HCB Chapter 610: Rebirth and Death
Chapter 610: Rebirth and Death
This is a depth charge...
Zhou Chang had just finished half of his thought when he was knocked into the water by a huge wave. His eyes went black and he lost consciousness.
Maybe only half a second had passed, or maybe ten thousand years. When Zhou Chang floated to the surface again, he was held up by the skinny monkey.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Zhou Chang coughed violently as the cold river water rushed into his mouth and nose.
The skinny monkey held the person with one hand and rowed towards Yuan Qi's painting boat with the other. His fat body seemed bloated on normal days, but now he was like a fish swimming in the water, swimming effortlessly.
Zhou Chang took two breaths. Although his hands and feet were powerless, he still struggled towards Yuan Qi.
Before he could even flutter his feet, someone grabbed him from behind again.
"Ah..." Zhou Chang was shocked.
“Don’t be afraid, Your Majesty…” The skinny monkey pulled back his hand and shouted behind him, “Wu Hong, Wu Hong…”
There was no answer from Wu Hong, but instead there were sounds of weapons clashing and shouts of fighting all around.
Just when Zhou Chang felt that he was being dragged into the river again, his feet suddenly loosened.
Before he could think of much else, the painted boat was already within reach. Yuan Qi stretched out his hand again on the boat: "Give it to me quickly."
The skinny monkey held onto the side of the boat with one hand and lifted her body up with the other.
Zhou Chang seemed to have used up all his strength when he raised his arms, but his body just kept sinking down without any control.
The boatman also put down his oars and helped pull people up.
Zhou Chang used his hands and feet and exerted all his strength to be pulled onto the pleasure boat.
After turning over to make room, Yuan Qi and the boatman went to pull the skinny monkey again.
At this moment, several rockets shot towards this side, and the skinny monkey shrank his head and quickly hid back in the water.
"Be careful..." Zhou Chang's body reacted faster than his brain and he pulled Yuan Qi down. "You shouldn't get on this boat. It's safer on the pleasure boat."
Before he could finish his words, the boatman in front of the two of them was shot by an arrow and fell off the boat with a plop.
Just as the painted boat lost its boatman, a black-sailed boat rammed into it sideways.
"Monkey, monkey..." Zhou Chang nearly fell into the water. In desperation, he had no choice but to hold on to the side of the boat and look for the skinny monkey.
Yuan Qi also shouted from the other side: "Uncle Li, Uncle Li..."
There was no one to be found on either side, and the painted boat was being pushed by the river current to an unknown direction.
Another black-sailed boat was catching up, but Wu Hong, who had fallen into the water just now, had disappeared.
Yuan Qi had no choice but to ask for help from another pleasure boat: "Yuan Liang, this way..."
Zhou Chang looked over and found that the pleasure boat had also caught fire. However, there were two people on another pleasure boat not far away rowing towards this side.
"Your Highness..." At this time, the skinny monkey's voice was heard.
Zhou Chang hurriedly searched in the moonlight and firelight on the river. He finally found the monkey, but the skinny monkey was already several feet away.
The boatman and the oars were gone, so Zhou Chang could only shout desperately: "Monkey, here... Monkey..."
The skinny monkey quickly found the direction and swam downstream to catch up.
Zhou Chang and Yuan Qi grabbed the skinny monkey's arms respectively and tried their best to pull him up.
However, the skinny monkey was too heavy, and the two men couldn't pull him up even with their combined efforts.
Another wave of rockets shot over and landed on the surrounding water.
Suddenly, it seemed that many people shouted in unison from the direction of the official ship in the distance.
Zhou Chang looked up and saw that the main ship was already on fire, followed by a strong wind with thick smoke.
"Oh... No..." The strong wind and huge waves hit again, and the pleasure boat shook violently. Yuan Qi was forced to let go and fell to the other side.
Zhou Chang held onto the skinny monkey with one hand and clung to the boat with the other, not caring about Yuan Qi.
"Your Majesty, let go..." the skinny monkey shouted, "The boat will be capsized."
Zhou Chang didn't think too much about it and turned to look for Yuan Qi: "Are you okay?"
"No...ah..." The boat was unstable, and Yuan Qi bumped into Zhou Chang's back as he stood up, and then fell into the water again.
"Yuan Qi..." Zhou Chang was shocked.
The skinny monkey didn't dare to let go, and Yuan Qi was unable to rescue him. He lost his balance and almost fell into the water again.
After Yuan Qi fell into the water, he quickly floated up by himself.
Zhou Chang breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out his other hand to pull Yuan Qi.
"Your Highness, be careful..." the skinny monkey suddenly shouted.
As Zhou Chang could see from peripheral vision, he saw a black-sailed boat approaching rapidly, and a bandit in black clothes was about to pounce with a knife in his hand.
"Your Highness, let go..." The skinny monkey broke free and tried to counterattack the black-clad pirate.
The black-clad bandit flew into the air and chopped at him with his knife...
Zhou Chang had no way to avoid it and could not move.
"Whoosh——" sound.
A cold light flashed.
A steel knife flew over and the black-clad bandit was stabbed and fell into the water.
Zhou Chang turned his head and saw that Gao Yuan was already standing on a sampan and was heading towards this side.
Before he could rejoice that he had escaped another disaster, a wave came and the painted boat drifted away again, and the skinny monkey was about to fall behind.
Not far away, Yuan Liang's pleasure boat was rowing over to rescue Yuan Qi.
On that painted boat, there was also Liu E, who was reaching out her hand to Yuan Qi.
Seeing that Yuan Qi was fine, Zhou Chang leaned forward again to pull the skinny monkey. Before the skinny monkey could swim over, another gust of wind and waves came, overturning both the man and the boat.
Zhou Chang fell into the water again, and his back was hit by the overturned hull, and he quickly sank into the water.
She had fallen into the water twice before, so this time she held her breath desperately, and waited until her body was slightly stable before she paddled upwards with her stiff hands and feet.
As soon as he showed up, he was caught.
I heard the thin monkey's cry for help: "Brother Gao, Brother Gao... come quickly, the prince has fallen into the water..."
Zhou Chang took a breath and regained her composure when she realized that the black-clad pirates on the black-sailed boat were surrounding her again, as if they were staring at her.
At this time, we didn’t know where our own people were. The more we shouted, the more black-clad bandits would be attracted.
"Here..." At the critical moment, Yuan Liang's painting boat finally approached.
Zhou Chang was pulled aboard again, followed by the skinny monkey.
Zhou Chang's entire body was frozen and her teeth were chattering. It was because the skinny guy looked better than her, probably because he had a natural protective layer of fat.
"Hurry, let's go ashore." Zhou Chang was trembling all over and could only speak clearly.
Yuan Qi immediately objected: "No, change direction. It's more dangerous to go to the shore at this time."
Zhou Chang looked towards the dock, which had already turned into a sea of fire.
It is still unknown whether these pirates on the black-sailed boats were coming for military rations and medicinal materials, or for Prince Yi.
If you insist on going to the dock at this time, you may indeed be walking into a trap.
"Yes, we have to stay away from the dock..." Just as Zhou Chang finished speaking, he found two black-sailed boats rushing towards him.
"Be careful, those pirates are coming again." The skinny monkey also noticed it at the same time and shouted to the other side, "Brother Gao, Brother Gao... this way..."
On the other side, two government sampans also caught up, and the one in the lead was Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan held the knife in one hand, and the left half of his body was stained red with blood.
Yuan Liang quickly turned the boat around and rowed in the opposite direction.
This shout enabled the black-clad pirates on the black-covered boat to confirm the location of Prince Yi and they began shooting arrows in his direction.