Shengjing Noble

Chapter 576 Strength in numbers

"It wasn't us who did it, it was Ah Xing!"

Ah Hai said this and pulled Su Lanyin out.

Everyone looked at her with surprise in their eyes.

"Axing?"

“It looks strange.”

"You're not from here?"

"Is this the doctor you invited from outside?"

"Thank you, Miss Xing, you saved us!"

The five people were very grateful. Su Lanyin felt a little embarrassed, but she was very pleased with the feeling, and it also felt familiar.

It was as if she had been a doctor in the past and often faced such thanks.

"Don't feel sorry. Your bodies are very weak. Although your wounds have been treated, you are in great need of nutrition."

The five people lowered their heads and sighed heavily.

The leader, Ah Hai, called him Third Uncle. He said helplessly, "We are all over 50 years old. We used to go fishing and could barely make enough for the monthly payment, but now..."

Another echoed: "Now, let alone the monthly payment, we can't even catch enough fish to feed ourselves."

"If we continue like this, even if we leave the pirate town alive, we will starve to death in the village."

"If you think about it this way, what's the point of us walking all the way back to the village?"

"It's better than dying outside. My late father once said that people always return to their roots."

"Yes, I'd rather die in the village than in that devil's cave!"

Hearing this, Su Lanyin couldn't help but ask, "Everyone, I'm very curious. Since you call the Pirate City a devil's cave, how did you manage to escape despite being covered in wounds?"

Uncle San replied: "We didn't escape."

"Ah? Not escaping?"

"We are lucky enough to be released by that evil pirate king."

"what happened?"

"It was the day when the pirate king's third daughter was going to marry her husband. In order to humiliate the husband who was captured and forced to marry, they picked five slaves."

"And we are those five!"

"That's right! They hung a few of us old guys upside down on the roof and forced the prince consort to drink."

"Drinking?" Su Lanyin was puzzled.

"Yes, those wines."

She was puzzled: "It's just drinking, how can it be considered forced?"

"That wine is not ordinary wine. I'm afraid that the prince consort doesn't know it either."

"What do you mean?"

"Those wines are made from grapes that are unique to Pirate Island, but they are not just wine."

"It's also mixed with... human blood!"

"Human blood?" Su Lanyin was shocked.

What kind of demon is this? He actually added human blood to the wine and forced unsuspecting people to drink it.

If the prince consort knew the truth, he would probably vomit bile.

"What happened next?" she continued to ask.

Uncle San replied: "Later, the pirate king said that if he drank ten cups of wine, he would release a slave, but while he drank, he would whip us with a whip."

Su Lanyin suddenly realized: "So, the one who got whipped first didn't get hurt very seriously because the prince consort drank faster and then he slowed down, so he got whipped more and got hurt more seriously."

"Right, that is it!"

Ah Hai was furious: "That pirate king is simply a devil. He actually treated such cruel means as a game!"

Ah Yue wiped her tears sadly: "My uncles have suffered so much."

"But it's better this way. At least I didn't escape. I can live a normal life when I recover."

"But how are we old guys supposed to catch fish... Alas..."

Su Lanyin said: "If you don't fish, you can do other things to make a living, such as going to the mountains to collect herbs in exchange for fish, or chopping wood..."

"No, we only have one mountain here, called Pirate Mountain. There are many wild beasts in it. Many people have ventured in before, but no one came out alive."

Ah Hai looked serious and Ah Yue nodded.

"Yes, that mountain is very evil. We would rather go fishing in the sea than go up the mountain to collect herbs or chop wood."

"Where do you go to chop firewood on weekdays? And where do the medicinal herbs in the market come from?" Su Lanyin asked.

Ah Hai replied: "Some were brought back by ships from outside, and some were found by pirates in the pirate city on the mountain."

“Why were they able to go up the mountain?”

"Because they have gunpowder and they are so numerous that even the wild beasts in the mountains have to stay away from them."

Su Lanyin said disdainfully: "Since they can escape unscathed after climbing the mountain, why can't we? At worst, we can form a team to climb the mountain and give it a try."

"No, it's too dangerous."

"It's better than your near-death experience at sea. At least you can run on land. If you fall into the sea, you won't even be able to run away."

After hearing Su Lanyin's words, several people felt that there was some truth in them.

"That's true. When I think about it, there are many vicious fish in the sea. We are in greater danger at sea than in the mountains."

"Once we have recovered from our injuries, we will go to the mountain to have a look!"

"Well! I'll bring more people with me then. The Pirates' Office can do it, and so can we!"

Several people made up their minds and were discussing how to go up the mountain next.

Su Lanyin pulled Ah Hai and Ah Yue out of the room and came to the yard.

"I never asked before, why were all the doctors here arrested?"

Ah Hai said: "We don't know about this. At that time, the pirates rushed into the village and took away all the people who knew medicine."

"Yes! Those doctors who were taken away have never been released again, and no one has seen them. In short, it was as if they suddenly disappeared." A Yue agreed.

"The Pirate King kills without blinking an eye. He must have killed all the doctors!"

Su Lanyin was very confused and held her chin in her hand, falling into deep thought.

"Why doctors? A pirate needs so many people who know medicine. Is there some conspiracy?"

"This...I'm afraid only the Pirate King himself knows the answer."

"No, there are so many doctors and so many lives. If there are no doctors to treat them, many people will die... If this continues, I'm afraid that everyone on this island will die. This matter must be investigated thoroughly."

Su Lanyin seemed to have made a decision.

"What do you want to do?" Ah Hai asked in confusion.

"I see so many people here, it's only a matter of time before I'm discovered," she said.

"No, we will all keep this a secret!" A Yue promised.

"Of course I know that everyone will do their best to protect me, but don't forget that this is a pirate island and you are also living under surveillance. It is only a matter of time before you discover our actions."

"What you said makes sense..." Ah Hai nodded, then asked, "Then what do you want to do?"

"Take the initiative. I want to meet the Pirate King!"

"What? How can this be possible..."

"Why not?"