"This time we really have to thank the fishermen, otherwise, injured as you were, who knows if you could have managed to swim ashore. And even if you did, those people wouldn't have let us go."
Gu Chengyu sighed, this time was truly perilous. Although his martial arts were quite good, two fists could hardly fend off four hands; with so many people, there were always moments of exhaustion and negligence.
"You don't seriously intend to take this boat back to the Capital, do you?" Lu Chen looked out at the vast river, also feeling somewhat grateful to have survived such danger.
They had already switched two boats, each one a small fishing vessel, and staying in such cramped quarters was quite suffocating.
Besides, he had fallen into the water injured before, already feeling miserable. He had a high fever the other day, though it had subsided a bit today.
