Using bedsheets and clothes soaked in kerosene, Song Ning lit three huge, smoky fires in succession on the side facing Ping Tan Island.
The island was quite far away.
She worried that the strong sea breeze would scatter the smoke and blend it together, making it impossible for anyone to recognize the signal.
Only after she saw all three fires burning fiercely did she turn away.
She headed into the woods.
She had to get back to the cave she had marked as quickly as possible.
If Gu Zheng could see the smoke she had just raised,
then the Third Master's men could see it too.
Worse still, the Third Master's men would almost certainly arrive before Gu Zheng's.
The island was so small that she had covered nearly half of it just setting those fires.
Though the trees on this rocky island grew thickly,
the grass was too short to hide anyone.
What she needed to do now was return to that cave and hunker down until Gu Zheng came to rescue her.
There was no helping it. This was the price she had to pay to show Gu Zheng the way.
All she could do was pray, since the side where she had lit the fires was on the back of the island.
She hoped the people on the other two islands would take a little longer to notice.
It took her nearly another fifteen minutes to find the concealed cave entrance.
She looked around. There were no signs of anyone else yet.
She plunged into the cave.
She hoped Gu Zheng would get there soon.
Meanwhile, when the explosion occurred, the search teams operating throughout Fuqing County all began making discoveries.
Believing their plan had succeeded,
the organization members hiding in every nook and cranny had emerged.