41 Fallen Dragon(10)
The wind was right on the sea before setting sail, so the paddlers of the Dorn were able to relax, some asleep on the board, others chatting around the lit fire, pointing at the woman trapped at the mast.
But when the wind around them got stronger, they didn't have to think about anything else.
The manic wind made the ship move fast, but the rough and turbulent waves below made the ship extremely unstable.
Seeing this, the six Dorn's vigil hurried to rein in the sails, and at the same time kicked their sleeping companions awake, but this did not bring any luck to the small flat-bottomed fishing boat.
It didn't take long for the fierce sea breeze to blow out the fire on the ship, and the surroundings were plunged into a gloomy darkness, and the dark clouds overhead, with bursts of electric light rumbling from time to time, and dense raindrops began to fall rapidly.
Faced with this situation, the people of Dorn shouted in panic, some clenched their oars and shook them to resist the turbulence of the waves, and some ran quickly on the boat to keep the boat balanced.
The black-haired man at the head shouted and commanded, while the emaciated old priest beside him knelt on the bow of the boat, clasped his hands and prayed silently towards the east of the ocean.
Unfortunately, neither the sailor's oars nor the sacrificial prayers could stop the ship from becoming more and more unstable.
The old priest, who had prayed for half a day, looked at the stern of the boat in a panic, hoping that someone would be as reliable as he claimed, but the other party had long since disappeared as far as he could see, and the little queen, who was tightly tied to the mast, laughed unconsciously at this, and was slapped hard by the leading man.
In the next instant, a huge wave suddenly set off on the left side of the boat, directly engulfing the big fishing boat!
The waves descended as if the sky overhead had collapsed, and the ships in the hazy environment screamed and were overturned in an instant, and soon they were torn apart, and more than twenty Dorn's people fell into the sea, one by one, relying on the water to flee in a hurry under the pitch black sea level, but they were forced to separate under the action of turbulent turbulence, and their faces disappeared in all directions of the deep sea in horror.
The little queen, still tightly bound, stood upside down in the ocean, her purple eyes widened and her cheeks bulging, and her hands tied to the wooden pole struggled, but the oxygen in her lungs became scarcer and scarcer, but she never broke free.
It's just that just when she couldn't hold on to open her mouth, a figure leaned in the direction of the right side of her body, and the familiar face made her can't help but be surprised and annoyed, but it seemed to make her a little angry, so the already shaky mouth couldn't hold on at all, and the sea water rushed in, and everything in front of her seemed to be turned upside down into chaos.
It wasn't until she felt the ubiquitous sea water disappear in a hazy way that Rhaenys finally regained some of her senses, and after bowing her head and vomiting a large amount of seawater in the violent storm of the night, she raised her hand and slapped the person next to her who couldn't see his face clearly, and then her eyes went black, and she fell into a coma.
……
When I woke up again, it was already the next day when the waves were calm.
Opening her eyes blankly to stare at the already cloudless clear sky above, feeling the touch of the hard, damp wooden plank beneath her, Rhaenys stared blankly for a while, and finally looked sideways at the dark-haired man beside her, who was looking down at her.
"Again, I thought you were really going to betray me." She muttered, "The last time you were by that river, you suddenly threw me into the river, and I thought you wanted to go back on it. This time you pretended to be like that, and I almost believed you...... Is there anyone in the world who is more like a liar than you? ”
"If I didn't lie to you, we would have been hacked to death by a knife." Lan Li replied, his brown eyes glancing at the target in front of him, and he nodded in satisfaction.
The other side is pale, and one side of the face is also a little swollen and bruised, but the overall mental head seems to be good.
"Can't you just say hi to me?" The hoarse voice looked very dissatisfied.
"Why should I fight you-" Before he finished his words, he was suddenly interrupted by the man under him who raised his hand and grabbed the front of his clothes, his upper body was dragged down violently by a huge force, and his mouth was immediately blocked, and the unfinished words turned into a whining sound, his eyes widened as he looked at the woman with a pair of beautiful purple eyes close at hand, Lan Li's heart was full of confusion for a while, and only one thought always lingered in his mind.
Why is she so strong?
The lips felt cold to the touch, but after a while, a sharp pain suddenly appeared, and then the force that restrained the body relaxed, and as he turned around, an annoyed word came from under him.
"It doesn't taste good, does it? But that's how I feel now! ”
Lan Li touched his bleeding lips and stared at each other in disbelief.
"Y-yours got such revenge?"
"Next time there is such a thing, you must tell me in advance!" The other party didn't respond positively, but stood up and glared at Lan Li, and then turned his head to look at the surroundings.
Then she was a little dumbfounded.
Beneath him was a heavy plank that looked like a fragment of the previous ship, small in size, floating on the sea like a shelf of a tattered table, surrounded by plenty of light, but no matter which direction you looked, it was a vast expanse of water.
"What are we going to do next?" She couldn't help but turn her head to look at Lan Li, her voice unconsciously weaker.
"I saved food and water,"
Lan Li was covering her injured mouth with her sleeve at this time, and pointed behind her angrily when she heard this, so Rhaenys saw that behind the wreckage plank, a thick rope was pulling some scattered barrels and burdens.
"As long as we don't get unlucky enough to encounter another storm, we can hold out for another month."
Lan Li said, suddenly frowning.
He felt that this thing was very wrong, why did he always encounter shipwrecks or storms when he was at sea?
"And what about a month from now?" The other party hurriedly asked.
"If we're lucky, we'll run into boats, and if we're unlucky, I'll be able to try diving to catch fish, but it won't last long because we don't have water." Lan Li replied absentmindedly.
"You mean, we might die of thirst at sea?"
"If you want, you can also choose to dive headlong into the sea and drown, I think it may be better than dying of thirst."
The little queen glared at him when she heard this, but then she suddenly thought of something, and approached with curiosity, her purple eyes staring at Lan Li as if she was looking at some rare animal.
"How could you hold your breath in the sea for so long? How? ”
"This is the strength that the Great Mother River has given me."
"A fool would believe you as a liar, tell me, what the hell is going on?"
"I don't want to say it."
"I trade my secrets with you?"
"I'm not interested."
"Well, I thought you were interested in dragons."
……
The life of drifting at sea was actually quite familiar to Lan Li, after all, he had floated once not long ago.
However, the current situation is different from the last time.
The sunken planks beneath him weren't intact boats, and he was always worried about whether they might suddenly sink into the water at some point.
At the same time, they couldn't sleep well, without any guardrails, and a bump was enough to push the two of them into the sea.
Lan Li was not afraid of this, but Rhaenys beside him did not have the ability of him.
However, in the end, Lan Li, who is not afraid of water, can't sleep well every night, because he is always afraid that when he wakes up, he will find that the mission target next to him has already fallen into the sea and choked to death.
The little queen was also frightened at first, but it didn't take long for her to find out that Lan Li was there, and she didn't seem to need to worry much about this, so she was very heavy every time she slept later, and she felt very warm in her heart inexplicably, and some of her precautions against Lan Li also quietly dissipated a lot.
This inevitably made Lan Li feel sour, and what made him even more envious and jealous was that the other party was not afraid of cold than him.
The sea at night is much colder than during the day, and although it is not as contrasting as the desert, it is enough to make you shiver.
However, the leather armor and clothes of the Dorn rider who were used in disguise were obviously all on his body, but the other party didn't seem to feel the cold at all.
"None of our family members are afraid of the cold." Faced with Lan Li's puzzled gaze once, the other party took the initiative to explain.
"You're not afraid of fire?"
"That's just a rumor." Rhaenys shook her head and denied: "We can tolerate the heat, but we are not afraid of fire, the flames will still hurt us, but they are weaker than ordinary people." ”
These words made Lan Li frown, thinking of a certain pea shooter in his memory, and couldn't help but ask the bottom of it.
"Is there really no one who is not afraid of fire at all?"
"If there were, it could only be the ancient dragon kings, who had mastered the long-lost magic of Valyria." Rhaenys replied with a nod of her chin, and then added.
"It can't be said to be lost, but invalid, in fact, I can do those magic spells, but none of them succeeded."
When she said this, the little queen was quite depressed and melancholy, and Lan Li asked a spell curiously, but she did not hesitate to recite a syllable that sounded garbled, and did not seem to cherish it at all.
tried to write it down, but found that he didn't know why he couldn't remember it, so Lan Li had no choice but to give up.
……
The sun rises and sets, as time passes, the two people in the "isolated island" can't avoid each other in many cases, and there is nothing else to do except talk, so gradually, they seem to have become good friends who talk about everything.
Lan Li learns many of the little queen's childhood anecdotes and the process of getting along with the dragon, and the other party becomes more and more suspicious of his true identity.
During a conversation, she said something intentionally or unintentionally.
"I suspect you're disguised as the Faceless of Braavos, those people have always been interested in our family."
Lan Li flatly denied this, but Rhaenys just gave him a blank look and did not continue to ask.
At first, the atmosphere was calm, but as food and water became scarce, the atmosphere on the boat became more and more oppressive and dreary.
At the same time, the calm at sea also quietly dissipated, and one dark cloudy night, the surrounding sea breeze gradually increased, and finally mixed with the torrential rain bombarded the wrecked shipboard and two of them-
Another storm has struck!