In the evening, the sky was safely overcast. The dark gray clouds were so low that they seemed to be rolled down in the next moment. The water below had turned a deep black blue, and the violent wind rolled the huge waves, hitting the hull again and again. The huge sound of wind and waves covered up the human voice, and between the several ships, messages could only be passed by shouting and gesturing.
The sails of all the ships have been lowered, and most of the people have already hid in the cabins at this time. Only Xiao Zhige and a few people are still on the deck, listening to the officers and men reporting the real-time conditions of the several ships. The ten ships were already arranged in a square formation at this time, with the main ship in the middle and the auxiliary ships guarding all around. The boats were connected with iron cables as thick as human legs, and they went up and down with the waves.
The last soldier who retrieved the iron rope sent back a message: "Everything has been checked, and there is no looseness!"
At this time, soybean-sized raindrops had already fallen from the sky. First, one by one fell on the deck, and soon they were connected into pieces and poured. Xiao Zhige pushed An Changqing into the cabin, and continued to give the last order in a deep voice: "Everyone immediately retreat to the cabin, fasten the door, and try to find a fixed place to grab it, before the storm subsides, don't allow to move around! "
After speaking, he used the military flag to rain a few marching flags, and after making sure everyone was withdrawn into the cabin, he just got off the deck and returned to the cabin.
When he came in, An Changqing fastened the cabin door, and took another dry clothes and asked Xiao Zhige to change them quickly - just outside for a while, Xiao Zhige was soaked all over.
In a hurry, Xiao Zhige took off his soaked clothes. After quickly changing them, he took out a sturdy rope and tied the two ends to his and An Changqing's waists. An Changqing tugged on the rope with all his strength, but it didn't move. Although it hurt a little in his back, he felt a little more at ease.
It was raining louder outside, and the hull began to heave violently.
"Sit here, I'll hold you." Xiao Zhige was afraid that he would be afraid, so he leaned back on the bed and put his feet on the board of the cabin, motioning for An Changqing to sit between his legs.
An Changqing sat down according to his words, leaning against Xiao Zhige's warm chest. Xiao Zhige kissed the red tattoo behind his ear, and said solemnly, "Don't be afraid."
After he finished speaking, he passed the rope connecting the two people's waists through the hollow on the head of the bed, and then wrapped it around his palm a few times and held it firmly, and hugged him tightly in a very tight posture before saying: "Okay, as long as the boat does not Come on, we'll be fine."
An Changqing leaned against his chest, feeling his steady heartbeat, and gave a soft "um". No one said what to do if the boat capsized. In this vast ocean, the storm is raging, if the boat really capsizes, and the ropes around their waists are tied so tightly, they are dead, and they can die together if they want.
Xiao Zhige obviously had the same idea as him, and the two leaned against each other silently. The ropes held them together with the bed, and the whole boat bobbed up and down. It was completely dark outside, and there was no lit candle in the cabin, and it was darkness as far as the eye could see. However, the sound of the wind and waves was getting louder and louder. It was a normal sound at first, but when it got to the back, it was like a roar of a giant beast. Occasionally, glaring lightning pierced through the darkness, shining in through the gap, bringing a trace of light.
The sound of wind, rain, waves and thunder intertwined for a moment. After listening for a long time in the dark, there will gradually be a feeling of emptiness that these sounds are gradually disappearing, only the heavy breathing and the dull heartbeat in the ears are still ringing.
An Changqing closed his eyes, trying his best to feel Xiao Zhige's body temperature. But the storm was too cold. The person sat still and did not move, and the body temperature slowly dropped, almost as cold as the coldness in this room. Time also slows down in the dark. The sound outside was non-stop for a moment, only the boat rose and fell more and more, even bigger than the gallop at once, as if the entire cabin would be turned over in the next moment, and even the wooden bed behind him made a creaking sound.
Xiao Zhige didn't say a word, but his breathing became heavier. An Changqing opened his eyes, but in the darkness, there didn't seem to be much difference between opening and closing his eyes. In the darkness, he groped and held Xiao Zhige's hand. Xiao Zhige's right hand was wrapped around the rope that secures the two of them. The rough hemp rope was deeply squeezed into the flesh, and the temperature of that hand seemed to be colder than the sea water.
"Does it hurt?" The rope was too tight on the hand, and the blood was blocked, and it became extremely cold. An Changqing groped and covered the back of his hand, rubbing gently with his fingers.
"It doesn't hurt." A man's deep voice came from the darkness, and the cool lips brushed his ears unintentionally: "Are you afraid?"
An Changqing shook his head, remembering that he couldn't see, and said, "I'm not afraid, there is you."
The man smiled lowly, and continued to gossip with him.
I don't know how long it took outside, but the sky didn't light up. Instead, there was a faint sound of wood breaking from outside. Crunchy, I don't know what broke.
Xiao Zhige's gossip diverted his attention, but instead made himself dry, licked his dry lips, and said in a low voice, "Well, I'm thirsty."
At this time, there is no way to drink water, An Changqing can only say: "Then don't talk, let me tell you a story."
Xiao Zhige didn't respond, he just said, "Turn your head over."
An Changqing didn't know what he was going to do, so he could only turn his face away by feeling. In the darkness where he could not see his fingers, two cold, slightly dry lips kissed his lips. An Changqing opened his lips and accepted his intrusion.
The sound of wood breaking outside continued, and inside the cabin, the two of them pressed their chests against their backs, kissing with all their might.
The boat jolted on the sea, and suddenly trembled, the two of them also jolted heavily, their teeth hit their lips, and there was a salty smell between their lips and teeth. Xiao Zhige made a "hiss" in pain, and licked his lips in a circle, before letting go of him, licking his cracked lips and smiling, "I'm not thirsty anymore, now tell me a story. "
An Changqing took a deep breath, leaned back on him, and hit him lightly with the back of the head: "I don't want to talk anymore."
"But I want to hear it."
Xiao Zhige embraced his waist harder and harder. In the darkness, his palms had been frayed by the rough rope, and there was a dull pain on his skin. The tremors of the hull became bigger and bigger, as if something was hitting the ship hard. However, he just did nothing, pulling the ropes with all his strength to hold the boat board, while grinding An Changqing to tell him stories.
An Changqing still spoke.
He thought about it and said, "Let me tell you a story from a past life. I was afraid that you would be unhappy, so I never told you. Now I can tell you." Can't go with this secret.
Besides, if he can live again, maybe Xiao Zhige can too. With the company of a loved one, sometimes death is not too difficult to face.
"I told you before that the things I predicted in my dreams were not actually my dreams." Speaking of the events of the previous life, An Changqing's mind was already calm, and his voice was quiet: "I actually lived a new life. On your wedding day."
"Rebirth?"
"Um."
"Then in the life before your rebirth, who were you with?" Xiao Zhige asked jealously.
An Changqing rolled his eyes in the darkness and smiled: "It should be considered as being with you."
Xiao Zhige bit his neck in dissatisfaction: "What do you mean by being together?"
An Changqing told him what happened between the two of them in detail, all the way to the destruction of Ye Jingcheng, he committed suicide in Qiwu Palace, abolished the prince and entered the palace, An Changqing turned into a lonely soul wandering the world.
"I'm so weak and incompetent, it can't be me." Xiao Zhige frowned and said decisively.
An Changqing turned over the old accounts: "I don't know who went to sleep in the study on the night of the wedding."
This person has become more and more arrogant and wanton over the years, and he has probably forgotten the **** things he did in the past.
Xiao Zhige stopped talking. After a moment of silence, he rubbed the side of his neck and said in a low voice, "If you hadn't chased me, maybe I would have made the same mistakes again... In fact, I'm just so timid."
He was so cowardly and timid emotionally. If it wasn't for An Changqing's repeated initiative to show affection back then, perhaps he would have thought that it was a good way for him to avoid him and avoid him. Just because he knew he had a bad reputation, no one who saw him was not afraid of him. An Changqing's place in his heart was too special, even though the two never met again when they grew up, he still regarded him as a pure white in the bloody eyes, as if he would not completely lose himself in this way. There is still a trace of entanglement in this world. He was too afraid to see the same fear and fear in An Changqing's eyes as everyone else, so he first became a deserter.
"Deceiving Kangxi"
"I'm sorry, I didn't protect you in the last life."
An Changqing shook his head and said softly, "Look, that's why I didn't want to tell you before."
If Xiao Zhige knew the ending of the two of them in the previous life, he would definitely feel distressed and regretful, even if he was actually not related to him in this life.
"I think it's good to have a chance to do it all over again. I won't miss you this time." An Changqing thoughtfully said to him, "Maybe the last life was just at the wrong time, so God gave us a chance. Again."
"I don't think God will take such a rare opportunity back easily." An Changqing finally said.
Xiao Zhige made a sound of "um", with a little smile in his voice: "That's right, he is someone who is blessed by God. We will be fine..."
The raging wind and waves seemed to have no end, and the two of them hugged each other and talked like this. The two of them are like a light boat floating in the wind and waves, relying on and supporting each other, waiting in the dark for the dawn that I don't know when it will come.
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I don't know how long it took, the tremor of the ship's hull had not stopped, but there was a glimmer of light in the sky outside. The sound of wind, waves and rain gradually diminished, only the hull trembled more and more violently.
An Changqing frowned and said, "It feels... like something is hitting the boat." Although the wind and waves are bumpy, they don't have such a strong sense of impact.
Xiao Zhige had felt this way for a long time, but in the previous situation, even if something collided with the boat outside, they were powerless except waiting. The sky is now twilight and the wind and waves are getting smaller. He hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll go out and have a look."
An Changqing said immediately, "I'll go with you."
Xiao Zhige originally wanted to refuse, but when he saw the look in his eyes, he paused again, and finally said, "The rope is not loosened. After going out, walk along the bulkhead. If something goes wrong, go back to the cabin to avoid it."
"Okay." An Changqing nodded heavily.
Only then did Xiao Zhige loosen the rope that was tightly wrapped around his palm, and under the slight light, An Changqing saw that his entire right hand had turned black and purple. The ropes were stained with blood.
"Don't look, it doesn't hurt." Xiao Zhige frowned and moved his wrist to relieve the numbness caused by prolonged restraint. After his fingers regained flexibility, he opened the hatch and groped outside with An Changqing. The sky was not too bright, and the cabin was even darker. After the two got used to the light, they quietly went to the deck.
The wind and waves seemed to be a little smaller than before, and only the impact of the hull was still intense. There were few things that could be supported on the deck. They supported each other and walked to the side of the ship to look down, and saw that the sea was densely covered with huge black dorsal fins.
Just as they looked down, they saw the hundreds of dorsal fins moving quickly, the gray-black back was slightly out of the water, and hit the boat with a bang. One, two. Three... Countless hits, and the hull trembles and crumbles.
An Changqing swayed, grabbed the side of the boat tightly to stabilize her body, and suppressed the exclamation in her throat.
He looked terrified: "Is this the shark that Huai Rushan said? Or is it a sea whale?"
While speaking, a larger fish jumped out of the water, with a pointed head and serrated teeth, its tail fin flapping against the salty sea water, and slammed into the cabin again. In addition to being bigger than Huai Rushan, his appearance is clearly a shark.
The two stabilized their bodies and looked around again while holding the side of the boat, and found that it was not only their boat that surrounded these giant sharks, but other boats were surrounded by giant sharks. The farthest ship from them already had a hole in the hull. I don't know how long it took to break through. The people inside probably didn't notice it, and they didn't find that the bottom layer had leaked.
Xiao Zhige said sternly, "We have to inform them, and then find a way to drive these fish away."
An Changqing glanced at the sea again, those black dorsal fins were standing upright on the sea, like black vertical lines...
Black vertical bars!
An Changqing's eyes suddenly opened, and he lost his voice: "It's those black vertical lines! Those black vertical lines outside the merman's tomb are these giant sharks, we are almost there."
According to the drawing on the chart, the tomb of the mermaid is an island, and the island is surrounded by a circle of black vertical lines that I don't know what it is. At that time, they guessed that it was mostly a defensive thing, and now it seems that most of them are these giant sharks. If it wasn't for the strong ship they picked, they would venture out to check it out and wait in the cabin on the second floor for half a day, most of the ship would have been smashed and leaked, and they could only be the food for these giant sharks.
"Inform others, take the bow and arrow and fire gun." Xiao Zhige's voice sank, and he rushed to the second-floor cabin first.
They called out the soldiers on the ship, took out the prepared bows, arrows, and firearms, and waited in full force. The other ships have already received instructions, and the soldiers and soldiers are in full swing. The smashed ship finally realized that the cabin was leaking. Everyone gathered on the deck and transferred to other ships through the temporary wooden bridge. It's just that the projectile gunpowder stored on the ship was flooded and had to be completely discarded.
Nine of the ten ships remained, and all the weapons on board were removed.
Xiao Zhige picked up a fire cannon, added projectiles, aimed at a giant shark that collided with the boat and pulled the mechanism. He heard a whistling sound, blood donations filled the dark blue sea, and the giant shark was hit. The shark rolled frantically in the sea and slapped the surface of the sea, and the giant sharks around it, smelling the blood, rushed to the top, tearing up the injured giant shark in an instant, leaving only a piece of dark red seawater above the sea.
It's just that these giant sharks who have tasted flesh and blood seem to become more excited and impatient, and the number of collisions has become more frequent.
Huai Rushan grabbed the ship's side and said in horror, "These are definitely not ordinary sharks. I've been out to sea many times, and I've seen them. They rarely attack ships at sea actively, and their size is not so big."
Huai Ruyu said: "We have to get them out of the way first. Otherwise, after arousing the ferocity, our ships may not be able to support them for so long. Moreover, the ships are too close together, and the fire guns will easily hit the hull by mistake."
Xiao Zhige said: "The wind and waves have stopped, and the chains connecting the ships can go. We can first catch several giant sharks with crossbow arrows with ropes, and then drag them to lead the sharks to the sunken ship. Ray bombed directly."
Huai Ruyu said: "This method is feasible. You can pile the thunderbolts on the sunken ship first. The sunken ship will sink faster and faster, and the speed of the sharks will be faster. We must seize the time."
After a few people negotiated, they quickly conveyed the order. The soldiers piled all the boxes of thunderbolts on the deck of the sunken ship through ropes. Then, for safety, they sent two ships with ropes. The crossbow caught forty giant sharks. The sails were raised again, and the helmsman took control of the direction and sailed around the sea. When the smell of blood dissipated, most of the sharks followed behind, and they approached the sunken ship respectively. Dozens of strong warriors jumped onto the sunken ship. The other end of the shark bolt was nailed to the deck of the sunken ship.
The sharks that catch up will arrive in an instant, or hit the sunken ship, or tear at the companions who are pinned by the arrow and cannot escape. The sea soon spread a deep red, and most of the giant sharks gathered around the wreck. The soldiers who completed the task didn't dare to delay, they didn't have time to walk on the plank, they jumped to the boat, and the man was still hanging by the side of the boat, so he urged loudly: "Go quickly!"
Hearing the order, the helmsman quickly turned the direction away from the wreck. Several giant sharks failed to grab the meat and turned around to catch up with the boat. The soldiers on the side of the boat were holding fire guns, fearing that other giant sharks would be drawn over, but they did not dare to use the fire guns rashly, only urging the boat to go faster.
Xiao Zhige stood at the bow of the boat and saw that the two boats were far enough away. He picked up the fire gun, aimed, and pulled the mechanism in one go. He heard a loud bang in the distance, and the thunderbolts piled up on the deck at the end of the sinking of the boat. All of them were detonated in a moment, making a loud noise like the sky and the earth, and it exploded with a bang.
Huge waves several feet high rolled up on the sea, and a raging fire was ignited on the sunken ship. The smell of burnt stench could be smelled from far away.
In the burning sea area, there are still countless giant sharks rushing over and biting the bodies of their comrades who were blown up. Huai Rushan, who squatted down against the wall of the ship to avoid him, stood up and looked at the sinking ship that was constantly burning. He was shocked and said, "Fortunately, you brought this gunpowder, otherwise I would have to explain it here today."
An Changqing said: "Tiantianlei is almost used. If it comes again, I'm afraid there will be no way."
Huai Ruyu patted his chest, took out the chart and glanced at it and said, "Go east, and when we reach the tomb of the merman, who would be afraid of these ghosts."
The nine ships that survived the catastrophe raised their sails together and went east with all their strength.
The author has something to say: Cowardly: I was so cowardly in my previous life? ? It shouldn't.
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