Chapter 876: So-called Regrets
Chapter 876: So-called Regrets (Part )
"Dong dong dong dong..."
Just as Emma clenched her teeth and gripped the rapier in her hand, the footsteps below the deck gradually disappeared. The originally dense sounds of varying strengths fell silent, leaving only a light and soft footstep.
Listening to the scraping sound of the soft cloth slippers on the floor, the bearded man who had just kowtowed and begged Emma to kill him completely, suddenly began to tremble all over. He unconsciously took half a step towards the entrance of the deck, but immediately retreated as if bitten by a snake.
"Click."
With a slight sound of wood rubbing against each other, the trapdoor on the deck of the king's ship moved slightly, as if someone was trying to push the door open from below.
But this trapdoor leading to the lower cabin had long been sealed by the cleaners using various means. The people below tried several times but failed to push the trapdoor open. Then they had to raise their little fists with difficulty and knock hard on the bottom of the cracked trapdoor.
"dad?"
When the clear childish voice came from below, the bearded man's legs suddenly softened and he knelt on the deck with a plop. The child under the trapdoor seemed to have heard the noise above and couldn't help but happily lean on the door panel and shouted:
"You are outside, right? Dad! Open the door!"
"Dong dong dong."
"Open the door, why are you ignoring me?"
"dad?"
"Pavlo, are you okay?"
After looking at the bearded man who was half-lying on the deck, trying to go to the trapdoor but unable to move a step, the female cleaner standing at the front hesitated for a moment and then suggested:
"Or I can just send the child away..."
"No! Don't!"
After hurriedly calling the female cleaner, the bearded man propped himself up on the deck and tried to move towards the trapdoor. However, his legs were shaking uncontrollably, and after a long time he only moved less than one meter, still quite far from the trapdoor.
After waiting for a while and seeing no one come to open the door, the child's voice under the trapdoor seemed a little anxious. While knocking on the door panel with great effort, he said in fear:
"Dad! Please come and open the door for me. There is a terrible smell of smoke in the house...it's so hot!"
"Please let me out! Fire! It's on fire! It's coming towards me!"
"Dad! Can you please open the door? I won't be naughty again. Please don't lock me up at home!"
The children's voices below the deck gradually began to take on a crying tone, and soon after, a large amount of choking gray smoke began to float uncontrollably upwards through the gap between the trapdoor and the deck. It seemed that there really was a dangerous fire below.
When Tong Yin really started crying and begged him to open the door for the third time, the bearded burly man finally couldn't bear it anymore. He jumped out, knocked open the half mast that was pressing on the trapdoor, and desperately used his fingers to dig into the groove of the trapdoor.
However, in order to hold out for a little longer, the groove of the trapdoor had long been completely blocked by the abnormal object. Even though the bearded burly man had scratched the trapdoor so hard that the wood was almost rotten due to the fingernails of the bearded man, the trapdoor covered with blood-red fingerprints was still tightly closed, with no intention of opening at all.
"Open the door!"
As if he had reacted, the bearded man, who was dominated by his emotions, suddenly turned around and looked at the female cleaner who had just spoken. He knelt on the deck and begged with bloodshot eyes:
"Please! Please open the door!" "I... okay..."
The female cleaner bit her lip, as if she wanted to say something, but finally closed her eyes, stretched out her hand and slightly tore the trapdoor.
"Crack!"
A clear mechanical sound came from below. As the female cleaner tore at it, the trapdoor that seemed to be welded shut suddenly popped open. The dark light of the sun in the dead world shone down and illuminated the tear-stained face of the little girl below.
"father!"
After being carried out of the cabin filled with fireworks by the trembling arms of the bearded man, the little girl wearing a pair of white rabbit slippers immediately stretched out her chubby arms and hugged the bearded man's neck tightly, choking with red eyes and saying:
"You didn't open the door for me no matter how I called you... I thought you didn't want me anymore because I was naughty..."
"No, definitely not!"
Trembling all over, he hugged the little girl, feeling the little heartbeat he hadn't seen for more than a decade. The bearded man, whose tears and snot had already made a mess, knelt on the dirty deck with a plop, and kept promising while choking:
"I won't give up on you either, I don't want myself! I... Dad just locked you up at home because I was angry! But no matter when, you just need to call me dad! I will definitely come! As long as you call! As long as you call me!"
"it is good!"
The little girl couldn't help but burst into laughter when she heard this, and nodded repeatedly:
"I will call you! I... Dad? My throat is choked... I can't seem to... call out..."
As the little girl's voice gradually became hoarse, the choking fireworks that had originally only spread under the cabin quietly seeped out from her mouth and nose.
Amid the terrified expressions of the cleaners, a large amount of cigarette ash with red dots spurted out of her mouth and sprinkled on the bearded man's arms and chest, burning dense black and red holes in his already restless soul, and then burning all the way to deeper places.
The little girl in the bearded man's arms also quickly shrank and cracked in the smoke of the fire, turning from a cute and adorable child into a charred corpse licked dry by the flames.
father!
After opening her mouth and spitting out another puff of ash, the little girl, who quickly became dry, looked at the bearded man with bloodshot eyes and opened her mouth with questioning eyes.
I clearly shouted...why didn't you come to save me?
"no no!"
Looking at the small body in his arms that was drying up and breaking into pieces, and at her questioning look, the bearded man could not help but tear his clothes, desperately pointed out the burn scars on his body, and knelt in front of the little girl, explaining with despair in his eyes:
"I didn't lie to you! Dad really went there! I rushed in as soon as I found the fire! I searched the whole house! But I... I..."
As the small body gradually disintegrated, the bearded man's eyes, which were blackened by the fireworks, seemed to reappear the burning and collapsed cabinet, and his daughter who watched him pass by under the cabinet but could not shout out and could only look at his back as she was burned to death.
"I didn't hear it! I didn't hear it!"
As the bearded man wailed in despair, the holes in his body caused by the fireworks grew larger and larger, almost burning him in half from the chest. The bearded man seemed unaware of anything, and only banged his head against the deck in front of him with all his might... until he was pierced through the chest by a rapier!
(End of this chapter)