The two boats raced ahead at full speed, their wakes churning white behind their sterns, with two more boats following close behind, one after the other.
The surrounding boats all steered clear at the sight.
They had seen far too many fights at sea lately and knew what to do by now.
Ye Yaodong and the others had been a little nervous at first, but once they opened up the throttles, those bastards couldn't catch them and could only follow at a distance. They immediately relaxed.
"Fuck, I thought they were something special. Bunch of useless scrubs, and they still dared chase us. All they've got going for them is more men aboard."
Father Ye relaxed too and started cursing. "They've got some fucking nerve. That boat at the back clearly doesn't have enough horsepower. It can't even keep up, yet they still act so damned cocky."
"If we'd run into any boats we knew, we'd turn around and get those sons of bitches."
"Head back toward home. We'll be fine once we reach shore. Doesn't look like they can catch us anyway."
"So we just let them chase us all the way back?"
"What else? Aren't they chasing us right now? A sensible man knows when to back down. Just head home. Everything you own is tied up in this boat."
Not necessarily.
They hadn't been running long when Ye Yaodong suddenly noticed that the two boats behind them had become widely separated. Only one was close on their heels, while the other had fallen a long way behind.
They probably hadn't wanted to spend the money on a more powerful engine, which was why they were lagging so far behind.
"Fucking hell... useless trash..."
He shouted toward Xiao Xiao and A-Zheng, whose boat had stayed alongside his, "A-Zheng,