Chapter 608: Robbery
As a harbor city, Tsunami City has frequent exchanges. Merchants who often travel to and from trade routes, shuttle through the Hanhai, and travel to foreign lands are more open-minded and active than those in the interior.
Every city with a strong trade is, in a sense, a place where ideas come together.
In Tsunami City, the doctrine of Zhou Tian also spread.
Although the Zhou Tian Academy is now extremely strong, and the situation with the Baolong Empire is grim, in the past, after all, there was a period of ambiguity.
A lot of things about the Zhou Tian Academy, through the ships, through the beast masters, and through the later teleportation array, there are a lot of things that circulate to the Baolong Empire.
Sweeping over Xiaohai City at a glance, Zhou Ming immediately saw that there was a current of thought surging in this city, very faint and very vague, but the spread was already quite extensive.
There are no gods in the Baolong Empire, so the atmosphere within the empire is nothing special, but an ordinary atmosphere of heaven and earth.
In this atmosphere, if a trend of thought can be observed, it is actually very obvious whenever there is a trend of thought.
It's a pity that it is not easy to observe the ethereal trend of thought, and it is impossible for totem masters to touch the realm of gods.
In other words, at the very least, you have to be a demigod to be able to observe the current of thought.
The only special situation is probably like Zhou Ming's now, as the leader of the trend of thought, after reaching a certain realm, he can see the trend of thought he leads.
That's all.
Today's Zhou Ming also cannot observe other trends of thought.
Since he saw that there was a trend of thought in Zhou Tian's doctrine in Xiaohai City, Zhou Ming naturally wanted to observe it and see what kind of development the school trend of thought was here.
After all, this place is too far away from Zhou Tian Academy, and it is difficult for the brilliance of the Great Dao Pearl to shine here, so once Zhou Tian Xue's theory is falsely spread, misinterpreted, distorted, or even demonized, it is almost impossible to get to the root of it. If it continues to spread over time, the more widespread it spreads, the bigger the problem, the more deeply rooted, and even grows into a poisonous seedling.
As a leader of the ideological trend, Zhou Ming naturally did not want to see the alienation of the ideological trend and the emergence of heresy.
The best solution, of course, is to cultivate some real inheritors of wisdom and mastery, and let them check it, and to a certain extent, eliminate the possibility of the formation of poisonous vaccines.
Following the trend of thought in the city, Zhou Ming walked in the city with the mountain fireflies, like a traveler and a tourist.
The city is very old, giving it a sense of antiquity, and the scene is a little wet, very noisy and busy.
There are all kinds of shops, inns, and taverns, and business is booming, and the people who walk the streets are mainly beastmasters, and from time to time there are convoys galloping along the wide main road, transporting large quantities of goods.
Although it is only a beast car, its transportation capacity should not be underestimated, because the carriage is not directly loaded with goods, but a piece of standard storage beasts, with a standard capacity. What is stored in those beast weapons is the real thing.
Compared to transportation capacity, the world can be said to be ahead of the earth in all aspects.
That small storage beast is equivalent to a container.
A small animal power car, the cargo loaded in the carriage may be tens of millions of tons.
Whenever a convoy passes through the streets, there is no doubt that it must represent a big deal.
An ancient empire like the Baolong Empire has been at war for many years, the domestic situation is chaotic, all kinds of people's livelihood construction are slack, and the internal friction of national strength is extremely serious, so if it wants to maintain basic survival and national operation, it is very dependent on foreign trade.
In the surrounding trading countries, there are not a few people who have made war money in the Baolong Empire.
In this Tsunami City, in fact, the pain caused by the war in this country is not visible. Because of the large and frequent trade here, it is currently prosperous like never before.
Walking all the way like this, Zhou Ming and Shan Liuying gradually left the main road in the city, walked out of the bustling area, and came to some relatively deserted and secluded small streets and alleys.
The ideological trend of Zhou Tian Academy is surging in such a place.
Most of the people who lived here were sailors, more than a third were ordinary fishermen who had lived here for generations, and some had fled from other parts of the empire to escape the war.
They make up the lowest level of the city.
The higher level than them are the sailors gathered here, all of whom are beast masters, mixed with fish and dragons, and their forces are staggered.
The two of them walked all the way to the west of Tsunami City, and found that the city was very dilapidated and had a deep sense of decay.
This is the old town, which has gradually been eliminated due to the continuous expansion of Tsunami City because of its poor location.
This place is like a slum in Zhou Ming's impression.
Hungry children were everywhere on the streets, sitting feebly on the steps in front of the door, their eyes wide open, looking longingly at every passerby.
The air was filled with the smell of fish, and all kinds of peculiar smells mixed in.
The broken streets were filled with sewage, black and stinky, and flies and mosquitoes were flying everywhere.
"Do it!"
When Zhou Ming and Shanliu Firefly came here, they suddenly heard a deep voice sound.
The small actions of those people actually couldn't hide the perception of Zhou Ming and Shanliu Firefly at all, let alone threaten them.
Even Shan Liu Hotaru can easily deal with it, even if Shan Liu Hotaru is a body cultivator, it is the so-called medicine cultivation, and he is not good at fighting.
As that voice sounded, Shanliu Firefly couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and couldn't help but get closer to Zhou Ming.
On both sides of the alley, a group of people suddenly poured out, dressed in shabby, with sleeves and trousers rolled up, and turbans wrapped around their heads, dressed as typical sailors, holding weapons such as knives and forks in their hands, all of them were beast masters, many of whom were beast masters, each with fierce expressions, and the momentum was quite terrifying.
As the crowd at the end of the alley appeared, seven or eight people suddenly jumped up on the roofs on both sides, and soon completed the closure, surrounding Zhou Ming and Shan Liuying.
"You two, if you don't want to die, leave your belongings behind!"
On the roof on the left-hand side, a middle-aged man with a long knife at his waist snorted, wrapped in a crimson turban, with several scars on his face, which looked like some kind of sharp claw scratching.
This person suddenly became an eight-rank beast master, with a chest and dark skin, as if made of copper and iron, and looked very strong.
"You're going to rob here?"
Zhou Ming's eyebrows frowned, looked around at everyone, and snorted coldly: "In broad daylight, openly robbing?
The man in the scarlet turban looked like a leader, and he burst out laughing.
When the other brothers who followed him heard this, they also burst into laughter, as if they had heard some kind of big joke.
They seemed to sense Zhou Ming's innocence.
To be able to ask such a question, what is it that is not an ignorant little white sheep?
When encountering this kind of little white sheep, their tiger fish gang has never been soft.
In the midst of a burst of laughter, the leader of the Tiger Fish Gang suddenly let out a shout, pulled out the saber at his waist and said, "Wang Fa, let me tell you, this is Wang Fa!"
As he spoke, he flicked his fingers and flicked the palm knife in his hand, his eyes widened, and he stared at Zhou Ming and Shanliu Ying fiercely: "There is no king in the Baolong Empire, the whole world is broken, and when you talk about the royal law, there is only one way to die." Young man, we don't embarrass you, just beg for a living. Leave your goods behind, and leave quickly, if not, I will wait for you to move, for fear you will not be able to resist it!"22