Chapter 404: Surfing Freely
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
On the shallow sandbar, the thin little girl was surrounded by a few teenagers.
She was fighting for a wicker basket with a little boy who was a head taller than her.
However, the little girl was too young and weak. She was not a match for these children at all. As she was trying hard to snatch the wicker basket, her hand ended up getting cut.
“Since we got it, it’s ours. Go away, you little monster.” The youth reached out and gave the little girl a shove. The little girl stumbled and fell into the water.
However, even so, when she saw that the youth was about to take the fish in the wicker basket away, she endured the pain and got up to snatch it again.
When the other teenagers saw that the little girl was so stubborn, they became annoyed. They threw away the wicker basket and pushed her into the water as they got ready to strike.
However, before their fists could smash on her, someone grabbed one of their wrists.
The boy turned around and saw Su Ying’s face, which was shrouded in shadows due to the backlight.
“Brat, did anyone ever teach you not to be too arrogant?”
The boy was furious and he tried to break free from Su Ying’s hand. “Who are you? I’ve never seen you before. You’re not from this island.”
Su Ying pushed him gently and the boy tumbled to the ground. “You don’t need to know who I am. If I ever see you guys snatch someone else’s things again, this stone will be your outcome.” As soon as she finished speaking, she stepped on a rock at the side and the rock shattered at once!
When the teenagers saw this, they were so scared that they turned around and fled.
“Monsters! There are monsters on the island.”
“Big Sister, thank you for saving me.”
A voice that sounded like a mosquito’s buzzing rang out behind her. Su Ying turned around and met the little girl’s timid eyes.
“No need to thank me. After all, you saved me yesterday.” Su Ying picked up her little wicker basket and put the fish and crabs back into it.
“Take it.”
“Thank you, Big Sister. Big Brother was wrong. You’re a good person.”
Su Ying smiled. She also thought that she was a good person.
“I’ll help you pick up the fish.”
“Alright.”
Que Que said that she and her brother would set up some small traps in the shallow sandbar every two days so that they could catch some stranded fish, prawns, and crabs.
“The fishing net is broken and has not been repaired yet. Therefore, Big Brother did not accompany me to collect the traps today.” With practiced ease, Que Que placed a crab into the basket.
“Have you guys been fishing for a living for generations? Other than fish meat, do you have any other food like grains and flour?”
“We have, but there are none on the island. They are all brought to us by merchant ships from outside. Merchant ships come once every six months, and we use fish and shrimp to exchange for food with them.”
“None of you have left the island before?”
Que Que shook her head. “I’ve never left. Big Sister, where did you come from? Is it very dangerous outside? Big Brother said that it is very dangerous outside and that it’s full of bad people.”
Su Ying took out the fish from the wicker traps and placed them in the little girl’s bamboo basket. “There are good people everywhere in this world, just like there are bad people. Do you think the kids who bullied you just now are bad?” Que Que nodded. “They said that Big Brother is a monster and they bully us all the time. But Big Brother is very powerful and won’t let them bully me. They only dared to snatch my fish because he wasn’t around today.”
Su Ying chatted with the little girl while picking up the fish, and she managed to get some information about the island from her.
Most of the islanders on this island had never left the island in their entire lives. They were self-sufficient in most of the daily living materials, or else they would wait for the merchant ships that came once every six months to buy some.
That merchant ship would definitely know the direction to the mainland. However, Que Que said that the merchant ship had only come last month. Su Ying would have to wait until December before the ship came again, but she could not wait that long.
Other than through that merchant ship, the entire island had no chance to contact the outside world.
Su Ying frowned slightly, feeling a headache coming on as she looked at the boundless sea.
“Big Sister, come to my house. I’ll cook fish for you to eat. Big Brother said that the fish I cook is the best.”
Su Ying thought about how that guy was guarding against her and shook her head. She should think of a way to leave this place as soon as possible.
Que Que was a little disappointed that Su Ying rejected her invitation. “Where are you going, Big Sister?”
“I have to think of a way to leave this place. Go back quickly. Don’t let your big brother worry.”
Thus, Que Que left reluctantly.
Earlier, when she was helping Que Que collect the fish, Que Que had given some to Su Ying. Su Ying accepted them without any hesitation.
She cleaned up the fish and returned to her tent to roast them. After eating them, she went to the seaside.
She took out a board from her interspatial store that resembled a surfboard the most and also brought out that eagle.
Su Ying grabbed the eagle’s wings and made it stand beside her. The eagle was about half her height. She took out a long steel cable and tied it around the eagle’s two feet. After confirming that the cable was tied securely, she released the eagle.
The eagle gave a loud screech and tried to soar into the clouds. Unfortunately, it was restrained by Su Ying and was pulled back by her the moment it took flight.
However, Su Ying controlled her strength well. She did not stop the eagle from flying, but rather, restrained it after it reached a certain height.
Pulled by the soaring eagle, Su Ying stood on the board and began to glide out to sea. The surging seawater slapped her face and it was very exhilarating.
There were no satellites in this world, so she couldn’t do long-distance positioning. The tracker could only sense the existence of the other party through electromagnetic waves within a relatively short radius, so she couldn’t use the tracker to locate the direction of the Chu State.
She had seen this eagle when she entered the interspatial store yesterday. The eagle’s sense of direction was very strong, especially this kind of trained messenger eagle. It should be able to return to a place it was familiar with in the past.
Su Ying wasn’t sure if she could succeed, so she could only give it a try.
At first, the eagle tried its best to break free from the restraints on its claws, dragging Su Ying into the sea several times.
After a few times, Su Ying could tell that this bastard was doing it on purpose, so she simply yanked it down outright and gave it a lesson on human rules.
“Damn fellow, so you know how to play tricks on people. Be more obedient, or I’ll pluck out all your feathers!”
After being lectured by Su Ying a few times, the eagle finally became obedient. Su Ying grasped the steel cable and tasted the freedom of surfing on the sea. She didn’t know how long she had been surfing. Just when she felt that her body was about to go numb from the wind, she suddenly saw a ship upfront sailing toward her.
Since there was a large ship, Su Ying immediately pulled the eagle to go toward the direction of the ship. However, the eagle clearly couldn’t understand Su Ying’s intentions.
Su Ying then simply pulled it down and threw it into her interspatial store. Following that, she took out a small boat and quickly pursued the big ship.
However, after chasing for a while, she realized that the big ship was actually heading in the direction of the island.
Could it be that Que Que lied to her? Didn’t she say that no one would come to the island except during the middle and the end of the year?
Su Ying followed the ship out of curiosity. Sure enough, she saw the ship getting closer and closer to the island.
No matter what, traveling on a ship was much better than surfing on the sea.
Su Ying took out her binoculars and saw very clearly then. After those people got off the ship, the islanders by the sea were so frightened that they turned around and ran away..
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