An icy command rang out over the fleet's communications channel.
Out on the sea.
Several destroyers and frigates changed course.
The guns on their bows slowly raised their barrels, taking aim at the distant speedboat, which had nearly shrunk to a tiny black speck.
The covers of their vertical missile launch systems slowly opened, revealing rows of missiles that gleamed with the promise of death.
Up in the sky.
Several military helicopters rapidly climbed higher. The cannons beneath their noses began spinning up, while the rockets mounted on either side were readied for launch.
A vast net of death, woven from steel and fire, spread open in an instant and closed in on the speedboat carrying Yue Xiaofei and the others!
On the speedboat.
"Beep! Beep! Beep-"
Shrill alarms suddenly blared frantically from Han Duoduo's tablet.
On the screen, countless red targeting boxes locked firmly onto the green dot representing their speedboat.
"Xiaofei, we're in trouble!"
Han Duoduo's expression changed instantly, her pretty face turning grave.
"These Japanese bastards have no shame! They've locked onto us!"
Her cheeks puffed up with anger. "They just swore an oath, and now they're turning on us! Their words aren't worth a damn!"
"Fuck! I actually called it!"
Wild Chicken couldn't help cursing too. "These bastards don't keep their word at all!"
The tension aboard the speedboat instantly reached breaking point.
They had expected the other side might go back on its word, but not this quickly or this brazenly!
Facing a combined land, sea, and air strike from an entire modern fleet, their tiny speedboat was like a lone skiff in raging waves, liable to be torn to pieces at any moment.
Yet Yue Xiaofei, the man at the center of it all, showed not the slightest hint of panic.
He simply