Chapter 428: 'Calculation'
In the cabin, seeing the tall young man's thick-eyed face clearly, Helena's eyes widened, her hands were on her chest, her breathing accelerated, and her spirit seemed to be a little trance and murmured: "Is it you, Van der Sar, is it really you...
God bless, I'm not, I'm not dreaming, I'm going to die, all the beautiful visions that have seen the worst in life, or have you really come to me..."
"You didn't dream Helena, I'm right in front of you, right next to you, right next to you..." The tall young man stroked the girl's face gently and carefully with his hand as if touching the crystal clear in the sun, and the fleeting dewdrops, stammered with tears, and choked up speechlessly.
This touching and beautiful scene broke the hearts of others, but it made Zhang Lisheng in the corridor feel 'bloody', he couldn't help but feel numb, pouted and planned to go to the deck to see what was going on, but just took a step but was stopped by two samurai with round hats on their heads and scimitars, "Sir, please don't walk around casually for the time being." ”
The young man was stunned for a moment, looking at the round-hated warrior who had already hunched over and standing all over the corridor, and was about to say something, when he suddenly heard Anita, whose face was flushed with surprise, not far away, shout: "The guard of the Downton family, that is Mr. Li Sheng, he is a warrior monk from the Frost Continent, and he is the one who saved us from the prison of the Hellmen.
This time, I also came to him to save Helena, don't stop him. ”
The two round-hat guards in front of Zhang Lisheng knew that although they were dressed in tatters like beggars, they were actually the young masters of the Bai Feili family. I couldn't help but look at the leader.
A man who was close to middle age, who was not tall but gave people a cold and majestic feeling like an iceberg, looked at his subordinates and said expressionlessly: "Didn't you hear what Master Anita said, get out of the way." ”
"Yes, Master West. The two round-hat guards hurriedly got out of the way, and Zhang Lisheng said with a smile on his face: "Xie Luxie." He continued to walk up the stairs leading to the deck, but was stopped by Anita as he passed, "Mr. Li Sheng, we are saved." Do you know the way? We are saved..."
"Master Anita, just look at the situation of these people, or we will be saved by the pirates who hijacked the ship. Zhang Lisheng smiled and interrupted the young man's words. "Since that 'Master West' just now has a lot of respect for you. Then we are saved. ”
"Do you know how we are so calm when we are saved..."Anita was stunned for a moment, and suddenly began to suppress her excitement, lowered her head and muttered in a chagrined whisper, "No." You did the right thing, Mr. Li Sheng, the teacher has long warned me, as a real man, no matter what major events happen, whether it is joy or sorrow, you must stay calm.
I was a little out of shape just now, and I still lost my temper in front of the guards of the Downton family, which is really humiliating..."
In the corridor of the cabin where there are echoes everywhere. The young man's small voice just happened to be able to reach everyone's ears, and seeing the expressions of those round-hat guards who seemed to be smiling, Zhang Lisheng remembered Anita's help to him just now, and said casually: "Don't talk Young Master Anita, otherwise you will be more and more embarrassed."
Let's go out on deck and blow the sea breeze so you can calm down. ”
"Very good, but I'm going to go to the teacher first and tell him the good news that we've been saved, and we'll see you on deck later, Mr. Lisheng. Anita said as she ran down the hallway, turning a corner and disappearing without a trace.
Zhang Lisheng walked quickly to the staircase of the cabin on the ground floor alone, climbed onto the deck, and suddenly a row of ships tightly connected by iron cables for miles on the sea broke into his eyes.
Looking at the ships that were floating and sinking on the surface of the sea, the smallest of which looked four or five times larger than the wooden boats under his feet, and they were all connected together by thick chains, a strange thought suddenly rose in the young man's heart.
After careful consideration, he passed the panicked sailors who had not participated in the riot, but had been taken into custody by the samurai, and came to the wheelhouse.
Seeing that Hano really stayed in front of the helm as he expected, he looked at the fleet with a golden samurai as a coat of arms on every sea ship outside the lookout window, so he came to the navigator and asked knowingly: "Hano, do you know how many bizarre twists and turns happened to Lu Dao just now?"
Most of the sailors on the ship rioted, and as a result, I had just knocked the crazy sailors down, and all of a sudden, a bunch of guys with round hats and scimitars appeared, and Anita told me that we were saved..."
"You stopped the sailors' riots?" Before Zhang Lisheng's words were finished, Hano suddenly turned his head and stared at his face as if he had woken up from a dream and asked in a lost voice.
"Yes," Zhang Lisheng nodded, "What's wrong?"
"Alas, there is really such a thing as fate in this world, some people are lucky, some people are unlucky..." Hano was silent for a while, sighed, and showed a bitter smile as if he hadn't heard Zhang Lisheng's question, and muttered.
"Yes, I also think there is such a thing as fate now," Hano didn't want to answer, Zhang Lisheng was also smart not to ask more, thought about it and looked at the vast sea outside the window and said: "Such a vast and vast ocean, the rescue fleet can find us hard, this is not the arrangement of fate!"
"It was fate that we were saved, but it would be a joke to say that this fleet was here to rescue us. Hano said through gritted teeth.
"What are you talking about?" asked the young man strangely.
"No one would go crazy and tie a dozen merchant ships to the deep sea with iron chains to search and rescue, otherwise the fleet will be completely wiped out in the event of a sea monster or a strong hurricane," Hano replied with frustration: "The fleet that will do this must be carrying very expensive cargo for offshore voyages, so that if any of the seagoing ships have an accident alone, they will not sink, and they can barely follow the fleet to the nearest port."
It's December, and the annual exposition of the Cathaman city-state is usually going to be held in the most prosperous city of 'St. Nianca', and if my guess is correct, the Downton fleet must have stumbled upon us on the way to St. Nianca, which means that we were already not far from landing. ”
As soon as the navigator's words fell, suddenly a middle-aged man with a black sailor's hat and a big beard walked into the wheelhouse with several sailors, bent down and came directly to the helm, glanced at Hano and said: "You are the Harneau Navigator, I am Danas Salter, the first mate of the Cormorant belonging to Downton Firm."
Because the brave and loyal Captain Anduch was seriously wounded in order to save Miss Helena, I was temporarily appointed as the captain of the ship with the consent of Young Master Anita of the White Philippe family. ”
Hearing this, Hano's face turned pale, and his mouth trembled: "I will immediately give you the rudder to Danas First Mate, not Captain."
I was going to go with Captain Anduch to fight the rioting sailors, but someone had to be at the helm, so, so..."
"Mr. Hano, now that I have the rudder in my hands, and I am familiar with this sea, I don't need a navigator, so you can go out on deck and watch those riotous sailors 'bathe' and fulfill your wish to 'fight' them. The bearded man sneered and snatched the rudder from Hano's hand and said no more.
Hano, who was squeezed out of front of the rudder, staggered back a few steps, and without saying a word, he staggered towards the deck, looking at his dejected back, Zhang Lisheng suddenly understood that the young lady who did not take the risk to save his employer during the sailors' riot seemed to have a great impact on the future of this navigator.
However, this is a young man who has no intention of caring about such a trivial matter, and after thinking about it, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked the bearded sailor, "Captain Danas, how long will it take for us to dock?" ”
Danas paused for a moment, looked at Zhang Lisheng beside him, and saw that although he was ragged and haggard, his bearing was by no means like that of an ordinary sailor, so he replied in a tone that was neither enthusiastic nor cold: "I still don't know how fast this ship is, sir, but if a normal sea ship is a ship, we will be able to dock early tomorrow morning." ”
"Xie Lu Xie, it seems that time is enough. Zhang Lisheng showed a strange smile on his face, thanked him, stayed in the inexplicable acting captain, and strolled out of the wheelhouse.
As soon as he got on deck, he suddenly saw that a dozen sailors on the ship who had not participated in the riot were nailing several smooth planks with thick iron nails to the gang of the wooden ship with trembling hands.
Beside them, seventy or eighty riotous sailors, whose heads were covered in blood and whose arms were tied from behind by thin and sturdy leather ropes, were staring pale at the large planks sticking out of the side of the ship, their teeth chattering, and struggling in pain.
A riot sailor accidentally saw Zhang Lisheng appear on the deck, and suddenly shouted incoherently like crazy: "It's you, it's all you, even if you can have a good time with Miss Helena's maids, Lao Tzu's death is worth it, but it's all because of you, Lao Tzu is going to die in vain, and he is going to die in vain..."
The guards guarding the nobles such as Anita, Helena, and the young master of the Downton family saw that there was a riot sailor going berserk, and no matter who he was targeting, they directly swung the leather whip and wrapped it around his neck, causing his face to turn purple, and his tongue stretched out and drooped to his chin before he withdrew the whip.
"These rioters are really crazy," seeing this scene, the tall and mighty young master of the Downton family looked at Anita and said, "Dear Anita, they are all sailors of your family, since you have decided to use the ancient 'law of the sea' to deal with this riot, please announce it quickly."
As your friend and brother who has prayed in the same shrine since childhood, I am more than willing to carry out your sentence as a 'helper' at such a special time. (To be continued......)