A knife in love

Chapter 1702

At this moment, when they heard a loud "bang", everyone was startled, and all turned their heads to look.A burst of flame suddenly spewed out from the center of the big ship on the right side of the stone platform, engulfing the cabin in the flames.Shopkeeper Hu's face changed drastically, and he said in a trembling voice, "Oops! The gunpowder left on the ship was ignited, what should I do?!"

After listening to Shopkeeper Hu's words, everyone was shocked in their hearts.Xiao Dong's face was livid, and he said to shopkeeper Hu: "Old Hu, how much gunpowder is left on board?"

Shopkeeper Hu's mouth twitched, and he said in a low voice, "This...it seems that there are three or four boxes...maybe two or three boxes, but maybe five or six boxes..."

Seeing Shopkeeper Hu's appearance like this, Xiao Dong felt annoyed, and before he finished speaking, he said angrily: "It's as if you didn't say it! I don't know how many boxes of gunpowder there are, so I took you to escape." What's the use of going?!"

Shopkeeper Hu was reprimanded by Xiao Dong, with an embarrassed expression, and said: "Master Xiao blamed it, because the villain is confused. But the shipment of gunpowder is not presided over by the villain alone. At the beginning, Master Xiao ordered the villain to cooperate with Shopkeeper Yin, Shopkeeper Luo and others. The shopkeepers split up and prepared the saltpeter, charcoal and other things for making gunpowder. After the villain prepared the saltpetre, he handed it to shopkeeper Ji according to Mr. Xiao's instructions, and he made the gunpowder. As for how to move the gunpowder to the big ship, Reloading into the bilge was done by shopkeeper Ji and the boatman, and the villain didn't know about it. Just now, shopkeeper Ji was in charge of blowing up the isolated peak with gunpowder. The villain has no strength to restrain the chicken, thinking that he can't help much , so I didn’t carefully calculate how much gunpowder was left, and please forgive me, Mr. Xiao.”

Although the shopkeeper Hu said these words in a tactful manner, it seemed that he was apologizing to Xiao Dong, but in his words, he picked up all his faults, and he was worthy of being an extremely shrewd big businessman.Although Xiao Dong wanted to criticize, but shopkeeper Hu said nothing, and he couldn't get angry with shopkeeper Hu anymore, so he had to suppress his anger, turned to shopkeeper Ji and said, "Old Ji, tell me how much money is left on the ship?" gunpowder?"

Shopkeeper Ji frowned, as if he was calculating how much gunpowder was left in his mind, and didn't answer right away.Wang Xiaoyu thought that at such a critical moment, these people are still calculating how much gunpowder is left on the big ship, but not thinking about how to escape as soon as possible, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?She was puzzled, and was about to ask Murong Danyan, but seeing Murong Danyan also looked confused, she thought to herself, looking at Sister Murong's appearance, she might not know what these people are up to.Thinking of this, Wang Xiaoyu had no choice but to swallow the words that came to his lips.

Inadvertently, Wang Xiaoyu caught a glimpse of Qi Jiu sitting on his left, leaning against the stone wall, staring at the burning fire on the deck of the big ship, with a thoughtful expression on his face.Wang Xiaoyu thought to himself, although Qi Jiu is young, he is very knowledgeable, you might as well ask him, maybe it can solve the doubts in my heart.

Thinking of this, Wang Xiaoyu quietly approached Qi Jiu, lowered his voice and said, "Hey, the situation is critical now, they don't want to escape as soon as possible, but instead calculate how much gunpowder is left on the big ship, are they scared stupid?"

Qi Jiu shook his head, glanced at Xiao Dong, shopkeeper Hu and others, then lowered his voice and said, "Miss Wang, you are wrong. These people are all good people, how can they be so stupid? We didn’t attack because the big ship was on the right side of the stone platform, like a shield, which not only prevented the Japanese pirates from firing all their arrows at the stone platform, but also cut off the passage of the Japanese pirates’ big ship approaching the stone platform, making us hide on the stone platform. But the gunpowder hidden in the bilge of the big ship was ignited by the rockets of the Japanese pirates, and it is already burning. If there is too much gunpowder left on board, it will definitely explode. Just now the gunpowder blows down the isolated peak I think Miss Wang has seen the situation. Gunpowder can blow up even a lone peak, and it is not difficult to blow up a big ship to pieces. After the big ship is blown up, we have lost our barrier. Japanese pirates can run rampant with two big ships Wuji will definitely rush over immediately and surround the stone platform to besiege us. At that time, we will become the target of Japanese pirates' arrows, and we must be shot like hedgehogs by them."

Hearing what Qi Jiu said, Wang Xiaoyu suddenly realized, and became afraid in his heart.She looked around, and then said in a trembling voice: "Oops, if the big ship is sunk by gunpowder, the stone platform is only eight or nine zhang in radius, and if two big Japanese ships attack from both sides, there is no way for us people to avoid it." Avoiding, can't we just wait for death? This, what should I do?"

Qi Jiu smiled wryly, and said, "That's not the only thing that's scary." He glanced at the big boat again, and then lowered his voice and said to Wang Xiaoyu, "Miss Wang, do you still remember the bombing?" Before the isolated peak, in the boxes brought up by the boss of the ship and several shopkeepers, besides the gunpowder, are there some small black pills? Those small black pills are the bullets of the firecracker, and after being fired by the firecracker, they are extremely powerful. I remember piling the gunpowder at the foot of the Lone Peak, and the boxes of pellets were left in the boat, and they probably put them back in the hold. If the powder exploded, the pellets would fly everywhere. We were so close to the big ship, Countless projectiles flew over, and they were hundreds of times more terrifying than the Japanese pirates' feathered arrows. The Japanese pirates' feathered arrows shot over, we could use the weapons in our hands to fly the feathered arrows, or use light skills to avoid them. But the firecrackers are so close If you shoot from a distance as close as possible, even if your martial arts and lightness skills are superb, you will definitely not be able to dodge it."

Just as Qi Jiu finished speaking, Qin Laowu suddenly yelled and said in a trembling voice: "The pirates, the big ships of the pirates are attacking!"

After Qin Laowu fled to Shitai, he was very reluctant to part with his big boat.At that time, the big ship had tilted, and half of the hull was immersed in the water pool.Qin Laowu knew that the big ship must be destroyed, and he was really heartbroken.So after he fled to the stone platform, even though the pirates kept shooting arrows at the stone platform, he was not willing to leave the big ship too far, so he shrank under the stone wall on the right side of the stone platform, keeping his eyes on the big ship.At this time, the bow of the big ship was stuck on a protruding rock at the right end of the stone platform, leaving a gap about Zhang Xu between the bow and the stone wall on the stone platform.Qin Laowu hid at the stone wall, and he only needed to poke his head out slightly to see the Japanese pirate ship in the distance.It's just that the Japanese pirates kept shooting arrows at the big boat and the stone platform, so Qin Laowu didn't dare to poke his head out easily.

Just now when Xiao Dong, Shopkeeper Hu, Shopkeeper Ji and others spoke, Qin Laowu didn't take it to heart, he was always thinking about how to rebuild a big ship after he escaped.It's just that he glanced at it unintentionally, and saw that the Japanese pirate's big ship in the distance had started to move, and was heading towards Shitai.Qin Laowu turned pale with shock, and then he screamed.

As soon as Qin Laowu finished speaking, everyone was shocked.Li Qiufeng bowed his body and walked quickly to Qin Laowu's side, looking out with his head.I saw a big boat cutting through the wind and waves, heading towards Shitai.The other big boat disappeared, and I don't know where it went.Li Qiufeng thought for a while, then turned around and ran towards the left side of the stone platform, until he circled half a circle and reached the left end of the platform, then hid behind the stone wall and poked his head out quietly to look around.Sure enough, another Japanese pirate ship made a circle and headed to the left side of the stone platform.The two big boats approached the stone platform one from the left and the other from the right, they wanted to pinch and attack the people hiding on the stone platform, making them lose sight of one and lose sight of the other, unable to escape.

(End of this chapter)