Chapter 353 Unexpected Crisis

Three miles east of the coastline, Noah's tree boat.

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

When the high priest is away, he is the acting elder, mainly responsible for supervising the health of the tree boat and allocating the various resources nurtured by the tree spirit.

After three months of docking and replenishment, the tree boat has regained its former vitality. After no need for a lot of magic to drive Noah, the orchard has grown plump and juicy fruits again, and the islanders have spared the energy to plant some golden vines or cotton balls to fill the vacancies in the fabric warehouse.

Of course, most of these things will be used as commodities and traded to Jinxia City.

In particular, the special fruit "Bishuigan" cultivated on the World Island is deeply loved by mainland merchants. This thin-skinned fruit can squeeze out the flesh with a light pinch. Its juice is blue-green, like a clear sea under the sun. But its taste is by no means salty and fishy, ​​but sweet with a little sourness, and at the same time contains a strong floral scent. Whether it is eaten alone or used for cooking to remove the fishy smell, it is a good choice.

Pang Ting also likes to eat this kind of fruit, but for Noah's future, he cut the family's supply to 10% to ensure that more Bishui oranges can be used for trading. The fruit that could be enjoyed every day in the World Island before, now it is good to eat it once a week.

Through these transactions, Noah is constantly buying what he needs.

For example, salt, clothing, iron tools, armor and air rifles.

Although the dried fish pickled with salt is far inferior to the seafood cooked in hot soup, it is better to be full.

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

Not to mention the other types.

They are all things that Shuzhou cannot produce by itself.

Among them, Pang Ting appreciates the air rifle the most. It has a killing distance of nearly 300 steps and can be fired continuously, which is much more powerful than bows and firearms. He did not expect that when the high priest proposed to buy this weapon, the other party would agree immediately. Let the elves participate in the manufacturing and open it to Shuzhou to buy. This attitude can not be said to be insincere.

Since the elves don't need silver, the Affairs Bureau also thoughtfully made a "barter" manual for them. They can either exchange the goods for silver first and then use the money to shop, or directly exchange the same amount of goods according to the manual.

However, even so, Pang Ting still insisted that the repurchased goods should be "able to sail independently".

If the tree boat and the mainland are completely tied together, if the latter changes its mind one day, it will be too late to leave then.

While inspecting a 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 rushed all the way from Changqiao Wharf."

"Let him come over!" Pang Ting put down the golden vine in his hand and shouted to the door.

After seeing the newcomer, he took the initiative to ask, "You are from the Bolton family, what can I do for you?"

"Sir, my name is Diller Bolton, responsible for managing the thorn algae at the Long Bridge Wharf." The other party said while panting, "Today's fishing was going well, but when we were halfway through collecting the algae, we suddenly found a big thing entangled in the algae belt. Everyone thought it was a shark or something, but when we pulled it closer, we found that it was actually a green shuttle!"

"Green shuttle?" Pang Ting frowned, "The patrol team did not report the missing news. Could it be that someone secretly used it? Where is the driver? I should know all the islanders who can control the green shuttle."

"The driver... is dead." Diller shook his head, "and the robe he wore does not look like someone on Noah."

"Not someone on Noah?" Pang Ting repeated, and suddenly thought of a possibility, his expression suddenly changed, "Take me to see it!"

...

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

The connection and fixation of tree boats rely on these synapses to embed with each other, and the unused synapses can be used as docks or towing fishing grounds.

Changqiao Wharf is one of them.

When we arrived at the dock, many people were already gathered on the roadside.

"Make way, make way! The acting elder is here!"

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

"Did anyone touch him?" Pang Ting asked loudly.

Everyone shook their heads, "My Lord, we just dragged the green shuttle here."

"Very good, guards, seal off the scene!" Pang Ting immediately ordered the onlookers to disperse, then walked to the green shuttle, lifted the wave-breaking board on it, and dragged the dead out of the cabin.

The other party was indeed not from Noah's tree boat. He confirmed that he had never seen this person in his memory, which meant that the green shuttle came from other tree boats.

As for the dead man's injuries... Pang Ting tore open the red part of his robe, and two black and red holes appeared in front of him. There was no doubt that this man had been shot by a musket before his death.

Pang Ting felt his heart sink.

The answer was obvious to the enemy who could threaten the tree boat on the sea and was equipped with such weapons.

He expected that the other party would enter the West Sea sooner or later, but he didn't expect them to chase so closely.

"Come on, go and inform Lady Senya," the patriarch stood up, "the tree boat may have to set sail."

...

On the tree platform, the faint fireflies dragged the figures of the two people long.

"What did you say?" Senia's voice made the firelight tremble slightly, "Let the Noah tree boat leave Jinxia temporarily?"

"This is the safest approach." Pang Ting said without retreating at all. "The fact that the green shuttle can float to this place means that other tree boats have also escaped to the Western Sea, and they are not too far from the mainland. At the same time, they are also following behind The Empire is pursuing troops, this is an extremely dangerous signal. We can go south against the ocean current, find a way to bypass this continent, and then find a new foothold in the Dusk Sea, which has never been explored on the map. "

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

"It's not about giving up. We can come back after avoiding the limelight."

"Why? We have an alliance with Her Highness the Princess. At this time, they should help us fight against foreign enemies." The high priest frowned.

"Jinxia City is indeed a good place. Noah's Tree Boat is getting better and better here every day, and everyone can see it." Pang Ting sighed, "Because of this, I don't want to gamble on this possibility."

Seeing him like this, Senia also calmed down, "Are you worried that they will betray their covenant?"

"The covenant cannot allow them to do what they cannot achieve. As you can see, there are almost no warships in Jinxia City, and it is unlikely that they will send out an attack on the imperial army. This means that the enemy will have the initiative. As long as the coastal shelling is carried out, not only Noah will protect If we don’t come down, the losses to Jinxia City will be immeasurable. By then we will have no tree boat and cannot provide tree spirit seeds. Will Princess Qi and Executive Officer Xia Fan stick to their previous views?”

Pang Ting paused for a moment and then continued, "A qualified person in power should put aside emotions and only use interests to measure the relationship between the two parties. They are like this, and so are we. If we leave here temporarily, the empire will not target Jinxia City. Our tribesmen who remain in the city can continue to live unaffected. Likewise, the two sides do not need to use this incident to test the covenant relationship, so as not to leave knots in their hearts. I believe that in a few years, the kingdom of this continent will not be affected. Maybe we’ll get into the sea, we just have to endure it until then.”

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