Qiu Wuhen expanded the scope. He was worried that he had made a mistake in judgment and might have shot the arrow elsewhere. However, he searched the entire top of the cliff and found no trace of anyone passing by. Because this is a desert island.

The weeds on the ground are almost up to the thighs. If you walk through it, you will definitely step on the grass, unless you fly over the grass. But now there are no signs of lodging among the weeds on the ground, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

Weird.

Could it be that I made a mistake in my judgment, that the arrow was not shot from this direction, but from another direction? After the soldier was hit by the arrow, he turned around half a circle before falling. In fact, he shot it from the other side of the hill.

?

However, this inference was quickly rejected, because the hill on the other side was five or six hundred steps away from the ship where they docked. Such a long distance was beyond the maximum range of a bow and arrow, and it was impossible to kill them with one arrow.

This soldier's.

Qiu Wuhen was searching when he heard people on the main ship shouting loudly: "Master Qiu, come back quickly, Master Tie is calling you."

Qiu Wuhen returned to the main ship and asked anxiously: "What's wrong?"

Tie Anchor's face was really ashen and he said, "Go in and see for yourself."

With that said, he came to the cabin.

Qiu Wuhen immediately hurried down to the cabin. Several soldiers were holding lanterns in their hands, lighting up various intersections and giving him instructions along the way. Tie Anchor followed Qiu Wuhen and followed the guidance of the soldiers carrying lanterns.

A warehouse for storing fresh water on a large ship. Qiu Wuhen was dumbfounded as soon as he arrived here, because there was water everywhere in the cabin and the ground was wet.

Qiu Wuhen asked the soldier anxiously: "What's going on?"

A soldier said: "Someone hit the hold of the fresh water boat with an arrow. The boat was broken and the water was gone."

Qiu Wuhen immediately checked, and sure enough, a lot of fresh water was shot out of the warehouse. The force was so powerful that one arrow could shoot through five or six buckets of water. And the other party seemed to understand it very well, because these buckets were neatly stacked together.

, an arrow can penetrate it.

Qiu Wuhen found that there was water everywhere on the ground, and there were various footprints. Apparently many people had come down to look at it before, and there were probably no clues left.

He hurriedly said: "Who discovered it?"

A soldier said: "It was discovered by a few of us. We were downstairs and suddenly noticed water droplets falling from above. We came up to take a look and found that the cabin was full of water. We immediately reported it to the adults."

Qiu Wuhen learned more about it and learned that many people came to see it because fresh water was so important.

Tie Ao and General Hong asked Qiu Wuhen, "What do you think?"

Qiu Wuhen said: "There is no way. Now the murderer must have shot through the door with a crossbow. He should have done this before. Because the place where the water is stored is relatively remote, no one paid attention to it."

"What should we do now?"

"Maybe we need to collect some rainwater after dawn, or go to the island to collect fresh water. It is very dangerous for a ship to have no fresh water. In the past ten days, we have actually digested part of the fresh water. Without fresh water supply, it would be simply

It’s like walking in the desert.”

They both nodded in agreement.

General Hong ordered to increase the number of sentries at the other two freshwater storage areas. He had never thought of setting up sentries in Tamsui before, because it should be relatively safe on the big ship. The most important thing is that he had not expected to encounter any encounters in the past ten days.

He saw the enemy and did not expect that the enemy would resort to assassination and destruction of fresh water.

Qiu Wuhen checked the arrows one by one. Later, his eyes lit up and he found that one of the arrows was mostly inserted into the bucket. There was also an arrow tail exposed, but it was not shot out. It turned out that the arrow happened to be inserted into the bucket.

A small section of the barrel's hard rope was stuck, and the arrow tail was still exposed.

Qiu Wuhen immediately extracted the fingerprints on the arrow, and the fingerprints he obtained were the same as those on the arrow that shot the soldier to death. In other words, it was the same person who shot the soldier to death and shot through the bucket.

Qiu Wuhen did not tell any of the Hong Jiangjun people the news. It was dawn, and the clouds were still rolling. There was lightning and thunder in the distance, and the sea was rough. The storm in the distance could be transferred back at any time, because they were now in the storm area.

, only relatively weakened. I watched the sky rolling, but no rain fell. Various large and small wooden basins were placed on the deck of the ship, ready to fill the water. But not a drop of rain fell, only strong winds.

A masterpiece.

Qiu Wuhen and the others checked the creek flowing down and found that the water was salty. There was definitely no way to make fresh water. After discussion, they decided to send an expedition team into the jungle to search for fresh water. In the evening, the soldiers searching for fresh water came back.

, said they found several lakes, all of which were small, but the water was salty and unfit for drinking.

Qiu Wuhen was worried that they would encounter an enemy attack, but strangely, this team of fifty people did not receive any attacks, not even wild animals. After all, the island was too small.

At night, the Hongjiang Army arranged two posts, and they had to be careful. The moonlight was very good that night, and it shone brightly everywhere. The soldiers worked in teams of two, and posted more posts around the ship and at the commanding heights, just in case.

The assassins attacked again. And there were 50 more sentries on the hill, holding lanterns and occupying the commanding heights to prevent the enemy from attacking from this point again.

In the dead of night, when everything was quiet, a soldier was guarding the door, and a soldier came from the opposite side. The soldier on duty recognized Hou Xiaoqi. Hou Xiaoqi was the squad leader and was responsible for arranging sentries on the post. The soldier quickly clasped his fists and raised his hands and said:

"Reporting to Master Xiaoqi, everything is safe."

"That's good, keep an eye out, the assassin will probably come again."

The sentry quickly agreed.

"It seems like someone is coming. Come over and take a look."

At this moment, Hou Xiaoqi suddenly had a dagger in his hand and stabbed him in the heart. Just when the tip of the knife was about to pierce his chest, the soldier suddenly withdrew and stabbed him with the knife.

It was empty. The soldier struck Hou Xiaoqi on the neck with a fierce palm. The force of the counterattack was so powerful that he fainted with just one palm.

The soldier tore off a piece of dough from his face and shouted: "Come quickly."

Soon countless soldiers and the commander of the ship rushed down from the upstairs.

Di Shenjiang said excitedly: "I caught him."

"That's right, he's lying on the ground."

It turned out that this soldier was disguised as Qiu Wuhen, and he was painted black. Hou Xiaoqi didn't notice the other person's face at all, and was restrained by Qiu Wuhen as soon as he made a move.

Qiu Wuhen took his hand and checked the fingerprints on his hand. Sure enough, they were consistent with the fingerprints on the arrow that killed the soldier and shot through Tamsui. They determined that it was the same. It turned out to be him.

Qiu Wuhen ordered him to be tied up and taken to a room. He also invited General Hong and Lord Tie Anchor over. Both of them were surprised and asked what was going on?

Qiu Wuhen said: "I found that the fingerprints on the two arrow shafts were the same, indicating that they were done by the same person. But I checked the location of the soldier who was shot to death on the ship. Judging from the location, the arrow should have come from the cliff.

It was shot from above, but I checked the hills and found no trace of anyone appearing there, because they were overgrown with weeds and there were no human traces in the past. If someone appeared there, the grass would be trampled down.

But no. I began to suspect that the arrow was not actually shot from there, but that it might be the soldiers on the ship."

"Later, I thought about it for a long time, and suddenly I had a flash of inspiration and discovered a problem. Because there were no fingerprints on the arrow, which means that if it was shot from a bow, then there should be a thumb at the end of the arrow to pull the bow.

The pinch mark left on the tail of the arrow when shooting, because it was a royal arrow, must have been shot with a bow, not a crossbow. This kind of palm print does not have the unique spiral marks on fingerprints;

Unique texture."

"After the inspection, I began to wonder if someone was holding an arrow in his hand as a dagger and stabbed the opponent's heart directly with an arrow, killing the opponent on the spot, but giving people the illusion that the arrow was shot. Of course, this

It's just an idea of ​​mine. It may be reasonable, but it doesn't determine my main direction of investigation. My main suspicion is that the Japanese pirates secretly attacked us, and then there was a shot through the fresh water on our main ship.

What happened, I extracted fingerprints from the arrow shaft again, and after comparing the fingerprints, they are consistent with the previous ones, thus proving that it was the same person who shot the sentry to death and shot through our fresh water."

"And I believed that he would not give up and would continue to attack us. So I deliberately said it was a Japanese pirate, and organized a search team to search in the mountains the next day while looking for Tamsui. This move successfully paralyzed the murderer, and I guess he will

Attack our Tamsui again, and I deliberately asked you to add double posts to my ship. I guess I didn't add them, it is still a single post. I believe that in this case the murderer will target my ship. Sure enough, he

The sentry that attacked my ship, luckily I replaced the sentry with myself and took him for granted."

Several generals and Tie Anchor were extremely surprised, praising Master Qiu for his careful thinking and thorough consideration, otherwise he would not know what big trouble would have happened.

By this time, the soldiers had poured cold water on Hou Xiaoqi to wake him up.

Qiu Wuhen said: "Are you willing to explain yourself or should we find a way to make you explain?"

Hou Xiaoqi was immediately frightened. He immediately said: "Explain, I will tell you everything, please spare my life."

General Hong was very angry because Hou Xiaoqi was his subordinate. He whipped Hou Xiaoqi hard on the spot and said, "Why don't you just recruit her like this?"

Hou Xiaoqi quickly agreed. He said: "Actually, I am a traitor to the Japanese pirates. A dozen of their surviving Japanese pirates have already warned me. They left instructions for me, and they asked me to be the traitor on the shore, so

I just want to create chaos and destroy fresh water."

"Where are they?"

"I don't know, I just know they arrived on the shore."
Chapter completed!