Chapter 55: What if you're bad people?

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  The pirates were suddenly startled, and the leading pirate subconsciously raised his spear, pointing it at Zhang Zhun. The other pirates also raised their guns, with the dark muzzles simultaneously pointing at Zhang Zhun. The leading pirate looked around, didn't find anything unusual, and then refocused on Zhang Zhun's body, shouting loudly: "Who are you?"

  With a wave of his hand, the other pirates scattered, surrounding Zhang Zhun in the middle, with various weapons pointing at him. At this moment, Zhang Zhun quickly took a clear look and saw that there were thirteen guns among the pirates, three of which seemed to be different from the others. He was not very familiar with the firearms of the Ming Dynasty and could not tell what was different about these three guns compared to the other ten.

  Although surrounded by guns in the middle, Zhang Zhun sneered and asked fearlessly: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

  The leading pirate had a shiny forehead, yellowish eyes that seemed sickly, but his body was extremely robust. His skin was as black as coal, as if it had been dyed, but in fact it was sun-scorched to this state. He sized up Zhang Zhun for a while, with a hint of suspicion flashing in his eyes, then looked around again and asked solemnly: "Are you a local?"

  Zhang stood upright and said calmly: "You should answer my question first, what kind of people are you, where did you come from, and why did you rush here."

  The bald man did not answer his question. Zhang Quan's fearless attitude made him feel a bit uneasy. After all, he was an outsider, arriving here for the first time, and couldn't figure out Zhang Quan's true nature. He looked around suspiciously again, with some expectation, and said: "Have you seen two women landing here?"

  Zhang's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

  Could it be Xue Zhi Die and Xue Ning Ying?

  He had long expected that there must be a story behind the two women, but he hadn't thought that the story would be like this. Just from the fact that someone had chased them all the way from Jiangnan, it was clear that the trouble they had stirred up was not small. Looking at these people's appearance, it was obvious that they came with ill intentions, and who knew what kind of person the two women, Xue Zhi Die, had offended, to be pursued to the point of being killed off - coming ashore in the dead of night with an air of killing intent, surely not to welcome them back?

  Zhang Zhun really wanted to know more inside information, nodding casually and saying in a low voice: "I've seen it."

  The bald big man was overjoyed and hastily said: "Quickly take us to find her."

  His feet remained still, his eyes gleaming as he stared at the other person, saying slowly: "You haven't answered my question yet."

  Someone next to him got impatient and interrupted, "You're the one who's supposed to lead us there, just take us there! What's with all this nonsense? Do you want to be cut by a knife?"

  Zhang Zhun glanced at the other person and found that he was a rough-looking man, not very tall, with small eyes and several obvious scars on his cheeks. Other people's weapons were spears, steel knives, or even firearms, but his weapon was a small, delicate bone-picking knife. Judging from the bone-picking knife, he should be a ruthless person, as this kind of weapon is more often used for torture than for combat.

  The cripple glared at Zhang Zhun and growled fiercely: "What are you looking at? Do you want me to strip every bone from your body?"

  Zhang Zhun hated it when others called themselves "Lao Zi" in front of him, and he involuntarily harbored a murderous intent towards this hooligan. On the surface, however, there was no hint of it. His mouth curled into a faint cold smile as he continued to speak slowly: "If you don't reveal your identities, how can I take you to find someone? What if you're bad people?"

  All the pirates showed a hearty smile.

  What if you're bad guys...

  What an innocent person!

  The hunchback sneered, casually playing with his unique bone-picking knife. His triangular eyes flashed as he said with a skin-deep smile: "We're not bad people, we're all good people, the best kind of good people you've ever seen. You take us to find someone, and we won't let you down."

  Zhang Quan tilted his head and glanced at him twice, saying slowly: "But I think you look like a bad guy, your hair looks really good..."

  Lai Zi suddenly became furious, took a step forward with an arrow, and stabbed Zhang Zhun in the chest with his bone-picking knife.

  He wanted to teach Zhang Zhun a lesson. This guy had never given him a good look. After a while, he picked up the opponent's tendons and made him kneel on the beach, begging for mercy. As one of the small heads of the pirates, Lai Zi was confident in his deboning knife. His greatest skill was torturing others.

  However, something strange happened.

  Zhang Zhun seemed to be ignoring the deboning knife, and only when it was about to stab him did he pull his wrist, as if pulling Cui Zi into his own arms, and then twisted his wrist downward.

  Lai Zi was caught off guard, and for a moment he couldn't react in time. His wrist was twisted into a 180-degree spin, and the scraper knife was stabbed directly at his own abdomen. Lai Zi was shocked, wanting to throw away the scraper knife, but his palm was firmly grasped by Zhang Zhun, like an iron claw, leaving no room for escape.

  "Pffft!"

  A sharp deboning knife inserted into the belly of the crucian carp at a perfect angle.

  With a light spin, the scraper knife rotated ninety degrees inside Lai Zi's abdomen.

  "You..."

  The wretch let out a cry, his already ugly face twisted in agony, making it even uglier. However, he could only manage the simplest of cries. Because, he could only manage such simple cries. When the bone-cutting knife rotated ninety degrees, he was already dead.

  He couldn't have imagined that Zhang Zhun would take his life with just one move. If he had known that Zhang Zhun had suffered losses in his past life and vowed not to suffer again in this life, he would definitely have been cautious and absolutely not provoked him.

  In front of Zhang Zhun's face, this is not Shouxing Gong hanging himself - are you tired of living too long?

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  The gunshot sounded like a firecracker exploding.

  The pirates who discovered something was amiss pulled the trigger without hesitation.

  Zhang Zhun immediately released his grip on the handle of the scraper knife and rolled down onto the sandy beach.

  All kinds of bullets were shot onto Lai Zi's body.

  The boy was suddenly turned into a beehive, covered in blood.

  "Kill!"

  The warriors of the guard, taking advantage of the opportunity, killed their way out.

  "Who is it?"

  "Halt!"

  The pirates were shocked and cried out in surprise one after another.

  The warriors of the guard were deaf and blind, charging forward with their heads down.

  The pirates' firearms had just been discharged and there was no time to reload, so the guardsmen could not miss this rare opportunity.

  Zhang Yatie charged forward, colliding head-on with a pirate. The pirate instinctively raised his rifle, attempting to block Zhang's attack, but was deflected by Zhang using his trident to push the rifle aside. The trident slid along the rifle and stabbed straight into the pirate's throat. The pirate was shocked and hastily dropped his rifle, trying to retreat backward. Unfortunately, it was too late, as Zhang's other trident had already pierced his chest.

  "Ah!"

  The pirate let out a miserable cry and involuntarily loosened his grip on the gun.

  "Bang!"

  The rifle fell onto the beach.

  Zhang Yatie continued to charge forward.

  At the same time, Li Jiaxi also solved the pirate next to him, and the pirate's musket also fell on the beach. As the guards and pirates fought together, more and more muskets fell on the beach. In the end, the pirates who didn't have time to reload their muskets simply threw away their guns, pulled out their waist knives for self-defense, and tried to fight hand-to-hand with the guards.

  However, the pirates who had lost the initiative were suddenly attacked and had no chance to resist. Moreover, they were not familiar with the terrain here and did not understand what was happening. Some pirates even thought that they were surrounded by hundreds or thousands of enemies and were so panicked that they had no desire to fight, let alone their combat effectiveness.

  There were several quick-reacting pirates who had already thrown away their weapons and hastily jumped into the sea, fleeing towards the pirate ship in a hurry. Some ran away, and naturally, other pirates followed suit, trying to escape. However, the guards' warriors pursued them relentlessly, and it was not an easy task for the pirates to escape. If they were careless, the treacherous trident would take their lives.

  The bald man was shocked, subconsciously taking a step back, his spear pointing at Zhang Zhun, angrily asking: "Who are you? How dare you attack us? Let me tell you, my name is Rubinke, we're from the south, and we're under Liu's command!"

  Obviously, he was a bit over his head and had to bring out his own backing.

  No way, this group of people is too ruthless, and they've already taken the initiative. The pirates were careless for a moment, and now they're completely at a disadvantage. Whether or not they can escape is still a question, let alone turn the tables. Rubinck really couldn't understand why he had such deep grudges with these people. Moreover, how did the other side know that he would land here, and set up an ambush waiting for him to fall into their trap? It's impossible!

  Actually, at this time, Rubink was regretting to death in his heart. He regretted that he had been too careless and had fallen into the enemy's ambush. If there hadn't been an ambush, if there hadn't been a surprise attack, he could have completely suppressed the opponent and made them retreat. The thirteen rifles he carried were not for show, they could have blown away the opponent's teeth. But now, being ambushed and attacked by surprise, the rifles had lost their effect.

  Zhang Zhun slightly furrowed his brow and said coldly: "Which Liu is in charge?"

  "Rourou said proudly: 'Liu Xiang.'"

  Zhang nodded thoughtfully, then snorted in disdain.

  It turned out to be this old man Liu Xiang.