The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 530 A Premeditated Ambush

At the same time that Liu Hanxing rushed back to Haiya City, Zhu Ziming also officially entered the coverage area of ​​the Wanli Yanbo Formation,

Born in a veteran cultivator family in Sea Cliff City, Zhu Ziming is no stranger to the various rules of the outlying islands. Most foreign merchant ships that want to pass through the thousands of miles of smoke and waves must report to the major lords of the outlying islands in advance to make an appointment. Send out envoys carrying tokens to respond at the agreed time and place.

Before Zhu Ziming went to the outlying islands, he had already written letters to the major lords of the outlying islands asking for asylum through the carrier pigeons specially cultivated in the outlying islands, and just before his stowaway sailed into the big formation, he had already received affirmation from the outlying islands. reply.

However, Xu Tong, the lord of Yanbo Island, said that the outlying islands have been busy with trade recently, and Zhu Ziming needs to wait for two days.

This requirement is not uncommon.

Because the tokens for opening the ban on the Thousand Miles of Smoke and Waves are very limited, and each outlying island lord has less than two on average. If there are a large number of merchant ships who want to enter the Thousand Miles of Smoke and Waves in a short period of time, they must honestly line up.

When the Sea Cliff Fleet landed on the outlying islands two years ago, they used a special token that allowed dozens of large merchant ships to pass through the vast array of smoke and waves at the same time. Even Huang Xuan, the great lord of the island who holds this token, has no right to use it casually.

As for the ordinary token held by the lord of Yanbo Island, Xu Tong, at most one merchant ship is allowed to enter at the same time, and the operation time is relatively long. If there is a large merchant ship fleet visiting, there will indeed be a phenomenon that the schedule cannot be opened in a short period of time.

However, the outlying islands will not let the asylum seekers wait outside the Great Formation. According to the instructions from the outlying islands, Zhu Ziming's smuggling boat sailed into the sea of ​​fog generated by the formation around the outlying islands. The area of ​​this sea of ​​fog is wide enough. There are hundreds of kilometers, which can not only block the vision, but even the spiritual consciousness of the cultivator. Even if there are enemies chasing and killing them, unless they know the coordinates of the stowaway's berthing in advance, it is impossible to find the trace of the asylum.

Therefore, according to the instructions of the outlying islands, Zhu Ziming is basically safe after mooring the stowaway boat at the designated place inside the sea of ​​fog. Next, he just needs to wait quietly for the ship sent by the lord of the outlying island.

And Yanbo Island did not break its promise.

Less than three days later, Zhu Ziming found a small boat with a tonnage similar to his own stowaway on the sea in the distance.Breaking through the sea of ​​fog and coming on waves, the boat that responded did not confirm Zhu Ziming's identity. After all, the stowaway boat that could arrive at the designated coordinates of the sea of ​​fog at the specified time was unlikely to be someone else.

As the responder raised a token-shaped object on the bow, a blue light curtain scanned towards Zhu's ship. This blue light curtain was similar to the blue light curtain that responded to the Haiya Fleet at the beginning, but its momentum was greater. Far worse, Kankan could only cover Zhu's merchant ship, but when the light curtain swept across Zhu Ziming's body, a golden light flashed slightly on his body surface, and a phantom in the shape of a book emerged, which actually gave Zhu Ziming There is a golden wheel of merit added out of thin air behind it.

This treasure is a magic weapon of merit and virtue left by the ancestors of the Zhu family, and it is also a witness of the past glory of the Zhu family business association. Now it has become the last straw for Zhu Ziming to escape from birth.

With the appearance of the "false golden wheel of merit and virtue", this magic weapon of merit and virtue completely exhausted all its power and disappeared into a little bit of fly ash, but the thousands of miles of smoke wave formation also recognized the legitimacy of this temporary golden wheel of merit and virtue.

After the blue light curtain swept across the ship, it disappeared very quickly. The sea of ​​fog in front of him seemed to be alive, and it automatically opened a passage, and the faint coastline of Yanbo Island had already appeared far away at the other end of the sea of ​​fog. .

Looking at the final destination of his trip, Zhu Ziming, who was standing on the deck, couldn't help feeling mixed feelings. Just three days ago, he was a newcomer in the cultivation world of Haiya City, the return of the king, and even Jiang Huaan dared not openly treat him. But after just three days, he has become a fugitive from Zhongzhou who fled to an outlying island in embarrassment.

Until now, he couldn't figure out why Liu Hanxing suddenly ordered him to be killed.

But the matter has come to this point, Zhu Ziming has no good solution, he can only escape to the outlying island area to avoid the limelight, and when the situation in Zhongzhou becomes clear, maybe he can look for a chance to make a comeback.

After all, as the old saying goes:
Where there is life, there is hope!

While Zhu Ziming was silently thinking about his next plan, several large ocean-going merchant ships suddenly drove out from the direction of Yanbo Island, and greeted the stowaway boat of the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce.

Fleets of this size are rare in the outlying islands, and they are often affiliated with powerful cultivation chambers of commerce. The flagship ship in this fleet is a small luxury sailing ship with a sea cliff style.

This is not surprising, after all, Sea Cliff City is one of the main trading partners in the outlying islands area. Even the ships of the lords of the outlying islands are mostly built by the shipyards under the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, and this flagship has an extremely luxurious shape. , seems to confirm this point, and only outlying island lords who are not short of money will build such luxurious ships.

Zhu Ziming thought that these merchant ships were specially to greet him, because the lord of the outlying islands had always attached great importance to him, a high-net-worth fugitive from Zhongzhou, but before he could ask, he saw these large ocean-going merchant ships approaching and suddenly scattered to both sides. Open, forming a long-distance encirclement situation for the [-]-ton smuggling boat he was riding on.

Not only that, but the luxurious sea-cliff style flagship also played several familiar flags in succession.

The Zhujia Chamber of Commerce was born in ocean trade, and Zhu Ziming is very familiar with the semaphore system of Haiya City. The few semaphore lines played by the flagship of the fleet clearly have only one meaning:
Keep your distance, ballista salvo!
Seeing this, Zhu Ziming's expression changed drastically.

He quickly cast the eagle eye spell on himself, only to find that all the ships in the fleet began to slowly turn their sides towards him, and on the side decks, there were clearly rows of Sea Cliff Cities ready to go. Ballista!

Zhu Ziming couldn't believe his eyes.

He quickly urged the lion to roar; he explained loudly: "Everyone, do you have any misunderstandings? I am a refugee who escaped from Haiya City. I have sent invitations to the seven lords of the outlying islands in accordance with the rules of the outlying islands. , who is going to bring Lingshi coins to apply for political asylum on the outlying islands, you are not our enemies!"

However, this explanation does not work at all.

At the same time as Zhu Ziming was explaining, the other party's flagship fired the semaphore of "ballista volley" again, and hundreds of ballistas that were ready to shoot blasted towards Zhu's merchant ship like a torrential rain.

Due to the relatively long shooting distance, only a very few ballistas successfully hit the target. However, because Zhu Ziming's stowaway ship was originally small in size, these two or three ballistas that hit by luck still caused huge damage. Not only the sawdust on the deck Flying horizontally, even a hole was opened in the side, and a small amount of sea water has poured in.

Zhu Ziming couldn't understand what was happening in front of him at all.

He wanted to find the small boat that led him the way just now, and was about to let the person who responded to him settle what happened in front of him for him, but he found that the small boat had already fled to the side!

(End of this chapter)