It stands to reason that seafarers with a little common sense can see the problem at a glance, because the shallow water patrol gunboat driven by Gu Feng is not suitable for sailing in the open sea at all, and there is no problem in patrolling the waters around Snake Heart Island.

Gu Feng knew very well that this gunboat was not suitable to go too far, but because of the sea snake fleet and the good weather, he sailed into the predetermined sea area without any scruples.

Before going, Gu Feng and Sea Snake analyzed that there were only two reasons why this merchant ship did not appear, either it changed its course for special reasons, or it was shipwrecked.

However, unless the ship knew in advance that there would be a pirate attack, it would not change its course, and the sea would be calm for a few days, and the possibility of a shipwreck was extremely small.

What neither the sea snake nor Gu Feng expected was that when the gunboat sailed into the predetermined sea area, they saw the merchant ship floating on the sea at a glance.

Gu Feng ordered the ship to stop, and after looking at it with a telescope, he found that there seemed to be no one on board, and the ship had lost power.

"Shout!" Gu Feng ordered.

The soldiers on the ship began to shout at the ship, but no one came to look at it, so they had no choice but to approach the gunboat close to the merchant ship and get on board to see what was going on.

When they boarded the ship, they found that the deck was littered with corpses, which had been dead for at least three to five days, judging from the degree of decomposition, but there were no obvious external injuries on the corpses.

After surveying the whole ship and finding that there was no living mouth, the sea snake immediately fired a signal flare to beckon the pirate ship lying in ambush in the distance, calling his accomplices to come and plunder, while Gu Feng became interested in what happened on the ship, and he wanted to find out what killed everyone on board.

When the pirates boarded the ship and plundered, they found the scorpion-like creature in the bottom storehouse, which came out of the bilge densely and began to stab the pirates with their poisonous needles.

When he saw those scorpions, the sea snake blurted out: "Sea King Scorpion!" Evacuate! ”

When Gu Feng didn't understand what was going on, several of his soldiers had already been killed by those Sea King Scorpions, and once they were pricked by the poisonous needle at the tail of that thing, or even lightly touched, the toxin in it would kill people in an instant, not to mention that the thing originally had a pair of sharp pincers.

Although the weapons could kill those things, because there were too many of them, Gu Feng had to order a retreat, and after retreating to the gunboats and pirate ships, he immediately sailed away and shelled the merchant ships, sinking them directly.

Because there are too many corpses of pirates on the ship, as well as the corpses of soldiers, when they are discovered, if those Sea King Scorpions have left, then some people will take this as evidence of Sun San's collusion with pirates, even if everyone knows that Sun San was once a pirate.

"Get up there!" Gu Feng brandished a long knife and slashed those Sea King Scorpions, while telling everyone to flee for their lives.

When Gu Feng saw the Sea King Scorpion again, that unforgettable memory resurfaced in his mind, and he didn't want to see any more soldiers sacrificed because of this, so he decided to stay behind and let the others flee quickly.

Tang Anshu did not flee immediately, but chose to stand with Gu Feng, holding two guns, aiming at those sea king scorpions and pulling the trigger.

Benzoin, who had already climbed the cave wall, looked up at the wind cave above and shouted to the others, "The wind blowing from the cave is intermittent!" Calculate the time before you go in! ”

However, this is easier said than done.

Wang Qingyun, who was the first to climb to the edge of the cave entrance, waited for a while, calculated the interval between the wind blowing from the wind outlet, and then got into it and struggled to climb forward, but he didn't climb in the cave for ten seconds, and before he could see the scene at the other end of the cave entrance, he was knocked out of the wind tunnel by an oncoming gust of wind.

Li Zhaonian, who was outside the cave, saw that Wang Qingyun was blown out, and he quickly grabbed him, but just as he was about to thank him, he was blown away by a gust of wind - he forgot that his body hanging outside was just above a tuyere cave.

The wind carried Wang Qingyun's body and slammed it on the opposite cave wall, breaking his neck as well.

Wang Qingyun didn't even let out a scream, he fell into the water and disappeared.

"Wang Qingyun! Wang Qingyun! Li Zhaonian was shouting there, but the shouting was to no avail, he knew very well that Wang Qingyun had no hope of surviving.

"This road doesn't work!" Benzoin let go and jumped off the deck, "We simply don't have enough time to get through those wind tunnels!" ”

Tang Anshu and Gu Feng didn't have time to say much to Benzoin, because the deck of the sand ship was already densely crawled with Sea King Scorpions, and if one was not careful, he would be stabbed to death by that thing.

"Don't get touched by this thing's poisonous needle!" Gu Feng slashed the Sea King Scorpion while telling the people around him.

Li Zhaonian and Tang Hualong tried on the cave wall for a long time, and finally gave up jumping off and formed a circle with Gu Feng and others, even so, the circle enclosed by the five people became smaller and smaller, and finally stood back to back.

It seems that the Neptune Scorpion can't be killed at all, no matter how many are killed, there are still many people who climb up from the side of the ship.

Of course, this was not the worst, and what happened next completely stunned everyone - the hull of the ship tilted to the left after a sudden violent vibration, and then a sea king scorpion shaped like a cow climbed up from the left side of the ship, and at the same time raised its tail, the venomous needle on the tail glistened in the faint light, and the shell on the back was squeezed towards the center, making a sound like a strange laugh.

Benzoin was completely dumbfounded, subconsciously grabbed Tang Anshu's arm, and asked, "What should I do?" ”

Tang Anshu swallowed his saliva: "No way, abandon the boat and go into the water, and go down the rapids." ”

Gu Feng, who was originally staring at the giant sea king scorpion, turned his head to look at Tang Anshu: "Follow the rapids? The water here is recirculating! ”

"No, there must be a dark hole down there." Tang Anshu stomped the deck with his foot, "It's at our feet, on the right side of the hull, otherwise, this cave would have been filled with water a long time ago, and the water level of that freshwater lake would not have been so low." ”

After seeing the giant Sea King Scorpion that was gradually approaching him, Gu Feng, who was a little hesitant, turned to Li Zhaonian and Tang Hualong and said, "Abandon the ship!" Offal! ”

After Li Zhaonian and Tang Hualong received the order, they turned around and jumped off the boat without hesitation.

Gu Feng also jumped down after shouting Tang Anshu, and just as Tang Anshu was about to get off the boat, he found that Benzoin was still standing there without moving.

"Ah Xiang! Ah Xiang! Tang Anshu stepped forward to urge, only to find that Benzoin's eyes were full of fear, and she was completely frightened.

Under the premise that there was no way, Tang Anshu had no choice but to hug Benzoin and jump into the water by stepping on the side of the boat.

The moment the two of them jumped, the poisonous needle of the giant Neptune Scorpion's tail also pierced the deck where Benzoin was standing before.

Before Tang Anshu, who had fallen into the water, had time to do anything, he was directly swept into the water by the huge torrent, and the moment of high-speed rotation made him lose the ability to discern the direction, and he could only let the torrent ravage.

Tang Anshu held Benzoin and spun in the water, although he almost escaped several times, he still held Benzoin to death, and after rolling for a while, under the rush of the torrent, it rushed forward like a high-speed rotating bullet.

Soon, Tang Anshu's body was washed up on the surface of the dark cave by the current, but his consciousness began to gradually blur, and while holding Benzoin tightly, he also used his face to probe Benzoin's nose to probe her snort.

Only Tang Anshu, who was praying, was left, and there was no other way than to hold on to the benzoin that had fainted.

He knew very well that once he let go, Benzoin would definitely die, and if he hugged her, there might be a glimmer of life.

The two drifted in the dark cave for an unknown amount of time, and finally were washed up on a sandy beach.

Tang Anshu used his last strength to drag benzoin onto the beach, and he originally wanted to see what kind of environment he was in, but he finally collapsed due to physical exhaustion.

Before fainting, Tang Anshu was still shaking his hand and grasping the benzoin that had become a ghost, at this moment, he suddenly saw Hu Shen's face appear in front of him again, Hu Shen's mouth was closing and saying something, but Tang Anshu couldn't hear it clearly.

Tang Anshu's hand rubbed on the beach, and after grabbing Benzoin's wrist, he finally closed his eyes.

For some reason, at that moment, Tang Anshu actually felt that dying like this might be the best choice.

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Yongcheng, Eight Kings Courtyard.

Three strokes in the sun, Cai Qianqing and Qiu Gubo finally arrived at the gate of the Eight Kings Courtyard under the escort of a large number of soldiers.

The boss of the Eight Kings Courtyard and the old bustards, the nurses, etc., came out to greet them, standing respectfully on both sides, not daring to raise their heads, this scene they had rehearsed dozens of times for Fu Guodong's arrival, but unfortunately, Fu Guodong had never set foot in the Eight Kings Courtyard for half a step.

Cai Qianqing dismounted, handed the reins to the soldiers, looked up at the plaque, and said to himself, "Eight Kings Courtyard." ”

After that, Cai Qianqing walked in the door, but the moment she stepped into the threshold, Cai Qianqing stopped.

Qiu Gubo behind him didn't know why, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Cai Qianqing shook her head: "I was suddenly a little scared. ”

"Afraid of what?" Qiu Gubo looked inside the Eight Kings Courtyard, "Didn't you say that you can't enter the tiger's den and get the tiger?" ”

Cai Qianqing said: "What I'm afraid of is that now I am moving forward on the road paved by Hu Shen, but I know very well that the more I want to know what he wants to do next, the deeper I will fall, maybe when I find out, it will be too late." ”

"It's okay." Qiu Gubo sighed, "No matter what lies ahead, I will accompany you." ”

Cai Qianqing said: "It is precisely because of you that I have some concerns, if it is only me who is sacrificed, then there is no pity, I don't want to involve other people, after all, the two sides of this game are me and Hu Shen." ”

After Cai Qianqing finished speaking, she walked inside.

The boss of the Eight Kings Courtyard hurriedly followed, bowed his head in the back and said, "Adjutant Qiu, I have ordered someone to sort out the ...... of the East Courtyard."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cai Qianqing stopped and asked, "Who told you to do this?" ”

The boss was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "The little one doesn't understand what you mean, the little one just thinks that the East Courtyard is quiet, so he arranges it like this." ”

Cai Qianqing asked, "Who lived in the East Courtyard before?" Where have they gone now? ”

The boss immediately replied: "It's Miss Tao who lives." ”

Cai Qianqing said: "Miss Tao? ”