Where did they go?

I suddenly panicked and wanted to get up and look around, but my body didn't listen to my own call at all, and even this urgency made it more difficult to breathe, and my ankles and calves, which had no sensation, also came from countless pinprick-like pain, which made me moan a little.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps nearby.

Are they back?

I turned my eyes a little eagerly, and looked at the woods over there, only to hear the sound of the sooth, and the branches and leaves, which had been slightly shaken by the wind, trembled, and I listened to it, and suddenly felt a little strange.

The footsteps were not one person, nor were they two people.

Like- a lot of people!

I held my breath, my chest throbbing so nervously that my heart was about to jump out of my chest, and I watched as a few hands pushed through the thick foliage, and several people came out of the dense woods.

And when I saw those people, my face turned pale.

It was a group of strangely dressed men, saying that they were strangely dressed, but in fact they were more like ragged clothes, and it was winter, but their clothes could hardly be dressed, and it looked like they had not been washed for a long time, and they could no longer see the true color of their clothes, and even those people, half of them had dark skin, half of them were mud and dirt, and they could hardly see their original faces, only that they had hideous faces, and even one or two of them lacked eyes and noses, like those evil ghosts who ran out of hell in the script.

I was so scared that I choked on my already difficult breathing.

Who are they?

Could it be the people of this island? Or-

Before I could think about it, those people had already seen me at a glance, and a few people jumped over in surprise: "Look, there's another person here!" ”

And also......?

I looked at them in horror, and they had already surrounded me, and a foul body odor suddenly came, making me frown slightly, and they had already seen my calves, and there was a lean, skinny monkey-like man who squatted down and looked at it, and immediately said: "I was touched by the sea mother, it looks like I was going to take her soul." ”

“……”

"Then leave her alone, those two are enough, let's go."

One of them, a tall and burly man with a missing eye, waved his hand and let everyone go.

I suddenly became a little anxious - they said "those two", did they arrest Liu Qinghan and Han Zitong? These people looked hideous, they didn't look like fishermen, could they be the pirates they had met before?

If that's the case, then the two of them are also unlucky!

I was anxious to get up, but no matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't exert any strength, but there was a black shadow covering my body.

When I looked up, it was the lewd-looking, skinny monkey-like man standing in front of me looking at me, with a smile on his face that was not good, and those people had already walked to the edge of the woods, and the big man looked back and said, "Monkey, what are you doing, don't you go quickly?" ”

"Second brother, this woman looks good."

With that, he reached out and pulled away the long, messy hair on my face.

There were even some indescribable sticky things and strange smells on his fingers, and when he touched them, it was like being put on the face by a toad, and I immediately turned my head away uncomfortably.

But then the men came back and looked down at me, with a wicked smile in their cloudy eyes.

"Sure enough—"

"The monkey doesn't say it, it hasn't found it yet."

"It's been a long time since we've been ashore."

As those people were talking, they heard a few snaps, and the big man raised his slap as big as a pu fan and slapped them a few times, scolding: "Do you want to be crazy about women?" Do you even dare to think about this? She's the one who has been touched by the jellyfish. ”

“……”

"Do you dare to touch the people that Hai Mu has touched?"

As soon as he said this, the men cringed again.

I was anxious and panicked in my heart, but when I heard them say this, I probably understood that these people may really be pirates, and people who live on the sea will have a sense of awe for some fish and beasts in the sea, and the sea jellyfish they are talking about should be the peach blossom fish that stung me, maybe they are afraid that they will also be infected with poison, so they dare not touch me casually.

But the man named "Monkey" obviously didn't have such scruples, he looked at me, and a little unwilling, his eyes rolled around, he walked to the big man, and whispered: "Second brother, why don't you understand." The ship we bombed that day was an official ship. ”

"So what?"

"Isn't the boss also afraid that the people from the government will find us, so he asked us to search everywhere on this Seven Seas Island, and we must get rid of all the living mouths."

"This woman has been touched by the sea mother and is already dying."

"That's not what I meant," he climbed on the big man's shoulder and said, "The grimacing man we just caught, Bajiu is a high-ranking official, and that woman, she herself said that she is the daughter of the King of Jiangxia, and that is a golden branch and jade leaf!" Think about it, can this woman have a low status with them? ”

When the big man heard this, his thick black eyebrows immediately wrinkled.

"If we take a few of them......"

His voice grew so low that I could barely hear it, but I saw a greedy glint in the big man's eyes.

After a while, he turned to look at the "monkey" and said, "Will it work?" ”

"What kind of livelihood do we do will work? It's not the same-ah. ”

The two of them looked at each other, and immediately they both smiled greedily and slyly.

Then the big man looked at me again, and with a wave of his hand, he said, "Take this woman on board too!" ”

"Yes!"

As soon as the people around me agreed, several people came up and picked me up.

I only felt that my body had always been numb, but when I was touched by them, the place immediately felt like a knife cutting needle, and I almost screamed in pain, but when I opened my mouth wide, no sound came out, only tears flowed down from the corners of my eyes.

In a few moments, they carried me through the woods to the sea.

The sea was blue, and the sun reflected countless stars, but the sunlight made the wound on my ankle even more stinging, I curled up and struggled in pain, but they restrained me, and when I turned my head, I saw that on the beach, there were several small boats parked, swaying by the waves.

In addition to these few people, there were several other people on the ship, who were also dressed in the same appearance as them. And I saw at a glance that Han Zitong was sitting on one of the boats, but she was looking at me with her hands tied behind her back, unable to move, and looking at me with wide eyes.

"Yue Qingying!"

She hurriedly tried to get up, but the boat was so swaying that she immediately fell down again, and a big man next to her slapped her shoulders and said in a vicious voice: "Don't move, or I will throw you into the sea!" ”

She was forced to sit down, and could only look at me anxiously, but fortunately the men carried me onto the boat.

As soon as he was put on the boat, Han Zitong immediately moved over and looked down at me with concern: "Are you okay?" Did they hurt you? ”

The sun above my head made me almost dizzy, and I could only nod my head with my eyes half-closed.

And then the people around us shouted, and in addition to the three of us, there were two pirates, one in the bow and the other in the stern, all rowing with oars, and the boat staggered away from the shore and rowed towards the other side of the sea.

Han Zitong was so anxious that he was about to cry: "This, what can I do about this?" ”

I turned my head to look, but found that Liu Qinghan was also lying next to me, but he seemed to have fallen asleep, so he didn't wake up.

What's going on? Who hurt him? Or was he yesterday -

At this moment, Han Zitong moved down from the edge of the boat and sat next to me, her skirt was still a little wet, and it brought a chill to my face, but it soothed my originally cramped breathing a little, and then I saw her bend down and whisper in my ear: "These people are pirates." ”

“……”

This was not unexpected, and it had been confirmed in the conversation between those people just now, but I was more worried about the person next to me, I looked at him a little anxiously, and then looked at Han Zitong - what happened to him?

Han Zitong looked at my anxious appearance, but suddenly fell silent.

The two pirates only looked at us a few times, and it seemed that they couldn't raise their vigilance against us three people who were unconscious, one was injured, and one was completely incapable of resisting, so they only rowed hard, listening to the sound of water constantly murmuring in their ears, and the towering Dragon's Back Mountain slowly became distant from sight and disappeared.

When I turned around, I found that Han Zitong had been looking at Liu Qinghan in a trance.

The sunlight shone on the half of the cold mask, and the reflected light cast on her pale face, which also trembled slightly with the hull of the ship.

After a while, Han Zitong said softly: "He went out all night and didn't come back, I don't know if something happened to him, seeing that you have been unconscious, I am even more afraid that you will never wake up, and I don't know what to do, so I went to the beach to find him." As a result, as soon as he reached the beach, he was seen fainting on the beach. ”

“……！”

"He seems to have a problem with the herbs he ate."

As she spoke, she looked at me with a complicated expression and said, "Yesterday, before he gave you the medicine, he ate those herbs all over again, and I didn't know what they meant, but now I understand a little." ”

“……”

"He didn't know those herbs, he was afraid of being poisonous, so he tasted them himself."

“……”

However, there may have been some herbs that had been on for too long, and he had not tasted them, so he fainted on the beach. I called him for a long time, but he didn't respond. ”

“……”

When she said this, she seemed a little heavy, and I looked back at the dark face next to me, which was mostly hidden by the mask, and I felt that my heart was almost overbeat.

……

Yesterday's slap should have been a little heavier.

Be a little harder!

Looking at my eyes full of hatred, Han Zitong also fell silent, and after a long time, he said softly: "You, don't worry." ”

"......," I slowly looked back at her.

"I tried his breath and he was fine, he just passed out."

“……”

At this moment, in the face of me, she did not have the same contempt and hostility as before, but her clear eyes were full of complicated feelings, as if they were inextricably entangled, which made her fall into deep confusion.

After a while, she added, "I wanted to drag him back, but I had only moved two steps before the pirates came." ”

As she spoke, she looked up with a little fear, looked at the two hideous-looking pirates, and said with some trembling: "They seem to be taking us to their lair." ”

“……”

I don't know if it's because I'm tired or dazed, I just stared at the dazzling sunlight above my head, and after a while, I closed my eyes out of strength.

I don't know if it was the medicine that Liu Qinghan gave me yesterday that worked, I have always been groggy, but at this time I have a very clear idea - whether it is a pirate or anyone else, it is always better to take us away from this deserted island than to be trapped there and wait for death.

And, listening to the meaning of the "monkey", I suspect that they may be trying to exchange the three of us for money, after all, for them, wealth is the ultimate pursuit.

In other words, we have at least one chance to go back.

Thinking of this, I opened my eyes again, and glanced at the silent, dark face beside me, when he was unconscious, he seemed extraordinarily quiet, and there was no coolness in the past, and I even found a little bit of the shadow of the beginning, when he was in Jixiang Village-at that time, he was like this every night, lying quietly on the floor next to the bed, the moonlight shining into the room through the window, revealing a faint, almost warm light on his face, making his sleeping appearance more and more gentle, as if falling into the most beautiful dream.

I thought, and I looked up again at the stern, where the hideous-looking pirate looked at us, grinned, and slid the oars even faster.

Maybe...... It's just a dream.

After that, I spent the time in that kind of swaying, as if the rootless duckweed was drifting, occasionally I would hear the sound of water protruding, and even a bit or two of salty sea water falling on my face, hearing those pirates talking loudly and laughing wildly, and I would also hear Han Zitong's helpless sigh from time to time.

I don't know how long later, in the midst of those voices, I heard a familiar, deep voice.

"Hmm-"

As if a light had suddenly fallen into the darkness of the night, I opened my eyes at once, and I saw the eyes that were close at hand, and the eyelashes trembled slightly, and then slowly opened.

His eyes seemed to be a little dazed, with a bit of dream chaos, and when he looked at me, he was motionless for a long time.

"You-"

“……”

"Here you are."

“……”

I looked at him, my lips trembled, and I wanted to say something, but all the impulses couldn't form in my throat, and Han Zitong behind me gasped: "Are you awake?!" ”

At this time, the two pirates in the bow and stern of the ship also immediately looked at it.

Liu Qinghan still looked at me blankly, as if there was a fog in front of him, which made his whole person look a little confused.

And at this time, a wave came, and the hull of the ship jerked violently, which shook him, and suddenly the fog in his eyes dissipated, and his eyes immediately became clear and sharp.

He looked at me, "You—"

“……”

I still couldn't say a word, just looked at him.

The next moment, he was about to sit up immediately, but as soon as he moved, he found that his hands and feet were tied, and he couldn't move at all, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he raised his eyes to look around, and looked at the two pirates with hideous faces, and this small boat that was not too spacious, and the whole person was stunned.

He said, "It's—"

"Stinky boy, don't move!"

The pirate at the stern of the boat rowed the boat and said, "If you dare to make any noise, we will throw these two wives into the sea." I tell you, there are a lot of sandfish here, and swallowing them in one bite is not enough to stuff your teeth! ”

He hadn't fully understood the situation in front of him, but he was shocked by this sentence first.

I felt his breathing become noticeably short, his chest heaved violently, and even his heart seemed to be about to reach my chest, but I could only look at him weakly, watching the uncertain expressions that flashed on his pale face, and after a while, he suddenly realized something, and said, "You are the pirates who attacked us that day?" ”

"Hey, boy, it's a pretty bright move."

"What are you going to do?"

"Do what?"

The two pirates looked at each other and laughed: "You three are not ordinary people, you should be worth a lot of money." ”

Liu Qinghan's brows immediately furrowed.

"Don't be afraid, we don't ask for anything but money." The man said, and suddenly lowered his face again: "But if you dare to mess around, we are welcome!" ”

After speaking, he picked up the oar in his hand and hit Liu Qinghan's shoulder fiercely, and he screamed, and the whole person struggled in pain, and the pirate put down the oar and walked over, and tied the rope that had been worn loosely on the edge of the ship a little tighter.

"Hmph, if you want to run, it's not that easy!"

After speaking, he also kicked Liu Qinghan hard in the lower abdomen, and then sat back at the stern.

Liu Qinghan was beaten by him and the whole person curled up, bowed his head deeply, only to see his shoulders twitching, I looked at him anxiously, but I couldn't do anything, and Han Zitong on the side was so frightened that he stayed there and didn't dare to move.

He froze there, and it took a long time for him to endure the pain.

When he looked up at me, I saw that the corners of his eyes were red.

After a while, he said to me, "Are you alright?" ”

“……”

I just looked at him.

At this time, the pirates on the ships not far away heard the movement on our side, and someone asked loudly, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, that kid woke up and wanted to run."

"Watch closely."

"Don't worry."

The stern pirate said, glaring at us again, and then looking up, and was about to continue rowing, but as soon as he looked up, his face was stunned, as if he had seen something.

"That-"

The pirate at the bow of the ship was sitting facing us, and when he saw him like this, he also looked back.

The three of us realized something, Liu Qinghan and Han Zitong hurriedly turned their heads, and I tried my best to support my neck, and I saw that in front, on the vast and boundless sea, in the sparkling waves, a huge ship appeared, like a fairy mountain on the sea, revealing a trace of silhouette in the mist and confusion, and faintly concealing its figure.

The two pirates were stunned for a moment when they saw the distant ship.

One of them muttered, "Well, isn't it our ship?" ”