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The storm lasted for the greater part of the night. When dawn approached, the long-awaited dawn fell on the broken window frame.

Inside the cabin, everyone was still sitting in the same position. The soul-stirring turmoil of the entire night hadn't dispersed, and it still enveloped everyone's hearts.

A follower came in to report the situation to Manager Qi, "Owner, we lost a total of six people last night. They were all blown away, and all their cabins were damaged.

Five or six days was much better than he had expected. He would be able to save some time and barely make it to the island. Since he wouldn't be able to catch up with the rest of his life, he could only look ahead.

Manager Qi stood up first and told everyone to return to their cabin to check their luggage. At this point, the finances were not important, things that lived were more important.

The cabin was a total mess. Gu Xiaoyu hurried off to find her two treasures, then she pulled open the cabin's storage panel. The little black panther was there with Gu XII, the cub who was being protected by the little black panther. Luckily, the little black panther was still tied up, otherwise, it would have been difficult for her to escape.

She was relieved that Gu Xiaoyu was crying tears of joy while hugging the two of them. However, Xie Jingxi was a little worried, other than the important items that were still locked in the storage shelf, there were no more clothes that she normally washed. This also meant that in the days to come, she would only have this set of clothes on her body.

Fang Dai told her: "Madam, luckily I have locked two sets of clothes for change, we will wear it now, since there is no water, one set is missing, so the financial losses are not too big, and with all the fire rod gunpowder present, there is only water left, other than the ones that I have locked up to reserve, there is nothing else."

No one would have thought that it would be so serious. At least, we can hold on until the Luzon, then we can take care of the rest one step at a time.

"I heard Zhao Zhang say that we have lost 20-30% of our finances, and it is still within our control, so the biggest problem now is fresh water. Madam, Zhao Zhang said that we have to save some of it privately, there are a lot of people on the boat, if we reach the critical point, it will be troublesome."

At sea, water was the life threatening thing. It was not impossible for people to die for the sake of saliva, but luckily, they were not in the desert, so they could still endure for a few days.

At this time, Zhao Zhang walked in, "Madam, I think the route in front of us is a bit wrong."

"Wrong route?" However, there was no lack of experienced sailors on the ship. As long as there were no problems with the boat's movement and the compass did not fail, they would at least be able to find the way, and it was only a matter of time before the compass failed. Could it be that the compass had failed?

Zhao Zhang said: Madam, our crew told me that when the wind blew last night, the compass had failed for no reason and was unable to determine direction, but at that time, the compass did not have the ability to determine direction, so we could only rely on our senses, adding that the wind was strong and strong, making it impossible to see anything, thus we were unable to determine direction, until the compass returned to normal again, and showed us that we were not in the wrong direction, but I did not walk through this line, so I do not know what direction to go.

had gone out to sea with Gu Yun a few times before, and they had indeed walked across the island before. At that time, the ocean ban had lasted for a long time, and most of the Great Chen people were not familiar with the route to go overseas, as they had all figured it out. Although they could not determine whether or not there was a feasible route because of this, when Zhao Zhang said that they were not familiar with each other, it would still make them worried, but fortunately, their position was not wrong.

In the next few days, the ship became unusually silent. Aside from the most likely method to repair the damage done to the ship by themselves, most of them stayed in their own cabins, as if not going out could reduce their food and drinks.

However, without exception, everyone was shaken by the storm and knew the dangers of sailing. Not only was it something that could be overcome with hot-bloodedness, it was actually Martin who came out with them, who seemed very calm. According to what he said, there would be any kind of conditions at sea, and it was even more difficult for him to meet her.

The following journey was much more peaceful, there were no more strong winds or strong waves. With all sorts of food and water, barely enough food and water, Xie Jingxi had even gotten a bag of water, barely wiping her face before she reached the shore.

"Madam, we're finally on our way. I feel like my entire body is reeking of salted fish." Fang Dai packed up the things that they were carrying with them, the things that she was going to take away after getting off the boat.

"Don't talk about this anymore, it's fine if you don't want to. Fortunately, the time of arrival was similar to what I expected, otherwise, I would have jumped into the sea to take a bath before coming up."

Gu Xiaoyu also rushed over, "Mother, smell it, do you smell it?

Xie Jingxi didn't like to get close to her. Not only did she smell bad, she also smelled like a little black panther, which was extremely smelly. Gu Xiaoyu didn't mind as she laughed and carried Gu Shi'er out to play.

"imperial consort, something seems to be wrong!"

Xie Jingxi stood up and followed her out. Zhao Zhang came in and stopped them, "Madam, don't be in such a hurry to leave.

"What, is there a problem?"

"I'm not too sure about that yet, but I'm sure that Luzon Island has strict control over the ships that come and go. At a very distant place, a ship will come over to guide us, and we'll have to follow their route. I'm guessing that before we go ashore, we might even have to verify their identity."

Xie Jingxi frowned, "Is it really that strict? Even if you were to enter our Great Chen, it would not be so heavily guarded, right? "

Zhao Zhang said: "Who says that's not the case, who knows who caused this? It wasn't like this in the past, do you think it's possible that Fu Lang's people have already controlled the Luzon?"

This was really unknown, Luzon was originally not worth mentioning, but the location was very important. Now that Fu Lang had set his eyes on it, couldn't he be on guard against the ships with Great Chen?

Not only did they have to ascertain everyone's identity, they also had to record their purpose of coming and going, and the time they stayed, had to be kept in the records. There were even Great Chen people mixed in to make it easier to communicate with them, but the one who looked like the leader was a fair-faced Westerner, so Martin decided to get closer to him.

Martin muttered something to the leader and tried to give him some gold, but it was not easy.

She whispered to Xie Jingxi to translate their words, "Mother, that person's meaning is that we must verify her identity and must not be accommodated. Then, Mr. Martin asked him why she was being so strict, and he said that it was because of the above meaning, and even mentioned the Master Dong."

Master Dong? Xie Jingxi thought about the name, no matter how she looked at it, it sounded like the name of a person from the Great Chen, could it be that the Luzon was controlled by the people from the Great Chen? But since they were from Great Chen, why were they so guarded against the merchant ships of Great Chen? Could it be …

Xie Jingxi's heart jumped, did she really run into people from the mysterious powers just like that? This Master Dong, who was she? Why didn't her heart stop beating?

Therefore, there were no problems. Although the inspections were complicated, it was fortunate that they passed in the end. However, just as everyone was preparing to go ashore, the leader of the group came again.

He stooped down and conversed with the person who understood the words of the Great Chen, then that person translated and said: "It's like this, since you are people with tickets for the Sheng Yuan, then we, the Master Dong, would like to invite you all to live in the Sacred Hall, in order to have a warm welcome. Also, since you all plan to come here to do business, we, the Master Dong, would like to chat with you all, and see if there is an opportunity for us to cooperate."

This was out of everyone's expectations. Were they invited as guests? Fortune and misfortune were intertwined. Could it be that good fortune had come after the disaster?

Xie Jingxi was not that surprised. Even though it happened so easily and and the others were interested in him, and she had so effortlessly come into contact with what seemed to be an extremely important person, and she even treated the Sheng Yuan ticket number extremely well. It seemed that his journey to business was rather smooth, but in reality, it was probably not that simple.

From the moment they were about to land on the shore until now, no, perhaps from the beginning of the storm, they had already been forced into a passive state step by step. First, they had an urgent need for supplies, and in addition to their unknowns and nervousness about Luzon, after such a huge mental gap, suddenly came a form of courtesy, as if they had already predicted that they would follow him.

He looked at the surrounding guards, they were tightly guarded and gave off a sense of pressure. Although it was not difficult on the spot, once they disagreed with the Master Dong's invitation, he knew that once they went ashore, all kinds of troubles would inevitably befall them.

This was after all, not Great Chen's territory, so they were not familiar with it at all.

The Manager Qi did not have any reason to reject, since the other party had first offered him the olive branch, and did not have the principle of taking Qiao Qiao now, it was only a matter of time before they would come into contact with him, thus saving a lot of effort.

To Xie Jingxi, they were in urgent need of time to rectify the situation. That whatever meeting hall, regardless of whether it was a dragon's lagoon or a tiger's cave, they could enter first to catch their breath before considering further.

Thus, the group of people received all sorts of courtesies. Not only were they specially sent a carriage to receive them, but there were even servants who served them. Like a diplomatic mission, they were invited to that meeting hall.

However, what surprised Xie Jingxi was that after entering the Sacred Hall, there was a special maid that came to invite them. She led Xie Jingxi, Gu Xiaoyu and Fang Dai to a separate room.

Did he see through their real bodies just like that? Didn't that mean that their faked identities had already been exposed, and they knew that their identities were fake? Yet they still treated them so courteously. What was this? Wasn't this a proper Hongmen Banquet?

It seems that this Master Dong is definitely not an ordinary person.