The mountains are high and the water is deep. A passenger boat breaks up the Yunu River with its head against the current, breaking the previous calm.
The ship is quite large, divided into upper and lower floors, and the deck is windy and humid with water, and the long waves are mighty, which is the unique atmosphere of northern rivers.
In the inconspicuous part of the cabin at the bow and stern, there are a few big men in strong clothes standing around, guarding the surroundings, but if you don't pay attention to it, it is just an ordinary passenger ship.
When Qing Chen woke up, his eyes were dim, his mind was blurred, his breathing seemed to be strangled in his chest and he couldn't breathe smoothly, and he didn't know where he was.
She struggled to touch the wall behind her, and sat up leaning against it. The wall shook slightly and then became stable again, which was the feeling of being on a boat.
There seemed to be more than one person in the cabin, and there seemed to be intermittent low-pitched sobs, which could not be seen clearly in the dark. She discerned carefully, and vaguely saw a woman nearby, who was holding another girl who was younger than her and kept wiping her tears.
"What's wrong with you?" Seeing her crying sadly, Qing Chen asked, but was startled by his hoarse voice.
The woman raised her head from her sobs and cried, "They don't know what medicine they gave, Danqiong is dying..."
Qing Chen wanted to stand up, but felt that her limbs were sore and her body was weak. She leaned against the woman and stretched out her hand to test the carotid artery of the child named Dan Qiong to make sure that she was still alive. Putting her fingers on Danqiong's wrist, she frowned and said to the crying woman after a while, "Don't cry, give me your hand."
The woman saw that she was going to check her pulse, and hurriedly grabbed her and asked, "What's wrong with Danqiong?"
Qing Chen said: "It's not a serious problem." Holding her wrist, she felt the pulse carefully, her breath and delay were almost like fluff, and all three pulses were weak, and it was almost impossible to get it with a light press, but it was empty with a heavy press. She was frightened and angry, and according to her pulse, they were all drugged.
Looking around, there are still many beautiful and beautiful young women, a few of them are still lying on the ground, most of them are sitting by the wall and weeping softly.
"Let her lie there, she will wake up in a while." Qing Chen said to the woman holding Dan Qiong: "What's your name?"
The girl raised her tearful eyes and looked at her, "My name is Baguio, you... how about you?"
"Feng Qingchen."
Qing Chen propped himself up against the wall and slowly got up to see the women who hadn't woken up yet, all of whom were in the same situation. I asked a few more people, and from their intermittent crying, I learned that all of them were kidnapped here by various methods.
Being hijacked, she leaned against the corner of the cabin and breathed the humid and gloomy air. The weak light penetrated through a tiny air hole that could barely be called a window, casting mottled light and shadow in front of her eyes, and a little dust choked in the light , sometimes and sometimes not.
The cabin was not very spacious, and there was a locked hatch on the opposite side. She looked around and walked towards the door. Because the effect of the drug had just expired, her feet were a little vain.
Fumbling and tugging at the door, she didn't move at all, so she clenched her fist and slammed on the thick wooden board: "Is anyone there? Open the door!"
The dull knock on the door suddenly sounded in the cabin, startling the weeping people.
Baguio looked up from the pitch-black cabin, and saw Qing Chen standing at the door, half of the white clothes hidden in the dark were slightly disheveled, but it was like snow in a cold light, dazzling white. When she raised her eyes, there was a sharp and clear light, which seemed to shine in the deep darkness, illuminating the coldness and determination between her brows, that dazzling sharpness appeared on a woman, and under such circumstances, she was particularly shocked into Bi. Yao's heart.
So she stood up reluctantly and went to the door: "What should we do?"
"Call someone first." Qing Chen said, and slammed on the door again.
"Don't bother, so what if you call for someone?" Suddenly a voice in the dark said coldly.
They looked at the past with the help of the weak light. The person who spoke was leaning against the depths of the cabin, his face was hidden in the dizzy darkness and could not be seen clearly. They could only see that she was bound by a long rope.
Qing Chen groped his way to that corner, and in the half-light, he saw that the man's face was pale and almost bloodless, with thin eyebrows and thin lips, cold eyes, long hair tied up behind his head, and a close-fitting black dress exuding a cold and heroic air , but also a woman.
She seemed to have to rely on the wall to support her body, and looked a little weak. Qing Chen reached out to untie the rope on her body. The rope was knotted in a unique way, and there was no hair to untie.
She looked up to find something sharp to cut the rope, and the woman said, "I have a knife in my sleeve."
Qing Chen found a soft knife with a shining blade from her sleeve tie. It was thin and thin, and the crimson color on the knife was like a bright peach blossom. It was a good weapon for killing people. With just a slight swipe, the rope snapped: "Who are they and why are you tied up?" she asked.
The woman still didn't move: "Nagato Gang."
"Nagato Gang?" Qing Chen threw away the rope and returned the knife to her. She didn't answer it, Qing Chen reached out to support her, but found that she couldn't move at all.
The woman said with a blank face: "They tapped my acupuncture points."
Qing Chen placed his finger on her Guanmai, and moved it up inch by inch, "Tianjing, Yunyu, Quze, Tianquan, Yutang, Zhongting, these acupoints are blocked by qi and blood, and they will tie you up after pressing the acupoints. I hate you very much."
The woman snorted coldly, and Qing Chen considered carefully: "If there are gold needles, I can unlock your acupuncture points by acupuncture, but now I can only slowly activate the meridians. What does the Nagato Gang do? Where are we taking?"
"Tiandu Yige." The woman said: "The Nagato Gang specializes in the despicable business of selling women, and has always been despised by others. The women on this boat are all kidnapped and bought into brothels."
Qing Chen half sat down beside her, and frowned with long eyebrows: "Buy a brothel? Then find a way to leave."
The woman said indifferently: "It's up to you, how can you escape? There are guards everywhere on this boat."
Qing Chen's subordinates paused: "Do you have an idea?"
The woman closed her eyes: "No, restore your strength first."
Qing Chen thought for a moment, nodded and said, "We'll have to wait for the opportunity." She couldn't help but think of Ye Tianling and Shi Shi, something happened and they just cut off the possibility of seeing each other again. All the things happened one after another before she had time to think about it. She looked at the strange things in front of her in an unreal way. Under the dim light, she felt that the way back was getting farther and farther, but the situation ahead was like this.
There were footsteps outside the speaking room, and after a few noises, the low door swung open. The fresh and humid air from outside swarmed in, accompanied by the sudden and dazzling light, which made people unable to see clearly the scene in front of them for a while.
When his eyes were turning pale, Qing Chen felt his arm being pulled violently, and shouted in a rough voice: "Stinky girl, it's you!"
She struggled to see who was coming, and her face turned pale with shock.
She would never forget this face in her life, full of beards and fierce eyes. It was the big man who wanted to kidnap her by the river, but was shot by Eleven and fled.
"Let me go!" she yelled angrily, struggling to free that dirty hand, the stench of alcohol on her face was disgusting. The surrounding women huddled together in fright, screaming for help.
"This arm of my father was almost lost in your hands. It would be a wonder if I didn't give you some trouble today!" The big man rudely dragged her out.
Qing Chen was extremely angry, and waved her hand to slap him in the face. With a crisp "slap", she slapped him hard, and the big man was furious: "Dare to hit me!"
He slammed Qing Chen against the wall, reached out to her neckline with his hands and tore it apart, half of her coat was ripped open, revealing a white shoulder.
"Bastard! Let go!" Qing Chen cursed angrily and desperately tried to protect her clothes. The big man, who was so beastly with alcohol, forced her to restrain her with a lewd smile, and continued to tear her clothes, but suddenly let go with a cry of pain.
A thin knife flew down and stuck on the wooden board, blood flew from the shoulder of the big man, the woman in black in the cabin stood against the wall, her eyes were full of hatred, the knife was just used to cut the rope, it was too weak to be cut On the shoulders of a big man.
Qing Chen was frightened and angry, and while the big man was still standing still, he hurriedly picked up a wooden stick beside him and threw it at him.
The woman in black shouted: "Hit the back of his neck!"
As soon as Qing Chen gritted her teeth and raised the stick, who knew that the wooden stick suddenly snapped in two in mid-air, she lost balance on her feet, staggered and fell back a few steps.
A man and a woman appeared at the cabin door, the man was wearing the same color of clothes as the big man, Pi Liyang Qiu said: "Qian Laowu, let the girls be punished like this, are you ashamed?"
The woman is dressed in a red gauze dress, which does not look like ordinary Central Plains clothing. She has a slender waist and long legs, with a variety of styles, long eyelashes, deep eyes and smiling eyes. She seems to be walking in the rhythm of dancing steps, with a charming look. With all the enchanting appearance. She held a mandarin duck knife in her hand, and it was this knife that broke the wooden stick. At this moment, she said with a nonchalant smile: "Qian Laowu, if you dare to touch this girl, you are not afraid that the boss will dispose of you?"
Qian Laowu was full of anger, and cursed: "Grandma's Hu Sanniang, don't scare me with the boss, I, Qian Laowu, will scare the big brother, who am I afraid of!"
Hu Sanniang smiled nonchalantly: "I don't bother with you, this girl is called by the boss to be sold to Tiandu, you might as well try it, if the boss doesn't castrate you, I won't be named Hu anymore!"
Qian Lao Wu obviously drank too much, he staggered drunk and rushed towards Qing Chen again, the man looked impatiently, dragged him out of the cabin and threw him on the deck: "I don't know if I drink a few cups of cat urine What is my surname, I'm so fucking useless!"
Hu Sanniang didn't even glance at them from the corner of her eyes, she turned her head to the woman in black and said, "Mingyan, I really underestimated you, you actually unlocked the acupoints yourself."
Mingyan looked at her coldly: "Is your Nagato Gang's iron heart competing with us?"
Hu Sanniang lazily leaned against the cabin door: "We are not offended by the water of the well, but you ruined our good things everywhere, and took away several of our best girls one after another. Can you blame us?"
Mingyan said disdainfully: "The Nagato gang has become the lackey of the Jade Blood Pavilion by doing all the detrimental activities, and they really have no scruples."
Hu Sanniang was not annoyed: "You should think about what to do with yourself first. It's a pity that the boss is not interested in a skinny guy like you, so he might have to send it to a brothel like them." She took out a thing from her bosom: "Take After eating this, it’s really worrying to touch your acupoints!”
Mingyan looked at the pill, and a light light appeared in his eyes, and a thin crimson light in his hand attacked Hu Sanniang in an instant.
Hu Sanniang's red shirt fluttered, and the oncoming sharp blade on the slanted frame of the mandarin duck knife twisted backwards, fighting with the nightmare who was attacking in front of her in the light of the knife.
Qing Chen regained his strength at this time, seeing Mingyan's footsteps were sloppy, knowing that her acupoints had just been unsealed, it would be a disadvantage, so he quietly picked up the thin knife on the ground and hid it in his sleeve.
Sure enough, Mingyan groaned and was slapped on the shoulder by Hu Sanniang, and the knife in Qing Chen's sleeve was clenched tightly, but Hu Sanniang unexpectedly did not take advantage of the victory and pursued, unfolding the pill in his hand: "Eat it obediently, it's just for you Just calm down and don't make a fuss."
Nightmare said coldly: "You are dreaming!"
Hu Sanniang held the knife and smiled charmingly: "Don't you eat?" She glanced to her side, suddenly raised the knife and dropped it, a woman who was very close to her screamed, blood spattered on the spot.
Nightmare's expression changed.
"Do you want to eat?" Hu Sanniang asked again.
Mingyan said bitterly: "Hu Sanniang, you are too vicious!"
Hu Sanniang just ignored her cursing: "I'm too lazy to fight with you, if you don't eat, I will continue to kill." With a wave of eyes, he fell to Qing Chen, Qing Chen looked back at her coldly, secretly slipped the thin knife into his palm, Knowing that he is invincible, he can only fight to the death.
After a little stalemate, Hu Sanniang still smiled coquettishly, and in the captivating smile, the light of the knife shone fiercely in front of her.
"Slow down!" Mingyan yelled.
The mandarin duck knife stopped a foot in front of Qing Chen, "That's right." Hu Sanniang smiled, flicked her fingers, and the pill fell into Ming Yan's hand.
Mingyan looked at the woman in front of him who had already passed away, with hatred in her eyes, but finally took the pill to her mouth.
"Don't eat!" Qing Chen shouted: "I don't believe that you can kill all the people in this ship, and then go and explain to your boss." She looked at Hu Sanniang sternly.
Hu Sanniang laughed coquettishly: "Smart girl, it's a pity that I'm not Qian Laowu. If I dare to kill, I have my own way to explain to the boss. You don't have to worry about it."
Qing Chen glanced at her eyes sharply: "We are both women, why do you help them ruin us like this?"
Hu Sanniang turned to look at her: "Don't tell me such things, you are interesting, I will be in a good mood to train you someday, maybe in the future I will be a red card girl in Tiandu."
"Bah!" Qing Chen spat secretly.
Although there was a smile on Hu Sanniang's face, her eyes turned cold: "None of you should try to escape. If there is one who escapes, I will kill ten of the remaining ones. I also tell you that there is no escape." Like peaches and plums, poisonous like snakes and scorpions, she always smiles convincingly when she speaks, but every sentence is like a poisoned knife.
Qing Chen took advantage of this gap to look around the outside of the cabin, the security was heavily guarded and there was little life left. Thousands of thoughts flashed through my mind, and I hid my resentment and stubbornness under a face of silence, and said to Hu Sanniang: "Since you are going to sell, you naturally want to get a good price. There is no benefit in torturing us, and the more we die, the more we will lose money. Don't run away, don't cause trouble, but you need to provide water and food."
Hu Sanniang looked at her: "Thinking about it? You actually know how to bargain. Do you know who we are and bargain with us?"
Qing Chen sneered quietly and said: "No matter who you are, selling people and goods is nothing more than buying and selling. Since it has fallen into your hands, the worst is just asking for death. Don't think about it."
Hu Sanniang was probably too lazy to dawdle any longer, and said, "If you don't make trouble, how can we have trouble with Yinzi. Honestly, everyone is good, and I won't let you be wronged."
"Okay, it's a deal." Qing Chen said.
Hu Sanniang glanced at Mingyan, Mingyan looked indifferent, and swallowed the pill with his head up. Hu Sanniang smiled coquettishly, waved her hand, and immediately two big men came in and dragged the dead woman out. After sweeping the pale Nightmare, her eyes fell on Qing Chen, "Be honest." After saying that, she turned and went out .
The cabin door closed with a bang, and the surroundings fell into darkness again, only the smell of fresh blood permeated the air, which was pungent and weird.
Baguio and the others shuddered at their terrified cries, Qing Chen leaned against the cabin as if exhausted, the thin knife in his hand was cold, a pool of liquid dim light could be faintly seen in front of his eyes, vaguely still with the unfinished body temperature, she couldn't help holding on to the cabin. The wall vomited.
As the days passed by on the water day by day, the number of women in the cabin continued to decrease, and new faces were added from time to time, coming and going, going and coming again.
After taking Hu Sanniang's medicine, Mingyan was weak and leaned against the cabin. Qing Chen stood and looked out at the palm-sized sky through the narrow window. The sky was hazy and hazy, and scattered clouds passed through from time to time. She could vaguely see the traces of flying birds, which flashed past.
Baguio sat beside her with her arms around Danqiong. Danqiong was still young and raised her head and asked, "Sister, it's so dark here, when can we go out?"
Bi Yao hesitated and didn't know how to answer, Qing Chen turned around and sat down beside Ming Yan, and said quietly: "If this continues, there is no chance of escape."
Mingyan inserted the sharp thin knife into the deck, but her hand couldn't help trembling with a little effort, she said coldly: "If you survive, you will find a solution."
There was no medicine stone at hand, although Qing Chen knew how to dissolve the medicinal properties, but at this moment he was helpless.
The boat sailed smoothly, all the way south.
Occasionally, those people would take them in turn to take them to the deck for a little air, and three of them could go out each time, except Nightmare.
Since that day, I haven't seen Hu Sanniang or Qian Laowu again. Qing Chen glanced at the big man watching from the corner of his eye. According to Mingyan's description, this place may not be far from the sky.
She clenched something tightly in her hand, pretending to be casually walking towards the side of the boat.
"Stop." The watcher shouted in a low voice.
Qing Chen put her hands on the side of the boat, and she stood still as she said, but turned her head and smiled at the man, facing the water Lingbo, that smile was as seductive as light smoke and light rain, and the charm she deliberately revealed made the man faint. Leng.
"I'm sorry." Qing Chen still smiled, taking advantage of the man's stunned opportunity, he let go of his hand quietly on the side of the boat, something fell, and immediately drifted away with the current.
She stepped back Shi Shiran, "The scenery here is nice."
The man's bewitching eyes swept her back and forth, she walked past him with a wave of eyes, turned her head and smiled, and cold hatred flashed in her eyes.
Back in the cabin, she breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Ming Nightmare, "Okay, will someone come to rescue me?"
"Yes." Mingyan didn't show too many surprises, she always doesn't talk much, and always carries a bit of cold and repulsive vigilance.
The ship continued to be quiet for more than half a day, when the cabin door was suddenly opened, and with a burst of crispy fragrance, Hu Sanniang brought two people in, put a few sets of silk clothes in front of them, and said: "Change the clothes. , someone will come to take you out in a while, it’s still the same sentence, even if you go outside, don’t run away.”
Mingyan looked at her coldly, she smiled and said: "You are the same, but I will definitely send you to the most popular brothel in Tiandu, to ensure your satisfaction."
Mingyan looked away contemptuously, but Hu Sanniang didn't care, "Hurry up." After saying that, he led people away.
The cabin suddenly fell into darkness and dead silence. For the remaining seven women, the brocade clothes were nothing more than a harbinger of a certain outcome, the more gorgeous the more unbearable.
No one moved, and Nightmare, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his eyes: "They are here."
Qing Chen asked: "Who? Your companion?"
"That's right." Ming Yan propped himself up: "It's my elder brother."
Qing Chen listened attentively like her, the faint sound of water waves hitting the boat patted lightly, and there was a faint and melodious sound of music, the sound was soft and far away, and it was hard to tell what kind of musical instrument it was. Intermittent, almost inaudible.
There was a fleeting smile on Mingyan's expressionless face, and Qing Chen said, "We changed our clothes and went out."
Mingyan also nodded: "Let's go out and talk about it."
The few people just changed their clothes. Qing Chen raised his hand to comb his long hair, and the loose sleeves slid down his arms. The sunlight from the small window flickered on her wrists, shining colorful lights on her tourmaline beads. Dazzling for a moment.
"What is this?" Nightmare next to her suddenly held her hand.
Qing Chen said: "Tourmaline beads."
"Where did you get it?" Nightmare asked again.
Qing Chen looked at her strangely: "I have been carrying it since I was a child."
Although in the dark, Qing Chen still saw deep surprise flashing in Ming Yan's eyes, "What's wrong?" She asked.
"It's okay." Mingyan let go of her and replied indifferently.
Qing Chen straightened his sleeves, covered the beads again in the sleeves, and had no time to think about the strangeness of the nightmare, someone had already come to take them out of the cabin.