Knowing that it was a false alarm, everyone could not help but sigh, some lamented the unpredictability of the sea, some were amazed by the captain's ability to adapt to changes, and some began to appreciate the sturdiness of the ship's hull, which was only slightly damaged by the protective railing next to the deck under such an impact.

However, Tang Yinbrown looked at the lookout, and the scene in front of him had to make him put away his smile.

At this moment, Song Luyao was standing alone on the lookout, his eyes were firmly fixed on the front, his expression was solemn, not at all as relaxed as the rest of the crew.

Tang Yinbrown pushed aside the crowd gathered on the deck and silently went to the lookout.

"Is there a situation ahead?" As soon as he walked into the lookout, Tang Yinbrown asked directly at Song Luyao's back.

Song Luyao turned around when he heard this, but the solemn expression on his face did not fade.

Although this ship is his own, but now it is used by this Lord Tang, and when such a thing happens at this moment, he naturally has no reason to hide his concerns, so he simply confesses his thoughts.

"Although fog at sea is not uncommon, at this time of year, I have chosen the safest route, and I don't think that just because of the climate and weather, it will cause such a thick fog."

As soon as Song Luyao said this, Tang Yinhao was already frowning, but he didn't speak, but waited patiently for Song Luyao to finish speaking.

"In addition, not only is the fog strange, but the reef just now is really strange. The situation of this generation has been explored by predecessors, the bottom of the sea is a wide flat land, and judging from the logbooks of previous voyages, if there is danger, it is only some seasonal wind and waves, and there has never been a record of hitting the rocks, let alone the mountain of the size we have just encountered. ”

After saying this, Song Luyao looked at Tang Yinbrown and waited for him to speak.

"Are you saying that the accident just now was not an accident, but someone did it on purpose?"

Tang Yinbrown followed Song Luyao's words and asked, but his heart was already cloudy.

Song Luyao sighed and said: "Actually, these are just my guesses, and there is no evidence, if there is any basis for it, it is just my intuition accumulated from years of experience at sea." So, in fact, it may be that I was overthinking, and it was just an accident that we were unlucky. Just ......"

"It's just that if it's really as you guessed, and that everything just now was secretly arranged by someone, how bad will it be?" Tang Yinbrown asked.

Song Luyao said bluntly: "If the accident just now is just an accident, if someone really arranged it, then we can't afford to provoke the people behind all this."

"Even an old man like me, who has been walking on the sea for decades, has to be impressed. If you don't have a good understanding of the situation at sea, and you have a complete grasp of the ability to manipulate this sea, you would never have been able to do this kind of accident that is fake and real.

"If there really is someone behind the scenes, the ability of this group of people is not only above me, I dare to assert, but also above all the Dongyuan Royal Fleet."

Tang Yin's brown narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this, and said word by word: "You mean, the Fir is being targeted by pirates?" ”

Song Luyao nodded heavily.

"But don't you say that the path we have chosen now ......"

"Our path is really the one that I think is the least dangerous. Because the coastal areas of the Eastern Plains Continent are not only rich but also poorly managed, pirates are mostly entrenched in that area, and rarely appear in the coastal area of the west. That's why, even if I had to abandon the convenient supply system, I suggested that the Fir choose to sail along the enemy's westward border.

"Even if you asked me to choose again, I would still do it.

"It's just that these pirates have spent so much money and energy to cross thousands of miles from the east to the west to intercept our seafaring ship, presumably because there is enough capital on this ship to attract them to do so."

Song Luyao said, and his thoughts fell on the wooden box about an arm's width that was escorted up by Tang Yinbrown and his party before.

The outside of the wooden box was tightly wrapped in a layer of iron sheet, with three locks at the front and back, and a few seals of the Dongyuan royal family were neatly pasted on the outside, which made people look a little intimidating.

When Tang Yinhao told himself that they were ordered to escort important items back to the palace on this trip, Song Luyao already knew what a heavy task he was involved in, but when the heaviest box with a dazzling seal was placed in front of him, he still took a breath.

Although in the end, out of professional ethics, he did not ask about the contents of the box, but he knew that if this thing was lost on his ship, he was afraid that neither he nor anyone on this ship would be able to get out of it.

However, after listening to Song Luyao's words, Tang Yinbrown looked confused.

"How could it be ......?"

He muttered to himself, and muttered for a while before he looked up at Song Luyao and asked, "If it's really a pirate, do you have any suggestions?" ”

In the end, this problem still fell on him, Song Luyao took a deep breath, and then replied: "You must know that this is not an ordinary pirate, but a pirate whose strength is far above us. So...... If possible, I suggest that I reverse course, withdraw from the original route, and find another way. ”

Such an answer obviously did not satisfy Tang Yinbrown, and now that he had come to this point, he had to go back again, and the longer he dragged on the road, the more variables he had......

Moreover, this road is the most suitable way to send Ah Zi to the Golden Forest halfway, because of this, even if Zuo Qiyang may have withdrawn his troops from Xinmen Pass at this time, he is not willing to go back and take the land route.

But of course, he couldn't talk about it, but he only tentatively asked, "Is there any other way to go?" ”

Song Luyao was a little embarrassed, and his words flickered.

Tang Yinbrown said calmly: "It's okay for you to say it. ”

After thinking for a while, Song Luyao said: "You can also go all the way west now and enter the territory of Xiyou......"

Hearing this, Tang Yin's expression became even more depressed than before, and he tried his best to adjust his breath to calm himself down, and then he said, "This road must not be." ”

Since Tang Yinbrown has already said this, Song Luyao is naturally not easy to refute, so he can only nod slightly, and said: "In this case, it is better to go back to Lixincheng, it is not yet the depths of winter, it is easier to go south than to go north, and you should be able to return to the starting point soon, at that time, you want to choose a new route, or if you want to enter the Dongyuan inland from Xinmen Pass to the north, we can all think about it in the long run." ”

After saying this, Song Luyao stopped speaking, and just waited quietly for Tang Yinhan to make a decision.

"We keep the course we were. If there were pirates, I would like to see if they are good or if my sword is good. ”