Chapter 352： Unexpected crisis

Three miles east of the coastline, Noah's canoe.

Pang Ting Yongge Shaman is inspecting the situation in the territory.

When the high priest was away, he was the acting elder, who was mainly responsible for supervising the health of the tree ark and arranging various resources bred by the tree spirit.

After three months of docking and replenishment, the tree boat has returned to its former vitality. Without a lot of magic power to drive Noah, the orchard re-grows full and juicy fruits, and the islanders have spare time to plant some golden vines or cotton ball flowers to supplement the vacancy of the fabric warehouse.

Of course, the bulk of these things will be treated as commodities and traded to Jinxia City.

In particular, the characteristic fruit "Bishui Mandarin" cultivated on World Island is very popular among mainland businessmen. This thin-skinned fruit can squeeze out the flesh with just a slight pinch. Its juice is blue-green, like a clear sea in the sun. But its taste is by no means the salty fishy of sea water, but sweet with a little sourness and strong floral fragrance. Whether it is eaten alone or cooked to remove the fishy, ​​it is the best choice.

Pang Ting also likes to eat this kind of fruit, but for Noah's future, he just cut the family's supply to 10% to ensure that more citrus can be used for trading. The fruit that used to be eaten every day on the World Island is now good to eat once a week.

Through these transactions, Noah is continuously purchasing what it needs.

Such as salt, clothing, iron tools, armor and air rifles.

Although the dried fish marinated in salt is far less than the seafood cooked in hot soup, it is better than filling.

The same is true for linen clothes and leather clothes. They are not exquisite, but they can keep out the cold and are cheap enough.

Not to mention the other few.

These are things that Shuzhou cannot produce on its own.

Among them, Pang Ting most admired the air rifle. The killing distance of nearly three hundred steps can be fired continuously, which is much more powerful than bows and arrows and firearms. He also didn't expect that when the high priest offered to buy this weapon, the other party would agree. Let the elves participate in the manufacturing, and open to the Shuzhou to buy, this attitude is not insincere.

Since the elves don’t need silver taels, the bureau has also thoughtfully made a "bartering goods" manual for them. They can first exchange goods for silver taels and then use money to shop, or they can directly exchange the same amount of goods according to the manual. .

But even so, Pang Ting still insisted that the repurchased products should be aimed at "being able to sail independently."

If the tree boat and the mainland are completely bound together, in case the latter changes his mind someday, it will be too late to leave by then.

While reviewing the new batch of packaged goods, Pang Ting suddenly heard a commotion behind him.

"Don't run around, this is a warehouse!"

"Is the patriarch of the Shaman family here?"

"Do you have something important?"

"Yes, I came all the way from Changqiao Pier."

"Let him come over!" Pang Ting put down the golden vine in his hand and said loudly towards the door.

After seeing the visitor, he actively asked, "You are from the Bolton family, what's the matter?"

"My lord, my name is Diller Bolton. I am responsible for the management of the thornweeds at the Longqiao Wharf." The other party gasped and said, "Today's fishing was very smooth, but when the algae was harvested, I suddenly found something entangled. After the algae belt, everyone thought it was a shark-like thing, but after dragging it closer, they realized that it was actually a green shuttle!"

"Green Shuttle?" Pang Ting frowned. "The patrol team didn't report the missing information. Could it be that someone is stealing it? The driver? I should know the islanders who can control the Green Shuttle."

"The driver... is dead." Diller shook his head, "and the robes he wears don't look like those on Noah."

"Not from Noah?" Pang Ting repeated, suddenly thinking of a possibility, his expression suddenly changed, "Take me to see!"

...

At the edge of the tree boat, the tree spirit will grow long synapses, some of which can extend for several miles.

The combination and fixation of the tree boat and the tree boat relies on these synapses to embed each other, and the unused synapses can be used as docks or towed fishing grounds.

Changqiao Pier is one of them.

When we arrived at the pier, the roadside was already crowded with people.

"Let let, let let! The acting elder is here!"

Pang Ting squeezed into the crowd and quickly saw the green shuttle entangled by thorn algae. Through the skeleton, a pale islander lay motionless on the seat, blood oozing from his robe.

"Has anyone touched him?" Pang Ting asked loudly.

Everyone shook their heads together, "Going back, we are just dragging Green Shuttle here."

"Very well, guards, block the scene!" Pang Ting immediately ordered to disperse the onlookers, then walked to the green shuttle, opened the wave breaker above, and dragged the dead out of the cockpit.

The other party was indeed not from Noah Shuzhou. He confirmed that he had never seen this character in his memory, which meant that Green Shuttle came from another Shuzhou.

And the injury of the deceased...Pang Ting tore the red-colored robe, and two black-red holes appeared in front of him. There is no doubt that this person had been shot by a musket during his lifetime.

Pang Ting felt his heart sink.

The answer is obviously self-evident for enemies who can pose a threat to the boat on the sea and are equipped with such weapons.

He had expected the other party to enter the Western Sea sooner or later, but he didn't expect them to chase in such a hurry.

"Come here, go and inform Lord Sonia," the patriarch stood up, "maybe the tree boat has to set sail."

...

On the tree stand, the faint fireflies dragged the two figures long.

"What are you talking about?" Sainia's voice made the fire light tremble slightly, "Let Noah Shuzhou leave Jinxia temporarily?"

"This is the safest way." Pang Ting said without retreating. "The green shuttle can float to this place, indicating that other tree boats have also escaped to the Western Sea, and they will not be too far away from the mainland. At the same time, they followed behind. The empire is chasing soldiers, these are extremely dangerous signals. We can first go south against the ocean current, find a way to bypass this continent, and then go to the Twilight Sea, which has never been explored on the map, to find a new foothold."

"Do you know what this means? Not only do we have to turn a blind eye to another possible tree boat, we have to give up everything we got in Jinxia."

"It's not giving up, we can come back after avoiding the limelight."

"Why? We have an agreement with Her Royal Highness ~ www.novelhall.com~ At this time they should help us defend against foreign enemies." The high priest frowned.

"Jinxia City is indeed a good place. Noah's tree boat is here for a better day, and everyone can see it." Pang Ting sighed, "Because of this, I don't want to bet on this possibility."

Seeing him like this, Sania also calmed down, "Are you worried they abandon the covenant?"

"The covenant cannot allow them to do what they cannot achieve. You have also seen that Jinxia City has almost no warships, and it is unlikely that the imperial team will be dispatched. This means that the enemy will have the initiative. As long as the coastal shelling, not only Noah protects If we don’t come down, the loss of Jinxia City will be immeasurable. By then, we will not be able to provide the tree spirit seeds without the tree boat. Will Princess Qiguo and Executive Officer Xia Fan stick to their previous views?

Pang Ting paused for a while and then said, "A qualified person in power should put aside feelings and measure the relationship between the two sides only by profit. They are so, and so are we. Leaving here temporarily, the empire will not focus on Jinxia City. The people of our tribe who stay in the city can continue to live unaffected. Similarly, the two sides don’t have to use this matter to test the covenant relationship, so as not to leave a bump in their hearts. I believe that in a few years, this mainland kingdom Maybe we will set foot in the sea, we just have to endure it until then."