Xiao Lingyue looked at Zhan Beihan through the light. His angular features were illuminated by the dim light, his brows were cold and sharp, and his narrow eyes looked at the signal bomb in the air, with a shocking coldness.
Xiao Lingyue recited Amitabha in her heart to the mastermind behind the smuggling.
I hope they don't fall into Zhan Beihan's hands alive.
The signal flare only lasted a few seconds and soon went out.
The area around the cliff fell into darkness again.
Xiao Lingyue closed her eyes to let them adapt to the dark environment again, when she suddenly heard an unusual movement.
"The sound of the water seems to have changed!"
The cliff is close to the Canglan River, and not far away is the raging river.
Starting from the bottom to the cliff, everyone's ears were filled with the sound of the rumbling river water. The rapid water kept crashing against the mountain wall, and the sound of the waves was endless.
When the river rises at night, the sound of waves is also regular, and you can naturally distinguish it after listening to it for a long time.
But at this moment, Xiao Lingyue caught a change from the regular sound of water waves.
Wow – Wow –
The sound was like the sound of a paddle hitting the water, coming from time to time.
Xiao Lingyue and Zhan Beihan squinted their eyes at the same time and looked upstream of the river.
Through the hazy water mist, a circle of fire gradually emerged on the dark river surface, growing from small to large, becoming increasingly clear, and was heading in their direction.
It was a merchant ship traveling down the river.
There were torches on the ship, illuminating the bow and deck, allowing Xiao Lingyue and Zhan Beihan to see clearly what was going on on the ship.
The whole ship is about seventy or eighty meters long, two stories high, and has a very common appearance.
There are no markings on the hull.
When the terrain of the mountain range reaches near the cliff, the mountains on both sides begin to converge, forming a natural narrow mouth, a bit like the mouth of a bottle, narrow on the outside and wide on the inside.
Because of this, the water of the Canglan River was extremely turbulent when it arrived here. It rushed through the opening and spread instantly, hitting the cliff, and then broke out into a shoal under the cliff, barely able to stop the ship.
Xiao Lingyue and Zhan Beihan both saw that after the ship passed the narrow mouth, it immediately furled its sails and there were many people busy on the deck.
Some people were busy furling the sail, some were busy pulling the rope, and some were lowering something into the river.
"They are dropping anchor, slowing down the ship and getting ready to dock."
Xiao Lingyue said softly: "A serious merchant ship will never appear in a place like this in the middle of the night. It should be them!"
Zhan Beihan also whispered: "Let's take a look first, it's not time to take action yet."
In just two sentences.
The people on the boat kept dropping heavy anchors, and the merchant ship gradually slowed down.
The bow of the boat began to change direction and approached the shore of the shallows under the cliff.
The simple pier on the shoal was not far from Xiao Lingyue and Zhan Beihan's location.
Soon, the two heard a dull and loud "Bang!!"
The merchant ship that was forced to turn could not control its speed, and the bow of the ship hit the side of the pier hard, causing the rocks on the shore to roll all over the place. A section of the ship's bow washed ashore and got stuck on the shoal.
But the ship itself did not suffer any damage, because the bow was covered with thick iron sheets and was not afraid of impact at all.
After the merchant ship stopped, a dozen rope ladders were thrown from the deck.
Like an ant emerging from its nest.
One by one, masked men wearing black attire climbed down the rope ladder.
Some people pulled chains to fix the hull, others checked the surrounding conditions, and others opened the deck fence and put down long wooden boards to form a ramp for loading cargo.
At this time, there was also movement coming from the other side of the cliff.