Chapter 32: Deserted Island Adventure (Part One)

  Lin San didn't know how long he had been swimming, his body was extremely exhausted, and he was about to fall apart.

  "Ugh..." Lin San lightly spat out a mouthful of turbid air, raised his head and looked forward, hoping to see the cruise ship, but Lin San was disappointed. In front of him was a vast expanse of darkness, nothing was visible.

  The temperature of the seawater was getting lower and lower, Lin San felt that the blood in his body was about to stop flowing. The gauze wrapped around his head was also washed away by the sea water. Fortunately, the wound on Lin San's forehead had stopped bleeding, otherwise it would have been a big trouble.

  Lin San felt extremely tired at this time, and his eyelids also became very heavy, which was a manifestation of syncope.

  "No, I can't sleep...can't sleep..." Lin San shook his dizzy head vigorously, knowing that if he really fell asleep, he probably wouldn't wake up again.

  "Whoosh!" A loud crash, a several-meter-high wave heavily slammed onto Lin San's head.

  Lin San's eyes suddenly opened wide, then his head tilted to one side, and he fainted. In the instant before he lost consciousness, Lin San silently cursed: "Damn heaven, you're going to take my life!"

  The cruise ship was in an uproar at this time.

  Zhou Tian learned that Gu Jialan was in danger and immediately reported it to Gu Changfeng.

  Gu Changfeng was shocked upon hearing this and immediately led the security guards in searching around the cruise ship for Gu Jialan.

  Qin Sheng Han heard that Gu Jialan was being held captive and kindly sent his subordinates to help Gu Changfeng find her.

  The cruise ship is neither big nor small, and it's quite difficult to find someone in a short period of time.

  Zhou Tian's eyes widened as he took out his phone to call Li Cong, intending to ask if he had discovered anything. However, the phone rang for a long time without anyone answering. Zhou Tian furrowed his brow and dialed Lin San's number instead, but similarly, no one picked up. At this point, Zhou Tian became somewhat flustered, and without needing to guess, he knew that Li Cong and Lin San had encountered trouble.

  Gu Changfeng dispersed the people and horses, and they went their separate ways to search for Gu Jialan's whereabouts.

  Time passed minute by minute and second by second, but there was still no sign of Gu Jialan.

  Gu Changfeng's anxiety grew more and more, constantly shouting out Gu Jialan's name.

  Gradually, Gu Changfeng and his group arrived at the entrance of the warehouse.

  As soon as Zhou Tian walked into the warehouse, he saw Li Cong lying on the ground and his face changed instantly. He rushed over to support Li Cong, stretched out his hand to check Li Cong's breath, and Zhou Tian breathed a sigh of relief. Li Cong was still breathing and alive.

  At this time, Gu Changfeng led the other security guards in big strides, took a glance at Li Cong who was covered in blood, and his body trembled. He hastily asked Zhou Tian: "How is he?"

  "He's just fainted, no danger to his life." Zhou Tian replied.

  "Search around and see if you can find any news of Jialan." Gu Changfeng instructed the security guards beside him.

  "Yes." The security guards responded in unison and began searching the storage room.

  "Is there a way to wake him up? He probably knows where Jialan is." Gu Changfeng said urgently.

  Zhou Tian nodded: "I'll try." As he spoke, Zhou Tian reached out and pinched Li Cong's philtrum, pressing it twice with force.

  "Cough...cough...cough..." Li Cong coughed violently several times and slowly opened his eyes.

  "Wake up." Zhou Tian's face lit up with joy.

  Gu Changfeng hastily bent down and pressed Li Cong's shoulder with his hand, asking in a warm voice: "Can you still speak?"

  Li Cong glanced at Gu Changfeng and moved his lips: "Gu... ...Chairman Gu..."

  "Do you know where my daughter is?" Gu Changfeng stared tightly at Li Cong's eyes.

  Li Cong took a deep breath: "It should be in this warehouse, Lin San and I just walked into the warehouse when we were ambushed. I was stabbed in the stomach and then beaten unconscious. As for what happened next, I'm not sure... Ah, hurry up and save Lin San, he must be in great danger now...... Cough cough cough..." As he spoke, Li Cong started coughing violently again.

  "Someone's here!" A sudden cry came from inside the storage room.

  Gu Changfeng hastily turned around and walked towards the place where the cry of surprise came from.

  Zhou Tian didn't move because he had to take care of Li Cong.

  Gu Changfeng stared at the two men who were unconscious on the ground, his eyebrows furrowed tightly.

  A security guard checked the injuries of the two men, and his expression immediately became strange: "The lower body of both men... has been severely damaged, estimated..." The security guard didn't finish speaking, but everyone could guess that these two men would become eunuchs from now on.

  "There's blood!" someone shouted from in front of a window.

  Gǔ Chángfēng walked past with big strides, lowered his head to glance at the window, and suddenly discovered a beautiful pendant hanging beside the window. He reached out to take the pendant and examined it carefully for two glances, and his face changed in an instant: "It's Jiǎlán's thing." As he spoke, Gǔ Chángfēng stuck his head out of the window, outside was turbulent sea water, not a single person could be seen.

  "Miss Guo might... fall into the sea..." someone whispered.

  Gu Changfeng's face sank, and he turned to the security guard beside him: "Go, inform the driver to return immediately along the original route and find Jialan."

  "Yes." A security guard nodded and hastily ran out of the warehouse.

  A few minutes later, the cruise ship turned around and started returning along the original route.

  Gu Changfeng led all the security guards and began standing on the deck, carefully gazing out at the sea, from time to time loudly shouting Gu Jialan's name.

  The sky gradually brightened and the rain slowly stopped.

  After searching for an entire night, there was still no sign of Gu Jialan.

  Gǔ Chángfēng stood at the bow of the ship, his face extremely haggard, staring straight ahead at the sea surface, muttering to himself: "Jiālán, where are you, where are you......" At this moment, Gǔ Chángfēng was filled with boundless regret. If he hadn't brought Jiālán to attend this banquet, then Jiālán wouldn't have encountered disaster. Everything, everything was his own fault.

  "Chairman Gu, it's been a whole night and we still can't find any news about Miss Gu. What should we do next?" Zhou Tian had been busy all night and his face didn't look good either.

  "We'll keep searching, and we must find the body if they're dead or the person if they're alive!" Gu Changfeng said word by word.

  "But the sea is so vast, and with just a few of us, we can't possibly take care of it all." Zhou Tian said hesitantly.

  Gu Changfeng hesitated for a moment, took out his mobile phone: "I'll call in a few helicopters to help with the search..." After finishing speaking, he started dialing.

  Qin Shenghan was also very enthusiastic and informed the coast guard, asking them to send someone to search for Gu Jialan's trail on the sea.

  One day passed, two days passed, three days passed...

  Still can't find Gu Jialan.

  Gu Changfeng's heart began to slowly turn cold and cool down.

  Lin San stood on the bank of a wide and vast river, gazing around at his surroundings in astonishment.

  "Where am I?" Lin San muttered to himself.

  "...Shh...shh...shh..." was followed by a faint rustling sound.

  Lin San hastily turned around, and when he saw the situation behind him, cold sweat suddenly flowed down. A huge snake as thick as a water bucket and over ten meters long was staring at him with its eyes fixed on him.

  "My goodness! Where did such a huge snake come from?!" Lin San secretly exclaimed, his footsteps slowly retreating backwards.

  "Hiss!" With a sudden movement, the giant snake's body lunged forward, directly pouncing on Lin San.

  Lin San's face changed color and he turned around and ran away.

  "Slap!" With a loud noise, the snake's tail fiercely struck Lin San's back.

  "Ah!" Lin San let out a miserable cry, his body flying up more than two meters high before heavily crashing onto the hard ground.

  A huge snake slithered over and directly wrapped itself around Lin San's body.

  Lin San was frightened out of his wits and struggled incessantly.

  The giant snake raised its massive head, opened its huge mouth and directly bit towards Lin San's head.

  "No!!!!" Lin San screamed in terror...

  "Bang!" Lin San's head hit something hard, and he gritted his teeth in pain. After taking a few deep breaths, he lifted his head to find himself lying on a sandy beach with a hard rock beside him. He looked around and saw that it was a small island, eerily quiet all around. Where were the giant snakes? Lin San finally realized that it had just been a thrilling nightmare.

  "Phew..." Lin San let out a soft breath, and reached out to touch his chest: "It's good that it was just a dream, my life is still... I didn't fall into the ocean, did I? And get knocked unconscious by the waves... How did I end up here?" As soon as he thought of Gu Jialan, Lin San's spirit lifted, and he jumped up from the sandy beach, "Ah!" Lin San's body swayed, almost falling to the ground again. A sharp pain shot through his shoulder, and when he turned his head, he saw that there were faint bloodstains seeping out of his shoulder. Suddenly, Lin San remembered that in the cargo hold of the cruise ship, his shoulder had been stabbed by a dagger, and the wound was quite deep.

  Lin San slowly regained his strength and began to search for Gu Jialan's trail on the beach. At that time, Lin San clearly remembered that before he fainted, he had been tightly holding onto Gu Jialan. Now that he had been washed up on this beach by the sea water, it was very likely that Gu Jialan was also nearby.

  "Huh?" Lin San suddenly saw a figure lying not far in front of him, and upon closer inspection, it looked like Gu Jialan. Lin San quickly ran over and flipped the person over to take a look, and indeed it was Gu Jialan. At this time, Gu Jialan's face was abnormally pale, his breathing extremely weak, his face and body covered in sand, and there was even a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth.

  "Miss Guo, Miss Guo?" Lin San gently shook Gu Jialan.

  Gujalan's eyes were tightly closed, and he didn't react at all.

  Lin San reached out and touched Gulalan's face: "It's so cool, must have been frozen in the sea." Lin San picked up Gulalan and walked towards the depths of the small island, planning to find a clean place to settle Gulalan.

  The island was not small, and Lin San carried Gu Jialan for half a day without seeing the end. To be strict, this should be a deserted island. Except for some grass, trees, and rocks, no one could be seen at all.

  Finally, Lin San found a cave at the edge of a cliff and carried Gu Jialan inside. He laid her down on a flat surface and covered her with his own jacket.

  The cave was very humid, with a layer of water droplets covering the walls.

  "If only I could start a fire." Lin San furrowed his brow and began to search himself. First, he pulled out a wet mobile phone, looked at it, and found that it was already broken. Then, he took out a handful of change, all stuck together in a soggy mess. He put the money aside and continued searching himself. After a while, Lin San pulled out a palm-sized talisman from his body, which was the War God Talisman drawn by Guangyuanzi. The talisman was dry and undamaged, not even a little bit broken. Lin San smiled wryly to himself, thinking: "Talisman made by gods, indeed has good quality."

  "Ding Dong!" With a clang, something fell out of Lin San's pocket.