After saying that, Sam heard a boat approaching in the distance and sounding its horn as a warning.
She turned and left, not wanting anyone to see through her current mood.
She left her boyfriend, Jared, behind on the broken fishing boat. Watching her departing figure, he stomped his foot hard in a mix of frustration and anger.
The next moment, a loud cracking sound came from the deck of the fishing boat beneath his feet.
One of Jared's feet suddenly stepped through the deck.
In an instant, Jared only had time to let out a cry of pain before his body fell heavily onto the deck of the fishing boat because his foot had stepped into empty space.
"Hahaha!"
Not far away, on a salvage boat converted from a small cargo ship that was sailing over,
a bearded man wearing sunglasses laughed as he looked at Jared. "Hey, I heard you lost your job."
"What, had a falling out with Sam?"
Clearly, the bearded man saw Sam walking toward her home nearby.
Jared looked at the bearded man; this man was named Bates, a few years older than him.
But unlike himself, Bates came from a relatively wealthy family.
Over the years, Bates had used money provided by his family to buy a salvage boat and had been aggressively searching for shipwrecks in the nearby waters.
Although he hadn't found any great treasure, Bates really had salvaged some old shipwreck remains, making a small fortune in the process.
Bates had also taken the opportunity to expand, recruiting a group of lackeys to search for shipwrecks and treasure all over the Bahamas.
Although Jared was unwilling to admit it, he had always been both envious and jealous of Bates.
Since Sam wasn't around, Jared didn't bother to give Bates a friendly face.
He reached out and flipped Bates the middle finger.
Bates just laughed. "Haha, looks like your boat is in terrible shape. How about I have my guys help you fix it up?"
Jared didn't buy it. "No need, I can fix it myself."
Standing on the top deck of his salvage boat, Bates looked down at him and teased with a smile, "Your diving skills are so good; it's a waste to let them go to waste."
"Come work for me!"
Jared suppressed his anger. "I think a partnership would be quite good. You outsource the areas you can't handle to me."
"...If we find treasure, we'll split it fifty-fifty."
Bates burst into laughter. He had never seen someone as arrogant and lacking in self-awareness as Jared.
Since Sam had already walked far away, he didn't bother to waste any more words with Jared.
So, he walked to the front of the cockpit and reached out to tap on the glass. "Let's go."
The salvage boat soon let out a horn blast and then, under Jared's fuming gaze, began to sail out to sea.
Leaving Jared behind to awkwardly pull his leg out of the hole in the fishing boat's deck.
Looking at his right leg, which had been scratched by the wooden boards and had over a dozen small cuts,
Jared's face flickered with gloom. After a long time, he sighed and continued trying to repair the fishing boat.
On his second morning in the Bahamas, Hunter didn't wake up until broad daylight.
After making arrangements with Sam yesterday, he had wandered around Paradise Island for a while.
After discovering that there were no supermarkets here to buy fresh ingredients,
he simply went back to the Nassau city area, found a supermarket to buy enough ingredients for a week, stored them in his private space, and then returned to Paradise Island.
However, that night, Hunter took the map he bought in Nassau and compared it with the map left by Stanfield, studying it until two or three in the morning before resting.
Fortunately, his current physical fitness had long since far surpassed that of an ordinary person.
Therefore, he only needed a short four-hour rest to fully recover.
He got up, took a cold shower to quickly refresh himself,
and then Hunter walked straight into the kitchen of the seaside villa he had rented. He took out ingredients from his private space, preparing to make himself breakfast.
Just as he had cut the steak he bought into evenly sized pieces and was about to make a Sun-style modified version of tomato beef,
suddenly, the doorbell rang outside the villa.
Hunter was startled and walked quickly to the front of the villa to open the door.
Before his eyes appeared a Sexy Sweet Girl wearing a sleeveless tank top and ultra-short denim shorts—one could even see the color of the bra inside the tank top.
It was none other than the Sexy Sweet Girl Sam, who had agreed with Hunter yesterday afternoon to be his tour guide today.
The moment he saw who it was, a smile immediately appeared on his face... Phew...
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