attribute to give any reminders. Seli, the Human Ranger responsible for guiding the boat, had already relied on her experience to avoid every dangerous spot along the coast, bringing the boat safely to a stop on the