The Fourth Financial Crisis

Seeing all the strange things happening in front of him, a thought quickly flashed through Zhu Ziming's mind:

This was a premeditated ambush!

As we all know, outlying islands are never monolithic.

Due to the fierce competition among the lords of the outlying islands, vicious incidents such as a certain lord openly ambushing foreign refugees have not happened on the outlying islands for many years.

Realizing that the other party wanted to murder him, Zhu Ziming immediately yelled: "My lord, I have no grievances against you. You ambushed the fugitives from Zhongzhou who came to seek refuge without permission. You have completely broken the rules of the island for many years. If If other lords find out about this, I'm afraid you will no longer be able to engage in this political asylum business in the future. I suggest you stop immediately. Everything can be easily discussed. I can even pretend that what just happened never happened!"

However, Zhu Ziming's answer was the second round of even sharper crossbow volleys.

Since the trajectory of the first shot was used for calibration, the aim and destructive power of the second round of ballistae salvo were much greater. A full six rounds of ballistae hit Zhu Ziming's stowaway boat. This time Zhu Ziming's Not only was a hole opened in the side of the stowaway boat, but half of the main mast was shot down, causing his ship's speed to drop sharply.

Zhu Ziming realized at this moment that the other party had no intention of negotiating with him.

He quickly ordered to the panicked sailors: "Turn around and leave quickly! We have just entered the Ten Thousand Miles of Smoke Formation. As long as we can turn around and leave, these outlying islanders will never dare to chase us out!"

Unfortunately, Zhu Ziming's instructions were obviously a little late.

Although the rate of fire of the enemy's ballistae was not very fast, the stowaway boat he was on was also very slow to turn around. As soon as he turned the bow of the ship over, the third round of ballistae fire from the other side had already hit him.

After this round of bombardment, Zhu Ziming's crew had suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining sailors were struggling to even prevent the ship from sinking, let alone maneuver the ship away.

Seeing the crew members of the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce running around like headless flies, Zhu Ziming knew that the ship was hopeless.

However, at this time, Zhu Ziming couldn't even abandon the ship and escape, because he didn't have the same training plug-in as Yang Lu. He still only had a second-level cultivation of Qi Refining, and he couldn't control the light flight. If he didn't have it, Without ships and spiritual energy supplies, he simply could not swim out of the hundreds of miles wide coverage of the Thousand Miles of Smoke Array.

Now, there are only two choices before Zhu Ziming:

The first is to rob an opponent's ship, and then quickly sail into the foggy area of ​​the Ten Thousand Miles of Smoke Array. As long as he is out of the range of the Thousand Miles of Smoke Array, he can draw spiritual energy from the world again. A cultivator who has spiritual energy can He doesn't have to eat or drink, and even if he just drifts with the crowd, he will be rescued sooner or later;

The second method is to board the opponent's flagship and behead him. The person who leads the team to ambush him should be a certain outlying island lord. With the dictatorship system of the outlying island lord, as long as he can catch the opponent's boss, he can threaten the emperor. To the effect of ordering the princes.

Either way, he must board the other party's ship!

However, after observing several large ocean-going merchant ships participating in the siege, Zhu Ziming discovered in despair that the opponent was obviously well prepared. In order to prevent himself, a cultivator, from taking advantage of the opportunity, the shooting distance of all enemy ships was more than a hundred feet. , and in order to prevent the opponent's flagship from being beheaded, it was directly parked two miles away and commanded remotely from a safe distance.

Even if a cultivator has amazing jumping power, before he has the ability to escape light, he cannot jump out of a hundred feet to seize the ship with force. The flagship is nearly three miles away, making it difficult for Zhu Ziming's spells to hit!

Therefore, Zhu Ziming could only watch as the stowaway boat he was riding on was crumbled by the opponent.

Although it is not easy to sink a ship with a ballistae, the stowaway boat that cannot hold Zhu Ziming is a living target. When the firepower of the ballistae stops, the stowaway boat has inevitably capsized sideways.

Seeing that his ship was about to sink, Zhu Ziming finally became anxious. He quickly found a small wooden board of suitable size and prepared to activate the remaining magic in his body to surf to the opponent's flagship.

This idea is not Zhu Ziming's whim. With the blessing of wind control spells and movement spells, he can completely use this ordinary wooden board as a speedboat!

Although this method is very wasteful of mana, it is the only way out that Zhu Ziming can think of. If he can capture the thief first, he might still have a chance to survive!

Just when Zhu Ziming was about to use his surfboard to take the opponent's flagship directly, an accident happened. He saw a strange merchant ship coming suddenly from the side and rear of the stowaway ship.

This unfamiliar merchant ship has a large draft and looks like it should be an ocean-going merchant ship that comes specifically to transport goods to the outlying islands. Perhaps because the ballistae firing has gradually stopped, this third-party merchant ship does not seem to realize that the ships in front of it are exchanging fire. Wait until it finds out When things go wrong, it's too late to turn around and run away.

It wasn't until it was about 40 feet behind Zhu Ziming's merchant ship that the merchant ship was able to complete its turn. And this distance is no longer insurmountable for second-level Qi Refining cultivators!

After realizing this, Zhu Ziming immediately changed his attention:

If he could snatch this strange merchant ship that suddenly broke into the battlefield, he might not be able to escape!

Taking advantage of his ship not completely sinking, Zhu Ziming quickly climbed onto the mast of the stowaway ship, then aimed at the third-party ship that accidentally broke into the battlefield and jumped, under the influence of low-level spells such as lightness. , Zhu Ziming's figure was like a gliding wild goose, aiming at the deck of the target merchant ship and swooping away.

This strange merchant ship has already completed its U-turn. As long as this merchant ship can be coerced to immediately sail into the foggy area of ​​the thousands of miles of smoke and waves, the outlying island fleet that has exhausted its ballistae ammunition may not be able to catch up with him!

The crew members of the outlying island fleet participating in the siege seemed to have noticed his actions, and aimed at him with strong bows and crossbows. However, this kind of mortal individual crossbows not only had low accuracy, but also suffered poor damage. In addition, the distance between the two sides was too far. The few arrows that hit could not break through Zhu Ziming's protective aura.

In the end, Zhu Ziming stepped firmly onto the deck of the merchant ship.

Zhu Ziming, who had boarded a third-party merchant ship, just breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to order the sailors to immediately turn around and flee away from the Wanli Yanbo Formation. However, he was surprised to find that the crew members of the merchant ship abandoned the ship and jumped as if they were desperate for their lives. ocean.

Zhu Ziming was instantly confused.

Jumping into the sea in such a place, even if there are ships nearby to search and rescue, the probability of survival is not particularly high. Why would they rather jump into the sea than accept the temporary command of their immortal master?

Not only that, the crew size of this strange merchant ship seemed to be too small.

Zhu Ziming took a general look and found that only a dozen crew members jumped off the merchant ship, and then they could no longer feel the breath of life. With such a small number of crew members, let alone operating the ship effectively, it would be good if they could drive the ship in a straight line. .

At this moment, with his five senses and smell enhanced by magic, Zhu Ziming smelled a faint smell of sulfur in the air. Even the strong sea breeze in the outlying island area did not dissipate the smell. Before Zhu Ziming could realize what this smell meant, the ship he was on exploded violently.

I saw that the originally vast sea surface seemed to be torn apart by an invisible hand. Fierce fireballs rose into the sky. The powerful shock waves formed by a series of explosions directly blew the hull into pieces, and then pushed away the sea water and quickly spread in all directions. Zhu Ziming was engulfed in the flames of the explosion without even using a protective spell.

(Today is a day off to catch the train and go out for fun. Let’s start with a chapter. I am so confident after the sun shines)