After asking the question, Zuo Qingcang loosened his grip on the man's right hand. The man said, "Everyone on this ship is ours. You can't run away."
Zuo Qingcang looked at him coldly. His right hand once again clamped down on the man's mouth tightly. Then, he used two fingers of his left hand to rub the man's wound violently.
The man's entire body was bent over, and the veins on his forehead were bulging. However, Zuo Qingcang was still clamping down on his mouth with his right hand and pressing him to the ground. He let out a series of low growls.
"I'll ask you one last time. Where's the antidote?"
The man reached into his belt with his right hand and took out a small bottle. He placed it in front of Zuo Qingcang. Zuo Qingcang said calmly, "Eat it yourself. I'll eat it when I'm sure it's fine."
Seeing that the man had swallowed the antidote without hesitation, Zuo Qingcang nodded and slowly loosened his grip on his right hand and left hand. However, just as the man was about to heave a sigh of relief, Zuo Qingcang's two fists suddenly landed heavily on his temples. He did not even have the chance to struggle. Three seconds later, he stopped breathing completely.
Zuo Qingcang picked up the small bottle that contained the antidote and swallowed the entire antidote in one go.
From the sudden attack to the consumption of the antidote, there were many areas where there might be errors and mistakes. However, Zuo Qingcang could no longer think so much. It was because his current situation was far too dangerous. In a situation where his lower body was paralyzed, if the other party was a little careless, he would definitely die.
After swallowing the antidote, Zuo Qingcang felt a cooling sensation coming from his waist. It seemed like the antidote was taking effect. However, he did not wait for the antidote to take effect. Instead, he began to move the body.
While moving the body, he searched the man's body and found a dagger near his ankle. Then, he suddenly had a look of doubt in his eyes. He touched the man's leather armor, the axe at his waist, the necklace around his neck, and the strange hair ornament.
'No … This person doesn't seem to be one of the soldiers on the ship.'
Zuo Qingcang suddenly had an epiphany. "Could it be that the people who attacked me were not Prince Yu's men?" He originally thought that Cao Sheng had sent someone over to kill Liu Zhicheng on the ship. At that time, the sea was vast, and it was normal for a person to fall sick and die.
However, after inspecting the equipment on the other party's body, Shi Feng realized that things weren't as simple as they seemed.
He recalled what the other party had just said: "Everyone on the ship is our men. You can't run away."
Zuo Qingcang frowned. In the darkness, he moved the body to the boat where he was lying and covered it with a blanket. It looked like a person was still sleeping. As for himself, he slowly crawled behind the door and waited there quietly with his axe and dagger.
A few minutes later, two noisy voices could be heard.
"What's wrong with Old Song? He's been gone for so long, and he still hasn't come back. "
"Motherf * cker, don't tell me you found some treasure? This floor is filled with military officers. "
Two consecutive footsteps could be heard from outside. When the two men checked the third room, they walked into Zuo Qingcang's room. There was no candlelight, only dim light coming from outside the room. The two men's attention was immediately attracted by the body on the ship.
One of them waved his hand and slowly drew out the axe on his waist. He then walked toward the body on the ship quietly. The other man also drew out his axe and followed closely behind him.
The man in the lead walked to the side of the bed and suddenly lifted the blanket. When he saw the body on the bed, he was astonished. However, before he could take a closer look at the body, he felt a sharp pain on his neck. He was stunned and fell onto the bed.
A dagger was stabbed into his neck, and fresh blood spurted out from his artery.
The other person immediately turned around and saw that Zuo Qingcang, who had thrown out the dagger, had already thrown out the ax in his hand once again. The flying ax smashed into the second person's face, and the other party let out an agonizing cry before collapsing.
The whole set of actions was clean and efficient, and the two attackers were killed instantly. Zuo Qingcang immediately stood up. His legs were still sore, but he could still move. Obviously, the antidote had taken effect.
He quickly dragged the body to the door and identified it with the light from the fire in the corridor. When he saw the bald head, tattoos, and brown eyes of the dead man, his eyes immediately became serious.
"Are they pirates?"
"But how dare pirates attack Da Qi State's fleet?"
This time, Da Qi State had sent more than 20 ships to the New World. In total, there were more than 10,000 crew members and soldiers. He couldn't imagine what kind of pirates would dare to attack such a fleet. Zuo Qingcang also smelled the scent of a conspiracy when the other party had drugged him. This kind of medicine, which was concocted by the Great Qi Dynasty's officials, was something that Zuo Qingcang could sense.
But obviously, because of this, they carried the antidote with them, because they were afraid that they would accidentally be poisoned.
But he suddenly remembered that when the first pirate attacked him, he had said the word "Liu." This was a little strange. If they were just pirates, how could they know Liu Zhicheng? Or maybe they didn't say "Liu," but something else with the same pronunciation?
But the pirates had obviously drugged all the soldiers on the ships. They should have sneaked in to attack, so why would they talk to Liu Zhicheng?
There were too few clues, and Zuo Qingcang couldn't figure it out. He didn't continue to pester them. Instead, he picked up the dagger and axe from the corpse, wiped the blood with the man's clothes, and put the dagger in his trouser pocket. He then walked out of the room with the axe.
The way Zuo Qingcang walked was a little special. His whole body was half-squatting like a cat, and his back was arched. It seemed that he could jump out at any time. His heels didn't touch the ground, and he was always an inch off the ground. He only touched the ground with his toes, so that he could immediately dodge in the face of any unexpected situation.
Walking out of the door, there was only dim candlelight illuminating the corridor. Zuo Qingcang quietly entered the two rooms at the side and discovered that the officers in them had all been killed. Their corpses had been stripped and thrown onto the floor. It seemed that the pirates had taken away their belongings.
He then walked down floor by floor, and the situation in front of him was even stranger.
There were no screams, no pirates, and nothing in the empty corridor. There was only the creaking sound of the door opening. The whole ship seemed to have become a ghost ship.
Zuo Qingcang walked slowly to the deck. Along the way, all the cabins were gone. He could even see half-eaten food, dropped clothes, and weapons. It seemed that they had left in a hurry, as if they had encountered a sudden disaster.
Suddenly, a lump of wet liquid fell on Zuo Qingcang's neck. He quickly turned around and held the axe in front of him, but there was nothing in front of him. There was nothing.
The sound of dripping echoed in his ears.
Zuo Qingcang touched the back of his neck with his left hand and saw a lump of bright red liquid appear on his finger.
"Is it blood?" Zuo Qingcang looked up and saw that there were a few holes in the ceiling. Bright red blood kept on dripping down from the holes, landing on the floor and letting out dripping sounds.
Zuo Qingcang narrowed his eyes and rushed to the stairs with the axe. He didn't know why, but he had a bad feeling in his heart.
Walking all the way to the end of the stairs, Zuo Qingcang carefully pushed open the door on the deck with his left hand and looked outside through the gap. But just as he pushed open the door a little, he saw an eye looking at him through the gap, full of hatred.
Zuo Qingcang frowned, but his hand didn't even tremble. He continued to push open the door and saw the corpse of a Da Qi state soldier lying on the deck. His head was facing the door, and his face was full of hatred.
Zuo Qingcang carefully observed the corpse and saw that his neck had been broken. Other than that, there were no other injuries on his body.
Zuo Qingcang then lifted his head and looked over, only to see that the deck had been taken over by the Great Qi Dynasty's soldiers' corpses. These corpses were piled up together, and blood covered the entire deck, causing a pungent bloody stench to continue gushing toward Zuo Qingcang's nose.
Strolling on the deck, Zuo Qingcang looked around the corpses. He didn't find any weapons or corpses of the pirates. He turned over a few corpses in succession and saw a terrifying wound on the soldier's neck. Flesh and blood were rolling out.
"Everyone on the ship was drugged, and then the pirates came up and cut their necks?"
"In this case, there's obviously a traitor on the ship."
But other than the corpses of the Da Qi state soldiers, he didn't see a single pirate. It was as if the pirates had never appeared from the beginning to the end. And near the ship he was on, the entire fleet floated quietly on the sea. Other than the sparks, there was no other sound.
"Have the pirates left?"
"But so many ships are a huge fortune. Why didn't they take a few of them? And the supplies on the ship, they also left them behind. "
"Could it be that they came here to kill people and left after killing them?"
"But how could they leave so quickly?"
Zuo Qingcang stood on the edge of the ship. The dark sea around him was like a big mouth that swallowed everything. Other than the fleet of the Da Qi state, he couldn't see any other ships. It was as if the pirates who attacked the fleet had evaporated into thin air.
"This doesn't make sense. The whole thing doesn't make sense."
Zuo Qingcang couldn't understand the strange situation in front of him. It was as if the three pirates he had just seen were illusions. He could only continue to check the corpses on the deck. There were a total of 232 people. Other than him, no one else on the ship was alive.
And now, in this vast sea, Zuo Qingcang couldn't control the ship alone. He was trapped in a cage on the sea with these corpses as his companions.
"First, I have to collect dry food and fresh water, find the sea map, and see if there are any logbooks.
"I can't operate such a large ancient ship alone. If I leave, I can only drive a small boat."
The more he thought about it, the more pessimistic Zuo Qingcang's expression became. Sailing alone on the vast sea was really up to fate. But there was nothing he could do.
Just as he began to check the dry food and fresh water on the ship, a loud roar suddenly came from the sea.
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