Chapter 38: Trapped
"Catching sparrows?"

Which child from a poor family has not caught birds to eat as a snack when he was young?

Mo Han was once a poor child. He knew that sparrows could be caught with slingshots, bamboo baskets, or by robbing bird nests.

Mo Han thought about it for a while and guessed what she meant: "You mean... just like when you use a slingshot to shoot birds, once you focus on the target, your body will unconsciously aim at it. As long as we make the right judgment in advance..."

She interrupted his wandering thoughts: "No."

"That means we can use the terrain..."

"What I mean is that the target is the sparrow, and the sparrow can be us or the other party."

Mo Han was stunned.

He found that his mind, which was praised by the teachers for its extraordinary intelligence, was completely unable to keep up with her jumping ideas.

Although, but...can you explain it in more detail?

Xu Shanshan picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground, opened his hand and felt the cool wind passing through his fingers.

She said, "The wind direction will change soon..." She raised her eyelids and the smile on her lips deepened: "How can human and mechanical power be compared with the power of nature?"

Mo Han widened his eyes, staring at Xu Shanshan's back with an unknown look.

What...is she going to do?
"shoot!"

Several catapults could hurl hundreds of large and small stones at a time, and a dozen or twenty prisoners were concentrated on a cliff, and they could only rely on luck to slightly avoid most of the landing points.

Except for two unlucky ones who fell into the sea, the rest, even though their heads were hit and their bones were broken, still tried hard to survive.

The so-called "welcoming the new" is nothing more than evil being punished by evil.

Whoever has the stronger fist has the final say, and whoever is more powerful can control the life and death of others.

This time, looking at the flying rocks everywhere, their eyes bulged out, their faces looked dead, and even their breathing stopped.

But everything changed suddenly——

A strong wind came against the flow, carrying flying rocks, and rushed across the wilderness. The powerful air waves actually smashed the flying rocks back in time.

The wind blew away at an alarming speed with a whirring sound, hitting the defenseless old prisoners, causing them to hold their heads and scream, and flee in all directions, creating a chaotic scene.

The new prisoners standing on the cliff, waiting for punishment, were dumbfounded.

Yao Qi also had his forehead broken by the impact. He found that the stones seemed to have eyes. Even though he had avoided them, they still chased him and smashed him as if they had eyes.

Grass!
Blood dripped from his eyelids into his eyeballs. He shook his head in anger and frustration, but inadvertently saw the woman in white standing in the wind.

Those winds were like violent murderers to others. Even the new prisoners who were close to her were knocked to the ground. Only she and the thin man seemed to be outside the eye of the storm, safe and comfortable, watching with cold eyes and standing by with their hands folded.

He clenched his fists. His suspicious nature made him doubt whether this sudden strange wind was her work. But on second thought, he wondered if he was stupid.

How could anyone be able to control the five elements of wind?

If she really had this ability, how could she be arrested by the county government and exiled to Hei Dao to serve her sentence?
Mo Han couldn't tell whether he was excited or nervous, his whole body was shaking: "What just happened?"

He looked at Xu Shanshan: "Is it an accident, or..."

His throat felt stuck and he couldn't say any more.

The wind will change soon...

How can human power and mechanical power be compared with the natural power of heaven and earth?

These two sentences are not groundless.

He thought again about those people in the cabin who were planning to cause trouble for her. What would be their final fate?

Just like these people, you are reaping the fruits of your own actions.

And she was still safe and sound, not even a hair was lost. Were these all accidents?
If every time is an accident, then there are no accidents, it is inevitable.

"What are you doing?!"

The officer calmed down and rushed over. He was sweating and panting. As soon as he arrived, he anxiously searched the crowd.

It was not until he saw that everything was normal and Xu Shanshan was standing there steadily with a faint smile that he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he saw the new prisoner who had been taught a lesson and whose skin was torn. This was not surprising. Hei Dao had this rule. It was called a show of power, and it was also an "explanation" of the hidden hierarchical order on the island.

But he didn't expect that these old prisoners who came to enforce the rules would have bloody heads, howling like wolves and ghosts, and were in great pain. Even Yao Qi, who was highly skilled in martial arts, had a broken forehead and was covered in blood.

He stared blankly for a while, then looked at Xu Shanshan, the only person present... who was unharmed, and Mo Han behind her.

Did she do it?
His palms were sweating.

It was hard not to speculate that he had seen that she was not as bad as the rumors said.

The officer, Fang Yingjie, was thinking at this moment that the road of life is full of ups and downs, and only by clinging to someone powerful can one go further.

This Xu Shanshan is an extraordinary person. No one knows it, but he is the only one who sees through everything. He must seize this opportunity of life and lay the deepest foundation of friendship with her on the Black Island.

Thinking of this, Fang Yingjie immediately frowned and said loudly: "What are you making a fuss about? Hurry up and take the new prisoner to... the cell. As for the female prisoner, I will make other arrangements!"

When he said this, not only the officers and soldiers were surprised, but even Yao Qi and others looked at him strangely and puzzledly.

Fang Yingjie hates criminals the most, regardless of whether they are men or women. In the past, he loved to participate in torturing and humiliating new prisoners. Now that it is obvious that the "welcoming" ceremony has not been completed, he is so soft-hearted that he wants to let them go?

"Can't you hear me?"

Fang Yingjie's eyes were cold and stern, but no matter what they thought, he just wanted to go down and find out which floor the Xu family's children were assigned to, so that he could ask for credit in front of Xu Shan, no, Master Xu.

"Yes."

The officers and soldiers quickly took action.

Although Yao Qi is one of the big bosses in Hei Dao, he is a prisoner in prison after all, so he naturally dare not openly oppose Officer Fang.

He covered his bloodshot left eye and stared at Xu Shanshan without blinking, giving her a sinister look that said "we have a long way to go", and then led his men away.

On the way, he said, "Let's check Xu Shanshan's background, what crime he committed, and what his relationship with Xu Shanshan is."

"Okay, Brother Qi."

Behind the crowd, Xu Shuishui, who was being yelled at and treated like a little servant, was absent-minded at this moment, with red eyes, and followed them stumblingly.

He just cried.

When he saw Xu Shanshan was nearly killed by a stone, he didn't know what he was thinking and was numb. But when she survived the disaster and was taken away, he couldn't stop crying.

...His second sister was not dead, and he found that he was happy from the bottom of his heart.

Although she had always hated him and often bullied him behind his back, Xu Shuishui never held a grudge.

He just felt regretful. If she liked him, he wouldn't have only his elder sister as a relative.

But now the eldest sister is underground and he is above ground, and they don’t know when they will be able to meet again alive.

Back in prison, Xu Shuishui curled up into a ball feeling insecure.

"Come here, brat!"

He was startled, and quickly crawled over and asked carefully: "Master Tu, what's the matter?"

The man called Tu Ye was the bald man who followed Yao Qi. He rubbed his head, his triangular eyes full of anger: "That bitch offended our brother Qi, we can't just let it go like this, when we work tomorrow, you should think of a way to lure her over here."

Xu Shuishui's face immediately changed: "I, I can't do it."

(End of this chapter)