Ye An

Chapter 227

In the torrential rain and thunder, a team of five large ships was bypassing a dangerous shoal and entering the torrent rushing westward.

The hull is made of huge wood, and the bow is embedded with a beast-shaped ram.

This is a mark unique to Heicheng.

The fleet sailed into the river, and the shirtless sailors dragged the ropes, turned the sails, and picked up the speed with the help of the wind.In the cabin on the bottom floor, men with iron chains on their bodies stepped on the oars, driving the wooden boat to move forward faster.

Most of these men are homeless people who have been captured, and there are also a small number of citizens and residents who have offended the rich and powerful in the city.Unless a miracle happens, they will spend their entire lives in chains, doing the dirtiest and tiring work in the city, and being driven like livestock on ships.

After long-term torture, they were all skinny, and they were squeezed out of their last breath amidst the whistling of whips.

A skinny man couldn't step on a wooden oar, and was discovered by the crew with a whip.The barbed whip flew over immediately, and accompanied by piercing screams, bright red bloodstains appeared on the man's back.

"Sloth, reptile!"

"Don't be lazy!"

"No matter how lazy you are, everyone will have nothing to eat!"

These men do the heaviest labor on board, but they can only eat one meal a day, which is cakes as hard as rocks and steamed buns with green hairs.Occasionally a piece of roast or bacon was available, mostly spoiled and inedible.

Even so, men are particularly eager.

They need this food, even if there is only one meal a day, even if the portion is pitifully small, even if it is something that the crew would never touch, it is the only hope for them to survive.

The man who was whipped wailed, and the bloodstains on his body were piled up one after another. He was originally as thin as a skeleton, but in a blink of an eye it became bloody and bloody, making him look even more pitiful and terrifying.

The man's breathing became weaker and weaker, but the crew still did not intend to stop.

There were many coolies like men on the ship, and the captain would not care about one or two dead, let alone reprimand him.

With confidence in their hearts, the crew members were even more unscrupulous. Even though the man begged in pain, he still didn't intend to stop. It seemed that he wanted to beat him to death.

The same enslaved person's face was numb, and he didn't even look at his screaming companion, and continued to step on the wooden oar mechanically, working harder than before, lest the whip would fall on him.

Complacent expressions appeared on the faces of the crew, excited by the blood and the man's screams, and the whips were swung harder.

Finally, the man stopped making a sound, and collapsed motionless at the crew's feet.

His body was covered in blood, his hands and feet were twisted unnaturally, his chest didn't heave at all, but his eyes were wide open, with protruding eyeballs, and the cruel faces of the crew were deeply imprinted inside.

"Dead?" The crew kicked the man who fell on the ground, because the upper of the shoe was stained with blood, and trampled on the man's feet.The sound of bone breaking sounded in the cabin, accompanied by the creaking sound of the oars, which was weird and terrifying.

There was a sound from the wooden ladder behind him, and the crew turned their heads to see two other crew members walking down the wooden ladder one after the other, bending over through the wooden door, and entering the slightly dark cabin full of unpleasant smells.

"What's the smell." A crew member covered his nose and complained.

The other waved his hand twice, pointed at the man who fell on the ground, and said, "Bamp, why did you kill another one?"

"This guy is lazy, these slobs must use a whip, otherwise they won't work hard." Bamp didn't care, shook off the blood on the whip, hung it on the wall, and said to the two, "Come here at this time What's the matter?"

Banpu would have this question before it was time to change shifts.

"The captain caught a carrier pigeon. Those cunning guys in Rock City set off first. They have already arrived near Hunter City and are sending news to Red City," said the crew member Richard.

"Rock City and Red City?" Banpu's expression turned ugly, "Are they contacting behind our backs?"

"That's right." Richard spat, spitting out a mouthful of thick phlegm, "Fortunately, the city lord was prepared and didn't believe the blandishments of those guys, so he dispatched the fleet in advance, otherwise the advantage would be taken by those guys. Can't get it!"

Bamp took it very seriously, thinking that the fleet might return empty-handed, he couldn't help being angry, and wanted to pick up the whip and beat people.

Seeing his plan, Jose on the side couldn't help frowning, and stretched out his arms to stop him.This move is not out of sympathy, but because I don't want to continue to reduce coolies and cause unnecessary trouble to the fleet.

"Next, hurry up and hurry, these guys are still useful." Jose said.

Bamp glared at him angrily, and Richard finally convinced him by acting as a peacemaker and mentioning the urgency of time.

"Keep you guys here first." Bamp turned around, glanced darkly at the men in the cabin one by one, and threatened, "Whoever dares not work hard, I will let him know what life is better than death! When this matter is over, I'll chop off his arms and legs and throw him in the river!"

Bamp's threat was more than words.

The skinny men did not dare to resist, and squeezed out all their strength to step on the wooden oars faster.

Bamp sneered: "A bunch of bastards!"

Richard patted him on the shoulder and told him to eat first.

"I'll watch on your behalf, take a break and come back."

Jose didn't speak, he and Bamp never got along very well.After Bamp turned and left, he bent down and grabbed the dead man's leg, dragged it to the wooden door near the corner, opened the wooden door, and threw the body down.

Behind the door is a sloping corridor leading to another cabin.

The cabin has been remodeled, and there are three vicious mutant dogs inside.They were bought from the caravan by the captain at a high price, and they were not tamed after three months of raising them.

The reason why he bought these three mutant dogs was that the captain heard that someone could tame and drive them.

The merchants who came back from the trading area said that in the last snow season, a young man with a mysterious origin drove a mutant dog across the snow field. Most of those who have been to the market have witnessed it with their own eyes.

The captain became interested and planned to give it a try.

It's a pity that the traveler kept an eye out and didn't tell him that Ye An is a mutant, not only can drive mutant dogs, but also can assimilate many kinds of mutant beasts.

These people had been at odds with the captain for a long time, and found that it was Juan who was inquiring secretly, and they all concealed the fact that Ye An had special abilities, and ordered his men to keep silent, deliberately leading Juan to a detour, making him think that the rumored dogs were all Control with medication.

In the case of the carrier pigeon, lies are easily accepted.

In addition, the Black City where Juan is located is far away from the Hunter City. None of the people from the Black City who had met Ye An in the Delta before could return alive. Even if there was news about Ye An, Juan felt that something was wrong. However, his conceited personality still made him spend a lot of money to buy three mutant dogs and raise them on the boat.

The original intention of the black city businessman was to make Juan lose face, lose a lot of wealth, and make him a laughing stock in the city.

When Juan finds out the reason, the matter will be a foregone conclusion.If he wanted to take revenge on the businessman, the other party had already relied on the dignitaries in the city, so he didn't mean to kill him, but he had to swallow it if he didn't swallow it.

If he hadn't spent a lot of money at the beginning, he would have slaughtered these three disobedient animals for meat.

Another reason why he didn't do anything was that he fed the three mutant dogs with potions.These medicines were purchased from caravans, and the ingredients were the same as those used to feed homing pigeons, but the dosage was several times larger.

The merchant who sells the medicine can't guarantee whether the medicine left in the mutated dog's body will affect the human body.To be on the safe side, Juan can only raise them first.As for food, there will always be dead people on board anyway, just throw it in.

With a bang, the man's body fell to the ground, and all the bones were broken.

In the darkness, the mutated dogs crouching in the corner stood up one after another, staring at the bloody man with green eyes, and opened their mouths full of fangs.Smelly saliva dripped from the corners of their mouths, and they roared menacingly at each other.

The next moment, the three figures jumped at the man together and began to fight fiercely.

In fact, they are not really mutant dogs, they look more like jackals.It's a pity that Juan has never seen the dog group on the isolated island, so he naturally doesn't know that they are completely different from the sled Sansha who followed Ye An.

On the other side of the corridor, Jose heard the barking of the dog, clapped his hands and straightened up, and slammed the wooden door.

Li glanced at him, without saying a word, walked to the stairs, stood against the wall, tried his best to let himself breathe fresh air and avoid the unpleasant smell in the cabin.

On the deck, the captain Juan, wearing a cloak, intercepted another carrier pigeon.

The pigeon was released by the Red City Fleet, and they hadn't heard from the Yancheng people for a long time. They couldn't sit still, and began to question the sincerity of the Yancheng people, asking if they had other plans.

Juan sneered, and wanted to hold back the news, but suddenly his eyes rolled, and someone fetched the animal skin used for communication, and rewritten the content.

"Bring up the pigeon you caught earlier."

The crew hurried back, Juan opened the cage, tied fake animal skins to the feet of the carrier pigeon, fed it a pinch of powder, and immediately released the pigeon with a toss of his hands.

Looking at the pigeons flying away in the rain, Juan's smile changed from vile to ferocious.

"If you want to get rid of Heicheng and get the benefits, dream!"

The carrier pigeons flew in the rain, struggling to avoid the predators, found the two wooden boats heading for Hunter City, folded their wings and landed.

Ye An happened to be on the deck, and the pigeon landed on the side of the ship not far from him.

Due to the long flight, the carrier pigeon looked very embarrassed, and with the effect of the medicine, there was no agility in the eyes, only gray.

Ye An stretched out his hand, and the carrier pigeon suddenly let out a cooing sound, which was shrill and piercing, and his eyes turned scarlet instantly.

Sensing the pigeon's emotions, Ye An frowned, and released his will to appease it, but still couldn't calm it down.

Suddenly thinking of something, Ye An pulled off his coat, wrapped the carrier pigeon directly, and amidst its angry calls, quickly walked across the deck into the cabin, and pushed open a wooden door on the right side of the corridor.

The cabin is separated by wooden boards to form different areas, where the civet cat mother and child and the small animals that Ye An discovered before are placed here.

After getting out of the cage and loosening the restraints on their bodies, they are still a little restless and it will take a while to recover.

A wooden frame hangs high, away from the small animals below.

The shelf was covered with soft animal skins and dry water plants, and two little pigeons lay on it, close together.The hen pigeons that lost their legs spread their wings to protect them and be wary of small animals below.

At first, Ye An didn't notice the three of them.Searching Caslo's memory twice, they found a secret room and rescued them from it.

At that time, the three pigeons were dying, and Ye An took a lot of effort to keep them alive.

Seeing a partner and child, the call of the wrapped carrier pigeon changes.

Ye An tried to loosen his coat, and the carrier pigeon immediately spread its wings and flew onto the wooden frame, combed the feathers of its partner, and touched the little pigeon with its head and beak. The movements were very careful, which was completely different from the lifeless one that landed on the side of the ship before.

Seeing the situation in front of him and connecting everything he had obtained from Caslo's memory, Ye An only felt oppressed in his chest, and rarely had the desire to destroy, and his emotions were extremely strong, even affecting the little beasts in the cabin.

Ye An closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and forced himself to calm down.

There was a sudden knock on the door behind him, Ye An turned around, and saw Xiao Yun appearing in front of the cabin door, with his finger on the door frame, his expression was puzzled, and there was also a hint of worry.