12dz Chapter 316 Tracing the Footsteps
Chapter 316 Tracing the Footsteps
"What are you thinking? It just died last night. Even if it were to surface, it's not the right time yet!"
A-Yue didn't quite understand, but she still reached out and took everything from Xu Yiyi's hands.
"And isn't it said that the Dragon King is angry, so you haven't gone out to sea these past few days?"
The two walked straight to the small boat on the dock. Xu Yiyi went up, and A Yue bent down to loosen the rope and pushed the small boat out with a little effort.
"I'm afraid the person might not be dead and has been rescued."
The two of them sat down together and started rowing, one in front of the other.
Upon hearing this, A-Yue paused in her actions.
"You probably don't know how powerful the palm strike my master delivered last night when he let that big guy go."
Ah Yue watched everything clearly from the side.
"The last palm strike, imbued with internal force, landed directly on the big guy's chest. I reckon his internal organs were completely destroyed. Even if he didn't drown, he wouldn't live to see the shore."
A-Yue shrugged. "But we should go and check on them. After all, there's one who isn't seriously injured. If he really escaped, we'll have to ask my master to take care of him."
After all, neither of them are good people, and they might harbor resentment because of this.
This could lead to other problems.
Xu Yiyi hadn't expected this at all.
She figured that since neither of them could swim, they would surely die if the boat split open and they fell into the water.
But when I arrived in town this morning, I heard from the people in the Qingshan caravan that another caravan had almost collided with a ship at sea last night.
She started to wonder if it was Xu Wenli and his group.
So, after thinking about it for a while, I decided to go out to sea and see.
A-Yue frowned deeply. "In the vast ocean, how do you know where they died?"
She watched as Xu Yiyi rowed the boat to the southwest.
"I asked the caravan's helmsman this morning, and he said their cargo ship almost collided with another ship near the Blackwater Ocean last night. Let's head over there and take a look."
A-Yue was taken aback. "You even asked about this?"
"Of course, we can't just go out to sea and wander around aimlessly."
Xu Yiyi rowed the boat, alternating the force of her arms, and the oars drew smooth figure eights in the water.
The morning light cast a sharp shadow on her brow bone, her eyes cold: "If those two thieves are truly dead, their bodies will eventually surface... but if they're not quite dead..."
She didn't finish speaking, but A-Yue already understood.
The seawater rippled under the ship, gleaming with a cold, iron-like color.
There's something following us.
A-Yue suddenly spoke, and Xu Yiyi looked back.
"It's a sea turtle, but I didn't bring any food."
After she finished speaking, she continued rowing the boat, squinting at the distance where the reefs were jagged like teeth, and the waves crashed against them, splashing up a white foam.
The two traveled in a southwest direction, and with the help of the wind, they didn't have to use much force.
Waves crashed against the deck one after another, splashing seawater that soaked Xu Yiyi's clothes.
She squinted, rowing the boat while mentally calculating the direction of the tide.
Last night was a high tide, reaching its peak at midnight and receding completely at dawn.
If the two thieves' ship sank in the rocky area near the Blackwater Ocean, their bodies were either swept into the deep sea, or...
"Over there!" A-Yue suddenly pointed into the distance.
A broken piece of ship plank floated halfway on the sea.
Xu Yiyi rowed closer and reached out to pick up a piece of wood—the stubble was still wet, and the break was very fresh.
She looked up into the distance, where the sea gleamed with a cold, metallic light, and the rhythm of the waves became slow and powerful.
"The tide is receding to the southeast, so if the ship really sank here..."
She muttered to herself, her fingers unconsciously tapping on the deck, as if reviewing the currents, "The body should drift towards Eagle's Beak Island."
A-Yue frowned: "Eagle Beak Island? That'll take another hour to row."
"I'll go down and take a look first."
Xu Yi thought for a moment, then released the oar.
The sea turtle that had been following us swam up, bumped against the bottom of the boat, and then popped its head out.
"Following us from so far away??"
A-Yue was somewhat surprised. She had always heard that the sea turtle often went out to sea with Xu Yiyi, and today she saw that it was indeed true.
"It's greedy and lazy."
Xu Yiyi complained mercilessly that ever since she rescued the sea turtle and fed it a few times, she had been pestered by it.
He thought about her every day and served her food.
If she hadn't gone to sea that day, she would have risked going to squat near the dock.
"But there is one good thing: it will help me if I encounter danger, and it will also warn me if there is any danger when I go into the sea."
Swimming around the small boat like this is safe; we can wait for her to come down and feed her.
Ah Yue reached her hand into the water and splashed water on the sea turtle.
"It's quite intelligent."
After saying that, Xu Yiyi patted the water off herself, prepared to jump into the water.
"Wait, are you just going to continue like this?"