The brand-new ship had begun to sink, and the bilge was three feet deep.

When hundreds of boatmen gritted their teeth and roared into the dock, the terrifying cracking sound of the bilge and the beach scraping could be heard, and before the dock gate could be closed, the big ship ran aground at the dock and could no longer move, the water in the bilge gushed wildly, and soon flooded the cabin, and the boatmen who rowed were pale and frightened and abandoned the ship one by one.

After Chen Xu got off the ship, he arranged for several guards to quickly ask the shipyard to arrange more fishing boats to go to sea for search and rescue, and at the same time began to interrogate the rescued ink disciples and boatmen, and soon inquired about the cause and cause of the incident.

Although these Mo disciples were not particularly clear about Huang Shigong's arrangement, the Mo family and Hou Gong and a group of Fang Shi had indeed been mixed together for more than three years.

Huang Shigong not only captured Gai Nie and Gongsun Beiyan half a year ago, but also caught Shui Rou, Yu Wuya, and another woman who claimed to be Rashotang who went to attack the camp in the middle of the night.

"Master Hou, it seems that Concubine Hou was really taken away by the Duke of Huangshi, Master Yu and Gai Nie fell into the water, do you want me to go to Langya County to order the mobilization of captains and soldiers to recruit boatmen and fishermen to go to sea again to pursue!" The leader of the guards asked anxiously.

"Master Hou, at the moment, the few big ships in the shipyard can't be used, so you can only summon fishing boats to go to sea, which is very ......dangerous," Jiang Chuxing reminded.

"The danger is also going to go, there is no need to summon the lieutenants, quickly go to notify the Langya County Order to recruit large ships, it is not yet noon, and it is still too late to go to sea to pursue, as long as you can find the island where Huang Shigong and others are hiding, Ben Hou must blow up these bandits into meat sauce!"

"Whoa!" The leader of the guards left with his fists clenched.

At this time, the entire shipyard fishing boats came in and out, there were fishing boats that went out to sea to continue the search, and there were also fishing boats that rescued people and returned, and a large number of rescued boatmen and ink disciples were sent to the shore, and there were dozens of corpses, some missing arms, legs and even heads.

Whether it was a dead person or a living person, Chen Xu carefully identified them next to each other, but he still didn't find any familiar faces.

An hour later, around noon, the sun had risen overhead, and in the thick of the sun, the beach near the shipyard was littered with corpses and rescued shipwrights.

Most of the fishing boats that went out to search also returned.

According to the fishermen who searched for it, both large ships had sunk, and after searching the sea for tens of miles, basically all the living and dead people that could be found had been brought back.

Chen Xu's face was as cold as an iceberg.

Based on constant questioning and identification, he had basically determined that Yu Wuya and Gai Nie no longer had much chance of surviving.

Another half an hour passed, and the last few fishing boats that had gone out to sea to search also returned together.

"We still found one, and there is still breath~" Before a fishing boat docked, the fishermen on board kept shouting loudly.

A group of people rushed up with a hula, Chen Xu jumped directly into the sea water and rushed to the bow of the boat, looking at a middle-aged man lying in the cabin, he couldn't help but shake his face, this middle-aged man he was too familiar with, it was the world-famous Great Wei swordsman Gai Nie, but at this time, his eyes were closed and his teeth were clenched, and his face was as pale as white paper.

"Get the healer here!" Chen Xu touched his nose and found that there was still a faint breath, so he quickly asked a group of people to drag the fishing boat ashore, and an old doctor with a gray beard and an apprentice hurriedly ran over with a medicine box and began to check and rescue.

This is already the last few fishing boats.

Although Gai Nie was rescued, there was still no trace of Yu Wuyi.

Chen Xu's heart instantly sank into the pitch-black and endless abyss.

Yu Wuya is the first person he can really rely on after crossing over to Daqin, and it is with Yu Wuya's help that he stepped step by step to his current position, and it is precisely because of Yu Wuya that he got to know the water that can be truly inseparable from each other.

Yu Wuya's position in his heart is irreplaceable, although he doesn't seem to be in tune on weekdays, but he is meticulous and trusts him unreservedly, and has always guarded his peace regardless of the slightest return.

He's the best brother and even the elder brother of himself!

An irrepressible sadness and despair swept over him, as if the whole world had suddenly dimmed, and he could no longer feel the slightest warmth, and before he knew it, two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks.

This was the first time in his two lives that he really cried tears of sadness.

"Master Hou, the fishing boats going to sea are ready!" Jiang Chuxing walked up to Chen Xu and whispered.

"Let's go when you're ready!" Chen Xu wiped away his tears with his sleeve and turned around, his face was already covered with frost.

"Let's go~" The leader of the guards roared and brought a group of guards and twenty young men with firearms on their backs to get on the boat, Xiao He, Liu Bang, and Cao Shen all followed without hesitation.

"Brother Jiang, Miss Chuyue, you two stay, if we don't come back in three days, you will go to the Xianyang Qinghe Marquis Mansion to inform the princess and Wan Niang, let them take good care of their bodies and take care of their father and mother for me!" Chen Xu stretched out his hand to stop Jiang Chuyue and Jiang Chuxing.

"Lord Hou......"

"Chen Lang ......"

Jiang Chuxing and Jiang Chuyue froze in place almost at the same time.

"It's uncertain that this is going to be auspicious, you don't need to follow me to take risks, once I have an accident, you must let Jiang Jun Shou play the emperor and get rid of the Xiang clan in advance, just say this is what I mean!"

"Lord Hou......"

Jiang Chuxing still wanted to speak, but Chen Xu turned around and got on the boat directly, and soon the ten fishing boats set off offshore, leaving only the Jiang brothers and sisters standing alone on the dock in a daze.

These ten fishing boats are five zhang long and one zhang wide, which cannot be compared with the big sea ships of Huang Shigong and others, they can only carry about a dozen people, and there is no closed cabin at all, but for now, it is already the best and largest boat that can be found.

For the sake of safety, there were only the guards and teenagers brought by Chen Xu and Liu Bangxiao on the ten fishing boats, and the rest were fishermen except for a few leading boatmen, who not only knew how to row but also had good water skills.

But in the vast sea, in fact, it doesn't matter much whether the water is good or not, if it is within two or three miles of the coast, it may swim back if it falls into the water and capsizes, but if it goes deep into the sea, no matter how good the water is, it is basically a dead end.

What's more, it is the midsummer season of May, the tropical storm is coming, Chen Xu and his party have only been in Langya for seven or eight days, but they have experienced three storms here, especially the storm last night, the sound of the violent waves is like thousands of horses rushing, thunder and lightning lasted for more than an hour, the downpour of rain almost overturned the house they lived in, and more than ten cars of local products carried from Wuzhong were blown over by the wind. It is estimated that there will be no trace of the blow directly.

Therefore, this time to go to sea, Chen Xu did not have the slightest certainty.

But according to the confession of a few ink disciples who were familiar with the island, as long as everything went well, they could reach the desert island in less than three hours.

The sun is shining and the sea is calm, so if you go well, you can find the island before sunset.

Ten fishing boats lined up in two rows, no more than twenty zhang apart.

Ten people were on board each ship, and the spare part was dry food and drinking water, enough to eat and drink for three days.

Except for the fishermen who drove the boat, Chen Xu and others almost all sailed on the sea for the first time in this kind of small wooden boat.

This kind of boat has neither masts nor sails, and it is a flat-bottomed boat like a river boat, and it has no draft at all, so it is like a plank floating on the sea, and even the slightest wind and waves will follow the bumps and undulations, not to mention that the sea seems to be in the most peaceful state at the moment, but only when you sail into the sea, can you feel this violent shaking all the time.

After driving for less than half an hour, Chen Xu's face was already pale, and a group of teenagers were even more pale and vomited.

And it's not just the small boat that will be bumpy, the big ship will also be bumpy, because the big ships are also flat-bottomed boats, with neither masts nor sails, and no steering wheel that is easy to control, only a giant wooden oar at the stern acts as the rudder, which requires several people to pull, but the big ship is heavier, and the impact of slight wind and waves is relatively small, and once it encounters strong winds and waves, it is easy to capsize and capsize.

Everyone almost didn't speak, one by one nervously sat in the cabin and tightly grasped the handrail of the cabin, only the fishermen who rowed the boat shouted the horn and looked relaxed, looking at the performance of Chen Xu and others, there was a faint psychological satisfaction in their hearts.

They didn't want to go to sea in a fishing boat, but they had to go to sea under the pressure of Langya County, so they could only take advantage of the calm and calm to row a boat to find the island, otherwise when night fell or the storm came, there would be only a dead end.

The deeper you go into the sea, the more turbulent the seemingly calm sea becomes, and when you enter the sun, you can only see the layers of waves rolling in from a distance with white light, and the fishing boats are like duckweed undulating violently in the waves, slowly disappearing into the vast sea under the westward sun.

The sun is sinking in the west, and it is approaching unitary time.

At the junction of the sea and the sky in the west, a red sun is about to sink below the sea level, the sky is gradually overcast, and the sea breeze has begun to become fierce.

Ten fishing boats have been deep into the sea for more than 100 miles under the continuous rotation of fishermen and non-stop rowing, and when they arrived here, all the fishermen were almost exhausted, and Chen Xu and others were also vomiting one by one, and their hearts, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were in a state of failure, and several boatmen who were guides were standing at the bow of the boat and constantly looking around.

Based on time and distance estimates, that island should be nearby.

The sun soon fell below the sea level, leaving only a red glow on the horizon, and the vision of the vast sea began to dim and blur.

"Look, the island is in the southeast!"

Just when everyone was anxious, a boatman suddenly pointed to the place where the southeast sea and sky meet, and sure enough, he saw a looming black shadow, as if it was like a sea beast lying on the sea surface and swaying with the ups and downs of the waves.

In fact, this is an illusion, because Chen Xu and the others are already about to be delirious.

Chen Xu took out his binoculars dizzily and stood up to look at it, and suddenly couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief and said, "Yes, it should be that island, there is still a faint fire on it!" ”

"Wow, quickly paddle and paddle~"

Everyone came to their senses instantly, not only a group of guards excitedly took over the fishermen's oars, but Xiao He, Liu Bang and others also rolled up their sleeves and paddled with wooden scoops that scooped water.

As the island got closer, it was soon possible to see the peaks, reefs, and even trees on the island, and sure enough, a few match-sized flames could be seen.

"Childe, we'd better avoid Huangshi Gong's camp first, find a leeward place to dock, and then go to find out the whereabouts of Concubine Hou and the others after a little rest!" Xiao He reminded.

"Yes, at the moment, we don't know the movements of Huang Shigong and others, it's better to be careful!" Cao Shen also nodded in agreement.

"Childe, this island is big enough, and our boat is small, we can find a beach and dock, so we can go to the island without knowing it!" Liu Bang also whispered.

"Okay, let's find a secluded beach to dock first!" Chen Xu nodded and instructed the boatman who led the way.

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