The rest of the time, we were floating on the sea.

After all, the route of our fleet is still very clear, but every day when we stand on the splint and look at it, except for the vast sea, which is connected to the long sky, nothing else can be seen, and even the seabirds flying overhead are only a handful, and sailing on such an endless sea has become a kind of drifting.

Perhaps, only in the face of such a sea will people really feel how small they really are.

I stood at the bow of the boat in a thick coat, the wet sea breeze blowing on my face, the salty taste seemed to be tears in my heart, but my face was very calm, not even expressionless, just staring blankly at the vast expanse in front of me.

However, Han Zitong beside him was not so calm.

Since she went to sea, she has been very irritable, especially when she stood on the splint and looked at the vast sea in front of her, her mood became more and more irritable, and she almost talked with the posture of arguing with me several times.

But I know that her mood will not be calmed down lightly.

The more important people are, the more they will be manic after discovering their insignificance and helplessness.

Thinking of this, I sighed softly, turned around and prepared to go back to the cabin, but as soon as I took a step, I heard Han Zitong say, "How long do we have to go?" ”

“……”

I looked back at her, only to see that her eyebrows had been twisted into a pimple, and she looked at me with a fierce look: "Do you know where we are going?" Where the hell is our ship? ”

I sighed in my heart and said calmly: "Don't worry, I have already asked the boatman today, according to our current speed, we will be able to reach Zhoushan in two days at the latest." ”

"What about after arriving in Zhoushan?" She walked up to me impatiently, "Where are we going?" ”

I glanced at her and said, "We're going to sea to find someone." ”

“……”

"Where Li'er and Miss Xue are, we will go."

"What if I can't find it?"

"I'm sure I'll find it!"

She immediately sensed that something was wrong with my tone and expression, and her brow furrowed, and she was about to say something, when she heard several boatmen on the other side of the splint suddenly shout: "Look! ”

We were both stunned for a moment, and when we turned our heads, we saw that the men had all put down their work, and all of them had run to the edge of the fence, and poked their heads out to look ahead.

What's wrong?

I didn't talk to her again, but hurried over, leaning on the fence and looking ahead—I saw a vast gray-blue patch of grey-blue in front of me, and a large piece of something floating on the undulating sea.

From a distance, it was as if a dark cloud had suddenly drifted from the sky.

What is that?

Hearing the movement on our side, the shipwright in the cabin, together with the medicine elder who was resting in the cabin, and some of the attendants and maids all ran out together, and everyone ran to the bow of the ship to look out, only to see that a large thing was tumbling with the continuous ups and downs of the waves, but it always floated back to the sea.

"What's that?"

"Is it fish?"

"It's not like it, it's not like a school of fish."

Everyone was talking about it, but they couldn't be sure what it was, and they just watched the black and oppressive thing drift away with the tide and slowly drift towards us.

A boatman with the best eyesight looked at it for a long time and said loudly: "It's shards!" ”

Splinter?

When everyone heard this, they were all shocked, and a large wave came over, and suddenly a large area of pitch-black things rushed towards us, and in an instant, it was like a huge monster, engulfing our ship at once.

The thing hit the hull with the current, making a snapping sound.

When I looked closely, it turned out to be really fragments.

Countless pieces of wood gathered together to form a dark cloud of floating objects, and when we looked closely, we found that some of the fragments were wooden posts, some were planks, and some places were tied with thick cables, and even heavy canvas was entangled.

I was a little overwhelmed for a moment, not knowing where these things came from or what they were for, but I was fascinated by the large patch of things under my feet, but some of the young shipwrights on the ship were quick to put down the cables, and scooped up some pieces of wood, and when they pulled the man up again, they all made a fuss.

Yao Lao hurriedly walked over: "What's the matter?" ”

One of the older boatmen said, "Come and see, old man." ”

As he spoke, he handed the wooden board that the young boatman had scooped up to Yao Lao, Yao Lao looked at it, but he didn't seem to see any doorway, Han Zitong and I also walked over and looked at the wooden board, which was about two feet wide, and both ends were shattered, forming sharp wooden teeth, and there were a few iron nails in the middle, emitting a seeping cold light.

I asked, "What is this?" ”

The old boatman said, "This is a plank for sea ships?" ”

"What?"

"That's what we're standing underneath."

The old shipwright took the planks and compared them to the deck under our feet, and they were almost the same in width, even the place where the nails were nailed.

I immediately chuckled in my heart.

"You mean, it's a plank from a ship?"

"Yes."

I looked at the broken wooden teeth on both sides of the plank, it didn't look like it was sawn apart, but it was broken hard, and then I looked at the fragments of wood that were still floating on the sea under the boat, some of them were even more broken than this one!

What kind of force can dismantle a sea ship like this?

The old boatman said, "This must have been removed from a ship, and the nails are not rusty, so they must not have been soaked in the water for long, probably—"

He didn't finish his words, and after seeing the faces of several of us who turned pale in an instant, he couldn't say any more.

And we all get it.

Pei Yuanhao tried the sea ban, so at this time, there were not many ships sailing on the sea, and the ships that had recently gone to sea were only Yan Qinghan, Pei Yuanfeng, Xiao Yusheng, and Liu Qinghan's fleet.

When I think about it, I just feel like I'm going to choke my breath.

Whose ship is it? Suffered such a blow?

Could it be, could it be Liu Qinghan's boat?

Will Li'er be on his dress, if he encounters such a blow, then Li'er-she——!

I grabbed the wooden board in my hand at once, and the wooden thorns erected on it immediately pierced into my fingertips, but I didn't feel any pain at all, I only felt as if my whole body was numb, and only the terrible scene kept lingering in my mind.

What if, what if something happens to the child?

Thinking of this, I only felt as if my heart was being burned by flames, and my internal organs were about to be ignited, so I immediately threw myself on the edge of the fence and leaned down to look down.

Will there be a ...... in those fragments? Corpse?

Will there be......

As soon as he saw me like this, Yao Lao seemed to understand all of a sudden, and immediately threw himself on the edge of the fence and looked down at the sea.

Those large and small fragments, there are countless iron nails nailed on them, reflecting the sunlight and flashing a little bit of cold, like the tip of a needle piercing into the eyes of each of us, I even saw Yao Lao's fingers pinching the wooden planks of the fence into a dent, as if the fear in his heart at this moment was the same as mine.

Unable to vent.

Just as a group of us were looking in horror at the broken pieces of wood at the bottom of the boat, suddenly one of the boatmen looked up and looked ahead, and shouted, "Look ahead." ”

We looked up in a panic.

Ahead, on the sea level, which was almost blank and integrated with the long sky, a small black dot was floating towards us with the undulations of the waves.

So what?

Another batch of wood fragments?

Or something else? Sea beasts? Person? Island?

Or—

At this moment, countless absurd and ridiculous ideas surged out of my mind, as if the debris at the bottom of the ship was constantly beating against the hull of the ship, hitting my already fragile nerves, and I looked straight ahead, my eyes did not blink, and I could not even hold my breath.

The boatmen also leaned out with us to look out, but the more they looked, the more solemn their expressions became, and one of the young men simply climbed the thick flag rope and climbed the high mast, holding the flag rope with one hand and the other hand on his eyes, and looked ahead for a long time.

We also looked back at him, only to see that his brow was also furrowed, and he looked down at us: "It's a boat." ”

"What?"

"It's a ship."

Our eyes widened in astonishment.

I immediately asked, "Is it coming towards us?" ”

The young man nodded, "That's right. It's still fast. ”

“……”

I frowned.

Although there should be a lot of ships going to sea now, the first batch is Yan Qinghan's ship, followed by Pei Yuanfeng, Xiao Yusheng's fleet, as well as Yangzhou Liu Qinghan's fleet and ours, but, if the map on the soft handkerchief I recalled before is correct, the goal of these people should be east of Zhoushan, but we are still in the northwest of Zhoushan, how can these people's ships go, and they shouldn't go back?

But if not them, whose ship is it?

I frowned and looked at the black dots, which were getting bigger and bigger, and as the young man had said, the ship was fast, and in a short time I could already make out the outline of a ship.

The old boatman also stepped on the fence with the flag rope, looked ahead for a long time, and said with a pale face: "But don't meet pirates." ”

"Pirates?"

The old shipwright looked at me and said, "Of course there are pirates at sea. It's just that west of Zhoushan should still be safe. I'm just afraid that if it happens. ”

By the way, the reason why the imperial court trained sailors in Zhoushan was also to guard against those fierce and brutal thieves at sea.

But we should still belong to the category of offshore now, so we won't encounter pirates, right?

The old boatman said this, but it was evident that everyone was nervous, and the atmosphere became a little dull, and everyone watched with wide eyes as the ship on the surface of the sea drew nearer and nearer, and the outline became clearer and clearer, and they could even see the sails raised high in the air, heading towards us.

At this moment, the young boatman who had climbed up and looked into the distance suddenly let out a "huh".

The old boatman immediately asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The young man's eyes widened in astonishment, and he looked at us for a long time before slowly looking down at us.

The old boatman couldn't help but roar: "What the hell do you see? ”

The young man said, "They're there, waving the flag." ”

"Oh? What do they say? ”