"If it goes well from here to the starting place, there are about 14 days to go, can I charge you 20 gold coins?" The middle-aged businessman asked.

"It's too tiring to shout like this," Qian Hai turned around and asked Lao Bai, "I let them come over or I go over, is it okay?" ”

Lao Bai smiled and said, "They shouldn't dare." ”

"Alright then," Qian Hai continued to shout at the other party, "This is the first time we have joined the fleet, are there any rules?" ”

"This young master, if you are interested, I can go to your ship and explain it in detail." The merchant on the other side responded.

Qian Hai turned his head sideways and smiled at Lao Bai: "It seems that you guessed wrong. ”

Lao Bai nodded slightly: "Well, this businessman is a little different." ”

"Good!" Qian Hai shouted to the other side, "Welcome to our ship." ”

After a while, a middle-aged businessman wearing a cyan robe who didn't look rich boarded the small clipper in Qianhai with a guard, "Hello, my name is Bi Ziyan, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

"Hello, my name is Qianhai. You may be seated, Mr. Bi. Qianhai asked An Xiu to move a chair for the other party.

"Thank you, Young Master Qianhai." Bi Ziyan said directly: "Because everyone is waiting for us, I will briefly introduce the situation of our fleet. ”

"Our fleet, including me, has a total of five ships, one of which is a mercenary at sea, and the other four are free traders. During the voyage, everyone did not disturb each other and followed the mercenary ship to the neutral dock where they started. ”

Bi Ziyan continued: "If you plan to join us, you need to pay us 4 gold coins per ship, which is 20 gold coins. ”

It's only 20 gold coins in total, which is really cheap. Qian Hai nodded, "I can accept the price, but if the fleet is attacked by pirates, who will the sea mercenaries protect first?" ”

Bi Ziyan smiled: "After discovering the pirates, the sea mercenaries will come forward to negotiate or fight, and they will not give priority to protecting any ship." ”

"Oh," Qianhai didn't wait to finish speaking, when he heard another ship coming from a distance, and someone on it shouted impatiently, "Hey! Bi Ziyan, don't waste time on them! They want to go to the starting place with a small clipper, and they can't afford to pay a commission! ”

Bi Ziyan smiled apologetically at Qian Hai: "Please forgive me, there are always some people at sea who are not very friendly. ”

"It's okay, I'll pay this commission." Qian Hai happily took out 20 gold coins, "It's time to make friends." ”

"Great, you're very welcome to join!" Bi Ziyan hurriedly handed down the gold coins of Qianhai, and said happily: "To be honest, we free traders can only get a meager benefit each time compared to the risk of doing trade at sea, thank you very much for being able to share our costs!" ”

"Hey!! Bi Ziyan!! The boat in the distance shouted again.

"Let's go now!!" Bi Ziyan responded in the distance, turned his head to Qian Hai and said, "Then, let's go back first, and your boat can follow at the end of the line." ”

"Okay, Mr. Bi, we'll follow behind your boat." After Qian Haimu saw Bi Ziyan leave, he looked back at Sister Yuan, "Sister Yuan, follow them." ”

Qian Hai stood at the bow of the ship, looked at Bi Ziyan's merchant ship in front of him, and asked, "Lao Bai, do you have to pay a commission in advance to hire a sea mercenary?" ”

"Normally, the hiring of a sea mercenary will only pay a small deposit in advance, and will not pay the entire commission in advance."

Qian Hai nodded and said, "Well, as I know, is Bi Ziyan lying?" ”

Lao Bai shook his head slightly, "Just now from the state and tone of his voice when he spoke, I feel that he is not lying." So I speculate that there is another possibility, which is that they hire sea mercenaries at a cheap price, but on the condition that they have to pay the entire commission in advance. ”

"Even if the other party says that he is not lying, you can feel the subtle changes in him, which is amazing." Qian Hai smiled and asked, "Then you mean that if there is really danger, maybe these sea mercenaries will not care about these merchant ships at all?" ”

"Maybe these sea mercenaries were in collusion with pirates in the first place." Lao Bai said in a deep voice.

"And this kind of thing?? In other words, these sea mercenaries may also be fake? Seeing Lao Bai nodding, Qian Hai smiled even more happily, "Haha, I originally wanted to cause less trouble, so wouldn't this be interesting." ”

For the next three days, Qianhai and their small clippers kept at the end of the fleet, not only did the other merchant ships not get close to communicate, but even the hired sea mercenaries did not send anyone over to communicate.

In order not to attract the attention of the rest of the fleet, Qianhai no longer let Lao Bai go to the sea to grab ingredients. Anyway, it's too unusual for a blind man to go down to the sea to catch a sea beast.

During this time, Lao Bai, who had been wandering around the Origin for many years when he was young, gave everyone a general overview of the Origin Land, especially the neutral dock where their fleet was now heading.

The Neutral Dock, built by the four Neutral Cities, is divided into the sphere of influence of each Neutral City, and is built for challengers, tourists, and merchants who travel to the Origin from all over the world.

Each Neutral Pier has a variety of exclusive passages, and as long as you pay the corresponding fee, you can go directly to the corresponding Neutral City.

In fact, hundreds of years ago, Neutral City was just a transit point for all challengers before entering the Chaos Forest. It wasn't until the King of Light was mysteriously destroyed that the four neutral cities: Weichuang City, Geno City, Silver City, and Bamboo Wind City, quickly developed into their current scale.

Although on the surface, the four neutral cities are recognized as neutral by all the powers of the world, and are controlled by mercenary groups independent of each civilization. But in reality, these four cities are a kind of infiltration of land civilization into the starting place.

The Weichuang City near the Western Arcane Continent is controlled by a mercenary group from the Demon Guided Civilization, the Bamboo Wind City near the Eastern Qingyuan Continent belongs to the mercenary group from the Hongwu Civilization, and the Silver City located in the northwest corner of the starting place is controlled by the mercenaries of the Holy Spirit Civilization.

Only Qianhai and the Gono City they are going to are more special, because Gono City is close to the Southern Continent, plus the three civilizations on the Southern Continent: Ten Thousand Demons, Beamon, and Elves are relatively weak, so Gono City is controlled by five mercenary groups from Ten Thousand Demons, Beamon, Elves, Demon Guide, and Hongwu.

In addition to the docks corresponding to the Neutral City, the Seven Continent civilizations have established their own exclusive docks on the starting place, which are specially used for the excellent challengers selected by their own civilizations to go to the entrance of the underground palace trial located in the core of the Chaos Forest.

Lao Bai said that he was sent from the Qingyuan Continent to the special dock of Hongwu Civilization by the Taixi League, and then escorted by the masters of the Taixi League to the entrance of the underground palace.

"There are a total of six entrances to the dungeon trial, and they are now divided into the six main cities located in the Republican Alliance-"