Chapter 29: The Golden Route
Sneaking into the vicinity, Yanagi finally understood why the old captain would say something like that it was hidden deep here.
If you swim on the surface of the sea, you won't find a huge whirlpool with a diameter of about 3,000 meters.
Because the sea is calm, even about ten meters below the surface of the sea, the water waves will not react in any way.
You have to go ten meters underwater to see the huge whirlpool.
Ryuji noticed that there were many strange boulders and shipwrecks on the edge of the whirlpool, and it could be seen that those shipwrecks were sacrifices that had not mastered the correct way to enter.
Standing outside the whirlpool, Ryuji also noticed that there were a group of aquatic creatures that were not fish people under the water, and they were some lobster people with hard shells.
They looked like they were standing outside the whirlpool in twos and threes, as if they were looking for something.
Liu Zhi thought about it, these people guarding the whirlpool are not stupid, even if the old captain sent someone to discover the whirlpool, he still insists on running back and forth, which will naturally alarm the guards here.
Those people can send information to the old captain, and they are already relatively capable.
Looking at this scene in front of him, Liu Zhi instead had a certain idea about this whirlpool.
"Did these guys keep the lobster people here as sacrifices?"
While thinking in his heart, Ryuji took out the Soul Eater Eye Staff, and he used a soul extraction on the location where the number of lobster people was relatively small.
In the next moment, a lobster man died in the sea.
The lobster man's death also attracted the attention of the other lobster people.
It's just that Liu Zhi's position is relatively far away, and the soul extraction skill action is relatively small, so the lobster man didn't find out how his companion died at all.
After catching the soul of the lobster man, Ryuji retreated to a safe place and took out the soul of the lobster man and studied it carefully.
Soon he figured out what was going on with the whirlpool.
The whirlpool was discovered by the Sida Empire about one hundred and fifty years ago, but the Lobster Man knew that the whirlpool appeared three hundred years ago, the same time that the spaceship fell into the sea.
Through this whirlpool, you can instantly enter a certain sea area in Southeast Asia from here.
It's just that every time you turn it on, you have to put a smart creature into the whirlpool, and the lobster people are not used to the sea water in Southeast Asia, so they haven't passed the whirlpool much after discovering it for so many years.
On the contrary, after the Sida Empire discovered this place, it regarded this place as a golden route, after all, as long as a smart creature was sacrificed here, the fleet could pass through in an instant, and the time in this directly saved twenty or thirty days, not to mention, it would not be attacked.
For such convenience, the loss of one or two people is naturally nothing.
Even the Sida Empire, in order to keep it secret, occupied both positions at this entrance and sent heavy troops to guard it.
On the sea, they can arrange some fleet patrols, they can arrange manpower on the nearby islands, and the underwater Sida Empire will naturally not let go, he subdued the races on the edge of the whirlpool and arranged for them to guard.
And promised that every time a fleet passed, it would give these guards a certain amount of supplies according to the size of the fleet.
The guards on the African side are these lobster people, and on the Southeast Asian side, the guards are some sea frogmen.
No matter which side the demand is not too high, for the lobster people, just give them some weapons and give them some food.
Of course, those are all requirements for the lobster people in the vicinity, and lobster people like them who stay near the whirlpool will get more benefits.
The last time someone sneaked into the whirlpool, it had already caught the attention of the lobster people.
Now all of them have come out in order to find the force that has sneaked into the maelstrom, and at the same time to prove to some nearby forces that they are capable of holding the maelstrom.
After all, in addition to these lobster people, there are many other small races nearby, and they are quite dissatisfied with the lobster people being able to monopolize the benefits of the Sida Empire.
If they unite and defeat the Lobster Man, the Sida Empire will not avenge the Lobster Man.
Instead, the task of the original lobster man will be handed over to the final winner.
As for why the lobster people know so clearly, it's entirely because they also grabbed this position in this way.
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Looking at the lobster man's memory, Liu Zhi snorted coldly, at this time he could roughly understand the final plan of the Eagle Country.
After determining the location of the golden route, they had enough reason to slowly support the small forces in the vicinity.
Maybe you don't have to go against the Sidar Empire, as long as you can take the vortex.
Even if you can't occupy this place, as long as you can stop the Sida Empire from constantly using this route for blood transfusion, it will be a victory for the Eagle Country.
Liu Zhi, who understood this, couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, the world of adults is so complicated.
If he encountered such a thing, where would he think of such a target, in the face of such a situation, he must have called directly.
Thinking of this, Liu Zhi couldn't help but shake his head, "What do I want to do so much, is this kind of contradiction between the two kingdoms also something I can participate in?" None of my missions had anything to do with it, and I still honestly completed tasks like Captain Ghost and Ghost King.
However, I still have to go to Southeast Asia once, and I still have to give a gift to the empress. ”
While comforting myself, I was thinking about what I was going to do next.
The matter of the ghost ship, Liu Zhi already has an idea, anyway, this world calls the ancient sailing ship a ghost ship, so it is much more convenient for Liu Zhi to build a ship.
He has a super level of shipbuilding, and with enough materials, he can build ships above the legendary level.
Even in order to embody the characteristic of ghosts, Ryuji can also use the characteristics of the solar ship, so that the ship can travel to and from the underworld, if there is an underworld in this world.
After that, use the ghost ship to find the ghost king, see what his resurrection plan is, help if you can, if you can't help, forget it, anyway, he came here this time to improve his level as a necromancer.
He didn't think about anything else, for the current Liuzhi, as long as the level is raised, the rest of the things are not a thing.
So Liu Zhi thought about it in his heart and had already made up his mind.
However, there is one of the most critical problems at the moment, the Sida Empire has discovered that someone is spying on this golden route, and they will definitely send someone out to hunt it down.
Yanagi already knew that the old captain was throwing himself out as bait.
Then if you want to find a safe place to build a ship, you may have to go to ...... Southeast Asia.
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