53.
After Hailian stayed on this small island for four days, the sense of disobedience in his heart became more and more intense—different from the bustle and bustle on the Banshee, and also different from the savagery on the Venomous Bee. The people under Fecona are too well-trained. Even if Fecna is indeed capable of dominating Yunhai by being well-trained, this kind of overly step-by-step tone is rarely seen in Tisu's navy. arrive.
In short, there is no breath of freedom on this deserted island.
Fortunately, no matter how rigorous the occasion is, there will be opportunities for people to take advantage of. In the past four days, Hailian has not accomplished nothing. The law of action, and by the way, I also learned about the situation of Fecona's forces on the island.
Counting the 120 people on the Banshee, there are currently more than 500 people stationed on the island, all of whom are Fecona's cronies and main force. In addition to the giant main ship Poseidon docked side by side with the Banshee, there are about seven or eight brigantine marauders parked in the southwest of the island—these ships are small, light, fast, and have enough firepower to destroy a defenseless ship. The merchant ships can easily escape from the attack range of warships. Fecna has always been the main force in robbing Bolang merchants and harassing the navies of various countries.
Each raiding ship has a captain, but they all obey the deployment of the first officer of the Poseidon. The big dungeon's name is unknown, his nickname is Shadow, he is a man from Dongzhou. In view of the few Dongzhou people he saw a few days ago, Hailian couldn't help but pay more attention to him. Another thing that caught his attention was that it was the first time he had heard of this person. There are too many capable men under Fecna, the captain in the open, Kunji in the dark, and the green-legged worm who rebelled against the water a few days ago... No one has ever mentioned that Fecna has a deputy. Helen thought about it, and the only reason he could think of was that Fecna's reputation in the sea was too great, so that his number one deputy stood behind him like a shadow. Hai Lian met this shadow twice. Once, they had a polite clink of glasses when Fecna held a small reception for the captain; stopped.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm full at night, so I'm going to go shopping."
"Stuffed?" Shadow looked Hailian up and down, "Didn't the captain tell you that it's best to stay where you should be?"
"Maybe I said it, maybe I drank too much at the time, and I forgot it." Hai Lian felt that after staying with Fang Tinglan for a few months, he seemed to have mastered a little bit of thick-skinned skills. He blinked, like anyone A rascal laughed like a pirate, "We're not soldiers, what's wrong with walking around? I used to walk sideways on Shagui Bay and no one said anything about it."
When the man heard the word "soldier", his expression froze for a second, and then he said angrily, "Be honest, what are you doing here!"
"It's nothing," Hailian looked directly at the man, and said half probing, half provocative, "The captain told me that our captain got a big treasure, and I just want to know when it will be revealed to the brothers? "
"Treasure..." Shadow read these two words, looked back at the direction Hailian was going to, and suddenly understood, "I said why are you wandering here, so you are a thief."
Hai Lian wished that the other party would treat him as a greedy and shallow-sighted fool, so he swallowed rudely on purpose, and laughed, "I've already seen that cave, baby... it's in there, right?"
"Hmph, the newcomer Kapok brought here is not very talented, but he has a big appetite." Shadow looked at Hailian with increasingly contemptuous eyes, "Sooner or later, when you see him, what's the rush?"
His tone became more and more disgusted, and he made a gesture to the youth: "Everyone on this island is forbidden to stay where they shouldn't be. If the captain told you that you forgot, I will tell you again now. Next time, I will tell you the second time with a knife, and the third time, with a gun."
The last time it was those poisonous scorpion ambers who threatened him this way, what Hai Lian hated most was this superior tone, he sneered in his heart, but made a gesture of surrender on his face: "No problem, I'll go back now. "
54.
By the time Hailian wandered back to the cabin of the Banshee, his companions had already fallen into a deep sleep. The snoring sounded in the room one after another. Amidst the snoring, he rolled up the thin quilt on his hammock, pulled a fluffy felt blanket from the box and spread it on it, and then silently parted the bundled hair at the back of his head. He grabbed the dirty turban placed by the bedside companion next door and tied it around his head, then picked up an unknown coat from the boat post and put it on his body. Hailian sat on the felt blanket and checked the time. When the moonlight outside the porthole completely covered the light of an oil lamp in the room, the young man got up and walked out of the cabin.
It's time for the island sentry to change shifts.
On the deck of the Banshee, there were still a few night watch crew members playing cards under the lights. One of them saw Hai Lian's back and raised his voice and asked, "Hey, what are you going out for?"
"Stomach hurts!" Hailian replied in a rough voice. The sixteen island dialect he used, his voice was very vague in the sea breeze, the other party didn't ask much, and waved his hand in disgust: "Hurry up, don't stink on the boat!"
The coat that Hailian Shun brought had a strong smell of alcohol, which made him want to sneeze all the way. As soon as he entered the forest, he couldn't wait to take it off and throw it in the bushes, preferring to continue walking in a thin fleece . Fortunately, it wasn't too cold on the island today, except for the occasional slight shudder that would make his skin shudder when the breeze passed over the back of his neck, it didn't have much effect on his sneaking in.
Hai Lian leaned against a palm tree, waiting for the last group of people who would have patrolled the path he had to pass to leave, and then trotted silently and quickly towards his destination. Even if the shadows hadn't stopped him in the evening, he had planned to come at midnight. He squatted halfway in the jungle, and he could almost see the sleepy facial features of the Dongzhou man guarding the entrance of the cave. Hailian calmly took out a stone picked up from the beach from his pocket, and slowly continued to move towards the bushes on the side, until he could dodge into the distance of the cave entrance, he raised his hand .
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"If someone is guarding a treasure, how do you steal it out without anyone noticing?"
"I'm not a thief. You said that I don't need to be a thief in Hongliu Port." Fifteen-year-old Hai Lian sat on the training iron frame and dangled his calf. "Why should I learn this?"
"Because we are bad people, we need to understand all the bad things." Blind Eagle Agg said it as a matter of course, "Just like why I want you to go to the dwarf doctor's place every day to practice how to use a knife on dead people. Okay, answer my question .”
"Uh..." Hailian thought for a while, "Knock him out, and then walk in."
"It's a way," Ag said. "What if you can't hurt this person?"
"Then...um..." Hailian got stuck.
"Don't let his eyes notice you." Age snapped his fingers with his left hand, and the boy looked over subconsciously. At that very moment, his teacher had already pulled out the money bag from Hailian's waist with his right hand.
"Give it back to me!" Hai Lian reacted and stretched out his hand to snatch it, but the man easily dodged it. Agger smiled triumphantly, hooked the purse on his two fingers and dangled back and forth: "Your fifth class, you failed. So your money bag belongs to me, I just need a sum of wine money today."
"This is the wages I paid for digging dead people for three days!" Hailian panicked.
"Who the fuck cares if you're paid?" Age's only eye stared at his students angrily, "You're just missing a bag of wages today, it's better than losing a life in the future. "
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The stone flew out with a strong wind, knocked on the silent forest, and just hit a bird's nest on a tree not far away, and the wild birds sleeping in the nest immediately honked hoarsely. The man with drooping eyelids was awakened by the considerable movement, subconsciously shouted vigilantly: "Who is it?!"
The wild bird was still flapping its wings, and the man held the waist knife in surprise, keeping his eyes on the source of the sound, completely unaware that the person who caused the movement was obliquely behind him. Just after the man took another two steps forward to reveal a gap, Hailian saw the timing and sprinted into the cave like a dexterous mole.
There was no light in the cave, and it was midnight, Rao Hailian's night vision is not bad, even if he sneaked within five steps, he would be blinded like a blind man. Fortunately, the ground under his feet has been trampled back and forth, so it is very dry, and he is not afraid of slipping or making any noise when walking. The more Hailian walked in, the more he felt that there was a faint smell of saltpeter in the passage. .
He frowned, raised his arm that was supporting the wall and continued to move forward, and sure enough, within a few steps, he bumped into a hard object—a lampstand nailed in the crevice of the stone. Hailian's fingers slowly groped along the nature of the lampstand, and found that it was still a closed lampstand. Hailian had only seen this kind of lampstand in the fireworks factory on the outskirts of Jiumeng City.
Open flames should be avoided in the place where fireworks are made, but isn't Ficona looking for treasures here? Hailian took a breath, and the smell of gunpowder in his nostrils became stronger and stronger.
Could it be that he wasn't digging treasures, but... A bad word came to Hai Lian's mind.
arms. He read the two words silently.
As a pirate leader whose sea power was comparable to that of a naval army, Hailian was not surprised that he would hoard arms, but since he came to this island, he never thought that Fecna was just a simple pirate. Just putting the word "simple" together with pirates makes Hailian feel amused, but the clues and hints turning in his mind make him more and more frightened.
That's right, if Fecna is just a pirate leader, why did Fang Tinglan spend so much time investigating Jiumeng City for so long? He is a thousand lieutenant from Dongzhou, and he is so rich. The big ship under him is probably positive He won't be in vain for the Shanghai God, why do you want me to do some kind of assassination, the assassination is not straightforward, you have to wait for him to come, and you have to wait for him... Hailian put down his groping hand and continued to walk deep go.
When he was in the White Tiger Gang, Hai Lian never asked his teacher why he killed those people, and his teacher just said they were "bad guys" and "traitors"; , and never asked Faluco why these people were on the sheriff's list.
His gut told him it was better not to ask. Don't ask, don't look back, and quietly be a silent knife, so that he can walk freely in the night of Jiumeng City without being stained with the spider web that Faluco said. But the one surnamed Fang messed up all of this. He obviously found the Dongzhou fox distasteful, but he became hopelessly curious about that man during the short few months of getting along with him.
He was curious about the glass of consecrated wine that Fang Tinglan put aside during the Valerian Festival; he was also curious about what Fang Tinglan did when he was in the theater; now he obeyed his curiosity, ignored the requirements of the plan, and came to the In this cave. Suddenly, Hai Lian remembered that he had glanced at the script of the little writer who lived next door, and there was a line in which the male protagonist spoke to the female protagonist.
—My love for you comes from my curiosity about the melancholy in your eyes.
Oh shit! What nonsense is O'Brien writing every day! There was a burst of heat on the young man's face, and he was not afraid of being heard by the guards outside. He took a step forward angrily, but kicked a hard object with his toe, and Hai Lian's face turned completely red.
He crouched down and covered his feet, grinning his teeth in pain, and finally regained his composure. Just as he was about to see what he had kicked, suddenly footsteps and human voices came from the entrance of the cave.
someone is coming? !