The sea under the high cliff, the inky blue waves surged, constantly flooding with white water foam, and the stirred waves hit the cliff stone together, and the white water splashed like jade in an instant.

Shao Xiaoqi looked down from the cliff of more than 30 zhang, the sharp angle of the cape squeezed the current of this corner in a narrow space, the current, the waves like a violent beast unwilling to lie in wait, unwilling to give in to the struggle, under the reef containment, the formation of a dangerous whirlpool.

A log that had been yellowed by the sea water was washed into the headland by the current, Shao Xiaoqi had excellent eyesight, and through the dim light, he could also see a person lying on the log.

In the past two months, there have been people who have fallen into the sea and been brought to this island by the current, this is the sixth one, and I heard from the master that there are also people who have fallen into the sea on other islands who have been brought ashore by the current, and looking at the direction of the ocean current, it seems to come from the direction of Southern Fujian.

If a man who floats overboard with a plank or a mast is spotted by the soldiers patrolling the island, he is considered a spy and thrown into a prison of hard labor, and if he is suspected of having practiced martial arts, he is executed on the spot. Even so, there were still three people who were hidden by Shao Xiaoqi and them.

After Shao Xiaoqi got off work, he wandered along the coast with many people, hoping to meet people who had fallen into the water along the current.

In the past ten years, there has been no shortage of people or people or corpses who have fallen into the sea and floated to this sea area, but it has not been as evil as in these two months.

Shao Xiaoqi turned around and looked back, the soldiers patrolling the island had already disappeared from view, rolled up his trouser legs, and went down from the high cliff ape with bare feet, and climbed down from the craggy high cliff in a moment, plunged into the torrent that was already cold, stepping on the water and cautiously approaching the giant tree, calculating in his heart the direction of the next wave, if the giant tree collided, it could only become a puddle of meat and mud, waiting for the sea shark to come.

Shao Xiaoqi couldn't help but feel a little excited, not only did he rescue another person who fell into the sea, but if he could hide this log in the headland, he sawed it and tied it into a raft. Over the years, arm-thick trees have been cut down, and the only forest is in the islander's barracks.

Shao Xiaoqi stretched out his hand to put on the giant log, and saw that the man who fell into the sea tied himself to the log with a rope, stretched out his hand to probe his snort, and was already dead, so he wanted to untie the rope and push the body into the sea, but he heard a muffled voice explode in his ears: "The corpse should also be brought up." ”

Shao Xiaoqi looked up at the cliff in surprise, and saw that the master and Sun Lai were looking down, and they didn't understand why it was just the body of a shipwrecked person who had to work hard to move to the cliff rock thirty zhang high.

Shao Xiaoqi turned over and got off the log, submerged in the water under the log, held one end of the log in his hand, waited for the undercurrent rushing to the shore, and took advantage of the situation to lift the huge log weighing more than 1,000 catties out of the water, resting on the stone bank at the bottom of the cliff, untying the swollen corpse soaked in the seawater, untying it and binding it behind his back, climbing the stone gap with both hands and feet, and going up the high cliff.

Shao Xiaoqi took the body off, and saw that the master was carefully holding the body behind him and laying it flat on the grass.

Shao Xiaoqi looked at the corpse's swollen and pale face, which had been completely deformed, and saw that there was a wordless pain in the master's eyes, and thought: How can the master recognize who he is?

Sun Lai also looked sad, standing quietly aside, but his eyes looked surprisingly cold in the dim twilight.

There must be secrets that he doesn't know, Shao Xiaoqi thought to herself, watching Master and Sun Lai bury the corpses on the slope cliff, and they can't pile up the graves, but only use a stone the size of an embroidered squat to mark it on the flat grave.

Ji Mo Ruiping said: "You also come to worship." ”

Shao Xiaoqi asked, "Who is he?" Without waiting for Mo Ruiping to answer, he bowed deeply.

"The surname Jimo will probably eventually disappear in history, but it was once prominent in the southeast. In order to find us, our people in Wuling Mountain did not hesitate to plunge into the unpredictable sea, hoping that the ocean current would carry them to the island where we were imprisoned. ”

"Ahh Shao Xiaoqi exclaimed and said, "Although the ocean current has a direction, it can just float to our island, how is it possible?" ”

Sun Lai showed a painful look, his voice was unexpectedly hoarse, and said: "If one can't do it, then send a second person, just to confirm that we have been contacted, the clansmen of Wuling Mountain have sent nearly two hundred people for this purpose, but in the end, only two people can survive, but we don't have a boat to cross the ocean to Wuling Mountain to report the news, and Wuling Mountain will continue to send people to report the news." ”

Shao Xiaoqi vaguely remembers that he lived on land when he was a child, but he grew up on an island, and his childhood memories have become extremely thin.

The island is so big that you can't walk from one end to the other in a day.

Except for the vicinity of the barracks, which is considered a forbidden area, where people are shot mercilessly, there are no restrictions on the islanders' access, but Shao Xiaoqi, who has been weak since childhood, has not been able to travel all over the island until he is fourteen years old.

Because of this, he was not forcibly recruited into the Kou army by Gongliang Youqin, and was able to live a claustrophobic life on the island, without fear of life, until five years ago, he was accepted by Jimo Ruiping.

The islanders were punished very severely for practicing martial arts.

Unless the islanders who were conscripted into the army were allowed to practice martial arts, other people who were used as island slaves were strictly forbidden to touch iron and fire, let alone practice martial arts, and the assembly of more than five people would be regarded as sedition against the island and brutally suppressed.

Ji Mo Ruiping said: "Now that earth-shattering changes have taken place in the interior, Gongliang Youqin has suffered two setbacks, and his strength is not as good as before, we may not have the opportunity to return to the inland, but now it is urgent to pass on our news to our people, so that the people will not send people over." ”

Shao Xiaoqi thought that it must be the news from the two people who fell into the sea, but he didn't know anything.

The islanders are strictly forbidden to have contact with the outside world, and in recent years, the number of patrols on the island has decreased, and everyone vaguely guesses that Gongliang Yuqin is likely to be severely damaged in foreign wars.

Shao Xiaoqi couldn't help but get excited when she saw that her father intended to tell her about the things outside the island.

Ji Mo Ruiping said: "Your ancient practice breath fist is about to break through Xiaocheng, unless you break the gong, it will be difficult to hide the fact that you have Dan breath in your body." But just by drifting wood across the vast ocean, ten deaths may not have a lifetime, you have to think about it yourself. ”

Shao Xiaoqi said: "Xiaoqi is willing to go to Wuling Mountain to communicate with the clansmen. ”

"There are twenty-six people who have left the island with you, but after you leave, it will inevitably arouse the alarm of Gongliang Youqin, and there is no possibility of sending letters to the outside world, so you are the only hope for the hundreds of thousands of islanders on the sixteen islands this week."

Shao Xiaoqi looked at the solemn and solemn expression on his handsome father's face, nodded heavily, and said, "Only death can stop me." ”

Sun Lai patted him on the shoulder and said, "You should be careful." Then he said, "Even if you go ashore, you may not be able to get in touch with the people in Wuling Mountain, as long as you look for the men and horses of Qingfeng General Xu Ruyu, you can ask them to take you to Wuling Mountain, but everything here can only be said when you see the people in the mountain." ”

The mountains on the eastern side of Wuling Mountain pierced the sea, but Wenling City was still in the hands of the Puji bandits, and the families of Yuejun and Southern Fujian had always been hostile to Baiyi, and Sun Lai's face showed a sad face.

Ming Xi and the others only knew the general location of the island imprisoned by Mo Ruiping, and sent people to follow the ocean current in the direction of Puji Island and only used lonely trees and lonely boards as boats to find the Baiyi people who were taken captive to Puji more than ten years ago, which was too slim. Even so, Zi Yangqiu resolutely decided to act like this. To avoid the leakage of the news and arouse the vigilance of Gongliang Youqin, the clansmen sent only knew the general situation of Yue County, but they did not know anything about the detailed deployment of the Qingyan Army, not to mention the future plans of the Qingyan Army.

It takes eight days to follow the current to Puji Island, although the time to hang up the sail will be shortened by nearly half, and it has been more than two months since the dispatch of people, but there is no news, Minna looked at the determination of the more than ten clansmen around him to die resolutely, his nose was sore, he turned his head to look away, and his chin was slightly raised to prevent tears from flowing down.

Looking at the roaring waves, I cried out in my heart: Where will you be, my king?

The waves rushed to the shore, hit the reef, smashed and quickly retreated, as if calling for the useless move of drifting again and again to find the king. However, the passion and anger in his heart were like the waves, and he was never willing to lie under the reef, and another wild wave came, and the splash of water floated into the air and fell on Minna's thin face, with a slight fishy smell.

Minna kicked viciously at the cliff, splashing a cloud of stone chips, and shouted in a low and resolute voice, "Go to the sea." ”

More than a dozen people pushed a fishing boat into the vicious waves, and as soon as they left the beach, more than a dozen people jumped into the boat. The fishing boats with sails are too conspicuous, and almost all the sea areas outside the three counties are controlled by the Puji Water Camp, so they only paddle away from the coast, looking for the ocean current to flow to Puji Island, drifting along the ocean current for several days into the waters near Puji Island, and then dismantling the hull, each holding a board or a log that has been prepared long ago and continuing to float towards Puji Island.

It's just that in the turbulent tide, the physical strength of ordinary people is already at the limit.

Minna looked at the fishing boat and left with only a little black trail left in the turbulent blue sea, and then reluctantly left.

If you want to survive, sacrifice is inevitable, and the Baiyi people have paid a terrible price for survival in the past six hundred years, and the Baiyi people have also forged such a deep and tragic surname.

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