On the other side of the long boat, Qi Zhilai swung the heavy lancet in his right hand diagonally to shake away the blood, and four blue-gray skin pirate corpses were lying on her back, on their backs, horizontally or vertically, quietly surrounding her feet. Their complexion was already a corpse-like gray color, but this appearance was more pleasing to the eye now.

Boom! Another thunder in the clouds. Qi Zhilai returned the knife to the sheath and bent down to pull the oars from under the pirate's corpse. She looked at the chain attached to the stern of the boat, which was pulled apart by two canoes so light, and who could stumble over them, and if the sails had not been burned, the three-masted sand boat would have had no problem dragging them......

She grasped a little bit of pirate experience, but at the same time blamed herself for being careless, and in the vast sea, people always mistook plainness for safety.

"This chain is in the way, and our ship can't move. She kicked the other oar to Cai Huan on the side, who took it steadily, "I don't know how they are doing over there......

I didn't feel like I was in it, but on the low canoe like I was now, the three-masted sand ship in front of me was so tall and mighty—her towering bow was lying between two longships that had belonged to pirates, and each didn't know what was happening on the other side.

Right now, Qi Zhilai and Cai Huan rowed to the other side of the bow of the boat, and more and more vistas were revealed from behind the charred wood.

"Don't come here!"

Suddenly, a longboat rushed out from behind it, and there was only one man rowing it, and the voice came from him, but his mouth did not move. Because there was only one man, he had to hold the oar and paddle on the left, and he was busy lifting it up again to paddle on the right, and even then, the speed was amazing.

What was even more strange was that the man seemed to have four hands, two rowing boats, two hanging in front of him—a flurry of arrows fell into his boat. Only then did Qi Zhilai realize that the man's back had been pierced like a hedgehog.

"What's going on?" Cai Huan, who was behind him, asked the other side, his words were mostly worried.

"Quick! hide behind the boat!" the four-armed stranger shouted at them, hoarse, but his mouth remained unmoving.

Qi Zhilai finally recognized this voice, but he still couldn't believe it, was the young man's voice so hoarse and so sad?

“...... Cai Zhao?" she asked in a low voice.

The man and the boat were already near, and there was no four-armed strange man, it was the body of the pirate draped over the young man's body, and there was no more arrow in the back of the corpse.

"East ......"

What about Dongzi? Qi Zhilai wanted to ask. But as the longship got closer and closer, she saw the strong man lying quietly on his side in front of the boy. The narrow longship could only accommodate him lying like this in front of him, and the arrows on his back, and there was no more space.

"Paddle over and talk about it, quick!"

Another burst of arrows came, Qi Zhilai pulled out his knife and missed a few of them towards himself, and Cai Huan behind her had her back to her, listening to Cai Zhao's words, rowing to the back of the sand boat to dodge.

Not far away, the real main force of the Fandong pirates emerged from the fog - it had devilish ramming angles, and in addition to the black sails on one side and three small sides, there were more than a dozen long oars that stretched straight into the water, so that there was no need to just look at the face of the wind. This ship as a whole was slightly smaller than Qi Zhilai's merchant ship, but whether it was from its black iron bow or from the five or six times the number of people howling on it, Qi Zuo's envoy had to admit that it was impossible to keep the merchant ship safe and leave.

Whew-

Finally hiding behind the merchant ship, Cai Huan pestle the oars and breathe a sigh of relief. "It's a headwind over there, and as long as we keep rowing, they won't be able to catch up. She only breathed a sigh of relief, then re-grasped the oars and said to Qi Zhilai.

The headwind means going north, against the direction from which it came, but it has been half a decade since I left Shishijin, and I have to rely on this manpower to row back...... But there's no other way to do it right now, isn't it? maybe after getting rid of the pirates, maybe when the day comes, you'll be able to meet other merchant ships on the route......

But what really bothered her was something else. The weak fortifications where the rockets came, the enemy's strategy of shooting ships from afar and sails close, and the main force of pirates that had just arrived...... Everything proves that what Ge Lan said is true.

Before the battle began, Qi Zhilai knocked Ge Lan unconscious and hid on the ship, half on guard, half for protection - in case he escaped from the chaos or simply joined the enemy, out of this concern, Qi Zhilai could not unshackle him and fight side by side, since he could not unshackle, then it was safest to hide quietly for him......

In short, Qi Zhilai knocked Ge Lan unconscious and hid out out of the most thoughtful considerations he could think of. She had no idea that the outcome of the battle would be abandonment and escape—while the two longships would not provide much solid protection for their lives, if she had to abandon a fainted man in the ship of fire that was about to disintegrate because of an error of her own judgment......

Can't do it.

So she stepped on the bow of the ship and flew onto the side of the merchant ship.

"You go first, and leave me a boat. ”

With one hand and a bend of her arm, she landed on the deck of a merchant ship. The fire spread quietly and relentlessly, and the wooden bars on the deck had collapsed considerably.

Cai Huan below was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded reluctantly. Maybe she didn't think it was necessary.

On the deck of the merchant ship, Qi Zhilai lowered his body and hid himself on the inside of the bulwark on the other side, carefully moving towards the hatch of the ship. Suddenly, a giant arrow with a thick cup edge pierced the bulwark, and the wood chips exploded and splashed, and Qi Zhilai could only protect the front door and roll inward.

The giant bolts did not pass through the bulwark, but had serrated rows of barbs and long chains attached to the tail of the ballista that extended to the side of the pirate ship.

Crackle! Crackle!

Three more giant crossbow arrows shot into the bulwark of the merchant ship one after another, and the wood chips flew and Qi Zhilai did not dare to remove his arm from his eyes.

Whoaaa——!!a

The sound of a savage came from far and near, and Qi Zhilai removed his arm—four black and dirty iron chains were evenly arranged, connecting the merchant ship with the pirate ship, and several pirates with thick arms twisted the wheel at the end of the chain, and the two ships were getting closer and closer, and they were about to be attached.

The four pirates, naked with flower snakes tattooed on their bodies, hurriedly flipped onto the chains, raised their hands flat, and kept an uncanny balance, and struck on the chains.

Ahh

The shouts of the four pirates were not uniform, and they resounded back and forth between the two ships, and when they reached Qi Zhilai's ears, they were already like ghosts crying wolves, one after another.

Drink!

The rightmost one rushed to the end of the chain, jumped with his feet on the bulwark, and the broadsword in his hand was already slashing at the armored woman who was kneeling on the deck.

Seeing the situation, Qi Zhilai hurriedly pulled out the heavy willow knife from his right hand, and his left hand pressed against the back of the knife, horizontally above his head.

The two edges intersect, one horizontal and one vertical. The charging pirate was not weak, and the momentum of the fall was taking advantage of the fall, and the two hands were getting closer and closer, and the snake body on its arm writhed, and the snake head on the back of the hand was about to bite the woman's chest.

Qi Zhilai struggled to adjust his posture in the confrontation, changing from kneeling on his right knee to kneeling on his left knee, and then pushed his right leg with all his might, and his right hand holding the hilt of the knife also raised with him. Under the effect of this kick, the two of them took Qi Zhilai's left knee on the ground as the axis and fell to the left, and the remaining strength caused the pirate to roll to the left more than half a circle, just like the posture of the front body hitting the ground and the back facing up.

Sensing the impending danger, the pirate hurriedly bent his knees to his feet, but Qi Zhilai's knife had already stabbed him in the waistcoat. The pirate flipped outwards in a panic, his heavy lancet stabbing into his left arm, which had been crushed beneath him.

Yes!

He screamed, and Qi Zhilai twisted the handle of the knife again, and the tip of the knife was inserted deeper, straight through his arm and into the ground. The pirate struggled to get up from the pain, but his left hand was still pinned to the deck.

Ignoring the pirate's howl, Qi Zhilai stepped on his pierced left arm, clenched his hands tightly, drew the knife from it, and then stabbed downward. This time, it was the pirate's chest.

Table tennis!

Heavy Lancet's downward stab is bounced off by an attack. Qi Zhilai looked at the other side, but the attacker's hand was empty.

"I'll give this woman to me, and you guys will get rid of the two below!"

The man was only five or six steps away from Qi Zhilai, but he was still leisurely assigning tasks to his teammates farther away. Qi Zhilai glanced at the ground, and it turned out that it was a four-pointed dart that missed her stab.

A little farther away, two pirates who had landed halfway behind the merchant ship rushed to the other side, just in time to see the two low long ships below, Cai Zhao was throwing the excess corpses into the water, and Cai Huan was slashing the part of the long ship with a knife that connected the iron chain to the stern.

Of the two longships that were snatched from the previous pirates, one of Cai Zhao and Dongzi was already full of arrows, and it was even more dangerous no matter how you looked at it. Not out of selfish considerations, the siblings decided to use another boat to escape with the dying Dongzi first, leaving this one to Qi Zuo and Ge Lan. At present, the two of them have transferred the immobile Dongzi to Cai Huan's boat, while Cai Zhao cleans up the body on the boat full of arrows.

He had already cut off the chains on the boat, and he was just waiting for Cai Huan to finish his work.

The sound of fighting on the large ship caught their attention, and the busy siblings looked up to meet the eyes of the two pirates on the side of the ship above.

The pirates climbed the bulwark, aimed at the two longships that had belonged to their companions, and leaped down one by one.

Pushing the last corpse off the boat, Cai Zhao suddenly picked up the oar instead of pulling out his sword.

"You take Dongzi first, and I will be with Zuo. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his wooden oars and propped one of Cai Huan's boats outward. The pirate who had been aiming for the ship fell into the water with a thud.

Cai Huan, who was pushed away by this oar, looked back at her younger brother, the chain was broken, she inserted the short knife back into her waist, bent down to pick up the oar, held it tightly in her hand, and then rowed quickly into the distance.

Above the sea of fog, a lone canoe drifted away from two large ships side by side, one of which was burning with a momentary flame.

In the flames, the big ship finally began to disintegrate little by little. At this moment, many howling blue-gray figures sprang out from the black ship with sharp teeth and claws, snatching a basket of pitch-black cargo from the former's stump.

At this time, the clouds that had been entrenched in the sky for a long time finally squeezed out a few tears and sprinkled them on the remains of the merchant ship. The thunder had stopped, but the rain was getting heavier and heavier. The shapeless wooden planks floated on the sea, and the bad rain fell more and more violently at the unknown time, and the foggy sea surface returned to darkness, and the resentment seemed to have subsided.