Seeing all the strange things happening in front of him, a thought quickly flashed through Zhu Ziming's mind:
This was a premeditated ambush!
As we all know, outlying islands are never monolithic.
Due to the fierce competition among the lords of the outlying islands, vicious incidents such as a certain lord openly ambushing foreign refugees have not happened on the outlying islands for many years.
Realizing that the other party wanted to murder him, Zhu Ziming immediately yelled: "This Lord, I have no grievances against you. You ambushed the fugitives from Zhongzhou who came to seek refuge without permission. You have completely broken the rules of the island for many years. If If other lords find out about this, I'm afraid you will no longer be able to engage in this political asylum business in the future. I suggest you stop immediately and everything can be easily discussed. I can even pretend that what just happened never happened!"
However, Zhu Ziming's answer was a second round of even sharper crossbow volleys.
Since the ballistic trajectory of the first shot was used for calibration, the aim and destructive power of the second round of ballistae salvo were much greater. A full six rounds of ballistae hit Zhu Ziming's stowaway boat. This time Zhu Ziming's Not only was a hole opened in the side of the stowaway boat, but half of the main mast was shot down, causing his boat's speed to drop sharply.
Zhu Ziming realized at this moment that the other party had no intention of negotiating with him.
He quickly ordered to the panicked sailors: "Turn around and leave quickly! We have just entered the formation of thousands of miles of smoke. As long as we can turn around and leave, these outlying islanders will never dare to chase us out!"
Unfortunately, Zhu Ziming's instructions were obviously a little late.
Although the rate of fire of the enemy's ballistae was not very fast, the stowaway boat he was on was also very slow to turn around. As soon as he turned the bow of the ship, the third round of ballistae fire from the other side had already hit him.
After this round of bombardment, Zhu Ziming's crew had suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining sailors were struggling to even prevent the ship from sinking, let alone steer the ship away.
Seeing the crew members of the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce running around like headless flies, Zhu Ziming knew that the ship was hopeless.
However, at this time, Zhu Ziming couldn't even abandon the ship and escape, because he didn't have the same training plug-in as Yang Lu. He still only had a second-level cultivation of Qi Refining, and he couldn't control the light flight. If he didn't have Without ships and spiritual energy supplies, he would not be able to swim out of the hundreds of miles wide coverage of the Thousand Miles of Smoke Array.
Now, there are only two choices before Zhu Ziming:
The first is to rob an opponent's ship, and then quickly sail into the foggy area of the Ten Thousand Miles of Smoke Array. As long as he is out of the range of the Thousand Miles of Smoke Array, he can draw spiritual energy from the world again. A cultivator who has spiritual energy can He doesn't have to eat or drink, and even if he drifts with the crowd, he will be rescued sooner or later;
The second method is to board the opponent's flagship and behead him. The person who leads the team to ambush him should be a certain outlying island lord. With the dictatorship system of the outlying island lord, as long as he can catch the opponent's boss, he can threaten the emperor. To the effect of ordering the princes.
Either way, he must board the other party's ship!
However, after observing several large ocean-going merchant ships participating in the siege, Zhu Ziming discovered in despair that the opponent was obviously well prepared. In order to prevent himself, a cultivator, from taking advantage of the opportunity, the shooting distance of all enemy ships was more than a hundred feet. , and in order to prevent the opponent's flagship from being beheaded, it was directly parked two miles away and remotely controlled from a safe distance.
Even if a cultivator has amazing jumping power, before he has the ability to escape light, he cannot jump out of a hundred feet to seize the ship with force. The flagship is nearly three miles away, making it difficult for Zhu Ziming's spells to hit!
Therefore, Zhu Ziming could only watch as the stowaway boat he was riding on was shaken to pieces by the opponent.
Although it is not easy to sink a ship with a ballistae, the stowaway boat that cannot hold Zhu Ziming is a living target. When the firepower of the ballistae stops, the stowaway boat has inevitably capsized sideways.
Seeing that his ship was about to sink, Zhu Ziming finally became anxious. He quickly found a small wooden board of suitable size and prepared to activate the remaining magic in his body to surf to the opponent's flagship.
This idea is not Zhu Ziming's whim. With the blessing of wind control spells and movement spells, he can completely use this ordinary wooden board as a speedboat!
Although this method is very wasteful of mana, it is the only way out that Zhu Ziming can think of. If he can capture the thief first, he might still have a chance to survive!
Just when Zhu Ziming was about to use his surfboard to take the opponent's flagship directly, an accident happened. He saw a strange merchant ship coming from the side and rear of the stowaway ship.
This unfamiliar merchant ship has a large draft and looks like it should be an ocean-going merchant ship that comes specifically to transport goods to outlying islands. Perhaps because the ballistae firing has gradually stopped, this third-party merchant ship does not seem to realize that the ships in front of it are exchanging fire. Wait until it finds out
When things go wrong, it's too late to turn around and run away.
It wasn't until it got close to a distance of about 40 feet behind Zhu Ziming's merchant ship that the merchant ship was able to complete its turn. And this distance is no longer insurmountable for second-level Qi Refining cultivators!
After realizing this, Zhu Ziming immediately changed his attention:
If he could snatch this strange merchant ship that suddenly broke into the battlefield, he might not be able to escape!
Taking advantage of his ship not completely sinking, Zhu Ziming quickly climbed onto the mast of the stowaway ship, and then jumped at the third-party ship that accidentally entered the battlefield. Under the influence of low-level spells such as lightness,
, Zhu Ziming's figure was like a gliding wild goose, aiming at the deck of the target merchant ship and swooping away.
This strange merchant ship has already completed its U-turn. As long as this merchant ship can be coerced to immediately sail into the foggy area of thousands of miles of smoke and waves, the outlying island fleet that has exhausted its ballistae ammunition may not be able to catch up with him!
The crew members of the outlying island fleet participating in the siege seemed to have noticed his actions, and they aimed at him with strong bows and crossbows. However, this kind of mortal individual crossbows not only had low accuracy, but also did poor damage. In addition, the distance between the two sides was too far.
The few arrows that hit were unable to break through Zhu Ziming's body-protecting aura.
In the end, Zhu Ziming stepped firmly onto the deck of the merchant ship.
Zhu Ziming, who had boarded a third-party merchant ship, just breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to order the sailors to turn around and flee away from the Wanli Yanbo Formation. However, he was surprised to find that the crew members of the merchant ship abandoned the ship and jumped as if they were desperate for their lives.
ocean.
Zhu Ziming was instantly confused.
Jumping into the sea in such a place, even if there are ships nearby to search and rescue, the probability of survival is not particularly high. Why would they rather jump into the sea than temporarily accept the command of their immortal master?
Not only that, the number of crew members on this strange merchant ship seemed to be a little too small.
Zhu Ziming took a general look and found that only a dozen crew members jumped off the merchant ship, and then they could no longer feel the breath of living people. With such a small number of crew members, let alone operating the ship effectively, it would be good if they could drive the ship in a straight line. .
At this moment, with the five senses and smell enhanced by the magic, Zhu Ziming still smelled the faint smell of sulfur in the air. Even the strong sea breeze in the outlying island area did not blow away the smell. Zhu Ziming has not yet After realizing what this smell represented, the ship he was on exploded violently.
I saw that the originally vast sea surface seemed to be torn apart by an invisible hand. Fierce fireballs soared into the sky. The powerful shock waves formed by a series of explosions directly blew the hull into pieces, and then pushed away the sea water and quickly spread in all directions. , Zhu Ziming was engulfed in the flames of the explosion without even using the protective spell.
(I’m on holiday today to catch the train and go out for fun. Let’s start with a chapter. You’ll be so confident after the sun shines)