Shen Ximan staggered to her feet, propping herself against the side wall. Limping back, her muscles ached and felt weak, and her head was so heavy that she seemed to be short of oxygen.
There were a total of four timed bombs buried in the corridor. Three of them had already exploded. She had to make it back to the deck before the countdown of the last bomb ended! Otherwise, her life would be lost here.
"Cough, cough. Ming Han... Ming..."
Seeing that she was less than a hundred meters away from the gangway ladder, she suddenly heard a woman's voice, and it wasn't far from her.
Shen Ximan turned on the flashlight on her phone and squinted to find the source of the sound.
Tian Danni was leaning against the wall with one hand and touching her neck with the other.
She looked so weak and pitiful, on the verge of death.
"Run!"
After Shen Ximan recognized who it was, she forced herself to run over with her exhausted body. She grabbed the woman's hand and ran towards the gangway ladder.
While running, she sent out an emergency signal on her phone.
Xue Xiaoqi received it quickly.
She, Qian Li, Bo Jingyu and others were taking refuge on the deck.
"Quick! Open the door!"
"No!"
Hao Zhibin blocked the door before her and roared fiercely.
"That damned brute is still down there. We can't open the door!"
"President Wen is down there! There's only one minute left for the last timed bomb. If you don't open the door, she won't be able to come back!"
Xue Xiaoqi lost control of her emotions and punched and kicked him, tears streaming down her face.
"Can you guarantee that Bo Siming won't be following her? Can you?"
She immediately fell silent, her lips trembling.
"Open the door, right now!"
Bo Jingyu had been holding back ever since Hao Zhibin pulled him back. Every second on the deck was torture for him.
"Second Young Master! Was all my persuasion just in vain?"
He pleaded with a pained expression, "President Wen will surely find a way to solve this. She will come back alive! But this is the only chance to take down Bo Siming today. We can't let all our efforts go to waste!"
Qian Li protected Xue Xiaoqi behind him and stared at Hao Zhibin coldly.
"There are many ways to take him down. There's no need to sacrifice other people's lives! I just counted the number of people. Everyone except those involved in the play has successfully left the yacht to take refuge."
"Now Zhong Ruiqiang, Shen Shiyu and Tian Danni haven't come out yet. Do you want them to be buried with him?"
Bo Jingyu grabbed Hao Zhibin back forcefully with red eyes.
"If this plan fails, we can try again next time. But that woman only has one life. If anything happens to her, I won't forgive you."
Hao Zhibin was still reluctant.
Even though his mind was being changed by these people pushing and shoving around him, he really couldn't reverse the situation now.
"It's too late, Second Young Master."
"What do you mean?" Xue Xiaoqi's tears fell one by one. She grabbed his collar and shouted angrily, "What else did you do? Tell me!"
Bo Jingyu was completely stunned when he saw the door of the gangway ladder.
The lock on the door had been tampered with and couldn't be opened at all.
"You son of a bitch!"
He turned around and punched Hao Zhibin.
"How is she supposed to come back? How?"
"Second Young Master, just kill me. Bo Siming must die here today! As long as our goal is achieved, I don't mind dying!"
Bo Jingyu was so angry that his whole body was trembling uncontrollably. He punched harder and harder.
The people around didn't stop him. They were all trying to open the door.
"Woohoo, President Wen, President Wen!"
Xue Xiaoqi kept tugging at the doorknob, pulling and prying.
Several of her fingernails were broken off, and blood was flowing down through her fingers.
"Calm down! Look at your hands!"
Qian Li pulled her back painfully.
"President Wen is still inside. Please... please save her!"
Xue Xiaoqi grabbed his arm weakly with her legs giving way. She was crying so hard that she could hardly catch her breath, and her whole body was so cold that she had no feeling.
He couldn't bear to watch anymore and punched her in the abdomen.
"Sorry. You can beat and scold me when you wake up."
The pain in her abdomen made her lose consciousness and she fainted.
Qian Li placed her body in a safe place and then rushed back.
"Second Master! We should think of a way to open the door quickly now!"
Bo Jingyu looked at Hao Zhibin, who was beaten to a pulp, and gasped for breath weakly. The mist of tears in his eyes showed his despair.
"How? Tell me, how?"
There were only emergency life jackets and thick ropes on the deck. There were no tools at all that could pry open the lock. Seeing that there was less than a minute left on the countdown of the timed bomb, he was more anxious than anyone else.
But he was helpless.
"Shen Ximan's greatest misfortune in this life was meeting me."
This was the first time Qian Li saw Bo Jingyu cry.
"I couldn't protect her during the cooperation meeting last time. Now at this critical moment, I'm still helpless. I'm really useless."
Just when he was in great pain and was about to die with Shen Ximan at any time, he saw the axe standing beside the cabin.
Bang, bang, bang. The door of the gangway ladder was being knocked hard.
"Open the door. Is anyone there? Open the door!"
Shen Ximan was shouting anxiously, dragging the almost unconscious Tian Danni with her.
Hearing the noise, Qian Li immediately ran over to respond.
"There's something wrong with the lock. We can't open it for the time being! We're thinking of a way. Do you have any tools there?"
She searched around like a headless chicken but found nothing.
"Get out of the way!"
Bo Jingyu rushed over with the axe and hacked at the lock hard.
"Man'er, I'll come and save you right away!"
At this moment, Shen Ximan realized how stupid her actions were.
The plan between her and him was just to weaken the funds in Bo Siming's hands and find evidence through the transfer records to blackmail Zhong Ruiqiang.
As long as he could turn himself in, he would confess Bo Siming.
But hatred was like a wild thorn, firmly pulling out the dark side of her. All she wanted was to torture Bo Siming until he couldn't move.
Make him live a life worse than death, make him unable to struggle.
Only then could Shen Ximan relieve her hatred.
But she was wrong. She didn't expect so many things to happen later.
She didn't expect that other people would be involved.
"Jingyu, I'm sorry... Maybe this is all my fate."
"Don't say such things. I don't like to hear them!"
Bo Jingyu was still hacking at the lock with the axe.
The lock was starting to loosen.
Qian Li nervously watched the countdown on Xue Xiaoqi's phone.
There were only thirty seconds left.
"It's all my own fault. Don't waste your efforts."
Shen Ximan looked at Tian Danni, who was lying unconscious on one side, and felt extremely guilty. "I may not be able to take care of An Ruo, and I won't be able to apologize to Grandpa in person."
There was not much time left on the countdown of the fourth timed bomb. She couldn't get out. Maybe it was good this way. The earlier she experienced it, the earlier she could be free.
"I told you not to say it. Did you hear me!"
There was a sob in Bo Jingyu's voice. "Hold on. I said I could save you out, and I will!"
She smiled faintly and bitterly. "It's this time and you're still ordering me?"
"I'm not your wife. Don't be so self - indulgent."