The Eastern Continent Swordsman

CH. 42 – Events on Yimin Island

As depicted in Feng Yaoshan's map, Guichuan's ship only passed through three more islands to arrive at Maundo, the only place it had to pass through to enter Caihong. Had Guichuan not been in a drinking water crisis, Zhou Fu had asked the crew to sail directly to Maundo. Unfortunately, all passengers aboard the Guichuan had been fasting to drink water for the previous five days.

For this reason, Zhou Fu ordered the crew to search for a nearby island to replenish their drinking water supplies. The closest island to the destination was Yimin Island, an island that Feng Yaoshan said was a clean island from allies of the Silver Dragon Association.

Yimin Island is actually the second closest island to Baisha. However, Baisha Island is an island inhabited by the Red Bat organization group. Given that Rao Guohoa was still alive, Zhou Fu chose to avoid Baisha island for a while. So the Guichuan ship sailed to the island of Yimin on that night.

Tok tok…

The sound of Shen Shen's room door being knocked from outside, made Zhou Fu who was meditating inside was forced to stop his activities for a moment. Zhou Fu cleared his throat to signal that the knocker of the door was allowed to enter by him. Hearing a signal from Zhou Fu, one of the servants and crew walked over. His face looks not okay. He walked half-down with hurried steps.

“Young master, look out! Looks like we can't stop by Yimin island!” said the crew while pointing outside to invite Zhou Fu to check something immediately.

Zhou Fu furrowed his two eyebrows before finally rising to his feet and following the crew out of the room. Zhou Fu sped up his pace as soon as his nose smelled something unusual. He got ahead of the crew, walked quickly to the deck of the ship and jumped on the mast and hung there for a few moments.

At that time, the night was still very thick, but Zhou Fu's eyes were observant enough to see the oddity that was happening many miles away. Something terrible is happening on Yimin Island. Plumes of thick smoke were gathering just under the sky of Yimin island. The smell had even been smelled on Zhou Fu's nose a moment before.

“Is there a volcano on Yimin island?” Zhou Fu asked by shouting at the crew of the ship below him.

“No. Yimin has no volcanoes, young master!” replied the crewman with a headband several times, his face still very sour. It seemed, he had been very hopeful that he would soon get drinking water on Yimin island.

“Does Yimin have dry forests? Is it a forest fire?” Zhou Fu asked, but not to anyone, only to himself.

“No, Young master! Yimin Island does not even have forests. Yimin is a very densely populated island, so dense all the forests there are opened as settlements! The smoke was...The smoke was..” chirps the crew who like to shout something but stifled.

“Cannot be!” tukas Zhou Fu hard, “asap that billowed over the island of Yimin is so broad and thick. To create such a thick smoke, at least something must have burned beyond half of the island!” Zhou Fu muttered half angrily, because in his heart he did not want to accept the fact that the crew did consider the settlement on Yimin island was burning.

“It looks like Yimin island is under attack, Young master! There was no way an accidental fire could be that terrible. Definitely it was a deliberate burn!” the crew confirmed.

Zhou Fu's eyes widened instantly, his two hands clenched tightly, “a densely populated settlement is being deliberately burned? Whatdoes thatmean? Who did it?”

The crew dropped to the wooden floor with two knees bent. His two hands then bowed tightly on his face. From his wobbling shoulders, Zhou Fu knew that the man was crying. Zhou Fu came down from the mast to ask something.

“Is that your birthplace, Uncle?” Zhou Fu asked in a soft voice. Previously, Zhou Fu thought the crew looked sour because of his hopes of finding drinking water running aground. But, after seeing the grief the crew showed, it seemed very possible that Yimin was the man's birthplace.

“Not.. But, my son and wife are in Yimin, hiks.. It looks like they have become ashes.”.

The crew then told Zhou Fu if not infrequently the small islands around Caihong experienced attacks from other groups. The security system outside Caihong is indeed very weak where they do not have an official government, so that malicious groups can roam without being haunted by government punishment.

That risky security reason that then makes many people work hard to be able to register to become citizens of Caihong. By having an identity as a citizen of Caihong, people will be able to occupy the region of Caihong which is famous for being prosperous and fertile. If one had excess funds, one could even directly register to become a member of the Caihong noble family.

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The Guichuan ship was already getting closer to Yimin island. Zhou Fu's ears began to hear the sounds of screaming and crying from little girls and women. The night that was once silent, now becomes noisy with noise that is quite disturbing the ears. Anyone would not want to hear the sound of cries and fear that overlap each other.

“Only a good person whose heart is disturbed when he hears a cry for help from someone. If your heart is disturbed, do something immediately, because good people have more chances of regret than bad people!”

Yimin Island was already very close, and something that was on Zhou Fu's chest was like wanting to stick out. The words of Li Xian's grandfather also sprung up in his head. Zhou Fu began to argue that it was possible that he belonged to a group of good people because his heart and his entire body felt uncomfortable and could not wait to hear the cries of residents in the Yimin settlement.

“I will get off here, take this ship to this point, wait for my arrival in no later than two days. If I don't come too, take Shen Shen to Maundo carefully,” Zhou Fu gave a message to some of the crew while pointing to the image in Feng Yaoshan's map.

“What if Miss Shen asks young master?” one of the crew members asked seriously.

“Kukira, Shen Shen will soon wake up. Just let me know if I have to take care of anything important. Tell him to wear the silver dragon diadem as long as I go.” After saying a few sentences, Zhou Fu left Guichuan's ship with the one heirloom sword he had obtained from under Luzon.

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The coast of Yimin island breathes a fairly hot wind even though it was still night. At night, the air on the coast should be cold enough to stab a bone. That means, the fire that occurred in Yimin is a fairly terrible fire.

“Toloooong…. Tolooong our…. Mr...”

It was seen that a middle-aged aunt was running away in a hurry by holding a little girl whose body was being devoured by fire. Without asking much, Zhou Fu darted and picked up the girl to immerse in the water for a while. The girl, in fact, was lifeless, the aunt who carried her seemed to have understood her as well.

Zhou Fu immersed the little girl's body into the water to make her body comfortably hugged by her mother. Sure enough, the middle-aged aunt immediately grabbed the body that Zhou Fu carried and held it with tears.

“Shamo's people are savage! Hiks... They destroyed thousands of lives in the name of unproven revenge.. Hiks... My daughter...”.

Zhou Fu was shocked by the aunt's lamentation. Shamo's people? He sat for a moment, and revenge? There were some questions that plagued his mind, but they were not important for that moment. Zhou Fu also jumped into the smoke on the island of Yimin.

“One second of my delay, it could have made one life free, Zhou Fu's inner” while continuing to hit the puff of smoke that pierced the aroma of grilled meat. 

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***Chapter 43 with the title Shamo Military Offer already aired on yutub.

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