Chapter 24: Fugitive Gambler (Part 2) Seeking Collection

  "Good!!" Wells slammed his hand on the table, drew out a long sword from his waist, grasped the sharp blade with one hand, and wiped it, fresh blood flowing out.

  He dripped blood onto the desktop, his eyes fixed on Tang Jie as he said, "Our blood and the Sea God Tira bear witness to our wager!"

  Tang Jie didn't hesitate, pulling out a curved knife from the waist of a pirate beside him, wiping it on his palm, and then dripping blood onto the table: "In front of the sea god Tira, do you dare to swear that you won't betray us?"

  Wales burst out laughing: "Captain Barlow is also my father, I betrayed him, what do you think the sailors on this ship will think of me? How can I lead them in the future?"

  Tang Jie smiled coldly and said word by word: "Do you dare to swear?"

  Wells' face changed and he showed a wry smile: "You're really a hateful guy!"

  "He let out a cold snort: 'I swear to the Sea God Thal, if I betray Captain Bar, may I suffer the most severe and painful torture in this world, worse than death!'"

  "Alright!!" Táng Jié let out a loud shout "I believe you!"

  "Wales sneered: 'Now, can you tell your plan?'"

  Tang Jie nodded slightly, if Wells didn't make trouble for him, then he would indeed let out a sigh of relief!

  He pointed to the map spread out on the table and said, "Although the Jerallion Prison is heavily guarded, it's not impenetrable! If I can fly over from here, I can kill the guards at the drawbridge from behind!"

  "On Captain Bar's map, although there are two teams of guards patrolling outside, the key to breaking through is not a head-on collision with these guards, but rather the three guards guarding the alarm bell!"

  Tang Jie pointed at the location of the Jerallion Prison's drawbridge on the map, his eyes gleaming with a fierce light: "There are many guards stationed near the Jerallion Prison, but as long as we don't alert them, there won't be any danger! And if we take out the three guards responsible for sounding the alarm in the three towers, we can easily capture the drawbridge!"

  William listened intently and couldn't help but say, "It's easy to talk about! But the watchtower at the Suspension Bridge Pass is over five meters high, all made of granite, and can't be climbed. Moreover, the three towers form a triangle, and the guards on top are far apart, how can we kill them?"

  Tang Jie glanced at William and Bill, and smiled slightly: "So, I need two partners to go with me!"

  William smiled wryly: "We are pirates, we can swim but cannot fly!"

  Tang Jie gave him a mysterious and unpredictable wink: "Don't worry, I'll make you fly too!"

  He pointed to the suspension bridge on the map and continued: "As long as we kill these few guards, we can quietly occupy the suspension bridge and cut off the connection between Dam City and Jialun Prison from the middle! Then we can easily sneak into Jialun Prison!"

  William and Bill exchanged a glance, both knowing that the reason why Jialun Prison was so difficult to infiltrate was because of the heavy troops stationed next to it. As soon as the alarm sounded, these heavy troops would guard the drawbridge, making it impossible for anyone who broke into Jialun Prison to escape, turning them into fish in a barrel!

  But if those sentinels can really be removed, then Jerault Prison would become a naked woman, with no defense except for the prison guards inside.

  The problem is that the three sentinels form an equilateral triangle with each other, their fields of vision overlapping, so no matter which direction someone approaches from, they can see them clearly!

  Tang Jie saw this and came up with a wild idea to fly over from above, attack from behind and pull out the three nails!

  William Bill thought and thought, feeling that the key to the problem lay in how they could cross more than fifty meters of sky.

  They couldn't help but ask in unison: "I understand what you said, but what I want to know is, how do we fly over?"

  Tang Jie smiled with confidence and asked Bill, "Bill, are there any remaining unused sailcloths on the ship?"

  Bill said: "Yes!"

  "Get me three pieces of sailcloth, each two meters long and wide!"

  "No problem!" Bill replied.

  Tang Jie turned his head and asked William: "Are there sturdy wooden poles and ropes on the boat?"

  William Haha said with a smile: "The boat is short of everything except wooden poles and ropes!"

  "That's good!" Tang Jie nodded and asked the pirates beside him, "What time is it now?"

  The pirates who were stunned on the side came back to their senses, and someone looked at the hourglass placed in the corner and said: "It's three o'clock now!"

  Tang Jie felt somewhat depressed, how long would it take for San Lou to come out?

  "How much longer until dawn?"

  "There are still five minutes!"

  Tang Jie felt like he was about to go crazy and couldn't help but roar: "Exactly how long?"

  "This sailor felt very wronged: 'The timing of the five leaks is too specific!'"

  William roughly knew that the world where Tang Je was located was different from theirs, so he said to Tang Je: "If we start counting from the time when the sun just rises, the hourglass will reach the sixth position, and the sun will probably be right above our heads!"

  Tang Jie suddenly realized that one "leak" was equivalent to an hour.

  That means it's still five hours until dawn!

  Tang Jie hesitated for a moment, then said: "Time is running out, we must hurry! William, Bill, you two go get me the things I just mentioned and bring them to me! The rest of you, help me out in a bit!"

  The pirates in the cabin responded with thunderous applause.

  "What am I supposed to do?" Wells said with a smile.

  Tang Jie said: As long as you don't stab me in the back, I'll thank heaven and earth.

  But he still hesitated for a moment, then opened his mouth and said: "You can bring some people, once we rescue Ball, set fire to the west of the city and attract the attention of the defending army, so we can escape in the chaos!"

  "Oh? The west castle is quite far from Jelalun Prison, how are we going to deliver the message?" Wells retorted.

  "From here, raise the torch as a signal!" Tang Jie pointed to the mountain cliff beside Jialan Prison "Tonight there is no fog and visibility is high. The torch on the mountain cliff only needs to be swung once, even if it's hundreds of meters away in the west of the city, it can still be seen! If all else fails, just light a bonfire!"

  Wells nodded and took a deep look at Tang Jie: "You've thought of everything! Alright, I'll go make the arrangements!"

  Tang Jie smiled meaningfully: "I really hope you're sincere about rescuing Captain Bar!"

  Wells didn't answer, he just threw back his head and laughed loudly.

  The two men finished their discussion, and William and Bill left the cabin together. Dongjie watched as they walked away, took a deep breath, and pressed down on his violently pounding heart.

  No one is born to do such a thing, he stood out because he was unwilling to let his fate be controlled by others, and even more reluctant to see Nia lose her father, while he lost a mentor who owed him a great debt of gratitude.

  He had just caught his breath when he saw Nia's eyes fixed tightly on him, her lips bitten, a hint of blood at the corner of her mouth, and her gaze extremely complex.

  Niya's lips moved slightly, her voice husky: "Tang Jie, come with me!"

  After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked out of the room.

  Tang Jie was stunned for a moment, then chased after her, following her all the way into her room.

  Two people entered the room, Nia turned around and raised her hand, slapping Tang Jie with a loud slap!

  Tang Jie reacted extremely quickly, his fingers tightly grasping Niya's wrist, blocking the slap. He stared at Niya in shock, her face streaming with tears, her eyes filled with pain.

  Niya's slap was blocked by Tang Jie. She struggled hard to pull her hand out and shouted in a shrill voice: "Let go, let go!!"

  Tang Jie was stunned by Nia's action, and he dazedly asked: "Nia, what's wrong with you?"

  Nia cried out: "Let go! Let me fan you awake!!"

  Tang Jie inexplicably said: "What fan woke up?"

  Niya saw Tang Jie not letting go, so she went crazy and punched and kicked Tang Jie, gritting her teeth: "Why do you want to go to the Jail of Jerulan? Why do you want to go die?! Why did you make that kind of bet with Wells?! Don't you understand everything I've done for you!!! I've already lost my father, now you're going to go die yourself, you bastard, I'm going to kill you!!"

  After finishing speaking, Nia bit down hard on his hand that was grasping her wrist!

  Tang Jie lovingly gazed at Nia, seemingly impervious to the intense pain in his hand, and gently wrapped her in his arms. His other hand softly stroked her hair, without saying a word.

  Niya bit down hard, but found that Tang Jie didn't fight back. She raised her eyelids to look at him and saw a pair of deep, black eyes like the ocean, gazing at her gently.

  Niya was struck by lightning, suddenly loosening her teeth, and pounced into Tang Jie's arms, like a child, wailing loudly: "Why are you so heartless? I've already lost my father, I can't lose you too!"

  Tang Jie held Niya tightly in his arms, speaking in a soothing tone as if coaxing a child: "Niya, I know everything you've done!"

  Niya's eyes were blurry with tears as she raised her head: "Then why don't you understand my good intentions, why do you still want to go and get yourself killed? Don't you know that even if you sneak into the Jialun Prison, what awaits you are ten second-level swordsmen and one third-level magic swordsman?! This is suicidal!!"

  Tang Jie smiled, his smile as warm as a spring breeze, comforting Nia's wounded heart: "Fool, I won't be in trouble! They're not my match!"

  Niya didn't believe him at all, she just tightly hugged Tang Jie's waist and cried: "I won't let you go, I won't let you go! Father is locked up there, he must be dead for sure! Why don't you think of me? If I lose you again, what am I supposed to do? Do you really love me?"

  When Old Bar decided to shift the hopes he had placed on his daughter for over a decade onto Tangie's body, Nia's life goals also shifted.

  She had been living just to fulfill her father's wish, to become a pirate king, which was the only goal of her life.

  While Bar pinned his hopes on Tange, Nia also shifted her life's goal to be by Tange's side, help him and watch him complete the goal she couldn't achieve herself.

  In this process, Nia found herself irretrievably falling in love with this man.

  For the vast majority of women, love is everything.

  Unfortunately, Nia is also this kind of woman!

  Unlike those women who like romantic promises and sweet nothings, Nia will follow a man she has set her heart on even if it means going to hell together!

  This is also why Nia would rather bear the infamy of abandoning her father herself than let Tangie suffer!

  What's more, the man she loves and her life goals are gradually overlapping.

  It can be said that if Niya lost her own father and then lost Tang Jie, then her life would lose all its goals and would no longer have any meaning...

  Tang Jie wasn't a heartless man, how could he not know what sacrifices Nia had made for him?

  He smiled slightly and said softly to Nia: "Nia, of course I love you!"

  Niya sneered: "If you love me, why are you still going to send yourself to death?"

  Tang Jie smiled and said, "It's precisely because I love you that I don't want to let your future days be forever shrouded in pain! It's precisely because I love you that I don't want to let you become a woman without a father in the future! I don't hope that my beloved Niya will lose her smile because of this matter, do you understand?"

  After finishing speaking, Tang Jie deliberately put on a serious face: "Don't you know that you're a bit ugly when you don't smile?"

  Nia heard this and wanted to laugh, but she couldn't laugh at all.

  She felt as if her heart had been shattered into powder by an invisible hand, and it dissolved in her tears, forming a fine stream that tightly entwined itself around this man's body, never to dissipate!

  Her soul, her heart were completely captured by this man!

  Niya bit her lip, and tears welled up in her extremely beautiful deep blue eyes. She stared blankly at Tang Jie, but suddenly she wildly kissed him. Her clumsy and unfamiliar lips pressed against Tang Jie's, her soft fragrant tongue crazily probing into his mouth, as if she wanted to give him everything.

  Nia knew that for the rest of her life, she would never fall in love with another man again.

  Niya's whole body was burning, her eyes were dazed, in a desperate situation, once a woman became emotional, the fierce flames that burst out could engulf any bondage!

  Niya whispered softly in Tang Jie's ear: "Tang Jie, take me...".

  She grasped Tang Jie's hand and pressed it against her full, firm breasts, tears streaming down: "Don't you like them? Haven't you always wanted to touch them?"

  After finishing speaking, she twisted her waist like a snake and squeezed her soft body into Tang Jie's arms with force, as if she hated to be separated from him from now on.

  Tang Jie smiled slightly and withdrew his hand from Nia's chest, gently stroking her soft golden hair.

  Niya was taken aback: "Don't you like me?"

  Tang Jie scratched Nia's straight and tall nose with his finger: "Fool, I like every inch of skin on you, like every hair of yours. But now is not the time for romance, we still have a long way to go in the future!"

  He lifted Nia from his bosom: "Are you so distrustful of me? Is the man you're looking at so poor?"

  Niya opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but when she saw Tang Jie's domineering gaze filled with a sense of conquest, she couldn't help but lower her head and softly respond: "Uh-huh..."

  Tang Jie smiled and said: "Then just wait here quietly for me. Before dawn, I will definitely bring Captain Bar back!"

  Nina shook her head, wiping away the tears on her face with her hand, then tied up her long hair with a hair tie, revealing her slender neck and looking neat and tidy, completely changing from the sentimental look she had just now.

  Tang Jie was taken aback: "You also want to go with me?"

  Nina shook her head again and said slowly to Tangie: "I have to help you keep an eye on Wells! We must be on our guard against him!"

  Tang Jie hesitated for a moment and nodded slowly.

  If he were to rescue Ball and then face the pursuing soldiers, if Wells were to clash with him again or stab him in the back at that time, it would truly be a fate worse than death!

  Wales killed two birds with one stone, getting rid of both Ball and him!

  On the other side, the sailors' quarters, which had been crowded with people just now, were empty and desolate, with only the faint light from the oil lamps on the walls swaying silently.

  The dim light of the fire cast a gloomy shadow on the faces of the two men, as if it had shrouded them in a black veil, making their expressions even more somber and ominous. Henry hastily asked Wells, "Wells, why did you agree to this? Why are we taking this risk?"

  Wells looked at him with a cold smile and said, "Do you think he might come back alive?"

  Henry shook his head, but he said: "But, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just fear one in ten thousand! What if he really rescued Captain Ball..."

  Wells cut him off, sneering: "You think I'd let that happen?"

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