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Sailing on the sea, if there are no storms and disasters, it will be very boring and boring along the way.

In mid-September, Master Lin Jiahai had been sailing across the vast East Sea for nearly a week, and there was no sign of any thieves coming.The group of people has been tense until now, although it is not obvious on the surface, but in the end they have gradually begun to relax.Maybe this time we won't meet water thieves?Everything is unknown.

Therefore, during these boring days, Lu Lianzhi had three greatest pleasures: first, chatting with Qi Zhengge and watching the scenery, second, bickering with Chongming, and third, collecting the nets she threw into the sea.She works day and night, and the Lin family's big boat is just like her home, free and easy.

Among them, Lu Lianzhi was able to spend more than half of the day on Qi Zhengge, even though Qi Zhengge usually just said nothing, sitting quietly by the window in the room and reading.

Sometimes when I feel bored, Lu Lianzhi will drag Qi Zhengge to the deck to blow the air.

There are vast waterways on all sides of the East China Sea, and there are beautiful scenery on both cloudy and sunny days, but Qi Zhengge has never seen the sea area before, so it won't be too boring to look at it.In addition, Lu Lianzhi was very eloquent, so after more than ten days, Qi Zhengge didn't feel that the days were like years.

On the other hand, Chongming is really getting tired of living. These few days are either following Lin Huiye to plan maritime affairs, or sitting in the bow of the boat with Wei Kuang and blowing the wind. There is no fun at all.

It was precisely because of this boredom that Chongming would try his best to provoke Lu Lianzhi whenever he met Lu Lianzhi.

But Lu Lianzhi was under the supervision of Qi Zhengge, sometimes no matter how provocative Chongming was, she would not respond, which made Chongming reflect on himself.

"Tell me," after Chongming failed to provoke Lu Lianzhi on the eighth day, she was finally discouraged and asked Wei Kuang listlessly, "Am I naive? Even Lu Lianzhi turned his back on me." gone."

Wei Kuang was in the room where the old monk breathed out regularly, he couldn't help but opened his eyes when he heard this.

"The princess is growing up all the time," Wei Kuang said after thinking for a moment, "compared to the past, he is much more sophisticated today."

The words were subtle, which was quite satisfying at first, but after Chongming thought about it carefully, he felt that the answer was not so satisfying.

She thought about it, and felt that now she was not as good as Lu Lianzhi, let alone anyone other than Lu Lianzhi.

After figuring this out, Chongming suddenly became a little more stable on the surface. When Zhongdao met Lu Lianzhi, he stopped provoking him, but just vented his nostrils arrogantly and looked at people from the corners of his eyes.

Lu Lianzhi really couldn't see Chongming's appearance like this, but whenever she was about to get angry, Qi Zhengge could always stop her, or hold her hand slightly, or touch her gently like a cat. nape.

It has to be said that Lu Lianzhi was extremely helpful in this.At this moment, she would throw Chongming and other princesses into the sky, and only the feeling of Qi Zhengge touching her was left in her heart.Where do you still remember to vent your anger with others?

Just so much.When Lu Lianzhi recalled it, she would think like this in a daze but happily.

Peaceful and leisurely.This is what it looks like in the first half month of sailing.Qi Zhengge really almost forgot that this trip was in danger.

Only those who have been drifting on the top of the storm all year round know that peace and harmony will never be the norm.

On the sixth day of September, it is almost the beginning of winter.

The sky in the sea was cloudy and dark for two days, and finally in the afternoon of this day, fog drifted from the sea.

Fog is not a phenomenon. It is very common even here in the East China Sea when spring and summer change and cold and warm alternate.

But now it is the season of winter, and it is not so strange to say that there is fog in the sea.But to say that it is ordinary, it is not ordinary.Sailing in the fog naturally requires more caution than usual, so people who have stabilized their hearts for dozens of days gradually recovered a little tense this afternoon.

At about Mo Shen, Lu Lianzhi lazily leaned against the mast, practicing her eyesight on the bow of the ship in the mist.

At the time of Fangqi, the fog was very light, but it only vaguely blurred the intersection of the sea and the sky, making it difficult to distinguish.Time gradually passed, and after two hours of sailing, it was almost evening.Under the cover of the slight darkness, everyone did not notice the fog getting darker.

But Lu Lianzhi, who was always staring at the distance of the bow, was sensitively aware of it.

"Sister, this fog doesn't look like ordinary fog." Except for the sound of boats and water, it was very quiet.Lu Lianzhi crossed her arms, stood in front of the boat without turning her head, and whispered to Lin Huiye behind her.

The two stood at the bow of the boat silently, both raised their eyes and looked ahead, as if they were afraid of breaking the silent atmosphere, and they seemed to be spying on something in the silence.

"This fog is so heavy." Lu Lianzhi moved her nose, feeling something was wrong, but she couldn't tell where it was.

This fog is not as light and floating as the usual fog, on the contrary, it is extremely stagnant, as if it stays in place, motionless.

"There is no wind today." Lin Huiye looked solemn, looked at the loose sails, and spoke slowly for a long time.

Anyone who sails a boat knows that sea fog is not a stagnant and dead thing.It will flow in all directions with the direction of the wind and the current, slowly crossing from the side above the wind to the area below.

If there is no wind today and the fog stays, is this the place where the sea fog is formed?

Lu Lianzhi looked around, trying to identify if there were islands around.

The sky is getting darker, the sea is vast, and the fog seems to be a little thicker, making it impossible to see anything.She had a lot of thoughts in her mind, but she also knew that the answer could only be that this was the source of the sea fog.

"Sister, I'm here tonight." Lu Lianzhi narrowed her long and narrow eyes, and there seemed to be a dark light surging in them: "If there is any problem, I will be the first to find out."

Lu Lianzhi had traveled overseas several times with his little friend Lin's family, and he had enough experience to reassure Lin Huiye.But Lin Huiye didn't nod. After a moment of silence, he replied, "I'm with you."

She wants to be safe and check it out for herself.

Here there are Lin Huiye and Lu Lianzhi at the bow, Lin Fangyao in the middle, and Pei Laiyun at the stern. Everyone holds their breath and gathers their momentum, guarding against this unusual mist.

There is no wind and waves around, and there is no lively sound of surging sails when the wind and water are smooth on weekdays.The night was getting darker and darker. Under the quiet and stable appearance, a disturbing atmosphere spread and upward, like an invisible but dark cage, wrapping the boat around and absorbing it.

"Lu Lianzhi."

In the void of night fog and silence, Qi Zhengge's clear voice came from behind him.

"Why did you come out?" Lu Lianzhi turned her head, walked down the bow quickly, and met Qi Zhengge who came out of the cabin.

"It's foggy outside." Lu Lianzhi walked to her and stopped, her voice was clear and soft, but with a faint solemnity that she didn't have in the past, "It's getting late, it's not safe. You go back, okay?"

She is not afraid of what is in the fog, nor is she afraid of what will be in front of her.She is confident that she is young, holds jade in her arms, and has blood in her body. In the face of danger, she can just flick the sword and talk and laugh to defeat the enemy.

But now it is different from the past, the moment Qi Zhengge appeared in front of her, Lu Lianzhi felt a burst of tension as if being tightly grasped.

When Qi Zhengge was around, she didn't even want to have a conflict with Chongming.It's not about being obsessed with love|things and forgetting about the world of mortals, but simply because she doesn't want to drag Qi Zhengge into disputes in the world of mortals.

She softened her tone, and asked softly in a tone that was only audible between the two of them: "You are looking for me, is there something wrong? I'm going out tonight to watch the road, so I won't go back. If you have nothing to do, go to bed early, I'll be back right away when the fog clears tomorrow morning."

Qi Zhengge looked at Lu Lian's shining eyes under the dark sky in front of him, and could easily read her mind.

"I'll come out to see you." Qi Zhengge looked at her for a moment, then turned his gaze away and looked towards the front of the boat.

It was a gloomy sky, and the top of the sky seemed to be extremely low in the fog and night, and the surroundings were very quiet, and it became more and more blurred.

Qi Zhengge turned sideways to avoid Lu Lianzhi, frowned slightly, and walked forward.

"The fog is getting thicker." She stepped onto the bow, tightened the pale robe wrapped around her body, and brushed the air a few times with her hand.That movement seems to be wiping off the moisture on the window sash, and it seems to be waving away some swimming insects.

Lu Lianzhi followed closely and stood beside her.

"The more you go, the thicker it gets, and it's hard to disperse at night." Lin Huiye also opened his mouth, his eyes fell from a distance, and looked at Qi Zhengge.

Qi Zhengge squinted his eyes, didn't answer, just clutched his cuffs, his eyes wandered.The three of them didn't speak for a while, as if they were looking for something in the silence and blur, and they seemed to be confirming something.It's just that from the afternoon to the present, several hours have passed, and no one has been able to grasp any possibility.

"What's wrong?" Lu Lianzhi saw that Qi Zhengge's expression was getting more and more wrong, so she couldn't help asking nervously, "This fog is not good, I'm afraid it's not a good fog, you should go back..."

Before she finished speaking, she was stared at by Qi Zhengge and stopped talking.

Lu Lianzhi didn't dare to tell her to go back, she just stood side by side with Qi Zhengge, biting her lips tightly.

Qi Zhengge's eyes were slightly closed, facing the slight breeze brought by the boat, the five senses gathered above the sense of smell.

She has studied medicine since she was a child, and she is very good at distinguishing medicine by smell and grass by taste.As the boat moved forward and the fog thickened, the smell she had just smelled by the window in the cabin became more and more clear.

The fog is heavy and the smell is abnormal.

That was the real reason for her leaving the cabin and going on deck.

Thousands of thoughts and possibilities came to her mind, causing her to close her eyes, and suddenly stretched out her hand, grabbing Lu Lianzhi's slightly hot wrist.

Lu Lianzhi was staring nervously at the sea road ahead, and was caught off guard by her. She couldn't help turning her head around immediately and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Huiye also turned his face and looked at the two of them.

"What time is it?" Qi Zhengge pursed his lips, looked up at the sky, and as expected, he couldn't see anything.

"Now it's..." Lu Lian was startled by Qi Zhengge's slightly pale expression. She didn't know what Qi Zhengge felt could make her expression change suddenly.

What time is it now?When looking into the time, Lu Lianzhi couldn't answer.

Sailing on the sea does not seem to have a more leaking sundial all the time in the past, she can only judge the time by the sky, and the sky is dark now, and it is already evening.

Maybe it's the end of Youshi, maybe it's already Xushi.

"What time is it?" Qi Zhengge frowned, his eyes quickly returned to clarity.She looked at Lu Lianzhi who looked a little dazed, her tone was a little lower, and she asked urgently and repeatedly.

Unlike Lu Lianzhi's dazed nervousness, Lin Huiye had already reacted.Soon, she asked her colleagues who had counted the time at sea back and forth, and when she came back, she looked gloomy.

"Youshi...a moment later."

Lu Lianzhi showed surprise, Qi Zhengge remained calm.

It's not night here, it's not the turn of time between You and Xu, and it's not that Xu time has passed, but the beginning of You time when the sky should still be there.

Everything is only because of the thick fog covering the sky, and the surroundings seem to be shrouded in curtains, as dark as dusk.

If it were ever foggy, how could it be here?

No one has figured out the mystery, and the boat is still going on.As the route progressed, the sky became darker, and the originally unknown aura became stronger.

Qi Zhengge opened his slightly closed eyes, his heart was beating like a drum.

Several mixed smells in this mist are already very obvious, and they are several smells that she knows well.

Nitrate, sunflower algae, sea soil alum.

No matter what kind of smell, it definitely doesn't seem to exist on the vast East China Sea.

Whether it's the time of day or the weather, or the strange smell, Qi Zhengge's one-pointed thoughts have all been confirmed at this moment.This made her hold Lu Lianzhi's wrist tighter with her five fingers.

"Miss Lin." Her voice was calm, but she was extremely determined, and she looked at Lin Huiye: "This is very foggy, and danger is dormant, and it will come from time to time."

Qi Zhengge's expression was extremely solemn, completely different from his usual swaying and gentle posture, and his voice was decisive, making people convinced without explanation.

"The fog had a light smell at first, and I couldn't identify what it was." She stepped back a few steps and left the fence close to the bow: "But now it's getting thicker, and I can recognize that it's saltpeter mixed with sunflower The smog from burning algae is deodorized with sea alum, so that it can be simulated as normal fog.”

"There is also blind burning, which is also used to neutralize the breath and confuse people's five senses. It's just——I can't tell the difference at the moment." Qi Zhengge's five fingers holding Lu Lianzhi's wrist are very tight, as if unwilling to let go, and as if unwilling to let go. will loosen.

"There's no wind right now, the fog doesn't come from the wind." Qi Zhengge took a deep breath and continued.

"It is carried and burned by people, and left behind along the way."

At this point, the three of them fell into a brief silence.

Who can carry so much smoke fuel for half a day?And who has the need to create such a dense smog that can block the sun above the East China Sea channel?

If the smoke had been buried here in advance, it would be absolutely impossible to envelop Master Lin Jiahai all the way, and it would be absolutely impossible to make people unable to see the source of combustion on this vast sea.

This gunpowder mist was carried by people and boats and burned all the way.And the smoking boat must not be far from Lin Jiahai.The road was silent, ahead of them, burning smoke on the road ahead, and in the windless sea, the smoke engulfed Master Lin Jiahai bit by bit.

Now it's only Youshi, but the fog is so thick that it can block out the sun, and the breath is getting stronger and stronger...

The three of them were silent for only a moment, and Lu Lianzhi suddenly grabbed Qi Zhengge's wrist with his backhand, and said eagerly to her: "Qi Zhengge! You go back quickly, go to Uncle A, go to Chongming and Wei Kuang, go back to the cabin—— "

The sky was already very dark, and the gloomy mist had already invaded deeply without knowing it, and even the hatch of the ship a few steps away had become very blurred in the sight of the three of them.

Lu Lianzhi was very anxious. After Qi Zhengge's explanation, why couldn't she understand that the current situation was in danger, she couldn't help holding Qi Zhengge's shoulders with both hands, and said urgently: "Go back, don't come out, it's not safe here! Do you know——"

"Lu Lianzhi, I know. The fog is thick, and the culprit must be nearby, and they must be no more than a mile away."

a mile away.

Lu Lianzhi's expression changed immediately, she had already pulled out the Lu Li sword from her waist, holding Qi Zhengge tightly, and sent her back to the cabin.At the same time, Lin Huiye had already left the bow of the ship and gathered the crowd loudly.

Suddenly, it sounded like an alarm bell, and the surrounding fog was as thick as blood and as heavy as frost, and even the sound seemed to be sucked away by the fog, except for the noisy voices of people, everything was silent.

No one was afraid, no one retreated, and everyone looked solemn, even excited.

After waiting for several days, finally this moment came.All the people had swords girded around their waists, and they all leaned against the fence.Barrels of tar that had been prepared long ago were placed beside the boat, ready to pour into the sea at any moment.

The boats have stopped, everyone is in battle, and there is no sound of people around.In this dark as deep fog, it seemed to have fallen into dead silence for a moment.

Everyone is only waiting for that moment, the moment when the pirates are surrounded and planned, the sea fire will rage instantly and everyone will enter the sea.

In this thick tar sea fire, any smaller ships would be buried in the sea of ​​fire, but the Lin family's merchant ship was plated with fine steel, safe and sound.

This is a strategy against water thieves, and it is a strategy aimed at eradicating them.

Lin Huiye stared closely at the empty gunpowder fog at the bow of the ship.Is the best policy feasible?In this unexpected thick fog, can everything go as expected?If there is a change, what should it be, and what should it be?

In an instant, thousands of possibilities and questions came to mind, which made Lin Huiye's blood boil and tremble a little.

She held her breath, all five senses were focused on her ears, and she concentrated on identifying the sounds coming from all directions in the dense fog with only a little sea water in the silence.

In this, everything finally gradually took shape.

There was an extremely faint sound of paddle waving, ethereal and illusory, but extremely real, as if it was right in front of your eyes.

At the moment when the voice that was close in front of him sounded, a voice that Lin Huiye was very familiar with sounded.

"Squeak-"

"Squeak-"

"Squeak-"

……

An endless stream of voices came and went, one after another.

It is the sound of bamboo and wood rubbing against rope strands, and it is tense, deep and light.This is the voice Lin Huiye is most familiar with, and it is also the voice that makes her look excited-the voice of the strange armor, and it is also a sign that the thief is coming.

The sounds of the strings being tensed could clearly be heard as if they were only a few feet away, but they were obscured by the thick fog in front of them, making it impossible to see the slightest clue.

The thief is close at hand.Lu Lianzhi turned her head and glanced at the sea outside the boat.Where is the sea?The smog was so thick that Lu Lianzhi could no longer see even the boat rail which was only a few steps away.

She watched Qi Zhengge walk into the cabin, and after reaching that safe place, she finally showed an expression of excitement and trembling, her eyes were full of brilliance, and the expression that had been suppressed by worry and fear before all radiated at this moment.

She shook the tip of the Lu Li sword in her hand, and the clanging sound shook out.

It was only at the moment when the sound of "squeak" appeared one after another, Lin Huiye immediately yelled violently, causing everyone to drop tar into the sea.

But it was too late.After the sounds of wooden ropes rubbing against each other, it seemed that something, or someone, was tossed high from the source of the sound of the thief boat, and then gradually fell rapidly from the mist. Showed a figure.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"...

There was a sudden explosion of landing sounds one after another, and there were treacherous laughter, scattered in the thick and invisible fog.

Pirates board the ship.

The author has something to say:

The specific fuel in it is all made up, you can choose to be an honest person, don’t care and read on _(:зゝ∠)_

It’s still not enough to express this kind of scene, and it can’t be done in one go, and I feel that I haven’t described one thousandth of the grandeur of the picture in my mind qwq

So everyone can use their brains to make up for themselves, how to think miraculously,

It's probably the seed pitcher in the fog throwing a ball at you, throwing a bunch of bad guys silently! ! !

Scared, scared, slipped away (crawl away x