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The searchlight of the ironclad ship shone instantly on Li Jitong's small boat. Under the bright light, Li Jitong and Song Jin'ao could not open their eyes and quickly raised their hands to shield them.

Their small boat had nowhere to hide under the searchlights.

Just then, a small boat appeared in the distance. The people on board had their backs to the searchlight, and Li Jitong and Song Jin'ao could not see their faces clearly because of the bright light.

All that could be heard was a voice: "What are you doing?"

"Yes, brothers from the patrol battalion? I'm Li Jitong from my corpse retrieval team!"

"A body retrieval team?"

Upon hearing this, the people on the boat were taken aback and asked with doubt, "Water Ghost Li?"

"It's me, it's me."

Li Jitong spoke up, and at that moment, another person on the ship asked in a foreign accent, "You know him?"

"I don't know him, but many people in Tianjin still know the name 'Water Ghost Li'."

The patrolmen were talking when the foreigner said, "Water Ghost Li? A corpse retriever?"

"Yes, Mr. Richard."

The patrolmen spoke up.

Richard said, "Let's go take a look."

Soon the ship docked with Li Jitong's ship. Only then did the searchlight slightly change direction. Li Jitong slowly adjusted to the light and then saw the foreigner in front of him.

He was dressed in a suit and wore glasses, looking very refined.

At this moment, Richard also saw Li Jitong and said, "We seem to have met before."

Upon hearing this, Li Jitong looked at Richard. He also felt that the foreigner in front of him looked somewhat familiar. After a long while, he finally spoke up and said, "How could we possibly have met, sir? You are the moon high above, and I am a mudfish in a pond. We are not from the same world."

Richard shrugged and said, "A very interesting analogy."

"What are you doing on the river so late?"

Li Jitong had already prepared his explanation, and at this moment he spoke directly: "Our corpse retrieval team has received orders from the county magistrate to find two corpses. The reward for finding one is five hundred silver dollars. The brothers of our corpse retrieval team will not sleep, and we will also help the county magistrate and the magistrate share the burden."

"Five hundred silver dollars?"

Richard was taken aback and looked at the patrol captain beside him. "I remember we give a thousand silver dollars for a corpse, don't I?"

The team leader then said, "It was Water Ghost Li who misremembered. Your corpse retrieval team said you'd give a thousand yuan, right?"

"Oh yes, yes, a thousand dollars, it was my slip of the tongue."

Li Jitong immediately changed his tune, while Richard said, "Alright, anyway, has the body been found?"

Li Jitong shook his head and said, "No, we were just unlucky. We only managed to pull up another corpse."

Upon hearing this, Richard used his foot to turn the corpse on the boat over, saw its face, then took out a handkerchief from the pocket of his tuxedo jacket, covered his mouth, and pushed his eyes open with his ring finger.

Then he looked at Song Jin'ao and asked, "And who is this?"

Li Jitong said, "He's my friend, he came to help."

"Turn around so I can see."

Richard spoke, and Song Jin'ao turned to look at him. Richard narrowed his eyes and looked Song Jin'ao up and down, saying, "What a strong body."

Song Jin'ao remained silent, while Li Jitong said, "My friend is a江湖 (jianghu) person, and he is a bit hot-blooded."

Richard smiled and said, "The martial arts sequence?"

Song Jin'ao did not reply, but Richard said, "I am very interested in your Chinese system of systems. If there is an opportunity, I hope to discuss it with you."

Normally, Li Jitong and Song Jin'ao wouldn't bother with this foreigner at all, but now, in order to get through this, they could only force a smile and say, "We definitely will if we have the chance."

Song Jin'ao gave a forced smile and slowly clenched his fist. "Hurry up! The one-hour deadline is almost up. If this foreigner doesn't leave soon, he'll suffocate in the river when the doctor wakes up."

Li Jitong was also anxious at this point, and said with a forced smile, "Sir, this body needs to be sent downstream. We have a rule that the body must be delivered before dawn. If there's nothing else, we'll be leaving now."

Richard smiled and said, "Oh, I'm so sorry to have taken up your time."

"Come on, let a diver come over and check the hull of this ship. If there's nothing there, let it pass!"

As Richard spoke, Li Jitong and Song Jin'ao felt their hair stand on end and immediately began to inspect the bottom of the boat!

Upon hearing this, Li Jitong looked at Richard and said, "Foreign sir, you're inspecting the bottom of the ship?"

Richard said, "Oh, it's just a routine check. Don't be nervous. We're just worried that the bottom of your boat isn't clean enough. Don't worry, it won't take long."

As they were speaking, they saw divers over there already putting on their diving suits and preparing to go into the water.

Li Jitong glanced at Song Jin'ao, whose gaze turned cold. Song Jin'ao reached out and gripped the oar beside him. Once the diver went underwater, he would inevitably be exposed. The only way now was to capture the leader first. Once the foreigner was captured, everything else could be dealt with.

Song Jin'ao's whole body tensed up, as if a spring was full of power, ready to rush up and take down the foreigner as soon as the diver went underwater.

Although this would expose them immediately, and they would have to face the entire patrol battalion and the foreigners on the ironclad ship, with potentially disastrous consequences, they could not sit idly by and wait for their doom.

Li Jitong then looked at the river. He planned to jump in, cut Wen Mofang's ropes, kill the diver, and then run away with Wen Mofang. Although they might not be able to escape, he thought, "How will I know if I don't try?"

The two had already prepared for the worst; if all else failed, they would fight to the death!

At this critical moment, a voice suddenly shouted, "Is the foreigner here?"

A sudden sound interrupted everyone's actions. The divers stopped diving, and Richard also stopped moving, turning to look in the direction of the sound. The patrol battalion's attention was all focused on the sound.

At that moment, the searchlights of the ironclad ship shone directly in the direction of the person who had spoken.

The next moment, everyone saw a small boat there, with a person standing on it.

"Yes! Ah Xuan!"

Upon seeing this person, Li Jitong's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. How could it be him!

Song Jin'ao then recognized Zheng Xuan. Wasn't this Ji Tong's last disciple? What was he doing here?!

At that moment, Zheng Xuan raised his hand to block the glare of the searchlight and said, "Don't misunderstand, we're on the same side. I'm delivering a corpse to the foreign lord!"

Richard then squinted slightly, signaling to the patrol battalion to speak.

"What corpse?"

The patrol team was asking the question.

Zheng Xuan said, "These are the two corpses that the foreign lord has offered a reward for. I've come to claim the reward from the foreign lord."

Richard didn't pay much attention at first, but when he heard that it was the two corpses for which there was a bounty, his eyes lit up. He then returned to the patrol boat and urged, "Go, go and take a look quickly."

Watching the foreigners leave, Li Jitong said to the patrol soldiers guarding the pass, "Brother, I..."

The patrolmen waved their hands and said, "Let's go, let's go..."

He then released Li Ji and the other man. All they had done tonight was find those two corpses, and now that they had been found, why stop them?

Upon hearing this, Li Jitong immediately felt relieved. He then gave Song Jin'ao a look, and the two rowed away on their luxury boat. Before leaving, both of them looked in Zheng Xuan's direction, their eyes filled with worry.