Chapter 79 Scene Nine ? The Tiger and the Wolf ? Four
Chapter 79: Act 9: Tiger and Wolf Waiting Four
Several days passed. In the cold and damp cell below the deck of the black ship, Ning Yue and Qi Zi were sitting in the corner, talking quietly to each other.
Jiang Yan did not join them, he just tried hard to find a way to leave the cage. However, the strong iron bars in front of him were as thick as two fingers. The young men Xiao Tianmo and Yue Yan had also been killed by the enemy before. He searched. No matter how many methods he tried, he couldn't bend the iron bars even an inch.
After a long time, the sweaty black-eyed boy finally realized that even if he had extraordinary physical strength, he would never be able to break the iron prison with his bare hands, so he had no choice but to lower his head and sit back beside his two companions in frustration.
"Little Stammer, I have long advised you not to waste your efforts in vain, but you refused to listen. Now, you have exhausted all your energy, right?"
Seeing this, the red-haired girl turned her head and smiled at him. Jiang Yan shrugged helplessly, but still stubbornly believed that he had done nothing wrong:
"I still have to give it a try. What if a way out can be opened? Speaking of which, what were you two talking about just now?"
"Ning Yue and I were just guessing about the origins of those powerful weapons on the black ship. Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered, do you still remember the fireworks that are set off in the palace every New Year?"
Without waiting for Ning Yue to answer, Qi Ziyin continued to discuss the previous topic in a serious manner.
Jiang Yan and the red-haired girl looked at each other, but they vaguely guessed what the other party meant, and asked in unison: "Zi Yin, do you mean that there is some relationship between fireworks and the weapons on this black ship?"
Qi Ziyin nodded and continued to explain: "What you don't know is that the fireworks used in the palace are a powder called black flame medicine, which is mixed with saltpeter and sulfur. The smell after lighting is quite special. I should not admit my mistake."
"So, the iron bullets that penetrated the building that night were also fired with these black flames? How is this possible! Every year when watching fireworks, all that falls from the sky is some burnt kraft paper and mud Pill fragments. If this black flame medicine can even push such a heavy iron pill, wouldn't it be too dangerous to set it off within the palace wall?"
The black-eyed boy shook his head vigorously, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
Qi Ziyin seemed to be quite confident in his speculation: "I once saw in the palace's collection of books that the formula for pure black flame medicine has been lost long ago. But the ancient ancestors once used a powerful medicine The principle of the weapon seems to be very similar to that of the black ship. Perhaps the people on the black ship accidentally found the secrets left by the ancestors, which is unknown..."
"Could it be that the map that Luo Jianli and the mysterious man took out from Baipi three years ago is actually related to this matter?!" Hearing what his companion said, Jiang Yan couldn't help but be startled, and subconsciously reached out to touch his already long-awaited map. His waist was empty, but he still shook his head: "But what completely destroyed the building ship was the inexplicable blue light on the bottom of the sea!"
Before he finished speaking, a skinny fisherman next to the three children suddenly turned over and sat up, and began to mutter in his mouth like a man possessed: "Those are all the evil spells of the Black Water Messenger! We are all dead, we are all dead." !No one can escape the clutches of the Black Water Messenger, no one!"
The other person had been huddled in the corner before, motionless, almost integrated into the cell, so that the three children thought he was just a dead object. The man seemed to have been imprisoned on the ship for a long time, and at this time it seemed that because
When I heard the three children mentioning the blue light in the sea, they recalled their terrible experiences before, and their voices became louder and louder.
The prisoners in the cage were originally sitting together in twos and threes, but when they suddenly heard such a shout, they all stood up nervously, causing quite a commotion in the cabin.
The noise also attracted a guard from the deck. As he entered the cabin, even though he did not say a word, all the prisoners immediately became quiet as if they had seen a ghost. In an instant, the originally noisy cabin
Only the sound of waves flowing past the sides of the ship can be heard, reminding that time is still passing slowly.
The guard walked slowly to the iron gate, his eyes like poisonous snakes wandering over the bodies of the people in the prison:
"Who was making such a loud noise just now?!"
The voice of the other party was not loud, but his cold tone made Jiang Yan shiver.
The trembling crowd around them seemed to be accustomed to such things. They all retreated with a tacit understanding, leaving only the three children standing there with the frightened fisherman, just like the sea.
It stands out like an isolated island.
"Little girl, was it you who yelled just now?"
The guard wearing a sea snake mask opened the cell door and walked in. He fiddled with the iron bars beside Ning Yue with the bright long knife in his hand, making a crisp sound that made the hair on his head stand on end.
The girl couldn't help but lower her head, not daring to look into the other person's eyes. When Jiang Yan saw this, he immediately stretched out his arms to block his companion: "Don't touch her!"
This move made the guard startled for a moment, and then he suddenly swung out his left hand with iron fingers, and immediately beat the young man's face with blood with a fist the size of a weight:
"You kid, you still want to stand up for others? Don't overestimate your capabilities! On this boat, you are just a group of animals. If anyone disobeys, he will be killed and drank tonight! I asked again, just now I shouted
Who is making the noise?!"
"It's me! I was the one yelling just now, don't hurt other people!"
Seeing that his companion was injured, Qi Ziyin quickly stepped forward to help. Unexpectedly, the guard stretched out his leg and deliberately tripped the unsuspecting young man's leg, causing him to fall heavily to the ground. He stared at this person from behind his mask
The boy, who was fair-skinned but overestimated his abilities, looked up and down, and suddenly burst into laughter, with a murderous intent in his laughter:
"When did Ye Guo's fleet master grow up with such weaklings and trash!?"
As he spoke, the guard raised his knife and dropped it, but he let go of the young man in front of him who openly contradicted him. Instead, he slashed the shoulder of the skinny fisherman next to him who was shaking like chaff and with a bloodless face. Although the knife did not cause any damage,
He exerted all his strength, but the blade still penetrated several inches deep into his body, causing the fisherman to immediately kneel to the ground in pain and wail heartbreakingly.
Then the guard pulled the long knife out of the injured man's shoulder and slashed it towards his neck. As if he wanted to deliberately torture the poor man in front of him who had already fallen into madness, the guard actually used the long knife in his hand as a hacksaw.
The fisherman pushed back and forth on his neck and cut off a head in front of everyone!
After the bloody killing, the cell was filled with bright red.
The guard swung the long knife sharply, and the blood on the blade immediately splashed on the faces of the three children. But he looked at Jiang Yan and Qi Ziyin, who were full of anger but did not dare to resist anymore, and laughed ferociously:
"I'm not going to be merciful this time, but the voices of the three of you don't sound like the people who yelled just now. Besides, the three of you are in better health than this damn lunatic. You have one life left. Maybe it can be of some use! But I won’t have such good luck next time, please be more honest!”
After the guard finished speaking, he locked the cell door again. Like a venomous snake that had just eaten a person, he swam out of the cabin carrying the severed head. The prisoners in the cell also seemed to be avoiding the plague. They all kept a considerable distance away from the three children who were covered in blood, and never dared to approach easily again.
The warm blood flowed along the floor and soon soaked Ning Yue's naked feet. The girl had already been frightened out of her mind by the hellish scene in front of her. In a daze, she suddenly felt someone pushing gently beside her. Pushing himself, he turned around and saw Qi Ziyin looking at him with a worried face. Only then could he hear some sounds again in his buzzing ears:
"Ning Yue, don't be afraid. Jiang Yan and I will definitely find a way to take you out of here! Although those people's methods are vicious, General Baili once said that the more vicious a person is, the more evil he will be in his heart. It’s just timidity, there’s nothing to be afraid of!”
The consolation did not calm the red-haired girl's mood. Now that life and death were uncertain, she could no longer worry so much. After sorting out her emotions for a while, she finally said what she had been holding in her stomach but didn't know how to speak. All the things about firebolts and muskets were told in detail:
"There is something I should have told you a long time ago. In fact - in fact, the black flame medicine used by these people wearing sea snake masks may, maybe, have something to do with Jinghaihou Qi Shouyu!"
"Uncle Wang? How is this possible! Although he has different political views with General Baili, he has been working conscientiously to support the country for many years. How could he do such a disobedient thing?"
Qi Ziyin was immediately startled by these words. But the black-eyed boy beside him nodded, indicating that what the girl said was not impossible:
"Zi Yin, think about it carefully. If your uncle Wang is really behind the scenes, then everything will make sense. After all, he could secretly manipulate Luo Jianli to do everything possible to seize the map from me three years ago. Now, He also knows the exact time and direction of the navy division’s departure to sea, and ordered the black ship to set up an ambush. Apart from him, who is the governor of the navy division, it is absolutely impossible for anyone in the Ye Kingdom to find another person!”
The red-haired girl also quickly added: "Yes. In addition, I also heard that there is evidence in the Jinghaihou Mansion that your uncle Wang may be secretly manufacturing a kind of firebolt gun." Firearms. It seems that the powerful fire-breathing weapon used by the black ship to attack us last night is probably related to him!"
However, in the face of such an accusation, Qi Ziyin still found it difficult to accept it for a while. Although he didn't like his uncle, he couldn't say he disliked him very much. It was even more unimaginable for what reason the other party would actually ask him. The blood relatives are facing each other with swords and weapons!
"Ning Yue, where did you get the news? Since you know so many things, why didn't you tell us earlier? If we had known that someone was planning to do evil to the captain, it would have been easier for us to deal with it. Maybe we were on board before Those soldiers would not have lost their lives in vain..."
The young man raised his amber pupils and looked at the girl in front of him. At this time, he was no longer the young master of Ye State who was pleasant to everyone, but seemed to have become a young king who was worried about his family, country and society.
"The reason... I can't tell you yet. Besides, I also know that the two of you only heard the news before traveling behind my back, and you have been hiding under the warehouse, so you didn't have time..."
Faced with doubts, Ning Yue suddenly became a little panicked. Because there were many secrets about herself, she didn't want to talk too much about the past, and she didn't want her two companions to know anything about Granny Cen. She didn't know how to explain it for a while. .
But Jiang Yan still read a clue from the girl's expression. He suddenly thought of the fishing boat in his dream, and the little girl with a necklace on the fishing boat.
Looking at the girl in front of him who he once thought was extremely innocent, but sometimes seemed as unfathomable as the sea, the black-eyed boy suddenly felt too much confusion and doubt in his heart. He had too many things to ask, and he stretched out his hand again. He took out the necklace the other party gave him from his arms and wanted to ask clearly in person.
However, before he had a chance to speak, Jiang Yan suddenly felt the black ship under his feet shake violently, and it had already stopped at the shore. Several warriors wearing sea snake masks walked down the deck and went straight into the cell without any explanation. After a moment's hesitation, the young man was forced into a corner by the sharp blade shown by the other party. He watched helplessly as Ning Yue was dragged out from in front of him by the warriors, and was never seen again.
Not long after, another group of heavily armed soldiers poured into the cabin, surrounded him and the rest of the people in the cell who were anxious, and tied his hands tightly with finger-thick hemp ropes, forming a long line. The team staggered out of the cabin amidst repeated beatings and scoldings.
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