The boat came out through the waves and everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
“We’ve survived!”
“Zhang Chao! You’re too good! You must take us out of here alive!”
But the bumps didn’t stop, the real wind and waves were just coming at this point, and we were right in the centre of them, and after a few strokes, even these martial arts masters couldn’t take it anymore, and couldn’t even say the words to my a*s, they were all vomiting all over the place.
“Moon full bow, you take the helm.” I said.
Moon Man Bow was surprised, and so were the rest of them.
“The radar is down and I have to climb up on the lookout to watch the waves or we’ll get tipped over sooner or later, and you’re the only one here with any stamina left to steer.”
“You’re crazy! You’re going to die!” Moon Fullbow roared, staring at the black eye that had been punched out.
“Or the whole of us on the boat will die, don’t worry, I’ve been through more ghostly gates than you’ve been to more tourist attractions.” I said, “The boat keeps going at full speed, you can hear my whistle, two for a left turn, three for a right. We’ll talk about our feud when we get off the boat, we’re men and now we’re responsible for the lives of a boatload of people.”
“You’re really mad, don’t be a hero!” Moon Fullbow grabbed my elbow, the boy surprisingly looked quite anxious.
I laughed, “What do you mean I’m a hero? I’m already a hero. Come on, who made me a special forces soldier and you guys are the people, you have to be protected.”
“You’ve retired from the army!”
I put on my rain boots and laughed, “I can’t retire, the soul is always there.”
Ignoring the obstruction, I dug out of the captain’s room, and as soon as I was outside I regretted it a little.
Sh*t, let me play the fool, this is stupid, this is scarier out there than any battlefield I’ve ever experienced, I gritted my teeth, I had bragged about myself, even if I had to finish on my knees, besides, I couldn’t disgrace the Snow Leopard.
The lookout was just above the captain’s cabin, a dozen-metre steel column stretched out, about seven or eight metres high, with a platform for people to stand on.
I grabbed the handle and started to climb up, the boat was going up and down, the waves were beating me around and if I was not careful I would fall overboard and lose my life.
I commanded the full moon bow to steer with a whistle. The storm lasted for two hours and I was in awe of the tenacity of our boat. The boat battled the wind and waves until two hours later when the clouds cleared, the moon appeared in the sky and the sea gradually returned to calm.
By the time I came down from the mast, my hands and feet were frozen stiff and I collapsed on the deck unable to move a muscle.
“Old man, I haven’t disgraced the snow leopard.” The sea rocked the boat gently as I murmured to myself, my spirit unable to support me and wanting nothing more than to get some sleep.
At the last moment when I was about to fall asleep, a pistol, blackened to the muzzle, was aimed at my forehead.
“Say, where is Mount Thoughtless?” Jiang Ming.
“Chao, I… I… I didn’t want to.”
I opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was Jiang Ming, and then beside him, the unlucky looking Lin Kang.
Lin Kang was crying, covering his belly, and had two black circles under his face, so he should have been beaten up.
“I don’t know anything about Thoughtless Mountain.” I said, “Search me and see if I have any on me.”
“Zhang Chao you are even more cunning than your father. You’re still trying to weasel your way out, aren’t you? Lin Kang said that he saw you let a man go first and you handed him a scroll-like object. Where is he? If you don’t tell me, prepare to go down to the fish.”
Damn, this Lin Kang, I’ve long said that if there are piggy teammates in the world, then Lin Kang must be the most piggy kind.
I gave Lin Kang a fierce glare, I should have known better than to save this grandson, he shrunk his head and dared not look at me, stammering, “Chao, you, you shouldn’t have taken someone’s things either.”
I couldn’t hide it anymore. I had counted on everything, but I hadn’t counted on this grandson of Lin Kang’s seeing it.
But Jiang Ming didn’t seem to have found Old Mo yet.
With my heart in my mouth, I said, “I didn’t take it! If I did, how dare I teach such an important thing to others? Besides, even if I took it, it’s only natural, it’s my mother’s stuff. You’re just a stinking loser who was dumped by my mother, don’t come back to me.”
These words did not suppress a slap in Jiang Ming’s face, Jiang Ming’s face was as ugly as it could be and he was about to pull the trigger without saying a word.
“Stop.”
I didn’t even see the action, I just felt a gust of wind and then Jiang Ming’s pistol was no longer in his hand.
I was half dead from exhaustion and struggled to get up from the ground. The person standing between me and Jiang Ming was no other than Jiang Ming’s second uncle, Jiang Yunqing.
Jiang Yunqing was dressed like a Taoist priest and looked a little younger than Jiang Ming. All of us were in a mess, with bruises and bruises on our faces from the storm, but Jiang Yunqing didn’t even have his hair messed up.
Jiang Yunqing threw the gun far into the sea and said nothing, as if he had come not to stop Jiang Ming from killing me, but to pick up a piece of rubbish and throw it into the sea.
“Second Uncle!” Jiang Ming shouted urgently when he saw that Jiang Yunqing had left him where he was.
Jiang Yunqing said in a light-hearted manner, “You have to learn some lessons as you have repeatedly failed to change your ways.”
I didn’t understand what he meant by that then, but I saw Jiang Ming’s ugly face and then Liu Ruyi and the others jumped down from a high place with their men and surrounded him.
Moon Man Bow helped me up first and said in a deep voice, “Thank you for saving us.”
A large man with a bearded face called Guan Lang, who had a brash personality, said aloud, “Little brother, you saved us all, a great favour is hard to repay, whoever makes an enemy of you in the future in the jianghu is our enemy!”
They surrounded Jiang Ming, who panicked, “You guys, what do you want? Don’t mess around.”
Guan Lang rubbed his fist and he smiled, “I just want to help you loosen up.”
“Ah!”
Guan Lang threw a fist straight at Jiang Ming’s face, who let out a scream of pain as a dozen men surrounded him, punching and kicking him, taking out all the anger he had just suffered in the storm on his body.
I let out a tsk, “No one is going to get killed with this beating, are they?”
Moon Full Bow said, “No. Jiang Yunqing is just asking everyone to teach Jiang Ming a lesson, if they really want to touch his life, Jiang Yunqing won’t just sit back and do nothing, the Jiang family is known to be protective of their shortcomings.”
I shook my head and lamented, “That’s a damn shame.”
“Hmm?” Yue Man Gong looked at me in confusion.
Instead, my eyes went to a figure next to me who was trying to escape.
While no one was looking, Rincon crept up and tried to slip away.
“Where’s it going?” I asked as I braced my palm against the wall of the boat, blocking his path.
Rincon was busy turning around to try to slip, and turned to bump into Moon Fullbow, who had his arms over his chest and was blocking the way.
“Brother, I, I was wrong ……”
He had to turn back and beg me, and I punched him in the face right in front of his face.
Lin Kang let out an ouch, he saw the slim figure of Yue Man Gong and looked a bit better to mess with, so he tried to bump off Yue Man Gong, but he was slapped back by Yue Man Gong.
