"Save me! Please, save me..."
The woman was terrified. Her face was stricken, and tears streamed down her cheeks.
Ye Chen watched her for a moment, then asked, "Where's the key?"
"The key..."
She hesitated. Tears kept falling from her cheeks onto the floor, and before long, she began sobbing again.
Just then, a metal door opened in the wall to the right. Four strangers came through, two men and two women.
Their eyes flicked over the woman, then quickly turned away.
Chains pierced the woman's flesh, and a device strapped to her head could explode at any moment. But the four strangers paid none of it any attention, as though they hadn't seen her at all.
"It's safe in here. Look, he's fine, isn't he?"
The man in front pointed at Ye Chen as he spoke to his three companions, then leaped into the room. The others followed close behind.
"Stop crying. You know where the key is, don't you?"
"What? A key?"
The moment Ye Chen spoke, all four turned toward him.
They had pretended not to see the woman, but at the mention of a key, their eyes lit up and darted about.
This was the final stage. Whoever collected all ten keys would win the grand prize of one billion Beli.
All four crowded around. One of them even deliberately shoved Ye Chen aside.
"Miss, I'm Robbie, captain of the Hum Ha Pirates. Tell me where it is, and I'll help you."
"That's right. You need help, and our captain has a kind heart. He'll save you."
"You won't hurt me, will you?"
The woman stopped crying and looked at Robbie and the others with hope in her eyes.
"Of course not," Robbie said with a hearty laugh. "You look badly hurt. We need to get