"So, you're going to save them?"
He Ao looked at Yang De before him.
"Yes."
Yang De nodded gently.
He Ao now had a rough understanding of what had just happened.
Balan had contacted Yang De through radio and satellite phone, demanding the surrender of the Transcendent items on the cruise ship. If they were not relinquished, he would kill all the hostages on board.
He gave Yang De half an hour to think it over. If Yang De didn't agree, he would kill one person every five minutes until no one was left.
The cruise ship was from Central Earth, and both the tourists and the crew were citizens of Central Earth.
They were using the lives of Central Earth citizens to blackmail the Research Institute into handing over all the Transcendent items recovered from the ruins.
This was no longer a provocation; it was essentially trampling on the Research Institute's face repeatedly.
This was something you couldn't back down from.
