Chapter 45: At Sea
However, this is just a dream of Ding Yu.
When Ding Yu woke up from his sleep, he found that his hands were bound by thin iron chains, and the ankles of his two feet were also buckled by a long iron chain. He looked around, and he was still in the cabin, and judging by the ups and downs of the hull, the boat should still be at sea.
He remembered that when he went to sea on Peach Blossom Island, Guo Jing was very depressed because he couldn't make a family relationship with Huang Rong, and he and Hong Qigong took turns to relieve him. The dumb servant took out wine and food from the bilge for them to eat and drink, the wine was mellow and sweet, Hong Qigong drank it with great praise, and specially wrote to ask the dumb servant where the wine came from. The dumb servant pointed in the direction of Peach Blossom Island and made a gesture of worship, meaning that it was brewed by Huang Yaoshi himself. Hong Qigong and the old naughty boy first praised them, and then scolded Huang Laoxie for not being interesting enough, and they should take out good wine and food to greet them on the island. After that, Ding Yu couldn't remember clearly.
In this way, it was the dumb servant who drugged the wine and food? Damn! Ding Yu secretly cursed, not the dumb servant, but scolded himself -- he relied too much on the spirit rhino beads, but he didn't expect the spirit rhino beads to only distinguish poison, but they did not respond to the sweat medicine and the like. If he had been careful, he might have been able to detect something wrong earlier.
Ding Yu really overestimated himself, and what was in the wine was the "Immortal Three-Day Drunk" prepared by Huang Yaoshi according to Hua Tuo Ma's boiling residue formula, which was colorless, tasteless, and had no toxic side effects, even if he was careful, he couldn't find anything unusual in the wine. Ordinary people will be in a coma for three days and three nights after taking the "three-day drunk", even if they are martial arts masters, they will be in a coma for at least twelve hours. That night, because Hong Qigong's two masters and apprentices had a good wine and the other borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, Ding Yu didn't drink much, so he was only in a coma for seven or eight hours.
It was the sailor's dumb servant who guessed the attack, but Ding Yu couldn't guess the reason for the attack anyway. Should it not be, according to the Huang Yaoshi in the original book, he should disdain to do this kind of thing. Could it be the dumb servant's own idea? It doesn't make sense! These dumb servants are afraid of Huang Yaoshi like a ghost, if they don't give him orders, how can they have the courage to do such a thing! Maybe it was Huang Rong's instigation? This is possible, she hated herself for making her father so angry that she vomited blood, and it was entirely possible to take revenge on herself. If that's the case, it can explain why Hong Qigong and Guo Jing are no longer by their side. So what happens next?
Ding Yu thought about it, but in the end he still couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it and began to use the internal force to try to remove the medicinal power.
After more than ten weeks, my strength really recovered a few points, but it was still not enough to break the chains on my hands and feet. Ding Yu was not discouraged, and continued to calm down, intending to make persistent efforts.
At that moment, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps on the boat, accompanied by the sound of oars paddling. Ding Yu didn't know what was going on, so he had to withdraw his internal breath and concentrate on preparing to deal with it.
Gradually, a voice became louder and louder, overshadowing all kinds of sounds on the boat, and Ding Yu could hear it clearly, this was the sound of the behemoth breaking the splash!
As soon as this thought floated, he heard a loud "bump" and the hull of the ship shook violently, and the next moment a large amount of seawater poured into the cabin -- the boat was broken! Ding Yu only had time to take a deep breath before he was covered by the seawater over the top door, but fortunately he was very water-based, and he was enough to swim in the water with the swing of his waist and legs alone. There was not a glimmer of light in the cabin, and Ding Yu swam against the direction of the current to the bulkhead, where a large hole was cracked, and seawater poured into it. He plunged headlong into the breach, but the breach was too small to jam his shoulder. He harnessed what little internal force he had, writhed and whirled through the cracks, and finally broke a few planks and swam out of the cabin into the sea.
The light on the sea pointed the way for Ding Yu, and he plunged out of the water, only to see that the small boat he was riding in had been knocked out of shape, the bow of the boat had been divided into large and small wooden hulls, and the aft cabin and stern of the boat were slowly sinking. Resting next to the wreckage of the boat was a huge sea ship with people looking down with torches.
"It's the bald donkey!" shouted one of the people on the boat, and it was the reflection of Ding Yu's skull that betrayed him, followed by three silver rays of light.
Two silver darts hit Ding Yu, and one fell into the water. The heat from the Spirit Rhino Bead told Ding Yu that the dart was poisonous, and at the same time, he also recognized the owner of the voice, Ouyang Ke!
Ouyang Ke continued to shout: "He's poisoned! Release the dinghy and fish him up!"
Ding Yu's heart was not good, he relaxed his legs, his body sank into the water naturally, and then swam away into the distance, he didn't know what the other party had in mind, but it was not his style to be restrained.
The sea at night was not a good place to search for a monk, and the dinghy circled around the sea for half an hour, but never found it. A few sailors were salvaged to the big ship early, and a lot of news had been tortured by this time. Ouyang Feng said: "That's it, that bald donkey first fell into Huang Laoxi's 'three-day drunkenness', and then suffered two poison darts from you, and most of them had sunk to the bottom of the sea at this time." โ
Ouyang Ke bowed his head and said, "I'm sorry, uncle." I didn't know he had been drugged beforehand......"
Ouyang Feng patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Ke'er doesn't need to blame himself, people have no ability to know beforehand, who would have expected that Huang Laoxi's daughter would drug them." What we are asking for is the "Nine Yin Sutra", and this bald donkey is not the only one who knows the content of the Sutra, and when he dies, he dies. Those dumb servants confessed that Lao Zhaohua was put on another ship, and it should be a few hours before they wake up, and it is serious for me to hurry up and chase that ship. โ
"Yes, uncle!"
It turned out that after Huang Yaoshi vomited blood by Ding Yu's words during the day, he went into the tomb of his deceased wife to meditate, Huang Rong accompanied him for a few hours, he never said a word, and finally asked Huang Rong to send everyone on the island away. Huang Rong saw that his father was haggard, as if he was a few years older all of a sudden, and his heart was both painful and angry, and he felt that Ding Yu was to blame for all the nonsense, which made his father sad, so he thought about asking Ding Yu to make amends to his father. It's just that Ding Yu is good at martial arts, Ouyang Feng was injured by him, and he is not an opponent, and the old urchin and the master may not be able to help him. So she came up with a plan: she arranged two boats, one boat carrying Ding Yu and others to sea, and the second boat followed behind. The dumb servants on the first ship drugged the drinks for dinner, and after everyone fell asleep, they signaled to the boat behind them to come up and take Ding Yu back to Peach Blossom Island. As for whether it was coercion or soft begging after going to the island, she hadn't thought about it yet, anyway, she had to make Ding Yu apologize to her father anyway.
On the other side, Ouyang Feng and others were eyeing the "Nine Yin True Scripture", although the scriptures were destroyed, but the old naughty boy, Guo Jing and Ding Yu all knew the content of the scriptures, as long as they caught one of them, they could force the true scriptures to prob. Therefore, after leaving the island, they did not sail all the way back, but waited at the speed of the ship on a certain channel that must be passed. As long as Ding Yu and his party's boat catch up, they will use the big boat to sink it, and then use the poison feeding device to injure everyone, and then threaten them with an antidote, and they don't believe that they will not hand over the true scriptures.
However, the sailors hired by Ouyang Feng and others were not as familiar with the sea routes in the East China Sea as the dumb servants on Peach Blossom Island, and they actually missed the ships where Hong Qigong, the old urchin and Guo Jing were, and only intercepted Ding Yu, which led to the above scene.
Not long after the big boat sailed away, a bald head came out of the water with a "pop" -- Ding Yufang found a large piece of upside-down bowl-shaped wooden shell, he hid in the water under the wooden shell, hooked the iron chain in his hand to the corner of the wooden shell, and breathed by the air at the top corner of the wooden shell, and finally survived the search.
He vaguely heard a few words from Ouyang Feng's uncle and nephew, and finally knew that Huang Rong was behind the drugging, and Hong Qigong Guo Jing and the others should have been taken to another ship in a coma, but they didn't know if their medicinal power subsided when Ouyang Feng and the others caught up. However, Ding Yu is now unable to protect himself, and he has no time to take care of others.
The poison of the White Camel Mountain cannot be underestimated, thanks to Ouyang Ke and the others who had the idea of capturing alive at the beginning, there was no poison that would kill them, but no matter how warm the poison was, after this half-hour delay, Ding Yu also began to feel dizzy and difficult to breathe. He climbed on top of the bowl-shaped wooden shell and began to heal his wounds according to the healing method of healing the heart in the "Nine Yin True Scripture". Until he consumed all the only internal force, he only forced out six or seven toxins, and the rest was firmly hovered in the five meridians as if it had taken root, so that he could no longer produce half of the internal force, fortunately at this time, the effect of "three days of drunkenness" had disappeared, and the physical strength had all recovered, and he could finally protect himself.
Unable to discern the direction in the night, Ding Yu could only drift with the current, while using Ouyang Ke's hidden weapon to keep filing the iron chain in his hand. When it was dark, the chain was finally broken, and he was about to turn to the shackles, when he suddenly saw more than a dozen triangular fins on the sea swimming towards him.
Ding Yu complained in his heart, with his current state, one or two sharks are easy to handle, but a dozen or so are difficult to escape, not to mention that after killing a shark, the smell of blood will attract countless people.
"It's okay!" Ding Yu bared his teeth and smiled: "Let's see how many killings I can do before I die!"
As he was about to throw his fist down, a round nose lifted out of the waterโa dolphin! No, sixteen dolphins. The dolphins happily circled around him and his bowl-shaped wooden shells, sometimes jumping out of the sea and splashing him all over the water. Ding Yu's murderous intent disappeared, although he was violent, he was not to the extent that he couldn't get along with dolphins.
After going around in circles for a while, led by a dolphin with a white spot on the nose, more than a dozen dolphins took turns hitting the wooden shell under Ding Yu's body with their heads, noses and bodies. Ding Yu was startled at first, worried that they would smash the wooden shells, but then remembered a TV show he had seen in his previous life, saying that dolphins have a habit of rescuing crew members who have fallen into the water, and they will push shipwrecked crew members to the beach. Another theory is that they are not actually saving people, but treating the crew members who have fallen into the water as "water balloons", and pushing the "water balloons" to the shore is a kind of entertainment.
Whether it is intentional rescue, entertainment or saving people, Ding Yu will not feel any difference because of this, he lies comfortably on top of the wooden shell, while basking in the sun, while allowing the dolphins to push him in the unknown direction, occasionally reaching out and scratching the door of a dolphin's head a few times, making them "cluck" and call.
If it is a game for dolphins to take turns pushing a wooden shell, then the dolphins are definitely persevering, starting from early morning until the sun sets, and finally pushing Ding Yu to the beach of a small island. A dozen dolphins frolicked in the shallow waters of the island for a while, then turned around and swam into the depths, slowly disappearing into the setting sun. Ding Yu decided that he would never eat dolphins in his life, and if anyone dared to eat dolphins in front of him, he would definitely knock out that person's brains - this was the only thing he could do to repay the dolphins.