"Can you get them to release Lawiye?" Petru's eyes lit up with a hint of expectation at Su Huilan's promise, but he quickly shook his head. "No, impossible. The Arabia won't let me go, nor will they let her go."
He had once been a mercenary in France and later helped the France government resolve a hostage crisis. The France government publicly pressured Egypt to release Lawiye, and even with the covert assistance of the US and Britain, they still couldn't persuade the Egypt government. Petru didn't believe that this woman could do something that even several major powers couldn't.
Su Huilan said, "I know some influential people in Egypt. And this friend of mine—" She pointed to Qingmu, "He holds a very important position at the United Nations. We are confident that we can get the Egypt government to release Lawiye."
Petru looked at the two strange people in front of him with suspicion—a man with Crow perched on his head and a woman holding a cat in her arms.
"What if they refuse to let go?" he asked.
"Then we'll go to Egypt and help you rescue her," Su Huilan said.
When Qingmu first heard Su Huilan say she knew high-ranking figures in Egypt, he thought it was true. But when she talked about her influential position at the United Nations, he knew she was talking nonsense. Only her claim of "going to Egypt to rescue people" could be true; that was probably Su Huilan's real plan.
Qingmu felt he understood this woman less and less. Was she really a university professor? Had she come to the South Pacific to assist in the investigation of the research vessel? Why did she immediately seek out the pirate Petru, and why did she know so much about him?
Petru clearly didn't believe Su Huilan's nonsense, which was meant to fool a three-year-old. Judging from Qingmu's strange appearance, he had nothing to do with the United Nations. Besides, why would someone with such an important position in the United Nations come to this island alone?
However, he became interested in the plan to rescue people in Egypt. He hadn't heard from Lawiye for a long time since he was forced to leave the Gulf of Aden. In the past, Lawiye's well-being depended on the success of Redbeard's business. The greater Redbeard's fearsome reputation, the less they dared to do anything to Lawiye.
Petru didn't know if, after his escape, those corrupt Egypt government officials would take their hatred for him back on Lawiye. He Lawiye and thought every day about how to rescue his beloved woman. But now he was struggling to survive himself, let alone save anyone.
He could already sense the energy emanating from the two people in front of him. Putting the woman aside, the strangely dressed man and the Crow on his head— the Mental Power and skill they had just unleashed were truly terrifying.
Petru once thought that no matter how strong one's Mental Power was, it was no match for modern weapons. Even the mental expert at sea, in his opinion, was only someone with a keen intuition for danger who could predict and dodge sniper bullets, but he still died from torpedo and rocket attacks.
However, the man before him not only didn't dodge, but instead charged towards the bullets, as if the bullets had no effect on him, and Petru's unerring marksmanship suddenly failed him. When the man rushed close to him, the powerful mental pressure shocked Petru.
Petru had long considered that if the Pastor were still alive, he and the Pastor could lead an elite special forces team, prepare for six months in advance, find an inside contact, and there was a possibility of rescuing someone from Cairo prison. The man in front of him was obviously much stronger than the Pastor, and with the help of people like them, they might really be able to rescue Lawiye.
"How can I trust you?" Petru asked.
"I was also struggling with this issue before, how could I get you to believe me? But now that's no longer an issue," Su Huilan said with a smile. "Since you are also Awakened, you should understand that the subconscious doesn't lie. We can have an open and honest subconscious dialogue and agreement, in your dreams, in mine, or..."
She glanced at Qingmu, then suddenly remembered he was a dreamless person. Realizing there was no one else present who could dream, she swallowed her words, stroking the soft fur of the cat in her arms, and said, "Whatever you want!"
Petru knew the woman's suggestion was reasonable. In his subconscious state, although he had nowhere to hide his secret and was likely to expose his last means of survival, she also couldn't deceive him without applying mental pressure. If she wanted to deliberately create illusions and delusions, she could just hypnotize him directly; why go through all that trouble? He believed that what the Pastor could do back then, these two could do even more easily.
Petru was unsure whether the woman had any other motives or schemes, so he remained silent.
Entering his own dream meant that all his memories could be retrieved at any time, but entering a woman's dream was like entering her territory, which made him uneasy. After weighing his options for a while, Petru saw the cat in the woman's arms, his eyes lit up, and he said:
"Let it dream about you."
A master can enter another's dream, a fact the Pastor had demonstrated to him countless times and had even taken him to experience. The Pastor had said that animals also possess Mental Power, and that some animals, like felines, have incredibly sharp and powerful Mental Power. When Tiger pounces, the spiritual aura it exudes surpasses that of most humans and animals; sometimes, when prey is directly subjected to this spiritual suppression, it even forgets to run away and stands there obediently awaiting its death.
They had used mental manipulation to control some animals in the jungle, but the Pastor had never said that humans could hypnotize and enter the dreams of animals. When Petru saw the cat, he suddenly had this idea and said it, then laughed triumphantly, just like when he gave a difficult question to the top student in his class.
Su Huilan hadn't expected Petru to make such a request, and could only look to Qingmu for help. "Is it alright?"
After all, Hanran is Qingmu's cat, so whether or not it can enter Hanran's dream requires Qingmu's approval. Moreover, Su Huilan had long seen that Hanran, like the Boss Coal, possessed extraordinary skills and was not an ordinary pet.
Seeing Qingmu nod, she smiled slightly at Petru and said, "Okay."
When Petru heard Su Huilan agree so readily, he was stunned. The pleasure he had just felt from teasing the top student vanished instantly, replaced by a deep sense of resentment and disappointment. The problem that he considered unsolvable had been solved by the top student in just two seconds.
However, before Petru could process his emotions, his vision blurred for a moment. Everything else seemed unchanged, except that the fat orange cat in Su Huilan's arms had suddenly disappeared.
And on the highest rock in the center of the Tapu, crouched a white cat, pure Ruxue, with no other color except for its pink lips and jewel-like eyes.