Chapter 548 [I Really Thought You Were the Overlords of the Sea]
Zheng Qin was very wary of this foreigner: "What is this master's name?"
Su Rui smiled faintly: "I follow the local customs, my surname is Ma, and my name is Polo."
Zheng Qin's heart became even more alert! This was either a coincidence, or this person was a time traveler! He was more inclined to the latter scenario!
Su Rui had anticipated Zheng Qin's attitude, and turned to Yu Xianyi and said, "Mr. Zheng seems a little hesitant to leave the backpack to me, so let's forget it."
Yu Xianyi immediately became excited: "Two months' worth of rations for 40,000 sailors, how can you just let it go?!"
He snatched the backpack from Zheng Qin with a tough attitude and stuffed it into Su Rui's hands.
"Master, please quickly check what's wrong with this magic weapon!"
This master led their navy to envy the rich, had a sharp eye, and was knowledgeable. In every way, he was more reliable than Zheng Qin, the gangster who made his fortune by doing random things.
Su Rui looked at the backpack pretentiously and said, "It seems that this space magic tool has lost its effect. You can't take anything out of the mustard seed space."
“Things only go in, not out.”
Zheng Qin looked up in surprise. This guy actually knew about space artifacts. Was he a modern person?!
"Master, do you have any solution?"
“Yes, there are, but I’m not sure how effective it will be.”
After Su Rui finished speaking, he took out a piece of yellow talisman paper from his sleeve. There was a pattern painted in cinnabar on it. When he raised his hand, the pretentious air of a hermit came over him. He rubbed the talisman paper with two fingers and it caught fire. Then he threw the burning talisman paper into the backpack.
A moment later, a bag of dry food fell out of the backpack. It was the dry food purchased in bulk by the Haining Navy!
Zheng Qin, Yu Xianyi and Emperor Qingning were all dumbfounded!
One bag, two bags... After five bags of dry food fell out of the backpack, there was no movement.
Yu Xianyi's bright eyes dimmed again: "You can only take out five bags of dry food? These five bags of dry food are only enough for more than two hundred people!"
Su Rui sighed: "As a mortal, my power is really limited. I can only produce this much in a day. I suggest that the Governor-General make a good plan and distribute this batch of dry food to the elite to replenish their physical strength."
Emperor Qingning was silent for a moment before saying, "Something is better than nothing. Leave some for the three of us, and send the rest to your elite soldiers."
Yu Xianyi nodded, then said to Zheng Qin in a tone of notification, "From now on, this backpack will be handed over to Master Ma for safekeeping. As for Master Zheng... he needs to be kept by my people."
Zheng Qin was furious: "You! You're robbing me! This is my backpack!"
His entire fortune is in it!
Zheng Qin wanted to snatch the backpack back, but two sailors had already come up behind him, grabbed his shoulders and pushed him down.
As Zheng Qin was being taken away, he cursed: "Aren't you afraid that my brothers will stand up for me?"
Yu Xianyi sneered: "Your brothers have no food to eat, will they still listen to you?"
Zheng Qin shouted, "You've been tricked! This Master Ma is also a time traveler. There must be something fishy about the backpack. It's his doing!"
"This will harm us!"
Su Rui pretended to be confused: "Master Yu, what does a time traveler mean?"
Yu Xianyi turned to look at Emperor Qingning.
Emperor Qingning told Master Ma about his first conversation with Zheng Qin.
After hearing this, Su Rui thought carefully and said, "He said he was also a time traveler. Is there a possibility that he is actually in the same group as those time travelers, and in order to deceive His Majesty's trust, he pretended to be on the opposite side of those time travelers?"
This one sentence made Emperor Qingning feel cold in his heart.
Seeing that his attempt to fan the flames was effective, Su Rui continued, "I heard from Lord Yu that Your Majesty's journey to Zhuwan with Zheng Qin was extremely difficult, no less than exile. Has Your Majesty ever considered that your journey to Zhuwan would have been much smoother without Zheng Qin?"
"And some of the things we encountered on the way here were so baffling, it made me wonder if there was someone behind this?"
The more Emperor Qingning listened, the more frightened he became. Looking at Zheng Qin's back, he became suspicious.
This arduous escape like exile seemed to be a punishment for him exiling the Xin family!
Emperor Qingning gnashed his teeth and said, "This Zheng Qin! There's definitely something wrong!"
Yu Xianyi said to Su Rui respectfully, "Master Ma, I'll leave this backpack to you."
He didn't know what kind of person Zheng Qin was, but Master Ma had taken them through life and death in the underground tombs and mechanisms. That was a friendship that was worth leaving your back to!
Su Rui said solemnly: "Don't worry, I will do my best to repair this magic weapon. I am also waiting for your help to take me to the American continent to pan for gold."
Two days later, due to the lack of sufficient food and fodder, and the fact that it was the Haining Navy's first ocean-going expedition, some soldiers showed symptoms of acclimatization, and the 40,000-strong Haining Navy seemed to be suffering from a famine.
Yu Xianyi was no fool. How could he survive two months in this state? "This won't work. While each ship still has some emergency supplies, let's return home!"
"It won't be too late to set sail after Master Ma repairs the backpack magic weapon!"
After discussing with Emperor Qingning, he finally made a decision and turned around and returned!
However, before the horn to turn around and return could be blown for all the ships of the Haining Navy, the lookout suddenly discovered something was happening ahead.
The surface of the East China Sea was surging with waves, and a dark mass of waves appeared in the distance!
When the dark waves approached, Liaoshou realized that they were not black waves at all, but densely packed ships and warships!
It almost covered the entire sea surface, as if it had surrounded them!
Liaoshou almost tumbled and crawled down from the watchtower: "Oh no, Lord Yu!"
The enemy's attack horn sounded, and a tense atmosphere instantly enveloped the Haining Navy.
When Emperor Qingning heard the horn of the enemy attack, he panicked for a moment and questioned Yu Xianyi: "Didn't they say that all the Japanese pirates and corsairs have been wiped out? Where did the enemy attack come from?"
Yu Xianyi was also confused. The urgent horn sound was a level one alert. The opponent's strength was much stronger than theirs!
He quickly took the telescope made by Zheng Qin and climbed up to the watchtower.
“So many people!”
A bright red flag appeared in the field of view of the telescope. Yu Xianyi's hands were shaking as he held the telescope. He didn't know whose subordinates these were, but a rough estimate was that there were no less than 50,000 of them!
"Your Majesty, I have never seen such a flag!"
"I don't know when this new maritime power emerged!"
Emperor Qingning frowned, "Hurry up and have someone drag Zheng Qin here! He must be the one behind this!"
Zheng Qin was pulled out of the warehouse where he was imprisoned. When he took the telescope and saw the enemy attack, he was dumbfounded, especially the bright flag, which made him feel guilty that he had betrayed the organization.
"This, this is probably the navy under the command of those time travelers!"
"It's so scary, how can there be so many people!"
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