Chapter 3: Is Lucky
“Cannot retreat!”
Everyone become panic. A chilly whisper sound and everyone looked at the source of voice.
"Now only go forward ... ..." Su Su words have not finished when the crew realize that the one speaking is the young man that just lazily around and only for the first time sailing. They had no patience to listen to him.
"Do you want us to die?"
“Not only did not escape, but still want to go forward and confront them. You don’t know what you are doing, so just shut up.”
"Ignore him, keep withdrawing."
In the army, the military order cannot be violated, especially when the two armed forces have confrontation during war. Her parents has deeply affected Su Su. At this moment to hear the crew refute to attack, her chest filled with anger, but she thought of the crew which is just a civilian who live for fishing. He is also their leader. Even her heart cannot tolerate, she patiently explained
“Not far ahead, I have notice a reef clustered. We can hide in there. They cannot catch us, if they give a chase, they cannot go ahead as there are so many reef in there. Our hull is smaller than them, more flexible so it can be our advantage. But if we escape like this, no more than quarters of hour, we will be intercept by them easily”.
This argument is very sound, but the direction that Su Su point out as the clustered of reef is so close to the pirate ship. It is very risky.
"Lao Yu, Xiao Shu says ... ..." the sentence is not finish when Qin Qian done with her analysis of the idea. She finally said:
"That may work."
“What does he knows. Missy it’s too dangerous. You and young master go hide in the cabin. "
Yu Si face, who accompany Qin Qian already pale and full of worry. He did not believe that a 14-year-old boy strategy can be useful. After a long silent. Lao Yu shout:
"sail to the right."
"Lao Yu?"
Qin Qian is not a timid girl, this time naturally, she will not hide in the cabin. If the ship was robbed then let it be. Its useless to hide. But she did not understand why they need to Sail to the right.
Lao Yu is counted live most of his life in the sea. He has encountered dangerous storm and survive, but for pirate, if he think carefully, he only heard about it. 20 years ago, the pirate have killed the villagers. The scene from the harbor make him break in cold sweat. He is really afraid. But he is now the leader of the ship. At this moment, he can only be strong. He calm himself and replied: "We are a small fishing boat, there is no valuable things. The storm will come so they may just rush back to their nest. As long as we can escape. This may not be difficult for us. I only listen to Lao Wu about this pirate ship. These two ship might not be the pirate. Besides, before this, Lao Wu has successfully escape, I also might be able to…”
"If you just depends on luck, 9 out of ten we will lost!
"We may, might or not successful escape”
Hearing Su Su shout in anger make the people shock and Lao Yu become speechless.
Su Su is indeed angry. In her understanding, there is no such thing as luck. In front of the enemy, even if not found a way to retreat, they must be able to defend and do necessary preparation. Not just wait for enemy to let them go. If they do that, the enemy side moral will soar high and can defeat them. This kind of hunter hunting to catch the prey feeling, she must be right. This two ships were directed at them.
All the people in the ship become scared. The black ships is really formidable. In a blink of an eye, the hull will rammed to their ship. The wind blowing through the black sail sound like a hunting sound which ringing into their ears. This two ship indeed directed towards them.
"The pirates are getting closer, Turn to the right, right, fast! Anyway, first we need to flee!"
Don’t know who is shouting. Everyone has long been scared out of their mind and make the situation become more chaotic. In this chaotic environment, no one listen to Su Su anymore.
Su Su secretly release a deep sigh. She felt that she was too weak. Even though she have smart brain and can come up with a plan, it still useless as she fail to stabilize the situation and execute the plan. If her mother do this, this will not happen.
People rush about on the deck like their tail being caught on fire. Qin Yan also has been knocked around by the mass and scared to death. Subconsciously he look at the boy who have the same age as him. He saw that despite his frustration, his pair of black eyes did not have a trace of fear as the pirate ship coming closer. By contrast to the chaos, he look really calm. Qin Yan could not help but come to Su Su side and pushed her shoulder about. He asked hoarsely:
"Hey, by going into the clustered of that reef, does it really work?”
Su Su scrutinizely looked at the waves and the location of the two ships. Finally she shook her head.
"Now, even we sail to the reef, it’s too late. We already lost the timing.”
This boats will be intercepted sooner or later. She do not know the strength of this group of pirates. Even if her martial arts is strong, but with her alone to fight them, she admitted that this is not within her ability. When she run away, she only took her uncle Ao fan. It has one hundred and eighty black needles in the fan's skull. At that time, she only thought that in the case of danger, she only need to release the hidden weapon in the bones and then by adding her eighteen lotus step, she can escape, regardless no matter what the top expert she encounter. But here is the endless sea, even if she dodge no matter how good, no place to escape ah.
While she think. Her eyes landed to the middle of the deck and spot Qin Qian. She tightly scrunch her eyebrow. She grab Yu Si who command the crew to pull the sail in panic. She whispered: "Brother Yu, does this ship have hidden compartment".
Yu Si arm was suddenly being pulled by force. He thought for a moment and hear Xiao Shu impatient tone which sound even lower, "It is the place where people can hide in secret."
"There are no such thing?"
Yu Si broke Su Su grip, but he at the same time, he saw Qin Qian presence and immediately understand Su Su meaning. He thought and said: "You can hide in the cabin or under the bed."
"Those places is not safe." Su Su denied his proposal. These places as long as they search, she will be found. Su Su carefully recalled the past few days when she walk around in the fishing boat to see the boat layout. Her eyes shine:
“At the bottom of the cabin, there’s a few small partitions."
"Yes, but ...... that place people cannot hide ah." That place is where we store broken nets and bait, the space is too small and smelly."
"We go and take a look first."
Su Su walked quickly towards the cabin door but did not hear any sound of someone following behind her. She looked back and see the three people still standing on the deck. She wrinkled up his brow and said: "sister Qin, let’s go quickly." Having heard that, they follow her and walked toward the bottom of the cabin. By just opening the door of the wooden partition, a smell immediately fill up in the air. Su Su jump down first. The bottom of the cabin is not high. Its only need them to half bowed to stand. Holding Qin Qian and Qin Yan, Su Su stopped and said to Yu Si: "brother Yu, you guard this compartment. Do not let people find Sister Qin and Qin Yan hiding here.”
Yu Si with no trace of hesitation, simply replied: "ok.”
Su Su heard this feel assured that this person is really care for the Qin sibling. When they reach the bottom of the cabin, the stench become more unbearable. It’s really disgusting. Qin Yan who already seasick cannot stand the stench which make him squatted aside and start retching. This compartment is smaller than Su Su expected and it’s filled with debris. The odor also make them difficult to breath. Qin Qian, although not vomit, her face already become white, "Really ...... to hide here?"
"In the whole cabin, this is the safest place. You cannot fall in the hands of the pirates." Otherwise the consequences are more tragic than death. Su Su did not say the last sentence but Qin Qian apparently knows it. Her face become more and more pale. With tight lips, she nodded her head.
Su Su rummage in the small compartment to find the most suitable place to hide. After a while, small dark box hidden in the dark corner catch Su Su's eyes. She swept the debris on the box and open the lid to take a look. The space inside is very small, and also stuffed with a dilapidated fishing nets, but fortunately they can hide in there. Su Su take out of the fishing nets, then, facing the sibling, she said "here, hiding in here."
Qin siblings went to Su Su side and stared at the little black box. Their heart could not help to wonder, “Can this space hold 2 people.” Qin Yan with his pale face, with a strong but calm voice said: "Sister, you hide in there, I am not afraid.”
"Qin Qian suddenly grabbed Qin Yan and said anxiously:" You are the only one of the Qin heir. You absolutely cannot die. If you die, I need to die before you.”
"Stop talking, squeeze yourself inside the box." Su Su take their hands and push them to enter the box. Fortunately, both of them has a small build, even though it’s difficult, they barely manage to squeeze into the small black box.
Looking at Su Su who want to close the cover of the black box, Qin Qian immediately grabbed her sleeves anxiously: "Xiao Shu, what about you?" she think, if he not joint them to this trip, he will not suffer this bad luck, Xiao Shu still so young...
Su Su patted the back of Qin Qian. She retrieve back her sleeve while smiling and said: "I will be okay. You need to hide here. No matter what happened, do not come out. Even if you cannot hear any movement from outside, do not come out.”
Qin Qian stare at Su Su confident smile. She cannot help to wonder. Even in this circumstances, he still can smile, and that smile actually have a touch of sly and faint ...... excitement?
Qin Yan already shrink in the corner of the box. His body position, along with this unbearable stench make him unwilling to stay in the box for any second longer. “When will it be safe for us to come out?”
Su Su thought for a second and replied: “After the storm pass.”
Then she ignore the sibling and close the box. After that, she drag the broken fishing net to cover the top of the box. After she satisfied with it, she left the compartment.
"Are they hiding?" when Yu Si saw Su Su emerge her head from the partition, he reach out his hand to support Su Su to climb up the partition. But before he reach Su Su shoulder, she already jump up from the partition with just one hand lightly support her weight. At the same time, she also use her back hand to close the partition without any sound.
"Well, let’s get out of here." Su Su did not care about Yu Si eyes which still full of surprise and walked ahead toward the deck. They went into the cabin for a quarter of an hour. With the speed of the two black ships, they fear that it already come close to this boat.
Yu Si looked at the partition and then looked at the figure of the boy who just walked away. He secretly bit his lips and finally hurried forward to keep up with Su Su footsteps.
They just arrive at the deck and finally see what happen there. Even though Su Su is very brave, she cannot help but shocked when she see the scene in front of her eyes.