"Wait a minute!" Fu Shendu's man stopped some pedestrians at the north gate, "Please cooperate with us in checking." ”

Cheng went to watch his subordinates do things first, and he was on the sidelines guarding something, looking quite sneaky.

It's not that Cheng wants to do this, but he has to do it. After deciding to investigate the channels of entry into the city, he immediately discovered a big problem, that is, the various passes in the city have always belonged to the territory of the Daotai Yamen, and the Fushen Governor has no connections and no prestige here, and forcibly intervenes in it, which is bound to intensify the original contradictions.

Fu Shendu himself has no right to set up checkpoints for interrogation at will, but it is impossible for the Daotai Yamen to take the initiative to help him investigate the case, so to speak, it is deadlocked here, unless another way is found.

The first way Cheng went to think was to stop passers-by for interrogation at a distance from the city gate, as he is now, to see if there are any clues related to Zhenkang Shrine. In this way, it is necessary to avoid being discovered by the people of the yamen, otherwise it will inevitably cause other turmoil.

investigated so carefully and cautiously, but never found anything, Cheng Xiangxian was somewhat impatient.

Suddenly, someone spoke behind him: "The chief secretary has something for you." ”

Cheng Fuxian is a person who practices martial arts, reacts quickly, subconsciously turns back, but his body moves first, punches over, and is quickly caught by the other party.

It turned out to be Liang Mian, he was a little smiling, and he was always very gentle with his only nephew.

"What's the matter?" Seeing the other party, Cheng went to let down his vigilance.

"Your father asked me to assist you—but not here, but somewhere else." Liang Mian said.

"What is he going to do with me again?" Cheng Tingdong changed his plan again, which made Cheng Fuxian frown a little.

"You'll know if you've seen this." What Liang Mian gave to Cheng was a letter, a letter sent from Chaomen City and also sent to Chaomen City.

……

Outside the port, a small boat had already left the port, rowing towards the depths of the sea close to the stars. There were two people on board, and the rower was reluctant.

"You are breaking the rules by requisitioning the ship of the city ship so casually!" Luan Wen said as he rowed, "We should have signaled the port closure and called the others to catch up with the ship, not like it is now." ”

"Wait for your set, the daylily is cold. You are so conscientious in your duties, it is better to call people yourself, and let me chase them alone. Qiu Shaohu said lukewarmly.

"But I've been pulled to the boat by you." Knowing that he didn't want to run when he got on the "thief ship", Luan Wen could only row faster and try his best to rush towards the big ship not far away.

As we moved away from the harbor, the lights at the port were invisible, and the boat was making it more and more difficult to move forward.

Their boats are ordinary sampans, which are agile in the waters of the river, and slow down as soon as they enter deep water.

The big ship, on the other hand, was bulky at the port, but gradually reached the area away from the port, and the excellent wave-breaking ability of the heavy draft hull began to come into play, and the speed increased more and more, gradually leaving them behind.

"Oops, I'm afraid we won't be able to catch up." Luan Wen was a little anxious, "Why don't we go back first, and then ......"

Qiu Shaohu knew that if he gave up halfway now, God knows where the ship would go, and once the people in the resting place above found the ruins of the cave first, I was afraid that the consequences would be unimaginable.

As soon as he thought of this, Qiu Shaohu immediately had an idea, he took out a book with his backhand, it was "Taishangji", although the influence of this book was uncontrollable, but under Tang Xun's slight guidance at that time, at least he had some ways to make the influence of "Taishangji" meet his expectations.

Qiu Shaohu took out his compass with his other hand, and the pointer indicating the direction calculated the position, and he suddenly said to Luan Wen: "Be careful of lightning!" ”

"Huh?" Before Luan Wen could understand, he only heard a "boom" in his ears, and a thunderbolt fell beside them, and the waves rolled, almost overturning the boat.

They are now in the "shock" position, which will naturally attract the billowing and violent qi to converge here.

This is not Qiu Shaohu's ultimate goal, the position of the big ship is opposite to them, and in the position of the innate gossip, it corresponds to the "Xun" position.

Sure enough, in the direction of the ship, a strong wind suddenly blew, and the wind was unusually turbulent, like a roar in the deep sea, driving the waves on the surface of the sea, enveloping the big ship, and heading in another direction.

And in the end, the direction of the big ship was exactly where Qiu Shaohu and the others were now.

It can be said that the ship was also attracted by the darkness of "Taishangji", and their positions were instantly much closer.

Qiu Shaohu estimated the direction, and immediately took out a bow and crossbow, and a long chain was tied to the back of the crossbow arrow, and when the big ship entered the range, he immediately shot the crossbow arrow, and the chain set up a long lock bridge in the interval between each other.

However, just before the crossbow arrow was about to hit the ship's board, a silver light suddenly flashed on the ship, and another feather arrow flew out of the ship, which happened to hit Qiu Shaohu's arrow and knocked it into the sea.

The lock bridge also broke, and the feather arrow shot lost its accuracy because of the obstacle, and fell into the sea water in front of Qiu Shaohu.

But he immediately felt a warning that the arrow was like a precursor to a crisis, meaning that even greater clouds were about to loom.

Sure enough, the next moment, a "dark cloud" flew out of the big ship, obscuring half of the sky, with a whistling and piercing sound.

It was hundreds of feathered arrows, which were sent out from the ship in unison, and they bore the brunt of it.

"Hurry up and row and change direction!" Qiu Shaohu reminded Luan Wen loudly.

"Hit the rocks!" Luan Wen said nervously: "It's low tide now, there is a reef group here, we can't move!" ”

As he spoke, the sound of arrows breaking through the air was close at hand, and many arrows hit Qiu Shaohu's body, making a "crackling" sound. If it weren't for his thorough protection - the wolf skin of his coat and the close-fitting fish scale armor were invulnerable, and the lock helmet on his head was also an excellent protection, I am afraid that he would have been shot into a hedgehog long ago.

But Luan Wen was not so lucky, although Qiu Shaohu blocked most of the arrows for him in front of him, there were still some fish that slipped through the net and shot beside him, so frightened that he couldn't hide in the cramped cabin.

Coldly, a feather arrow was directly nailed to his calf, and although the wound was not deep, he still screamed out at once.

"Ahh I was wrong, I shouldn't have gone to sea with you at all, everything still has to be done according to the rules! Luan Wen regretted it.

"Don't scream!" Qiu Shaohu was annoyed by his shouting.

At this time, the first wave of arrow rain gradually stopped, and there was no movement on the sea except for the sound of the wind.

After all, the ship was only a merchant ship, and there were no other superfluous weapons except for some arrows, let alone military naval weapons such as fierce fire oil and fire-fired guns.

Qiu Shaohu took advantage of this gap and raised his hand with a wave, and two darts were thrown towards the merchant ship from afar.

The two small darts are not at all proportional to the huge hull of the ship, and from a distance, they look like mayflies shaking trees.

However, after the darts, there was a noisy wind, like a strong wind rising at the end of Qingping, and then echoing the current wind, setting off stormy waves.

Qiu Shaohu specially created a batch of Xunfeng darts, which can change the layout of the surrounding palaces and stir the vitality of heaven and earth with his own Xun position. When it coincides with the original position of the merchant ships, it naturally has even more strange powers.

The merchant ship was staggered, caught in the waves, and the two huge rudders behind its stern were now visible to the naked eye, trying to get out of here.

The people on the boat couldn't figure out the situation of Qiu Shaohu's side for a while, and it seemed that they didn't plan to entangle with him too much here.

"Boom!"

Like thunder rising from the ground, piercing the curtain of the night, it shines with dazzling brilliance in the dark curtain.

The sound of cannon fire fell from the sky, directly piercing the rudder of the tail of the merchant ship, paralyzing the entire large ship in place in an instant.

Qiu Shaohu looked back, and the two Shenwei cannons from Dingguo at the port, one of which emitted thick smoke and dust, had been taken over.

"Who's at the port?" Luan Wen didn't know why, "At this time, the people from the City Bosi should all go back, and there are not many people from the Yamen." ”

"Reinforcements, naturally." Qiu Shaohu said to Luan Wen, who was puzzled.

The letter he sent to the city was addressed to the Governors of Fushen, informing them of the condition of the port.

The situation of the resting place is unknown, and Qiu Shaohu certainly won't let himself be in danger alone, but the people in the resting place were actually on that merchant ship in advance, which was also beyond his expectations.

Fortunately, the people who caressed the gods arrived in time as he expected.

At this moment, many small sailing boats appeared from the shore, riding the wind and coming towards this side at a very fast speed.

……

"We're in a hurry, and we're not bringing weapons suitable for ship warfare." Liang Mian said to Cheng Xiangxian, who was also on the same sailboat.

"With a bow and arrows, it's enough!" Cheng went to take the lead and picked up hundreds of catties of iron-tired big bows, and ten iron-clad arrows were placed on the bowstring, exuding a cold white light.

On the ship behind him, the warriors who had appeased the gods picked up their bows and arrows one after another, led by Cheng Xiangxian, and the arrows shot out like a torrential rain.

Although there was no flame, the blood and qi of the martial arts filled the sky in an instant, converging into a whole net of arrows, and shrouded the merchant ships.

The big ship instantly became full of holes, and the terrifying strength of the feather arrows pierced the originally sturdy hull, breaking through the scattered holes. Several arrows pierced the planks below the waterline, and seawater continued to pour in.

The figures on the boat were in a panic.

"Huh?" Cheng Xiang first turned his gaze to the small boat that hit the rock.

There would be a small boat here, which would have made him strange.

What surprised him even more was one of the shadows, somewhat familiar.

……

"Cheng Fuxian seems to recognize me?"

Qiu Shaohu had honed his beast-like intuition as early as in the Snow Mountain, and he could immediately sense that even if Cheng Xiangxian was far away, his eyes had been falling on him.

"Whoa!" There was a dull sound of falling water in his ears, Qiu Shaohu turned his head and saw that it was Luan Wen who jumped into the sea by himself, because there was a reef next to him, so he also had a foothold, and his upper body was exposed to the water and was pushing the sampan.

"What do you do?" Qiu Shaohu asked.

"Push the boat, if you don't push the boat away, how can we leave?" As soon as Luan Wen finished speaking, he slipped under his feet and fell into the water.

Qiu Shaohu also jumped onto the reef, and just helped him up, he suddenly felt a little strange.

The afterglow swept something that seemed unusual.

The pupils gradually changed to the bright yellow color of amber, Qiu Shaohu's eyes were like torches, and he immediately saw that under the refraction of the seawater, a blurred line of words appeared on the reef, probably "...... Soul Sole ......"

And the reef engraved with this line of words is angular and angular, not like a reef at all, but a carved white jade stele.

"This ......" Qiu Shaohu couldn't imagine for a while, what it meant.

"Hum—"

A strange voice suddenly came.

It was the resonant sound of breaking waves that squeezed the sea to one side and strangely parted from it. Two behemoths appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The pitch-black body, the hideous appearance, and the deck covered with thick animal skins, seemed to come from the ancient wilderness, telling a strong atmosphere.

On the sides of the two battleships, there were more than a hundred barreled guns of different calibers and sizes, which reflected the luster of black iron, and in the next moment, they all emitted a red light.

"Lang Guo, Nine Infant Battleship!"

Everyone present was taken aback, and the next moment, everything was illuminated by the firelight.