The device implanted inside their bodies had been remotely activated the instant they were captured.
Chen Siyao crouched beside the bodies, her expression grim.
Yang Wanqing laughed without a care. "Yaoyao, your method didn't work either."
"...I smashed their mouths to pieces," she muttered. "Who could've guessed they had bombs inside them instead of poison?"
She stood and brushed the dust off her knees.
"Have I been watching too many movies?"
In the livestream, those words, paired with her slightly aggrieved, frustrated expression, instantly changed the tone of the scrolling comments.
[Hahahahahahaha]
[Yaoyao is so adorable]
[She's still cracking jokes at a time like this]
[She smashed their mouths, but they were using high-tech stuff. I'm dying]
[It's the twenty-first century, sis. Who still bites down on poison? Hahahaha]
Amusing as it was, Chen Siyao felt anything but relaxed.
These people...were well trained, well equipped, and implanted with remotely controlled lethal devices. They weren't ordinary mercenaries or adventurers.
These were government operatives.
Which government?
She took out her phone and called Han Songyue.
He answered three times faster than usual.
"Miss Chen." Han Songyue's voice carried a suppressed urgency. "We're already aware of the situation—we've been monitoring your livestream the entire time. Our people are on their way. They'll arrive within two minutes."
Two minutes?
Chen Siyao paused. It took at least twenty minutes to reach Island Thirty-Four from the Command Center by speedboat.
Unless—
They'd set out ahead of time.
"You...already knew someone would come?"
Han Songyue fell silent for two seconds.
"We weren't certain. But we had an intelligence warning. So when you landed on the island today, we deployed a rapid-response force in the surrounding waters."
Chen Siyao's heart tightened.
They'd had an intelligence warning but hadn't told her beforehand. Were they using her as bait?
*No.