Under the sea, the fire caused by the explosion reflected a bright red in the water. Looking up, there was a dazzling fire everywhere. The deadly flames instantly swallowed up many soldiers who were still on the ship, and there were many charred remains.
After falling into the water, the curled up body still had a few sparks on it.
Although many people were not killed on the spot, the blazing flames penetrated deep into their mouths, noses and throats. Some even had their hands and feet entangled with ropes, struggled, and quickly sank to the dark seabed, where they stayed forever.
Most of the people who were lucky enough to survive the explosion had their faces burned by the fire. Some people dived into the water until the last breath they held in their chests was exhausted, and they could only look helplessly at the boundless man-eating flames above their heads.
, not knowing where to hide, they suffocated themselves to death underwater. Others were hit by collapsed masts and broken hulls before they could dive into the water, and died on the spot.
The Dongli woman who jumped out of the boat with Qi Ziyin was looking around under the water. The new dark red mark on her left cheek was burned by the flames ejected from the firebolt. Fortunately, she
I had to hold my breath in advance so that I could hold on underwater until now.
The wound was immersed in the seawater, and the pain was like a needle prick, but the woman could not feel it at all. In her heart, she just hoped to find the short and fat Qi Shouyu among the overwhelming corpses - if she let the enemy go so easily, then all the suffering she would have suffered
, then it has no meaning anymore!
However, the explosion spread the fire oil on the ship all over the sea, and the ship's planks soaked in tung oil helped the fire. The fire could not be extinguished for a long time.
Leng Jiayun's body twitched violently a few times, and her lungs began to hurt as if someone had cut them out with a knife. She turned to look at the young man in white next to her, and saw that he had already suppressed blood so much that his eyes were bloodshot and his veins were bulging.
.If they don't find a way to breathe again, I'm afraid they will have to hand over their lives here today.
But, in this sea full of death, where can the two of them escape?
Just when she was desperate, the woman suddenly heard a "pop" not far away. When she turned around to look, she saw a narrow black shadow more than ten feet long falling into the sea, causing countless waves. The thing had a pointed end.
, with a wide belly, it was actually the remains of a small boat that was used to confuse the enemy!
The small boat with only half of its hull floating on the sea surface, swaying from side to side, was probably lifted into the air by the air waves generated by the explosion, and then landed here from the sky.
The two people in the water immediately looked at each other and swam towards the boat with all their strength. Because they knew that this might be their only hope of survival. Sure enough, the boat fell upside down in the water, but was not submerged. In the belly of the boat
It was full of air. Although it was full of smoky smell, as soon as the two of them showed their heads, they opened their mouths wide and began to gasp violently.
"Sister Jia—your face—"
It was only then that the young man saw the obvious burns on the woman's cheek. But Leng Jiayun just shook his head and motioned for the other party to help him push the boat together and swim towards the place where there was no fire:
"My injury is not a problem. But Qi Shouyu, a cunning old fox, is used to using tricks. Although he blew up his own warship this time, there is no way he will die here willingly. We must not let him escape!
"
Qi Ziyin also knew that the woman was right, so he said no more. The air in the belly of the boat was enough to support them in swimming out of the sea of fire. The two got out from under the boat and looked at the horrific purgatory-like scene behind them, and couldn't help but wonder.
My scalp feels numb——
The previous explosion not only destroyed Ye Guo's flagship, but also caused varying degrees of damage to ships of various sizes within a few miles. At this time, there were still several ships chasing each other back and forth, and their bows were losing lead bullets intensively.
Ruyu. But there are more warships in the sea that have been severely damaged in the previous melee, and were fatally struck by the explosion, and can no longer move.
Nowadays, they are abandoned in the storm, feebly rising and falling with the turbulent waves, struggling, but in the end they still cannot escape the fate of sinking. However, the soldiers on both sides who jumped into the water from these ships are still fighting for some possibility.
They were fighting together for reasons they didn't even understand, and were determined to fight to the death.
Qi Ziyin swam vigorously, constantly pushing aside the melee crowd, hoping to persuade those Ye soldiers to surrender. But once people become jealous, any well-intentioned persuasion will be misinterpreted as malicious instigation. More and more people
Instead of putting down their weapons, the soldiers who fell into the water started to attack the young man in white with their swords.
"Stop trying to persuade them! It's useless! As long as that old thief Qi Shouyu is still alive, they won't surrender easily!"
Leng Jiayun said, pointing to another group of people who were fighting not far away. There, a short and fat figure was standing on a boat board floating on the water, waving his arms and giving instructions loudly.
The sergeants, who were already showing signs of fatigue, continued to fight, looking extremely eye-catching in the firelight.
"He is indeed not dead!"
The young man in white felt his heart tightening. He didn't know whether he should be grateful for the opportunity God left for him to take revenge with his own hands, or whether he should be worried that the other party might still be hiding some insidious tricks that he had not used yet. Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he saw Leng Jiayun.
Already swimming hard in the direction where Qi Shouyu was.
"Sister Jia, don't be impulsive! Uncle Wang is surrounded by personal guards, you can't kill him!"
Qi Ziyin quickly opened his mouth to stop her, but the woman seemed not to hear her and swam further and further away. In desperation, he had no choice but to hold Yinya in his hand and try to keep up with his companion.
The autumn clothes on the young man's body had already been soaked through by the cold and biting sea water, and became increasingly heavy. Before Qi Shouyu even got close to him, he had already noticed the threat in the sea first, and a trace of astonishment flashed across his face.
It seems that he did not expect that his nephew would be so lucky and actually escaped.
"Where can I go, old thief!"
Leng Jiayun, who was rushing in front, immediately gathered up her last strength and swam over, while a Mo Ling guard who was following Qi Shouyu also immediately changed his direction and jumped into the water menacingly.
"Sister Jia, be careful!"
When Qi Ziyin saw this, he immediately panicked. However, he did not expect that the guard wearing the Mo Ling Guard armor would bypass the exhausted Dongli woman and attack directly in front of him.
!
The young man immediately held his yin teeth horizontally and pulled out a defensive posture. However, the water was not as good as on land, and the solid horse steps he had practiced over the years were of no use at all. He only felt that a turbulent wave was coming up from under him.
, actually sent himself towards the opponent's knife edge!
The unexpected crisis came too quickly. When Qi Ziyin raised the knife to block, he could no longer control the strength in his hand. There was only a muffled "bang" sound, and the sharp blade swung by the opponent directly hit the knife block in the young man's hand.
Almost half of his thumb was cut off. As the young man screamed, his entire body was pushed up from the sea water, and then he fell heavily on his back to the sky.
The guard opposite was proficient in water properties and did not give Qi Ziyin any chance to breathe. Before he could surface, he slashed him down with another knife. Fortunately, the blade of the knife cut into the seawater and missed its target, and it just rubbed the young man's body and slid over.
Qi Ziyin took the opportunity to kick the opponent's lower abdomen, and then used his hand to exert force and slapped his side heavily with the back of the knife:
"The Mo Ling Guards are all elites trained by General Baili. Now that the general has been unjust and died miserably, why did you turn to work for that usurper?!"
At this time, he still naively thought that he could persuade the other party to change his mind and never resorted to a killing move. However, the Mo Ling guard on the opposite side did not appreciate it and instead attacked with greater intensity.
After a fight, Qi Ziyin gradually realized that his opponent was very powerful, and he couldn't help but cheer up. He finally adapted to the ups and downs of the sea currents around him, and the set of five sword techniques in his hand finally performed as it should.
power.
There was another exchange of swords and weapons, and the long knives in the hands of the two men shook violently and made a buzzing sound. The man's jaw on the opposite side was obviously cracked by the shock, and he could no longer hold the weapon in his hand, and the long knives sank into the sea and disappeared.
The boy's Yinya also fell out of his hand, but he quickly took it back effortlessly——
Fishermen who often go to the sea to catch clams often tie their tools to their wrists with a rope as thick as a piece of wheat straw. This trick was learned by Qi Ziyin from the fishermen when he lived in Qingwan.
"Kill if you want! If I blink an eye, I won't be worthy of this uniform of the Ye Kingdom!"
The guard's face was covered with a mask, and his appearance could not be seen at all. However, during the fight, the young man in white had already noticed that the opponent's tricks were very different from those of the Mo Lingwei trained by Xiang Baili. At this time, the opponent finally spoke, and even more shocked
The young man was suddenly startled, and instead of raising his sword to attack again, he moved closer to the opponent:
"Your voice is very familiar. I seem to have heard it somewhere before! May I ask who you are?"
However, the guard always held his head high and maintained his final arrogance: "So what if we know each other? On the battlefield, even the closest relatives cannot tolerate any mercy!"
Qi Ziyin clearly saw the unreserved hostility in the eyes exposed under the other person's mask. He suddenly reached out and pulled the mask off his face. But he was dumbfounded on the spot:
"How could it be you, brother Cheng Xiao?"
The long-time companion in the palace gave the young man in front of him a sharp look: "Why can't it be me? If you, a traitor who has killed a thousand swords, had not killed the old king, my father would not have been implicated and thrown into jail.
My mother would never hang herself!"
"Lord Taichang Qing was also convicted and imprisoned?"
"Stop pretending here! After the old king was assassinated, a large group of old officials in the court were implicated by you and were either imprisoned or exiled. Now there are not many left who have died of illness, so what's the point?
Weird!"
"Have you never thought that this is Uncle Wang taking the opportunity to eradicate dissidents?"
"Shut up! Do you still expect to put all the blame on the king for the heinous crime you committed? A few days ago, even Master Gou died in the Zichen Palace because he said a few words of love for you! All these blood debts,
Now it’s all on your head!”
"What? Even my husband—"
Hearing this, Qi Ziyin suddenly choked up. He had never thought that the old man who had slapped him on the hand was still trying his best to maintain his beliefs at the last moment of his life and did not succumb to the power of power.
.
"My father was indeed not killed by me!"
His chest rose and fell violently, and he tried his best to convince his peers across from him that Qi Shouyu was the culprit of all this. However, Cheng Xiao refused to listen to any more words:
"What a joke! When the old king passed away, you were the only one in the palace, with a bloody weapon in your hand. If the murderer hadn't been you, who could it have been?!"
Before he finished speaking, the other party opened his arms and rushed towards the young man again, intending to lock his throat. The young man in white didn't want to hurt his old acquaintance with a knife, so he had to duck under the water to hide. Who knew
Cheng Xiao feigned a shot. Seeing that the boy did not dare to confront him again, he pulled out a dagger hidden on the side of his boot and stabbed him hard in the back of the heart!
A several-inch long wound was immediately opened on Qi Ziyin's back, and blood instantly flowed into the sea water. The severe pain forced him to emerge from the water. But before he could put on his clothes,
In one breath, Cheng Xiao came over to kill him fiercely.
"Brother Cheng Xiao, please don't help others!"
The young man continued to persuade in an almost pleading tone, but still did not turn from defense to offense. However, in Cheng Xiao's heart, he only thought about killing:
"If I spared you today, I would be an aid to the tiger! When my family was in decline, I made a living by begging in Mulu City every day. It was the king who found me, pardoned me, trusted me, and even made an exception for me.
Promoted to be a personal bodyguard around me! This is the opportunity that I, the Cheng family, have finally gotten! Today I personally took your head back, so that you can be worthy of the ancestors of my Cheng family!"
As soon as these words came out, Qi Ziyin finally understood that the person in front of him was no longer the brother Cheng Xiao who accompanied him in the Bamboo Mo Pavilion to recite the classics of the sages, nor was he the virtuous, courteous, wise, talented and elegant "Mu" from Taichang Qing's family.
"The name of the house is young". The other party at this time is just a paranoid killer who was deliberately deceived by Qi Shouyu but didn't know it, but was willing to sacrifice his life for the enemy!
And today, among the two of them, only one can leave alive!
"Brother Cheng Xiao, I don't want to kill you!"
The young man in white raised his Yin Ya across his chest again, and yelled at the opponent who was charging towards him, but his heart felt like being cut by a knife. His vision was blurred by tears or sea water, and he could not see clearly.
Cheng Xiao didn't want to look at the line of attack at all. He just waved his double blades instinctively, hoping to force the opponent to retreat in spite of the difficulties with the Five Imperial Sword Techniques.
However, Cheng Xiao had already prepared for death. In the chaos, Qi Ziyin felt the knife in his hand tighten suddenly, and it had already cut into the Mo Lingwei leather armor on the opponent. When he raised his eyes to see
At this time, he saw that although blood seeped out of Cheng Xiao's mouth, he still didn't care, and he was approaching him inch by inch with a dagger:
"Kill the thieves for the country!"
The other party was still roaring incomprehensibly, and finally used all his strength to stab Qi Ziyin's heart with the dagger in his hand. Unexpectedly, just halfway through the swing, the dagger slipped from his palm and fell into the water. The arm was even softer.
He fell softly and died.
"Brother Cheng Xiao!"
Qi Ziyin hugged the other person's body, which was almost cut in half by Yin Ya, and cried loudly.
I don't know how long it took, but in the haze and dizziness, the young man finally heard Leng Jiayun's cry again, and his eyes fell on the short and fat figure who was escaping in a hurry not far away -
—
At this time, Ye Guozheng climbed up alone towards a patrol boat that was no longer occupied. Seeing this, Qi Ziyin's heart was like a warehouse filled with firewood, igniting a fire that could burn the sky.
He immediately shouted to his companions:
"Sister Jia, you are in charge of taking command and gathering all the ships that can still move here! I will go after Uncle Wang!"
At present, the young man was already a little exhausted, but he still paddled his sore limbs and swam forward vigorously.
This time, he was determined to personally get rid of the person who had ruined himself, the country of Ye, and thousands of innocent families. He would never tolerate mercy!
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