A ship approached, flying a fluttering Bald Eagle flag.
A ship from Meixing Country!
Auge and Su Mei lit up with delight and swiftly rode the Manta Ray toward the ship.
Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian immediately followed.
Several Espers from Meixing Country emerged on deck.
"Quick, we have the Sea God Spear! These people are trying to take it back! Save us!" Auge shouted urgently.
Seeing them, the Meixing Country Espers immediately lowered a rope ladder and brought the two aboard.
By the time Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian caught up, it was too late.
"What are Meixing Country Espers doing here?" Lin Qianqian frowned.
They were only a little over a hundred nautical miles from Xia Country's coastline.
Although this was already outside Xia Country's territorial waters.
Espers from other countries rarely appeared here.
Especially aboard a ship openly flying Meixing Country's flag.
That meant this was not simply a ship belonging to someone from Meixing Country.
It was a ship owned by Meixing Country's Esper Bureau!
Only a country's Esper Bureau could fly its national flag aboard a ship!
"You actually defected to Meixing Country?" Zhou Fan immediately understood.
Auge and Su Mei had clearly thrown in their lot with Meixing Country!
They were from Xia Country, yet they had defected to Meixing Country.
Utterly shameless!
"Don't misunderstand. I never said I was from Xia Country." Auge sneered.
"I've always been from Meixing Country. I just grew up in Xia Country."
Suddenly, everything clicked for Zhou Fan.
From the start, he had felt something strangely familiar about Auge.
Whether it was his use of Blood Eye techniques or his ability to heal completely even after his heart was pierced or his arm severed.
In essence, those abilities bore a striking resemblance to the abilities of Meixing Country's