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Chapter 2 Ghost Ship

After asking the question, Zuo Qingcang let go of the palm of his right hand slightly and heard the man holding on and saying, "There are all our people on the boat, you can't escape."

Zuo Qingcang looked at him coldly, squeezed his mouth tightly with his right hand again, and then the two fingers of his left hand rolled violently at the other party's wound.

The man's whole body bent up, and the blue veins on his forehead swelled up, but Zuo Qingcang pinched his mouth tightly with his right hand, pressed it to the ground, and let out a low growl.

"I asked one last time, where is the antidote?"

The man reached into his belt with his right hand, took out a small bottle from it, and placed it in front of Zuo Qingcang. Zuo Qingcang said lightly: "You eat it yourself, I'll eat it again after seeing that it's okay."

Seeing that the other party took the antidote without hesitation, Zuo Qingcang nodded and slowly let go of his right and left hand. But just as the man breathed a sigh of relief, Zuo Qingcang's two fists suddenly slapped heavily on his temples. He couldn't make any effort, and he stopped breathing completely after three seconds.

Zuo Qingcang picked up the small bottle that the other party had used to hold the antidote and took all the antidotes in one breath.

From the sudden attack to the antidote, there are many possible errors and mistakes in it, but Zuo Qingcang can no longer think so much now, because his current situation is too dangerous. When the lower body is paralyzed, if the other party is careful, he will undoubtedly die.

After taking the antidote, Zuo Qingcang felt a cool feeling coming from his waist, as if the antidote was working, but instead of waiting quietly for the antidote to work, he began to transport the body.

During the transportation process, he searched the man's body and found a dagger from the other party's ankle. Then a look of confusion suddenly appeared in his eyes. He touched the other party's leather armor, the axe on his waist, the necklace on his neck, and the strange hair accessories.

‘No… This man doesn’t seem to be a soldier on the ship.’

A trace of enlightenment flashed through Zuo Qingcang's mind: "Is it not the one who attacked me that was Prince Yu?" He originally thought that Cao Sheng sent someone to kill Liu Zhicheng on the boat. At that time, the sea was vast and it would be normal for a person to die if he was sick or something.

But now when touching the other person's equipment, I feel that things don't seem that simple.

He remembered the other person just said: 'There are all our people on the boat, you can't escape.'

Zuo Qingcang frowned. In the darkness, he moved the body to the boat where he was originally lying, then covered it with a blanket, and looked as if he was still sleeping. As for himself, he slowly climbed behind the door and waited quietly there with an axe and a dagger.

A few minutes later, two noisy sounds came over.

"What's wrong with Lao Song? I haven't come after I've been there for so long."

"Damn it, could you find some treasure? This is the same as officers."

Two consecutive footsteps came from outside. When the two of them checked the third room, they walked into Zuo Qingcang's room. There was no candlelight, only the dim light from outside the room. The two of them were attracted by the corpse on the boat at a glance.

A man waved his hand, slowly pulled out the axe from his belt behind him, and walked towards the corpse on the boat with his hands and feet. Another man also drew out the axe and followed him step by step.

The leader walked to the bedside and suddenly quickly lifted the blanket. When he saw the corpse on the bed, his face showed a look of surprise, but before he could carefully distinguish the corpse in front of him, he felt a sharp pain on his neck, his face was stunned, and he had already fallen toward the bed.

A dagger was being inserted into his neck, and blood gushed out of his arteries.

The other man immediately turned around, but saw Zuo Qingcang, who had thrown the dagger, throwing the axe in his hand again, and the flying axe directly hit the second man's face. The other party screamed and fell down.

The whole set of movements was clean and neat, and the two attackers died instantly. Zuo Qingcang immediately stood up, his legs still a little sore, but he could barely act. Obviously, the antidote had worked again

He quickly dragged the body to the door and identified it with the firelight in the corridor. When he saw the deceased's bald head, tattoos, and brown eyes, his eyes immediately showed a solemn look.

‘Is it a pirate?’

‘But how dare the pirates attack the Daqi fleet?’

You should know that this time, Daqi sent more than 20 fleets to the New World, with an estimated number of more than 10,000 crew members and soldiers. He could hardly imagine what kind of pirates would dare to eat such a fleet. There were also heroes who used medicines from the other party. This kind of potion officially configured by Daqi made Zuo Qingcang smell the smell of conspiracy.

But obviously it is because of this that they carry the antidote with them because they are afraid that they will be poisoned too.

But he suddenly thought that when the first pirate attacked him, he once said the word "Liu". This was a bit strange. If it were just a pirate, how could he know Liu Zhicheng? Or was he not talking about Liu, but other homophones?

But the pirates obviously drugged all the soldiers on the ship. They touched them in and should have been sneak attacks. Why did they talk to Liu Zhicheng?

There were too few clues, so Zuo Qingcang couldn't think of a result, so he didn't continue to entangle. Instead, he picked up the dagger and axe on the body, wiped the blood with the other party's clothes, and then inserted the dagger into his trouser bag, and walked out of the room with the axe.

Zuo Qingcang looked a little special when walking. His whole body was half-squatting like a cat, his back was bent, and he seemed to be able to eject force at any time. His heels did not touch the ground, and he always looked an inch from the ground. He only touched the ground with his toes, so that he could immediately dodge forward, backward, left and right when facing any emergencies.

Walking out the door, there was only dim candlelight in the corridor. Zuo Qingcang quietly entered the two rooms next to him and found that the officers had been killed and the bodies were stripped naked and thrown on the floor. It seemed that the pirates had taken away their things.

He then walked down one by one, and the situation in front of him became even more strange.

There was no shouting, no pirates, there was nothing in the empty corridor, only the creaking sound of the door turning. The whole ship seemed to have turned into a ghost ship.

Zuo Qingcang walked slowly towards the deck, and everyone passed by the cabins all the way was gone. He could even see half of the food, the falling clothes and weapons. It seemed that they were walking in a hurry, as if they had encountered something suddenly disaster.

Suddenly, a wet ball of liquid fell on Zuo Qingcang's neck. He quickly turned around and placed the axe in front of him, but there was nothing in front of him.

A ticking sound rang in my ears.

Zuo Qingcang touched the back of his neck with his left hand and saw a ball of bright red liquid appearing on his fingers.

‘Is it blood?’ Zuo Qingcang looked up and found that there were several holes on the ceiling. Bright red blood was falling from the holes and falling on the floor, making a ticking sound.

Zuo Qingcang narrowed his eyes and rushed to the stairs with an axe. For some reason, he felt a feeling that was getting worse and worse.

Walking along the end of the stairs, Zuo Qingcang carefully pushed open the door panel on the deck with his left hand and looked out through the gap. But as soon as he pushed a little bit, he saw an eye passing through the crack of the door, looking at him with resentment.

Zuo Qingcang frowned, but he didn't even shake his hands. He continued to push the door panel open and saw a corpse of a soldier in the Great Qi lying on the deck, heading towards the door panel, and his face was full of viciousness.

Zuo Qingcang carefully observed the corpse and saw that the other party's neck was twisted off. Apart from that, there was no other injury on his body.

Then he looked up and saw that the deck was occupied by the corpses of the soldiers of the Great Qi Dynasty. The corpses were piled together, and the plasma spread throughout the deck, causing the pungent smell of blood to rush into Zuo Qingcang's nose.

Walking on the deck, Zuo Qingcang looked around the corpse and found no pirate's weapons or corpses. He opened several corpses in succession, and could see a terrifying scar appearing on the soldier's neck, and his flesh and blood were rolled out.

‘Did everyone on the ship be drugged, and then the pirates came up and cut their necks?’

‘In this case, it is obvious that there is a traitor on the ship.’

But except for the corpses of the soldiers of the Great Qi Dynasty, he could never see a pirate, as if those pirates had never appeared from beginning to end. And near the ship where he was, the entire fleet floated quietly on the sea, and there was no sound except the stars of fire.

‘Are the pirates gone?’

‘But so many ships are a huge fortune in themselves, why didn’t they drive away a few? And the supplies on the ships, they also stayed there.’

‘Did they just come here to kill people, and leave after killing them?’

‘But how could they retreat so quickly?’

Zuo Qingcang stood on the edge of the ship, and the dark sea around him wanted to have a big mouth that swallowed everything. Except for Daqi's fleet, he could never see any other ships. It was as if the pirates attacking the fleet had evaporated out of thin air.

‘Unreasonable, the whole thing is too unreasonable.’

The strange situation in front of him made Zuo Qingcang feel a little confused, just like the three pirates he had just seen were phantoms. He could only continue to check the bodies on the deck, a total of 232 people, and except him, no one on the entire ship survived.

And now in this vast sea, Zuo Qingcang alone could not control the ship. He was trapped in a cage on the sea and was accompanied by these corpses.

‘First of all, we need to collect dry food and fresh water, find the chart, and also find out if there is a navigation log.’

‘I can’t drive such a large ancient ship alone, and if I leave, I can only drive a small boat.’

The more he thought about it, the less optimistic the expression on Zuo Qingcang's face was. It was really a matter of fate to sail alone on the vast sea. But he had no choice.
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