And if those people failed to reclaim the Mysterious Cores and instead met with complete failure or even total annihilation, this supposedly secure transaction between him and his partner would become even more conspicuous.

After realizing this, Ethan Harris couldn’t help wanting to contact Dong Tianyu to warn him that someone was preparing to attack, urging him to take precautions in advance.

Unfortunately, Evelyn Harris was very aware that although the attackers’ failure would be beneficial for the two of them, those attackers could still be considered on their side.

Therefore, the most they could do now was not to take sides. Otherwise, if they alerted Dong Tianyu and it was discovered, others would surely point out their betrayal.

So, as Official Liam had said, staying still is sometimes better than making a move. They should not take sides and just silently watch the struggle unfold on the other side.

The speeding speedboat moved quickly and soon arrived near the Wave Rider.

It was already evening, and since their operation was a covert attack, they had left the Lakeside Base without turning on the boat lights, moving in the darkness.

Because the bodies of the lurking attackers had been chopped by Wind Blades, scattering in pieces, the aquatic creatures had quickly devoured all the fragments floating on the water after a brief scramble.

If it were daytime, others might notice something unusual from the blood diffused on the water’s surface, but now, with nightfall, it was nearly impossible to spot the subtle discoloration on the water unless one observed very carefully.

As the aquatic creatures had devoured all the corpse fragments, by the time the speedboat arrived, the water had calmed again.

That’s why, as the three speedboats approached the Wave Rider, they did not notice the numerous aquatic creatures swimming below.

Even though the three speedboats had slowed down and minimized the sound of their propellers as they neared the Wave Rider, attempting not to alert Dong Tianyu.

But with the action of the first group of lurkers, how could Dong Tianyu relax his vigilance while he was still in the area? His Divine Sense was constantly at its maximum range, precisely to prevent such stealth attacks.

Dong Tianyu had already spotted the three approaching speedboats, but at the moment, he was busy clearing the deck, moving the containers into the Storage space.

Though the contents of the containers had already been moved by the workers, the containers themselves were quite valuable, especially at this time. So, after the transaction ended and the other party’s cargo ship had moved away from the area, Dong Tianyu began moving all the empty containers on deck into the Storage space.

Dong Tianyu had not expected that just a minor delay would prompt the opposition to send a second team to launch a stealth attack.

However, they should have been aware of the initial lurkers’ complete annihilation. Instead of reflecting on the reasons, they still sent more people to their death.

Dong Tianyu was about to activate the Formation to annihilate them all when he suddenly noticed that the aquatic creatures, which had originally gathered because of the corpses’ blood, had not yet left the area.

As the three speedboats docked beside the Wave Rider, the aquatic creatures swiftly approached and started gnawing at the bottoms of the speedboats.

While the creatures could not gnaw through the bottom of the Wave Rider, breaking through the bodies of the speedboats was quite simple.

While the people on the speedboats were discussing how they could quietly climb aboard the Wave Rider, someone suddenly realized that their feet were wet.

Sitting in a speedboat, it was normal for some water droplets to splash into the boat. At first, he had not paid attention to it, but as the water level reached his ankles, he instantly realized the problem. Looking down, he discovered the speedboat was leaking.

Seeing this speedboat about to sink, the people on the three speedboats instantly started showing their skills. Some summoned their Companion Spiritual Treasures, while others simply jumped onto the body of the Wave Rider, sticking to it like a gecko, firmly adhering to the hull.

The people on the three boats each displayed their unique abilities, but as the speedboats gradually sank into the water, they realized that the sinking was due to attacks by ancient creatures.

At that moment, they looked at the Wave Rider, which remained motionless, suspecting it had encountered the same problem as they had. However, since the Wave Rider was a much larger vessel and had internal water barriers, there were no signs of it sinking yet.

Thinking that the Wave Rider might also be silenced by those aquatic creatures, everyone immediately thought of the mission and decided to climb aboard urgently, determined to complete the mission and obtain the Mysterious Cores before the ship sank.

Otherwise, if they waited for the aquatic creatures to damage the ship to such an extent, should they fail to retrieve their target before the ship sank, it would be nearly impossible to retrieve it from the seabed later.

With this realization, everyone promptly used various methods, trying to quickly climb up to the deck.

Just then, Dong Tianyu had just stored all the containers on the deck into the Storage Space. Noticing that people were climbing up, Dong Tianyu activated the Wave Rider’s attack Formation again.

The Wind Blade also proved very effective, shattering those people into pieces before they could react.

As the fragmented corpses fell back into the water, the aquatic creatures that had lingered nearby once again caused the calm water to boil in a frenzy fighting over the food.

Only after the aquatic creatures had cleaned up the remains on the surface did the water gradually return to its usual calm.

For Dong Tianyu, the two attacks felt almost like a joke; however, those people sitting in the Conference Room exploded into chaos upon hearing the news.

It was not that they couldn’t accept the consecutive failures or the annihilation of an elite troop under the leadership of a master with no survivors.

But the continuous and silent severing of connections was chilling for them.

The first time, the infiltrators they arranged, who were basically considered as expendable, so their deaths didn’t grieve them much; what was unfortunate was that the battle footage wasn’t transmitted, so they didn’t know who killed them.

Learning from the first lesson, they directly arranged for an elite squad the second time, all of whom were in the Energy Cultivation Realm. Although this level might not stand out too much at the base, it would be considered well above average among all the survivors in China.

Yet even with such strength, there was no unusual noise at the time of death; it was as if the entire person just disappeared.

If one person vanishing instantly is normal, eighteen people simultaneously encountering a problem is unlikely; though possible, the probability is almost zero.

So when they found out that their second deployed elite team had been completely wiped out without a single survivor, and still without any clues on how the opponent had silently killed all of them,

after confirming the authenticity of this information, those people in the Conference Room fell into silence again.

After a long and chilly atmosphere, someone suddenly spoke up, "Should we continue to send more people according to the plan?"

Hearing this reason, the atmosphere plunged into silence again.

Arranging people was simple since they had calculated before: even if there were others hiding aboard the Wave Rider, eighteen martial artists from the Energy Cultivation Realm might be able to directly take control of the Wave Rider.

But now, having sent people over, and with neither death nor disappearance transmitting any information, the situation became somewhat eerie.