Cave Refuge

It was only after the members of the Guard Squad on the ships had been killed off by the Daredevil Squad that they would board the deck to finish the job.

The New Faction members were mostly young, and their thoughts were still somewhat naive. After all the Daredevil Squad had boarded the deck, the previously dense gunfire gradually began to disappear.

Deep crimson blood flowed continuously from the deck down into the water below, releasing a very enticing scent that attracted the marine creatures to gather continuously towards this area.

Under normal circumstances, if there were no Companion Spiritual Treasures circling around the big ship, the ship would definitely have been under continuous attack from these marine creatures.

Yet, it was precisely those Companion Spiritual Treasures, belonging to the New Faction members who wanted to attack the big ship, that ironically became the big ship's umbrella, repelling the marine creatures that continuously tried to approach.

Feeling the silence on the deck, the New Faction members still on the Companion Spiritual Treasures looked up somewhat bewilderedly towards the deck.

Normally, if the Guard Squad had emerged victorious, they would have been clearing the corpses of the Daredevil Squad from the deck at this time, the simplest method being to push these bodies straight into the water.

However, there were no bodies being pushed off the deck, which suggested that the Daredevil Squad members sent by them might very well have been the final victors in the fight on the deck.

But then again, if the victors of the battle on the deck were those members of the Daredevil Squad they had sent, then those Daredevil Squad members, having won, should be leaning out from the deck to signal them to board the ship.

Yet, since the last gunshot rang out, significant time had passed with no Daredevil Squad member appearing to report the outcome of the battle.

This situation implied two possibilities; the more optimistic one was that the Daredevil Squad they had sent perished along with the Guard Squad on the ship.

The members left on the deck, who had not yet died due to the fierce battle, were either gravely wounded or exhausted, all laying on the deck.

After all, the New Faction members were very aware of the physical condition of the Daredevil Squad members they had sent out. The frail Daredevil Squad members had just about enough stamina to sustain a fierce fight.

It wasn't that they didn't want to properly feed the Daredevil Squad members, but the space in the Companion Spiritual Treasures was limited. Thus, before starting this battle, they couldn't even manage to provide the Daredevil Squad members with a single meal.

They could only rely on continuously painting a rosy picture, telling them that after winning the battle, there would be ample resources on the ship for them to have a good meal.

Thinking of this, the New Faction members suddenly realized that those Daredevil Squad members they had sent to the deck were very similar to their past selves, reluctantly participating in a nearly fatal operation but it was this very operation that allowed them to turn their lives around.

With this realization, the New Faction members couldn't sit still anymore. Although they had turned their lives around using this method and achieved their current status, they didn't want their servants to have the same opportunity to turn their lives around as they once had.

After all, having known privilege, they did not want to go back to their ordinary lives.

At this moment, the New Faction members looked at each other, confirming their thoughts. To prevent those Daredevil Squad members who had boarded the deck from getting a chance to turn their lives around, they immediately used the ropes to climb onto the deck.

As they climbed onto the deck using the ropes, the sight of dead bodies all over made them shudder. Although the number of Old Faction members they had killed in the past surpassed the number of corpses on the deck,

the battles they fought hadn't created such a bloody scene. Although they were somewhat unaccustomed when they first encountered it, since they had all personally been on the battlefield, they quickly adjusted.

Just as they were preparing to search the deck for any survivors, a continuous barrage of gunfire suddenly struck down the New Faction members who had just boarded the deck.

As the mastermind behind this battle, those New Faction members died even more easily than the Daredevil Squad members who desperately boarded the ship.

Those people couldn't have imagined that the reason the Guard Squad members hadn't immediately pushed the corpses on the deck into the water was because at the beginning, they had kicked the Daredevil Squad members boarding the ship off the deck with their feet.

They used guns not because they feared the increasing number of Daredevil Squad members boarding the deck, but because after kicking so many of them, they gradually became exhausted and thus resorted to firearms.

After they had killed all the Daredevil Squad members who had boarded the deck, their first action wasn't to clear the battlefield but to sit down and rest.

However, the Guard Squad members, experienced in combat, remained highly vigilant while resting since they couldn't immediately clear the battlefield due to fatigue, and for this reason, they couldn't be sure if any of the bodies lying on the ground were people feigning death out of fear.

Because of this, they remained extremely cautious and observed their surroundings while resting, and had already detected those New Faction members approaching the deck.

For this reason, the Guard Squad members preemptively hid and waited until the New Faction members boarded the deck to deliver a lethal strike.

Those New Faction members couldn't have imagined that their deaths, despite experiencing many major events, would be so sloppy at this moment.

The Guard Squad members didn't realize that this batch of people boarding the deck were the masterminds behind this battle; they initially thought those individuals were the second wave of attackers.

After all, these individuals wore clean clothes and all held firearms, but from their appearance, their attire was almost identical to that of the ship's Guard Squad members.

In their eyes, the real masterminds should be like their leader, wearing splendid attire and appearing only after the battle was completely over to finalize matters.

They would never have guessed that the supposed second wave of attackers they thought they had dealt with were actually the organizers of the ambush.

Having fought what was a relatively fierce battle, the Guard Squad members couldn't have imagined that it would end with zero casualties on their side.

Only when a member of the Guard Squad cautiously peeked from the deck, ensuring no others were on those Companion Spiritual Treasures, and boldly climbed up the ropes to the Companion Spiritual Treasures to confirm that only some women were left, could they ascertain that the war had ended.

Looking at those women in tattered clothing inside the Companion Spiritual Treasures, a green gleam appeared in the eyes of the Guard Squad members.

Yet, even though their greed surfaced, they did not pounce on them indiscriminately but first took those women up to the deck and then scoured the Companion Spiritual Treasures for goods.

Then they ordered the surrounding Guard Squad members to supervise these women while pushing all the corpses from the deck into the water and cleaning up the deck.

Only after reconfirming that the battle was over did he enter the cabin to report to the house chief the causes and effects of the recent battle, as well as the spoils they had gathered after the battle.

As the cultivating house chief listened to the report from the Guard Squad Captain, he pondered for a moment and then said, "Hand over seventy percent of the gathered resources, and you can freely distribute the remaining thirty percent.

As for those women, you pick three first, captains pick two each, and members pick one each. If there are any left, send them to the pacification room.

As for the women you have chosen, the family will provide supplies according to the minimum living standards in the future. Your performance this time was commendable, and the family rewards you with the treatment of a legal wife. Once you find a woman you like and bring her into the family, the family will provide living supplies according to the treatment level of a legal wife."