When Zhao Xin got off the boat onto the dark beach, Liu Sheng and the others were already one step ahead of him.
The four of them squatted down, leaning on the weak light from their tactical flashlights to get together. Wang Yuanfang said nothing and made some gestures under the light of the flashlight. The four people immediately divided into two groups and quietly advanced towards both sides of the camp.
The sounding arrow was set by Seldan. A few minutes ago, he returned to the tent and was about to smoke a pack of cigarettes to relieve his fatigue, when he heard several low deer calls coming from outside. Without any time to think about it, he immediately threw down his pipe and stretched out his foot to wake up his sons Elu and Yalha who were sleeping soundly.
When Elu woke up and was about to get up to get his bow, he heard a "swish" sound, and a long arrow was pierced on the outer wall of the tent.
No one shouted, and in the night, more than a dozen figures flashed in the dense forest, surrounding Seldan and his tent.
Then the bonfire outside the tent lit up, and Serdan made a gesture to his son and Yalha, then took out an arrow and put it on it, lowered his body, ran two steps, and rolled from the tent to the outside.
In a flash of lightning, seven or eight arrows flew out of the woods like black lightning and shot towards Seldan. Without pausing, Seldan rolled on the spot twice in a row, avoiding the light of the bonfire and entering the dark night.
There was a "boom" sound from the bowstring. As soon as Seldan got up, he shot an arrow to his right side, and a scream suddenly sounded.
"Don't go out!" In another tent, Hengji drew his sword and shouted in a low voice to Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiucheng, who wanted to rush out to fight.
Serdan was about to change positions after shooting an arrow when a black figure quietly came up from behind him. When he was still three or four steps away, he raised his sword and rushed over.
Hearing the footsteps behind him, it was too late for Serdan to draw the arrow. He turned around, took a step away, raised his bow and drew towards the opponent.
A dull voice sounded, and he bowed his body and struck the opponent's cheekbones hard. A large piece of one side of his cheek was immediately sunken, and he fell to the ground, screaming in agony.
At this time, Serdan felt that more and more people were surrounding him, so he hurriedly took out a loud arrow from the bag on his waist, filled the bow string, and shot towards the beach.
A shrill roar rose from the forest, and those who attacked in the darkness were stunned. The leader immediately thought of the big boats on the beach, and then he no longer bothered to hide his figure. He shouted loudly to the people on his side in native dialect: "Come on! After dealing with these, go and grab them immediately." Big ship!”
A cry of death suddenly sounded. Under the light of the bonfire, seven or eight strong men holding daggers, bows and arrows, with long braided hair and wearing animal skins rushed out of the woods.
Erlu in the tent was worried about his Ama's safety, and ignored Serdan's instructions. He quickly rushed out of the tent, rolled over on the ground, and also got up and shot an arrow to kill a strong man who had rushed forward. Han shot down. Just when he was about to move out of the way, another strong man with a bow and arrow rushed up and pressed the bow on Elu's neck with all his strength. The two immediately struggled with each other.
Elu's bow had been thrown aside. He pressed hard against the opponent's bow with both hands, and kept kicking his feet, trying to break free. Unexpectedly, the opponent's strength was surprisingly strong, and Elu couldn't struggle at all.
On the other side, Hengji and the other three heard the shouts of killing outside and rushed out of the tent. The three of them each faced an attacker, and the clang of weapons immediately sounded.
Elu, who was pressed under him, gradually felt exhausted, and his throat was suffocated by the opponent's bow. Just when he was about to die, the strong man who was pressing him suddenly fell on his head. On the body, what followed was a "whoosh" roar that resounded through the forest.
"Ahem..." Elu pushed the strong man away desperately, coughing non-stop.
"Get down! Everyone get down!" Liu Sheng shouted in the darkness while firing at the attackers.
Thanks to the Mandarin training classes these days! Serdan and the others could understand a few words. As Liu Sheng finished shouting, the six of them were already lying on the ground.
Zhao Xin and other four people worked in groups of two, crouched in the dark, and fired fiercely at the black figures standing in the forest. Zhao Xin quickly finished one magazine, immediately replaced it with another, and continued shooting. Until all 30 rounds of ammunition are used.
"Ceasefire~Ceasefire~" Not far away, Wang Yuanfang began to shout. "Is anyone hurt?"
In the dark night, those who were shot but survived were screaming.
"Master, I'm fine! Xiucheng is injured." Lu Shoushan shouted while lying on the ground.
"I'm fine!" other people's voices sounded one after another.
"Everyone return to the beach and get on the boat!" Zhao Xin ordered. As soon as he finished speaking, a black figure suddenly stood up and rushed towards him with the weapon in his hand raised. Zhao Xin didn't have time to think, he took out the pistol from his thigh with his right hand and fired continuously at the opponent.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" After three pistol shots, the black figure fell to the ground a few meters away.
Not far away, a whistling sound gradually faded away.
Under the cover of Zhao Xin and others, the six Serdans returned to the dock and boarded the yacht. When he arrived in the cabin, Zhao Xin saw that Pan Xiucheng had an arrow in his arm.
"Damn! Who the hell is this?" Liu Sheng cursed while helping Pan Xiucheng treat his wounds.
Serdan then yelled at Lu Shoushan.
"Sir, Serdan said these people are the local Feyaka people."
When Zhao Xin heard this, he said, "I'm going to kill him. I was still thinking about communicating with the other party. He had a fight on the first day he came here."
"We didn't provoke them, why on earth did they attack us?!" Ding Guofeng said angrily.
"Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin, what's going on over there? It's over." Deng Fei on the Thor shouted over the walkie-talkie.
"The natives attacked at night and were all beaten away. Over."
"How's it going? Is anyone injured? It's over." Doctor Hong suddenly appeared on the phone.
"It's nothing serious. Pan Xiucheng was hit by an arrow in his arm and has been treated briefly. It's not a big problem. You can show him again tomorrow. Over."
"We can't get through now, so be careful. Over."
"You also need to be careful and arrange for more people to be on duty on the deck. Over."
While several people were talking on the phone, Serdan held Lu Shoushan aside and whispered for a long time. After Zhao Xin and the others had finished speaking, Lu Shoushan said to Zhao Xin: "Sir, Serdan said that these people have done this in previous years. It is the spring famine season, and there is not enough food for hunting and fishing. Maybe he saw it during the day. We just want to grab a piece of our big ship.”
"There are still five hours before dawn. Everyone takes turns to wait until dawn before going ashore." Zhao Xin looked at the clock on the yacht and said to everyone.
The night passed without incident, but the people on the yacht and the Thor did not dare to be careless. Zhao Xin and others stayed up all night and stayed in the cabin with guns in their hands until dawn.
After daybreak, several people on the yacht, except Pan Xiucheng, went ashore with weapons to search.
The bonfire at night had been extinguished. In the open space outside the tent, there were three or four Feyaka people lying down. The blood flowing from their bodies dyed the ground dark red in patches; and in the woods on the west and north sides of the tent, , Wang Yuanfang and the others found nine bodies riddled with bullets.
Including the two people shot by Serdan and Erlu before, Wang Yuanfang and the others found a total of fifteen corpses.
Accompanied by Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng, Serdan and his son followed the footprints left by the attackers and searched all the way to the north of the camp. Finally, two miles away, they found traces of someone leaving on horseback.
Zhao Xin was thoughtful and silent after listening to Liu Sheng's report. He thought for a while and then said to Wang Yuanfang and others: "It seems that we have to set up the sentry first. Otherwise, when everyone is settled, it will be troublesome if they come again."
"The old method. First set up explosion-proof walls and surround the camp." Liu Sheng said.
"What to do with these corpses?" Wang Yuanfang asked.
"Pile them together first and cover them with a tarpaulin. They will be buried far away for a while." Zhao Xin thought for a while before saying.
Zhao Xin didn't let Doctor Hong and the others come over. He was afraid that these people would make trouble with him and want to return to modern times after seeing the corpses on the ground. Among the five newcomers, only Chen Qingsong is currently determined to stay in the eighteenth century and create a new world.
Chen Qingsong, a fake excavator driver, has all kinds of ambitions. He didn't expect that after many years, he would dig a hole and bury people for the first time when he drove an excavator.
Zhao Xin patted Chen Qingsong's back gently, pinched his nose with one hand and comforted him: "Old Chen, this is the way it is in this era. I'm slowly getting used to it. I didn't get used to it at first, and the vomiting was even worse than yours."
The pale-faced Chen Qingsong supported the tree trunk beside him, stood up slowly, took out a tissue from his pocket, wiped the corners of his mouth and then said: "I have seen dead people, but..."
"I understand," Zhao Xin said quickly.
"Okay, I'm fine. Mr. Zhao, where do you plan to dig a hole?"
After hearing Chen Qingsong's words, Zhao Xin thought to himself: Why do these words sound so awkward? Oh, I dare you to help me dig a hole. Who are we planning to join forces to trap?
Everyone spent the whole morning burying the attacker's body in a large pit two miles west of the camp. Zhao Xin also made a mark on a nearby tree, so that if someone came looking for him one day, he would have an explanation.
At noon, everyone on the Thor disembarked and landed to continue the work that was not completed yesterday. Zhao Xin had people drive wooden piles at the four corners of the camp, and then began to place blast walls.
This time there was no need for Wan Zao to bring people with shovels to dig in the soil. Chen Qingsong, who became more and more skilled in operating excavators, filled the iron basket of the first layer of blast-proof wall with earth and rocks in just one afternoon.
The new campground is larger than the one on Bear Island and is rectangular in shape. It is wide from east to west and narrow from north to south. The refugees' residence is located on the east side of the camp, so Zhao Xin placed the RV in the center of the camp.
On the west side of the camp near where the mobile toilets were to be placed, he asked several island carpenters to build a circle of two-meter-high wooden stakes around a separate tent and nailed crossbars to create a small prison. This was for that person. Captured by more than a dozen Qing soldiers.
Seeing that these people had worked honestly and hard in the past two days, Zhao Xin felt that it was better not to send them to the wooden cage. Who's going to dig for gold if they're all frozen?
In order to ensure the safety of Dr. Hong and others, Zhao Xin persuaded Chen Qingsong, Dr. Hong and other five people to live in his luxury yacht. This move made the future Director Liu of the Nursing Department very satisfied.
(Look, who said it’s pointless for Zhao Xin to buy a big yacht? A small luxury hotel has opened.)
