Chapter 507: Killing Palace, Ghost Emperor
In the three months since she woke up, she has been able to walk around normally, and when she has nothing to do during the day, she will walk around and take a look.
I learned from people around here that this place is an unnamed island in the outer sea.
There are countless islands like this in the open sea, most of which are uninhabited.
As for the inhabited islands, most of them have been occupied by pirates, leaving only a small part where law-abiding fishermen live, making a living by fishing at sea.
The place where she, Madam Lu and the old man lived was one of the rare relatively quiet inhabited islands.
There are only a few dozen households, not many people, but the good thing is that the fishermen are friendly.
"Miss Sweetie, are you out and about again?"
Walking along the path in front of the house, you can see the busy figures of women on the island who get up early to dry fish.
Seeing Tianbao appear on the road, a woman in cloth clothes and a headscarf greeted her with a smile. She and the people around her seemed to be accustomed to Tianbao's appearance and did not show any surprise.
Recognizing that the other party was the one who had sent a few stools to her home, Tianbao nodded at her and said "hmm".
"Hey, there's nothing interesting around here. There are only rocks, weeds, and wild trees. The rest are all dried fish, hahaha!" The cheerful woman kept smiling as she spoke. She turned her head and glanced into the distance, kindly reminding, "Miss Tianbao, just walk around here. Remember what your aunt told you: don't go to the south of the island..."
She lowered her voice a little as she spoke, "There are pirates living over there! They're a bunch of ruthless killers!"
"Pirates?" Tian Bao paused and looked at the woman. "When pirates are robbing at sea, are they likely to encounter ships and people from the Central Plains?"
"I'm not sure about that. We should be able to encounter them, right? Those pirates will rob any passing ship they spot. They come from all over the place, from the Central Plains... there should be some as well."
The woman's tone was uncertain. Most of the ordinary people living on the island were native indigenous people who were born and raised here. They lived their entire lives on the island, grew old, got sick and died. They had only heard of the place called "Central Plains" but had never been there.
For them, the Central Plains is too far away.
"Miss Tianbao, why are you asking about the Central Plains? I heard that it is a paradise on earth, with beautiful mountains and rivers and wealthy people. People there even use jade cups to drink... It's a pity that we can't go there." As the woman spoke, there was a bit more curiosity and inquiry in her eyes when she looked at Tianbao.
Tian Bao raised her lips and smiled, "I heard someone mention it, so I asked a few more questions. Auntie, you are busy, I'll go take a walk over there."
"Okay, don't go too far, come back soon, otherwise Madam Lu will be worried when she can't find you."
Tianbao continued to walk slowly along the road.
Even after walking a long way, I could still hear the women's whispered conversations in the distance behind me.
"Miss Tianbao doesn't look like someone from our island. She just asked about the Central Plains. Could she be from the Central Plains?"
"I don't know either. Madam Lu mentioned it before, but she only said that he ended up here, but she didn't say where he came from."
"No matter where they came from, the two of them, one older and one younger, are all relatively peaceful. It's good that they're not evil."
"That's right..."
Tianbao rubbed his ears with no expression on his face. He didn't know if it was a good thing that he had such good hearing.
Tianbao walked slowly towards the south, and about thirty feet away from the South Island, he found a hidden big rock and lay down on it, eavesdropping in broad daylight.
From this position, she could hear the pirates talking within a radius of thirty feet.
It’s not that I want to hear about the Central Plains, I just want to find a way to make money.
She heard Mammy sighing and worrying last night.
She doesn't have the habit of letting the elderly support her.
"Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. I don't know if I can get a ride on a merchant ship this year. Damn it, these past two years have been so hard!"
"What can we do? The Central Plains is in chaos. People are fighting and fleeing everywhere. Who has the energy to do business? Even if there is, it's just licking blood on the edge of a knife. It's not very capable."
"Hmph, last year, Lao Sang's group next door hijacked a merchant caravan, thinking they could get rich, but ended up being nearly wiped out! The war in the Central Plains is damn near killing us pirates!"
"Old Sang's incident was his own fault for not recognizing the Soul-Calling Banner from the Killing Hall. He deserves his bad luck! As for his shabby group, the remaining survivors were deliberately released by the enemy. They deliberately let the survivors come back to report the news and set an example!"
"Damn it! The Killing Palace has only been rising for a short two years, how can they be so arrogant!"
"Two years, what's wrong? For two years, the Ghost Emperor of the Killing Palace has been taking the head of a Nansang Emperor every year and hanging it on the plaque of the Golden Throne Hall. Do you dare? The former Nansang Emperor, then the Nansang Emperor Emeritus! Just wait and see, next year it will be the new Nansang Emperor who has just ascended the throne! He has the power to make the great nation of Nansang hold a national mourning every year! The war in the Central Plains was provoked by the Ghost Emperor single-handedly. If you encounter him, I advise you to run away quickly, otherwise you will really go to see the King of Hell!"
"Why is he challenging something? He's also from the Central Plains. What good is there in doing this?"
"Who knows? Maybe he just wants to destroy the entire Central Plains. What an unreasonable lunatic!"
"Alright, alright, stop talking about him. I'm scared! Let's go to the north and try to steal some wine money from those fishermen!"
Tianbao opened his eyes and tilted his head.
There is a way to make money.
She turned over and sat up, not in a hurry to go back, but just sat there waiting quietly, very patient.
When a group of burly men carrying large swords came over from the south, Tianbao picked up a clod of earth nearby and threw it at their feet, saying condescendingly, "This clod of earth is the boundary. If you want to cross it, pay."
When the big men heard the sound, they looked up and found an ugly girl with scars on her face sitting on a high rock by the roadside.
"Hahahaha! Ugly freak, what did you just say? Say it again, I'm listening carefully." The leading man laughed wildly and pointed at his nose, "You want me to pay?"
Tian Bao glared at him quietly, "Didn't you hear clearly? If you want to cross the border, you have to pay."
"You stupid bitch! I'm going to pull you down and strip you naked—Ah!"
Before the man could finish his words, he felt a blur in front of his eyes, a pain in his mouth, and then his mouth was full of blood.
In front of his toes, next to the lump of earth, half of his tongue lay.
He couldn't even see how the other party made the move!
The man's eyes were bloodshot, "Ugh—Ugh!"
The accomplice following behind him swung his knife with a ferocious face and slashed at the woman.
Under the big rock, movement and stillness occurred in an instant and ceased in an instant.
Tian Bao still stood there, stepped on the chest of the big man lying on the ground, and stretched out his hand to him, "You have crossed the line, give me money."
The big man's eyes were red and he was grunting but unable to make a sound.
You mother's bastard!
You dragged me out of line, you bastard!
But the pirates were under the control of others and were no match for them. They were also afraid of death and handed the silver over to the enemy obediently.
The woman put the silver in her arms and kicked the men who crossed the border back one by one. "Don't go to the northwest of the island, or I will kill you."
"...We have paid the toll!" a big man roared angrily.
“It’s just a toll.”
It’s not the money to go to the northwest of the island.
The pirates who made a living by robbing were robbed, "..."
Fuck your mother!
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