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Chapter 141: A New Beginning

Chapter 141: A New Beginning

The woman with long hair and covered in blood, floating under the sea, was pale and surrounded by a green glow. Many marine creatures like fish, shrimp, and turtles, attracted by this light, swarmed around her in groups, neither rising nor sinking. If Hu Li were here, he would surely recognize this person as Hua Yan. Upon closer inspection, the dragon-phoenix jade pendant originally hanging around Hua Yan's neck was now missing.

At this point, Hua Yan had drifted far from the city of Outer Sea, thousands of miles away, and continued to drift towards the notorious Golden Triangle. Wrapped in the green glow, she remained adrift in the deep sea, her presence invisible from the surface.

Days passed with the celestial bodies shifting above. On the sixteenth day, the glow surrounding Hua Yan's body suddenly faded to invisibility. As the light faded into her body, Hua Yan's form emerged on the sea surface.

On an old vessel, surrounded by seven or eight dark-skinned individuals with obscured features, stood guard. If one were to lift their garments, old or relatively new firearms would be visible at their waists.

"Brother Qiang, there's something unusual on the sea surface," a man in his thirties, scarred like a centipede on his left cheek, with bright and sharp eyes that suggested both agility and ruthlessness, reported respectfully to a scholarly-looking man in his late thirties, known as Brother Qiang.

Setting aside his book titled "Godfather," Brother Qiang asked, "What strange thing, Ma Zi?"

Ma Zi quickly recounted what he had observed before Brother Qiang interrupted with a hint of displeasure in his gentle eyes, his voice lowered, "Ma Zi, has your brain been filled with semen? Fish eating a dead person isn't worth your excitement."

Brother Qiang was in good spirits after a successful drug deal, but that didn't mean he could tolerate foolish behavior from his subordinates. He cherished these peaceful days more than beautiful women.

Ma Zi shrank his neck and hastily explained, "No, Brother Qiang, it's just that the fish are merely surrounding the person, not eating her. It's the first time something like this has happened, very strange, so I thought I should inform Brother Qiang."

Brother Qiang remained silent, his eyes unreadable. After a few seconds, he stood up and walked out, following Ma Zi's lead. He looked at the person drifting about ten meters away, surrounded quietly by fish.

"Bring that person up," Brother Qiang finally ordered.

Ma Zi promptly arranged for skilled swimmers to retrieve the person. One adept swimmer brought Hua Yan towards the vessel, dispersing the fish that had surrounded her upon their sudden appearance, causing brief chaos before they settled down again.

"Is she dead?" Ma Zi asked while helping pull Hua Yan aboard.

"Her body is limp, doesn't seem like a corpse," the swimmer replied.

Brother Qiang now stood beside Hua Yan, examining her frozen, bruised body and tattered clothes. Frowning deeply, he murmured to himself or perhaps in response to Ma Zi's query, "Possibly." He couldn't ascertain how long this woman had been adrift in the sea.

Soon after, a crisply feminine voice murmuring something softly entered the room, followed shortly by its entrance. Curly-haired, dark-skinned, flirtatious, and in her late twenties, a woman stepped in. Behind her trailed a slightly black-skinned, delicate-looking man in his thirties, carrying a small medicine box in his hands.

Upon seeing Brother Qiang, Ah Jin immediately nestled into his embrace. Her melodious voice rang out like a nightingale, "Brother Qiang, I heard you've fished up a beauty from the sea." Her tone carried a hint of jealousy.

Although Ma Zi dared not linger his gaze on Ah Jin, he still couldn't help but gulp several mouthfuls of saliva with his head down. In fact, he had accidentally stumbled upon Ah Jin and Brother Qiang's intimate moments several times. Despite Ah Jin's dark complexion, her devilishly curvaceous figure was irresistible to any man.

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Brother Qiang pushed aside Ah Jin and instructed the silent Ah Shui standing in the room, "Check if the person on the bed can be saved. If not, throw her back into the sea to feed the fish, so we don't waste our efforts."

"Brother Qiang, aren't you showing some tenderness for this delicate beauty? Let me help this sister change out of these soaking wet clothes," Ah Jin had just been speaking with Brother Qiang, glancing at Hua Yan on the bed. Ah Jin felt that the person on the bed had particularly elastic skin, paired with a delicate face that she didn't care for.

She wanted to use the opportunity of changing clothes to delay her treatment time, hoping that there would be no medicine to save her in the end. Unfortunately, Brother Qiang's warning gaze silenced her and he scolded Ah Shui, "What are you standing around for? Get to checking."

Everyone in the room shivered. Ah Shui didn't speak and began checking Hua Yan at the bedside. Half an hour later, Ah Shui told Brother Qiang, "Her body is just frostbitten. With good care, she should recover soon."

Brother Qiang's expression remained unchanged as he glanced at the person on the bed, saying to Ah Jin, "Go change her clothes and replace the wet bedding. Ma Zi, Ah Shui, come with me."

Ma Zi's dirty thoughts were immediately shattered by Brother Qiang's call. Once out of the room, Brother Qiang asked Ah Shui, "Do you need any medications?"

"No, just glucose and anti-inflammatory medicine will do," Brother Qiang relaxed his brow upon hearing this. If the medicine was scarce, he was likely to dump the person back into the sea.

"Is the quantity of these medicines on the ship enough?"

Ah Shui thought for a moment and said, "Buy another box just to be safe."

"Ma Zi, go to the hospital in town and buy these two medicines. Be back before dark."

After sending off Ma Zi, Brother Qiang turned to Ah Shui again, "Do you see how she got injured and where she's from?"

Ah Shui thought for a moment and replied, "Her body seems to have already been treated, so it's hard to determine how she got injured. As for where she's from, I'm not sure yet, but her bone structure seems to indicate she's from the mainland."

His subordinate's medical skills were excellent. If he hadn't been involved in a medical malpractice case, he wouldn't have fled from the mainland to overseas. The woman had already been treated by someone else, so why did she end up floating in the cold sea, where the winter sea water was colder than ice, yet her body wasn't frozen to death and even her skin remained without a single wrinkle?

And could she really be from the mainland? It was too difficult to verify a person's identity in such a densely populated place.

After thinking for a moment, Brother Qiang gave up the idea of sending someone to the mainland. He had also spent over two years there, where the population was large, and it would be very difficult to thoroughly investigate someone's identity.

He could decide after she returned from the verge of death. At this time, Ah Jin left with a pile of messy clothes and wet bedding.

"Brother Qiang, your room has been occupied. Go rest in my room tonight."

"No need, just put a bamboo bed in my room and arrange that person on the bamboo bed."

In the cold weather, Brother Qiang actually put that woman on the bamboo bed, and Ah Jin was both happy and sad. Brother Qiang was still so cold-blooded, although he looked harmless on the outside.

Afterward, Hua Yan didn't know she had been thrown on the bamboo bed. Several large bottles of glucose flowed into her body every day. When Brother Qiang and his group returned to the power base in the Golden Triangle, she still hadn't woken up.

Her body was becoming more robust, her breathing stronger, and she was no longer in immediate danger.

Back in the mainland, amidst the festive atmosphere of the New Year, news of Hua Yan's uncertain fate was known to only a few. Hu Li decided it was best not to inform Hua Yan's father for now.

Day and night, Hu Li's men and government agents from the Ministry of Public Security searched tirelessly, yet there was no trace of Hua Yan. Everyone was caught between hope and despair.

Hu Li hadn't slept soundly in over ten days. He refused to believe that Hua Yan was truly gone; her presence seemed to have vanished from this adorned world.

After an investigation, Lao Qiao delivered two pieces of news:

The bad news: Hua Yan was indeed on the ship that sank in the open sea.

The good news: The blood found at the scene did not belong to Hua Yan.

When Hu's father was asked about Hua Yan, he skillfully evaded the topic. Meanwhile, after the Cheng family brought Cheng Xiang back to their overseas estate, they withdrew their personnel from the mainland without further action.

Hu Li's team followed the route along the open sea, but the vast expanse of water and subsequent storms made it impossible to find any clues after Hua Yan disappeared. Inquiries in coastal cities, fishing villages, and towns in neighboring countries turned up nothing about a woman being rescued.

Perhaps it was fate; Qiang and his heavily armed drug cartel always kept the seas clear. Any ship seeing their formidable presence would steer clear, leaving no witnesses to Hua Yan's rescue except for Qiang's men.

Qiang strictly ordered his men to keep silent about the rescue. The search for Hua Yan's whereabouts hit a dead end for Hu Li and his team.

Though Lao Yang and Lao Hei had awakened, Fat Da, who brought their meals daily, dared not tell them about Hua Yan. When pressed, he could only say she had gone on a mission.