under the sea

A group of desperadoes boarded the ship in a mighty manner.

He Zexi was thrown into a room filled with an unpleasant musty smell, and Ye Lin was thrown in together with him, who was tortured until he looked like a human being.

The blood at the corner of Ye Lin's mouth had already dried up, and her face started to turn red and swollen after being slapped, but she gritted her teeth tightly and did not utter a word of pain. She lowered her head and was carefully handling the torn right leg again. The wound, the expression on the face is neither sad nor happy.

"Woooo...don't hit me, mom, the baby hurts so much, it hurts!"

Across a wooden wall, chaotic murmurs and cries of children came from the next door from time to time. In addition to the cries of children, there was a man's voice cursing in a low voice and the mother's hoarse voice defending the child.

"Don't hit him, he won't cry, please don't hit him anymore... good boy, don't cry..."

"It hurts, it hurts..."

"You son of a bitch, if you cry again, I'll throw you into the sea to feed the sharks..."

As the sound of pattering footsteps faded away, the noise from next door died down, and the man left, leaving only the soft sobbing of the child and mother and the comforting words of the women.

He Zexi's eyes darkened, and there were indeed a bunch of innocent people imprisoned on this boat.

"The ones locked next door are all women, children and children kidnapped from merchant ships." Ye Lin lowered his eyes and focused on re-tying his right leg.

"Knock knock..." There were two light taps across the board, "Lin Lin? I heard your voice... Is that you? Did the group of people who suffered thousands of knives arrest someone again?"

Ye Lin responded with a wry smile, "Ah Wang, I'm sorry. I promised to bring someone back to save you, but..."

"Oh, I'm sorry, you've tried your best, we are all very grateful to you, and, for us. You have paid a lot..."

There was a long sigh over there, and the atmosphere became silent.

He Zexi raised his head and looked at Ye Lin. After a moment of silence, he asked, "How many people are there next door?"

Ye Lin twitched the corners of her mouth. The pain in the corners of her mouth made her frown. She hissed lightly, and then smiled at He Zexi, "Including the life in the pregnant woman's belly, there are 56 people in total. .”

"All the men were thrown into the sea with their hands and feet cut off, and all the old people, women, and children left behind were harmless." Ye Lin's eyes flashed with deep hatred and ridicule, and he continued: "They are all locked up in the sea. In a crowded small house, as meat tickets, waiting for their families on the shore to pay a lot of money to redeem them."

He Zexi thought for a moment, "Will their family members come to rescue them?"

Ye Lin sighed softly, leaning his head back against the wall with his head closed and his eyes closed, "Some will come, some won't. If no one buys them back, the pirates will throw them directly into the sea and leave them to fend for themselves. You You know, ordinary people are thrown into this vast ocean, and there is only one end to die, let alone these powerless women and children."

Is there only a dead end?

Hearing Ye Lin's words, He Zexi thought of the fact that she was able to survive at sea. The most surprising thing was her ability to survive in the wild beyond ordinary people - digging wood to make fire, disinfecting dirty water... Thinking of this, He Zexi's eyes couldn't help falling on Ye Lin, and he took another look.

Her figure is undoubtedly very good, with a slender waist and long legs, tight and smooth muscle lines, and occasional small scars on her body, perhaps because of the long time since the injury, the color of these small scars has blended with the original skin color, You can't see it at all if you don't look closely.

A vague guess arose in He Zexi's heart, he looked at Ye Lin hesitantly and said, "You...are a soldier?"

Ye Lin rolled his eyelids, "It used to be."

"Are you really human?" Ye Lin opened her eyes again, she sat up straight, and looked at He Zexi, her dark eyes filled with inquiry and confusion, "Why were you arrested, that... Well... you're not supposed to be afraid of them at all."

It was a half-concealed sentence, but He Zexi could understand what she wanted to express.

He Zexi knew that Ye Lin was still quite vigilant towards him.Because until now, she didn't take the initiative to help him untie the rope that bound his hands and feet, she was afraid that he would hurt her.

But it doesn't matter to He Zexi, if he wants, he can make Hua Zhi into a human shape to help him untie the knot at any time.

He Zexi didn't explain too much, he glanced at Ye Lin, and said calmly, "I just want to save people."

Ye Lin was about to say something else, but at this moment, there was the sound of pattering footsteps outside the door, He Zexi and Ye Lin looked at each other and shut their mouths tacitly.

The locked door was opened from the outside, and a young man with a scar came in carrying water and food.

There was a smile on his face, and the food in his hand was rice, some canned fish and cooked food, and there was even a small plate of green vegetables, which was a privilege that even a pirate could hardly enjoy.

He locked the door again, and then put the food in his hand on the table, and walked up to He Zexi to untie the ropes that bound his hands and feet.

He grinned, and put on a gentle look towards He Zexi, "You're starving, you have to eat obediently."

He Zexi moved his numb wrists and stood up without saying a word. He nodded obediently, and his eyes fell on the food on the table.

Seeing that He Zexi was so obedient, the helmsman smiled even wider.He turned his head, stared fiercely at Ye Lin who was leaning against the wall, and spat hard, "I don't know how to flatter you."

"Get a good night's sleep later, don't think about running away, there's nothing wrong with eating and drinking hot food with us."

The helmsman left, and the door was slammed shut and locked again.

As soon as the helmsman left, He Zexi sat down at the table on his back.

"Ye Lin, do you want to eat?"

"Not hungry."

After finishing speaking, Ye Lin looked at He Zexi who was sitting upright at the dinner table with a strange expression, feeling that he could not understand his thoughts.The person who said he wanted to save people just now... gave in just because of a meal?

This is too spineless, worse than a woman like her.

He Zexi had no idea that in Ye Lin's heart, he had become a soft man who surrendered for his love.He only knew that he hadn't eaten a normal meal for a long time, and he almost forgot the feeling of cooked food in his mouth.

After taking a bowl of water on the table, He Zexi took a sip, and then put the flower branch in his pocket into the water.

Huazhi had a cold face, lying on her back in the water bowl, feeling extremely upset, [He told you to be good. ]

"No, you heard it wrong, he told me to eat obediently." He Zexi picked up the chopsticks and fed a mouthful of rice, and frowned slightly when he tasted the rice.

Why do you feel that the taste of this rice is a bit strange.

Seeing He Zexi defending the ugly man with scars in a serious manner, Hua Zhi was furious, "Then why do you still listen to him?"

"You can also tell me to eat obediently, and I will listen to you." He Zexi took another chopstick of vegetables and fed them into his mouth, his brows still furrowed.

The taste of green vegetables is also strange.

[...He Zexi, you scumbag. ]

Huazhi suffocated her stomach with grievances and finished the sentence viciously, buried her whole body in the water bowl, sprayed out a ball of ink to muddy the water, he didn't really want to see He Zexi's face for the time being.

He Zexi tasted it twice, then simply dropped his chopsticks.He gave Ye Lin a strange look, and thought to himself that it's no wonder she didn't eat... This food is simply unbearable.

Ye Lin felt a little confused. He Zexi, who was eating happily while talking to himself, suddenly put down his chopsticks and stopped eating, and looked at her with a very incomprehensible look.

What's wrong with her, is there any inexplicable behavior of her?In contrast, He Zexi himself is even more weird, right? !Talking to himself and kissing monsters!

Thinking of this, Ye Lin met He Zexi's eyes without fear, and both of them stared at each other with a look that was hard to describe.

Five minutes later, Ye Lin couldn't take it any longer, she asked He Zexi, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

He Zexi withdrew his meaningful gaze, "It's nothing."

Ye Lin: "..." Crazy? !

On the table, in the big bowl where the flower branch was sitting, the originally clear and sweet water turned into a black patch. He Zexi tried to pick up the angry flower branch with his chopsticks, but he slipped away when he caught it.

"Hua Zhi, do you want to save someone?"

[......]

Ignore him.

He Zexi put down his chopsticks, looked at the water bowl full of ink expressionlessly for a while, and then began to roll up his sleeves.

Three seconds later, the flower branch was completely pinched in his hands.

The whole squid was exposed to the air. After staring at each other for a while, Huazhi finally came to his senses, suppressing his anger and said, "He Zexi, you bastard, quickly let me go."

"Who's talking!" Ye Lin was startled by the sudden deep male voice, looked in He Zexi's direction, and saw the milky white flame squid in He Zexi's hand.

Ye Lin was stunned, his eyes fell on the beautiful little squid on He Zexi's fingertips, and he said with some uncertainty: "I saw this white flame squid in the sea when I was catching oysters. Just now...he was in, talking?"

Hearing Ye Lin's words, Hua Zhi gave her a disdainful look, snorted coldly, and didn't want to answer.

He Zexi still hated Ye Lin for not reminding him that the food was hard to swallow, so he slowly turned his head, and shook his hand holding the flower branch towards Ye Lin, showing a nasty smile, "Yes, you have not only seen it, You are still quite frightened by him."

Ye Lin was a little confused at first, but then suddenly remembered the sea monster that collapsed his world view and frightened him almost to death, and then realized the meaning of He Zexi's words, and his face turned pale in an instant.

He Zexi retracted the flower branch, thinking in his heart: Hehehe...

Being used by He Zexi to play a prank, Huazhi's mood became even worse. He turned his head and said with a wooden face, "Put me down."