The Fourth Financial Crisis

Just as Liu Hanxing rushed back to Haiya City, Zhu Ziming also officially entered the coverage area of ​​the Wanli Yanbo Array.

Coming from an old cultivator family in Haiya City, Zhu Ziming is no stranger to the various rules of the outlying islands. Most foreign merchant ships that want to pass through the Wanli Yanbo Formation must make an appointment with the major lords of the outlying islands in advance. Send an envoy carrying a token 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 through carrier pigeons specially trained by the outlying islands, requesting asylum. And just before his stowaway boat sailed into the formation, he had already received affirmative approval from the outlying islands. reply.

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

This request is not unusual.

Because the tokens that unlock the ban on the Wanli Yanbo Array are very limited, with each outlying island lord holding less than two on average. If a large number of merchant ships want to enter the Wanli Yanbo Array in a short period of time, they must queue up honestly.

When the Haiya Fleet landed on the outlying island two years ago, they used a special token that allowed dozens of large merchant ships to pass through the Wanli Yanbo Formation at the same time. However, there was only one such special token on the entire outlying island, and without the unanimous consent of all the outlying island lords, Even Huang Xuan, the lord of the island who holds this token, has no power to use it casually.

The ordinary token held by Xu Tong, the lord of Yanbo Island, can only allow one merchant ship to enter at the same time, and the operation time is relatively long. If a large merchant ship fleet comes to visit, there will indeed be a shortage of schedules in a short period of time.

However, the outlying islands will not let the refugees wait outside the Wanli Yanbo Formation. According to the instructions from the outlying islands, Zhu Ziming's stowaway boat sailed into the fog sea generated by the formation on the outlying islands early. This fog sea area is wide enough. It is hundreds of kilometers long, which not only blocks the vision, but also the consciousness of the cultivators. Even if there are enemies chasing after them, unless the coordinates of the stowaway ship are known in advance, it will be impossible to find traces of the refugees.

Therefore, after Zhu Ziming berthed the stowaway boat at the designated location inside the Sea of ​​Fog according to the instructions from the outlying islands, it was basically safe. Next, he only needed to wait quietly for the ship sent by the lord of the outlying islands to pick up the ship.

And Yanbo Island did not break its promise.

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

As the responder raised a token-like object on the bow, then a blue light curtain scanned towards the Zhu family ship. This blue light curtain was similar to the blue light curtain that originally responded to the Haiya fleet, but its momentum was different. Far inferior, Kankan could only cover the Zhu family's merchant ship, but when the light curtain swept across Zhu Ziming's body, a golden light flashed slightly on his body, and a book-like shadow emerged, unexpectedly giving Zhu Ziming A golden wheel of merit was added out of thin air behind him.

This treasure is a magic weapon of merit left by the ancestors of the Zhu family. It is also a witness to the past glory of the Zhu family chamber of commerce. Its value is simply immeasurable. Even when the Zhu family chamber of commerce faced the disaster of collapse, Zhu Ziming still kept this most valuable family heirloom with him. Now it has become Zhu Ziming's last straw to escape.

With the appearance of the "Pseudo Golden Wheel of Merit", this magic weapon of merit has completely exhausted all its power and turned into bits of fly ash and disappeared. However, the Wanli Yanbo Formation also recognized the legitimacy of this temporary golden wheel of merit.

After the blue light curtain swept across the ship, it quickly disappeared. The sea of ​​fog in front of me seemed to be alive, automatically opening a channel, and the faint coastline of Yanbo Island had appeared far away on the other side of the sea of ​​fog. .

Looking at the final destination of his trip, Zhu Ziming, who was standing on the deck, couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart. Just three days ago, he was the upstart in the cultivation world of Haiya City in Return of the King. Even Jiang Hua'an did not dare to openly confront him. He was vicious, but just three days later, he had become a fugitive from Zhongzhou who was exiled on an island in embarrassment.

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

But now that the matter has come to this, Zhu Ziming has no other choice but to flee to the outlying islands to avoid the limelight. When the situation in Zhongzhou becomes clear, he may be able to look for opportunities to make a comeback.

After all, as the old saying goes:

Where there is life, there is hope!

While Zhu Ziming was silently contemplating his next plan, several large ocean-going merchant ships suddenly sailed out from the direction of Yanbo Island and faced the stowaway ship of the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce.

Fleets of this size are rare in outlying island areas, and are often affiliated with powerful cultivation chambers of commerce. The ship that serves as the flagship of this fleet is a small-tonnage sea cliff-style luxury sailboat.

This is not surprising. After all, Haiya City is one of the main trading objects in the outlying island area. Even the ships of the lords of the outlying islands are built by shipyards under the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. This flagship has an unusually luxurious shape. , seems to confirm this point, only the lords of outlying islands who are not short of money can build such luxurious ships.

Zhu Ziming originally thought that these merchant ships were specifically to greet him, because the outlying island lords always paid great attention to high-net-worth Zhongzhou fugitives like him. However, before he could ask, he saw these large ocean-going merchant ships approaching and suddenly scattered to both sides. They opened up and formed a long-distance siege on the 100-ton stowaway boat he was on.

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

The Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce was originally engaged in ocean trading, and Zhu Ziming was very familiar with Haiya City's semaphore system. The few semaphores displayed by this fleet flagship clearly had only one meaning:

Keep your distance and fire the ballistae!

When Zhu Ziming saw this, his expression immediately changed.

He quickly used the Eagle Eye Technique 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 Haiya City ready to attack. Ballista!

Zhu Ziming couldn't believe his eyes.

He quickly activated the lion's roar and explained loudly: "Everyone, do you have any misunderstandings? I am a refugee from Haiya City. I have previously sent greetings to the seven lords of the outlying island in accordance with the rules of the outlying island. , who is preparing to take the spirit stone coins to apply for political asylum on the remote island, is not the enemy of our remote island!"

However, this explanation has no effect at all.

While Zhu Ziming was explaining, the opponent's flagship once again fired the "Ballista Volley" flag. Hundreds of ballistae that had completed firing preparations hit the Zhu family merchant ship like a heavy rain.

Due to the relatively long shooting distance, only a few ballistae successfully hit the target. However, since the tonnage of Zhu Ziming's stowaway ship was not large, the two or three ballistae that hit by chance still caused huge damage, not only wood chips on the deck Flying horizontally, a hole was even opened on the side, and a small amount of seawater poured in.

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

He wanted to look for the small boat that had just guided him, and was about to let the person who escorted him deal with what happened in front of him, but he found that the small boat had already fled to the side!