However, just when Tiantang Hualuo, Yong Ye and others were spreading rumors intensively, intending to induce the ships in Tiejiao Port to stop sailing. But a small boat had already set its sails and sailed out of the port.
Xiu Li did what he said, and it took less than half a day to help everyone from the Seven Seas Brigade contact the shipyard and purchase supplies and materials. The Seven Seas Traveler only suffered minor damage in the storm, and it didn't take much effort to repair. They only stayed here for less than half a week, and they were ready to sail again.
Before boarding the ship, Tian Lan and Miss Attila settled the bill with the Black Goat Chamber of Commerce. The total amount was only a few thousand lisels, more than half of which was the rental fee of the shipyard. Of course, under normal circumstances, there must be more than this. This is because the other party gave them a very low discount, which is close to the cost price.
Before leaving Orenze, the Seven Seas Traveler still had about eight million Risels on its books. However, the money was subsequently spent to make Lancers and improve Silver Bees, and now there is about half of it left. look. Of course, compared to this amount of money, a few thousand lisels is nothing, but don’t forget that this is only the maintenance cost of a sailboat at sea for a few days.
It's no wonder that Cowling's old saying goes: 'If you want to go bankrupt, invest in a fleet on the sea. It's like a black hole, swallowing wealth continuously. All it takes is one storm to scatter everything. 'Of course, on the other hand, sailboats also bring a steady stream of wealth, and businessmen are not fools, they just waste their money.
Nowadays, the waterways connected in the Cloud Sea have long been like blood vessels that maintain the continents around the Cloud Sea, transporting the blood of wealth. Many business empires with astonishing wealth originated from this place.
Fang Plover was lying on the side of the Seven Seas Traveler, looking at the sailboats coming in and out of the airport. He was a little confused - why haven't he seen them for a few days? There seemed to be a lot more sailboats painted red in the port. What are these Fenrisians doing, all crowded into this small place?
He couldn't help but become a little interested in what was happening in Iron Reef Port. Generally speaking, what were the things that the major forces cared about? A new mineral vein is discovered, a new unexplored exploration area, an important event, a mission with rich rewards, or a lord-level creature.
Any chosen one is interested in such things, and he is certainly no exception. And anyway, these people owe him a favor, right? It's not too much for him to grab some benefits, right?
Clearly not excessive.
It's a pity that their time is too tight, otherwise he must find out clearly what these people are doing.
Tang Xin held the cable with her slender hands and looked at her brother with his hands on the side of the ship, his chin resting on his hands, and his whole body leaning against the side of the ship as if he had no bones. She couldn't help but feel so angry—— Is this what a captain should look like?
"Hey, are you listening to me?"
"ah?"
Tang Xin showed a look of disdain: "Saliva, slobber."
Fang Yu blushed and thought he was drooling while daydreaming. He blushed and wiped it away quickly, but found that there was nothing at all.
Tang Xin raised her eyebrows and said angrily, "You really weren't listening."
"No, no, no, Tangtang, please listen to my explanation -"
"I want to hear your explanation, go to hell!"
The noble lady sat under the mast and looked at the brother and sister from a distance, which was a little funny. Siesta stood aside for a long time, and suddenly she spoke in a rare voice: "Aren't you worried, miss?"
Sylvide turned around and looked at her with her wonderful eyes: "What are you worried about, Siesta?"
Siesta looked at her without speaking. The two had known each other for many years, and she naturally understood that her lady understood what she meant.
Sylvide pursed her lips and smiled: "They are brother and sister, what is there to worry about?"
There was a somewhat suspicious look in the maid's eyes. She believed in her young lady, but the 'brother and sister' were clearly not brother and sister anymore.
Sylvide smiled: "I might as well worry about the other lady, that is the truly formidable opponent."
"What do you mean, miss?"
Sylvide made a fist with each hand, stretched out two fingers, gestured on her head, and let out a whimper from her neck. Then he showed a sly look and smiled knowingly.
"People's hearts are really dissatisfied. Ordinarily, he already has a young lady falling in love with him, so he should feel lucky." Shesta looked over there with cold eyes.
Sylvester looked at her amusedly, focusing on her maid for the first time: "Shesta, are you complaining to me?"
"I didn't, miss."
"That's it."
She stretched out a green-white finger and nodded to her maid's heart: "Shasta, don't worry, you will always belong to me."
The maid lowered her head slightly.
Just as everything has a beginning and an end, the bulging money bags will eventually be empty.
What Tang Xin was talking about with her cousin was exactly the same thing. She actually represented the opinions of Tianlan and Atila - in the name of the Seven Seas Traveler Logistics Management Committee - referred to as the Logistics Management Committee. This is Tianlan She said that the organization announced to be formed has more Chinese characteristics.
But I don’t know what kind of Chinese characteristics it is.
In short, with Aitila's tacit approval, this nonsensical organization was established. There are three standing committee members, namely her - Sky Blue Fantasy, Miss Aitila, and Tang Xin, and all the members of the Seven Seas Brigade, Even Lin Lin and the others are considered subordinate members of this organization.
Originally, Tianlan wanted to win over Sylvide to join this broad united front and turn the 'Big Three' into a more convincing 'Big Four', but the noble lady was obviously not interested in this aspect, so she had no choice but to Leave it at that.
The Post-Management Committee is mainly responsible for managing the logistics and materials of the Seven Seas Brigade. Of course, the financial power is also considered as part of it. The financial situation of the Seven Seas Brigade was once very abundant - ever since Fang Plover obtained a large sum of money from Ravalli's father. Windfall' after.
In addition, after that, there were several more improvements one after another.
But this does not mean that the financial situation of the Seven Seas Troupe is healthy. After all, windfalls cannot be regarded as normal conditions. In fact, since leaving Istania, the Seven Seas Troupe's account has been running a large deficit for several months. There is a serious imbalance between revenue and expenditure.
The current financial situation of the Seven Seas Traveler Group is like water without a source. Although after a series of expenditures on the construction of the Seven Seas Traveler and the renovation and construction, there is still nearly half of the remaining four to five million, and it seems that it can still sustain it for a while. But even if the Seven Seas Traveler spends one thousand lisels a day, this amount of money can only last about half a year.
Especially the men on their ship, led by a certain captain, spend money lavishly, as if all the money comes from the water - although it does seem to be the case - without any heartache, if this continues, in the long run, the group will probably Not grouped.
Of course, cutting expenditures is only part of it. What is more important is increasing revenue. Sailboats are gold-swallowing beasts, but they are also the source of wealth. It's just that their captain didn't seem to take this seriously. Apart from wandering around with nothing to do all day long, he didn't pay attention to the 'serious matter' of how to use the Seven Seas Traveler to make money.
This is also the reason why Tianlan and Atila, and of course mainly Tianlan, entrusted Tang Xin to save her cousin from the wrong path no matter what. "Brother Ed is essentially good," Tian Lan pointed at her little head, and her original words were: "He's just a little stupid."
The subtext is that there is still hope.
But that's just Tianlan's wishful thinking.
In the opinion of Tang Xin, who has always been extremely shrewd, being stupid and having no cure is one of the three hopeless symptoms. The other two are 'hopelessly lazy' and 'hopelessly ignorant' . In Tang Xin's opinion, her cousin is a master of all three poisons.
After listening to it for a while, Fang Yu felt his head swelled and he felt a little dizzy. Things like business and investment sounded to him like myths and legends from another world, as if primitive people from the Neolithic Age were listening to God explaining the mathematical principles of natural philosophy.
In his opinion, making money is not just about finding a hole in the ground, getting into it, finding treasure - and then getting rich. He is very familiar with this process and practices it personally.
He felt dizzy and complained: "You can just deal with these things, Tangtang, it's not like you don't know that I'm not good at this."
As soon as Tang Xin heard this, she understood that her previous long speech was in vain, even though she had expected it and was not surprised. But for a moment, she almost had the urge to knock her brother off the boat with a headbutt.
Fortunately, Tang Xin showed great restraint and tolerance towards children with intellectual disabilities, otherwise Parker on the mast would have seen their captain falling off the ship with a scream.
Fang Yu probably knew a little about his cousin's character, so he weakly changed the subject and said, "Hey, what is that?"
Tang Xin sneered and gritted her silver teeth. It was obvious that her restraint had reached its extreme.
But at this time, a sharp whistle sounded from the mast, and Miss Poet's shouting voice came from the lookout: "Ships, so many ships!"
Then Tang Xin saw a shocking scene——
Today's sea conditions are quite good, but there is still a towering cloud wall lying across Iron Reef Bay more than ten nautical miles away. Those cloud walls are composed of continuous cloud islands, driven by the north wind, slowly moving southward and changing. shape.
Some cloud-sea creatures are traveling among them. They originally live in these clouds. A group of silver plaice, creatures that the Kaolin people call "sea plaice", are spreading their slender wings and soaring in the wind. These are no more than the size of a palm. Creatures, but in extremely large numbers, they form a migratory flashing wall in the sunlight.
Together with other fish from the sea, such as the sea turtle, cloud sturgeon, etc., they together form a spectacle of flying through the clouds. Although this spectacle is common at most places where warm and cold air currents meet, upwellings bring large amounts of airborne plankton to coastal areas.
But what is unusual is that behind the cloud wall, a red sharp blade is slowly separating the cloud island from the fish school. It wasn't even a red ship anymore, but a red sail, like a forest, slowly emerging from behind the clouds.
Hundreds of sails form a wall, a red wall, fluttering above the clouds in the north. When it reflected the sun and appeared outside Iron Reef Bay, not to mention the Seven Seas Brigade, even within the port, everyone on the dock was stunned.
The young lighthouse keeper almost let go and sounded the alarm in the harbor. But fortunately, the old tower guard next to him slapped him awake, holding his face and looking a little confused.
"That's a Fenrisian."
The old tower guard said angrily, this guy almost killed everyone in the port.
"What are they here for?"
This is exactly what Tang Xin is curious about.
Fang Plover on the side was also itching - with so many people coming, that event, or mission, or undeveloped area and lord-level creatures must have very rich rewards, and it may not be world-class. The people on Fenris Island are really lucky to have discovered such an incident.
It's a pity that they have already planned to leave this place, otherwise they would have to take a look anyway.
He stood up, straightened his collar, looked in that direction and said, "At least they are not here to attack the port."
"Why?" Tang Xin looked at her cousin a little suspiciously: "How do you know that they are not malicious in any way when they mobilize forces like this?"
"You see, their sailors are all on the deck," Fang Plover pointed in that direction and replied confidently: "The gun doors are also closed. This is a sign of no malice. But so many ships should not be able to stop at the port. I'm afraid there will be chaos when we come down to Tiejiao Port."
Tang Xin looked in that direction suspiciously.
But just as Fang Yu said, about half an hour later, they met the large fleet heading towards them.
Tang Xin raised her head and watched the large ships with blood-colored sails passing by the Seven Seas Traveler. The other party didn't seem to pay much attention to them, but headed straight for Iron Reef Port.
At that time, they were not the only boat on the sky and sea. There were many fishing boats in the offshore area, and the Fenrisians also turned a blind eye to them and did not clear the sea. This shows that the other party does not seem to be evil. But for Fang Plover and others, only God knows why they came here.
Fang Plover took one last look in that direction, looking at the towering stern of the blood ship. The group of selectors and guilds on Fenris Island combined could not produce this power. It should be the fleet in the Port of Clouds that was dispatched.
Once upon a time, because of the existence of Toragotos, this fleet was considered the only local fleet on the Cloud Sea.
"The strength of Fenris Island is actually so strong."
Tian Lan slid down from the mast, patted her small chest and couldn't help but uttered a few words, which scared her just now.
"It's not that strong." Fang Yu shook his head.
The fleet on Fenris Island can only rank last in the cloud sea, whether it is the two fleets of Corin and Ithulian, or the fleet belonging to the military of the third division anchored in Hengfeng Port, or even the fleet of Fenris. The descendants of Lore and the fleets of the Rainbow Alliance are much stronger than this.
But this also shows how terrifying it will be once the descendant of Flor truly mobilizes his power. Seeing this scene, he finally sobered up a little. The illusion they created to attack the fleet of the local guild of Nognis in Kelan'ao was still not worth mentioning in the face of the truly powerful power.
The Seven Seas Brigade is still far from being able to arm-wrestle with a real behemoth. It can be said that it is still far away.
But Fang Yu turned around and saw his cousin opening her mouth to him again. Suddenly he forgot all these emotions and immediately changed the subject: "Don't worry about the Fenrisians for now, Princess Brianne. They should be ready soon, waiting for us to go over and meet."
A large ship like the Berio could not dock in the Iron Reef Port, so it parked next to a small empty island nearby. There were enough skilled craftsmen on that large ship, and it might be possible to complete the rest work faster than them.
Tang Xin looked at her cousin, how could she not know the other person's tricks, but she snorted softly and revealed the matter. She knew that there was no point in asking further, and after such an interruption, her original thoughts had faded a lot.
So the first discussion about the balance of payments of the Seven Seas Troupe ended in vain.
Despite a huge financial deficit, the Seven Seas Traveler continued to sail north to Rainbow Sky Gorge.
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In the darkness——
Cordier looked at everything in front of him with some horror. He never thought that he would see this scene.
Between the five-pointed star, the half-melted candles, and the white skulls, the roiling pool of blood looked like countless hands struggling outward from the boiling, viscous liquid. Struggling to grab his legs and pull him inside.
Big beads of sweat were falling from his forehead, and his throat seemed to be blocked by a ball of cotton, making him unable to make a sound. He once claimed to be fearless, and he had long suspected that these people were doing illegal things down here. Those missing people in the town could always find an answer down here -
Unexpectedly, he actually found the answer.
But at this moment, Cordier felt his legs weakening for a while. Perhaps it was not because of fear, but an instinctive trembling.
And a deeper sense of crisis was rising in his heart. If these people had known what was down here, how could they have boldly let him in? kill him? He is not afraid. Even if he returns to Earth, he will definitely expose the mask beneath all this hypocrisy.
But the question is, where did those missing people go?
A chilling thought suddenly came to his mind. Cordier turned back stiffly and looked at those people: "Everyone, what is this..."
"We didn't know it had been in this location from the beginning."
"Do you think I will believe it?"
"Believe it or not." The man sneered.
Cordier took a step back and looked around at the gloomy faces: "Charter City..."
"It has nothing to do with you, Cordier. You've seen enough."
"You are violating..."
"Come on," a cold voice interrupted him: "That bullshit declaration is of no use to us at all."
Cordier's eyes widened and he was about to retort when suddenly a voice came down from the stairs:
"Cordile, are you down there? They said you found something."
The sound made his eyes widen. He didn't know where the strength came from, he knocked away the person in front of him and ran towards the stairs. While running, he yelled:
"Don't listen to them, Gladys, run! Run!"
"Corder?"
I don't know if it was because his movements were too fast and unexpected, or because those people were knocked to pieces by him, and no one could catch him for a while. Cordier stumbled up the stairs. Before he could look back, the footsteps of the girl outside were getting closer and closer.
He threw himself at the door and knocked it open. The door bounced open with a bang, revealing the silhouette of the girl behind him.
Those bright eyes were looking at him curiously: "Cordir?"
"Glidis, hurry-"
Cordier's words suddenly got stuck in his throat, and he felt a stinging pain in his chest. He raised his head in surprise and saw that the girl in front of him was holding a sharp sword in her hand, piercing into his chest. The expression on Glidis' face gradually turned cold, as if she was wearing a disguised mask.
"Song...Glidis?"
"Feel sorry."
A trace of purple flame flashed in the girl's bright eyes.
"Cordir, I am the Immortal..."
"you……"
The young man looked at his companion in disbelief, opened his mouth, and suddenly lowered his head feebly.
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