When the wooden board was lifted up, before the other party could make any sound, Mingna shot an ice arrow and stabbed one of them in the face. Then Corbin rushed out and struggled with the other person. Minna found an opportunity to shoot an ice arrow at the man, and then kicked the first man in the vital part. Corbin took the opportunity to snatch the weapon from one of the "pirates", raised the knife with his hand, and killed them. .
His wound was torn during the struggle, and blood started to appear again. Mingna hurriedly used all the remaining hemostatic agents on him. He threw away the empty bottle and pulled Ming Na up: "Let's find another place to hide. It will be bad if we are discovered again."
Ming Na was puzzled: "Why don't we arrest all the bad guys on the boat? There are only a few people here now, and we can deal with them. We can sneak away on the boat and escape, don't you know how to drive a boat?"
"Don't be stupid. Their ship is so fast. Even the ten crew members didn't escape just now. How could the two of us do it?" Corbin tore off a strip of cloth from one of the pirates' clothes and actually looked at it. It was clean when it went up, so I just used it to tie the wound on my shoulder.
"But if we don't escape, we won't be able to escape once we get into the pirate's den."
"Pirates' den? Do you think they are really pirates? Where are the pirates' masters? They don't care about the river, let alone what the young master and the lady will like."
Ming Na was stunned: "You mean they are fake pirates?!" She knew that those people were not the Black Skeletons, but she didn't expect that they were not even pirates, so why did they board the ship to rob and kill
Corbin didn't answer, but directly pulled Ming Na out of the storage room. He carefully observed that there was no one in the activity room outside, and walked out gently. Although Ming Na wanted to know the answer, she would not cause him any trouble at this time. However, she felt that Corbin's character seemed a little different from before.
Someone was chatting outside the cabin. They seemed to have noticed the small movement in the storage room just now. Someone was already walking this way. Minna quickly followed Corbin and jumped out of the window, preparing to sneak into the cargo hold where she had hidden during the last trip to the Holy Mountain. The "pirates" have already searched there once, so it should be safe for the time being.
As soon as they turned the corner, they were unlucky enough to encounter a "pirate" who was washing the blood on the deck with sea water. He screamed when he saw them. Ming Na quickly fired an ice arrow to hit the opponent, and Corbin quickly made up for it.
Ming Na felt weak. She knew that too much magic power had been consumed and she didn't know how long she could hold on. Seeing someone coming towards her, she immediately pulled out the dagger from the "pirate's" waist and wanted to fight with them.
Although she thought so, Corbin obviously didn't think that a little girl under ten years old could deal with such vicious gangsters. He grabbed Minna and ran away. As soon as the little girl struggled, he simply picked her up and ran away. . While Ming Na shouted "Put me down", she could only wave the dagger to scare away the people attacking along the way. As soon as he escaped to the stern of the ship, he was surrounded by "pirates" who heard the sound.
Seeing the bad guys getting closer and closer, Mingna noticed that Corbin was trembling, and the wounds on his body had opened again during the fight just now. She gritted her teeth and was about to ask him to put her down and fight the enemy together, but she heard him suddenly say: "I can't say anything, please let me go. I still have my mother and sister to take care of. I I don’t want to die!” Ming Na was stunned and looked at him blankly.
The "pirates" were snickering, and some imitated Corbin's words "I don't want to die" in a weird tone, which made everyone laugh. But soon, someone discovered that a companion was dead, and they were furious and wanted to kill Corbin immediately. Bin was chopped into pieces... They believed that he was the murderer. As for Ming Na, no one thought she was capable of this.
The order to leave no one alive came from the big ship. Corbin yelled, raised his big knife and hit the "pirates", which immediately angered them. He also raised the knife and slashed at them. Minna threw out the dagger in her hand. After knocking off the incoming weapon, he felt that his whole body was suspended in the air and fell to the sea in the blink of an eye.
As soon as she hit the water, she realized that Corbyn had thrown her down, and he jumped into the water. Minna tried hard to swim to his side, but two long oars stretched out from the boat and separated them abruptly. In the chaos, Minna's wand fell out of her hand and she didn't know where it fell. In order to avoid the paddle that hit her head, she dived underwater. The paddle narrowly missed her head and made her heart beat fast.
After holding her breath for a while, Mingna couldn't help but emerge from the water, but found no sign of Corbin. The people on the boat immediately spotted her and shouted to hit her with oars. She took a deep breath and plunged into the water again. When she resurfaced, she found that the boat was almost a hundred meters away.
She looked around breathlessly and screamed secretly. Here is an endless sea with not even a reef, let alone an island. It is still half a day's boat ride from the mainland, and there is no shadow of land at all. What will she do if the boat leaves? There was no way she could swim to shore on her own.
The coldness of the sea seeped into her skin through her clothes, and her teeth began to chatter. Without thinking too much, she hurriedly started swimming towards the boat.
Just after swimming a few dozen meters, she heard a burst of cheers coming from the direction of the big ship. Ming Na's heart tightened, and she was worried about Corbin's safety.
She swam very carefully, trying to move as fast as possible but still carefully observing the situation on the boat. The small boat was hung behind the larger ship, and if anyone from either boat appeared at the stern, she would immediately dive into the water to avoid being discovered. In this way, she swam close to the boat, but when she was still twenty or thirty meters away, Mingna's hands and feet became so tired that she could hardly lift it up anymore, and her body sank uncontrollably into the water.
She couldn't help but want to cry, shouting in her heart: Grandpa, where are you? ! I'm very tired and hard, why don't you come to save me? !
I don't know if these thoughts reached the ears of the gods. When Mingna was about to despair, she suddenly saw a black shadow flashing across the water. When she looked closely, she saw that it was a rope. She immediately remembered that she had tied it to the railing as a prank the day before yesterday. Because she was afraid that Corbin would find it, she threw one end into the water and forgot about it afterwards. It seemed that no one had ever noticed it. The end now submerged in the water, although torn by fish bites, was still a rope. If she could grab that rope...
Ming Na didn't know where she got strength. She swung her weak hands and feet again and swam towards the rope. She finally got close to it, but the boat suddenly accelerated. She was unwilling to see the rope getting further and further away from her. He rushed over, grabbed the tail of the rope, and leaned against the boat with all his strength, but was choked by the water spray brought up by the boat as it moved forward, making him unable to breathe. She struggled to climb up, trying to avoid the splash. As soon as there were footsteps on the deck, she had to pull the rope and dive back into the water. Then she was shocked to discover the black shadow in the sea in the distance.
It's a shark!
She heard from her grandfather that it was one of the most terrifying creatures in the sea. Once a person encounters it, he will definitely escape death, so he must not bleed in the sea where sharks may be present.
Blood? Ming Na thought of the captain and crew members who had probably been sunk into the sea, and that Corbin was still injured when he jumped off the ship just now. Even she herself had blood on her hands. She couldn't help but feel cold in her heart. She took another look at the big black fish swimming around something unknown. Without caring about being discovered by the people on the boat, she suddenly emerged from the sea and climbed up on the rope. .
There seemed to be people on the deck standing by the railing watching the sharks. As soon as Mingna heard the sound of people, she calmed down and just tried her best to cling to the rope and hang herself outside the ship wall, hoping that once the shark swam over, she would climb onto the ship. . She tried hard not to let her injured hand come into contact with the sea water, so as not to attract the shark's attention.
The sharks still didn't swim over, probably because the food there was enough to satisfy their appetites. The boat was moving faster and faster. Gradually, Mingna felt that she could no longer hold on to the rope, and her hands became stiffer and colder. She was afraid that she would let go if she ran out of strength, so she hurriedly wrapped the rope around her hand twice. After a while, the skin on the hand was worn away by the rough surface of the hemp rope, and gradually became bloody and bloody.
Ming Na cried silently. Her whole body was cold, her hands and feet were weak, and her palms and backs were covered in blood. She kept choking on the sea water, but she didn't dare to cough out. She prayed that grandpa would come to save her quickly, or someone else would come and she would not drown in the sea, nor be killed by fake pirates, nor be eaten by sharks!
But crying would only consume her energy, but it would not bring her a savior. An hour later, she understood this. She wrapped the rope around her hand again to make it safer, and then let herself be dragged by the boat, slowly building up her strength.
I don't know how long it took, the sky gradually became dim, and it was night in a blink of an eye. Both ships slowed down, and the black skull and crossbones flag on the big ship was replaced by another flag. People were running back and forth on the deck. Minna heard those people reminding each other to change into uniforms, and then someone threw I dropped a few bags of stuff into the sea. I don’t know what they were. They were so heavy that they didn’t float after entering the water.
Someone on the big boat was shouting. It seemed that a boat was approaching and it was their accomplice. People in the boat ran to the other side of the boat and looked around. Ming Na was panicking. Now she was hanging on the outer wall on the left side of the boat. If another boat came over, she would probably be discovered!
She noticed that all the people in the boat had gone to the other side, and realized that this was a good opportunity. Regardless of the danger, she tried her best to climb up the rope. After being entangled for a long time, her hands were red and swollen, with bloodstains everywhere. She just endured the pain and finally climbed onto the edge of the boat.
As expected, there was no one on the deck, and even the oil lamp had been lifted to the other side. Ming Na moved on the deck with difficulty, remembering that she and Corbin were discovered because of blood stains before. She fisted her hands to prevent a trace of blood from leaving on the deck.
She finally climbed to the cargo hold at the stern of the ship, lifted up the hatch, climbed in, and closed the hatch. When she arrived at the bottom of the cabin, she managed to use a small lighting technique and saw that there was no one in the cabin. There were still a few large sacks piled in the corner, containing the pickled beans that the Camaika people were accustomed to eating, which gave off a sour smell. the smell.
Minna ignored the unpleasant smell, crawled over, covered her body with a sack, and breathed a sigh of relief. I thought, these fake pirates suddenly changed their flags and clothes. Could it be that they were about to reach their destination? If, as Corbin said, they were not pirates, could they be ordinary people? According to the ship's speed, we should arrive at the Port of Matter tonight. If the fake pirates are going to dock, does it mean that the place they are going to is not far from the Port of Matter
Ming Na secretly made up her mind to find a way to escape secretly when the ship docked, and then went to her mother and grandpa to let them vent their anger on her and avenge the crew members who were killed!
Thinking of Corbin whose whereabouts were unknown, she became sad again.
The clothes on her body had been soaked in seawater for a day and clung to her body, feeling indescribably cold and uncomfortable. Mingna knew that if she didn't dry her clothes or change them as soon as possible, she would definitely get sick, but now her whole body was too tired to move. , so I thought about taking a short rest first, and then using magic to dry my clothes. Just rest for a short while...
She drifted off to sleep.
In a daze, she was woken up by a burst of noise. She felt that her whole body was sore, her headache was about to explode, her face was hot, but her body was hot and cold, and her throat was so dry that it was smoking. As soon as her body moved, she found that her hands were tied behind her back by ropes, unable to move, and she couldn't help but be surprised.
How could she fall asleep? ! The bad guys must have discovered it!
After struggling for a few times, she realized that she was no longer in the cargo hold. This house was somewhere. It was very simple and looked like it was lived by poor people. She was lying on a wooden board that seemed to be a bed. A tattered quilt covered her body, and there was a water basin next to the "bed" with a strip of cloth draped over it.
where is this place
While Ming Na was in shock, the door opened and someone walked in. She immediately opened her eyes.
It's Corbyn!
She was overjoyed: "Corbin, you're not dead? That's great! I'm tied up, please let me go."
Corbin didn't say anything, but came over with a bowl of hot water and a piece of brown bread to feed Minna. Ming Na also felt hungry, so she ate from his hand and asked him to loosen her ties.
Corbin lowered his head and was silent for a long time, then whispered "I'm sorry." Mingna was a little strange: "Why do you say sorry? You threw me into the sea to save me."
"I can't untie you." Corbin still lowered his head. "They were very strict, and I didn't dare. They didn't find you until they arrived at the dock. They heard that someone was checking them, so they didn't dare to kill you directly. .Tomorrow, slave traders will come to pick you up. They...sold you..."
Ming Na wondered if she heard it wrong: "Corbin, what are you talking about?! Let me go quickly, let's run away together!"
"No, no..." Corbin made a sound that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I'm afraid of death. I want to live. If I die, my mother won't be able to live. My sisters will be sold and used as slaves. Prostitute...Miss Mingna, you have always lived a good life, so suffering a little is nothing. Don’t worry, I am not a bad person. As soon as I escape, I will go to your family and ask them to rescue you."
"Stop talking!" Ming Na was a little angry and tried hard to break free from the rope in her hands, "Let me go!"
"I'm sorry, I can't let go." Corbin wiped his face, "I killed their people and was caught again. If I hadn't told them the boss's secret and promised to help them lie to the boss, they would have been They won't let me go. But only one person can be left alive. I finally asked them to agree to just sell you. Maybe you will look down on me, but as long as I can go back alive, I don't care about anything! Ruel is dead, if even If I die too, who will take care of my mother and sister? The dead can no longer survive, so I can only think about the living."
Ming Na looked at his calm face and suddenly realized that he was telling the truth. She couldn't help but panic: "Corbin, you...are you telling the truth? You...how can you help those bad people?!"
"It's the same as helping anyone." Corbin sneered, "Miss Minna, do you think Boss Yutan is a good person? Don't you wonder why the ring can't be opened?"
Only then did Ming Na remember the ring. When she lowered her head and saw that it was gone, she couldn't help but be shocked.
"That's not your ring." Corbin said calmly, "Your ring is still with Boss Yutan, maybe with the accountant. They wanted the treasure in your ring, so they replaced it with a fake one. It was Miss Sibylla who did it. The accountant cut you and got the blood, and I heard the spell on the Holy Mountain. Miss Minna, we are not good people, so don’t think that we are good people anymore."
Ming Na raised her head suddenly, only to see a hint of death in his calm eyes. He opened his mouth but could not say anything.
The next day, a bearded slave trader examined her face and put her in the carriage. There were more than twenty carriages in the group, all of which were made of wooden boards and were very tight. There were about a dozen girls, big and small, guarded by more than twenty big men, whipping them at every turn, but being careful not to hurt their faces.
Ming Na's hands and feet were bound, her mouth was gagged, and she swayed in the carriage for two days without knowing where she ended up. There was originally a girl in the same car, but because she was whipped on the face, she was immediately sold at a low price. In these two days, the number of girls increased by half.
The slave traders only gave the girls a little water and a small piece of bread every day for fear that they would not have the strength to escape. Ming Na pretended to be obedient, but secretly accumulated her magic power. When there was no one in the car, she looked out through the cracks in the carriage and found that the scenery outside was somewhat familiar. When she thought about it carefully, she realized that it was actually in the Port of Matter!
There was a burst of ecstasy in her heart, and she excitedly observed the scene outside. When Yutan's shop flashed past her eyes, she used magic to form a small ice blade, cut the rope, and wanted to jump out. Unexpectedly, the guard happened to pass by outside the car, so she had to hold back and wait for the next opportunity.
When the carriage passed outside a mansion, she suddenly caught a glimpse of two ladies sitting on the terrace in the distance. One of them turned out to be her mother Dora. She couldn't help it anymore, and when the guard walked away, she suddenly He hit the car's floor, jumped out, and ran directly in the direction of his mother.
On the terrace of Zhu Fa's house, Dora had just received the news from the housekeeper, and her face was full of surprise: "Really? Is there really news about Ming Na?!"
"Yes, Miss Dora, that Mr. Corbin is a subordinate of the Camecca businessman mentioned in Earl Xiao's letter. He said that he has news about Miss Minna and it is very urgent."
"I'll go right away!" Dora turned back to the other lady excitedly, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Lilith, I have to excuse myself."
"Oh, please." Mrs. Lilith was a little unhappy, but she nodded lightly, "But I hope you will reconsider my words."
"There is nothing to say between Goodwin and I. He has his own views on his future. You must have misunderstood." Dora stayed with her husband's sister-in-law for an afternoon, but she still didn't believe her words and didn't care. I got impatient, turned around and went to see the guest.
Lilith's face was full of arrogance and dissatisfaction, and she kept a straight face and said nothing. Suddenly, she saw a little girl in shabby clothes rushing towards her, calling her mother, and immediately angrily scolded the servant next to her: "Why did you let a beggar run in?! Why don't you hurry up and get out?!"
Those servants had been with her for many years and knew her temper, so they hurriedly ran over to block her.
Mingna saw her mother entering the house from a distance, and she felt anxious and shouted "Mom, Mom" loudly, but Dora was so preoccupied with the news about her daughter that she didn't hear it at all. Suddenly, several unknown people appeared and stopped her: " Move quickly, move quickly, this is not the place for you!"
What do you mean it's not a place she can come to? ! This is her grandpa's house!
Ming Na was about to tell them who she was, but the slave traders caught up with her. While grabbing Ming Na, she smiled at the servants: "I'm sorry, a newly bought little slave, I don't know how high the sky is, we will take her right away." Walk."
"I'm not your slave!" Minna struggled and shouted: "Mom! Mom! I am..."
A big stick hit her from behind. The back of her neck hurt and she didn't know anything.
(The most cruel chapter...I am incompetent in action scenes and burst into tears~~~)