Zhuge Nan snorted and said, "Then let me believe your words. There are many people outside. If we want to escape, you need to follow my arrangements."
While talking, he untied Zhao Peng's rope.
Zhao Peng couldn't help but nodded and said: "Okay, I will listen to you."
Zhugenan immediately explained the plan he had just thought of. Although Zhao Peng felt that Zhugenan's arrangement was very clever, the risk on his side was extremely high, while the risk on Zhugenan's side was extremely small, so he immediately hesitated.
Zhuge Nan looked cold and said: "Since you don't want to, then we can each run away. Anyway, I have fulfilled my promise to Miss Zhou."
Zhao Peng knew that he could never escape on his own, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Zhugenan said no more, resisted the two men in yellow on the ground, turned around and left the cabin.
Zhao Peng stood up and stretched his hands and feet.
After about a stick of incense, he felt that time was almost up. He took a deep breath and kicked the door hard, knocking the door open completely.
Then he shouted: "Who are you? What are you going to do?"
After saying that, he quickly hid in the place where Zhugenan was hiding just now.
His actions immediately alarmed the entire ship, and they heard a series of footsteps.
Not long after, a one-eyed old man led a group of people into the cabin. After seeing the rope on the ground, the one-eyed old man shouted: "No, Zhao Peng has been rescued!"
At this moment, two sounds of falling into the water suddenly sounded from the stern of the boat. The one-eyed old man looked stern and said: "They jumped off the boat, chase them quickly!"
With that said, he turned around and headed towards the stern of the ship.
After Zhugenan threw the two men in yellow into the water, he quickly returned to Zhao Peng's cabin and climbed to a mast between the stern and the cabin.
Not long after we went up, a one-eyed old man and someone passed by below.
He had already returned to the black water mast. In this dark night, no one could see clearly that there was someone on the mast.
Zhuge Nan looked down. When he saw a young man next to the one-eyed old man, he was so startled that he almost fell off the mast.
That man turned out to be He Lan Minzhi!
He seemed to be in the same group as these people, and seemed to have a high status, following closely behind the one-eyed old man.
He was not out of danger yet, so he didn't think any more and slid down the mast silently, all the way back to the cabin where Zhao Peng was.
Along the way, he heard several sounds of falling into the water. It was obvious that someone from the other party jumped into the water to search for them.
When he came to the cabin, Zhao Peng saw him and hurriedly came out from behind the cabinet and asked, "What should we do next?"
Zhuge Nan asked: "Do you know where the boat is?"
Zhao Peng nodded repeatedly and led Zhugenan all the way to an open hold at the bottom of the ship.
There are three small boats in the cabin, and there are several exit holes in the bulkhead.
Zhao Peng was about to push the boat out, but Zhugenan said angrily: "They are searching outside. Why don't you push it out now so that they can be caught?"
Zhao Peng thought so, so he leaned on the boat and sat down. After a pause, he asked softly: "Junior sister, are you okay?"
"She is in Chang'an City. Although she was a little injured, it's nothing serious."
"She was injured? How?" Zhao Peng asked hurriedly.
Zhuge Nan said calmly: "There was a group of killers chasing her all the way. Do you know why your junior sister went to Chang'an?"
Zhao Peng lowered his head and said: "She came to me once before she left and told me that the master was killed by Wu Wei and she hoped that I would accompany her to Chang'an to find a big shot to redress the injustice."
"Which big shot?" Zhuge Nan pretended to be confused.
"Prince Changping!"
"Does your junior sister know the prince of the imperial court?" Zhugenan looked shocked.
Zhao Peng hesitated for a moment and said: "Junior Sister Zheng wrote a letter to the master. She said that His Highness the Prince helped her family clear away their grievances and also found her a fifth-grade title."
Sighing, he added: "At that time, I advised Master to join Junior Sister Zheng. Maybe Junior Sister Zheng could help us find a public position, but Master just refused to listen!"
"Why is your master unwilling?"
Zhao Peng seemed to have been resentful for a long time, gritting his teeth and said: "He insists on saying that accepting the reward from the government is still doing things for the public, and he is more free."
"What he said is correct."
Zhao Peng gritted his teeth and said, "But every time he takes all the bounty money we earned with our lives to help the poor, so we often have to sleep in the wild. I haven't had a good drink in several years."
Zhuge Nan said coldly: "Is this the reason why you became a pirate?"
Zhao Peng panicked and said hurriedly: "No, it's not."
Zhugenan did not continue this topic and asked in a low voice: "Hey, let me ask you, why do these pirates use living people to test medicine?"
Zhao Peng was surprised and said: "Junior sister already knows that we are the ones who use people to test the medicine...are they?"
"She didn't know, I found it when I was looking for you." Zhugenan said calmly.
Zhao Peng smiled bitterly and said, "I hope you won't tell her, otherwise she will definitely not forgive me."
Zhuge Nan promised that after Zhao Peng made it clear what he knew, he would immediately send him to jail.
Zhao Peng sighed and said: "I don't know why the deputy leader used living people to test the medicine. I only know that he was entrusted by others."
"Entrusted by whom?"
Zhao Peng shook his head.
Zhugenan squinted his eyes and looked at him for a while, then asked: "Who are these pirates? They must not be ordinary little pirates, right?"
"Have you ever heard of "Sea Spirit"?"
Zhugenan stared and said, "Could it be the great pirate Situ Hong?"
Zhao Peng nodded and said: "Yes, these people are all Situ Hong's subordinates."
"You just said it was the deputy leader who tested the medicine on living people?"
"Yes."
"Who is he?"
"One-eyed snake, Ouyang Chong."
Zhuge Nan was shocked again. This Ouyang Chong was a famous figure. He was originally the apprentice of Medicine King Sun Simiao. He only loved studying poisons and was kicked out of the apprenticeship by Sun Simiao.
Later, he committed evil in the world of martial arts and often used living people to study poisons. He was one of the most wanted criminals with the highest reward in Dali Temple.
He was highly skilled in martial arts, good at using poison, and as cunning as a snake or a scorpion. No one in the government or a bounty hunter could catch him.
Originally, Zhuge Sanyuan planned to catch him personally, but later, when Ouyang Chong competed with Tang Anshi of the Tang family, he was blinded in one eye and disappeared from the world ever since.
Some say he is dead.
That "someone" is obviously not reliable. Ouyang Chong is still alive and well, and has become the deputy leader of this group of pirates.
"By the way, who is the young man following Ouyang Chong?" Zhugenan suddenly asked.
Zhao Peng said: "He is the leader's adopted brother, his name is He Min, and everyone calls him Second Master."
Sure enough, it was He Lan Minzhi. Zhugenan was very surprised. Didn't Di Renjie say that He Lan Minzhi was kidnapped by Tu Hong? Why did he become the second master among these pirates?
Wait a moment.
Tu Hong.
Situ Hong.
Damn it, this Situ Hong must be Tu Hong's alias! He actually ran to the sea and became the leader of a party. Zhuge Nan was shocked and angry.
But now that he knows his identity, it will be much easier to handle. After that, he can report it to Wu Chengsi, transfer him from the Navy, and destroy him, and that's it.
At this moment, the big ship suddenly began to turn around.
Zhuge Nan was surprised and said: "Are they planning to go back to the shore?"
Zhao Peng said sadly: "That should be the case. I know too much and they will never let me live."
Zhuge Nan frowned secretly.
In this way, you cannot leave in a small boat, otherwise even if you are temporarily separated from the big ship, you may still encounter the big ship on the way back to the shore.
Not only did the opponent have many men, but they also had experts like Ouyang Chong. As long as they were discovered, they would definitely die.
No, maybe I can leave Zhao Peng behind and escape alone.
Thinking of this, Zhugenan decided to ask for all the information in the opponent's stomach, so that he could escape alone.
"Brother Zhao, you...if they do this kind of thing, there should be someone in Linhai County colluding with them, right? That person shouldn't be Wu Wei, right?" Zhuge Nan asked.
Zhao Peng gritted his teeth and said: "Of course it's not Wu Wei. If he had agreed, I wouldn't have ended up like this."
Zhuge Nan was shocked and asked, "Who is that person?"
"The person who colluded with the pirates is the Prince of Fanyang County, Li Ai!" Zhao Peng said every word.