Just as Jasper and Dean were planning out
how to take Gale down, far away on the
endless open sea of the Atlantic Ocean.
A huge fully-loading cruise ship was
mooring on the sea. There were no waves
on the calm sea, as extremely thick black
smoke rose from this huge vessel.
The black smoke first poured out of the
warehouse before the fire spread instantly
within a few breaths.
When the crew on the ship saw the fire,
they were shocked.
They knew that the ship was full of rubber.
Rubber was a flammable substance, and
once it burned, it would immediately
release toxic smoke.
A cruise ship full of rubber was on fire on
the vast sea, so it meant that they had
almost no means of escaping.
Although these crew members had tried
their best to put out the fire, the fire still
relentlessly devoured everything it could
reach.
With that, it took only more than ten
minutes for the heavy smoke to turn into
open flames, after which, it took only half
an hour for the fire to immediately devour
the whole ship.
There were screams and cries for help
everywhere. This huge cruise ship
transformed into a huge fireball as it
undulated on the sea.
If one could look down from a higher
vantage point, they would find that it was
not just this ship that had caught on fire.
Several more ships nearly were also
caught on fire.
These ships all shared one similar
characteristic.
They were the fleet belonging to the
Boyles in Harbor City, and the goods on
them were the supplied goods
accumulated by the King of Rubber, the
Atticus family over the past six months.
The fire was still burning, and when the
news reached Sawyer, he had just fallen
asleep.
Because of the stress during this period, Sawyer would turn off his mobile phone while he was sleeping. If there was something urgent, they would contact him through Fabian.
Sawyer figured there was still about four t o five hours till the opening, so he could take a nap. The moment he lay down, he bolted right up from being shocked by the rapid knocking on the door.
“Dad, it’s me, open the door! We’re in trouble!”
After hearing Fabian’s voice outside the door, Sawyer quickly got up and put on his slippers to open the door immediately.
“What’s up?”
Seeing Fabian’s face full of panic and anxiety, Sawyer, who was originally enraged by Fabian’s impatience, also had a bad premonition. Thus, he asked immediately.
“Dad, I just received the news from Harbor City that our goods were all burned in a fire at sea! It was 4 million tons of rubber!”
This short sentence turned Sawyer red.
“Bullsh*t! There are 7 ships, each of which is only hundreds of thousands of tons, even if one caught fire… Did they all catch on fire?”
Fabian panted heavily and said, “All seven ships were caught in the fire. When I got the news, two of them had sunk. The 4 million tons were either burned out or are now at the bottom of the sea as fish food. Dad, what should we do? The family is in a mess now!”
Sawyer’s eyes widened. At this moment, h e only felt that he was short of breath. He could feel some blood stuck in his throat and he could not swallow or spit it out. Then, his vision turned black and he became lightheaded. He could not even stand up straight anymore.
