sinovels Chapter 14 Going with the flow?
Chapter 14 Going with the flow?
At this moment, Zhou Heng arrived in a hurry with several crew members, but when they reached the lower deck, they found Li Hongnian standing there alone.
"Where is Gong Chengyuan?"
Zhou Heng quickly asked.
The main purpose of killing Gong Chengyuan was to obtain the array plate that controlled the Cangyun. Otherwise, even if the Zhou family's spirit ship arrived, they could only use ropes to tow the Cangyun away, as accidents could easily happen on this treacherous and unpredictable swamp.
"He's not dead; he's hidden in the cargo hold."
Li Hongnian shook his head with a gloomy expression.
"You!" Zhou Heng exclaimed anxiously.
"Although Gong Chengyuan is not dead yet, I have obtained the array plate. With a little refinement, I can control the entire Cangyun ship."
Li Hongnian paused, then used his spiritual power to break through the mark Gong Chengyuan had left on the storage bag and retrieved the control array plate of the Cangyun.
"That's alright."
Upon seeing this, Zhou Heng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although the mission was not fully accomplished, as long as control of the Cangyun was obtained, it wouldn't matter if Gong Chengyuan was alive for the time being.
"Is there any way to activate this protective array?" Zhou Heng arrived at the cargo hold and unleashed a powerful punch.
However, the protective array surrounding the cargo hold only trembled slightly, showing no signs of breaking.
"This formation is a mid-grade first-tier protective formation. Even if we spend a day or two, we might not be able to break it."
Li Hongnian stopped Zhou Heng from making his move and then said.
"But the protective array is connected to the frost array inside the cargo hold. Once activated, the temperature inside the cargo hold will drop rapidly. Gong Chengyuan was already seriously injured. If he doesn't come out on his own within a few hours, he'll just freeze to death inside."
"In that case..." Zhou Heng pondered for a moment, then said to Li Hongnian.
"You stay here and wait for Gong Chengyuan. If he comes out, kill him immediately. Also, take the Cangyun ship and rendezvous with my Zhou family's spirit ship. The rest of you, come with me to deal with the Gong family members on the ship."
"After tonight, this demon-hunting ship will belong entirely to the Zhou family!"
"Yes, Brother Zhou!"
The other cultivators echoed their agreement; they had been eagerly anticipating it for a long time, especially after seeing Zhou Heng kill the palace steward.
You should know that the storage bags of the Gong family members are much more abundant than those of these rootless, wandering cultivators!
at the same time,
Inside the upper deck.
Chen Ye was sitting cross-legged on the bed, calmly circulating his internal energy, when a sudden jolt forced him to wake up.
"What happened?"
Chen Ye frowned slightly, opened his eyes, and got up to go to the window.
It's normal for the Cangyun to rock slightly with the waves while sailing at sea, but the swaying just now was quite abrupt.
"Wait, when did the Cangyun change its course?"
Chen Ye glanced at the stars in the sky to deduce the exact location of the Cangyun.
The problem is that the main island of the Gong family is due east, but the bow of the ship is now pointing southeast, which is obviously not the return route!
"No!" Chen Ye seemed to have realized something, and his expression suddenly changed.
However, at that moment...
"Kill them!"
"Boom boom boom!"
"Ah...no...don't!"
A fierce fight broke out suddenly, accompanied by shouts of killing. Although it was some distance from the cabin where Chen Ye lived, he could hear it clearly with the strength of his five senses!
"Something's happened!"
Chen Ye's heart sank. Recalling the unusual behavior of the crew members who had been wandering around the ship for the past two days, and the sudden outbreak of fighting in the middle of the night, he could almost conclude that the crew members on the ship had already rebelled!
And the fighting intensified, with quite a few crew members causing trouble!
What should I do?
They cowered in their rooms, waiting for the captain and steward to quell the chaos.
No, no.
The image of Li Hongnian whispering with a group of rogue cultivators during the day flashed through Chen Ye's mind, and he decisively abandoned the idea.
If it really was the work of rogue cultivators, then it must have been orchestrated by Li Hongnian. Gong Chengyuan and Gong Lin were both seriously injured, and they had probably already fallen victim to Li Hongnian's treachery.
When the rebellious cultivators arrive at this cabin, will Chen Ye fight to the death, or will he join them?
Fight to the death? Chen Ye didn't want to die.
To join forces with them? Those rogue cultivators would probably never accept him!
After all, Chen Ye was a member of the Gong family outside the clan who was bestowed with magical artifacts by Gong Chengyuan. In the eyes of the rogue cultivators, he was probably already a "loyal dog" of the Gong family!
"Damn it! This is forcing me into a corner!"
Chen Ye gritted his teeth and took out the Water-Splitting Thorn from his storage bag. Since he couldn't stay out of it, he might as well join the fray and at least kill a few more troublesome rogue cultivators while things were in chaos.
.........
Click!
With a flash of light, a member of the family was beheaded, and crimson blood spurted into the air, filling the room with a nauseating stench of blood.
"Damn it, didn't you look down on us rogue cultivators?"
The burly rogue cultivator, wielding a blood-red broadsword, kicked the headless corpse to the ground and then stomped on it several times.
"Just a few days ago you were making me clean the deck, why aren't you saying anything now? Huh? Hahaha!"
The burly rogue cultivator laughed maniacally, trampling the master cultivator under his feet, greatly satisfying his twisted inner desires.
"Alright, we've almost finished clearing out the Gong family members on this level. Take the two of you to the upper cabin to see if there are any survivors, and while you're at it, take care of that guy named Chen Ye."
Zhou Heng walked into the room and frowned upon seeing this scene, but didn't say anything.
These rogue cultivators are truly useless. They just kill people, why all the fuss? But we still need them for now, once my Zhou family's spirit ship arrives…
"Hehe, don't worry, Brother Zhou. With the magical artifact you bestowed upon us, dealing with that Chen fellow will be a piece of cake!"
The burly rogue cultivator grinned as he took the storage bag from the Gong family member, then called over two people and headed straight for the upper cabin with the blood-red broadsword.
"A bunch of opportunistic bastards..."
Zhou Heng's face was full of disdain, but he forgot that if it weren't for these opportunistic rogue cultivators, it wouldn't have been so easy for him and Li Hongnian to take down Cangyun.
Upper deck.
Chen Ye, gripping the water-splitting dagger, cautiously pushed open the door.
The corridor was silent, as if the fighting in the other cabins had not reached here.
But the truth is that most of the Gong family members who lived on this floor died on the day of the whale hunt, so there were hardly any people living there, and Zhou Heng naturally wouldn't clean it up first.
Chen Ye tried his best not to make any noise as he carefully made his way up the stairs. As he passed a cabin, he heard suppressed sobs coming from inside.
It's likely that the Gong family members sensed something was wrong and hid here in fear.
"What a waste! Your family's ship is about to be stolen, and you still care about your own life?"
Chen Ye couldn't help but complain in his heart, and just then, a series of chaotic footsteps suddenly came from the stairs.
Chen Ye's expression shifted, and he quickly lowered his body, hiding in the shadows at the corner of the corridor.