Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 248 Emmanuelle Belle's Magical Power

Yang Yuan's fleet slowly sailed towards the dock. As soon as the first ship entered the dock, it was stopped by the inspection boat.

Xiao Luo went forward to ask and found out that the ship returning from Shanyin had just arrived at the dock, and Prince Pu'an was receiving the prisoners at the dock.

Of course Yang Yuan couldn't argue with them, so he asked the boats that hadn't yet entered the dock to stop for the time being.

Yang Yuan, Leng Yuchan, Xue Bingxin, Xiao Luo and others walked to the bow and looked towards the dock.

The dock has been put under martial law by the Imperial Guards.

Ordinary passengers and boatmen are prohibited from entering.

Passenger and cargo ships anchored at the dock, if there are people staying on board or guarding the cargo, are ordered to stay in the cabin and are not allowed to stand on the deck.

On the dock, there were only the imperial guards who stood as tall as guns and holding torches in their hands, and the atmosphere was solemn.

When the ship from Shanyin was about to arrive, Kou Heiyi, who was in charge of the dock security, inspected the dock carefully again before rushing back to Prince Pu'an.

The first ship from Sanin arrived at the shore.

Guo Xuzhi from the Imperial City Department and the escorting imperial guards got off the boat and walked towards Prince Pu'an.

Yang Yuan saw from afar that after the people on the boat got off, they walked up to a man in a jade-colored robe, bowed to him first, and then started talking to him. It seemed that the man was Prince Pu'an.

Afterwards, the people who got off the boat and those who were waiting at the dock, together, embraced the man in the jade robe and walked closer to the shore.

The second boat also approached the dock, put the step ashore, and people began to get off the boat.

……

On the second deck of Yang Yuan's ship stood a group of women from the Arab and Persian kingdoms who were about to be released as free people but were temporarily brought back to Lin'an because they had nowhere else to go.

In the past few days, they finally figured out that the Song Dynasty court was going to release them and give them freedom.

But considering that they couldn't even speak the language, he was worried that releasing them would harm them, so he took them back to Lin'an first.

Now that they had finally arrived in Lin'an, they couldn't help but smile with joy on their faces.

It’s great to be a free man!
They are all good at singing and dancing and have many talents. It should not be difficult for them to find a way to support themselves, right?
Although they were nervous, it was better than before, and their hearts were filled with gratitude.

The blonde girl stood alone at the bow, seeming a little out of place with the others.

In fact, this group of women were not far apart, but when she stood there, her image and temperament were completely different from those of the others.

She stared at the pier, the people standing and walking on it, the flames on the torches swaying in the wind...

Soon, all of this turned into lines within her sight.

Straight lines, curved lines, intersecting lines, lines of various colors...

If someone saw this tangled pattern of lines, they would probably feel dizzy.

But when she looked at it, it seemed orderly and organized.

After she was rescued from the sea by the knight with black hair and black eyes, she was first placed in the cabin. When she woke up, she found that she possessed this ability.

She found that as long as she focused her gaze there, all the people and objects within her sight would soon be broken down into lines...

Whether it was the sails, the water, the crew, or the fog that filled the entire dock at the time...

In her eyes, everything is broken down into the simplest and clearest lines.

At the same time, her memory began to change dramatically.

She only needs to stare at any scene for a moment. She doesn't need to pay attention to anything while looking at it, and everything within her sight will be remembered accurately.

She had tried out this miraculous ability while the ship was docked at a pier.

She stared out toward the dock for a moment, and then she began to process what she had just seen.

She could remember that in the right corner of her sight, an old woman carrying a basket and selling boiled eggs took out a few eggs for the customer and counted out a few large coins.

In another corner of her "visual field", there was a ship sailing out of the "screen". There were several sailors on the deck of the ship at the time, and what they were doing could also be clearly "played back".

To verify this, she looked at the side of the boat below her feet, where an old woman selling sour dates was bargaining with a girl on the first deck.

The old woman's basket was filled with sour dates. Looking down from her perspective, she could clearly see the part of the basket that was not blocked by the old woman's arms.

She first recalled the number of sour dates she saw in her "memory picture", and then counted them again, and they were exactly the same.

Thinking of this, the blonde girl frowned in confusion. She didn't know when she started to possess this magical ability.

At the side of the ship, the Persian and Arab girls looked at the dock curiously for a while, but then they lost interest in what was happening there.

The two belly dancers secretly glanced at the blonde girl standing at the bow.

One girl shook her head sympathetically and whispered to the other girl, "Helen, look how seriously she is studying. But as soon as midnight comes, she will forget everything today. It's really pitiful."

"Yes!"

The girl called Helen also sighed: "Afafu, we have to make money to support ourselves in the future.

But every night after midnight, her memory would go back to the moment she was rescued from the sea. This is terrible, how is she going to make a living in the future? "

Afafu said: "If it weren't for her, we would all have been burned to death on the 'Bailekai'.

She saved our lives. If her disease cannot be cured, we will support her."

"I thought so too, Helen. I'll talk to the other girls, and from now on, let's take care of her together!"

The blonde girl knew what they were whispering about. They were probably talking about her "amnesia" again.

She knew she had lost her memory.

This morning, after she woke up, she asked to see the black-haired, black-eyed knight who rescued her from the sea. The girls told her that she had said the same thing when she woke up on the boat that night...

When the blonde girl fell from the Balega into the sea, her head hit the water and she became dizzy.

When she woke up, she possessed some incredible magical powers.

In later generations, this miraculous change was called "acquired savant syndrome", or more appropriately "acquired genius syndrome".

In her own opinion, this is a "gift from the Holy Spirit."

However, the "gift of the Holy Spirit" also gave her a side effect. Her memory would be reset to zero on time every day at midnight.

This reset does not mean that all her memories are reset to zero, but everything that happened after she was rescued from the sea by Yang Yuan.

Experience every day, reset every day.

Her memory was complete only before the "Bailekai" fell into the water.

The only memory she had after that was the day she was awake.

She became a woman who lived only for the present day.

The blonde girl looked at the neat military formations on the dock, and her expression gradually became serious.

She walked into the middle of the group of girls, her posture straight. "It seems that they did not deceive us. There are important people from Song State at the dock, so the security is tight."

The blonde girl said, "I'm going to see him tomorrow!"

Helen said: "I think you should go now. Tomorrow..."

"No, that's too rude. I'm the daughter of Grand Duke Crito and a knight!" The blonde girl tugged at her wrinkled skirt. "Niosha, tomorrow morning, remember to tell me what happened today and my idea of ​​meeting the big shots on our behalf."

"Okay, Your Highness Princess!"

Neosa lifted the hem of her skirt with both hands, bent her knees slightly, tilted her head slightly, and greeted her obediently.

Just agree to it. She will forget about it tomorrow morning anyway!
"Remind me tomorrow. I have to find the knight with black hair and black eyes. I want to thank him in person!"

The blonde girl said, frowning: "You really haven't seen him?"

The women shook their heads, and Afafu said, "You could have asked that friendly-looking Song man.

But you almost bit him, and since then, no one has gone up to the second deck, they just stay down there."

The blonde girl was a little embarrassed: "I had just woken up and didn't know what happened. When I opened my eyes, I saw his smiling face..."

Mandana said: "That's because you are the only one among us who is proficient in their language. So we brought that Song man to you..."

"It's ok!"

The blonde straightened her spine. "I will find the Song knight and thank him. I will also ask for help from the Song government on your behalf."

"Since they rescued us from the shameless greedy Pu Yama and generously gave us our freedom, I believe they will also be willing to provide us with the necessary help!"

There was no sword at her waist, but at this moment, she was as heroic and confident as a brave knight.

"I, the Knight of the Holy Rose who can ride into the church on horseback, the Guardian of the Holy Cloth of Satir Cathedral, the Captain of the Templar Corps, the third heir to the Principality of Crito, Lady Emmanuelle Belle, will take you in and protect you!"

"Okay, Your Highness!"

The girls all lifted their skirts neatly, bent their knees and saluted her.

Why bother to argue with a little fool? Just coax him.

The blonde girl turned around and looked back toward the dock, confident.

At the dock, something unexpected happened.

The docks in these big cities and towns all have storage areas, and the storage areas are built on higher ground.

The storage area was also searched by the imperial guards, and several soldiers were left to patrol.

This kind of preventive measure is actually sufficient.

The kings, princes and nobles of Song State usually did not take strict precautions when they went out.

The prince could also roam the streets freely with just a few guards.

Prime Minister Qin Hui, before he was assassinated by Shi Quan, a soldier from the Palace Front Department, did not even carry weapons with him when he went out.

Because they are going to receive a large number of criminals involved in the case tonight, the dock has been extra guarded, which is already a big move.

But in this situation, something went wrong.

A prisoner was escorted off the boat.

The prison vans that had been prepared long ago drove into the dock and stopped in front of them.

Then a prisoner will be sent to a prison van, which will drive to the exit on the other side, and the prison vans behind will take its place in turn.

Prince Pu'an, accompanied by a group of officials, stood at the dock, receiving and confirming each one.

At this moment, suddenly "Knock! Buzz~~~"

Everyone heard a strange sound, but no one understood what it was for a moment.

A soldier of the Imperial Guards holding a torch stood in front of the cage whose gate had just been opened and exclaimed, "Someone shot an arrow!"

As he shouted, everyone saw that a sharp arrow was stuck on the clumsy fence of the prison car, and the tail of the arrow was still buzzing.

The crowd suddenly burst into an uproar.

"Protect the king!"

Kou Heiyi was horrified and drew his sword out of its sheath with a "swish". At the same time, he pulled Prince Pu'an behind him and stood in front.

The people of the Imperial Guards faction are the most supportive of Prince Pu'an.

Because Prince Pu'an had a tougher attitude towards the Jin Kingdom, he was regarded by the Imperial Guards faction as the most ideal successor to the Song Empire.

Several imperial guards and imperial soldiers immediately rushed over, using their tall bodies to form a meat shield, protecting Prince Pu'an, and quickly retreated.

There were only people and a prison van that was not big enough to shield the men at the dock, and no other shelter.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Dozens of arrows came like a rainstorm, instantly knocking down several people.

The officials, soldiers and prisoners on the dock were in chaos.

Some were running around, some were hiding, some were grabbing the officials around them to protect them and evacuating quickly...

Yang Yuan stood at the bow of the boat, his face turning red with rage.

When the first wave of arrows hit the dock, he couldn't tell from which direction the arrows came.

When the second wave of arrows came, Yang Yuan accurately determined its direction based on the angle from which the arrows came.

Yang Yuan looked up suddenly. That was the location of the storage area.

Yang Yuan jumped up, pushed his feet against the side of the boat, and leaped over a distance of more than ten feet and jumped onto the dock.

He drew his sword and rushed towards the dock storage area.

When Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin reacted, Yang Yuan's figure had already disappeared into the night.

Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin looked at each other, and stood up at the same time, stepped on the side of the boat, and leaped towards the dock.

Leng Yuchan, with her long legs and thin waist, landed gracefully. Her slender and powerful thighs bent slightly when landing, instantly generating a powerful rebound force, allowing her to rush in the direction where Yang Yuan disappeared like an arrow from a bow.

Xue Bingxin looked a little embarrassed when she landed. Compared with Leng Yuchan's lightness, she took two more steps forward before starting to chase after him.

Xue Bingxin's tender face flushed slightly, and she held up her chest in annoyance while running. What a burden!

Because of the chaos at the dock, the foreign girls on the second deck of Yang Yuan's ship panicked.

They were worried that arrows would be shot onto the boat in the darkness, so they quickly took shelter in the cabin.

Helen and Afaf ran a few steps and found that Lady Saint Rose was still standing blankly at the bow, so they ran over and dragged her.

"Hurry up, get back to the cabin."

"No, go ahead, I'm fine!"

Lady Emmanuelle Belle didn't even turn her head, her big blue eyes full of excitement.

Within her sight, all the people running in panic on the dock turned into jumping, flowing lines.

It is a magical world that no one else can see and it belongs only to her!

(End of this chapter)