Late night, Nassau seaside.
Hunter saw firelight flickering in a villa not far away.
He was only wearing a black diving suit, relying on his Swimming skill which had reached LV5.
Hunter easily reached the vicinity of a yacht anchored near the villa.
After quickly climbing up from the back of the yacht.
Hunter searched carefully for a while and hid a tracker.
Then standing on the yacht, he took out a pair of binoculars and looked toward the villa.
In the villa, Jared was happily chatting about something with his long-lost friend Bryce.
Their girlfriends, Sam and Amanda, were also chatting intermittently.
Although the atmosphere in the house seemed warm.
After observing for a while, Hunter confirmed that Jared and Sam hadn't interacted for a long time.
Knowing that his days of planning had begun to take effect.
Hunter soon got off the yacht and swam to a beach hundreds of meters away.
"477"
After coming ashore there, he quickly changed his clothes and from his private space.
Took out the tracking device he had previously purchased with continental gold coins through the Continental Hotel.
After tinkering with it for a bit, he confirmed there were no problems.
He glanced at the current location of another target on the tracking device.
Hunter took out a map and looked at it carefully for a while.
Immediately after putting these away, he jogged to the nearby seaside road.
He quickly took out a motorcycle from his private space, and after getting on, he headed toward the location of the other tracking point.
Over half an hour later, Hunter, who had changed back into a diving suit, arrived at a pier on the Nassau seaside.
Looking at a salvage ship converted from a cargo ship docked at the pier, Hunter knew it was the salvage ship of Bates, who was very much at odds with Jared.
Bates was a somewhat famous person here in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas.
Saying his reputation wasn't big was because Bates was just a treasure hunter.
Saying his reputation wasn't small was because Bates had once found several pirate ships and salvaged them.
Although there was no treasure on those pirate ships.
But the antiques salvaged from those pirate ships alone allowed Bates to make a small fortune.
He even appeared on many local TV stations and newspaper front pages for a period of time.
Therefore, many locals knew Bates.
Hunter had inquired about Bates a few days ago and installed a tracking device on his salvage ship.
This guy was the big boss in [Into the Blue]. He remembered that Bates was ruthless enough and also very much at odds with Jared.
If it weren't for the law that villains must lose, Hunter really felt that in [Into the Blue], he deserved to win more than Jared.
Because the other party was not only ruthless and meticulous, but also knew how to develop his own power.
Such a person, if not for the needs of the plot, could never have lost to a character like Jared.
Quickly approaching Bates' salvage ship, Hunter carefully circled the ship for a while.
He only heard a few faint conversations coming from inside the cabin.
It seemed there were personnel staying on the ship, but they appeared to be playing cards.
After confirming it was safe, Hunter quickly took out an underwater breathing apparatus in the water and put it on.
Immediately, he took out the small welding device he had purchased locally in the past two days from his private space.
Before long, he dove underwater and used the Welding device to cut a certain part of the hull of the salvage ship underwater.
Thanks to the Proficiency System, although Hunter didn't have many skills that had reached LV5.
But to enhance his strength, he had learned and triggered many skills.
This Welding was also something Hunter had learned when he was bored.
Because he didn't use it often, he almost forgot it himself.
As a result, until now, the skill level was still at LV2.
However, although the skill level was low, it was sufficient.
Moreover, Hunter wasn't here this time to perform a perfect weld.
He was here to sabotage!
"Glug, glug, glug!"
Accompanied by another string of bubbles, Hunter looked at the cracks appearing on the hull once again due to the welding.
He didn't take the welding equipment with him, instead throwing it all into the sea along with the underwater breathing apparatus he was wearing.
Immediately after, Hunter quickly surfaced.
He didn't linger, quickly swimming toward the distant beach.
Hunter hadn't left many cracks on Bates's salvage ship—only four.
The cracks weren't large; even with constant flooding, it would likely take about ten hours for the ship to potentially sink.
However, if it went out to sea and was hit by waves, the cracks would definitely widen.
What he wanted was for Bates to discover it and subsequently suspect Jared was behind it.
The two didn't get along, according to the information Hunter had secretly gathered in Nassau over the past few days.
Someone told Hunter that Jared had always claimed the pirate ship Bates found years ago was actually discovered by him first.
Supposedly, Jared found the shipwreck in a large area of coral reefs and hadn't salvaged it to avoid damaging the environment.
As a result, Bates had beaten him to the punch.
Hunter couldn't be certain whether this was true or not.
But according to his investigation, Jared had lost several jobs because of Bates... so he was basically certain their relationship was terrible.
It just so happened that a friend of Jared's was visiting the Bahamas and stopped by to check on some collateral his law firm had acquired while defending someone recently.
Specifically, a villa on the coast of Nassau and a small yacht.
Jared would surely seize the opportunity to use that yacht to go out to sea and search for treasure.
At such a time, Bates's ship suddenly starts leaking, and in such a low-level way!
As soon as Bates went to repair it, any discerning person could tell at a glance that an amateur welder had dived underwater to sabotage it.
Bates naturally wouldn't think there was someone else secretly plotting against him.
And at this time, Jared, who he didn't get along with, suddenly had a boat to go treasure hunting.
The guy would likely prioritize suspecting that Jared was the one secretly playing tricks.
This was exactly what Hunter wanted.
After swimming all the way to shore, Hunter stood by the sea.
He took out his binoculars to observe the dredging ship several hundred meters away, where no one seemed to have discovered the leak yet.
He quickly changed his clothes again and walked toward the nearby road.
"Brother Jared, you'll have to suffer a bit."
"Don't worry, in the end, I will definitely help you get rid of Bates."
"I'll even leave that crashed cargo plane full of drugs to you."
"Exchanging a woman for such overwhelming wealth is a fair deal for you."
Exchanging drugs worth hundreds of millions of US dollars—which he absolutely refused to touch—for a woman from that guy.
Hunter felt he was being quite fair to Jared.
As for whether Jared could hold onto that 'overwhelming wealth' once he got the drugs worth hundreds of millions...
That wasn't something Hunter needed to care about.
He only knew that the sunken treasure on the seabed would likely be found within these two days.
Therefore, the time left for Hunter to steal his girl was running out.
Fortunately, Jared had previously courted death by selling Sam's mother's heirloom necklace.
He had essentially kicked his own stable foundation hard.
Now that the necklace was in Hunter's hands, he would absolutely never allow Jared to redeem it and return it to Sam to mend the rift between them.
Thus, to successfully steal the girl in a short time...
Hunter only needed to target Jared's weaknesses and the things Sam couldn't accept, and apply some strong measures; that should be enough.
Soon, he got back on his motorcycle and rushed toward the seaside villa on Paradise Island.
Feeling the sea breeze gradually cooling down in the evening, Hunter already had a plan in mind...
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