"What a big crab!"
Lu Li on the third floor suddenly shrank his pupils and swallowed uncontrollably.
Ten miles away on the right side of the treasure ship, a giant crab with armor forty to fifty feet wide and a shiny black body was speeding towards their treasure ship.
The raised pair of pincers are as high as ten or twenty stories high, and the eight legs are like players participating in a dragon boat race. They stir up the water desperately, and the waves roll back wherever they pass, with overwhelming power.
"It's over, it's over!"
Many people heard the screams outside and walked to the door of the room to find out what was going on. However, this sight made them feel scared, and they retreated back to the room in panic, as if they would be safe hiding in the room. .
"This is really troublesome."
Lu Li also quickly returned to the room, opened the window and looked at the giant crab flying towards him with its pincers raised. He frowned and thought hard, but couldn't think of a good solution. He could only pray that the treasure ship itself was not so fragile.
After all, this thing is a magic weapon, not an ordinary ship.
There was a loud bang! The giant crab finally caught up with the treasure ship, raised its right pincer and smacked the treasure ship hard, causing the entire hull to fall to the side. There were screams in every room.
To everyone's relief, just when the huge pincers fell on the hull, the treasure ship suddenly erupted into a golden light shield, blocking the giant crab's attack.
And after a few breaths, the tilted treasure ship stood up again like a roly-poly, and continued to sail forward quickly, but the route seemed a little wrong.
Seeing that one blow failed to smash the 'little guy', the giant crab seemed a little angry. It screamed, moved its eight legs together, and chased after the treasure ship with its large pincers dozens of stories high.
This time, it no longer smashed, but followed the stern of the ship, moving its two pincers together, poking at the treasure ship one left and one right at the same time. The two pincers poked the shield and made a squeaking sound, and the golden light shield flickered on and off. , obviously unable to bear it.
Seeing this situation, everyone in the room looked desperate. If the shield was broken, their fate could be imagined.
Lu Li knew in his heart that he would definitely die if he continued like this. After a sudden change of mind, he finally decided to take a gamble. Of course, he didn't want to fight to the death with the giant crab, but to escape.
He might die if he left the treasure ship, but at least he wouldn't die immediately. He stumbled to Yuwen Wen's room and saw him shivering in the corner. He couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, "Stop shaking and follow me!"
As he spoke, he grabbed Yuwen Wen's shoulders, opened the window and rushed into the sea with a splash.
Faintly, Lu Li heard the sound of the ship's hull exploding and waves of desperate shouts.
...
The Beishui River is a small river only five feet wide. Although the water is crystal clear, it is not well-known in the Nebula Kingdom. There is no mark on the Beishui River even on the map.
Although not famous, this small river supports hundreds of villages, large and small.
This day is the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
It was already the cold winter season, and there were scattered white flowers falling from the gray sky, but they disappeared when they landed on the ground.
Bang bang bang, a crisp knocking sound sounded at the edge of a backwater bay in the middle of the Beishui River. A woman wearing a worn cotton jacket was squatting on the stone slab by the river, beating hard with a mallet in her hand. Wear the clothes in front of you.
The river water was freezing cold, the woman's fingers were swollen and cracked, and her thin cheeks may have been weathered and looked a bit weathered.
"Mom, I'm so cold. How about we go back?"
Next to the woman, a child wrapped in a thick shabby coat rubbed his hands and looked at the woman eagerly, then looked at the little black dog at his feet, "Xiao Hei, are you cold?"
The little black dog is really small. It looks like it is only as big as an adult's hand. It is completely black and a little uncoordinated because... its head is even bigger than its body.
The little black dog seemed to understand the little boy's words. He raised his head, rolled his eyes like Mo, whimpered, and nodded.
The child's face lit up when he saw this: "Mom, look, Xiao Hei said it's cold, let's go back."
The woman turned back and glanced at the child lovingly: "Good boy Changqing, how can a puppy talk? Children can't lie. Mom still has one more piece of clothing. I'll go back after washing it."
"Oh fine."
The sound of banging and hammering sounded again, and except for the occasional sound of wind blowing by the river, there was no other sound. The child picked up the little black dog from the ground, secretly opened a crack in his ragged coat, and wanted to put the little black dog into his arms to keep warm.
Unexpectedly, the little black dog suddenly struggled and jumped down. It stared at the upper reaches of the backwater bay and walked back and forth on the ground. It dipped its front paws into the water several times, but then immediately retracted it. From time to time, it made vague sounds in its mouth. whining, looking very anxious.
"Xiao Hei, you can't go into the water."
The child saw the little black dog testing the waters and quickly chased after him.
"Changqing, come back!"
The woman was afraid that the child would fall into the water, so she hurriedly threw away her clothes, got up and ran after the child. As soon as she got up, her face suddenly changed and she found a figure floating down the river. Regardless of the cold water, she jumped in with a splash. in the water.
In three strokes, five divided by two, the man was dragged to the shore.
Turning around, he saw a young man in black clothes. Perhaps he had been soaked in the water for too long. The boy's skin looked swollen.
"Mom, is he dead?" The child ran back and looked at the motionless young man in black on the ground with some timidity.
The woman frowned, and used all her strength to lift the boy onto her back, and walked towards the path behind her. As she walked, she shouted to the child: "Changqing, go find Grandpa Wang and help him." .”
The Grandpa Wang the woman mentioned was actually a doctor in Taiping Village. Since he opened a medicine shop in the town when he was young, anyone in the village who had a cold or cold would usually go to him for treatment.
"Oh well."
The boy responded with a crisp response, grabbed the little black dog, crossed the woman, and ran ahead.
Taiping Village is not big, with only about 20 households. All the houses in the village are backed by Taiping Mountain and are lined up in a row from east to west. The woman's name is Zhang Qiaoyun, and the third small courtyard in the west of the village is her home.
There was only a simple fence in the yard. After the woman opened the door, she carried the young man directly to the main room. Perhaps she was very tired, so she threw the young man heavily onto the worn-out lounge chair with a thud. She placed her hands on her hips and gasped for air. .
What the woman didn't notice was that when the boy was thrown by her, another scarlet blood stain came out of the corner of his mouth.
Not long after.
An old man in sackcloth carrying a medicine box was pulled by a child and staggered into the yard. When he saw Zhang Qiaoyun standing at the door of the hall, he couldn't help but be startled: "Girl Qiaoling, are you okay?"
As soon as Xiao Changqing entered the door, he shouted to him, "Help, help!" ’, he thought something was wrong with Zhang Qiaoyun, but now he saw that the other party was fine, which made him a little confused.
