Chapter 81 Eternal Life(1/2)
However, just as Heaven Flowers Fall and Yongye and others spread rumors in a hurry, intending to lure the ships at the Tiejiao Port to stop sailing, a small boat had already set sail and sailed out of the port.
As expected, Xiuli did what he said. In less than half a day, he helped the members of the Qihai Brigade contact the dock and purchased supplies and materials. The Qihai Brigade only suffered minor damage in the storm, and it was not difficult to maintain it. They only stayed here for less than half a week and were ready to sail again.
Before boarding the boat, Tianlan and Miss Aitela settled the accounts with the Black Goat Chamber of Commerce. The total was only a few thousand Risels, and more than half of them were the rental fees for the dock. Of course, under normal circumstances, it was definitely more than that, because the other party gave them a very low discount, which was almost the cost price.
Before leaving Orenze, there were about eight million risels on the Qihai Traveler's book. However, in order to make lancers and improve silver bees, the money was spent like flowing water, and now it is about half of it. Of course, compared with this money, thousands of risels are nothing, but don't forget that this is just the maintenance cost of the sailboat on the sea for a few days.
No wonder Kaolin's old saying goes: 'If you want to lose everything, invest in the fleet at sea. It is like a black hole, constantly swallowing wealth. With just a storm, everything will be broken away from the wind and rain. Of course, on the other hand, sailboats also bring wealth continuously. Businessmen are not fools, they just spend money to waste their money.
Now the waterway connected to the clouds and seas has long been like maintaining the blood vessels of the continents around the clouds and transporting blood of wealth. The commercial empire that is as rich as a country originated from here.
Fang Zhu was lying on the side of the Qihai Traveler. Looking at the sailboats entering and leaving the airport, he was a little confused - why did he not see each other for a few days, there seemed to be a lot more sailboats painted red in the port? What are these Fenris doing? They have squeezed into this small place?
He couldn't help but become interested in what was happening in the Iron Reef Port. Generally speaking, what are the things that major forces care about? He discovered a new vein, a brand new undeveloped exploration area, an important event, a generous reward mission, or a lord-level creature.
Any convener is interested in such a thing, so he is no exception. And no matter what, these people owe him a favor, right? Isn't it too much for him to grab some benefits?
Obviously not too much.
Unfortunately, their time is too tight, otherwise he must have made it clear what these people are doing.
Tang Xinxian grabbed the cable with her hands and looked at her brother holding the boat's side with his hands on the side of the boat, pressing her chin against her hands, and her whole body leaning against the side of the boat like a boneless one, so she couldn't help but get angry and beat her up - is this what a captain should look like?
"Hey, are you listening to me?"
"ah?"
Tang Xin showed a look of contempt: "Salute, saliva."
Fang Yu's face turned red, thinking that he had even had saliva flowing out during the day. He blushed and wiped his face quickly, but he realized that there was nothing at all.
Tang Xin raised her eyebrows and said angrily: "You are not listening."
"No, no, Tangtang, please listen to my explanation-"
"I want to listen to your explanation, go to death!"
The noble lady sat under the mast and looked at the brother and sister from afar, which was a little funny. Xie Sita stood beside her for a while, and suddenly spoke in a slight voice: "Aren't you worried, Miss?"
Silvede turned around and looked at her with a circumcised look: "What are you worried about, Xie Sita?"
Xie Shita looked at her without saying anything. The two of them had been together for many years, so she naturally understood that her lady understood what she meant.
Silvede smiled pursed his lips and said, "They are brothers and sisters, what are you going to worry about?"
The maid's eyes showed a look of suspicion. She believed in her lady, but the "brother and sister" were obviously not brother and sister.
Silvede smiled: "I might as well worry about another lady, who is the real powerful opponent."
"Miss?"
Silvede clenched his fists with each hand and stretched out two fingers, compared it on his head, and whined his neck. Then he showed a cunning look and smiled knowingly.
"The human heart is really unsatisfied. He is already in love with a young lady, so he should feel glad." Xie Sita looked over there coldly.
Silvede looked at her with some amusement, and focused his attention on his maid for the first time: "Xesta, are you complaining to me?"
"I don't, Miss."
"That's it."
She stretched out a white finger and nodded in the heart of her maid: "Xie Sita, don't worry, you will always belong to me."
The maid lowered her head slightly.
Just as anything has its beginning and end, the bulging pocket of money will eventually come to an end.
Tang Xin and her cousin were talking about this. She actually represented the opinions of Tianlan and Aitela - in the name of Qihai Traveler Logistics Management Committee - referred to as the Hou Management Committee. This is an organization announced by Tianlan. She said that this is more Chinese-style.
But I don’t know which Chinese characteristics it is.
In short, with Aitela's tacit approval, this nonsense institution was established, with three members of the Standing Committee, namely her - Sky Blue Fantasy, Miss Aitela, and Tang Xin, and all the members of the Seven Seas Brigade, even Forest, were all considered subordinate members of this institution.
Originally, Tianlan wanted to win over Silmide 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 matter, so she had to give up.
The latter management committee was mainly responsible for managing the logistics and materials of the Qihai Brigade. Of course, the financial power is also part of it. The Qihai Brigade's financial situation was once very abundant - since Fang Rong got a large amount of "window money" from Lavalli's father.
In addition, there were several investments one after another.
But this does not mean that the financial situation of the Qihai Brigade is healthy. After all, it cannot be regarded as a normal situation. In fact, since leaving Istana, the Qihai Brigade's account has been a large deficit for several consecutive months, and the income and expenditure are seriously unbalanced.
The current financial situation of the Qihai Brigade is like water without a source. Although nearly half of the Qihai Brigade's account and the renovation and installation series of expenses are left, it seems that it can still support it for a while, even if the Qihai Brigade's account is 1,000 miles a day, this amount of money can only last for about half a year.
Especially the men on their boat, led by a captain, spent money very much, as if the money was rushing from water - although it seemed that it did - there was no pain. If this continues, the group may not be grouped.
Of course, saving money is only part of it. What is more important is opening up. Sailboats are gold-eating beasts, but they are also the source of wealth. But their captain doesn't seem to take this seriously. Apart from wandering around all day without doing anything, they don't take the "serious thing" of how to make money with the Qihai Traveler account at all.
This is also the reason why Tianlan and Aitela, of course, mainly because Tianlan entrusts Tang Xin to save her cousin from the wrong way. "Brother Ed is essentially good," Tianlan pointed to his little head, and said the original words: "It's just a little stupid."
The subtext is that there is still salvation.
But that was just a wishful thinking from Tianlan.
In Tang Xin, who has always been very smart, it is one of the three hopeless symptoms of being stupid and untreated. The other two are "too lazy and incorruptible" and "too hopelessly ignorant without self-knowledge". In Tang Xin's opinion, his cousin is considered to be full of all three poisons.
Fang Yu felt his head swelling and a little dizzy after hearing it for a while. Things like doing business or investment sounded like myths and legends in another world, as if the primitive people from the Neolithic Age were listening to God explaining the mathematical principles of natural philosophy.
In his opinion, making money is not about finding a hole in the ground, burrowing in, finding treasures, and then getting rich. He is very familiar with this process and has practiced it.
He complained dizzyly: "You can just deal with these things. Tangtang, you don't know that I'm not good at this."
Tang Xin understood as soon as she heard this, her previous long statement was vain. Although she had expected it and was not surprised, for a moment, she almost had the urge to knock her brother down from the boat.
Fortunately, Tang Xin showed great restraint and tolerance for children with intellectual disabilities, otherwise Parker on the mast would see their captain falling from the ship with a scream.
Fang Yu probably knew his cousin's personality a little, and weakly changed the topic: "Hey, what is that?"
Tang Xin sneered and gritted her silver teeth. Obviously, her restraint had reached its extreme.
But it was at this moment that a sharp whistle sounded from the mast, and the yelling voice of the poet lady came from the watchtower: "Boats, so many boats!"
Then Tang Xin saw the shocking scene—
The sea conditions are quite good today, but there is still a towering cloud wall that lies beyond the iron reef bay for more than a dozen nautical miles away. The cloud walls are composed of continuous cloud islands, which slowly move southward and change shapes under the push of the north wind.
Some cloud sea creatures are passing through them. They are originally a group of silver flounders living in these clouds, called "sea flounders" by the Kaolin people. They are spreading their long wings and soaring in the wind. These are only the size of a palm, but they are extremely large in number. They form a migrating wall of flashes in the sun.
They and other sea fish, such as sea fish, cloud sturgeons, etc., form a wonder that shuttles through the clouds. Although this wonder is very common in the sea coastal areas where most of the hot and cold air flows bring a large amount of air plankton from the upstream.
But what is not common is that behind the cloud wall, a red sharp blade is slowly separating the cloud island from the fish. It is not even a red boat, but a red sail, with sails as if it were like a forest, slowly revealing from behind the clouds.
One wall formed by hundreds of sails, and the other red wall, fluttered and fluttered in the north on the clouds. When it reflected the sunshine and appeared outside the Iron Reef Bay, let alone the Seven Seas Brigade, even within the port, everyone on the pier was stunned.
The young lighthouse guard almost let go and sounded the alarm bell for the port. Fortunately, the old tower guard next to him woke him up with a slap, holding his face and looking a little confused.
"That's the Fenris."
The old tower guard said angrily, this kid almost killed the people in the port.
"What are they doing?"
This is also a question that Tang Xin was a little curious about.
Fang Zhuge was also unbearable - with so many people coming, the event, or mission, or untapped areas and lord-level creatures must have received a lot of rewards, maybe it is really world-class. The people on Fenris Island are really lucky, and they can actually discover such an event.
It’s a pity that they have already planned to leave this place, otherwise they would have to go and have a look no matter what.
He stood up, tidied his collar, looked at the direction and said, "At least they are not here to attack the port."
"Why?" Tang Xin looked at her cousin with a little suspicion: "How do you know that they are so mobilizing so many people, and they don't seem to have no malicious intentions anyway, right?"
"Look at their sailors," Fang Yu pointed to that direction and replied confidently: "The gun door has also been closed, which is a sign of no malice. However, so many ships should not stop entering the port, so the Iron Reef Port will be in chaos next."
Tang Xin looked at that direction suspiciously.
But as Fang Zhu said, about half an hour later, they met the oncoming ship.
Tang Xin looked up at the big ships with blood-colored sails crossing the Qihai Traveler. The other party did not seem to care about them too much, but headed straight for the Iron Reef Port.
At that time, they were not the only one of them on the sky sea. There were many fishing boats in the offshore area. The Fenris turned a blind eye to them and did not clear the sea surface, which meant that the other party seemed to be not bad. However, for Fang Yu and others, only God knew why they came.
Fang Yu looked at that direction for the last time, and looked at the towering stern of the blood ship. The group of callers on Fenris Island and the guild combined together could not produce this power. It should be that the fleet in Yunshe Port was dispatched.
Because of the existence of Toragotos, this fleet was also considered the only local fleet on the clouds.
"Fenris Island is so powerful."
Tianlan slid down from the mast, patted her little chest and couldn't help but feel shocked, and she was scared.
"It's not strong either." Fang Yu shook his head.
The fleet on Fenris Island can only be ranked at the end of the clouds. Whether it is the two major fleets of Kaurin-Ishurien, the fleet belonging to the third division military anchored in Hengfeng Harbor, or even the Florids and the Rainbow League fleet, they are much stronger than this.
However, it can be seen from this that it would be such a terrible thing that the Flores descended from truly mobilizing their power. Seeing this scene, he felt a little more awake. The illusion they created by the attack on the fleet of the Nognes Local Guild in Kelano was still not worth mentioning in the face of truly powerful forces.
The Seven Seas Brigade is still far from being able to wrestle the arm of a real behemoth, and it can be said that it is still far from it.
But Fang Yu turned around and saw his cousin opening his mouth to him again. He suddenly forgot all this and immediately changed the subject: "Don't worry about the Fenris, Princess Brian and the others should be ready, and we will be waiting for us to go over and have a good time."
A large ship like the Berio cannot be moored into the iron reef port, so it is parked next to a small empty island nearby, with enough skilled craftsmen on the ship that may be faster than them to complete the rest work.
Tang Xin looked at her cousin and didn't know the other party's tricks, but she snorted softly to expose the matter. She knew that it would be meaningless to continue asking questions, and after such interruptions, her original thoughts became much weaker.
So the first discussion on the balance between income and expenditure of the Qihai Brigade ended in vain.
To be continued...