twin moon

Chapter 79, Act Nine

Several days passed in a row, in the cold and damp prison cell under the deck of the black ship, Ning Yue and Qi Ziyin were sitting in a corner, talking with each other in a low voice.

Jiang Yan didn't join them, but tried hard to find a way to get out of the cage.However, the solid iron bars in front of them were as thick as two fingers, and the young Xiaotianmo and Yueyan were also searched by the enemy before.No matter how many methods he tried, he couldn't bend those iron bars at all.

After a long time, the sweaty black-eyed boy finally realized that even if he was physically strong, he would definitely not be able to break the iron prison with his bare hands, so he sat back down beside his two companions in frustration.

"Little stutterer, I have advised you not to waste your energy, but you refused to listen. How are you doing now, have you exhausted your energy?"

Seeing this, the red-haired girl turned her head and smiled at him.Jiang Yan shrugged helplessly, but still stubbornly believed that he had done nothing wrong:
"I still have to give it a try. What if I can open a way out? Speaking of which, the two of you have been chattering just now, what are you talking about?"

"Just now, Ning Yue and I were guessing about the origin of those powerful weapons on the black ship. Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered, do you remember the fireworks that are set off in the palace every New Year?"

Without waiting for Ning Yue to take over, Qi Ziyin continued to discuss the previous topic in a serious manner.

Jiang Yan and the red-haired girl looked at each other, but vaguely guessed what the other party meant, and asked in unison: "Ziyin, what do you mean is that the fireworks have something to do with the weapons on this black ship?"

Qi Ziyin nodded and continued to explain: "You don't know that the fireworks used in the palace are a kind of powder called black flame medicine, which is mixed with saltpeter and sulfur. The smell after burning is quite special. I shouldn't be wrong."

"So, the iron bullet that pierced the building that night was also fired with these black flame powders? How is this possible! Every year when watching fireworks, what falls from the sky is just burnt kraft paper and mud Pill fragments. If this black flame medicine can even push such a heavy iron pellet, wouldn’t it be too dangerous to set it off inside the palace walls?”

The black-eyed boy shook his head vigorously, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Qi Ziyin, however, seemed to be quite confident in his speculation: "I once read in the palace's library that the formula of pure black flame medicine has long been lost. And the ancient ancestors once used a powerful The principle of the weapon seems to be very similar to the one on the black ship. Perhaps the people on the black ship accidentally discovered the secrets left by the ancestors, and it is unknown..."

"Could it be that the map that Luo Jianli and that mysterious person took out from the Baipi three years ago is also related to this matter?!" Hearing what his companion said, Jiang Yan couldn't help being startled, and subconsciously reached out to touch the map that he had already had. With an empty waist, he still shook his head: "But it was that inexplicable blue light on the bottom of the sea that completely destroyed the building later!"

Before the words were finished, a thin fisherman beside the three children suddenly turned over and sat up, muttering as if possessed by a demon: "That's all the magic of the black water messenger! We are all dead, dead ! No one can escape the clutches of the Blackwater Messenger, no one!"

The other party had been curled up in the corner before, motionless, almost integrated with the cell, so that the three children thought it was just a dead thing.The man seemed to have been imprisoned on the boat for a long time. At this time, it seemed that because he heard the three children mentioning the blue light in the sea, he recalled his terrible experience before, and his voice became louder and louder.

The prisoners in the cage were just sitting together in twos and threes, but when they heard such a shout, they all stood up nervously, causing quite a commotion in the cabin.

The noise also drew a guard down from the deck.As he stepped into the cabin, even though he didn't say a word, all the prisoners immediately fell silent as if they had seen a ghost.In an instant, the originally noisy cabin could only hear the sound of waves passing by both sides of the ship, suggesting that time is still slowly passing by.

The guard walked slowly to the iron gate, his eyes wandering around the people in the prison like poisonous snakes:

"Who was making the noise just now?!"

The other party's voice was not too loud, but Jiang Yan couldn't help shivering due to his frosty tone.

The trembling crowd around them seemed to be used to such things.They all retreated in a tacit understanding, leaving only the three children standing in place with the terrified fisherman, as eye-catching as an isolated island in the sea.

"Little girl, are you the one who yelled loudly just now?"

The guard wearing the sea snake mask opened the cell door and walked in, fiddled with the iron grille beside Ning Yue with the gleaming long knife in his hand, making a crisp sound that made hairs stand on end.

The girl couldn't help lowering her head, not daring to look into the opponent's eyes at all.Seeing this, Jiang Yan immediately stretched out his arms to block his companion: "Don't touch her!"

The guard was a little startled by this move, and then he swung his left hand with iron fingers violently, and a fist the size of a weight immediately hit the boy with blood all over his face:

"The brat still wants to stand up for others? Don't overestimate your strength! On this boat, you are just a group of animals. If anyone is disobedient, he will be slaughtered tonight to drink! I will ask again, just loudly Who is making the noise?!"

"It's me! I was the one who was yelling just now, don't hurt others!"

Seeing that his companion was injured, Qi Ziyin hurried forward to help.Unexpectedly, the guard stretched out his leg, intentionally tripping over the unsuspecting young man's leg, causing him to fall heavily to the ground.From behind the mask, he stared at this fair-skinned but a little overconfident child, looked him up and down, and suddenly burst out laughing, with murderous intent in his laughter:
"When did Ye Kingdom's boat masters raise such weak waste!?"

While speaking, the guard raised his knife, but he let go of the young man in front of him who blatantly contradicted him, and instead slashed at the shoulder of the skinny fisherman beside him who had already shaken like chaff and had a bloodless face.Although the knife did not use all its strength, the sharp edge still penetrated several inches deep into his body, causing the fisherman to kneel down in pain and howl heart-piercingly.

Then the guard pulled out the long knife from the wounded shoulder and slashed at his neck with the knife.As if they wanted to deliberately torture the poor man who had already fallen into madness, the guards pushed the long knife back and forth on the fisherman's neck like a hacksaw, and cut off a head in front of everyone. down!

After the bloody killing, the cell was filled with bright red.

The guard swung the long knife violently, and the blood on the blade immediately splashed on the faces of the three children.But he looked at Jiang Yan and Qi Ziyin who were full of anger but didn't dare to make any further protests, and laughed grimly:

"It's not that I'm being merciful this time, it's just that the voices of the three of you don't sound like the ones who yelled just now. Besides—the health of the three of you is better than this damn lunatic, leaving one life, Maybe it can still come in handy! It’s just that you won’t have such good luck next time, so be honest with me!”

After the guard finished speaking, he locked the prison door again.Like a poisonous snake that just ate a person, it swam away from the cabin with the severed head in hand.And the prisoners in the cell, as if avoiding the plague god, kept a considerable distance from the three blood-stained children, and never dared to approach easily.

Warm blood flowed down the floor, quickly soaking Ning Yue's bare feet.The girl was already scared out of her wits by the hellish scene in front of her.In a daze, she suddenly felt that someone beside her gently pushed her.Turning around, he saw that Qi Ziyin was looking at him worriedly, and only then could he hear some voices in his buzzing ears again:
"Ning Yue, don't be afraid, Jiang Yan and I will definitely find a way to get you out of here! Although those people's methods are vicious, General Baili once said that the more vicious a person is, the more he will be in his heart." It’s timidity, there’s nothing to be afraid of!”

Some reassurance did not calm down the red-haired girl's mood.Now that life and death are uncertain, she can no longer worry so much. After sorting out her emotions a little bit, she finally said all the things about the firebolt that she had been holding in her stomach before, but she didn't know how to open her mouth. :

"There is something I should have told you a long time ago. In fact—in fact, the black flame medicine used by these people wearing sea snake masks may, perhaps, have something to do with Qi Shouyu, Marquis of Jinghai!"

"Uncle Wang? How is this possible! Although he disagrees with General Baili's political views, he has been working hard to help the country for many years. How could he do such disobedient things?"

Qi Ziyin was taken aback by these words.But the black-eyed boy on the side nodded, indicating that what the girl said was not impossible:
"Ziyin, think about it carefully. If it's really your Uncle Wang who is behind the scenes, then everything makes sense. After all, Luo Jianli was able to secretly manipulate Luo Jianli to take the map from me in every possible way three years ago. Now Besides, the person who can know the exact time and location of the boat master going out to sea, and ordered the black boat to set up an ambush, other than him as the captain of the boat master, there is absolutely no way in Ye Kingdom to find another person!"

The red-haired girl quickly added: "Yes. In addition, I also heard that there is evidence in the Jinghaihou's mansion that your uncle Wang—maybe secretly making a firebolt blunderbuss Firearms. From this point of view, the powerful fire-breathing weapon that the black ship used to attack us last night may have something to do with him!"

However, facing such accusations, Qi Ziyin still found it hard to accept for a while.Although he didn't like his uncle, he didn't dislike him very much.It is even more impossible to imagine why the other party would actually attack his own blood and relatives with swords!
"Ning Yue, where did you get the news? Since you know so many things, why didn't you tell us earlier? If we had known that someone was planning to plot against the boat master, we would be able to deal with it. Perhaps the previous ship Those soldiers would not have lost their lives in vain..."

The boy raised his amber pupils and looked at the girl in front of him.At this time, he was no longer the young master of Ye country who was kind to everyone, but he seemed to have become a young king who worried about his family, country and society.

"The reason... I can't tell you for the time being. Besides, I also know that you two heard the news before you went out behind my back, and you have been hiding under the warehouse, so you didn't have time..."

Faced with doubts, Ning Yue suddenly panicked.Because it was related to her many secrets, she didn't want to talk too much about the past, let alone let her two companions know anything about Granny Cen, and she didn't know how to explain it for a while.

But Jiang Yan still read a clue from the girl's expression.He suddenly remembered the fishing boat in his dream, and the little girl with the necklace on the fishing boat.

Looking at the girl in front of him who he once thought was extremely simple, but sometimes seemed as unfathomable as the Chanying Sea, the black-eyed boy suddenly felt too much puzzlement and doubt in his heart.He wanted to ask too many things, so he reached out and took out the necklace that the other party gave him, wanting to ask him face to face.

However, before he had a chance to speak, Jiang Yan suddenly felt the black boat under his feet shake violently, and it had already docked and stopped.Several warriors wearing sea snake masks walked down the deck and went straight into the cell without any explanation.The young man hesitated for a moment, but was forced into a corner by the sharp blade shown by the other party, and watched helplessly as Ning Yue was dragged out of front of him by those warriors, and was never seen again.

Not long after, another group of heavily armed soldiers rushed into the cabin, surrounded him who was in a hurry and the rest of the people in the cell, tied his hands tightly with hemp ropes thick as fingers, and formed a long line. The team staggered out of the cabin amid repeated beatings and scolding.

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