Chapter 18: Attracted by Blood Beasts
Xiao Kishi pondered, this must be due to the fact that he swallowed the red suzi... Without thinking about it anymore, seeing the bearded man leaning leisurely on the chair, Xiao An glanced at it angrily, and picked up the copper plate on the ground.
The sea breeze raised the soft sand, and he looked at the horizon in the distance, and he felt a wave of disappointment when he didn't know what to do with the small shore where there were not enough silver. The depressed shore walked slowly along the sand, and after a corner of the rampart, he saw a cargo ship twice as large as the passenger ship he had just had. When he got closer, he saw the carriages parked on the beach, and where the carriages stopped, boxes of goods were stacked. Next to these goods or standing high above the container, are a few men with leather whips, these people are the supervisors of the loading and unloading of goods at the wharf, after the completion of the loading and unloading of goods, they will get a sum of silver taels from the boss, and the amount of silver taels also depends on the amount of goods and the generosity of the boss. At the urging of the overseer, more than a dozen porters sweated and carried a mouthful of cargo boxes and walked towards the ship with heavy steps.
Seeing this, Xiao'an, who was shy in his pocket, couldn't help but have a plan to become a porter, and it would be good if he could earn some money here for the boat fare. It's just that those porters are all middle-aged strong men, and they are still young, and their bodies are not as tough as them, so I don't know if the boss wants to be himself. But anyway, Kogishi decided to give it a try.
"Hello, this master!" said Xiao An, who walked over to a pile of boxes and greeted a porter.
"Little brother, is there anything wrong?" the porter asked politely.
"I want to ask, how much do you get paid a day as porters here?" asked Kogishi humbly.
"We don't calculate by day here, if there is work, we will do it, and if we don't work, we will rest, and the wages are not equal, some bosses are good, and the wages are high, so we naturally earn more, but some bosses are black-hearted, and the wages are low, and we have to deduct wages if we bump them slightly, so we naturally earn less. For example, if you look at this box, the price offered by the boss is five cents each, which is considered high, and some bosses have bigger boxes than this and heavier, and one is only willing to give three cents. The porter wiped his sweat, looked at Xiao An from head to toe, and said, "What, little brother, you also want to do this?"
"Yes, it's just that I don't know if a body like me is okay..."Knowing the gap between himself and their physique, Xiao An's words also seemed unconfident.
"Little brother, I see your body..."The porter chuckled lightly and said, "It's enough to choke." ”
Xiao An, who didn't have much confidence in this, was said by the porter at this time, and the little flame of hope in his heart was immediately extinguished, and he secretly thought, it seems that it is impossible for him to be a porter here, so he can only go elsewhere to see, no matter what, the boat fare must be earned, and this island must be left.
"Don't be discouraged, young man. Seeing that Xiao An showed a disappointed look, the porter didn't want to continue to hit him, and said: "Actually, you don't need it, and it's not up to me to say it, these goods can be sold at such a high price, I think this boss should be good-hearted, maybe you go and talk to him, he agreed as soon as he saw that you were sincere." ”
"You mean, do I still have hope?" was already ready to give up, but he didn't expect the porter's words to ignite his hope again, it seems that he gave up too early.
At this time, an overseer came over, glared angrily at the master porter, and then waved his whip and shouted: "Don't chat! Hurry up and move for me!" Then he turned his eyes to Xiao An, and said unceremoniously: "Don't be here if you have nothing to do, get out of the way!"
was yelled at by the overseer, Xiao An was angry and didn't dare to come out, so he could only secretly sigh the hardships and difficulties of life.
"There must be hope, but I'm not sure about the result, you go talk to the boss, the boss is on the boat. At the end, the porter gritted his teeth and took a few steps out of the cargo box, pointed in the direction of the cargo ship and said to Xiao'an.
"Then Xie Lu, Master Xie. It's not easy to look at this master, Xiao An replied with a slight smile.
Stepping out of the safe distance of the overseer, Xiao Kishi took a deep breath, puffed up his chest, and walked towards the cargo ship as if he had mustered up the courage to go to a Hongmen banquet.
The bow of the boat, nearly two feet wide, rises majestically on the beach, and is two and a half high, and the closer you get to it, the more spectacular it becomes. The bottom of the ship in contact with the beach was hit by the waves and the large cargo ship that was docked did not waver in the slightest, which shows the strength and solidity of the cargo ship. Connecting the bow of the ship and the shore is a long row of wooden bridges, the wooden bridges are made of tall trees arranged and nailed, although each tree looks solid and durable, but after all, the height of the ship, so the distance between the wooden bridge and the ground is also long, so that even if it is a solid wood, people will inevitably sway when walking on it, let alone a porter carrying a heavy cargo box.
Stepping on the wooden bridge, the porters around him slowly walked up, watching their heavy footsteps stomp on the wooden bridge and shake it up and down, Xiao An's heart couldn't help but hang, lest one of them accidentally slip under their feet and fall over, and be crushed by the heavy box. Looking at the scene in front of him, and then thinking of himself, Xiao An couldn't help but gasp - this is too dangerous.
Walking to the center of the wooden bridge, Xiao An was a little timid, imagining that the wound on his chest had not fully recovered, and if he was smashed by this cargo box again, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Despite this, the reality immediately made Kogishi firm in his beliefs. He thought that he had no relatives on this island, Xuan'er had left here, and he had grown up, and he had to carry everything by himself, and if he wanted to leave here and go to a wider world, the first thing to do now was to earn enough boat fare, otherwise everything would be delusional.
I was once pierced through the chest by Di Mu's sword and didn't die, and I am afraid that this bit of suffering, tiredness, and danger in front of me is nothing...
The hesitation didn't last long, but after a moment of reflection, Kogishi gritted his teeth and walked resolutely towards the boat.
Walking up to the bow of the boat, leaving the shelter of the coastal barrier, the sight of the small shore suddenly widened. Then he saw several sea beasts on the shore not far from the boat, and these sea beasts seemed to be very agitated, constantly rolling in the water at the shallows, sometimes exhaling huge blisters, sometimes splashing in all directions. At this moment, Xiao An felt that something small suddenly seemed to be moving in his body, but Xiao An didn't care about this subtle feeling.
The curious little shore stood on the guardrail and watched for a while, looking at it, and unconsciously, it seemed that the sea beasts were gradually approaching the hull of the ship. Xiao Shore secretly wondered: It can't be such a coincidence, right? The other porters go up and down here without any trouble, and they can provoke them as soon as they come? Xiao An's eyes widened, as he could see, those sea beasts were indeed swimming towards him, their dark and smooth bodies undulating on the surface of the water, and their small round eyes like beads were shining with exquisite light, staring at Xiao Shore standing on the boat.
"Attention, brethren!" reminded a leading guard standing on the beach below the ship, seeing that the sea beast was swimming in the direction of the cargo ship.
Under the guard's reminder, the other guards also immediately cheered up, pulled out the long knives on their bodies, and vigilantly made defensive gestures.
Xiao An, who knew almost nothing about the Blood Magic World, watched those sea beasts swim towards him, and he didn't know what was going on. Of course, he didn't know that those sea beasts were all some beasts that had been invaded by Chisuzi and were immortal, and they had all become blood beasts, but their IQ and blood skill level were still very low, and they could not pose much of a threat to humans. These blood beasts were all attracted by the sudden outbreak of the Red Suzi frenzy on this island, and the Red Suzi on the seashore had already been sucked by them, so they seemed irritable, and seemed to be in a hurry to wait for the Red Suzi to continue to emerge.
Blood beasts, like blood magicians, are also extremely sensitive to red suzi, but at this time, Xiao An happened to carry red suzi in his blood, and Xiao An, who didn't know much about blood magic, didn't know how to hide the red suzi in his body, so he was unfortunately sensed by those sensitive blood beasts.
"Hey, boy, what are you still standing?" a hand suddenly slapped from behind, grabbing his shoulder, and before Xiao An could realize who was behind him, he was already carried to the middle of the deck.
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