Chapter 5 Iron-armored Airship (This chapter is free)
The first contact with the outside world accidentally turned into accidentally boarding a pirate ship. Before Sun Wu had time to lament the dangers of people's hearts, he was stunned by another big shock.26nbsp;
"This... you... Xiao Shang, were you also arrested by them? Wait, how is this possible? I was the only one sucked down the Yunlu Ladder at that time."
"Calm down! Calm down! It's just a small scene, little country bumpkin, don't be so scared that you wet your pants."
"I didn't! How did you get here?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, so you think I am the kind of person who would let my friends fall into danger alone! Am I this kind of person?"
"I didn't know that you were a psychopath! Hey, so you were also sucked down by the Yunlu Ladder, was that right? But at that time..."
Sun Wu was 100% sure that he was the only one who was sucked into the tornado wind at that time, and there was absolutely no Xiaoshang. If there was, her body would never be able to withstand the huge pressure.
"After you were sucked away by the Yunlu Ladder, I jumped down to look for you...it was about fifteen minutes apart."
"Fifteen minutes? By then the Cloud Road Ladder has disappeared, right?"
"Of course, I don't know martial arts and I don't know the Golden Bell Shield. I must wait until the Cloud Road Stairway disappears before I can jump down to find someone."
"Wait a minute! I'm so angry when I talk about this. Have you already calculated the time when the Yunlu Ladder will appear and deliberately let me be sucked in? This kind of prank is too much. Did you know that I was
How dangerous is it? I was almost dead, just a little bit away!"
Thinking of the thrill at that time, Sun Wu was anxious and angry. Ever since he reached the fourth level of the Golden Bell, he had not encountered a near-death situation for several years. Although Xiao Shang usually loves to play pranks, this time it was too much.
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"No! no! It's not just a little bit, you are still a long way away from death. According to calculations, the Yunlu Ladder appeared for a total of seventeen minutes and thirty-six seconds this time. You had a full dinner, sufficient energy, and gold
The fifth level of the bell jar and the wind speed and pressure cancel each other out. The probability of sustaining it for 18 minutes is 60%, so the chance of breaking through the fifth level is 38%. Congratulations on winning the jackpot."
"You...can you calculate so accurately?"
"Of course you have to be accurate when calculating things. Otherwise, if you are like you and have a messed up calculation of time and location, and you still dig tunnels like this, isn't it doomed to be a waste of time?"
"The chance of everything being fine is only 60%. Do you dare to bet on this?"
"The chance of surviving the Yunlu Ladder intact is 60%. Adding in the 24% chance of mild and severe disability, the chance of your death is only 16%. It's more powerful than being hugged by Sister Feng when she is angry.
The fatality rate is still low, why can’t we gamble?”
"If you say so, I will..."
I can’t answer. As for why it’s okay to fall from the sky, there’s a 90% chance that Xiao Shang landed rather than fell. Sun Wu had long suspected that she had some magic weapon that could fly briefly. After all, Dad’s machine can fly.
She was the one who repaired the Harley. Even if she built a similar thing, it would not be surprising. But if you ask her, you will definitely not get the answer.
"That's not the point, Xiaoshang. We encountered bad guys. This is a pirate ship."
"As long as there are people in this world, they are all bad people. It is normal for you to meet bad people, but you don't have to be sad, because I have avenged you."
"Ah? What big feud?"
"When you fell, you penetrated their deck and crushed three of their soldiers. They were probably minor injuries such as fractures."
"I've heard about this, and I'm really sorry for those three gentlemen."
"In order to carry those three people for treatment, the nearby soldiers surrounded me. At this time, I also fell down and passed through the hole you made, resulting in the brilliant achievement of wiping out all sixteen people... This time
I helped you take revenge, right? Yeah!"
Opening his mouth again, Sun Wu could only be speechless. Even if he beat himself to death, he didn't believe that Xiao Shang would simply fall down. She didn't know martial arts, so she must have used some magic weapon to land. The moment she landed, she immediately shot around wildly.
, it may be breathing fire, or emitting deadly poisonous gas. The enemy will be caught off guard, and there will definitely be heavy casualties.
However, even if the opponent is a "thief" on the "thief ship", even if the position is already clear as an enemy, Sun Wu still has a hard time letting go of Xiao Shang's ruthless hand. In any case, sixteen people, sixteen lives, that's it.
It's a serious matter if the plot is cut off.
"Stop talking nonsense, do you want to see what kind of ship this is?"
"I'd like to, but I can't raise my energy right now. If I have martial arts, I don't have any. How can I go out and watch?"
"Hey, classmate, didn't you learn anything at all yesterday? If you want to see something, you don't have to run out to see it."
Xiao Shang mentioned a sachet on her waist. This was a great gift given to her by the village elder when she became a magic weapon maker. It was a rare magic weapon from the West during the Taiping War. Although it only looked like a small sachet, it looked like a sachet.
The space that can be stored inside is said to be nearly infinite. It is an incredible treasure that breaks through the common sense of physics.
Dharma treasure bag.
Ever since he was a child, Sun Wu had no idea how many things Xiao Shang had taken out of the Tibetan Heaven Bag. Although he didn't know how to use many of the magic weapons, he had long been familiar with them. Now when he saw Xiao Shang taking out a round mirror,
You knew immediately what it was.
"Four Divine Mirrors? How many eavesdropping bugs were released before you fell?"
Xiao Shang didn't answer. He wiped his white and tender hands on the dim mirror a few times, and the image gradually appeared on the mirror. After repeated improvements, the eavesdropping bugs were able to steal not only sounds, but also images could be transmitted live.
Although he knew he was on a boat before, he never thought that the actual situation would be like this. Xiao Wu was a little confused at first, because he was occasionally at the highest point of the village and looked down when the sky was clear and cloudless.
They are all green mountains and forests, and as far as you can see, they are all land. The island base of Liangshanbo will float with the wind, but it is within a certain range. It has never floated to the sea. Why did you fall on a ship?
The answers to these questions were answered the moment I saw the whole picture of the ship.
This is not an ordinary ship, but a majestic iron-clad warship, and it is not an ordinary gunboat as recorded in books, because this iron-clad warship is floating in the air and sailing through the clouds and fog.
No wonder he was unscathed when he fell from the clouds, because he didn't fall from the sky to the ground. Since the ship was hidden in the clouds, he could fall up to twenty or thirty meters. The sixth level of the Golden Bell Cover would definitely be able to withstand it.
.I was originally surprised by the equipment in this room, but now I am not surprised. This is not a luxurious room equipped with magic weapons. The entire flying air force ship is a super large magic weapon.
Looking at the refined appearance, the large-caliber heavy cannon, and the flying flag, Sun Wu could completely feel the power of this warship. Children who grew up in Liangshanbo are no strangers to using magic weapons, but let alone such a large magic weapon.
, I have never even heard of it. In the years since the end of the Taiping Army, it seems to the outside world that earth-shaking changes have taken place.
And such an armored warship is now here for Liangshanbo. With its unimaginable equipment and technology, as long as it confirms its position, it can go straight into the sky and arrive at Liangshanbo without all the villagers being aware of it.
That Nalan Yuandie obviously has a lot of lust for Liangshanbo, and the soldiers on the ship are also full of murderous aura. Once these people enter Liangshanbo, it is unimaginable what the consequences will be. Even though the people in the village had fought in the past,
He has been living in the world, but he has put down his weapons for many years and has become a peaceful farmer. When he encounters this group of rigorously trained and well-equipped regular troops, they are like wolves and tigers. How can they be their opponents?
Thinking of the tragic situation in Liangshan Bo with the flames and the corpses of the villagers scattered everywhere, Sun Wu's heart beat wildly and he looked at Xiao Shang uneasily, hoping to hear some good news from her, as if this ship might not be able to find Liang Shan Bo.
Category.
"The outer shell of the entire ship is very new. It was built within the past few years. It is not an excavation of ruins. To be able to fly such a heavy thing into the sky, the navigation technology should be good. Just calculate the trajectory of the tornado, the wind speed, and the direction where we fell.
You can work backwards to get the direction of Liangshanbo, and you will have the answer within a few minutes. They haven't calculated it yet, and their navigation skills are lower than I estimated, but they should be close. If the sailing time is taken into account, the fastest is
Within a few hours, you can say goodbye to Liang Shanbo forever."
"You, don't talk like it's none of your business. That's Liangshanbo, and it's also your home!"
"If the house falls down, just build it again. Don't be sad." He said it indifferently. Xiao Shang made the gesture of a house falling down, shrugged to express his helplessness, and patted Sun Wu on the shoulder with enough time, sighing as if to comfort him.
tone.
"The house can be rebuilt if it is destroyed, but you cannot survive if your family members die. Xiaoshang, do you really feel nothing at all? Those are your family members..."
"It's so noisy, aren't you right here?"
"ah!"
There seemed to be a lot of meaning in this short sentence. Sun Wu couldn't grasp it for a while, but he saw Xiao Shang suddenly approaching, with a beautiful face like an angel, and a very ugly expression. To be more correct, he usually already smells bad.
The expression on her face is now even more "stinky", which completely expresses her current displeasure.
"Why is a disabled patient who can't use martial arts still spitting here? Country bumpkin, just fall down and go to sleep!"
Just like usual, the snow-white little hand suddenly moved as fast as lightning, and suddenly slapped Sun Wu's left temple, and crackling purple electric currents rushed around. There was no golden bell to protect him.
, being struck by the electric current, Sun Wu's whole body trembled, and almost immediately he rolled his eyes and fainted.
(This time...it's the temple...)
The dream seemed to last longer this time. After all, from last night to now, my body is really tired, and it is not easy to wake up once I fall down.
Perhaps because I was worried about the upcoming catastrophe in Liangshanbo, my dreams were full of all the things that happened in Liangshanbo in the past, and the most common scene was when I was with my sister.
My sister is my only relative in the world, and I never want her to be sad. However, over the issue of leaving home, the two of them have had numerous disputes in recent years.
Every time the action of cheating fails and he is taken home, his sister will look at him with sad eyes. Although he will be severely punished, what makes him sadder than those boards that fall on him... is her.
The look on his face that he was about to cry.
"What's wrong with Liangshanbo? Why do you always want to escape from here?"
Liangshanbo has never been bad. I have known it is a fairyland on earth since I was a child, but a fairyland that is too beautiful seems unreal and makes people breathless...
"The people in the outside world are treacherous. Look at those new people who have come to the village. They have finally put aside their grievances from the outside world. Once you go out, those old entanglements from the outside world will come back to you. Not only is it dangerous, but it is also the result of many years of
Your efforts will be ruined."
But even if it is dangerous, even if something unexpected happens outside, I still want to go out and have a look... because it is my own life. Not only is I unable to be independent in this kind of life, it also often makes me feel like I am being raised in a cage.
Bird, so suffocated...
"Snapped!"
The intense pain, along with the palm prints, appeared on her cheek. She had a conflict with the person she least wanted to hurt, and she made an exception and slapped herself for the first time... Before that, no matter what wrong thing she did, her sister
I have never hit myself on the head or face.
In fact, more than half of the independence that we strive for when we leave home is because we don’t want to drag others down anymore!
My sister is not pretty, and it is difficult for me not to admit it. When I was a child, I was teased by children of other ages for being a "sow's little piggy brother". As a result, I got into a fight with them over this and got drunk.
The middle-aged sister rushed to the other party's house with a group of people, severely injuring the parents who had no way of raising their children. One flew to the end of the street, the other flew to the ceiling, and even their dog suffered broken bones.
From then on, no one dared to make fun of this incident. On the contrary, in the following months, when I saw the victim’s family, I kept bowing and apologizing, and also gave them food and pork. I was almost embarrassed to see him.
people.
In fact, my personality is not that gentle, and there are often times when I can't help but want to get angry. But with my sister and Xiao Shang around, I have no chance to get angry. Even before the impulse can arise, the other party has already
His skin was torn apart, his bones were fried, and he was destroyed in ashes. It's shameless to think this way, but...it's actually a little funny.
My sister is not beautiful, and she is in her thirties, so she is not young anymore. Every woman should have her own family and her own happiness. My sister’s best youth years are all spent on herself. If she continues to stay in
Liang Shanbo, if she doesn't leave, her life will be delayed by him forever. She has understood this for a long time...
There are still admirers of my sister in the village, such as Uncle Hu who sells pork and Uncle Li who teaches. They come here to drink every day and remain single. Although they don't say anything, everyone can see what they mean.
.The conditions of these two men are both good. Uncle Hu is tall and majestic, and Uncle Li is gentle and elegant. They each have different charms. I don’t understand at all. What do they like about their sister? Maybe they are just like me,
Appreciate your sister's cheerfulness, enthusiasm, and gentleness that she reveals inadvertently.
Perhaps, my sister had been beautiful before, because I had assumed that my sister would not look ugly when she lost weight, but as long as I could remember, my sister had always looked so chubby, so the answer to this question became impossible to imagine.
However, it’s not like no one has ever seen my sister’s appearance as a girl.
A long time ago, when I was still very young, there was a strange new immigrant in the village. He did not settle down like the other immigrants. Instead, he would appear every time the cloud road and the ladder to heaven were connected, and he would become strange after a few days at most.
disappeared, and no one asked or talked much about it. The uncle seemed to have a surname of Luo, and he and his sister were old acquaintances. Every time he appeared, he would go to the wine shop and never go anywhere else.
Drinking glass after glass of wine.
"Sister, is Uncle Luo your lover?"
When I was young, I once asked my sister this question, but her sister's expression at that time was different from usual, and looked worse than Xiao Shang's signature expression. I was almost frightened to tears.
"If you want to be my lover, you must be a tough guy among tough guys. Is this skinny monkey's bird-like appearance worthy of you?"
In my memory, although Uncle Luo was thin, his appearance was very handsome. He seemed to be more handsome and handsome than any man in the village. My sister's statement was deliberately taunting. And one night after both of them were drunk,
Uncle Luo took out a ceramic print from his arms and shed tears of sadness at the woman in the print.
"Fenghuang'er, Fenghuang'er, where have you been? I've been looking for you..."
"Hey, hey, don't scream like a dead person. I'm right here. What are you looking for?"
I remember Uncle Luo's expression very clearly at that time. He looked up at his sister, but as if he didn't see anything, he turned his eyes back to the print in his hand and cried again.
"Skinny Phoenix~~~~"
The call was deeply affectionate, sad and sincere, and it was really touching to hear. However, the person involved didn't seem to feel this way, because the sister picked up the heavy wine jar on the ground and smashed it on Uncle Luo's head like a murder weapon.
Bloody light burst out, the table turned over and the chair tilted, and suddenly there was another drunken corpse like a cockroach on the ground.
I didn’t see the person in that print, but when I recalled this past incident, I felt that my sister might have been really thin when she was young, and was the skinny sister also beautiful? This is unimaginable, but
I couldn't ask anything, because Uncle Luo only came here for a few short years, and then just like his mysterious appearance, he mysteriously disappeared. No one mentioned him again, as if such a person had never existed.
But I will never forget that one night when Uncle Luo visited Liangshanbo, he made a promise with me after he accompanied me to practice the golden bell.
"Xiao Wu, this is indeed a good place. I can completely understand Feng Jie's hard work. If you can live your whole life here peacefully, it would not be a bad thing. But if you have any doubts about Liang Shanbo, if you think
A person should have his own life, so when you want to fly high, come to me, and I will do my best to help you and give you... what you deserve."
To my young self at that time, adults always liked to say some incomprehensible and weird things, but Uncle Luo's expression when he talked about "good places" and "good things" seemed to be quite disapproving, very similar to Nalan Yuandie's listening to him
Describe the situation in Liangshan Po.
What is wrong with Liangshanbo? Why do their expressions look so weird? I have lived in Liangshanbo for fourteen years, and there is no one who knows Liangshanbo’s situation better than me. If there is something wrong, is it possible that all of my fourteen years of life have gone wrong?
Is it fake?
How could such a thing happen......
The unreal feeling flooded into my mind again. When I opened my eyes, it was still dark. I was sleeping on the bed. I felt vaguely similar, as if I had been in this situation not long ago. So, what happened when I just woke up?
, is it all a dream? Did Liang Shanbo encounter a crisis? When did this dream start?
"Oh, you're awake, then turn around and let your brain wake up."
"Hmm, is it Xiao Shang? Was I dreaming just now? Is the village okay?"
"Don't worry, don't worry, it's okay, everything is over."
Hearing the words "It's okay", Sun Wu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but Xiao Shang obviously didn't finish his words, and the so-called "it's okay" has different explanations.
"The battle is over. It lasted eight minutes and seventeen seconds. All the villagers surrendered, and none of them resisted. Everyone was very obedient, honest, and cooperative. Now they have been imprisoned and tortured separately. Don't worry, don't worry.
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"How could I not be worried!"
The only bit of sleep he had was frightened awake. Sun Wu jumped up from the bed in shock. He happened to see a glimmer of light in the darkness. Xiao Shang was using the magic weapon Four Divine Mirrors to connect to the eavesdropping bug and peek at the image of the outside world.
The situation is just like what Xiaoshang said. This armored warship is no longer floating in the clouds, but is firmly anchored on the land of Liangshanbo. The main cabin door in front is wide open, and more than a thousand armed soldiers with guns and swords are lined up.
, the surrendered villagers were being tied up and handcuffed, some were sent to the ship, and some were imprisoned with other female family members, the elderly and the weak.
There was no blood on the ground, but there were obvious traces of artillery bombardment. Several houses were burning. It seemed that the villagers did not resist. When they saw this unimaginable giant ship approaching, the main gun threatened them.
After several consecutive blows, everyone surrendered cherishing their lives.
(Fortunately...no harm was done...)
Seeing the situation in the Four Divine Mirrors, Sun Wu breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood that he imagined did not appear, which really made him feel relieved. However, this relieved breath immediately became heavy again.
Because under the threat of the soldiers' swords and guns, the villagers trembled and obeyed the orders in fear. If they moved a little slower, the escorting soldiers would shoot at them, and immediately there would be a trace of blood.
The villagers' clothes were stained with dust, their eyes were empty and helpless, and they were walking with staggering steps. Some of them had been shackled and handcuffed. The clanking of the chains sounded shrill and harsh. They were all
Sun Wu has known honest people for many years. Maybe not all of them are close to Sun Wu, but everyone keeps to himself. Sun Wu likes them very much. Now that he sees everyone like this, Sun Wu is so sad that he can't speak.
The crowd was walking slowly, and there was an old man inside who couldn't help coughing. That was Grandpa Jiang, who lived near the school. He usually suffered from asthma and was very weak. Now he was frightened and walked unsteadily.
The neighbor next to him was kind enough to help, but he offended the escorting soldiers. He deliberately extended his legs and hooked them. Both of them rolled to the ground, and their noses and faces were swollen immediately. When the soldiers around them saw this, they burst into laughter and enjoyed themselves.
Sun Wu was stunned when he saw this scene. He had seen similar descriptions of ugly people's sex in books before, but when the things in the books became reality, the impact was still great. Especially, he had seen similar descriptions of sex in books before.
He still found the villains in the show a bit funny, wondering how there could be such superficial, clown-like villains in the world, but now he saw it with his own eyes.
"Xiao Shang, why are they so accustomed to this kind of thing? They... are still laughing, why can they laugh?"
"Are you surprised? I must have taught you this in books, right? To put it nicely, it means that military discipline is corrupted, but in fact this is the nature of soldiers. The job of a soldier is to kill people. How can you ask someone who specializes in killing his own kind as a profession?
Living things, still retain peaceful and loving souls? They laughed, they just did what they were supposed to do, no need to make a fuss."
Is this really like this? Sun Wu's mind is very confused. What Xiaoshang said is not unreasonable, but what sounds reasonable may not be the truth, and he has no time to care about the truth now. The most important question is
one.
"What will happen after everyone is escorted out like this?"
"Many of the residents of Liangshanbo have committed crimes outside. If they are arrested now, they will definitely be charged with a fugitive crime. If you do all the math, most of them will be sentenced to death. Otherwise, there will be some that make you rather die.
The cruel punishments, especially for those veteran cadres of the Taiping Military State, who are guilty of treason are all punishable by death. Within the nine tribes, they are either exiled or sold into slavery and prostitution."
"This... this is so ridiculous. Many of them are elderly grandfathers. Moreover, even the new immigrants, no matter what they have done before, after arriving in Liangshanbo, they have changed their lives and lived a normal life.
Since I haven’t hurt anyone anymore, why can’t I let them go and let them live their lives quietly like this?”
"Why? Ask the trial judge, ask the victim's family, you know what they will answer."
The answer was still so cold, but it had the iron-like correctness. Sun Wu couldn't find the words to refute. He thought about it, the thoughts in his mind became more and more chaotic, and the depression in his chest became heavier and heavier.
Finally, I couldn't help but my knees gave out and I fell to my knees.
I didn't want to show my weak side, but tears fell from the corners of my eyes one drop at a time, and my uncontrollable sobbing echoed in the dark room.
At first, the young man simply wanted to leave home to pursue his dream. Whether he lived or died after leaving, it was his own choice and he was responsible for it. However, his first adventure took a turn for the worse when he encountered an inexplicable ship.
The warship leaked the location of Liangshanbo, ruining the lives of all the villagers and causing an irreparable mistake.
Seeing the hurried and frightened expressions of the villagers, Sun Wu felt that it was all his fault. He vaguely remembered that the last time he failed to make a hang glider to escape home, he was caught by his sister and went home. He strongly advocated that he could be responsible for his choice, regardless of whether he left home.
Whatever the outcome would be, I would take responsibility for it. My sister, who had always been furious about her intention to leave home, closed her eyes at that time, spoke very tiredly and solemnly.
'The snail's shell is very hard. It thinks it can bear anything. But when it leaves the shell one day, it realizes that it is actually very fragile... There are some responsibilities in this world that you cannot bear alone. When you Understand and encounter, by then it is too late.'
My sister's words now became the most piercing pain. I finally understood and encountered it, but it was really too late.
"... Xiao... Wu... Xiao Shang... Wu Wu... Everyone was taken away like this. Is this the end of Liang Shanbo? Wu Wu..."
The young man's cry was answered. When he was most sad and regretful, a thin hand was placed on his shoulder.
"Xiao Wu, don't be sad, Liang Shanbo is not over yet."
The crying stopped for an instant, and Sun Wu raised his head and looked at Xiao Shang in shock. The situation in front of him was indeed a desperate situation, but Xiao Shang had a good head, and he had a bunch of magic weapons hidden in his body, and even a bunch of eavesdroppers. When the insect goes out, it seems that there is no way out, but perhaps Xiao Shang has found a glimmer of hope.
"Completeness and death are just a form of life. They have not disappeared, they just continue to exist in another form. As long as you still remember them, Liangshanbo will never be finished."
"...Isn't it too early for you to start saying this now?"
“Always prepare early for important events in life.”
Encountering his childhood sweetheart like this, Sun Wu was not only speechless, he couldn't even shed a tear. He couldn't figure out whether Xiao Shang was just a neurotic or a cold-blooded person. However, maybe Xiao Shang just didn't want to see it. The boy was crying, so he said that on purpose.
With his mind slightly clear, Sun Wu immediately thought of something more important.
"Xiao Shang, where is sister? How is sister?"
"Sister Feng was also arrested and is currently being held alone in a cell on the ship. However, the hygiene standard of the room is much worse than ours."
"Alone? Why is she being held alone? Is she injured?"
"There are no injuries. All the women who were brought on board are in solitary confinement. The captain is a woman and has specially ordered the soldiers not to rape and humiliate women. But with Sister Feng's size and appearance, Xiao Wu, you You can feel completely at ease.”
"Listening to what you said, should I smile and say thank you now?"
"No, you just need to lie down and talk to Mr. Xiao Shang."
It was a ridiculous request, but Sun Wu complied soon after, because Xiao Shang held the trump card of negotiation. Only through her manipulation of the eavesdropping bug could Sun Wu talk to his sister who was in solitary confinement, and Xiao Shang His skills never disappoint. Not long after, a blurry image appeared in the Four Divine Mirrors. Sun Wu, who recognized his sister's figure, immediately shouted out.