Hailian bit her lower lip.
Four years ago, it was almost time to repay the sea god's offering. After half a year on land, he was finally able to drive the Lady in the Clouds to go to sea again. When he arrived at the deserted island, it was already another year's new night. The sailors huddled on board and dozed, and only the captain disembarked. Everything on the island remains the same. The bonfire that was piled up in the cave a year ago still retains gray and black traces. Moss has grown on the scattered wine bottles at that time, and he has not seen other footprints.
Hai Lian spent New Year's Eve alone in the cave, and the next day he carried the offerings he brought back to the other side of the island. He opened the box, half of which was wine, and half of it was ultramarine, which was as expensive as gold. He lit up the thick smoke as before, and when he saw the majestic color rising straight up in front of his eyes, he took two steps back and knocked his feet, only to find that there was also a box sealed under the cover of bushes and leaves. Also half of it is wine, half is ultramarine, and on the top, there is a letter. Hai Lian opened it and saw that inside was a red note folded in half.
Now the red note is in his pocket, but Hai Lian shook his head at Fang Tinglan: "... I didn't see it."
After all these years, his little friend still never looked anyone in the eye when he was lying. Fang Tinglan knew that the other party was stubborn, so he didn't continue to ask, anyway, he had a lot of patience. The man smiled, pointed back and changed the subject: "The gold ship is coming soon."
Hailian turned his head, and in the sunset, the big ship surrounded by frigates had already appeared on the horizon, and it would probably enter the pier of Rocher Island in four or five hours.
After looking around, Hailian was a little surprised: "There are so few guards."
"Half of the people have gone to pick up the gold ship, so naturally not many people stay on the island."
Hailian looked at him, "How do you know?"
"I naturally have my own method." Fang Tinglan said, "I remember that I also taught you before, the more connections you have, the faster the speed of information, and the stronger the power in your hands."
"I'm not like you, I'm not interested in power."
"In your eyes, I am the kind of person who is addicted to power?"
"Isn't it?" Hailian asked sharply.
Fang Tinglan's face became a little ugly.
The calm that had been maintained for several days was broken by this rhetorical question, and the atmosphere between the two instantly dropped to freezing point. Hailian turned his head away and said nothing, but Fang Tinglan looked at Hailian's tense jaw and sighed silently. Just as he was about to speak, a bell rang from the manor. The two followed the sound and saw that a team of 30 guards was pouring out from the camp and rushed to the pier - apparently the Mo Yi people at the other end also saw the gold ship they had been waiting for for a long time.
Hailian looked around the manor for the last time, knowing the terrain by heart, "Get ready to work."
"Do you have any plans?"
"Since there are not many defenders on the island, except for the group of people who just went to the pier, the rest should be in the fortress. You are responsible for solving the people on the watchtower. I will take people to quickly attack the fort."
Fang Tinglan was a little surprised, "I thought you would arrange it the other way around." After all, stealth assassination has always been the other party's forte.
"Don't you still have to find that boy named Ding?" Hai Lian said indifferently, "I'll give you a little more time to find someone. I'm afraid that when the time comes, I won't be able to shoot him and accidentally hurt him."
He actually still remembered the reason why he was talking about it. Fang Tinglan's heart seemed to be hit by some blunt object, and he nodded lightly, "Okay, see you later when we share the spoils."
"Okay." Hai Lian nodded to show no objection, and turned to go back to the cliff to greet those brothers. Fang Tinglan stopped him again.
"It was my fault this time, and I apologize to you." He finished in a low voice, and smiled at Hailian again, "Go, I wish you all the best and a big victory."
"..." Hailian pursed her lips, gave him a fixed look, and then turned to leave.
As soon as Hai Lian left, the corners of Fang Tinglan's mouth dropped.
12.
When Liuxia fainted and passed the sea level, everyone brought by Hailian was ready to take their positions. This group of desperadoes ransacked the manor much more professionally than Hailian. As long as Hailian drew a route for them, they could charge straight there with their knives and guns.
When the first shot was fired, Mo Yiren thought someone's gun had gone off, but the blood spurted from his companion's body was redder than the setting sun, and the setting sun refracted by the whalebone scimitar hurt them all. s eyes.
"Yes, it's a pirate!!"
"Why didn't the people in the watchtower report?!"
Mo Yiren looked up hastily, only to find that the soldiers stationed on the towering watchtower next to the manor had collapsed on the fence at some point, and the pendant on the warning bell had disappeared without a trace.
They never thought that there would be an enemy raiding from the direction of the cliff behind them, but now the facts are in front of them, those pirates who were making trouble on the waves quietly grinned from the jungle and aimed their guns at them.
There was no more time for Mo Yiren to be surprised, the second shot, the third shot... The sound of the gunshots turned the originally peaceful manor into a mess, and everyone was drawn into the battle unprepared. The lush new seedlings were trampled into mud, and the little slaves who were busy working in the farmland watched the supervisor who used to show off his might staggered and fell in front of them. They were so frightened that they either ran away or crawled in the field trembling. Lian hurriedly called Taita: "Find some brothers and take these children to a safer place!"
Taita blew his whistle to indicate receipt, Hailian heaved a sigh of relief, and rushed to the fort first.
The originally indestructible tower has now become a huge urn for catching turtles. The only exit is blocked by pirates. Even if they entered the land of no one, screams and blood flowers bloomed everywhere they went. The Moyi people who have been dominating the island for many years have no experience in land combat. As night fell, they surrendered after a little resistance.
Now that the defenders have surrendered, the pirates are not trying to drive out the Mo Yi people, after all, their goal is still the gold ship that is about to dock. The frigate on the opposite side was still ignorantly waving semaphore to the island, and the pirates were already laughing and aiming their artillery at the frigate: "Be careful, if you sink the ship in the middle, I will kill you!" Throw it down for gold!"
"Don't worry, it won't sink!"
Hai Lian didn't participate in the ensuing battle, he was dealing with the wound on his arm - even if he was extremely skilled, the skin grazed by the bullet would bleed as usual. Just as he bit the bandage and tied the knot, Taita on the other side also hurried over and reported to him: "The children are all right, and the shackles have been taken away for them."
"Ask where their hometown is, and let someone send them back by the way," Hailian said in a low voice, "If they lost their homes... bring them here, and I'll take them to Xiaoye Dock."
"Row."
Taita went to count the number of people, and when he came back, he took a few children, all with different hair colors and eye colors: "These few are homeless."
Hai Lian lowered his head and looked at them. The boys were ragged and huddled together. The limbs that had been working in shackles all year round were covered with new injuries and old injuries. It reminded him that the child laborers in Hongliu Harbor might also look like this appearance. One of the black-haired boys seemed to be a little older, and he could still calmly protect the other children behind him. He stared nervously at Hailian with a pair of jet-black eyes.
The assassin suddenly became interested in him: "What's your name?"
"My name is… "
Before the other party finished speaking, they heard several loud bangs one after another. The artillery in the turret blasted out, throwing a long arc in the night sky, and hit the frigate in the distance. Cheers erupted in the manor, and Hai Lian was cheering He rubbed his ears and raised his voice: "What did you just say?"
"I said!" The boy also clasped his hands to his lips and replied loudly, "My name is Ding Leshui!!"
Helian blinked.
He felt something rattled in his body, like the gears on those exquisite instruments that Long Rong usually likes to assemble suddenly loosened and fell to the ground.
Since Ding Leshui is here, what about Fang Tinglan
Just as this thought flashed through Hailian's mind, he heard a gunshot far away. The gunshot was inaudible compared to the gunfire just now, but it was like a thunderclap beside his tympanic membrane.
The young man pushed away the crowd and ran towards the source of the sound. He kicked open the door, and the scene in front of him made his eyes turn cold instantly.
He was just wondering why he didn't see the useless commander on Rochester Island after such a commotion, but now he sees him. The man's obese body collapsed to the ground, and there was a pool of smelly and wet marks between his trousers, which echoed the bright red marks on his heart. His small eyes were still wide open in horror, looking at the man who had promised to come to have a secret talk. big shot.
The "big man" was standing by the table, throwing a secret letter into the lampstand and burning it. He naturally heard Hailian's heavy breathing. He turned around and nodded to the person who came by: "Congratulations, Your Excellency, everything is going well. win."
What else can't be understood, Hailian understands everything now.
"Didn't everything go well for you and you won a big victory?" Hailian raised the corner of his mouth a little bit, and finally condensed into an irretrievable gray smile, "Fang Tinglan, I should praise you, you really deserve to be Fang Tinglan .”
"The lies you've told can only go around the coastline if you connect them together."