Chapter 1548 Ocean Voyage (Part 2)

She had a dream that day.

In a dream.

She had a warm fireplace, she saw her smiling mother and brother, and the grown-up puppy sleeping soundly at her feet. The door opened, and her father came back after a tiring day. , he had a pair of kind eyes and was using a cane. She rushed over and threw herself into her father's arms. He hugged her tightly, very tightly. She no longer had to endure the cold winter.

But the hug became tighter and tighter, so tight that she felt a stinging pain and felt as if her bones were about to break.

Her father seemed to have changed.

He raised his crutch and smashed it down at her.

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Suddenly, she woke up from the nightmare, panting emptyly, and heard the sound of the puppy whimpering and licking her cheek in her ear, and she touched the back of her neck.

I felt the long scar.

Winter is getting closer.

Even in the past few days, I have been woken up by the cold wind every day.

And she finally saved a lot of food and used the fabric she picked up to make herself a ragged piece of clothing to keep out the cold. Sister Shirley told her at that time how to give full play to the advantages of a child and be able to secretly Climb aboard discreetly and travel from one place to another.

She began spending some time every night observing the workers on the docks as the freighters docked in the early hours of the morning.

Watching the piles and piles of goods being transported to the ship by the workers.

She also learned that those ships went to many places.

But my mother talked to that man that day.

She would take the last flight of the day to the Southern Continent.

Each monthly shift has a fixed voyage and schedule.

She was also waiting silently, waiting for a suitable opportunity to take her puppy and quietly climb onto that shift to find a new life in that distant place.

finally.

It's time to travel far.

She brought all her food, put on thick patched clothes, carried her doll on her back, hugged her puppy, and secretly climbed to the cargo delivery area of ​​the pier during the night.

She knew not to be discovered. On the dock, she had seen many stowaways who were discovered and would be deported and killed.

On that cold night.

She hid in a corner of the pier and waited all night.

Until almost early morning.

The loading workers came to the dock with a lot of goods. The lights were dim and many people were busy. A large amount of goods from the New World were transported down. Those filled with compact goods unique to this city The boxes of goods were also being handed over, being moved box by box by the workers to the ship.

She finally found the right moment.

He crawled through the gap in the iron fence, and at the last moment when the searchlight swept over, he quickly rushed into the cargo piled on the dock.

The advantage of being small also allowed her to take advantage of her small size and hide in the layers between the goods and boxes, so as not to be noticed and discovered by the workers transporting the goods.

that's all.

Her voyage begins.

She luckily escaped the inspection at the port and escaped the sight of the people on the ship. With the first whistle of the freighter, she officially embarked on the voyage to the new world.

She hugged her puppy and hid in the box, not daring to move.

The smell there is unpleasant.

You don't even know day and night.

During that arduous journey, she relied on the only food she had saved and only maintained the minimum amount of food every day to allow them to spend longer on the ship.

Her puppy was also obedient and silent as never before, as if it knew that it and its owner were always in danger.

Because as long as they are stowaways.

Without the protection of federal laws, once discovered, it may be thrown into the sea at any time and become one of the countless corpses floating in the ocean.

She is actually very smart.

After experiencing the dark experience in the underground factory, she also became more careful than ordinary children.

But this time, she miscalculated the duration of the journey.

Or rather.

As the last voyage before this winter, this huge cargo ship did not sail to its destination immediately. Instead, it changed its course and sailed in another unknown direction in the wind and rain. It was not until later that she It was discovered that when this cargo ship left the port, it carried far more supplies than before.

That is about three weeks after the freighter set out to sea.

What little food she had was exhausted.

The puppy in her arms was also writhing irritably because of hunger. When the darkness enveloped her, it seemed as if its eyes looked at her with a trace of hunger.

But she knew her dog would not eat her, just as she would never eat her own puppy no matter how hungry she was.

In that hunger, their water was also consumed.

And that time.

She almost had to risk climbing out of the box and licking and collecting the rainwater or seawater that had seeped into the corner of the warehouse.

Weakness almost defeated her.

But it was finally the third day after they ran out of food and water.

The huge freighter docked.

She heard the whistle blowing.

But the cargo in the entire freighter did not move. The door of the warehouse was opened. She hid in the gap and saw a scene that she would never forget in her life. She saw a large number of naked black-skinned people. He was shackled like an animal, whipped and driven to the bottom of the warehouse by the sailors on the ship.

Batch after batch, group after group.

Like herds of domestic animals, they passed in front of her like cargo amid the scolding and whipping.

A dark-skinned boy fell to the ground, right next to the box where she was hiding. He seemed to see her through the gap, because she could see the numb surprise in his eyes. look.

But soon the whip struck him.

And she finally understood.

Why didn't she see the goods being transported at the bottom of the warehouse? It was because they had new goods. After the "Abolition of Slavery Act" was established, they were still secretly carrying out the brutal slave trade.

That day she hid in the box and huddled up for a long time. Her whole body was shaking and she couldn't sleep all night.

The puppy in her arms was already weak and had no strength left.

She felt like she would be discovered sooner or later.

Because the boy found her.

But even if she was not discovered, she would definitely die of starvation or thirst on this ocean-going ship.

The moans of the slaves crowded together kept coming from the cabin at her feet, making it difficult for her to sleep, but she didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune. It was precisely because of the appearance of those slaves that the sailors on the ship would be angry every day. Amid the curses, he walked across the deck leading to the lower warehouse with bucket after bucket of swill-like food.

And she was finally able to leave after them.

In the dead of night, I quietly pick up some scraps left on the floor, barely keeping myself alive.

that's all.

They didn't know how many days they spent in increasing weakness and suffering.

But that was that day.

While she was still sleeping, the lid of the box above her head was suddenly opened, and a rough hand grabbed her hair. Her pupils dilated almost instantly at that moment.

She knows.

it's all over.