Chapter 54: Rescue Arrives

Lin Feng, however, shook his head with a sneer. "Hehe, go ahead, by all means, go!"

This was because he saw that He Tiantian, despite saying she was going to tell Wang Mengru the truth, had turned around and ultimately not chased after Wang Mengru at all.

He knew she was only using this as a threat to force him to submit and act like a loyal lapdog.

Or rather, it was a test to see if he would cower in fear after witnessing the strength of Wang Mengru and Ye Tian.

Therefore, he had to appear utterly fearless, completely disregarding Wang Mengru.

Hearing his words, He Tiantian really did lose her nerve and stood there, frozen in place.

Lin Feng chuckled inwardly and decided to provoke her further. "What are you standing there for? Didn't you say you were going to tell her the truth? Why aren't you going?"

Losing even more of her courage, He Tiantian pouted and said, "Lin Feng, don't be so arrogant. The fact that Wang Mengru made it to this deserted island proves that our shipwreck has already attracted the attention of the authorities."

"In just three days, another shipwreck happening in the exact same spot will definitely draw the highest level of official attention. It won't be long before we can leave this place."

Lin Feng wore a smile that didn't reach his eyes.

Judging by He Tiantian's words, she intended to call the police and have him arrested the moment they got back!

In his mind, he had already decided to use He Tiantian as the blade to eliminate Wang Mengru.

Lin Feng then quickly strode forward to catch up with Wang Mengru.

He still needed to verify another suspicion of his.

Directly addressing her, he asked, "Wang Mengru, did the three of you survivors salvage any supplies? Is your phone still working? Can we contact the outside world and have someone rescue us from this deserted island?"

"As you can see, there isn't even a lighthouse here. It's completely barren, devoid of human presence, and severely lacking in survival supplies."

"Otherwise, Young Master Wang wouldn't have made such a massive sacrifice, asking us to strip everything of value from his body before casting his corpse into the sea."

Wang Mengru immediately pulled a phone out of her trouser pocket, encased in a waterproof plastic bag—presumably dropped by one of the women in swimwear.

He Tiantian hurried over. Seeing that the phone had not been damaged by seawater, she grew excited and eagerly asked, "Sister Mengru, is this phone working? You must have already contacted the outside world to come and rescue us, right?"

Wang Mengru replied, "The phone is indeed intact, but unfortunately, it's an Apple phone, not a state-of-the-art Huawei phone, so it can't be used as a satellite phone. And since there's no signal on this island, I tried for a long time, but the battery—which was already below fifty percent—is now almost dead, and I still couldn't get through to the outside world."

Hearing this, Lin Feng smiled to himself.

Heh!

Just as he had anticipated.

There was no signal on this deserted island, meaning that even a functioning phone could not transmit a distress signal.

To further verify his suspicions, he asked again, "Wang Mengru, do you remember what happened when the shipwreck occurred?"

"I saw the luxury cruise ship you were on charging toward us frantically, with no intention of slowing down whatsoever, as if it didn't even notice this island."

"Although this island lacks a lighthouse, it was already dawn by then, so surely it couldn't have been completely invisible?"

Wang Mengru froze at these words, looking utterly astonished.

Seeing this, Lin Feng couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

He Tiantian looked at her as well.

She found Lin Feng's words deeply unsettling, yet she was forced to admit that today's cruise ship accident was bizarre in the extreme.

If this meant they might be trapped on this island for the rest of their lives, it was something she simply could not accept.

She desperately hoped to hear a different answer from Wang Mengru.

Instead, Wang Mengru looked toward Ye Tian, who was standing ahead of them, and said, "He has been telling me all along that this shipwreck is very strange."

"Because when the disaster happened, he was doing his morning exercises at the bow of the ship, yet he saw no island ahead of them before the vessel suddenly struck a reef and exploded."

"Even after he was thrown overboard by the impact, he still couldn't see an island anywhere around here."

"Otherwise, considering the distance from the shipwreck site to this deserted island is less than two kilometers, many of the sailors would have been completely confident in swimming over."

"Even if there were sharks in the water, they would still have had that confidence."

"I used to find it hard to believe what he said, but now it seems the reality really is this bizarre."

Huh?

He Tiantian was completely dumbfounded, her mind going blank.

She had thought Lin Feng's words were already bizarre enough.

She never expected Wang Mengru's description to be even more uncanny.

Reluctant to believe it and entirely unable to accept it, she blurted out, "Did Ye Tian make a mistake? If that's the case, how on earth did you people end up on this island?"

Wang Mengru spread her hands and said, "I have no idea. When the cruise ship hit the reef, it was only six in the morning, and I was still asleep."

"When I finally woke up, I was already lying on the beach of this deserted island."

"I also found Aunt Luo lying right beside me, nearly drowning, so I hurriedly performed CPR and managed to revive her."

"Thinking about it now, the fact that Aunt Luo survived is also extremely strange."

"Because she doesn't even know how to swim."

"I completely fail to understand how she managed to make it onto the island alive."

"And then there's Li Hao. Although he knows how to swim, with his frail physique, would it really have been easy for him to swim all the way here?"

"Not to mention the sharks."

"I imagine he would have been scared to death just at the sight of a shark, wouldn't he?"

After hearing Wang Mengru out, He Tiantian staggered back a few steps before collapsing weakly onto the ground.

She shook her head continuously, muttering, "No, this is impossible, this deserted island can't be this bizarre, this isn't real, it isn't real! I don't want to be trapped on this desolate island for the rest of my life!"

Lin Feng, however, nodded inwardly.

It was now certain that this deserted island was every bit as strange and uncanny as he had imagined.

They might never have a chance to leave.

As for the matter of killing Wang Xingyu, it instantly ceased to weigh on his mind at all.

Even if someone were to tell Wang Mengru the truth, it wouldn't bother him in the slightest.

The reason he had been so decisive in killing Wang Xingyu in the first place was precisely because he had already sensed the peculiar and eerie nature of this island.

Wang Mengru walked over, wrapped her arms around He Tiantian, and comforted her. "You don't need to be too sad. Although this island is filled with strange phenomena and leaving it will be difficult..."

"Your previous shipwreck already drew the highest level of attention from the authorities, prompting them to dispatch massive search-and-rescue teams for survivors. Now that our accident has happened as well, it will undoubtedly draw even greater official focus."

"I believe the authorities will definitely find a way to rescue us."

He Tiantian remained silent, her mind racing. *The authorities dispatched massive forces to search for three whole days, trying every conceivable method, and yet they couldn't find us or rescue us—doesn't that mean they can't do anything?*

Whoosh... Whoosh...

Just at that moment, the sound of a helicopter suddenly echoed from the sky above.

Wang Mengru's face lit up with joyful laughter. "Haha, look, He Tiantian! Isn't that a helicopter flying over the deserted island to rescue us?"

"The people in the helicopter must have spotted the smoke Cheng Xiangyu generated in the cave and are preparing to drop ropes and rope ladders nearby to save us."

"Let's hurry over there!"

Huh?

He Tiantian froze in pleasant shock.

She had just been thinking the previous second that the authorities had spent three days trying every possible means without success and that she shouldn't hold out any hope, only for a rescue helicopter to appear in the skies above the island the very next second.

Wryly...

Lin Feng was also stunned in astonishment.

Could it be that this bizarre deserted island had no effect on aerial rescue operations?

Had his act of killing Wang Xingyu truly been a miscalculation, a reckless impulse?