Watching the salt boat under their feet sail towards the shore little by little, Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming's brains were blank: it was windy now, but the ship had broken anchor, how could it drift away from the riverbank?
But before they could figure it out, they heard a few "thumps" on the ship's hull, and then several black shadows jumped in from the side of the ship, surrounding the two of them in the middle.
Now, Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter: it turned out that someone deliberately set the fire, but the purpose was to take advantage of the chaos to cut the anchor chain and rob the salt ship.
That's why they smelled a strong smell of pine oil just now, that's why the fire was so urgent, it turned out that all this was in someone else's calculations.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xixi couldn't help but be angry in her heart, these people disregarded human lives for the sake of money, and did such a thing, which really made her hate her teeth itching.
So she shouted angrily, and rushed towards those people with Xu Ziming, the sword was like a white snake spitting letters, breaking through the wind, and in a blink of an eye, the person at the head had been stabbed.
Who knew that in the middle of the excitement, there was a few more "clangs" in the ears, and several salt boats were cut off the anchor chains, and slowly drifted away from the dock while the wind was blowing, and after half a mile, the sails were rising, and the rocking oars under the hull began to row, speeding towards the depths of the canal.
Jiang Xixi screamed "not good", and together with Xu Ziming, he cut down the remaining few people on the deck, rushed to the stern of the boat desperately, and shouted to the shore, "The thieves have hijacked the ship, save the ship quickly." ” Her voice was drowned out by the crackling of wood and the cries for help from those who had fallen into the water, but even if the soldiers on the shore could hear her, they could only hurry, because the wall of fire would block their way and they would not be able to get close to the shore.
Seeing that one after another salt ships were cut off the anchor chain and sailed away from the dock, the soldiers on the shore were in a hurry, and under the order of Li Bingwen, the commander of the Xiang army, they set up their bows and crossbows and shot arrows at the ship.
After a rain of arrows, the black-clothed man who robbed the ship fell a lot, but the rocker hiding in the hull of the ship was unharmed, and the boat took advantage of the east wind to quickly sail towards the center of the river.
Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming barely dodged the attack of the rain of arrows, the two of them were close to the deck, face to face, no one dared to get up again, even though their hearts were burned by a fire, they were full of anxiety, but they were helpless, and they couldn't even move.
At the last moment, there was a sudden "uproar" behind him, setting off a monstrous wave, and the river water poured down from the head, soaking the clothes of the two people.
Before he could turn back, Jiang Xixi felt a huge shadow cross above, covering the sky and the moon, and swept straight towards the wall of fire, and the wings bigger than the sail fell from above, and the fire was suppressed by half at once.
"What's that?"
Xu Ziming's voice trembled, his eyes widened, and he watched the strange bird flap its wings incessantly, and after a while, the raging flames were completely extinguished.
Then, with a terrible scream, it flapped its wings again and flew towards the salt boats that had sailed into the middle of the river, and slammed the masts into the water one by one through the clusters of white sails.
"It's a kozi bird."
Jiang Xixi said this sentence tremblingly.
She had had a vicious fight with the ghost bird the day before, and nearly lost her life because of it.
At that time, I thought, this is just a newborn chick, and it is already so ferocious, how fierce and violent is the mother bird?
When I saw it today, I realized that my imagination was still too poor, and the real Qu Ziniao seemed to have nothing to do with the word "reality", but like the monster she saw in a picture book when she was a child, or the monster that appeared in a dream on a certain day in the dream year.
Just as he was thinking wildly, a white wave suddenly rose in front of him, and Qu Ziniao's huge body dived into the water again, and the surface of the river shook violently with its action as it entered the water.
Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming were so shocked that they rolled from the middle of the deck to the side of the ship, and the two of them tried their best to grab the railing before they fell into the water.
When she was frightened, Xu Ziming's words slowly drifted into her ears, "Miss Jiang, why does this monster want to extinguish the fire?"
And why stop the thieves from taking the salt boats?
” Jiang Xixi's heart jumped, "I don't know, perhaps, it smells the smell of the enemy?"
” Xu Ziming was puzzled, "Enemy?
If it is really the soul of Jiangzhong, then shouldn't its enemy be that Yan Zhengyang?
” As he spoke, a figure on the deck suddenly rolled on the ground, got up and ran towards the bow of the ship.
Jiang Xixi didn't give him any chance, got up neatly, and threw the saber forward with a wave of his arm, which was piercing the man's calf.
The man screamed in pain and fell back onto the deck.
Jiang Xixi walked towards him, and said with hatred in his mouth, "You dare to pretend to be dead, see how I clean you up when I go back." ” "The girl has someone to keep behind," Li Bingwen's voice came from the shore, "keep his dog's life for the time being, and I will interrogate him well after I go." ” After swimming in the river for about an hour, Du Ru's toes were finally able to touch the gravel at the bottom of the bank, and he felt a burst of joy in his heart, desperately pulling the fishy water to swim towards the black bank.
After swimming a few steps, he suddenly turned back, and looked vigilantly at the silver water behind him, as if he was afraid that something would follow.
His worries were not unnecessary, because the monster did not leave after destroying the sails and masts, and just as Du Ru and his men abandoned the ship and fled, it reappeared, and at the bottom of the river where it could not see its fingers, it rushed up and pulled the brothers who were on the surface of the water to the bottom one by one, and Du Ru didn't even have time to react, so he watched the brothers disappear one after another in front of him.
And just two hours earlier, he had almost thought his plan was about to succeed, and the salt ships sailed out of the docks one after another, and under the control of the brethren who were proficient in water, they sailed deeper into the canal.
According to the plan, they will split up and sail to different waters, find a remote section of the river, unload the salt bags and load the trucks, and then converge by land to the border of the Great Liao.
At that time, there will be officials from the Liao State to receive them, and in front of them will be mountains of gold and silver, which will not be used up in a lifetime.
But now, his plans have been completely disrupted, and his dream of getting rich has been completely shattered.
It's just that he couldn't understand why it wasn't the box army or the people of the government who disturbed his plan, but a bird.
Thinking of this, Du Ru shuddered: Is that really a bird?
The two wings are more than ten zhang long, and the two eyes are as white as the moon shadow on the river, revealing the cold air of the forest.
The most terrifying thing is that when it sees them, it goes crazy and wants to pierce everyone's body with its sharp beak.