As Yin Xiu expected, in the early morning, after their carriage drove onto the wide deck of the steamship, those who had been following them followed closely.
At this time, there was no shelter from the trees, so those people hid among the passengers boarding the boat, or simply stayed close to other vehicles to avoid the sight of Yin Xiu and others.
"These guys don't want to fight us at this time." Luo Wei sighed.
"They're waiting."
Yin Xiu burped, "I guess these bastards won't show up until we find Laura Fountain."
Luo Wei was not as calm and composed as him. He just said dissatisfiedly: "So we are just going to let these bastards follow us like a dog-skin plaster?"
"I didn't say that either."
Yin Xiu suddenly took out a talisman from his pocket and waved it at Luo Wei, "In the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, there is an episode called The Burning of Red Cliffs. Have you heard of it?"
"Yin Xiu."
Luo Wei frowned, "If we set fire to the ship, many people will die. If we do such a thing, what's the difference between us and evil spirits?"
"I didn't say I wanted to make such a big scene."
Yin Xiu looked relaxed and pointed at his feet. "It's not necessary to burn the deck, but if we want to destroy the ship before it enters the port, it's better to keep it simple."
"This ship's captain and crew are out of luck."
Luo Wei's tone became more relaxed.
"The insurance will pay for it, so why be afraid?" Yin Xiu didn't care.
After all, it's just destroying the engine room and it won't affect others. With Yin Xiu's skills, he can do it even if he is given a wrench.
And using fire, just to be a little more thorough and make it look more like an accident.
"When does it start?" Luo Wei asked him.
"When we get closer to the port."
Yin Xiu shook the bottle and found that not a drop of gin could be poured out of the bottle.
"Excuse me, do you have any more wine?"
The groom heard Yin Xiu's question outside and said after a pause: "There is a bottle of sherry under the left cushion."
"Oh!"
"It's stuffed with ingredients." the groom reminded.
"Oh……"
Yin Xiu retracted his hand and stood up. "I'll leave it to you. Don't drink too much. Drinking is harmful to your health."
The groom said cheerfully, "Thank you for your concern. By the way, maybe you two would like to go first?"
Go first?
Yin Xiu just felt that this way of asking seemed to be saying that the two of them were about to die.
"Well, I guess so. I don't need you to lead the way."
"Ok."
The groom nodded slightly under the cloak. "Miss Laura Foner is a good person. If you two find her, she will definitely be able to help you."
"Good guy?"
Yin Xiu didn't comment, but just asked: "Is she pretty?"
"very beautiful."
The groom's voice became more cheerful. "Seven years ago, I met the young lady in the east of Dunling, and I still can't forget it."
“What a long life.”
Yin Xiu sighed, "Seven years is one-tenth of our lives. For many people, seven years is even longer. After surviving the last seven years, it is uncertain whether there will be another seven years."
“Perhaps it is because of this long time that we do not take many things seriously.
War and separation are just short-lived fragments for us. Only love is eternal. Vampires are keen on falling in love, which lasts for a hundred years. "
"I've heard of such a thing."
Luo Wei nodded in agreement: "It is said that there was a count who had a wife when he was not a vampire, and they loved each other very much.
Once the count took part in an expedition and fought a protracted war with an empire in West Asia, which was extremely difficult.
When he finally won and returned to his territory, he found that his wife had committed suicide out of grief because she believed the rumors and thought the count had died in the battle.
The Count was so heartbroken by this incident that he abandoned his grandfather and turned into a vampire.
But he had been searching for his wife's reincarnation until four hundred years later, when he finally met her reincarnation. For this reason, the Earl returned to Dunling to look for her, which triggered the long-dormant dark forces to hunt him down..."
"That should be made up by a novelist, sir."
The groom tried to make his voice serious. "I have never heard of such a thing, so this should be a story, not a deed."
"is it?"
Luo Wei coughed awkwardly twice, "But at least it's a good story, isn't it?"
"of course."
The groom also became cheerful. "Such a story makes people happy to listen, doesn't it? Hundreds of years of love is really a romantic thing."
"is it?"
Yin Xiu was a little drunk at this time and thought of Ma Xiaoyu again.
The two of them would not live for more than four hundred years combined, not to mention that even if they lived for a hundred years, by the time they met, one-fifth of their lives had already quietly disappeared like flowing water.
If this is the case, compared with the hundreds of years of love between vampires, it is indeed a bit outrageous to be short.
But is time really such an important thing?
If one year, one month, or one day is missing, it cannot be considered a lifetime?
Perhaps when two people are together, it is enough if they only make eye contact for a moment.
With these questions in mind, Yin Xiu gradually became drunk, and then he heard the coachman shouting outside.
"Gentlemen, we can see the harbor from here."
"it is good."
Yin Xiu loosened his fingers, and the talisman paper in his hand flew and circled, floating out silently, passing through the gap between the wheels under the feet of the crowd and drilling into the engine room.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Yin Xiu and Luo Wei tidied their clothes and said, "When you go back, tell Joseph that we died in the fire."
"A big fire?" Luo Wei hesitated.
"It's all the same. Maybe it's just a screw that's missing or something's cracked, but when the news gets from the port to the town, it's going to be a fire that killed a lot of people, so just say it."
"Joseph won't believe it."
"It doesn't matter if he doesn't believe it."
Yin Xiu buttoned up his windbreaker and said, "It will be fine if other people hear it."
"Yes, sir," the groom replied.
At this moment, the rumbling sound of the engine, which had been making eardrum-tightening noises, suddenly disappeared, and the vibrations coming from under the deck also disappeared.
"It smells like something is burning!"
"Grilled fish?"
"It's on fire!" someone shouted, and then there was chaos on the deck, with women screaming and men scolding.
The boat stopped where the outline of the port could be vaguely seen, and it was completely shut down. It did not move forward another step, just swaying with the waves.
Luo Wei followed Yin Xiu out of the carriage and confirmed once again that the fire was indeed under control. At most, the innocent passengers and sailors would be trapped here for an hour or two. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry," Yin Xiu blinked, "When it comes to sabotage, I'm always as precise as doing surgery, and I never touch anything that shouldn't be touched."
"That's not necessarily the case."
Luo Wei curled his lips and said, "When I was a kid, I was sent to the hospital to have my appendix removed. I was fine when I went there, but when I woke up, I found that my brother was also wrapped in gauze. I had to walk with my legs apart for a week."
puff!
Yin Xiu couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Why would you fix something you can't even use?"
"you!"
Luo Wei turned back angrily, but before he could say anything, Yin Xiu put a hand on his shoulder and the two of them disappeared on the spot.
To the panicked passengers, they did not notice that two people were missing.
However, the situation was not good for the spies who followed closely. After being briefly blocked by the car and the people, the two men disappeared on the spot without a trace.
Is it a spell or is there some mechanism here?
Or maybe it's some other conspiracy.
The spies turned their attention to the coachman who was still sitting at the front of the carriage.
The coachman remained silent and sat there.
Finally, when the spies could no longer hold back, the coachman moved.
He jumped off the carriage and walked to the railing. In the sunlight, his black robe still covered his figure tightly, like a shadow standing up from the ground.
The spies approached him silently.
"The Nicholas family."
The coachman murmured in a low voice.
“I have served the Nicholas family for a hundred years, and I have always considered myself to be some kind of tool connected to the carriage, who just needs to eat and drink.
I didn't expect anything because I was a blood slave, not a noble vampire, and I was isolated from the world, either passively or actively.
Until one day, Miss Laura Fountain came to me. She was like a ray of sunshine...
Oh, even though sunlight is harmful to vampires, I still like to describe her that way."
The spies listened to his mumblings but made no attempt to respond.
Some of these guys hid under black robes like the coachman, while others didn't care about the sunlight at all and just stayed in a felt hat.
These people surrounded the coachman, forming a circle in the distance, making the area around him look like a vacuum.
However, the coachman didn't care. He reached out from under his black robe and grabbed the railing.
As soon as the pale hand touched the sunlight, white smoke began to sizzle, as if meat was being grilled.
But the coachman still didn't care, as if it wasn't his hand.
"In fact, my unrealistic wish is really an offense to Miss Laura Fona.
I shouldn't even mention her name, but I'm not a mute. It's okay for me to keep my mouth shut for a year, but if I don't speak for a hundred years, am I a stone statue?
But I am glad to be of assistance to Miss Laura Foner, dear lady, there is not much I can do for her."
The spies listened to his words and tried to interpret something from them, but in the end they could not interpret anything. They just thought that the coachman was stalling for time and talking nonsense.
Until the coachman took out the bottle of spiked sherry from his robe, took a sip, and began to pour it on himself.
I don't know when he got this wine, but as soon as the bottle was opened, the aroma was refreshing. Even from a distance one could smell the fragrance of flowers, fruits, and the weight of time.
The spies looked at this scene in a daze, and then someone finally remembered something and shouted.
"This guy wants to kill himself!"
"Stop him!"
A group of people rushed forward.
However, the coachman ignored them and just tore off the black robe that seemed to have become one with him for a hundred years and threw it aside.
He opened his arms and embraced the sun.
The sun also welcomed this friend, whom it had been separated from for a hundred years, with warm attitude and enthusiasm.
The sun and Laura Fountain were things that the coachman could neither see nor reach.
But today, at least the sun, the coachman has embraced it in his arms.
The blazing flames surrounded the coachman, making him feel warm and hot.
The blazing flames stunned the other spies and forced them back, making it almost impossible for them to open their eyes.
The people on the boat were frightened by the pillar of fire and screamed again. However, the blood slave, who had turned into a pillar of fire, did not say a word. He just kept embracing the sun and did not put down his arms for a long time.
Time flies!
Yin Xiu and Luo Wei landed at the harbor and almost fell into the sea.
Looking back, I saw twinkling lights on the ferry in the distance.
"Didn't you say the fire would be small?"
Luo Wei put his hand over his eyes and asked, "Why do I see a beam of fire shooting up into the sky?"
"You're mistaken."
Yin Xiu wiped the sweat from his face. He used the Dou Zhuan Xing Yi technique and had to carry one more person with him. Every time the distance got longer, the mental energy he consumed increased exponentially. At this moment, he couldn't help but sweating profusely.
"Maybe there's a fire in the steamship's chimney? It often happens when the coal is damp or of poor quality. Sparks come out of it, and when you watch from a distance at night, it looks like fireflies flying out."
"You even know about this kind of thing?" Luo Wei was a little surprised.
"What's so strange about this?"
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "After finishing the night shift at the factory, before dawn, I would sit by the dock, drink and watch the sea."
"It's so dark, what can you see?"
"It's only when it's dark that you can see everything. The lights of the steamship, the stars in the sky, and the sea. You can see everything clearly."
"Wow, I don't understand you." Luo Wei shook his head.
“Understanding or not understanding is a small matter.”
Yin Xiu sighed, "That period was the most difficult time for me in the factory. Everything felt gloomy and dark, as if the world would be completely different and even worse tomorrow.
But I later realized that the world will not change, only we will change. "
"We? How have we changed? For the worse? For the better?"
"I'm not a philosopher or a prophet, how would I know this?"
Yin Xiu patted Luo Wei on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, Yong Tan, we still have things to do."
"Go find Laura Fountain?" Rowe asked again.
"Of course, go find Laura Fountain now."
Yin Xiu glanced at the sea and saw that the flames had gradually dissipated, as if they had really turned into stars in the sky. (End of this chapter)
