Chapter 0.17: Freeze Reaction (Thank You Message, Recommend Votes)
The windmill town at noon is very lively.
Except for the pirates docked on the shore and the coming and going.
Down-and-out scavengers who have found treasures at the uncertain terminal are also happy to come to the tavern here to buy a glass of wine for some comfort.
At this time, a group of people were gathered in front of a tavern to watch the excitement.
At the center of the crowd, a poorly dressed girl and an old man lying to the ground.
The old man was covered in blood, and the girl lay on her body and wept.
"It's all said, don't mess with me, you still dare to be hard-mouthed." Ignoring the crowd around him, the man continued to giggle and pull at the girl's clothes, unbuttoning his belt.
He seemed to be happy to do so, and exposing his body to the public made him even more excited!
"Hey, don't go too far! This is Goa's territory, a member of the world government! "A man at the end of an uncertain object wanted to help.
But after the other party showed the bright knife, he didn't dare to step forward.
Pirates are real murderers, as evidenced by their beast-like eyes and the flintlock pistol at their waists.
Besides, they had just repelled the bandit Sigur head-on a month ago, and they couldn't afford to mess with the scavengers.
The man is getting more and more inches, and he is already about to lift the girl's white long skirt.
"Lao Tzu drank so much wine in your tavern, what happened to you to pay Lao Tzu for sleeping for one night? Do you know how the uncles are at sea every day in front of those foul-smelling men?
And you, old man, didn't you just touch your daughter twice? Dare to resist? Not for the captain's sake, these men in your town have long been sold into slavery, and the women have long been ridden under you and sold as prostitutes! ”
The man was drunk, and it seemed that he had drunk too much, but even so, although there were many onlookers, no one dared to provoke him, and there were four or five companions with weapons by his side.
"Hey! Let go of that girl, what a shame for the pirates! ”
"Huh! Little ghost, are you looking for death? ”
The man lifted his eyes, and the scene before him made him laugh, it was just a little ghost who looked to be seven or eight years old, with a tall hat and missing one of his front teeth.
These adults don't dare to stop it, has a child never heard the story of the pirates since he was a child, they are all evil, murder without blinking an eye, this is impatient to live?
The man still refused to leave the girl's skirt with one hand, and with the other he was ready to pull out the flintlock pistol pinned to his waist and give the little imp such a bullet.
The boy with missing front teeth was not afraid of the flintlock pistol, but gritted his teeth.
He suddenly picked up the steel pipe in his hand and slammed it into the man's chin, hitting the other party all over the ground.
This blow was so heavy that the jawbone was estimated to be shattered, and no one thought that a child would have such strength!
By the time several of his companions reacted to find out the boy's whereabouts, the boy had fled the crowd like a little monkey, turning left and right and disappearing.
"Go to the mayor!"
"Run away, everyone, the pirates are angry." The people watching the excitement found that the pirates were beaten and wanted to disperse quietly.
"Vogt! Catch that little ghost, no one will want to run today! ”
The man covered his bloody mouth and said in a hurry, his hand raised to the sky, pulled the flintlock pistol, and shook the audience after the slamming of the gunshot.
Vogt was one of four muscular sailors who drew their scimitars to form an encirclement and encircle more than twenty civilians.
The people in the crowd were trembling, like weak chickens waiting to be slaughtered, and they couldn't resist at all, and some of them were regretting that they had nothing to do to make a fuss.
"Second mate, that kid ran away."
"Dare to sneak attack Uncle Ben and tell me the whereabouts of that little ghost, otherwise none of you people will want to leave today!"
"But Boss, the captain said he wouldn't let us ...... the civilians."
"What's the big deal, just say they know the whereabouts of Barcel Romuel Morgan but deliberately hide it."
"That kid I seem to know, it's the famous evil boy at the end of the uncertain object, named Sabo." A thin man said.
"My lord, please let them go, I am willing to go back with you to spend the night and become your slave." The girl knelt beside the man's lap and cried and excused.
She was a kind girl, and she had resisted death to defend her chastity, for which her father was injured, and she had to be buried with the whole town, which was really not what she wanted to see.
The group of pirates was polite before, and she was full of affection for these people who were ignorant, but she didn't expect that in less than a month, they showed their true colors.
"You unlucky woman, not only do I want you to serve me today, but I also want you to know the fate of the angry old men!" When a man raises his right foot, he will kick it.
"Whoosh!"
A sharp arrow pierced the air, piercing the head of the unnamed second mate at a moment when everyone couldn't react!
The arrow feather took his body a few meters away before it was nailed to the ground, and the people froze!
"Who, who is TM, the one who dares to touch the Gentleman Pirates!" The sailors who formed the encirclement shouted.
"Whoosh!"
Another man fell, and the arrow went straight into his mouth, through the back of his head!
Horror, silent horror!
The people stood stiff like wooden chickens, and one of the pirates just reacted, and he wanted to run away without caring about avenging his companions.
As soon as his legs moved, an arrow from his head was nailed to the ground.
It's scary!
You can't find the enemy, you can't run away, and the opponent's sharp arrows seem to have eyes, and the slightest movement will be locked immediately.
No one dared to move any more, everyone froze in place, and Vogt fell to his knees in fright, with his head buried in his ass, and with his toes he knew that the bows and arrows were aimed at their pirates.
"What a funny little guy."
Thinking back to the child's dexterous and ruthless iron rod, Morgan tugged at the corners of his mouth and chuckled.
Remove the aim and quickly place the Divine Arm Crossbow on your back.
His whole body was covered with branches of grass and trees, perfectly hidden in the middle of a large tree, and the birds chirped in the branches dozens of centimeters away without feeling the slightest human presence.
Leaping forward, Morgan fell to the ground with one hand, and the iron mask covered his face again, heading towards the pirate who had been shot fifty meters away.
Breathing, slight and rapid breathing.
Everyone was doing their best to hide their panic, and they were terrified.
Time was like pressing a pause button, no one dared to move, and everyone kept their original movements, including the dead bodies lying on the ground.
Only the blood hole pierced by the sharp arrow flowed out uncontrollably, forming a small blood stall.
People who have never been on the battlefield or experienced great terror may never understand why people do not run away but stand still when they encounter danger.
This is actually a very natural phenomenon, and this is true of all living things, including humans.
In the scientific community, this reaction has long been explained, called the biological freezing reaction.
When the body is in danger and sends a distress signal to the brain, the first defense strategy used by the limbic system is to freeze the response.
Movement attracts attention, and if it feels threatened, it remains stationary, which is the most effective life-saving method that limbic systems offer humans.
An antelope was grazing leisurely on the scorching prairie when it suddenly felt a slight change in the flow of air, mixed with a slight smell of predators. At this time, it will definitely stop all movements, raise its head high, and try to judge by its eyes, nose, ears, and every hair on its body:
Are there any dangers?
What animals does the danger come from?
How many of them are there?
How fast are they?
How far away are they?
Can our community keep ourselves safe?
Do you need to run away, or do you need to fight?
Where can I run without being ambushed?
……
With so many questions, you need to judge a general result within 1 second, otherwise you may be killed in the enemy's belly.
The body's first defensive strategy is to freeze the response. Because many animals – especially most carnivores – are very sensitive to movement.
The same is true of human beings,
late at night
When you want to go to the toilet, under dim light.
You catch a glimpse of a demon behind you, its long tongue sticking out and constantly blowing cold air on your neck, and your first reaction is not to look back at what the ghost looks like, nor to run away, but to stand on the spot with its hair standing upside down, waiting for the wind to disappear.
Morgan was a ghost, his iron mask, his fangs, his arms carrying the crossbow through the crowd, no one dared to look him in the eye.
“biu~”
Another arrow, shot at close range, and blood splattered on Morgan's iron mask.
There was only one pirate left, and Vogt was on his knees shivering, and his urine lay on the ground with his crotch down, and he didn't dare to move with his legs between his legs.
Morgan frowned slightly, kicked him in the ass and said, "I want to know everything, I think you should be happy to tell me!" ”
Vogt was on the verge of amnesty, he tried to get up, but he fell several times in a row but still did not succeed, he did not even have the courage to look up at the enemy in front of him.
Morgan pulled his pocket watch out of his pocket, and at twelve forty o'clock in the afternoon, with eight minutes left, he didn't have much time for interrogation.
"You are saved, but whoever dares to speak up, I will immediately break his neck!"
"Eat, drink, and clean up the corpses here, or no one can guarantee whether your town will still exist in a while."
"Little wine lady, go inside and get dressed and pour me a glass of juice." Morgan casually moved a stool, sat in the crowd with a big thorn, and stared at Vogt and said.
……
Back twenty minutes ago,
A group of thieves cut off the wagon carrying the drinks at a narrow junction, and they prepared three large wooden barrels that were identical.
The barrels were filled with black powder, each weighing a hundred kilograms.
Morgan made a simple timer and the bomb would explode in twenty minutes!
At the same time as the bandit Sig, the two of them glanced at each other, and they would also launch a surprise attack at this time.
"At this time, the carriage must have been transported into Magino's tavern with the most pirates."
Morgan got up from his stool, knowing that he couldn't pry any more useful information out of Vogt's mouth, and the sharp knife slashed out of his cuff and into his throat, giving him the most painful way to die.
Vogt's eyes were wide open to death and he couldn't believe it, why was he killed when he had recruited everything, didn't the pirates still live as long as they surrendered?
Morgan actually wanted to give the other party a chance to reform, but now the situation is chaotic, and the slightest mistake is not allowed at all, and the life of the pirate is not so respectable.
Standing up, he patted the dust, and did not take a sip of the juice on the table, he was afraid of being poisoned.
The girl looked at his back gratefully, not daring to say a word......
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