The big man frowned, and a worried look appeared on his face.

Was it because someone knew about the goods they were carrying, and they chose not to flee back in order to protect them from falling into the hands of others?

It's a possibility, but it's not a possibility that doesn't stand up to scrutiny when you think about it.

One hundred and twenty people, if they want to destroy a shipload of goods, it is easy, even if a hundred people choose to die with the other party, the remaining twenty people still have a chance to escape and report the news.

No matter how powerful the other party is, chasing and killing all the way, someone should always come back to report this incident in the end, right?

In fact, no one has returned so far, and no news of them has been found at the transit point.

Another idea is actually that he himself is not very willing to conceive, after all, these people are people he trusts, if these people rebelled, it is equivalent to his negligence caused the accident, of course he does not want this kind of thing to happen.

Although he didn't say it, he was also thinking about the possibility of this in his heart.

As he himself has just said, he does not think that such a mutiny will happen, of course, the reason is not that he has just said that he trusts those people, this trust is only the most insignificant trust, and does not play a decisive role in judging things.

What really made him feel impossible was that the goods that were shipped were not finished products, and it was useless for them to take them, and they didn't even know the place responsible for the core part of production, and it was impossible to make these equipment work in the future, and if they took 10,000 steps back, even if they got complete equipment, they couldn't stand on their own. Fools know that he will definitely clear the portal to prevent the incident from spreading. Take that bit of equipment and go to the door of self-reliance. Isn't that self-inflicted?

The people who can be sent by him to carry out such a major task are certainly not stupid, instead of striving for the self-reliance portal, it is better to fight for the domination of a region from him, not only to have the feeling of self-reliance, but also to get logistical resources, and importantly, there is no danger of being cleaned up.

Come to think of it, the possibility of the latter is almost infinitely close to zero.

Then the only possible outcome is the former, although the possibility of the former is also very small, but as the only possibility. It must be the truth.

Whether they were killed by a master or they died with them in order to prevent the goods from falling into the hands of others, it is unlikely that they are still alive, and the real question now is whether that cargo has fallen into the hands of others.

If it didn't fall into the hands of others, it would be easy to say, at most a hundred and twenty people and a shipload of goods would have been sacrificed, and if the goods fell into the hands of others, the matter would be a big problem.

"Send someone to investigate all the merchant ships that have traveled between Tiecheng and Qingcheng in the past month, find all suspicious merchant ships and check them one by one, and notify them to strengthen their actions in all areas, and pay attention to whether there are suspicious warriors carrying suspicious equipment when they move. If there is, don't be hard-hitting, pay attention to the other party's actions and report back in time. ”

"Understood, helper. The man in white stood up. said: "Helper, the situation is unknown now, do you need me to notify the Northern Underworld City to temporarily process it to ensure that nothing goes wrong?"

"Okay, let's go. ”

The man in white nodded and exited the room.

......

After Chen Ling led everyone out of Red Maple City, they followed the established route all the way, at most, they went into the city to rest for the night, and set off immediately the next day.

Of course, they don't know what kind of danger they are facing, so they just keep hurrying.

The closer they got to the imperial capital, the closer the distance between each city became, from the first two or three months to a city in the next half a month, to the last five or six days, and after seven months, they finally arrived at the last stop.

Imperial capital.

The imperial capital is nominally a city, but the suspended island where the city is located is completely a continent suspended in the air, in the sense that this can no longer be called a city, but should be called an independent country, but this national system is very special, it itself contains a lot of jurisdictions, and at the same time manages hundreds of cities far away in the sky, these large and small cities together with the emperor form the world of the country - the Hanging Heaven Empire.

In terms of area, the imperial capital itself could become a state in its own right, uniting the external cities under its jurisdiction, and this nominal state might already be able to fully represent the Hanging Heaven Realm to some extent.

The imperial capital has its own sub-city like the Zenith, but it is not as numerous and messy as the Zenith, and the sub-city of the imperial capital is very regular, that is, it surrounds the suspension island outside the imperial capital, the rules are neat and tidy, and it looks a little artistic.

Because the area of the imperial capital itself is huge, although the floating islands surrounding it are only one circle, the number is staggering, and it is difficult for a small city like Zenith to match.

The imperial capital has four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, that is, the four major airports of the imperial capital, but in addition to the official ships, all other ships are not allowed to dock at the four major airports of the imperial capital, and foreign ships can only dock at the airport of the vice city.

Chen Ling and his entourage came to the ninth vice-city of the east gate of the imperial capital, and it was getting late, so everyone was resting in the vice-city.

There is only one imperial capital, and the vice-city looks almost the same, and these vice-cities around the imperial capital are basically the gathering places of merchants and tourists, prosperous but without any characteristics, and everywhere you go, you can see the same as copying, and you can't see any special places.

However, even if the vice-city of the imperial capital is the same, it is also magnificent, the houses everywhere are carved dragons and phoenixes, finely crafted, the stone slabs on the street are carefully polished limestone, and the gap between the stone slabs is a neat two millimeters, no more than a point, no less, neat and outrageous, even people with obsessive-compulsive disorder will be shocked by this kind of neatness when walking on the street, but the people on the street come from all over the world, and the clothes they wear are different, which looks a little awkward.

Walking on the streets of the ninth vice city, the night is no longer night, but another day, the people coming and going from the merchant ships are endless, the streets are always overcrowded, some people have just arrived in the imperial capital and are surprised, some people have been mixed with old but still admired, the shops along the street are open all day, and the business at night is no worse than during the day, this is just the vice city. (To be continued.) )