Chapter 35

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The next night, Qiao Wen went to the pier with Jiang Yu Feng.

When the two arrived at the pier, Chen Canaan has arrived first, is holding a cigarette and the pier brothers talk and laugh. Out of such a big thing, almost life is not guaranteed, and now go to Vietnam is also the road ahead, this guy even looked like a person like nothing, the mood looks also quite good.

Qiao Wen expressed twelve points of admiration for his mental quality, worthy of being a character that could be a great villain. Even Jiang Yufeng saw his heartless look from afar and couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "This brat still owes a lesson."

Fearing that he really wanted to teach him a lesson, Qiao Wen hurriedly said, "Nan must have been terrified these past few days as well, and now that there's a chance to redeem himself, it's normal for him to relax."

Jiang Yu Feng turned his head and glanced at him, grunting twice with a leathery smile.

Jovian couldn't help but touch his nose sheepishly.

Chen Canaan over there was finally an afterthought when he heard the commotion, turned around to see the visitor, immediately extinguished his cigarette, stood up and greeted honestly: "Brother Feng."

Seeing Qiao Wen, who had followed Jiang Youfeng over, his eyes widened in surprise again, "Xiao Qiao, are you here to see me off?"

His face hadn't healed all the way through, except that it was red and swollen to a limited extent and no longer looked like a battered pig's head.

Jovian pointed to the duffel bag behind him and raised an eyebrow, "Not to give you a ride, but to go to Vietnam with you guys."

Chen Canaan thought he heard wrong, showing a stunned expression, blinking his eyes, and only after a long time did he stammered incredulously, "You ...... you go to Vietnam with us?"

Jovian smiled and nodded.

"Nonsense!" Chen Canaan finally came back to his senses, holding his arm and assuming the posture of a big brother, "It's not like we're going to play, what are you doing with us? You hurry back!"

Before Qiao Wen could open his mouth, Jiang Youfeng replied for him with a smile, "Wen is worried about you and wants to accompany you."

Jovan: "Yeah Nan, more people to look after."

Chen Canaan's handsome face was even more severe: "What care? What kind of body you have is not unclear to yourself, we have to drift on the sea for a few days, not to mention what will be encountered in Vietnam. Your heart brother Nan received, hurry and obediently go home and wait for me to come back."

Qiao Wen said, "Brother Nan, I'm not joking with you, I really want to go with you guys, Brother Feng has already promised me."

Only then did Chen Canaan realize that he was here for real, and anxiously Jiang Yu Feng said, "Brother Feng, why are you following Xiao Qiao in a piece of nonsense, is he someone who can go to Vietnam with us?"

Jiang Yu Feng glanced at him lightly, "You can go even if you're a troublemaker, why can't Ah Wen go? I think he's much more reliable than you."

"It's not-" Chen Canaan was practically stomping her feet in a hurry, "Brother Feng, you guys don't tease me."

Jiang Yu Feng snorted, "What are you kidding? I'll go up and check the cargo hold first, you two hurry up." After saying that, he greeted the other brothers and went on board, leaving only Qiao Wen and Chen Canaan to pull at the pier.

Chen Canaan clasped his arms and revealed a cold face shape with an angry grunt, as if he wanted to scare the unknowing Qiao Wen back.

Unfortunately, this look of his could only scare others, Qiao Wen was not bluffed by him at all, and even wanted to laugh a little. He pulled on his arm and softly said, "Brother Nan, I know that you're not going for fun, and I also laugh at the many dangers you might encounter on this trip, and it's precisely because I know that that I want to go with you. My health is not good, but I know the difference."

"What's the point?"

Qiao Wen: "We've been through so many things together in this period of time, you know, I'm not that bad, when it comes to things together, we're definitely better than one person."

Chen Canaan thought back to what had happened in the past two months, and had to admit that Qiao Wen had indeed solved many things without relying on force, and if it wasn't for him, he was afraid that he wouldn't even be able to stand here properly.

It's just that he still doesn't want Jovian to follow him to suffer and risk his life.

Qiao Wen saw his face hesitation, reached out and patted his shoulder, and pursued the attack, "Brother Nan, in fact, this trip does not necessarily really more dangerous, we have not been out of Hong Kong City, as together to see the world."

Chen Canaan still hesitated and stood still.

Jiang Yu Feng came down from the boat and asked, "Did your brothers say yes? Get on the boat when you say goodbye."

Qiao Wen responded, "Right away." He took Chen Canaan's hand, "Let's go, Brother Nan, if there's anything we have to say on the ship, we'll talk about it slowly."

Chen Canaan tugged at him with a tangled face, "Xiao Qiao ......"

At this time, Jiang Yu Feng came over, lifted his foot and kicked him in the ass nonchalantly, "Alright! You're being a whiny bitch, I'm the one who gave the word for Wen to come with us, if you have a problem with that, talk to me."

Chen Canaan rubbed his buttocks and was reluctantly caught up to the boat. By the time the boat departed, he still had a tangled look on his face, "Xiao Qiao, I still think you shouldn't come with us."

Qiaowen looked at the fading dock and said in a faint voice, "Don't worry, I can take care of myself."

Chen Canaan tugged at his hand nervously, and said with a bit of self-hatred, "If anything happens to you, how can I explain to Grandma? It's all my fault for getting you into trouble."

Qiao Wen drew out the hand that was held by him and patted his shoulder, "I'm also to blame for this, since it's a trouble we made together, we have to face it together, Nan you relax, I can really take care of myself." Seeing that he was still frowning with two handsome eyebrows, Qiao Wen simply pointed towards the outside of the boat, "You see the boat has already sailed so far, you can't go back even if you want me to, just accept this fact."

Chen Canaan looked toward the pier that was fading away in the night, sighed in an old-fashioned manner, and said, "Alright, I'll protect you well."

To Qiao Wen, one of Chen Canaan's great strengths is that, open-minded, although just tangled in a million, but see the big picture has been decided, after three words, the mood has changed from cloudy to sunny, began to pull him to look forward to the next journey.

As the two were talking, Jiang Yufeng walked in from the deck outside, handing one person a bottle of soda and laughing, "Look at you two, this affectionate energy, other people's young couple can't catch up with you."

Chen Canaan simply swept over Qiao Wen's shoulders and held him in his arms, and also snapped a hard kiss on his head, "Xiao Qiao can be much more important than his wife."

The boy's kiss didn't carry any ambiguity, just joking intimacy. Qiao Wen pushed him away in mock disgust, "Are you meaty!"

Chen Canaan laughed out loud.

Jiang Yu Feng also lost his smile and shook his head, sitting down next to him and popping a popping chestnut on his head in the process.

Chen Canaan covered his head and wowed in protest, then suddenly remembered something and asked, "Brother Feng, Master Leopard Fei and the others really won't make things difficult for my family, right?"

Jiang Youfeng gulped down two mouthfuls of soda, exhaled coolly, and said in a light voice, "Don't worry, since Master Panther promised to give you a chance, he definitely won't touch your family. As for Fei, although he's prone to being a jerk, he's not so bad as to bully innocents, not to mention that leg injury of his, it'll take at least two to three months to recover."

Qiao Wen remembered what Qin Yunfei had done and thought quite highly of Jiang Yunfeng's words. Although Qin Yunfei was lawless, he did have his own set of rules of conduct, otherwise he might have been victimized by him long ago.

Chen Canaan, on the other hand, thought about the fact that he had broken someone's leg and lowered his head with a little bit of weakness.

Qiao Wen drank a small half bottle of soda and asked curiously, "Brother Feng, who is the big shot who invited you guys to make the delivery?"

Jiang Yu Feng casually replied "Fifth Master."

"Who is the Fifth Master?" Qiao Wen searched his memory, it seemed like there was this big shot in the book, but it was only mentioned briefly two or three times, as for what exactly his identity was, it wasn't even explained.

Jiang Yu Feng turned his head to look at him across a Chen Canaan and laughed, "Those who do this kind of business are all in the shadows, not to mention me, even Master Leopard and the middleman are not clear about who Master Five really is, I just know that this Master Five is a big shot who can call the shots in Hong Kong City."

Jovian nodded thoughtfully.

Jiang Youfeng fished out two Browning pistols from somewhere and handed them to the two respectively, "Familiarize yourself with this thing, it might come in handy."

Chen Canaan in the end is a man, the bones of this kind of killing weapon is full of desire, almost a hand to take over, lovingly touching, only to remember something as if, said, "Xiao Qiao with me will be fine, so there is no need to take the gun, too dangerous."

At this time, Qiao Wen had already taken the gun in his hands, he lowered his head, and with his white and slender fingers, he traced over the cold barrel of the gun, and suddenly his fingers pulled the safety valve, only to hear the sound of a clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking clicking sound.

A pistol was quickly disassembled in his hands, followed by reloading back to its original form with lightning speed.

Because this disassembling and assembling action took less than a minute before and after, not only Chen Canaan, but also Jiang Yu Feng had been dumbfounded.

Qiaowen held the gun in his hands and looked up with a cloudy smile, "I've read about the disassembly of this pistol in a book earlier, and I didn't realize it was really easy."

Chen Canaan was surprised, "There's this in the book?"

Jovian nodded, "Of course, I told you to read more and you didn't."

Jiang Yu Feng looked at Qiao Wen with an inscrutable expression and smiled, "Okay, keep the gun well, come back safely this trip, Wen, you'd better go on your shift and stay as far away from these things as possible."

Jovian dutifully nodded, "Uh-huh."

Not only him, but Chen Canaan should also stay away as early as possible.

Because it is a normal small cargo ship, when it encounters big waves, it bumps around a lot, but fortunately, I have already seen the weather forecast, and the weather is good for a few days, and there will not be any big storms.

As for this body, it's weak, but fortunately it doesn't get seasick much.

The sea journey was lackluster, the group plus Qiaowen totaled ten people, in addition to eating, sleeping and playing cards every day, there is not much other activities.

These brothers, Jiang Xuefeng, although they were all rough men, had quick personalities and were very easy to get along with. Qiao Wen and Chen Canaan quickly mingled with them.

It's just that Qiao Wen, a delicate and weak white boy, is still a bit out of place in the middle of this group of brown men. A few of the brothers came to tease him from time to time.

At times like these, Chen Canaan's style of calf protection would be in full swing. But whenever anyone's jokes go too far, he rolls up his sleeves and stages a full-on martial arts fight with them.

Although these brothers are good, but and Chen Canaan is certainly not a level, often a few people together by him to chase and beat the ghost howling head and rats, can only towards the river meet the wind to ask for help.

Jiang Yu Feng mostly turned a blind eye, and occasionally got a headache from the commotion before running in and suppressing it with force to keep these monkeys honest for a while.

Two days down, fighting bored, the brothers have found a new competition tricks, agreed to pee time, run to the deck to the sea to compete who pee far.

Qiao Wen was pulled sparingly once, but was fortunately rescued in time by Chen Canaan, who pushed him back into the cabin and brought his own gun to the battlefield, and was said to have won a great victory.

Qiao Wen actually did not want to be so twisted, just now this body compared to people, it is really a little bit out of hand, embarrassed to go to shame.

To be honest, he was really a bit envious of the gifted Chen Canaan.

The sea these days, not only wind and sunshine, but also did not meet the pirate incident, can be said to be smooth sailing, in addition to eating poorly, a boat of people have had a very pleasant time.

After entering the inlet from the sea, however, the atmosphere is steeply different.

The Vietnam War in this world, like the real world, has been fought for almost twenty years, and has now come to an end. Because there has been a stalemate, support for the southern regime of the U.S. empire first finally big power, the north launched a land and air counter-offensive, sent a number of airplanes to bombing, however, the momentum but little effect, on the contrary, their own loss of more than 100,000 soldiers, had to take the initiative to put forward the peace talks.

However, the result of the negotiations was not very satisfactory, the American Empire was delayed by the battle for too long, coupled with the domestic anti-war voice is getting stronger and stronger, and finally began to withdraw their troops, leaving the southern regime isolated and helpless to struggle, a few months down the road, it is obvious that it is already at the end of the road, it is only a matter of time before it is overthrown.

General Ansar, who bought the arms this time, is a big warlord in the south, who, because of successive defeats, has now retreated from the city and is now entrenched in the mountains at the southern foot of the Mekong River.

Since the south has been beaten to pieces and the U.S. army has withdrawn almost all the way, all the barriers are in vain. Years of war have made the people's lives unbearable, which naturally breeds a large number of desperadoes.

After entering the inner river, the boat was flagged with the number of Ansha's troops, and a few brothers on the deck carried guns, however, along the way, there were still boats eyeing them from time to time, only to see their battle, no one dared to bump into the muzzle of the gun.

No one can be sure if the seemingly ordinary fishing boats are not harboring risks.

Jiang Yu Feng is very cautious, instructed his brothers, the cargo ship will be full power, has been sailing at full speed, however, traveling to the evening, the front suddenly a fishing boat across the river, blocking their way.

The hull was ragged and looked unoccupied, like a derelict boat, yet it wasn't small and the river wasn't very spacious. They could only slow the boat to a stop.

"Anyone?" Chi stood at the side of the boat and shouted in Vietnamese toward the boat and the shore.

Among the men in Jiang's party, two of them are Vietnamese Chinese who fled to Hong Kong City with their families because of the war, and Chi is one of them.

Because it has entered the jungle hinterland, the neighborhood has not seen people for a long time, Chi shouted a few times, not to mention people, not even a fish from the water to emerge.

"Windy, there's no one."

Jiang Yu Feng looked around, because of the long war, the appearance of abandoned and broken boats in the river was not unusual, only that abandoned houses were not uncommon in this kingdom. He made sure that there was indeed no movement in the vicinity and commanded, "Go down and three people move the boat out of the way so that our boat can pass."

Chi nodded, and with the other two brothers, they lowered the guns on their shoulders, stripped off their clothes again, and prepared to go into the water and swim across to that boat.

The two ships were separated by less than twenty meters.

Qiao Wen walked to the bow of the boat and frowned as he looked around, always feeling that something was wrong. Although it had been peaceful for a long time after this journey into the jungle hinterland, this place was a little too peaceful, there was simply an eerie stillness about it.

When he saw that Chi had already swum over to the ghost ship floating on the water, he suddenly realized something and shouted, "Come back!" And turning back towards the helmsman, he said, "Back up! Back up!"

Jiang Yu Feng didn't realize what was happening, but seeing this reaction from him, he instinctively chimed in with a loud voice, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

The three men, who had just swum to the side of the abandoned fishing boat, heard the two men call out and hurriedly turned around and swam back, and the helmsman scrambled to start his motor and back up.

But just five seconds, the hulk, suddenly issued a loud bang, monstrous flames in the sound of the explosion instantly spread, calm water, set off a raging wave, is rapidly backing up the cargo ship, nearly by this huge wave toppled.

Qiao Wen has been considered to react quickly, in the sound of the explosion, has been on the ground, but the body is still uncontrollable this in the sky, rolled I do not know how far, the eye is about to flip off the ship, fortunately a hand in time to catch him.

Chen Canaan fixed his body with one foot against the deck, and pulled Qiao Wen back with one hand. In the violent vibration, several people on the boat, all of them fell to the ground in seven pieces, there was no time to estimate what exactly happened.

Qiao Wen, who was pulled back to the deck by Chen Canaan, suddenly glimpsed a few wet figures in his afterglow, ghostly climbing up from the stern of the ship. Even when the ship was still shaking violently, it didn't affect the movements of these few people, and almost instantly they had leapt forward.

Jiang Yu Feng was the first to stand up, so naturally he became the first target.

Only to see a blade glittering with cold light, it had reached his neck in a flash of lightning.

"Look out!" Jovian yelled.

At the same time, Chen Canaan, who was still lying on the board of the boat, also glimpsed the movement, and almost at the same time when his words fell, his feet stomped, and his body, like a gyroscope on the board of the boat, whirled around, and in an instant, he turned to the side of Jiang Youfeng, and kicked the person with the knife off the boat.

Jiang Yu Feng also came back to his senses from the vertigo at this time, and was not shocked, but he did not have time to say thank you, because the other people had already surged up.

The distance was too close to give them a chance to raise their guns, so they could only fight in close quarters, but Jiang Youfeng moved quickly, pulling down the military spikes on his gun almost immediately.

In a few moments, the boat has come up a dozen people, these bandits are short and thin, look at all the teenage children, should be a long time lurking in the jungle, waiting for the passing ships to rob, and thus very experienced set of combat maneuvers.

The rocking boat greatly weakened the fighting strength of Jiang Yu Feng's men, but it was as good as gold for these teenage bandits of the jungle. Within moments a brother was injured.

In order not to cause any trouble, Jovian didn't get up, only shrunk his body under the upper deck, hating to be invisible.

Chen Canaan was resourceful, at first he stood to deal with these little water monkey like bandits, soon realized that the boat was rocking and it was hard to exert strength, simply fell to the ground and used his leg work, but whenever these kids came close, he used his strength to winch and winch the person over to the ground, and then his fists followed up.

In a moment, he had put down four or five of them. The others were concentrated near the cabin, tangling with Jiang Xuefeng and the others, he had wanted to go and help, but didn't dare to stay too far away from Qiao Wen.

Qiaowen knew his concerns and certainly couldn't drag the crowd down because of himself.

He picked up a dagger and said as Chen Canaan once again knocked a water monkey unconscious and dropped it into the water, "Brother Nan, go help Brother Feng."

Chen Canaan looked at the battle in full swing in front of him and looked back at him again, "Then be careful."

Jovian said, "I'm fine."

By this time, the explosion had already ended, and only a little residual wave remained, and the ship stabilized slightly. This was not the Kowloon Walled City, and Chen Canaan no longer needed to retain his strength.

With him on board, the bandits, who were more than nimble but actually of average skill, were quickly knocked out of the water by them.

Jovian ducked below deck, dagger in hand, and tensed as he watched the melee ahead.

In fact, it is not bloody, both Jiang Yu Feng and Chen Canaan several people, clearly are on these small road bandits have reservations, rarely use a knife to kill the technique, are knocked over and kicked into the water, is dead or alive depends on their own destiny.

Seeing the bandits on the boat getting on, Qiao Wen gradually breathed a sigh of relief, however, just at this moment, he glimpsed a figure in his afterglow, climbing up from underwater beside himself.

That could really be a child, looking at his figure he should not be more than fourteen years old, but his eyes had a cruelty and coldness that did not fit his age. He was originally going to go forward to join the fight, but suddenly noticed Qiao Wen hiding at the deck, his dark eyes moving slightly as he gripped the knife in his hand and stabbed it towards him.

Qiaowen felt bad, clenched his back teeth, and stomped his feet hard, knocking the child into him. The two of them immediately wrestled together.

Although the child looks small, but the strength is surprisingly large, Qiao Wen this body is only eighteen years old, and is still a sickly eighteen year old, the strength is actually compared to not this child.

Fortunately, he had practiced fighting arts for many years and spent time in the field force, even if this body didn't work, the skillfulness of it had long been seared into his bones.

With a deft wrap around the boy's legs and a pinch of the numbing point behind his elbow, he managed to snatch the knife out of his hand, then rolled over and pinned the man down, raising the knife in the process and stabbing down at him.

The boy's dark, cold eyes finally surfaced with a hint of the fear a child should have in the face of death.

Qiaowen's heart was compassionate for a moment, and the knife in his hand temporarily stopped in mid-air.

What he didn't expect, however, was for the boy to suddenly pull a brazier from his waist and stab up towards his side. His reaction was actually quick, realizing something was wrong even before the boy's hand touched his waist, yet this body's reaction was far slower than his brain.

Just as he was dodging to the side on his hands and knees, his body suddenly lightened, and he was being pulled away violently.

The brazier could barely touch his skin before it had completely separated from him.

After Chen Canaan yanked Qiao Wen out of the way, he quickly clutched the hand that was holding the brazier to catch up with him again, folded it with force, and turned it in a direction to drop the stab, which happened to hit the boy's neck.

For a moment blood was pouring out, spraying his hand and even splattering on the clothes of the nearby Jovian.

The boat had been cleared, and Jiang Yu Feng came over and hurriedly threw the still convulsing child into the river as if he were throwing a small animal.

Because it had happened so quickly, Jovian was still in a daze and hadn't reacted, half-falling to the ground and gasping for breath sharply.

Chen Canaan thought he was frightened, casually rubbing the blood on his hand and holding him in his arms, "It's okay it's okay."

Jovian leaned against his chest, listening to his rapid heartbeat. He should be terrified too, right? After all, he had really killed someone today.

Qiao Wen does not have a motherly heart, just for a young man born under the red flag, despite the early psychological preparation, but killing such things are still too far away from him after all.