"Yes, these things are worthless."
Baili Wanwan peeked her little head out from behind Zhang Xiu, and her appearance was truly endearing.
But now is not the time to focus on these things.
The pirate captain spat out the grass in his mouth: "You say it's not, so it's not? I wasn't raised to be fooled."
“That’s not true. Relics from previous dynasties would definitely be jade treasures, but these are mostly made of pearls, clearly items used by women,” Wan Suizhou explained. Right now, they can only try their best to preserve these items.
It was obvious that the rumors circulating in the village were spread by these pirates, and that the villagers had been used as pawns.
However, the villagers are dull-witted and still don't understand why they were targeted by pirates.
Some even bluntly stated that someone had deliberately attracted the pirates.
"Regardless of whether it's a relic from a previous dynasty or not, as long as it's a treasure and can be sold for money, I'll buy it all."
The pirate captain pulled out all the various items from the chest at once, scattering treasures all over the ground. Some of the items were even wet, making the sand on the ground a little damp.
The villagers felt a pang of pain, but no one dared to resist.
These pirates were no saints; they killed, burned, and committed all sorts of atrocities.
If you accidentally upset them, you might lose your life.
Of course, Baili Wanwan couldn't just stand by and watch the pirates take all these things away.
What they painstakingly salvaged was ultimately reaped by others.
How could this be?!
Baili Wanwan closed her eyes, trying to summon the sea with her thoughts.
But they used too much force and summoned a tsunami!
The flag on the pirate ship was quickly swallowed up, and there were still many pirates on board.
They don't just travel in groups of ten or more; they travel in gangs and groups.
This is to prevent encountering any tough opponents that we might not be able to defeat.
The seawater swallowed the pirate ship, and the pirates naturally had no intention of staying there, so the people on board couldn't get off.
A squinty-eyed pirate hoisted the sails on the pirate ship, trying to control its direction, but one man's strength was simply not enough. "Boss, today is really not a good day to go out. Let's hurry back and repair these ships first. Anyway, these villagers have lived here for a long time, so we don't need to worry about them running away."
Those treasures are indeed not easy to take away in the short term. The pirates are only concerned with repairing the ships, and the silver spent on building these ships is probably already more than that of those so-called treasures.
Pirates could still tell which was more important than which was less important.
They quickly boarded the ship and worked together to try and forcibly pull the pirate ship back.
Baili Wanwan quietly jumped into the sea, using her ability to control the water to make the tsunami even more powerful.
Of course, these tsunamis will not affect people on shore; they will only affect the pirates on the pirate ships.
The water rushed straight towards the pirate captain, and the force of the water knocked him unconscious.
Now the pirates were leaderless, but they couldn't just wander around aimlessly. They could only quickly change the direction of their ship and leave in a hurry.
The pirates were utterly routed, but everyone just thought they were incredibly lucky to have eaten them.
"Where's Wanwan?"
Zhang Xiu had been so focused on confronting the pirates that he hadn't noticed Baili Wanwan, who was present, and was now searching for her everywhere.
But soon, a person's head emerged from the seabed.
Baili Wanwan shouted to Zhang Xiu, "Auntie, I'm here. I was trying to sabotage their boat when they weren't looking, but they managed to get away."
Baili Wanwan pretended to be furious.
She was soaking wet. Zhang Xiu didn't like Baili Wanwan's self-deprecating behavior, since she always chose to do dangerous things.
If it happened again, my heart probably wouldn't be able to take it.
Zhang Xiu picked up Baili Wanwan and gave her a good beating on the bottom.
"Why are you so disobedient, child? If something bad happens to you, how will your aunt live?"
Baili Wanwan felt the pain. It was the first time she had ever seen Zhang Xiu so furious, and it was also the first time Zhang Xiu had ever hit her. Of course, she couldn't bear it.
Overwhelmed with grievance, she burst into tears in front of everyone.
The little legs kicked occasionally, and Zhang Xiu, hearing the crying, began to regret her actions.
In the end, he's just a child.
Ordinary mischievous children wouldn't think that much.
This is what a normal child is like.
"Promise your aunt that you won't go into the water so easily in the future, or you'll have to leave."
These words are truly ruthless.
Baili Wanwan was startled. Her eyes were still blurry, and she rubbed them. Suddenly, she squatted down and grabbed a handful of sand.
She muttered to herself, absentmindedly shaping the sand into a flower, "Then Wanwan isn't going back, you should all leave..."
This time, Baili Wanwan was truly heartbroken.
When she came into the world, the first person she met was Aunt Zhang Xiu, and Aunt Zhang Xiu was a person who was genuinely kind to her. But now Aunt Zhang Xiu doesn't want her anymore, so wouldn't she become a homeless orphan?
Waaaaah...
This matter was originally meant to be resolved peacefully, but suddenly someone in the crowd shouted.
Where is my spouse?
"Hey, I can't find my Dazhuang either."
"My home..."
For a moment, all that could be heard was the sound of people being searched for.
Wan Suizhou then discovered that all the people who had gone down to sea with Baili Wanwan to salvage the treasure had disappeared.
But they clearly came to the shore together just now.
Could it be...
However, the scene became chaotic, and everyone was afraid that the tsunami would hit, so they scattered in all directions.
It couldn't have been swallowed by a tsunami, could it?
At this moment, Baili Wanwan stopped being willful and stood up to explain to everyone.
"The tsunami didn't swallow them, but Wanwan thinks they might have been taken away by those pirates. How could the pirates give up so easily if they didn't get the treasure?"
If they were taken away by pirates, that would be terrible!
At best, they suffer hardship and beatings.
This is too heavy; those who can't bear it might die from the excruciating pain.
Such things have happened before in earlier years.
At that time, pirates roamed freely, committing all sorts of atrocities, including burning, killing, and looting.
In recent years, the pirates have become less aggressive because the villagers of Zhouchao Village are too poor.
But now that they've returned to their old ways, they'll surely hurt people again.
"We shouldn't have come to salvage the treasure; we should have given it to those pirates. Our family is gone, our world has collapsed. What use is this treasure to us now?"
Aunt Wang was the first to react. She sat on the ground, patting the gravel and wailing. The village women were all loud-voiced, and their voices were especially loud at this moment.
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