Three miles east of the coastline, Noah’s tree boat.
Pang Ting Yonge Shaman is inspecting the situation in the territory.
When the high priest is away, he is the acting elder, mainly responsible for supervising the health of the tree boat and allocating various resources bred by the tree spirit.
After three months of docking and replenishment, the tree boat has regained its former vitality. After Noah no longer needed a lot of magic power, the orchards grew full and juicy fruits again, and the islanders also had some spare time to plant some golden vines or cotton ball flowers to replenish the vacancies in the fabric warehouse.
Of course, most of these things will be treated as commodities and traded to Jinxia City.
In particular, the specialty fruit "Bishui Mandarin" cultivated on World Island is deeply loved by mainland businessmen. The pulp of this thin-skinned fruit can be squeezed out with just a gentle squeeze. Its juice is blue-green and looks like a clear sea in the sun. But its taste is by no means the salty smell of sea water, but sweet with a little sourness and a strong floral aroma. Whether it is eaten alone or cooked to remove the smell, it is a good choice.
Pang Ting also liked to eat this kind of fruit, but for the sake of Noah's future, he cut the family's supply to 10% to ensure that more blue water oranges could be used for trading. Fruits that you could enjoy every day on World Island in the past are now pretty good if you can eat them once a week.
Through these transactions, Noah is continuously purchasing what he needs.
Such as salt, clothing, iron tools, armor and air rifles.
Although the dried fish pickled in salt is far less delicious than the seafood cooked in hot soup, it is better than the filling.
The same is true for linen clothes and leather clothes. They are not exquisite, but they can keep out the cold and keep warm, and they are cheap enough.
Not to mention several others.
These are all things that Shuzhou cannot produce on its own.
Among them, what Pang Ting appreciates most is the air rifle. It has a killing range of nearly three hundred steps and can be fired continuously, which is much more powerful than bows, arrows and firearms. He also didn't expect that when the high priest proposed to purchase this kind of weapon, the other party would agree. Allowing the elves to participate in the manufacturing and opening it up to tree boats for purchase, this attitude cannot be said to be insincere.
Since the elves do not need silver coins, the Secretariat also thoughtfully produced a "barter" manual for them. They can either exchange the goods for silver coins first and then use the money to shop, or they can directly exchange the same amount of goods according to the manual. .
But even so, Pang Ting still insists that the repurchased goods should be "capable of independent voyages".
If the tree boat and the mainland are completely bound together, if the latter changes its mind one day, it will be too late to leave by then.
While inspecting a new batch of packaged goods, Pang Ting suddenly heard a gunshot sound coming from behind him.
"Don't run around, this is the warehouse!"
"Is the patriarch of the Sharman family here?"
"You have something urgent?"
"Yes, I came all the way from Changqiao Pier."
"Let him come over!" Pang Ting put down the golden vine in his hand and shouted towards the door.
After seeing the visitor, he took the initiative and asked, "You are from the Bolton family, right? What can I do?"
"Sir, my name is Dillerbottom, and I am responsible for managing the thorn algae at Long Bridge Pier." The other party said while panting, "Today's fishing was going very smoothly, but when I was collecting algae, I suddenly found a big thing entangled in it. On the algae belt, everyone thought it was something like a shark, but when we got closer, we realized that it was actually a green shuttle!"
"Green shuttle?" Pang Ting frowned, "The patrol did not report any missing news. Could it be that someone is stealing it privately? Where is the driver? I should know all the islanders who can control the green shuttle."
"The driver... is dead." Diller shook his head, "And the clothes he wore didn't look like those on Noah."
"Not from Noah?" Pang Ting repeated, suddenly thinking of a possibility, his expression suddenly changed, "Take me to see quickly!"
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At the edge of the tree boat, the tree spirits will grow long synapses, some of which can extend for several miles.
The combination and fixation of tree boats and tree boats rely on the mutual embedding of these synapses, and the unused synapses can be used as docks or towed fishing grounds.
Long Bridge Pier is one of them.
When we arrived at the pier, there were already many people gathered on the roadside.
"Let's go, let's go! The acting elder is here!"
Pang Ting squeezed into the crowd and quickly saw the green shuttle entangled in thorn algae. Through the skeleton, a pale islander lay motionless on the seat, with blood oozing out of his clothes.
"Has anyone touched him?" Pang Ting asked loudly.
Everyone shook their heads, "Sir, we just dragged the green shuttle here."
"Very well, guards, cordon off the scene!" Pang Ting immediately ordered the onlookers to be dispersed, then walked to the green shuttle, lifted the breakers above, and dragged the deceased out of the cabin.
The other party was indeed not from Noah's tree boat. He confirmed that he had never seen this person in his memory, which meant that the green shuttle came from other tree boats.
And the injuries of the deceased... Pang Ting tore open the red part of his robe, and two black and red holes appeared in front of him. There can be no doubt that this man had been shot by a musket during his lifetime.
Pang Ting felt his heart sink.
For enemies that can pose a threat to tree boats on the sea and are equipped with such weapons, the answer is obviously self-evident.
He expected that the opponent would enter the Western Sea sooner or later, but he did not expect that they would pursue them so urgently.
"Someone, go and inform Lady Senia," the clan leader stood up, "The tree boat may have to set sail."
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On the tree stand, the weak fireflies stretched their silhouettes.
"What did you say?" Senia's voice made the firelight tremble slightly, "Let the Noah tree boat leave Jinxia temporarily?"
"This is the safest approach." Pang Ting said without retreating at all. "The fact that the green shuttle can float to this place means that other tree boats have also escaped to the Western Sea, and they are not too far from the mainland. At the same time, they are also following behind The Empire is pursuing troops, this is an extremely dangerous signal. We can first go south against the ocean current, find a way to bypass this continent, and then go to the Dusk Sea, which has never been explored on the map, to find a new foothold."
"Do you know what this means? Not only do we have to turn a blind eye to another possible tree boat, but we also have to give up everything we got in Jinxia."
"It's not about giving up. We can come back after avoiding the limelight."
"Why? We have an alliance with Her Highness the Princess. At this time, they should help us fight against foreign enemies." The high priest frowned.
"Jinxia City is indeed a good place. Noah's Tree Boat is getting better and better here every day, and everyone can see it." Pang Ting sighed, "Because of this, I don't want to gamble on this possibility."
Seeing him like this, Senia also calmed down, "Are you worried that they will betray their covenant?"
"The covenant cannot allow them to do what they cannot achieve. As you can see, there are almost no warships in Jinxia City, and it is unlikely that they will send out an attack on the imperial army. This means that the enemy will have the initiative. As long as the coastal shelling is carried out, not only Noah will protect If we don’t come down, the losses to Jinxia City will be immeasurable. By then we will have no tree boat and cannot provide tree spirit seeds. Will Princess Qi and Executive Officer Xia Fan stick to their previous views?”
Pang Ting paused for a moment and then continued, "A qualified person in power should put aside emotions and only use interests to measure the relationship between the two parties. They are like this, and so are we. If we leave here temporarily, the empire will not focus on Jinxia City. Our tribesmen who remain in the city can continue to live unaffected. Similarly, both parties do not need to use this incident to test the covenant relationship, so as not to leave knots in their hearts. I believe that in a few years, the kingdoms of this continent will We might get into the sea, we just have to endure it until then."