Looking at the empty deck, my father's frustration reached the extreme.

As soon as the White Dove Valley was broken masted, my father ordered it to prepare for battle. It will be some time before the Salanders will be able to get over, and with the three dinghies on board and the two from the Philosopher, many people can abandon the ship and leave, of course, the White Dove Valley will remain for cover. With the 'White Dove Valley' to attract, the Salanders would not be interested in those dinghies.

After weighing up, my father ordered the soldiers to volunteer to stay behind as a last resort or to board a dinghy and flee south. Father knew that a few hours away, the Hyacinth was cruising. As long as the White Dove Valley buys a few hours for the dinghy, the people in the dinghy will be able to escape and ascend to heaven.

When his father made this decision, Cesar showed not dissuasion, but almost outburst of anger.

"Arcadio! What did you do! Ignoring the rescuers, Cesar pointed at them and said, "Do you know that you have harmed all the people on the White Dove Valley for these people?" Do you know?! No! You don't know! You're like the bear who threw a watermelon to pick up sesame seeds! You idiot! ”

Cold sweat was on the faces of the boatswain and several of the officers, and just now the carpenter had inspected the mainmast, and the man squinted at the broken log and shook his head in despair.

"I'''", the father had nothing to say.

"You are the kindness of a woman," Cesar said more and more excitedly, "this is a fight on the battlefield, not a drill on the school playground!" Do you think you'll have a chance after your heroic performance, and do you expect someone to give you a score after you're 'killed' and tell you what you did well and what you didn't? Wake up! You idiot! This is a real battlefield! One person only gets one chance! I won't stay here with you, you idiot, stay by yourself! ”

Cesar was furious and threatened to leave, but did not make any gestures to leave. His father knew that Cesar would not leave him alone.

Cesar looked at his father's expression and immediately understood his father's inference. Cesar was even more angry because Cesar knew that "the father was right"

Cesar's voice was quiet, hoarse and fragile in the distant rumble of the Salanders.

"Look what you have done", Cesar repeated, "do you think that if you save these people, these people will stay with you?" ”

The father did not speak. Sisanu pouted, turned to the soldiers and said, "The 'White Dove Valley' is in danger, we now have five small boats, and we can find the 'Hyacinth' in six hours to the south, and now the question is who wants to stay on the White Dove Valley to carry out a sniper mission?" Someone has to make a sacrifice, those who stay stand up, and those who leave can board now."

The soldiers were silent, and they didn't have time to react to the sudden turn of events. But the rattling mast in the wind and the distant sound of the Salander's fire urged the soldiers to react. Soon, a scene that made the people on board the White Dove Valley extremely angry appeared: the crew of the 'Philosopher', who had just received their life-saving grace, rushed to the side of the ship after a little consideration, and began to board and escape.

The anger of the soldiers was quickly replaced by fear. It was known that the dinghy could not fit all the people, and as soon as someone took the first step, the whole group collapsed under the pressure of life and death, and the soldiers began to compete for the opportunity to get on the boat.

Soon, except for a few soldiers who were determined to live and die with the White Dove Valley, the entire deck became empty.

The frustration in my father's heart reached its extreme.

The boatswain did not go, and the man smiled. His father looked at him puzzled, "What's so funny?" ”

"Nothing," said the boatswain, "I've been dead a few times." I've followed a lot of people, and to be honest, you're not that good one, and you don't mess up one or two things. But I've decided to stay and see what you can do. Captain, maybe this is the last time, we don't have time to sigh, give the order".

The father looked at the boatswain, and then at Cesar and the two dozen or so soldiers around him.

"Sail down! Left full rudder! Turn right! Meet the enemy! ”

The Saland's expression, which was being proud, suddenly changed, and someone whistled: The 'White Dove Valley' actually turned the bow of the ship and made a desperate stance.

The battle took longer than expected, and the people of Salander did not expect the huge hull of the 'White Dove Valley' to be so nimble. The people of Salander couldn't help but be glad that if the Philosopher had spotted them an hour earlier, it might not have ended up that way. The people of Salander thought of what a terrible sea force it would be if the Rhodoks turned their navy into ships of this type, and mastered Salander's new weapons.

The White Pigeon Valley failed to work a miracle, and after three hours of hard fighting, the battered White Dove Valley was hit repeatedly below the waterline, and the White Dove Valley began to stage the tragedy of the Philosopher: a slow sinking.

There is nothing more desperate for a sailor than to watch a ship sink to the surface in the middle of the ocean.

There aren't many soldiers left alive on the 'White Dove Valley'.

The Salanders were close at hand and met no resistance. The Salanders lowered their skiff and approached the White Dove Valley, knowing that in less than an hour the Rhodoc would grunt away. However, the Salanders did not take the ship lightly, and in the battle they had just hauled, the ship had burned two Salander warships and made a mess of the entire sea, littered with sporadic floating burning mud, which made the Salanders fearful.

The people of Salander did not know if the men of the White Dove Valley were ready to continue resisting. A group of Salander soldiers climbed the 'White Dove Valley' with iron hooks, and they saw that there was no one on board, and there was blood on the deck, but the body seemed to have been disposed of. The Salander soldiers searched the gradually sloping deck for storage rooms, where they knew they should be able to make a small fortune. When the men pushed open the door to the captain's quarters, they immediately took a few steps back vigilantly: they saw that the entire crew of the ship was gathered here, some of them were seriously wounded, some of them were already dead on the ground.

But these Rhodoks did not attack.

Captain Salander shouted loudly outside the door, "Rodoks, have you decided to resist to the end?" ”

There was no response for a long time.

Just when the people of Salander couldn't pay attention and decided to simply rush in.

The young man who looked like a captain walked out, "I surrender."

When the Hyacinth saw the distress signal on the horizon and began to turn, the last nine men of the White Dove Valley were taken by the Salanders onto a Salander dinghy.

The father sat next to Cesar, surrounded by several Salander soldiers who mocked them in stammering Calad.

Soon after, his father boarded a Salander warship, where he caught a glimpse of the black weapon, like a strong arm. Fortunately, my father had only seen one of these weapons on the ship, and my father could not imagine what it would be like if there were dozens of such weapons on each ship.

The Saland's ship resembles Lily Marlene's emigrant ship that his father had captured a few months earlier, and when he boarded such a ship again, his father's identity changed completely. Last time, my father was a high-spirited naval officer, but this time he became a prisoner who was pushed and insulted by everyone. The Salanders spat at the Rhodok soldiers who boarded the ship, kicking them as they passed.

In the end, my father and Cesar were thrown to the bottom of the boat together. It was dim, sweltering, and humid, and a few wandering soul-like people shivered in the shadows, watching them.

The Salander slammed the skylight shut, and the entire cabin went dark. It was a long time before his father saw a faint glimmer of light through the cracks in the wood, and he saw that apart from Cesar and himself, there were several other people in the bilge, some of whom were watching him.

This scene is oppressive and terrifying, like the scene in hell at the Last Judgment.

"Cesar," the father shook the first mate to the side. He pointed to the captives.

Cesar turned his voice and twisted his head to the side, "See the captives again?" Go save them, and we'll sail this ship back to Aaron."

Cesar's words left his father speechless.

He lay down and listened to the Salanders walking up and down over their heads, shouting loudly trumpets he did not understand.

When my father was a kid playing hide-and-seek with Jill, he used to hide in a barrel and close the lid from the inside. Soon my father felt depressed, and finally lost consciousness in a deep state.

When he awoke, he was lying in the clearing, and the old butler crossed his arms and said to his grandfather, 'It's all right.'

The Nord woman was fanning the wind in front of his nose, her face full of worry;

Jill had brought a ladle of water from elsewhere and was approaching;

The fat woman helped Bianwen move the damn barrel out of the reach of the little ones.

Ah, White Pigeon Valley, sunny valley full of strawberries.

It was as if he had returned to those sunny afternoons in the White Pigeon Valley in the cabin, when he was almost suffocating as he hid in the barrel, and he was surrounded by people who were always watching and protecting him. His father never had to be afraid, he knew that even if he fell asleep in the barrel, countless people who loved him would come to his aid.

However, the Valley of White Doves may not be what it used to be.

Suddenly, a strong white light found his father's face, and he woke up. It had been a long time since the Salanders had lowered a basin of water and something black with a rope.

All the lifeless black shadows around him rushed over, and my father suddenly felt hungry. He crawled over to get his share, but the men had almost taken the food, and the father had only two pieces of black bread, and he climbed back and handed him a piece, and Cesar shook his head and said that he just wanted to drink some water.

The father sat back, ready to put the food in his mouth.

At this moment, next to my father, a cough came. My father noticed that it was a person who had been lying on the side, and when people were crawling over to grab food, the person did not pass, perhaps too weak.

The father felt the man looking at the food in his hand, and after a moment's thought, the father crawled over, crushed the bread in his hand, found the man's mouth, and stuffed it in.

The man chewed a few bites and coughed violently, and the father immediately moved to the basin, dipped his sleeve in the water, moved it back, wrung out the sleeve, and dripped it into the man's mouth.

The Salander above looked here, saw that there was nothing unusual, and closed the skylight with a snap.

It's dark.