Yun Miaomiao and Gu Fengqing noticed that something was wrong with the sea beasts' emotions, so they guessed that they had been hit by some kind of drug that made them unable to control their emotions.
The medicines on the ship are limited, and they are all wound medicines, which have no effect at all on the agitation of sea beasts.
She had no choice but to find medicine to calm the sea beasts from the mall. A bottle of medicine cost 30,000 silver. It was the most effective kind. She could only grit her teeth and take out a bottle, and then pretended to take it out from inside her sleeve.
As if taking it out, he handed the medicine to Gu Fengqing.
"For this medicine, you can have someone bring a bucket of water over, pour this in, and then pour it around the boat. It should relieve the pain."
Yun Miaomiao reluctantly gave away the medicine. Thirty thousand taels. This is thirty thousand taels of silver. When can she earn it back?
Gu Fengqing glanced at her sleeve. She and he had been together just now, and this sleeve had always been empty. When did she have such a big bottle of stuff?
Now it was a matter of life and death. He didn't have time to think about it, so he took the things and asked Wang Cheng to spread the medicine.
Next, there was a scene that Saint Aunt and the others saw. The sea beasts regained their consciousness, and Yun Miaomiao had someone shoot out the bait with a slingshot. Soon the sea beasts were attracted away by the bait.
The encirclement quickly dispersed, and the helmsman was always sitting in preparation, and soon led the ship away from this group of sea beasts.
Gu Fengqing glanced at the group of people behind him, comforted Yun Miaomiao and said, "There is a small island nearby. Dongqing and the others discovered it. There is no one on it and it is not far from here. Let's go there to rest first and wait until we think of a solution.
, let’s come back and look at their appearance. Lian Ziqian’s wedding ceremony will probably focus on getting married. In three days, we can think about how to save people.”
"This is the only thing we can do." Yun Miaomiao looked at the sea beast leaving, but there was still a stone in her heart.
She knew that they could not sit still and wait for death, but must find a way to rescue the people in Jiangning Village as soon as possible.
Yun Miaomiao and Gu Fengqing frowned. They knew that this was only a temporary calm. Those on the island were about to be sacrificed, and it was urgent to save them.
The boat sailed towards the island. Yun Miaomiao and Gu Fengqing were sitting on the boat, their eyes falling in the distance.
The sea breeze blew gently, but it did not take away the worry and heaviness on their faces.
At this moment, they seemed to be able to feel the sea beast silently watching them from somewhere deep, with the tendency to go and come back all the time. This feeling made them feel even more uneasy.
"We have to find a way to wake up. Lian Ziqian and the others must have thought that we had escaped. Those sea beasts are a hidden danger. If they come again, we may not be able to withstand the attack just now." Yun Miaomiao finally spoke, her voice carrying a hint of laughter.
dignified.
"I know." Gu Fengqing replied, his voice calm and calm.
He looked at the small island in front of him, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, "I wonder if Dongqing and the others have found a way for us to get to the island."
"Sister-in-law Jin said that they never go out. Even Ziqian secretly left the island. There must be a way up there. At night, we can take a small boat to have a look." Yun Miaomiao suggested, "The target of the big ship is too big.
, there is no secret for the boats to come, and as long as we don’t alert the sea beasts when they go up, they won’t attack us.”
"It will be very dangerous." Gu Fengqing reminded, "Once the sea monster breaks out, there will be no return. They are not fools."
He glanced at the people hiding in the cabin behind him. As expected, these people were raised by the emperor, and both of them were very greedy for life and afraid of death.
"We have no other choice." Yun Miaomiao looked at him, "We can wait, but the people in Jiangning Village can't wait. If they don't go, I can go by myself. You believe me."
Gu Fengqing would definitely not agree to letting Yun Miaomiao go alone, "No, I rescued you not to let you take risks again."
Gu Fengqing's words made Yun Miaomiao hesitate for a moment. It was indeed true. He had finally rescued himself, but he was going to die. Wasn't his hard work in vain?
"Then I won't go." Yun Miaomiao relaxed, "Even if I don't save those people in Jiangning Village, we will just go back, but Dongqing is still on the island. If they are caught..."
"I believe Dongqing can do it." Gu Fengqing looked at the turbulent sea.
The group of people settled down on the small island. The island was not very large, just big enough to accommodate them. After Yun Miaomiao and Gu Fengqing set up a simple tent, they asked the soldiers to start moving things from the ship.
, prepare to rest and then think of ways to save people.
The dazzling sunshine made Yun Miaomiao wake up from her sleep. It was already bright outside. Gu Fengqing heard the movement and gave her the cooked porridge.
"Soldiers just went out to explore the way. Mechanisms have been placed around the island. It is even more difficult for us to get up." Gu Fengqing looked a little solemn.
Yun Miaomiao didn't expect that there was an agency. "It seems that Lian Ziqian's hairpin ceremony is very important to them. If we can destroy his hairpin ceremony, it will be a heavy blow to them."
Yun Miaomiao is not a good person. She knows that if she doesn't destroy this ceremony, then they will have no way to save people.
But how to get to the island is a problem.
"Didn't I say yesterday that Lian Ziqian went to sea and there must be a way to the island? Is there anyone looking for it?" Yun Miaomiao asked.
Gu Fengqing glanced at the porridge in her hand, "You drink the porridge first."
Yun Miaomiao lowered her head to look at the bowl in her hand, picked up the spoon and started to drink in small sips. When Gu Fengqing saw her starting to eat, she spoke.
"I've already sent someone to look for him. He should be back soon."
"Sir, the royal city is back." At this moment, soldiers came in from outside.
Gu Fengqing stood up and walked out. Yun Miaomiao finished the porridge in the bowl in a few seconds and followed him out quickly.
Wang Cheng was waiting outside. When he saw Gu Fengqing coming out, he saluted, "Master, my subordinates found an opening to the island on the road you took up the mountain. However, the road was very narrow and you could only pass through one."
People, if a large number of us go up from there, once we alarm the people on the island, we will easily become their prey. It is still too risky to go up from here."
Yun Miaomiao glanced at Gu Fengqing, and then said, "We don't want everyone to go up. We only need a few with good skills. We won't save anyone, and we will go directly to Lian Ziqian's hairpin ceremony."
Gu Fengqing glanced at her, nodded and said, "Just do as the madam said. Wang Cheng, you go pick a few people with good water skills. We will set off as soon as it gets dark tonight. There are still Dongqing and the others on the island. Let's start."
It’s not like we have no advantages at all. I’ll have people meet me at the exit. If there’s any accident, we can rush up as soon as possible. You attracted their attention in front, and there was Lian Ziqian’s hairpin greeting.
In front, it will be much easier for us to get to the island later, and they should have no worries about anything else."
"Okay, my subordinates will go and do it now." Wang Cheng immediately listened to the instructions and went to pick people.
As night fell, Wang Cheng led a carefully selected team and quietly walked along the narrow opening to the island in the dark.
The group of people arrived at the island smoothly and quickly sneaked into the island. According to the plan, they wanted to find the location of the altar and wait for the opportunity.
Lian Ziqian knelt in front of the altar, dressed in white. Standing next to him was the holy aunt they called. Everyone in the royal city hid themselves and found a position where they could see the front clearly, and hid.
"Ziqian, tomorrow is the day for your hairpin ceremony. I have people open all the traps. If those people can't get in, they will naturally go back. When your hairpin ceremony is over, I will send people to follow their ship.
When the time comes, we will find an opportunity to capture Yun Miaomiao. Qinghua has made preparations. After you complete the hairpin ceremony tomorrow, you will go to your parents' memorial tablets to get married. I used some of the fragrant tea today, and the rest are new ones.
After developing it, you can take it and offer it to our Atosh, and it will bless you and the people on our island for generations to come."
Lian Ziqian looked at the smoke and said, "Don't worry, Holy Aunt. I know the importance of this matter and I won't mess with it. As for Gu Fengqing and the others, I'm afraid they won't leave easily. Holy Aunt still has to let people watch the island."
I'm on guard, I'm afraid they might find an opportunity to come ashore."
"As long as you understand my good intentions, I'm here for the rest, so you don't have to worry."
"yes."
Wang Cheng figured out that the new fragrant tea that the holy aunt mentioned should be the thing they asked people from Jiangning Village to develop, just like the thing that caused the sea beasts on the seabed to riot wildly yesterday. It turned out that what Miss Yun said was right, it was
These people are behind all this.
Lian Ziqian had been kneeling at the altar for three days and three nights. Early the next morning, before dawn, someone came and asked him to get up and wash himself.
The white clothes faded away, and he was dressed in red, which highlighted his extraordinary and refined appearance. Wang Cheng looked at his appearance and was a little startled. Why did this Lian Ziqian look so familiar?
After a while, Lian Ziqian's hair-raising ceremony started on time. There were many people standing under the altar, and all their eyes were attracted to Lian Ziqian's red clothes.
Wang Cheng stood on the mountain, a breeze blew by, and a fragrance blew from the wind. Wang Cheng only felt that the man on the altar was extremely attractive, admirable and admirable, and even wanted to sacrifice his own name for him.
'Dong dong dong~' The sound of drumming resounded throughout the square. The villagers underground had begun to kneel down and their eyes became dull. Wang Cheng swallowed his saliva and was frightened by the sound of the drum. He regained his consciousness a little.
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No, the wind was drugged. Wang Cheng quickly picked up his sleeves and covered his mouth and nose. The worshiping villagers began to jump into the stove in the center of the square one by one, as if it was a holy place to welcome them.
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Later, Wang Cheng saw that among the people who jumped, several of them were familiar faces. They were people from Jiangning Village that he had seen at the beach that day.
Just when Wang Cheng was thinking about how to interrupt the sacrifice, a familiar figure appeared in front of him, it was Holly!
Didn't Holly go to the back mountain? Why did she appear here?
Seeing that Dongqing was about to die in the pit, Wang Cheng had no time to think and picked up the crossbow arrow in his hand. This was given to him by Yun Miaomiao. It was not as bulky as the ones they usually used. This crossbow arrow was small and powerful. He aimed the crossbow arrow at
He saw Lian Ziqian on the altar.
"go to hell!"
Wang Cheng suddenly triggered the mechanism, and an arrow shot out quickly, hitting Lian Ziqian's chest. The power of the crossbow was huge, and he fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Ziqian!!!" Saint Aunt shouted in horror.
The holy aunt was the one who controlled this sacrifice. Except for her, everyone was controlled by her and lost their self-awareness, including Lian Ziqian.
His eyes were dull and he didn't react at all even if he was hit by an arrow in the chest.
The Holy Aunt raised her head and looked around, and Wang Cheng also walked out of the darkness. "Is it you? Why weren't you controlled by Xiang Ming?"
Wang Cheng also wanted to know why he was not controlled. Maybe it was because he was standing at a higher position?
Fortunately, the others had Wang Cheng's reminder and covered their noses in time, so they were not controlled by the so-called fragrant tea.
"Lord Holy Aunt, you sacrificed your life, do they know you did this?"
"You don't have to mind your own business!"
She roared angrily and rushed straight towards Wang Cheng and the others. Wang Cheng's complexion instantly turned pale. He took several steps back, but his opponent was extremely agile and wrapped around him like a ghost. Her moves were so fierce that Wang Cheng could only try to dodge.
The opponent's attack has no time to fight back.
Seeing this, the people around him immediately came to support. After a fierce battle, the two sides finally fell into a stalemate.
At this moment, Lian Ziqian, who was lying motionless on the ground, began to move and struggled on the ground. After seeing it from the corner of his eye, the holy lady flashed a hint of joy in her eyes. She opened the royal city with a palm and stopped moving.
, looked at him.
"Ziqian~"
Wang Cheng looked at him with a pale face, Lian Ziqian was not hit by the arrow? Is he still alive?
The Holy Aunt hurriedly ran over and tried to help Lian Ziqian up, but the wounds on Lian Ziqian's body suddenly began to spurt out black blood. A strong stench filled the air, and Wang Cheng and others covered their noses.
"This is……"
Wang Cheng looked at Lian Ziqian in confusion, he had never seen such a scene.
A trace of excitement flashed in the eyes of Saint Aunt, and there was a sneer at the corner of her mouth, "The fragrant tea has invaded his body. You interrupted the sacrifice and wanted to kill him. I didn't expect that he has turned into a zombie monster now. No
Saved, hahaha, you want to save people, but you turn them into monsters, hahaha~"
Wang Cheng's heart sank. He saw Lian Ziqian's face getting paler and paler, and fangs had begun to grow out of the corners of his mouth. What on earth was this?
He turned to look at Saint Aunt, with anger in his eyes, "Lian Ziqian, you have watched him grow up, and the villagers are very respectful to you. Is this how you treat them?"
Like a zombie-like monster without any feeling, wasn't the Holy Aunt always protecting Lian Ziqian and caring about Lian Ziqian?
Why is it now like this? It's as if Lian Ziqian is a chess piece in her hand.
The holy aunt looked at him, with a trace of complex sarcasm flashing in her eyes, "The power of fragrant tea can free us from the shackles of the world, realize our dream of immortality, and achieve true freedom. They are all made for our future dreams."
So what's the matter with a little sacrifice? What do you, an outsider, know?"
Wang Cheng sneered, "You are destroying them and sacrificing their lives with your own selfish heart. You are the one who deserves to be struck by lightning the most."
The holy aunt looked at Lian Ziqian excitedly, "That's their honor! It's you who should be damned. Without your troubles, they would have been able to enjoy the beauty of the Paradise a long time ago. It's all you, all of you.
Don’t know what is good or bad.”
After saying that, she swayed and rushed towards Wang Cheng and others. Wang Cheng had no choice but to go up to her again and got into a fight with her.
In the chaotic fight, Wang Cheng frowned. He knew that they had to find a way, otherwise they would all die here.
Just when he was still thinking about what to do, a black shadow suddenly jumped out from behind Wang Cheng and rushed towards the holy aunt. The holy aunt was caught off guard and was thrown to the ground.
Wang Cheng was shocked when he saw the black shadow showing a pair of sharp claws. Then, a ball of fire fell from the sky and hit the saint aunt and the black shadow directly.
"No -" the saint aunt screamed in horror.
The black shadow was none other than Lian Ziqian, who had turned into a monster. He lay on the holy aunt and began to eat her flesh and blood. The fireball hit the two of them without interrupting his movements.
The holy aunt's heartbreaking screams of pain did not make Wang Cheng and the others soften their hearts. She soon became silent, and Lian Ziqian's dull eyes on her gradually began to become clearer.
"Bring me a message to her." He looked at Wang Cheng, "Everything I say is sincere. I really like her."
Wang Cheng looked at him complicatedly, watching him burn to ashes. The people below the square were still unconscious, but Wang Cheng had people bury the sacrificial pit, and they could only kneel on the spot motionless.
When Yun Miaomiao and Gu Fengqing came up, they saw this scene. They were all kneeling on the ground as if they were worshiping God devoutly, praying for God's mercy and blessings.
Wang Cheng told Yun Miaomiao all Lian Ziqian's last words. Yun Miaomiao looked at the ashes on the ground with complicated emotions. Without the greed of the holy aunt and their pressing pressure, Lian Ziqian would not be like this.
Lian Ziqian's death had its own reasons, mostly due to the Holy Aunt's greed.
Immortality and freedom are all empty talk. The current emperor has sent many people to die for his own selfish desires. This is what they call the price of pursuing immortality, no matter how many lives they have to pay.
After Gu Fengqing settled everyone down, he took them to the cave in the back mountain. As he said, it was a cave that could accommodate thousands of people. The cave exuded a stench, and at the bottom there were many people.
It was a corpse. Because the mountain was shady and cool, it was easy to preserve. They took a stove and began to refine the incense inside the corpse. The process of making it was cruel and evil. In the end, the dream of immortality was not realized, and instead they made something that can turn people into monsters.
I am afraid that the holy lady will not know until she dies. There is no such thing as immortality in the world. There is only the human heart. But if many people think about it, this person will live forever in the hearts of the world.