The merchant ship they were on was a cargo ship, and it was just a cargo ship that was carrying some people who wanted to leave the Iron City.

This cargo ship did not act alone, a total of four groups of escort ships were hired, two on each side of the four escort ships, and there were twenty warriors on each ship, such a large team escorted a merchant ship, this captain was a bloody one.

The ship soon set sail, leaving the Iron City Airport and heading to the next city.

Not long after departure, the captain personally brought a large plate of fruit snacks, and the new and attentive attitude was self-evident.

Although the money was given by another person, how could he, as a businessman, not see who was the real speaker in this line, so he was also very clever to put the object of his hospitality on Chen Ling, and smiled as if he was really sorry just now.

Chen Ling also had no intention of accepting his hospitality, but it was still good to have something to eat.

"Captain, are there a lot of air bandits along the way? you have to hire eighty warriors to protect the ship on one cargo ship, will this cost be too high?" Chen Ling asked casually.

"Oh, who's to say it's not, I can basically only make a little bit of money this trip by hiring 80 people, but some of them are better than nothing. He said: "The air bandits near the Iron City are very frequent, and if you encounter them, you can only hire these warriors to buy time for yourself, otherwise it is very likely that you will have nothing and put your own life on the line." ”

"The advantage of air bandits is their mobility in the air, is it really useful to hire these warriors to protect ships?" Chen Linghu doubted.

"You have to use it if it's useful or not, at least you have a better chance, otherwise just an ordinary person like me will directly face those heinous air bandits and be killed without any chance. With these convoys, at least there is a chance to save their lives. If you're lucky, you'll be able to escape from the robbers. The captain sighed.

"This waterway is so dangerous, why do you have to keep going back and forth in this waterway?"

"The best thing to sell in the Hanging Heaven Realm right now is weapons and equipment. My ship's cargo is all weapons and equipment, as long as it can be transported to Qingcheng normally, at least it is still a little more profitable than other businesses, rich and dangerous, how can you make a lot of money without a little guts, just like you warriors, how can you improve your strength without facing danger, you say this is the reason. ”

Chen Ling smiled. This guy is really a businessman.

"Go about yourself. ”

"Eh, if you guys need anything, just tell me, I will definitely give it to you if I can get it, don't be polite to me. "The handful of money just now has already earned back the money from this business, how can you not serve them well.

"See the money and open your eyes. Mo Chunjiao glanced at him.

Chen Ling said: "Businessman, it's just nature, there's nothing to blame. ”

"Whatever, whatever, whatever, I didn't eat at noon and was a little hungry, but I just had something to eat, hehe. Mo Chunjiao picked up the fruit and ate it. Don't forget to share it with her good sisters.

Chen Ling leaned back in his chair and thought about things.

Originally, they planned to pass through the Hanging Heaven Realm as fast as possible, but the special environment here itself prevented them from moving forward quickly. Coupled with the time wasted in the process of changing ships every time, the time to reach the center of the Hanging Heaven Realm is estimated to be slower than expected.

The Great Ancient Space-Time Circuit Breaker is a good solution, but if you think about it carefully, you know that it is completely unreliable.

The direction of going all the way to the imperial capital is not a straight line, but is set according to the itinerary of the spaceship, the biggest problem of the time and space circuit breaker of the Great Ancient is the problem of direction, they have not been to the imperial capital, once there is a deviation in the direction of the middle, then it will take more time, and it is even difficult to find the direction to be trapped in this world composed of countless suspended islands.

In order to speed up the speed now, the only way to speed up is to shorten the waiting time in the process of changing ships as much as possible, and often rest for two or three days as soon as you land on the island, which seems to be nothing, but it does add up to a very waste of time.

......

The next stop of the iron city, Qingcheng, this section of the road is not far, the normal sailing speed can be reached in only ten days, it is a short-distance voyage, and the previous North Underworld to the city railway is indeed a very short distance compared to the time of three months.

But the 10-day journey was more dangerous than anywhere else.

It is said that there are so many and frequent air robbers in this area that only official ships will not be robbed by them, and civilian merchant ships will have to pray for themselves.

The atmosphere was felt in every crew member who came and went, everyone was full of uneasiness, everyone's nerves were tense, and some people could be heard walking and muttering some divine prayers.

The captain is obviously also very afraid of encountering air bandits, and has been flying at full speed since leaving the port, if he can, he really wishes that his spaceship could teleport, directly from this airport to that airport, so that he can avoid the air robbers on the route.

On the sixth day of the voyage, halfway through the trip, they really encountered a group of air bandits.

However, the bandits had already found their prey, and a large ship with a blue skull flag docked on another large merchant ship, which had been sacked by them, and their contents were carried onto the robbers' ship in boxes.

"It's weird, isn't that the box shipped from the Northern Underworld?" Chen Ling looked at it from a distance, and suddenly became puzzled.

The merchant ship that the air robbers were looting was all the same boxes that had been transported from the North Underworld that night.

Didn't these boxes be transported to the official ship before? How could they be loaded from the official ship onto the civilian ship? So they didn't die, and they just happened to be robbed by air bandits.

Wait, wait.

The air robbers were quite polite to the people on the ship, and the frigates on both sides of the merchant ship were unharmed, and there was no sign of the convoy fighting.

This is very different from what they have encountered before.

Thinking that the gang of air robbers they encountered at that time were not merciless at all, the twenty escort warriors were killed by them one by one after handing over the elven treasure diamond, and now these air bandits are very gentle, it seems that they have not even clashed with this group of escort ships.

Or did the merchant ships know that they can't fight and surrender from the beginning?

If that's the case, then why do you hire a convoy, and if you encounter air bandits, you can't surrender directly, so why bother?

Doubts spread in Chen Ling's heart...... (To be continued.) )