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Chapter 265: A Chance Encounter on a Boat (Part II)

After the city gate was lifted, Xu Changqing and the others quickly entered the city, came to the dock, and found the sampan fishing boat that was about to sail to Jakarta. Although the fishing boat was found, it took Andy a lot of effort to get on the boat, and the old Chinese boat owner seemed to have some scruples, no matter how much money Andy paid for the business, he was unwilling to take the business, and finally Andy found a port official to suppress people with his power before it was resolved.

Xu Changqing stood by and watched without speaking, and after negotiating to get on the boat, he went straight to the boat and waved to Andy to leave. As soon as Andy and the port official left, the old shipowner told him to stay in the cabin and not to come out, without treating him as a patron or a guest. The old shipowner's attitude was really unpleasant, Xu Changqing frowned, but he didn't say anything, and got into the dark cabin.

The sampan is about 20 meters long, twice as long as a regular sampan, and although it looks like an ordinary fishing boat from the outside, it is actually a cargo ship. In various ports in Southeast Asia, the tax of cargo ships is several times heavier than that of fishing boats, so most cargo ships will dress up as fishing boats, and then do some tricks and feet on the cabins to build several hidden cabins to evade taxes and smuggle goods. In this regard, the tax officials of the various ports know the way in their hearts, but they have accepted bribes from the owners of these smuggling sampans, and they are not good at saying anything, as long as they do not go too far, they will turn a blind eye and treat it as if they did not see it.

According to common sense, this sampan should come to Lampung Port to buy goods, and then follow the tide, circle around the Southeast Asian islands, and sell the goods to the local islands in the way of exterritation, earning the difference. Although this spread does not seem too large to be seen by the local trading houses, for the vast majority of fishermen, it is enough to make them live an enviable and affluent life. As a result, competition at sea becomes extremely fierce, and almost all fishing boats that come and go to the sea do not leave empty, but always carry some local products. However, the ship Xu Changqing is on now is an empty ship, and the draft is very shallow, indicating that there is not a single cargo in it, which is obviously a bit abnormal, and the vast majority of empty ships that usually walk on the sea are pirate ships that do not have a capital to buy.

Xu Changqing had already noticed it before boarding the ship, but he didn't say it explicitly, after all, no matter whether the people on this ship were pirates or not, there was no danger to him. After entering the cabin, Xu Changqing looked around, the cabin was empty, only an offering table was placed in the opposite corner of the door, on which a Buddha statue of Esoteric Buddhism was enshrined, and wisps of sandalwood permeated the cabin, which made people's hearts feel a little more peaceful.

"Spirit Sect?" Xu Changqing's gaze moved up, and after seeing an extremely familiar icon on the altar of the offering table, his expression was slightly stunned, and he said secretly in his heart.

At this time, the old shipowner carried a few offerings, walked into the cabin with a short body, carefully placed them, and then lit three sticks of incense, bowed a few times very reverently, and then turned around and walked out of the cabin with an expressionless face, feeling as if Xu Changqing on the side was regarded as air.

Regarding the indifferent attitude of the old ship owner, Xu Changqing just smiled bitterly and shook his head, and then sat on the low chair on the side, waiting for the ship to start. Time passed quickly, half of the three incense sticks on the table were burned, Xu Changqing felt that something was wrong, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and the pointer on the watch pointed to the position of three o'clock at the moment.

Xu Changqing's face was slightly gloomy, he walked to the door of the cabin, and asked the old shipowner who was squatting aside and smoking: "Boatman, the time to sail the ship has passed, why don't you start the boat yet?"

"There are still people who haven't arrived. The old shipowner turned his head to look at Xu Changqing, without any expression on his face, and said coldly.

At this moment, a young man standing on the mast of the ship suddenly whistled downwards and shouted, "Daddy, here they are!"

Hearing the young man's shout, the old shipowner's ice-cube-like face immediately became more excited, stood up, looked in the direction the young man pointed, and then vigorously raised the dry tobacco pouch in his hand, and shouted loudly in the local language: "Lower the sails, lift the anchor, and prepare to sail." ”

Just when the old owner and his crew were busy preparing for the ship, Xu Changqing couldn't help but put his head out of the cabin curiously to see who could make such an old man who did his own thing so excited. However, after reading it, Xu Changqing's face also had a hint of surprise, as if he had seen something amazing.

I saw that on the dock, there were four people walking towards this side. Walking in the front is a middle-aged man dressed plainly, with a kind of majesty in his every move, and there is a strange true yuan faintly exuding from him, although it is messy, but it is extremely profound. Behind him was a pale Chinese man, the old man looked a little crazy, his face covered by his head was crisscrossed with dozens of scars, and one eye was also blind, leaving only a black hole in the eye socket, which looked extremely hideous. The most shocking thing for ordinary people is that there are two chains densely wrapped around his two arms and body, which makes his body several times thicker, and it looks very strange. The two chains were made up of thousands of walnut-sized skulls, and although ordinary people who saw the chains would not think that these skulls were real, they would still shudder involuntarily.

Walking on the right side of the old man was an ordinary-looking Chinese, although he looked ordinary, but in Xu Changqing's eyes, he was not ordinary at all. Because this person has been subjected to extremely clever tricks, the appearance of this Chinese is nothing but an illusion. Although this blinding method is very clever, it has no effect at all in front of Xu Changqing's magic eye, and the person hidden behind the blinding illusion is the prophet Moses who had a relationship with Xu Changqing.

Encountering the prophet Moses of the Covenant Sect again, although Xu Changqing felt a little surprised, it was not enough to make him show surprise, what really surprised him was the person who followed at the end. That person can be called Xu Changqing's old acquaintance, and he is also one of Xu Changqing's rare friends, he is none other than Guan Zheng, who left Huaxia with his family two years ago, crossed the border from Yunnan, and moved to Nanyang. After two years of training, Guan Zheng's body has an extra layer of mature and stable temperament, which is obviously very different from the righteous path master who was happy to eliminate demons back then, and the Haoran righteousness in his body seems to have increased a lot, and his strength has increased by at least several times compared to two years ago. The rune sword behind his back has also been replaced, and now this sword has a simple style, which is a little less murderous than the original rune sword, but a little more restrained righteousness.