Chapter 1 Smoke Rises

Section 2: The Great Retreat of Cangyue Island

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The sky is high and cool, and the ocean is vast.

In the early morning, the sea shows its charm and charm. On the sea, the sea breeze is gentle and the waves are rippling. In the vast waters between the Great Desert of the Alliance and the Cangyue Island, two fishing boats are taking advantage of this rare opportunity of calm and calm, shuttling back and forth on the sea. The surface of the sea reflects the busy figures of fishermen. The splashes of water from the nets were crystal clear in the morning light, like huge pearls.

This is not the fishing season, and the vast majority of fishing boats are docked in the bay of Cangyue Island. Because during this windy season, the conditions on the sea are unpredictable. It is extremely dangerous to go out and fish without permission. But the two fishing boats didn't know why they had to venture out.

The two fishing boats are not big, just two small boats like a crescent. There were two fishermen on each boat, one at the helm and the other with a net. On one of the fishing boats, the fisherman who cast the net had just lowered the net and inadvertently glanced up into the distance, and a smile suddenly bloomed on his face. Pointing to the distance and saying to the fisherman at the helm, "Look, it looks like a merchant ship of Biqi and the Sealed Demon." ”

When the fisherman at the helm heard this, he hurriedly looked in the direction he was pointing, only to see two black dots looming between the intersection of heaven and water, so he also showed a smile on his face and said, "It's them, I don't know what good things they brought this time." ”

The fisherman stood on tiptoe and looked at it for a moment, and said, "It looks like it will come in less than half an hour." We hurry up and collect the net and go back, otherwise we will go back late and the good things will be replaced by others. After speaking, he began to bury his head in the net.

The fisherman at the helm hurriedly stopped him and said, "Why can't you turn your head, what are you going back to do?" Just wait for them here. Get on board first and see what's going on. If it really doesn't work, I'll take possession of the things first, and when the ship docks, it's not too late for you to go back and get the things and come back to change them. ”

The fisherman who cast the net reacted, and a row of heads laughed: "Yes, why didn't I think of it." At that moment, the two called the other fishing boat over and waited for the two black spots together.

In a short time, two black dots took on a vague outline, and they were two five-masted galleons. The more the fisherman at the helm looked at it, the more strange he became, and he said to the fisherman who cast a net beside him: "In the past, there were only two big boats, but this time there seem to be many small boats behind them?"

When the fisherman heard this, he did see that there were dozens of small boats behind the two five-masted boats, but he didn't care, and said, "Maybe there are a lot of goods brought this time." ”

The two fishing boats waited a little longer, but the fisherman at the helm felt that the situation was not right, and said, "I have never had so many ships before! And you see, the color of the flag on the ship doesn't seem to be right. ”

The fisherman casually looked at him disapprovingly, "What's wrong, this is clearly the cargo ship of Beechcraft and the Sealed Demon." ”

After another moment, the two five-masted ships and the dozens of small boats were getting closer and closer, and the flags on the ships were faintly visible. ”

The fisherman who cast his net heard the reputation. Sure enough, one of the two five-masted ships had a bull's head flag on the main mast, and the other had a skull flag. Suddenly he couldn't figure out what was going on, and muttered in a low voice, "Could it be that the Beechcraft and the Demon Sealer have changed their flags, but I haven't heard of such a thing, and this change is too ugly." ”

As he muttered, two galleons sailed in quite a bit. These are two giant five-masted galleons. The white sails puffed up the wind, the tall and majestic hull cleaved the waves, and the two-leaf boat in front of it was like two small stones in front of the mountain, and at the same time, the densely packed mutant bison and mutant skeletons on the boat also came into the eyes of the four. Almost at the same time, they shouted in unison, "It's a monster." Scrambled to grab the rudder and escape.

But it was too late. I saw two white rays of light several feet wide fly out from the five-masted boat with the bull's head flag, like two white crescents brushing the sea, rowing up the waves of more than a foot and hitting the two-leaf boat. Then "Boom." Boom" two loud bangs. The surface of the sea was filled with waves. Wait until the waves calm down. The two-leaf boat is gone. Only a few pieces of broken wood were left on the surface of the sea, floating and floating with the waves.

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Cangyue Island is embedded in the blue sea, empty and serene.

To the east of the island, there is a piece about ten miles wide. The huge gentle slope of twenty or thirty miles long slowly climbs from the seashore to a height of hundreds of zhang above sea level, and Cangyue City is located on this huge gentle slope. However, even though it is a castle, it is difficult for people who come here for the first time to have an impression of it. For it is more accurate to say that this is not so much a city as a cluster of dwellings scattered on the hillside. There are no moats, no walls, and no towering buildings, so it can be said that there is hardly a sign of the city. But this also happens to fulfill the uniqueness of Cangyue City. The Cangyue people used the rammed earth of the island, the stones of the mountains and the trees of the forest to build a unique dwelling on this gentle slope, and added their belief in life, the aesthetics of the world, and the color of life to these dwelling buildings. Typical flat-roofed houses, red, yellow, green, purple, the combination of various colors, makes the entire Cangyue City show an exotic scene, and makes the scenery on this land picturesque!

Cangyue people are so casual and distinctive. The sea is the cradle of Cangyue people's survival, and the large beach near the sea under Cangyue City has naturally become the most lively place in the whole city. There is no central square like the Sealed Demon City and Biqi City, and this huge beach invisibly plays the role of a square. At this moment, the big beach is full of fishing gear from all over the world, and the slightest stumbling is spectacular. Three or five piles of people, either mending nets or cleaning fishing gear. The woman's light laughter and the man's bold words carried along the sea breeze to the hillside and to the sea. In a harbor not far from the beach, thousands of fishing boats are quietly moored. These fishing boats are either just a flat boat, or a small boat that can hold a dozen people, or a large boat with two or three masts, and on this island that makes a living from fishing, the boat is like the other leg of the Cangyue people, indispensable.

At this time, I don't know who shouted: "Look, everyone, Biqi and the cargo ship of the Demon Seal are coming." When everyone heard this, they all looked in the direction of the Marfa continent of the sea. Sure enough, between the lines of heaven and water, two small black dots are coming one by one. "Yes, it's Bizi's cargo ship. People chimed in, smiling faces. The child even rushed to the beach and shouted in the direction of the black dot: "Hey, ......" and seemed very happy. The arrival of the cargo ship means that they will have their favorite sweets and beautiful clothes again. Cangyue City is surrounded by the sea on all sides, and the cargo ship is the link between them and the Marfa continent. So for the Cangyue people, the arrival of cargo ships every month is also the busiest day of the month for them. The cargo ships will bring the rice and cotton they need to seal the Demon City, and the meat and milk of the Biqi City. The fish and rice markets have been here for thousands of years.

On the gentle slope, those who stayed at home also saw the cargo ship. So they all carried the seafood that had been prepared from their own homes. A steady stream of people walked out of the house, on the gentle slopes leading to the beach, and the endless crowd was like a stream slowly descending, finally gathering on the beach. As more and more people gather on the beach, children frolic and adults talk and laugh. Everyone's face was beaming with joy. After a while, tens of thousands of people had gathered on the beach, and even those who had not been to the beach stood in front of their houses and looked at the cargo ships in the distance, smiling knowingly.

In the middle of the hillside, in front of a yellow flat-roofed house, a middle-aged man dressed in black stood in the open space in front of the house with his hands behind his back, with clear cheeks, calm and sharp eyes, and a thin body. All of them exude a unique majesty and nobility, this person is the city lord of Cangyue City, from time to time, passers-by who walked by his room greeted him sideways, and he also responded one by one, a little boy who was only about four or five years old hugged his left leg, raised his head and said to him in a milky voice: "Dad, can you take me down to play too?" Fashen smiled and reached out to touch his son's head, squatted down and shook his head: "Dad is the city lord, there is no reason to go down to change things first, and when everyone is finished, Dad will take you down." The little boy seemed to understand his father's words and nodded sensibly.

As the cargo ship approached closer and closer, the Dharma God on the gentle slope suddenly found that behind the two five-masted ships, there were dozens of small boats. At first, due to the distance, the small size of the boats, and the fact that they were hidden by the five-masted ships, he did not notice their existence. The originally smiling face of the Dharma God suddenly became serious, and he casually beckoned to a young man in front of a red house not far away, "Yifan, you go down and take a look, why are there so many boats this time." The young man answered and ran down the slope.

After all, the people of Cangyue are not demon sealers, and they don't have the ability to predict the ominous in advance. In this era of stability and peace, no one will think about the worst, so the Fa God just called the young man who called Yifan to go down and take a look.

But those catastrophes often happen when people are most negligent, and this is indeed the five-masted cargo ship of Biqi City and Sealed Demon City, but it is not the rice, cotton, meat, and milk they want, but the advance team of the Huangquan Legion and the Bull Demon Legion led by the Huangquan Sect Leader and the Bull Demon King, a full 10,000 mutant skeletons and mutant bison.

At the beginning, the seven demon armies of the dark force set out from the Red Moon Canyon, and when they passed through the Walma Forest, they divided the Rainbow Demon Legion to attack the Sealed Demon City in the Sealed Demon Valley, and the other six continued to go south, and after coming to Biqi Province, the Zuma Legion, the Walmart Legion, the Centipede Legion and the Viper Legion besieged Biqi City, leaving the Bull Demon Legion and the Yellow Spring Legion to go north, through the complex Viper Valley, entered the scorching desert of Mengzhong Province, and captured the Tucheng located in the hinterland of the desert. After getting enough water in Tucheng, the two demon armies continued north, came to the shore of the sea, and seized the two ships docked at the seashore that were specially used for Cangyue City and Beach City, and the five-masted galleon used for the trading of the Demon City, and dozens of small boats next to it. So under the leadership of the Huangquan Sect Leader and the Bull Demon King, the two demon armies selected more than 10,000 demon armies to form an advance team to conquer Cangyue City, and in this way, they sailed through the Cangmeng Strait.