A sudden slap on the face brought Jiang Yan's consciousness, which was drifting in dreams and memories, back to reality. He struggled to raise his heavy eyelids, and in his pair of water-marked ink pupils, the figure in front of him was vaguely reflected.
The blurry figure standing.
"Boy, the ship is about to sink. Run with me while you still have your life!"
The person who woke up the boy was the cook on the ship. After all, he was still growing up. Jiang Yan often went to his place to help him in private in exchange for some food to fill his seemingly never-full stomach. They were also familiar with each other.
It's just that the young man didn't expect that the man opposite him, who was somewhat bald and usually submissive to everyone, would actually be the only one risking his life to save him at this time.
There was no concealed fear in the tone of the cook's voice, and he used the knife he usually used to cut meat to cut the ropes tied around the black-eyed boy. Jiang Yan's vision gradually became clearer, and he finally noticed the tiger.
Under the dark sea surrounding the flying fish boat, a strange blue light was flashing brightly and dimly.
"That light is...what?"
"God knows what is shining in the water! But countless whirlpools suddenly appeared in the sea, and a big hole was opened in the bottom of the boat for some reason! The keel has been severely damaged now. If you don't want to sink to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish, just shut up and follow me.
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The chef, who had never blushed before, suddenly roared at Jiang Yan. Only then did the young man notice that the sound of war drums that had been beating on the sea a moment ago was now getting deeper and deeper. The sound that filled his ears,
It was the chaotic shouts of more and more soldiers, and the frequent cries for help from people falling into the water.
The bloody twin moons rose into the sky again, like a pair of bloodthirsty demon eyes, silently staring at the lone ship undulating in the black water, and what the ant-like crowd was doing.
Stepping towards the end of death.
"Full right rudder, full right rudder! Anyone who abandons the ship without authorization will be beheaded on the spot!"
Luo Jianli's voice also drifted into Jiang Yan's ears with the wind. However, on the chaotic deck, the strict military ranks had long been reduced to meaningless code names. The commander's orders had no effect.
On the contrary, more and more soldiers spread their legs and ran away in panic on the deck, like a pack of rats before a flood.
The cook put Jiang Yan's arms on his shoulders and dragged him towards the raised tail of the Feiyu boat. The hull became tilted, as if the water ingress was on the side near the starboard side, which was originally higher than the hull.
The rest of the ship's stern quickly became the only place where people could survive.
There was a loud noise, and the cable on the mainmast could no longer withstand the double pull of the constantly changing sea wind and vortex, and was torn into two pieces. The mainsail suddenly fell, causing the ship to completely lose its forward momentum.
, sinking faster.
"There is a small boat at the stern of the ship. If we don't move quickly, others will get there first!"
The chef pulled Jiang Yan's belt hard with one hand and quickened his pace. But before he took a few steps, he suddenly pushed the black-eyed boy sideways and shouted: "Be careful."
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In the howling wind, Jiang Yan, who lost his balance, heard a strange "wu" sound behind him. Suddenly, a warm liquid splashed around, soaking the young man's clothes in an instant.
He struggled to support himself again with his arms, only to see that the cook next to him had been cut into two pieces at waist level, with his intestines and entrails flowing all over the floor. And on the mainmast not far away, there was a
The cable was half-stained with blood and minced meat, swaying in the wind.
Jiang Yan gathered all his strength and quickly rushed to the side of the man who risked his life to save him. However, he could only see that the man's limbs were twitching slightly like a pig that had just been slaughtered, and his mouth full of blood foam could not even say a last word.
After speaking, he only moaned twice, and then he completely lost his breath.
The boy understood in his heart that this was the other party using his last bit of strength to urge him to leave quickly. Since boarding the ship, the cook, who was over fifty years old, had taken good care of Jiang Yan in every possible way, and often talked about his death due to famine.
My son, and my incomparable longing for him.
From the moment he boarded the boat, the young man had a vague feeling that the other man took care of him almost as if he were his own son. However, he did not respond to this, and he did not even ask for the man's exact name.
Now, even if I wanted to try my best to comfort this benefactor before he died, it was already too late.
Time did not give him any chance to grieve. The tiger-headed boat suddenly rushed to the top of a wave in the turbulent waves, and violent tremors immediately spread along the deck to the soles of the young man's feet. Then there was only a loud "click" sound, and the boat
The thick keel of the body was finally torn apart by the sea water and broke into two pieces.
Jiang Yan struggled to get up, but was still unable to stand firmly on the swaying deck. He could only hold onto the side of the ship with his fingers. In the distance, the stern of the ship, which had seemed safe before, was only slightly above the sea.
After making a spin, he took more than a hundred people on him and submerged into the foaming water. After floating for three or two times, he completely disappeared.
The black-eyed boy realized that he might not be able to escape, but when he was about to die, he suddenly thought of the poor girl who was escorted to the ship as a prisoner yesterday. At this moment, the girl should be locked in a certain compartment under his feet.
, regardless of whether she can make it to shore alive, at least she must be rescued first!
There are more watertight compartments in the bow than in the stern. Although the entire ship is broken into two parts, it can still barely float on the sea for a while. The cabin where the girl is detained is not difficult to find, because the nearby wall
The ground and the ground were all stained with the filth left behind by the soldiers' wanton sexual display.
Jiang Yan struggled to knock off the lock on the door with a long knife he picked up on the road, but the girl huddled in a corner of the cabin seemed completely unaware of what happened outside and immediately screamed loudly.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not here to bully you. You, put on my clothes first."
The young man quickly turned his head, not daring to look at the girl's bruised body. He just turned his hand away and handed over the robe he had just taken off. Although the girl recognized him quickly, she did not put on the clothes.
She took it and just shook her head feebly. Her tone was so calm that it was a bit scary, completely different from her previous crazy resistance when she was arrested:
"It's you - you can go alone, why bother to save me?"
"The ship is about to sink! You will definitely drown if you stay in the cabin!" Jiang Yan moved closer to the girl.
"That's why I let you go!" The other party suddenly raised his voice.
"Let's go together! We might still be able to survive!" Jiang Yan finally couldn't care less about being shy anymore, shook the clothes in his hands, and immediately rushed to the naked girl, trying to pull her out of the compartment.
But what the young man didn't expect was that the other party would suddenly open his mouth and bite the outside of his wrist. The girl bit him so hard that before Jiang Yan could feel the pain, hot blood was already flowing down her wrist.
The corners of his mouth welled up.
Jiang Yan had no choice but to let go of the other person's hand, and allowed the girl to push him out of the door like crazy, mumbling in her sleep:
"My family members...are all dead...all are dead...continuing to live...has no meaning to me. Thank you for allowing me to at least leave this ugly world with a free body..."
The young man turned his head and looked at the other person's eyes that seemed to be covered with dust. From inside, he could no longer read any attachment to life, only endless resentment and hatred. Jiang Yan realized that for the girl,
The future, filled with sorrow and despair, has become heavier and more terrifying than death itself.
The sea water pouring into the cabin made a loud "bang bang" sound, like the roar of countless innocent souls who had died in the Chanying Sea throughout the ages, constantly impacting Jiang Yan's eardrums. Only then did he begin to spread his arms out in front of him.
All kinds of debris in the water swam towards the wooden steps leading to the deck with all his strength. The cold water quickly covered his chest, but the girl behind him never made a sound.
But it was too late. The dark water had already overflowed the side of the ship and poured in through the gaps on the deck. The last trace of firelight in the cabin was completely extinguished, and it was plunged into darkness.
"No one can save me... No one can save me... But I don't want to die like this... I want to find my sister and avenge my parents! I - I want to live!"
The young man knew that he might never be able to leave here alive, but he still struggled to hold his last breath in his chest, rowed his arms, and swam. The biting cold soon grabbed his throat and flooded his mouth and nose.
It finally reached the top of my head. The moment the bitter sea water entered my lungs, it was like a burning pain.
Jiang Yan tightly pressed his chest with both hands, which seemed to be about to burst, but he still choked a few large mouthfuls of water uncontrollably, and then violently convulsed in the sea.