Most of the hatred in this world is superficial and boring.
For example, in today's Internet age, two people who don't know each other can easily get into an argument online over things like which character in a comic is stronger or weaker, or which of two games is more fun.
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Within half an hour, the two of them were sitting in front of the computer, blowing each other's breath until they shivered, wishing that the person on the other side of the network cable would die on the spot.
Is this considered hatred?
Of course it was calculated, but it was just temporary, meaningless hatred.
As time goes by, when the person involved looks back and thinks about it, he or she will feel that it is insignificant, or that they have long forgotten about it.
But there is still some hatred that cannot be erased by time.
It cannot be resolved after both parties understand each other or one of the parties makes some compensation...
This kind of sworn hatred can only be resolved by a life-or-death ending.
Don't listen to what people say, "There is only emptiness left after revenge." You will feel empty after you do it, but you will feel happy and satisfied when you do it.
Revenge is the same thing.
This is the mentality of Kang Haijiao at this moment.
On the premise that he would definitely be able to complete his revenge today, he was ready to enjoy the foreplay and process, and was not in a hurry to kill his enemy immediately.
Therefore, he would say "settling accounts".
But he didn't expect that as soon as he finished speaking, Huang Donglai on the opposite side said: "Okay!"
After Brother Huang said hello, he turned to look at Sun Yixie: "Brother Sun, you heard it. If they want to settle accounts, I'll leave this place to you. I'll go back over there and kneel down."
"What is it?" Sun Yixie asked all the disciples to come up, "You just leave it to me?"
"Eh? Didn't he want to settle accounts?" Huang Donglai responded confidently, "Then think about it... It was you who kicked him into the ditch in the Dragon King Cave, right? When we were in Dengzhou, you were also the one who used tricks.
It hurt him, right? What does it have to do with me?"
As soon as he said this, he heard a shout from the side: "Nonsense!"
Everyone, this roar is not from Brother Sun, but from Kang Haijiao.
"You think I don't know that you were chasing me with a hidden weapon behind my back in the Dragon King's Cave?" Kang Haijiao clearly remembers the plot at that time. "Just say it has nothing to do with you, and I will let you go."
?Then why did I call you out in the first place?"
"Ha! Haha, hahahaha~" Sun Yixie heard this and immediately laughed happily at Huang Donglai.
"Smile! I'll fuck you to death!" Huang Donglai said this back with a look of displeasure.
"Come on! I'm afraid of you?" Sun Yixie also choked back immediately.
Immediately afterwards, the two men began to fight on the deck as if no one was watching. Of course... it was still the "pretend, don't hurt the muscles and bones" approach.
However, when Kang Haijiao saw this, he was a little confused. He couldn't help but secretly wonder: What is going on between these two people? Are they just superficial brothers... secretly wanting to see each other die?
"Okay! Why are you two playing monkeys here?" After watching it for a while, Kang Haijiao felt that this scene was too painful and almost ruined his mood for revenge, so he shouted again and stopped the farce between Sun and Huang.
Then, he turned back and ordered to the minions behind him, "Brothers, put a 'cage' on these two grandsons!"
"yes!"
"okay!"
The pirates got the order and responded one after another. Immediately, five or six people came out to "capture" Sun and Huang and took them aboard the pirate ship nearby.
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai... didn't resist, because they also wanted to play with the giant sea dragon again. After all, it was boring for them to stay in the cabin every day since they went to sea. Finally, they had fun. It was so simple.
He wasted a bit.
So what is the "cage" that Kang Haijiao is talking about at this moment? It is actually a torture instrument that he found someone to make specifically to torture and kill prisoners.
This thing is not complicated at all. Its main body is a metal cage that can hold an adult. There is an iron chain attached to the top of the metal cage, and the iron chain is wrapped around the rotating shaft on the side of the ship.
During "execution", the person is stuffed into a cage, the iron chains are loosened, and the cage is sunk into the sea. When the person in the cage is drowning and is about to die, he is pulled up again, and the cycle starts over and over again...so that the person being tortured can survive.
No, I can't die.
Some people may be wondering after seeing this, isn't it a bit troublesome to do this? Wouldn't it be more convenient to just tie the person's feet with iron chains and then throw the green onions upside down into the sea?
In fact, it's not impossible, but this method will cause other problems. For example, after the other party enters the water, he bends down and gets up to remove the chains on his feet with his hands, or what if he grabs the chains with his hands and climbs out of the water?
In order to avoid this, you have to tie the opponent's hands and tie them behind their backs, but this still cannot solve the problem of "bending over". As long as you can bend over, you will have a way to adjust your posture underwater. Then people will use
How about "rolling" yourself up sideways along the chain from your waist?
To solve this problem, a further way is to put a thicker wooden stake behind the opponent's back, and then wrap his hands around the wooden stake to tie him behind his back, so that the other person cannot bend down.
But in order to prevent the wooden stake from detaching from the opponent's back, we have to find a way to connect and fix the wooden stake to the iron chain. Then we have to consider the problem that the wood may rot if soaked in sea water several times...
Did you realize when you heard this? A metal cage saves trouble.
Of course, if you have to argue, "water torture" doesn't actually need to be carried out in the sea. You can get a bucket or a water tank or something, or a wet cloth, and have a few people hold down the tortured person, and you can do it on the deck.
However, doing that on the scene... is far less impressive than using this "cage".
The reason why Kang Haijiao installed three or five such "cages" on the side of his pirate ship was to show the execution process to the passengers on the hijacked ship for fun.
According to his habit, as long as conditions permit (usually unless the weather is bad or the sky is too dark), every time he robs, he will pick out a few thorn heads from the robbed ship and put them in a "cage" for torture.
And asked other hijacked passengers to come to the side of the ship to watch.
Seeing those tortured people begging in pain and dying miserably in the cage, other people on the ship usually quickly lose their will to resist and survive out of fear. In order not to become the next person to enter the "cage", their only thoughts are
Downloaded "Quick Death".
And today, the "thorn heads" chosen by Kang Haijiao are undoubtedly Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai.
Not long after, the pirate gangsters locked the two goods in two adjacent cages on the side of the pirate ship. The passengers on the merchant ship were also quickly rushed to their side of the ship, preparing to
Watch a play.
"Sun, do you have anything you want to tell me before we go into the water?" Kang Haijiao was still standing on this side of the merchant ship because he could see the other side clearly from this side.
"Ha... do you think that I will definitely say some cruel words to you now?" Sun Yixie had already seen through the other person's thoughts, so he continued, "Then after being tortured by you, I will
If you change your words and beg you, then you can use the words I say now to mock me?"
When Kang Haijiao heard this, he said, "Have you predicted my prediction?"
However, he felt that "I have the advantage" and did not get angry because of this. He just smiled confidently and said: "Just take it as a good thing, then do you want to say it?"
"Ha!" Sun Yixie sneered and tilted his head slightly in the cage, "Brother Huang, tell me."
This was really not a fight, but because he had already noticed that Huang Donglai had poisoned Kang Haijiao when he was arguing on the deck, so he asked Huang Donglai to respond.
Some people may ask, Sun Yixie doesn't know how to use poison, at least he doesn't know the more advanced poisoning techniques, and what Huang Donglai used must be the clever methods of Huangmen in Shuzhong, so why didn't anyone notice it?
Can Brother Sun see what Huang Donglai "has done"?
Damn, I’ve seen too much.
This is like two people who have played against each other for hundreds or thousands of games, and can react to each other's various operational details, operating habits and minor problems without thinking... To put it more simply, if the other party sticks out their butt, you will
You just know what shit you want to poop.
"Okay." Huang Donglai also understood it, so he took over the conversation and said to Kang Haijiao, "Kang Haijiao, listen carefully, we two brothers will go to the sea to visit now and chat by the way. When we get tired of playing,
, the last person to be soaked in the sea is you!"
"Humph...that's it?" Hearing this, Kang Haijiao thought to himself that you, the young master of the Huang Clan, have too little aggression. People who were tortured by me in the past had to curse me a few times, and they couldn't curse me a few times.
It's so bad... You're good, what's a "visit", what's a "chat", and in the end it's just a sentence of "I will go into the sea"? Does this count as scaring people?
His idea is correct according to general logic.
After all, in the eyes of Kang Haijiao, the other party is already in a situation where death is certain. In this situation, there is no need to be cautious in speaking. It must be as unpleasant as it sounds, and it must be as unpleasant as the scolding. You can intimidate as much as you want... Why bother to consider whether you can
What about implementation?
But it's different from Huang Donglai's point of view - everything he said at this moment was serious, and there was no element of bragging.
"Yeah, that's it, isn't it enough?" Huang Donglai replied immediately.
"Oh?" Kang Haijiao saw that the other party had a calm attitude and did not show any fear until now. He couldn't help but secretly pick a thumbs up in his heart and said, "Okay... you have the guts. You two are worthy of being young heroes in the martial arts.
He didn't lose his grace even when he was about to die, I, Kang Haijiao, have to say I admire him."
But after saying this, Kang Haijiao was not polite and immediately shouted to the minions: "Brothers, wait for me!"
The group of pirate minions shouted again, and then the few minions guarding the axis got busy. It didn't take long to loosen the iron chain and pull the two metal chains holding Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai away.
The cage sank into the sea.
At this moment, Eunuch Wei, who was standing on the side of the merchant ship opposite and watching, was secretly sweating for them.
Eunuch Wei must have known about the various behaviors of the people in the Hunyuan Star Gate before and after the "Thirteen Dead Animals Incident", so he also knew that they should have some skills in magic and the like.
Even if we don't talk about magic, two people with inner strength should be able to rest in water for longer than ordinary people.
In addition, Kang Haijiao obviously wanted to torture them, and he would definitely not drown the two of them the first time he sank...
To sum up, it stands to reason that Eunuch Wei has nothing to worry about.
But this is not afraid of 10,000, just in case...
The emperor's order was for him to send people to Japan. In other words, as long as Sun and Huang landed in Nagasaki, it would be none of Eunuch Wei's business even if they were hacked to death as soon as they left the port; but if this
The two of them died in the hands of pirates just a few days after leaving Zhoushan. They didn't even see Japan, so it was hard for him to explain.
At that time, even if Eunuch Wei kills everyone on the two ships, it will be useless, because there are still people in charge of the connection in Nagasaki...
Although those local "Japanese traitors" only use money to do things and are not very loyal to Da Zhao, at least they will report and contact Da Zhao regularly.
Suppose that Shuang Xie died here today, and Wei Qian immediately killed all the witnesses, then found a place to hide for a few months, and then made up a lie that Shuang Xie died in Japan and returned to life. That might have been concealed.
For a while, but as soon as the matter was brought up again when the imperial court was in regular contact with the Japanese traitor in Nagasaki, it would immediately be revealed that Wei Qian and Shuang Xie had not shown up in Nagasaki at all.
So if this matter really needs to be covered up, Wei Qian will have to kill everyone on the ship, then find other ways to go to Japan, and find two other people to impersonate Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai during the trip.
After the three of them showed up at the contact in Nagasaki, Wei Qian quietly killed the two impostors, forged a plausible cause of death, and then burned the two corpses to ashes and brought them back.
Dazao... Only in this way can the treatment be basically clean.
As for the option of "bribing the connectors", it was not within the scope of his consideration from the beginning, because that group of people can even betray their own country and nation, which means that it is not reliable to bribe them. Today they can do it for
If you say one thing about your money, you can say two things about other people's money tomorrow.
"Well..." In less than two minutes, Eunuch Wei had already gone through the above series of countermeasures and various worst-case scenarios in his mind, and then he groaned, and he almost wanted to take action.
He is confident that as long as he takes action, in two breaths, he can kill all the pirates who have boarded the merchant ship, including Kang Haijiao. Then he will use Qinggong to fly to the opposite pirate ship and scare the others.
Well, and threatened the people responsible for turning the chains to pull up the cage.
Assuming that it would take a few more seconds for those people to pull the cage out of the sea, then Eunuch Wei would only need half a minute to help Shuang Xie return to the sea.
"Almost done, get up!" Unexpectedly, just when Eunuch Wei was about to make a move, Kang Haijiao spoke first.
This move undoubtedly saved his life...of course it was only temporary.
Although there is no timing device, most people like Kang Haijiao, who often spend time at sea and are familiar with water, have an idea of how long it takes to hold their breath.
The time that ordinary people can hold their breath is usually between thirty seconds and one minute. Anything longer than one minute is considered to have strong cardiopulmonary function, and this is just a theoretical value in a relatively safe and calm environment. In actual practice,
When it is necessary to hold your breath, this time is often shortened; for example, if you lie in bed and look at the timer on your phone to hold your breath, it will definitely be longer than if you were thrown into the sea.
Therefore, after two minutes of drowning in Shuanghe, Kang Haijiao made a mental evaluation and felt that it was "almost".
Even if they are martial arts practitioners, they cannot be too optimistic. If the attack lasts only five minutes and the person they pick up the first time has drowned, then the torture effect will not be achieved.
Hissing, ringing, ringing... clattering...
Along with the sound of the iron chains hinged and the water coming out of the iron cages, the two small cages holding Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai respectively quickly surfaced and reappeared in everyone's sight.
But the state of the two of them really exceeded everyone's expectations.
I saw that the two of them were still talking while they were out of the water, and it felt like they were halfway talking.
"...Look at what I said, two minutes."
"Damn it, forget it, I'll give you a meal of Japanese food."
Looking at this state, these two people seem to be really "chatting" underwater.
So what's going on?
It's very simple. Huang Donglai used a small method in the "Twelve Truths" to allow them to breathe and talk underwater. So as he just said, for them, the two minutes just now were really...
"Visit" and "chat" below sea level.
Of course, the "visiting" part was found to be invalid after they sank, because the visibility under the sea surface in most sea areas is actually very low, and you can't see anything at all. Even if you dive in during the day, it will be dark.
It's so dark that you can see things within a few meters at most. The kind of underwater shots you see on the Internet or in movies and TV shows where everything is clear and transparent and you can observe various fish and corals are only found in very few places.
scenery.
As for "chatting", in the two minutes just now, Sun Huang, besides discussing the next countermeasures, was making a bet...betting on how long it would take for Kang Haijiao, the "first sinker", to pull them up.
In addition, Shuangxie also secretly did another thing underwater, but what this thing was, let’s keep it secret for now.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Talking about Kang Haijiao, when he saw that the two people came up, not only did they not look in any pain, but they were still chatting. The desire to complain and the anger were rising together, "Look.
I'm here to look down on you two... But, you guys, you've been down there for so long and you've done nothing, and you're still chatting there... You're not afraid of drowning, are you? You're in a cage, right? I..."
He was just about to say something more when he suddenly noticed that the scenery in front of him began to change. The deck under his feet moved to the side of his sight for some reason.
"Boss! What's wrong with you? Boss!" Immediately afterwards, the shouts of his subordinates rang in Kang Haijiao's ears.
Only then did he realize that while he was speaking, his body had fallen down and was lying on his side.
The strange thing is that even though his body suddenly fell to the ground, Kang Haijiao's mind didn't feel dizzy at all, and he was still very awake. It was just that his hands and feet seemed to be out of his control, and his limbs were moving randomly involuntarily.
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The book here hints that the thing in Kanghai Jiao, called "I'm Not Drunk", was an unexpected gain when the ancestors of Huangmen were developing medical elixirs, so it was later classified as a poison.
People who are poisoned by this poison will be fine for the first few minutes, and then they will gradually develop symptoms similar to Huntington's disease. However, Huntington's disease will last for years or even decades from onset to worsening, but "I am not drunk" attacks.
It usually gets worse every five or six minutes.
"You... what did you do?" After being helped up by his men and facing the side of the ship again, Kang Haijiao shouted to Shuang Xie in the cage opposite.
By now, he had naturally guessed that this was probably the fault of the young master of the Huang Clan, so he asked this question.
"You have already guessed that I did it, so you shouldn't ask this question." Huang Dong replied.
Kang Haijiao heard the words, thought about it, and found that what the other party said was reasonable, so he immediately changed the question: "What will it take for you to hand over the antidote?"
"That's easy to say." Huang Dong replied, "If you release us and everyone on the boat, and promise not to lead people back again, I will give you the antidote."
Kang Haijiao thought for a few seconds: "Aren't you afraid...I promise you first that after the antidote takes effect, I will sail back to kill you?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Huang Donglai smiled and said: "Are you afraid that the antidote I gave you is fake?"
As soon as these words came out, Kang Haijiao fell silent, and he quickly understood what the other party meant: In this case, neither party has a complete guarantee that they will not be deceived after the transaction, so in order for the transaction to be established, they must
We can only unconditionally trust each other to keep our promises.
"Okay! Just what a man would say..." Kang Haijiao came up with this idea after he thought through it.
"...It's hard to chase a horse." Huang Donglai also caught up.
To make a long story short, after both parties confirmed that they wanted to trade, Kang Haijiao ordered Shuangxie to be released.
Now he doesn't dare to act rashly.
First of all, from just now to now, Shuang Xie's various behaviors have given him the impression that he is "not afraid of death at all", so he uses death threats and other methods to force the other party to hand over the antidote... Kang Haijiao will not do it.
He believes that this will only anger the other party and cause them to fight him to the death.
Secondly, a person like Huang Donglai must have a lot of poisons and antidotes on his body, and no one except him himself would know which ones they were. Killing him directly and then finding the antidote from the corpse would not work.
Also... threatening them with hostages into submission was not something Kang Haijiao had never thought about, but he was not sure what happened to the poison he was poisoned with. Who knows how long it would take for this thing to cause death, and whether it would cause some kind of permanent
Sexual injury... He doesn't have that much time to negotiate with the other party.
Therefore, "trading" according to Huang Donglai's request is his best choice at present.
From Kang Haijiao's point of view, the credibility of the other party's young hero must be much better than that of a pirate, and he should not come out with a fake antidote; to take a step back, assuming that Huang Donglai really cheated him with a fake antidote,
After he was poisoned, his men would definitely turn the ship around to avenge him, so keeping him alive and praying that he would keep his promise after detoxification was the only way for him to survive.
So will he keep his promise?
Definitely not. As we said at the beginning of this book, Kang Haijiao and Shuang Xie have an sworn hatred. If he is cured of the poison, he will definitely break the agreement immediately and lead his people to sail back to kill him. And this time he will
In order to prevent further poisoning, they would not even board the ship, but would just fire cannons to sink the opponent's ship.
"Then, please." After handing a sealed vial to Kang Haijiao's man, Huang Donglai calmly asked him to leave.
Kang Haijiao didn't say much, and immediately called his men and asked them to use the wooden planks to take him back to the pirate ship.
The bribed captain and the crew members who were with him naturally followed the pirates and evacuated the pirate ship. After all, if they continued to stay on the merchant ship, they would only be torn apart by other crew members and passengers.
There was no conversation between the two sides, and the two ships then separated, each heading in one direction.
According to the agreement with Huang Donglai, Kang Haijiao must wait at least until the two ships separate and set sail before taking the antidote. The antidote will slowly take effect a quarter of an hour after taking it, and Kanghai Jiao will be back to his original state after a while.
But in fact, before the two ships were completely separated, Kang Haijiao, who returned to the pirate ship, had quietly asked his men to pour the antidote on him.
He was obviously very anxious, fearing that the fifteen-minute sailing time would cause him to be unable to catch up with the merchant ship.
Fortunately, his worries were unnecessary... because his ship would sink in less than a quarter of an hour.
Just now when they were underwater, the "other thing" Sun Huang did was that Sun Yixie reached out of the cage, took out his trident, and cut several meters long in the bottom of the pirate ship, closing the cracked but not cracked holes.
, and then Huang Donglai imposed a restriction on those incisions that would prevent leakage in a short period of time.
Have you ever seen boiled chestnuts? When boiling chestnuts, first make a few shallow cuts on the chestnuts with a knife. After heating, these cuts will naturally open up to all sides, making it easier to peel them after cooking.
Now the ship Kanghai Jiao is like a chestnut that has been cut open. In a while, the bottom of the ship will "open wide", and because a huge hole will suddenly burst open like a dike bursting, the sudden rush of water will
As a result, the surrounding areas of this opening quickly began to collapse, so the actual damage to the ship's hull would be much greater than what Sun Yixie had mapped out.
Although the antidote Huang Donglai gave to Kang Haijiao was indeed real, less than five minutes after Kang Haijiao took it, his pirate ship began to sink...
How could the panicked pirates care about their boss at this moment? It was too late to escape for their own lives.
After discovering that the ship was almost certain to sink, the pirates on the ship almost immediately started fighting each other over the few escaping boats. Kang Haijiao, whose body was out of control, lay on the deck and twisted randomly as if having a convulsion.
He moved and shouted, but no one paid any attention to him. He could only watch his brothers consume themselves rapidly...
Finally, when only the last seventeen or eighteen members of the pirate group, which numbered more than a hundred, were left, the fighting finally stopped.
The position on the boat is enough.
Not only was it big enough for these seventeen or eight people to ride on, it was even big enough for them to lift the Kang Hai Jiao aboard.
As a result, the remaining people did not forget their boss. Before boarding the boat, they really came to Kang Haijiao, and then... stabbed Kang Haijiao with dozens of knives in various vital parts of his body. The result was
his life.
There is no way, because he, the boss, has no credibility or benevolence at all. The juniors are also afraid that if he regains his ability to move soon, he will blame them and settle accounts with them.