In front of everyone was a lonely sea of ​​ice.

Under the pale moonlight, the cold sea of ​​ice slammed the ice surface slowly, and the steady rhythm seemed to have not changed since the birth of the world.

The wind was cold and the poor in ragged clothes couldn't help but pull the collars hard. The woman held the child's hand hard, wishing she could put the child in her arms.

They were all workers who discovered the secret of the booklet.

Ferguson looked up at the stars in the sky and whispered: "Max, if we go back to sleep now, we can get up and go to work tomorrow. Otherwise..."

Lewis, who was standing beside him, said: "Of course, we were already discovered by the dog-legged men when we came out. They didn't stop him. Tomorrow they will stare at us. As long as they close their eyes a little, they will be beaten and fired - but so what? How long will it take for you to think about the life of such a slave?"

Ferguson clenched his fists hard.

The bearded Max looked at the twenty or thirty workers behind him, and everyone was waiting anxiously.

"Ark will definitely come. I believe that Stanford's things are true."

"Why?"

"Apart from the brochure, we can't hear anything about Stanford Island, which means that those assholes are deliberately blocking the news."

The literate worker said: "The more they don't want us to know, the more unfavorable the news is for them!"

"right!"

The little monkey asked, "Uncle Max, how did you know the location?"

"The inexplicable string of numbers is divided into three parts, the first two are dates and time, so I doubt the last representative places. I have been in the Navy, and if that is a password, there must be a corresponding password book. The last one with the largest numbers is not larger than the last page of the booklet, so I guess, the booklet itself is a password book. Sure enough, there is a particularly black and bold word in the legal provisions on each page, which connects that... is the answer."

Sudden applause rang behind everyone.

Everyone was shocked and looked back and found that it was the iron stick foreman and his thugs, with thirty or forty people.

"Oh, what a wonderful reasoning, Max, he is worthy of being an old sailor. The guessing game is so beautiful. So, are you and the idiots you connected with are ready to be fired?"

Max looked at the foreman without fear: "So what about firing? We are free people, go wherever we want!"

The foreman seemed to hear a big joke and laughed: "Idiots, I don't want my job, my salary, and my life. As the first idiots who can guess riddles, your names will be on the blacklist of all the factory owners of Yagenk, and no factory will hire you. Pray that shit ark to pick you up, otherwise your only freedom is to starve to death or jump into the sea! Well, brothers, let's see how the idiots and poor people kneel down and kowtow to us in despair!"

A group of gangsters and gangsters scattered in groups of three or five, looking at the workers who were glaring at them indifferently.

"Ark... will definitely come!"

The one who spoke was the literate worker.

"Oh, can I ask where this mysterious self-confidence comes from, idiot?"

“Stanford needs us.”

"Ha! Need a fool?"

The rogues laughed.

The literate worker shook his head firmly: "Absolutely, not like this! We are smart enough because we can see through the riddles in the booklet; we are decisive enough to say no to your oppression; we are united and disciplined enough, and everyone contributes their own strength. We workers are the smartest and bravest group of people in the world - idiots, it's you! You damn parasite!"

The foreman said gloomyly: "Brothers, drag this idiot with long tongue over to me and pull his tongue!"

Max roared: "You dare!"

"Oh, I'm so scared! Get angry? He gets angry!" the foreman shouted exaggeratedly, and then his face changed. "When it comes to fighting, it seems that there are more people on my side. You'd better watch quietly, otherwise, there will be more than him who are being pulled out. Come on!"

Ferguson roared: "Fight with them!"

Just as both sides were about to break out, the little monkey suddenly shouted: "Look, look, lights, lights!"

Everyone looked in the direction of his fingers. Under the pale moonlight, on the rolling sea of ​​ice, an orange-yellow light was shaking slightly, gradually becoming bigger.

Lewis' lips were trembling: "Boat...boat..."

It was a headlight, and behind it, there were small lights with starry lights that marked the outline of the ship.

Ferguson shouted: "More than one, more than one!"

Yes, the orange light was not alone, and after it, four more appeared.

Five ships, shaking waves, approaching the beach under the moonlight.

The little monkey saw clearly the appearance of the ship: "The bow of the ship is square, look, it is square, ark, ark!"

No one laughed at him for the strange logic of "the ark is square", and everyone's eyes were attracted by these five strange ships.

Max said in surprise: "They don't slow down? Oh no, they'll be stranded..."

Before he finished speaking, the sound of thunderstorms and broken ice collapsed for half a day, and five flat-headed giant ships rushed to the frozen shore one after another - stranded.

Some gangsters laughed loudly and were slapped by the foreman in the face and shut up.

"Cruff-boom!" The flat-headed boat's head looked like a falling gate, slamming heavily on the ice beach.

A big man in armor jumped down and shouted: "Ye Vonnich, the captain of the Stanford Floating Island Guard, come to pick up the workers back to the island! Those who are willing to go, get on the boat!"

Max yelled: "We are surrounded here!"

Ye Vonnich had already seen the situation on the shore clearly. With a wave of his hand, countless soldiers came out of the cabin of the flat-headed boat, instantly surrounding the foreman and his thugs.

Max yelled for the second time: "We have women and children, do you want it?"

Yevonichi also shouted: "Come on!"

"Everyone wait a moment, and the woman and the child get on the boat first!"

The foreman quit and shouted, "You can't leave, they are factory workers...ah!"

Yevonichi pounded the hilt of his sword on his belly, then grabbed his hair and dragged his face up: "Is there a contract?"

"No...ah!"

"Five insurances and one fund?"

"What is five...ao!"

"Will they?"

"I'm willing... no no no, no, no, no, no, no, they are free, go wherever they want...ao!"

He still got hit.

Ye Vunichi grabbed his collar with one hand, and twitched the foreman's fat face with the other hand: "I answered correctly. But this time I'm giving you my gift - because I don't like you."

Under the deterrence of absolute force, the foreman and the thugs were trembling, and no one dared to say anything.

Yevonich was the last one to board the ship.

After getting on board, Max said: "I'm sorry, this time, there are only twenty of us..."

Yevonichi waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay, as long as there is someone who is willing to go, we will take one!"

"There are still many people who want to leave, will you come back?"

"certainly!"

The workers boarded the ship cheered.

Yevonichi ordered loudly: "Retreat!"

The tails of the five flat-headed warships burst out loud at the same time. The powerful blades rotated rapidly and the hull slowly retreated. Soon, all five stranded warships returned to the sea and then disappeared into the depths of the ice sea.

The foreman stared at the gradually disappearing warship with hatred, gritting his teeth: "Absolutely, there will be no second time, absolutely!"
Chapter completed!