"Since it's a murder weapon, it can be destroyed for a hundred, why doesn't she do it? On the contrary, it takes so much manpower and financial resources to even ask you to be adrift at sea all these years and hide the Franc machine guns at sea? ”

After hearing these words from me, the Iron Mask King glanced at me.

At that glance, I couldn't tell whether it was indifference or indifference, and I even saw a little ridicule.

I was stunned by his look.

However, he did not answer my question, as if he did not bother to answer such a question, but only turned his head coldly, and looked at the vast sea in front of him, and the undulating waves stretched to the sky, making this part of our voyage seem more and more strange and uncertain.

Feeling the strange coldness in him, I hesitated for a long time, and didn't ask any further.

The sky was getting darker.

The heavy clouds overhead turned into a dark twilight, as if someone had sprinkled a handful of thick ink on the sky, and the ink slowly precipitated, turning the sky, the four fields, and the endless sea under the sky into a heavy twilight.

It was at this moment that suddenly, a strange gurgling sound broke the silence on the deck.

I was stunned for a moment, and the Iron Mask King had already frowned slightly and turned his head to look at me, and then looked down, and his expression that seemed to be smiling immediately became vivid, and I immediately blushed.

I didn't ask Xue Muhua before, how long it has been since they rescued us on the ship, at least since I woke up, it has been more than half a day now, and I haven't eaten tea and rice, no wonder my stomach will protest.

The Iron Mask King smiled, "Hungry? ”

I was a little embarrassed and smiled wryly.

"Go back to your room, I'll have someone bring you food."

I nodded, and was about to go back obediently, but as soon as I turned around, I heard the voices of several boatmen suddenly talking loudly from the bow of the ship in front of me, and one of them, a man with a dark face and unkempt hair, ran over and said loudly: "Big brother, look ahead!" ”

The Iron Mask King frowned, and immediately leaned over the fence to look forward.

I also stopped, turned and looked ahead.

The twilight became deeper and deeper, and the sky and sea were almost gray, becoming a whole pitch-black curtain, and in the dark distance, some flickering points of light faintly appeared, rising and falling with the undulations of the waves.

What is that?

I subconsciously frowned, and leaned over to look, and the Iron Mask King's eyes were like torches, as if he had understood, and sneered: "Troublesome thing." ”

The boatmen said, "He's here to get in our way." ”

"Looks like there are quite a few ships coming."

"Big brother, are we going to-"

The Iron Mask King said coldly: "Let everyone who has finished eating come out and prepare to fight." ”

Against! These two words pierced me, and I immediately became nervous, and as soon as the Iron Mask King turned around and saw that I was still standing at the hatch, he said, "You still don't go in?" ”

I hurriedly asked, "Yes, is there an enemy?" ”

"The Sea Serpents," he said coldly, as if not too concerned, "they're here to stand in our way." ”

I hurriedly walked up to him: "Are there many people coming from them?" ”

The Iron Mask King glanced back, and those points of light had slowly formed in his line of sight, becoming a little larger, but reflecting the glittering waves on the sea, I couldn't tell who was who.

The Iron Mask King said: "Not much, just a dozen or so small boats." ”

"Does it matter?"

"It doesn't matter."

I looked at him lightly, and even a little unconcerned, although I was very worried, but I also understood that after all, he had been adrift at sea for so many years, and he had fought with the Sea Serpent Gang for so many years, and he naturally knew me better than me about the strength of both sides.

However, after all, I am on his ship, and everything is related to my life.

Besides, I'm more worried about -

"What if they find the Franc cannon?"

"Impossible."

“……”

When the Iron Mask King said this, he waved his big hand: "You hurry up and go into the room." ”

"I-"

"These annoying things are nothing to me, but I don't want to be in the way of having someone on deck who can't help me at all when dealing with them."

“……”

His words were already clear, and even a little disgusted.

But, of course, it is true.

I could only glance back at the closer and closer point of light on the sea, and then turn and enter the cabin.

I walked back along the previous path, but I was surprised to see a rickety figure standing at my door, as if to reach out and knock on the door, but a little hesitant.

I subconsciously stopped.

And he, who had already heard my footsteps, turned his head to see me, and his eyes suddenly flashed: "You are back." ”

"What's wrong with you, coming out?"

The light in the cabin was dim, and I could only see that the half of the silver mask on his face shone faintly, but it made the sides of his low-grade fever even darker, and his lips were bloodless and pale, and even standing on the wall could barely hold on, and I said, "You came to me?" ”

"Hmm."

"What's the matter?"

“……”

Although he knocked on my door, he hesitated a little at this time, and the two of them stood at the door and looked at each other, and they were speechless for a while.

The one who broke the deadlock between us was one of the Iron Mask King's men, who brought some food, and when he saw the two of us standing at the door, he immediately frowned: "If you two have something to say, go into the house and sit down, I'm afraid that you won't be so stable to let you stand like this later." ”

With that, he handed me a few cold, dry and hard cakes, turned and left.

Liu Qinghan looked at the man's back in surprise, turned his head and asked me, "What do you mean?" ”

I opened the door and asked him to sit down as well, and put the loaves on the table before saying, "I have just returned from the deck, and the Sea Serpents seem to be coming in our way. ”

"The Sea Serpents?"

I remembered that he didn't know anything about what I knew, so I briefly told him about the current situation, including the matter of the Iron Mask King, and his face became more and more ugly when he heard it, and I finally told him: "They have a dozen ships, although they are small, but they are not small. The Iron Mask King is ready to fight them. ”

As soon as he heard this, he immediately stood up from his chair: "Then we-"

I said calmly, "What the Iron Mask King means is that this is just a small scene for him. But he didn't want people like us who couldn't help to go out on deck to distract them. ”

Saying this, he also understood, and then held on to the armrests on both sides of the chair, and sat down slowly.

Now that one of us is sick and weak, and one of us has no power to restrain the chicken, the upper deck has removed the target for people and caused chaos for the Iron Mask King, and there is really no other use, it is better to stay in the room obediently, and there will be less harm.

It's just that, having said that, tension is inevitable.

I saw his hands on the chair, and the joints of his fingers turned white from the exertion.

He was silent for a moment and asked, "You say, is it possible that those Sea Serpent Gang people have been found-"

"I'm so worried, but the Iron Mask King says there's no way they'll find it."

"He's so confident?"

I thought about it, although I didn't have much confidence in his overly inflated self-confidence, but after all, things were in his hands, and the situation was also in his control, and only he knew the joints best. So I said, "Perhaps, he hid the things, and he is the most sure if others can't find them." ”

Liu Qinghan glanced at me, and his gaze seemed a little deep.

I was looked at by him like this, and subconsciously frowned: "What's wrong?" ”

He thought for a moment before he raised his head to look at me and said softly, "Do you want those Franc cannons to be found?" ”

"Of course not."

"I'm not talking about the Sea Serpent pirates."

“……”

"I'm talking about the rest of us."

“……”

"Anyone."

“……”

"Do you want those Franc cannons to be born?"

I don't know if it's because the situation outside is getting more and more tense, or because the sea breeze is getting colder, but in this quiet room where only two people breathe one after another, my heartbeat is getting more and more intense. As if to hide the throbbing in my heart at this moment, and to prepare for the storm that would follow, I suddenly stood up, walked to the table, picked up a piece of dry hard bread, and broke a piece from it.

The bread was completely cold, hard as a stone.

I picked up the small piece and wanted to put it in my mouth, but as soon as I brought it to my lips, I still turned my head and looked at him with a smile: "Didn't you go to sea for the emperor to find the Franc machine artillery?" You say that now, don't you want those artillery guns to appear? You don't want to find them? ”

He looked at me, his brow furrowed.

When I talk to him, there is no longer the previous detour and cover-up, in fact, at this moment, to detour and cover up again will only make the development of the situation less and less developed towards the situation we expected.

He said, "What do you mean, Madame?" ”

My fingertips twitched slightly.

The piece of bread fell from his fingertips with a click and fell onto the table.

I looked back at him and lost my voice for a moment.

But immediately, I laughed: "Why does Lord Liu repeat it so much? ”

He seemed to be stabbed by my words, and the whole person froze there, holding the armrest with both hands, as if he couldn't figure out what to say or do for a while, and only looked at me with a bit of gloom.

"Since Lord Liu has an idea, he should say it directly."

“……”

"Why do you even bother to ask me? Let me guess? ”

“……”

"Misleading others is misleading oneself."

“……”

Immediately, the atmosphere in the room seemed to be dyed by the sea breeze that suddenly poured in from the window, and it became cold for a moment.

He was silent for a while, then suddenly coughed twice and cleared his throat, and then said, "Madam...... I have something to say that I need to explain to my wife. ”

I looked at him lightly.

At this point, he himself stopped, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly got up and walked to the door, closing the door that had been open. I subconsciously frowned, only to see him look back at me, his original gray face was now a little paler, and even a little unbearable, leaning against the door, gasping slightly.

I leaned on the edge of the table and looked at him, motionless.

The silence of the two people, when such a storm is about to come, becomes more and more tense, and it even seems that it may collapse at any time.

When he spoke again, his voice was already a little hoarse, and the obvious hesitation and hesitation could be heard.

"Madame, she is an extraordinary person."

“……”

"Under the lady, to the lady...... Very respectful, also—" He repeated for a long time, and in those eyes that were tormented by a low-grade fever and were extraordinarily clear, it seemed that he could see a lot of affection, and at this moment of complicated entanglement, he finally seemed to have made up his mind, raised his head to look at me, and said calmly: "Also—extremely admired." ”

My eyes widened.

What did he say?!

He said he was right to me—

I could hardly believe my ears, I couldn't even believe what was happening in front of my eyes at this moment, I just felt that maybe there was already a fight outside, maybe there was already a fight in front of my eyes, so in front of my eyes, there was a hallucination in my ears.

Otherwise, how could he say these things to me?

How could he talk to me like that?!

Just when I was shocked by his words and almost completely lost my reaction, he said solemnly: "I have introduced my wife as a confidant in the red dust, a close friend in trouble, and now I say these words to my wife openly and honestly, and I definitely do not mean to despise my wife and tarnish my wife's name." The respect and admiration for Mrs. in the next end there! ”

“……”

"I have a pearl for my wife, and I have no heart for trespassing."

“……”

He glanced at me, and although there was no look of annoyance on his face, there was a little unspeakable embarrassment, and he said, "I was on the island before, and I was next to my wife...... There may be some excesses, excesses, but it was an extraordinary time, an extraordinary situation. ”

“……”

"But please don't misunderstand, Madame."

After saying that, he looked up at me, his eyes clear and calm.

It is like a thousand miles of the sea, and the moon rises tomorrow.

I looked at him for a while, slowly lowered my hand from the edge of the table, smiled and said, "What is the extraordinary time, what is the extraordinary situation?" I don't understand a word. ”

He was slightly stunned.

"Is Lord Liu a little confused because of a fever?"

“……”

"I only remember that I, Lord Liu, and Miss Zitong worked together on the island and supported each other, and finally got through that desperate situation, that difficulty, as for the rest, I don't remember anything."

He looked at me for a moment, and a faint smile appeared on his face, and he said softly, "Madam, you are indeed an extraordinary person. ”

As he spoke, he shook his shirt and bowed to me, "Thank you, madam." ”

I smiled and only nodded faintly.

He seemed to calm down a little, walked back and sat down on the chair, but perhaps because he had just stood for too long, he couldn't support it, and almost fell into the chair, and there was a slight gasp, but he still immediately said: "So, for that batch of Franc machine guns, ......"

I said, "What do you think, but it doesn't matter. ”

He said: "In my opinion, such a thing is too angry, no matter what is successful, but it is by no means a good weapon. ”

“……”

"In my opinion, the best way to deal with such a thing is to escape from the world."

My heart pounded.

And just as his words fell, suddenly a deafening loud bang sounded outside.

Before we could react, we felt a thump of the ship, and all the cups and utensils on the table fell to the ground and shattered, and he and I fell to the ground almost at the same time.

My elbows and knees were on the floor, and I almost screamed in pain, and we both looked up at each other with horrified expressions on our faces.

Outside, a fight has started!