"What a great idea. Let's take a cue from the cauldron and make them have no food or drink. Let's see how they hold on." Liang Qi shouted.
Gao Muqing frowned and said, "But aren't their supplies hoarded on the small island to the east? There is no way to sneak into it. The entire island is empty and guarded by thousands of people. This is absolutely impossible."
Lin Jue shook his head and said: "You can't get to that island. It's a road to death. That day, Hai Dongqing deliberately showed the defensive strength of the island to tell us not to try to get there. But Hai Dongqing
I can’t believe everything Dong Qing said. I estimate that it’s impossible for all the supplies on Peach Blossom Island to be stored on the small island to the east. Firstly, the island has limited storage of supplies, and secondly, it is very inconvenient to transport them back and forth. For example, this
Can that trestle still be walked on due to the weather? The sea below cannot ship goods, so how will the materials on Peach Blossom Island be supplied? I think it is possible to say that there is a backup storage warehouse, but this island must
There is a place for storage, that's for sure. Hai Dongqing will never hand over the lifeblood of these soldiers on the island to the people on the small island over there. Otherwise, once the pirates over there rebel and they can't attack them, wouldn't they all be killed?
Starve to death."
"It makes sense. Mr. Lin's words are very true. Hai Dongqing is such a subtle and cunning person, there is no way he would leave such hidden dangers." Liang Qi nodded repeatedly with a salted fish tail in his mouth.
"But where are the supplies on this island stored? We don't know." Gao Muqing said.
Lin Jue said with a smile: "So we have to catch him alive and ask. There is an arrow tower not far to the north. We have to go get him. This time we must catch him alive and ask. Moreover, it is not just the people on the island who are asked.
In this situation, we will definitely not be able to wander around on the island. We need to know the passwords and routes, and we need to catch people alive."
Gao Muqing used a branch to pin Lin Jue's hair into a bun, nodded and said: "Without further ado, let's go and catch him alive. It's all the fault of that bastard just now for seeking death, otherwise we would have saved ourselves the trouble."
The three of them stood up immediately. This time they had tools to protect themselves from the rain, which were the raincoats and bamboo hats that the bandits were equipped with in rainy days. The three of them took off the raincoats and bamboo hats from the wall, put them on, and left the arrow tower hut and entered the wind and rain again.
The arrow tower on the top of the cliff in the north was not far away, only a few hundred steps away. However, the mountain road was difficult to walk in the darkness, so the three of them had to carefully fumble their way forward, and finally approached the arrow tower dozens of steps away.
We returned to the right path, which was a winding path leading to the Arrow Tower.
But this path was completely exposed to the view of the arrow tower, so that the three of them were discovered by the pirates in the arrow tower when they were more than ten steps away.
A pirate poked his head out of the lighted hut under the tower and shouted to the three black figures approaching with bamboo hats: "Who is it? Password!"
Lin Jue and the others didn't know the password. They had been on the island for many days. They heard the password exchanges between the bandits on the island almost every day. But every day was actually a different password. Xu Xing, the military advisor of Peach Blossom Island
Perhaps in order to show his identity as a scholar, he used poems as passwords, changing them every day or every three to five days. Even the top scholars would never guess the passwords on the island, because these poems were written by Xu Xing himself
's masterpiece.
"One of our own." Lin Jue and others responded vaguely without stopping.
"Stop, I'm asking for your password. The long river flows eastward into the sea."
The pirate was so anxious that he even uttered the first sentence of the password. Originally, the other party should have said this sentence first, and his side replied with the sentence "Five mountains on the sky". This was regarded as a match, and he was one of his own.
"Quickly answer the password, otherwise you'll be rude." Seeing that the other three didn't respond, the pirate shouted angrily. Several pirates in the room who were sitting around chatting and laughing were also alerted and turned towards them one after another.
Coming to the door.
"The long river flows eastward into the sea." A pirate drew his sword and shouted loudly, listening carefully to the next sentence.
"Cut your dog's head off." Lin Jue shouted.
"What? No, no, your password is wrong." One of the pirates was not very smart and thought that Lin Jue's words were the password for the answer. However, the other pirates immediately felt that something was wrong, and they had already drawn their weapons.
.
As soon as Lin Jue said "cut off your dog's head", Gao Muqing, who was beside him, already drew his knife and rushed forward. Liang Qi also drew his knife and rushed forward. The distance of seven or eight steps was reached in an instant, and the steel knife in Gao Muqing's hand flashed with cold light.
, with lightning speed, he had already chopped down one person. The other bandit soldiers shouted in shock and raised their weapons to resist. Gao Muqing blocked the door and killed two people in a row. Liang Qi arrived from behind and rushed into the house with Gao Muqing.
, after a loud bang of ping ping ping pong, everything calmed down.
It only took a short moment for Lin Jue to rush to the front of the house from seven or eight steps away. When Lin Jue appeared at the door of the house, the fight was over. Five pirates were lying dead on the spot, and one pirate was already pale and held up his hands.
Liang Qi reached the corner of the room with his weapon.
Lin Jue raised his thumb towards Gao Muqing and Liang Qi and praised: "Great job." Then he jumped up the stairs and climbed to the top of the arrow tower. Only then did Gao Muqing realize his mistake, he actually forgot to check the situation on the top of the arrow tower.
, if there are pirates hiding up there, they may have already sent out the signal.
Lin Jue climbed up and checked carefully, but there was no one there. The surroundings were still the same, and the fight did not trigger any reaction elsewhere. There was nothing unusual in a pirate camp with flickering fire a few miles away.
There was movement. Only then did I feel relieved.
The survivor was forced to squat on the ground, holding his head in his hands and wondering what he was thinking.
Lin Jue walked up to him, patted his shoulder with the back of his knife and asked in a deep voice: "Raise your head."
The pirate raised his head. This man's face was covered in black pockmarks, and he looked very ferocious. His eyes were shining with unruly light, and he was shaking his head without fear.
"Listen, I'll ask a question, and you answer a question. If you make any lies or don't answer, I'll chop you with a knife. Do you understand?" Lin Jue shouted.
"Kill me, I won't answer your questions. I'm a dead man. Don't think I don't know. If I answer you, you still want to kill me." The pirate said angrily.
Lin Jue frowned and said, "How do you know we will definitely kill you?"
The pirate said: "I just know that we all do this. We won't leave anyone alive if we catch them."
Lin felt speechless. This gang of pirates were brutal and they must have killed more people on a daily basis. No matter whether they resisted or cooperated, they would eventually kill him, so he thought he was dead.
"You are wrong. You are you and I am me. I keep my word. I said I won't kill you, so I won't kill you. As long as you answer my questions honestly."
"You swear. If you don't keep your word, God will take you away." The pirate shouted.
"Fuck you, you are still bargaining. I will kill you now." Liang Qi couldn't stand it any longer, so she kicked the pirate with her foot, drew out the steel knife and gestured.
Lin Jue hurriedly waved his hand to stop him. This was a thoughtful pirate, and he knew how to use an oath to force himself not to kill him. These days, people believe in their promises, but he didn't expect that the pirates would also do this.
"That's all, I promise you. As long as you tell the truth, I won't kill you. If you break your promise, you will ask God to accept me." Lin Jue raised his hand and swore.
The pirate then nodded and said, "Okay, remember your oath and ask."
Lin Jue said: "What's your name?"
"My name is Chen Mazi. I am 2 out of 40 this year, and I am a member of the T-shaped Arrow Tower Team of the West Post Camp. What else do you want to know? My height..."
"Okay, okay, enough is enough, you don't have to go into details." Lin Jue stopped him in a hurry. He was afraid that there was something wrong with him. If he didn't stop him, he might even reveal the color of his underwear.
"Do you know what happened on your island a few days ago?" Lin Jue asked again.
"What are you asking about? A lot of things happened on our island in the past few days. Li Ergou fell down the slope and hurt his butt when he pooped, or that idiot Zhang Yuer got stuck after eating dried fish.
Throat? Or the incident where the eldest son of the island owner rebelled?"
Lin Jue and others were completely speechless. This guy was a fool, and he actually compared the major event of rebellion on the island with the trivial matter of shitting and eating fish. It didn't look like he was deliberately pretending to be stupid, I'm afraid he really had a brain problem.
"Of course it was the eldest son's rebellion. Can you tell me what happened next?" Lin Jue asked.
"So this is what happened. What else could happen? The eldest son actually dared to rebel. How could the island owner spare him? After the island owner came back, hundreds of people who followed the eldest son in rebellion were beheaded by the island owner.
, the corpses were pushed into the sea to be fed to sea tigers. We all went to see them, they really deserved to die. If you dare to betray the island owner, you deserve to die."
Lin Jue frowned and said, "Where is the eldest young master? How is he?"
"The eldest son? He is hanging on the flagpole of the Juyi Hall. The island owner said he would hang him for seven to forty-nine days and let the sea eagle eat up all his flesh." Chen Mazi said loudly.
Lin Jue and others were all shocked. They all thought that Jiang Jinfu might die, but they didn't expect that it would be such a cruel way of death. He would be hung on the flagpole for seventy-seven forty-nine days. Hai Dongqing's heart was broken.
That's really tough. After all, he was his son. Even if he wanted to kill him, it would be over with just one chop. Why be so vicious?
"Also, in the past few days, many people from the Guishan Island cottage who participated in the rebellion have floated back to Taohua Island, and we have fished them all out. Seven or eight people died soon after landing, and more than 20 people were imprisoned.
In the dungeon. The island owner said that they will be treated well in a few days." Chen Mazi said.
"What? You mean, there are still people from Guishan Island who floated back alive?" Gao Muqing said in surprise.
"Yes, but they don't have long to live. Those people are going to die. If it weren't for the officers and soldiers who were about to attack and the island owner didn't have time to take care of them, they wouldn't have survived tonight."
Gao Muqing cried with joy. The more than 100 people he brought with him were all affected this time. He thought that only a few survived, but he didn't expect that more than 20 people floated back to Peach Blossom Island alive. This is really great news.
Lin Jue nodded slightly to her, and felt quite comforted in his heart. Originally, Lin Jue had always felt guilty about this matter. Although these more than a hundred people were originally a death squad, and they had no intention of leaving alive when they came to the island, after all, it was because his plan failed.
As a result, Lin Jue felt ashamed that he had to escape from Peach Blossom Island and encountered a hurricane. Now that he heard that there were still more than 20 people alive, Lin Jue was naturally very happy.
