Flying Clouds in Another World

Several small boats were rowing rapidly, approaching the Qianli Express Boat at a very fast speed. It was obvious that those rowers were all martial artists, and their cultivation was at least at the cultivator level. In addition to the rowers, there were several people standing on each small boat.

At this time, the fire on the Qianli Express had been brought under control and there was no danger of it sinking, but at the same time, due to the severe damage and excessive water in the cabin, the ship could no longer sail normally and had to anchor. Many sailors and guards were exhausted from fighting the fire.

"Hmph! Want to wait for the enemy to tire themselves out? That's not that easy! Arrows coming!" Qin Cheng's eyes showed cold murderous intent. He took off the huge bow on his back. The guard next to him had already handed him a quiver.

Qin Cheng drew his bow and shot more than twenty arrows in succession in one go, without pausing at all. Suddenly, a rain of arrows covered the speeding boats.

“Ah”, “Ah”, “Ah”, “Ah”, “Ah”

As the screams continued, the speed of the small boats dropped suddenly and soon they slowly stopped.

Most of the people on the boats had been shot dead by Qin Cheng, and the rest jumped into the water. Without anyone controlling the boats, they rushed a distance due to inertia before slowly stopping. The nearest boat was several feet away from the speedboat.

For a moment, calm returned to the canal.

Seeing Qin Cheng dismantle the attackers' offensive in a blink of an eye, Liu Feiyun couldn't help but praise him, "Uncle Qin, you have great archery skills!"

Qin Cheng shook his head, still on guard, and reminded: "They are just some ghosts throwing stones to test the water. They are not even at the level of a cultivator. It is really not worth mentioning to shoot them. But, I don't know where their killer moves will be. Don't be careless, these people are most likely coming for you."

"Come for me!? I'm just a short-lived useless martial artist. Is there anyone who wants to kill me? Even if someone wants to kill me, they wouldn't use such a big fuss, right? Sending more than 20 cultivators to die just to test the waters?" Liu Feiyun was really puzzled.

Qin Cheng was about to explain something when a sailor suddenly shouted, "Oh no! There are water ghosts in the canal, and they are chipping away at the bottom of our boat!"

This Qianli Express Boat is considered one of the top ships sailing on the canal. It is for this reason that although the boat was hit by the fire ship and several large holes were burned, and a large amount of river water poured into the cabin, it still did not sink. But now, Liu Feiyun clearly felt that the boat was slowly sinking.

The boat owner looked even uglier, and said helplessly: "Looking at the speed at which the boat is sinking, it is obvious that there are at least a dozen water ghosts in the water. There is already a lot of water in the bottom of the ship, and now there are more than a dozen holes. The boat will only sink faster and faster, it seems that we can only abandon the boat. In this water, it is difficult for ordinary people to deal with those water ghosts who are very good at swimming."

Qin Cheng nodded, and the boat owner ordered the sailors to use the spare oars to drive the boat to the bank of the canal. The water surface of the canal was not too wide, and although the boat was traveling very slowly and sinking faster and faster, it finally reached the bank before sinking completely.

The water depth on both sides of the canal was naturally much shallower than in the middle, and although the water on the boat had already overflowed the side of the boat, it did not completely sink. It was just that the bottom of the boat had touched the bottom of the canal and ran aground, unable to move forward.

The person in charge of the vehicle and boat asked Qin Cheng whether he should leave some people behind to guard the vehicle and boat and seek remedies after daybreak.

Qin Cheng decisively ordered: "No need to stay behind, all people only take dry food and valuables, and escort the young master to continue northward, and wait until we reach the next branch of the Chamber of Commerce."

"But there are still a lot of valuables on this ship..." The boat owner was still a little hesitant.

Qin Cheng said firmly: "No matter how much wealth we have, it is nothing compared to the life of the young master. We must leave here quickly. I don't think the attackers have only made arrangements on the canal. We'd better leave as soon as possible!"

There were originally more than 30 sailors on the ship, plus the more than 20 guards brought by Qin Cheng, adding up to 50 to 60 people. These people were all martial artists, the lowest level was the middle stage of the apprentice realm, most of them were in the cultivator realm, there were also seven in the master realm, and the strongest was naturally Qin Cheng, who was in the master realm.

With the strength of this group of people, they were enough to crush the small sects in the general counties. However, they soon ran into trouble. A group of bandits consisting of nearly a thousand people surrounded them.

If they were fighting alone, these bandits would naturally be no match for the sailors and guards. But there were too many of them, and most of them were fearless and unafraid of death. They rushed forward and the sailors and guards soon suffered casualties.

In the end, although everyone broke out of the bandits' encirclement, eight people were killed and more than a dozen were seriously injured.

It was during this battle that Liu Feiyun first realized the cruelty and bloodiness of this alien world.

Since he started practicing martial arts, Liu Feiyun had fought with others many times, even fiercely, but he had never taken the initiative to kill anyone.

Because of his medical studies, Liu Feiyun had come into contact with dead bodies before, but those were dead bodies that had lost their lives after all. Now that he had to personally take the life of a living person, he still found it difficult to adapt.

In the chaos just now, Liu Feiyun killed a total of five people, including a strong man who looked extremely vicious, a frail old man, and one of them was a teenager. Except for the strong man, the other four were ragged and looked like beggars. If they were not holding broken swords and guns in their hands, it would be more appropriate to say that they were refugees rather than bandits.

When they broke out of the encirclement and stopped to rest, Liu Feiyun sat on the ground in a daze. The old man's sorrow and helplessness, the child's confused fear, and the strong man's bloodthirsty madness kept emerging in his mind. The screams and bloody scenes before their death made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

Seeing his pale face, Qin Cheng comforted him, "Why, you feel uncomfortable! It's okay, everyone will have a period of adaptation when they first go into battle to kill the enemy, and it will get better slowly. Yun boy, since you were born in a noble family, you will inevitably be exposed to these killings in the future, there is nothing you can do about it. You can only accept it slowly and adapt to it slowly. In this world, killing is not something you can avoid just by wanting to escape."

Liu Feiyun tried his best to calm his inner throbbing, nodded and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Qin, I'm fine! It's not like I haven't come into contact with dead people before. It's just that this is the first time I killed someone with my own hands, and the shock was a bit too great. I will slowly adjust my mentality. Although I was a weak and sickly person before, I am not one of those delicate flowers in the greenhouse that have never seen wind and rain. Don't worry!"