Chapter 254
Looking at the island appearing on the sea, Tang Yu'an did not immediately command the ship to sail over.
He was unsure whether the islands were inhabited, and if so, whether those people would welcome them.
After all, he bought this ship with his points, not an RV, and it has no other special functions except sailing.
In other words, this time we can't just push forward like we did before when we went to Linhai Town.
He recalled the mechanical insects from other directions and sent them all to the island to conduct a more in-depth and detailed investigation.
Tang Yu'an hoped that this was an uninhabited island, so that he could directly build a branch on the island as a teleportation point.
Their location is still within the range of telekinesis, and they can get materials from the home warehouse.
Of course, if there are people on the island, it would be a good source of new tourists.
Watching the mechanical insects flying forward, Tang Yu'an temporarily withdrew his gaze and looked at Linhai Town on the map.
Haijing has arrived at Guanyu Village and picked up his daughter.
In fact, after he received Tang Yu'an's task and knew that he could go back to reunite with his daughter first, he rushed back overnight.
Because Linhai Town is wealthy enough and has special personnel who patrol various villages and collect protection fees, it has ready-made roads.
Although it is bumpy, it can at least accommodate RVs.
He arrived near Guanyu Village last night, but because it was late and he was worried about scaring people, he waited until the next day to drive the car to the village entrance.
This steel behemoth quickly attracted the attention of the villagers. What comforted Haijing was that the people of Guanyu Village were not excluded by the "God of Business".
This shows that they have no ill will towards the God of Business.
Soon, Hai Jing found Xiao Hai Lan.
Although the weight I had worked so hard to gain was lost due to poor diet and fear, at least I am safe and healthy.
Haijing held his daughter who was lost and found again, his eyes filled with tears, and his heart was full of gratitude to the messenger of God.
Liu Laoqi, who had betrayed him before, also ran over. He knelt down in front of Haijing and begged for forgiveness with tears in his eyes.
Although Haijing understood his choice, he couldn't be completely free of resentment.
After all, if the messenger of God had not arrived in time, he might have fallen into the hands of the managers of Linhai Town, and it is unknown what fate he would face in the future.
So he just shook his head and said: "I understand you, but I hope you won't appear in front of me again."
Liu Laoqi wanted to say something, but Hai Jing said, "I'm only targeting you personally. I don't care about your family."
Everyone is a customer and a source of points and experience points. Haijing did not blacklist Liu Laoqi's family.
Liu Laoqi was completely speechless. He kowtowed to him several times and left in shame.
Haijing took out the goods and started trading with the villagers. At the same time, he also briefly explained the situation to all the villagers.
When people heard that the administrator Li Zhentian and his men were killed by the Shangshen Cult, almost no one dared to believe it.
However, looking at the "steel behemoth" behind the sea whale, those who questioned it quickly shut up.
"There's no need to be sneaky about the next transaction."
Hai Jing said: "You don't have to worry about being implicated by me, because I have hired people to protect you."
"I'll be leaving for the town center next. If you have anything you need to trade, you can find me there."
He continued, "I'll come back every once in a while, but I can't tell you for sure, so if you have any salt at home, bring it all out for trading!"
Hearing this, the villagers hurried back home to get salt.
After all, the whale had just been taken away for two days, and the salt stored in their home had not been processed yet, so they had to take it out for trading now.
Therefore, after Haijing completed this wave of transactions, Tang Yu'an received a total of 36,000 points!
He purchased his ship with these 36,000 points plus a mall discount card.
Because he traded so much salt, Haijing kept it at home and then directly put it up for sale in the forum trading area.
As soon as he posted it, the message board exploded.
【Message Board (Public Channel)】
[Qingxue (Wen Qingqing)]: Which big guy actually sold 1 ton of salt in one go?
【Little Noise】：666
【Chenxi (Laoping)】: 15 points per pound, so cheap!
Xiang Tianshi (Xie Zhaori): This is sea salt, which is relatively cheap, right? I think 1 jin is worth 25 points.
[Razor (Big Beard)]: That’s pretty cheap too!
【Laundry Detergent】: Yes!
[Panshi]: How much is 1 ton?
【Fish in the water (Linzhen)】: 1 ton is 2000 jin, 1 jin is 500 grams, and 1 gram is 1 spoon.
[Panshi]: How many spoonfuls is that?
Fish in the Water (Linzhen): 100,000
[Pu Wei]: So many zeros!
While everyone was discussing, Haijing also kept receiving reminders of successful transactions.
Looking at the message board, Haijing realized that in other places, salt is actually sold by the gram!
And as a necessity of life, people in other places can only accept such a price.
Such a lucrative business, but because of Li Zhentian's monopoly, ordinary people like them living in Linhai Town have to live in such a hardship...
Thinking of the young and strong people in the village who died while going out to sea, and his wife who died of illness while he was at sea, Haijing's heart was filled with hatred.
However, thinking that Li Zhentian and his lackeys had been dealt with by the two gods' messengers, Hai Jing calmed down again.
After learning about the salt prices in other regions, he did not take the opportunity to raise the selling price of sea salt.
He has already made enough profit from the Shangshen Sect.
He is not better than other employees, he just happens to live in Linhai Town and has a geographical advantage.
If you are too greedy, you will be despised by the gods.
After all, in Linhai Town, there are thousands of people who can replace him. After studying the compulsory education courses, Hai Jing's understanding of himself has become clearer.
Now that he is finally reunited with his daughter, he is about to complete the first mission assigned to him by the Messenger of God.
He carried his daughter back to the RV, prepared a nutritious and easily digestible meal for her, and then began to think.
How can he divide the forces in Linhai Town and get more people to gather around him and become believers of the Shangshen Sect?
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On the other side, a ship on the sea.
Seeing Haijing taking little Hailan back to the center of Linhai Town, Tang Yu'an temporarily diverted his attention.
He looked at Zhou Qi in the bathtub. His eyes were closed and his body was leaning against the bathtub. Because the bathtub was a little small, half of his fish tail was exposed outside.
As he cruises in the sea, he is as handsome and dreamy as a siren, and this beauty does not diminish at all when he comes indoors.
Tang Yu'an stared at him for a while, then couldn't help but take out his laptop and tapped it at him.
I wonder if Brother Xiaoqi will be able to turn into a mermaid again after he successfully absorbs the water spirit insect...
After he had finished taking the photos, he looked at the control console and saw a close-up image of the island appearing on the panel.
Unfortunately, the mechanical insects couldn't open a map. On his system map, the front was still shrouded in fog, and he couldn't tell the number of people on the island.
Yes, there are humans living on this island.
There should be trees on the island, which looked lush and green. From the lens of one of the mechanical insects, Tang Yu'an also saw a wisp of smoke rising.
More importantly, on the outskirts of the island... there stood a circle of tall barriers, surrounding the island completely, as if...
A fortress?
Tang Yu'an couldn't help but be stunned. It's unlikely, right? A fortress on the sea?
He did not rush to get closer, but instead commanded a mechanical insect to fly along the barrier. Until the mechanical insect reached the edge of the signal limit, it still could not see the end of the barrier.
This island should be quite big.
But what was strange was that the barrier stood in the sea, a full ten meters high.
When the mechanical insects finally climbed over the wall, they discovered that there was a height difference between the water surfaces inside and outside the barrier.
The total height of the rampart is about 15 meters, and the sea water is more than four meters above the island's horizon.
Tang Yu'an looked at the data and couldn't help but touch his chin.
Could it be that the original area of this island was larger than it is now, because the rising sea level has shrunk the island?
Otherwise, how did this height difference come about?
Just as he was about to let the mechanical insects go deeper into the island, he saw another camera capturing other scenes—
A boat appeared on the sea, with several people wearing strange masks sitting on it, and a mutant sea fish on the boat.
According to the data analyzed by the mechanical insects, the sea fish should be more than two meters long.
The people on the boat were all wet. They must have gone into the sea to fight with this mutant fish. This can be seen from the wounds on the fish's body.
After a while, another fishing boat returned, and there were about dozens of them one after another.
This fleet alone has a size of three to four hundred people, and the number of residents on the island is far more than that.
The mechanical insects followed the fishing boats and came to the bottom of the barrier.
A platform was built above the barrier. Soon, a rope with a hook fell from the platform. The crew hooked it on the boat, tied it up, and shouted upwards.
Then, the rope was slowly pulled, dragging the entire boat under the platform, and then moving horizontally into the barrier.
Other ships in the queue also entered the barrier in this way.
Looking at the images taken by the mechanical insects from different angles, Tang Yu'an finally felt that something was wrong.
These fishing boats were not attacked on the sea below the barrier, as if they were in a safe area.
But where is the safe area in the ocean?
He had just played in the sea with Zhou Qi. Even if the marine creatures were hiding from them, they often couldn't dodge in time because there were too many of them.
Tang Yu'an looked at the ships with some confusion.
If there is a way to disperse the mutant creatures on this island, why do these people look so nervous?
He did not rush to see what was happening inside the fortress, but continued to observe.
As the last boat was pulled onto the platform, the sky had darkened. At this moment, Tang Yu'an discovered that the images transmitted back by the mechanical insects had become unstable.
What's going on?
He quickly summoned the mechanical insects back, but in just over ten seconds, except for the two on the outermost edge that flew away in time and could still be seen on the screen, the rest of the camera screens were all black.
Tang Yu'an originally thought that the mechanical insects were discovered by the people on the island, but he didn't expect that the two on the outermost edge would also die after a few minutes.
The last thing they captured was a... faint purple light?
Soon, as the sunlight in the sky quickly dimmed, Tang Yu'an also saw the scene with his naked eyes -
Under the cover of night, the sea surface in front of the ship was lit up with a continuous blue-purple light.
The light was so beautiful, like the aurora, that it illuminated the entire night sky purple.
Tang Yu'an stared blankly at the scenery outside the glass window, and subconsciously wanted to walk out of the cabin to check.
As a result, before he could walk out, a curtain of water appeared out of nowhere in front of him, blocking his way.
Tang Yu'an turned around and found that Zhou Qi had woken up at some point.
"Brother Xiaoqi, are you awake?"
He gave up the idea of leaving the cabin and turned to Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi grabbed his hand and held it tightly.
Tang Yu'an also shook his hand back, then pointed at the purple light and asked, "Brother Xiaoqi, do you know what's going on outside?"
Zhou Qi shook his head.
"So you think there's danger?"
Seeing Zhou Qi nod, Tang Yu'an completely gave up the idea of leaving the cabin.
At this time, he discovered something. He walked to the console and pressed the screen, but there was no response. He took out the computer again, but it still couldn't be opened.
"The electrical equipment seems to be malfunctioning."
Tang Yu'an returned to Zhou Qi, moved a stool and sat down. Although he could not leave the cabin or use the computer to record the video, he still had other means.
He released his spiritual sense, and the scene outside appeared in his mind.
These purple lights were released from the sea water, and in the sea water... he saw jellyfish swimming.
They were so densely packed that they covered the entire sea area, extending from the location of the ship all the way to the boundary of Tang Yu'an's spiritual consciousness, and were still filled with these jellyfish emitting purple light.
From the images previously sent back by the mechanical insects, it can be inferred that the growth area of these jellyfish probably extends to the surrounding area of the island.
"Why didn't I notice it during the day?" Tang Yu'an couldn't help but wonder.
He withdrew his spiritual sense and saw that the water area about four or five meters around the ship was not glowing.
This circle is like a vacuum zone, and all the jellyfish have moved away from here.
Is it because of Brother Xiaoqi?
Even if he is not soaked in sea water, he is still a deterrent to marine life?
Tang Yu'an withdrew his spiritual sense and looked at the mermaid youth in the bathtub.
He closed his eyes and fell asleep again, but his hands were still holding him tightly, as if afraid that he would run away.
Tang Yu'an understood this feeling.
When he first arrived in this world, he was very afraid that Xiaoqi would leave him. No matter where he went, he would follow him, and he would only feel at ease when he slept with him in his arms...
Brother Xiaoqi, are you thinking about that time again?
He picked up Zhou Qi and clasped his palm, imitating the action he had always done to him in the past two days, and put his cheek on the back of his hand, rubbing it gently.
Zhou Qi's eyelashes trembled slightly, but he did not wake up.
Afterwards, Tang Yu'an replaced the stool with a sofa, curled up beside Zhou Qi, and covered himself with a blanket.
He was not sleepy, but just stayed quietly beside Zhou Qi, looking at the purple light curtain outside the cabin.
Occasionally, you can see flashes of purple electric light. I don’t know if it’s the jellyfish releasing electricity that affects the use of electrical equipment.
Only when he felt a little sleepy did Tang Yu'an take out the umbrella and let it float in the air, then he touched the emerald wrapped around his hair.
"If you find anything unusual, wake me up immediately."
Fujiha gently nuzzled his fingers in response.
Only then did Tang Yu'an fall asleep peacefully.
When he woke up again, the sky outside was already dawning. Nothing special happened that night.
Looking at Zhou Qi who was still sleeping with his eyes closed in the bathtub, Tang Yu'an carefully pulled his fingers away and then walked to the glass window.
I saw that the purple light in the sky outside had faded, and when the sun completely broke through the horizon, the purple jellyfish swimming in the sea water turned transparent.
"No wonder I didn't notice it yesterday..."
Tang Yu'an muttered something, and suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind.
He quickly opened the message board and sent a message to Lao Li.
【Message Board (Shop Channel)】
Dongtu Datang: Grandpa, I remember you mentioned before that you visited a fortress called Zitian? Is this fortress on the sea?
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