Witch Wind

Chapter 77 Black Borneo (Part )

The low sound of the whistle startled a large group of white water birds on the river and they spread their wings and flew high.

There were two silly birds, holding a foot-long fish in their mouths. They had just struggled to fly up from the river. At the sound of the whistle, they were frightened and screamed "ga ga". The fish in their mouths happily jumped back into the river and fled away, shaking their tails desperately.

This is a large passenger ship with a displacement of 8,000 tons. It specializes in ocean routes. It departs from the port of Pinghai City, passes through the mainland of Dongyun, Black Borneo, and then passes through a series of large and small islands in the Dongming Ocean. The final destination is the Aime Federation.

The huge chimney was spewing light black smoke. On the mast in front of the chimney, there was a small lookout post. Xing Tianli stood at the sentry post and looked towards the south. With his current eyesight, he could clearly see Nanxun Town dozens of miles away, and even the huge house surrounding Baihetan to the east of Nanxun Town.

Shaking his wide robe sleeves, Xing Tianli smiled slightly.

The feeling of having golden wind in your sleeves is really nice.

In Nanxun Town, there are nearly three thousand wealthy families, more than half of which are powerful families who have colluded with Xingtian Qingshu to plot against the twenty-four branches of the Xingtian family in Pingyuan Hall.

All those who signed their own names and used their own seals on the contract for the transfer of three components of Xing Tianqingshu were visited by Xing Tianli. There were nearly two thousand wealthy families, and Xing Tianli took away a total of 310 million taels of gold ( tons), billion taels of silver, and countless moldy and rotten copper coins from their homes.

Xing Tianli was too lazy to count the other various jewels such as gems and jade, and the antique pots and jars.

'Millennium Nanxun', because of the Xingtian clan's presence in Pingyuan Hall, for a thousand years, even when the founder of the Fen clan, Long Xing, led a large army and swept across the world six hundred years ago, the vast Jiangnan area was filled with bloodshed, but Nanxun Town did not suffer from war disasters.

Many of the nearly 2,000 households visited by Xing Tianli had accumulated wealth for thousands of years. The cellars dug by some families were like the eighteen levels of hell, with layers upon layers of wealth piled up underground. The wealth of many families had been piled up on the ground for too long, and many of the cellars had not been opened for decades. The gold that Xing Tianli dug out was fine, but the copper coins were mostly rusted, and the silver was mostly oxidized and turned pitch black.

It's more or less a lesson.

These wealthy families who followed Xing Tianqingshu and stabbed the 24 branches of the Xing Tian family were also part of the sales channel of the "Bliss Incense" of the Weaving Department. The Bliss Incense that flowed out of the Dark Language Forest, once in the hands of the Weaving Department, was distributed through the shops of these wealthy families all over the country.

Their caravans traveling around the world and their cargo ships travelling on the great rivers greatly facilitated the spread of the Jilexiang.

Therefore, Xing Tianli emptied the assets in their cellar without any psychological pressure or any sense of moral guilt.

As for the fact that nearly two thousand families’ belongings were emptied overnight, how will this shocking case end?
Xing Tianli gave them the best explanation.

He killed so many people from the Dark Night Forest, and took many pendants, seals and other items with the characteristics of the Dark Night Forest from them. These small items, including some hair of women from the Dark Night Forest, were scattered by Xing Tianli and discarded in those cellars.

If the government of Dayu Dynasty was not full of pigs, the officials handling the case would always be able to find enough clues and collect enough evidence of crimes.

After being hacked and killed by Xing Tianli, if the old woman Ma Suo's brain was not broken, she would not dare to show her face in Nanxun Town for a while. This just confirmed their suspicion!

However, when it comes to a foreign master, especially a foreign master who is the last princess of Farus, are the officials of the Dayu Dynasty willing to offend the Secret Language Forest for "a few things"?

look forward to.

But Xing Tianli was unable to witness the subsequent developments with his own eyes.

On the deck of the passenger ship, He Duo, He Xi, and several other men from Wu Yue Tang were standing at the bow smoking, looking unscrupulously at the first-class women who were enjoying the breeze and the scenery on the deck.

Xing Tianli slowly climbed down the lookout post along the rope ladder, and stuffed a large gold coin to the nervous lookout squatting below: "The higher you stand, the farther you can see. The scenery up here is pretty good."

The lookout stuffed the gold coin into his mouth and bit it hard. After making sure that the coin in his hand was real and not a piece of iron plated with gold, he smiled happily and raised his hat to Xing Tianli: "That's what I said, but I don't like this job. Especially when there are big winds and waves, looking out over the waterway from there, I always feel like I can see the Virgin Mary at any time."

Xing Tianli smiled and nodded, tapped the Tongtian Miaozhu lightly, and slowly turned back and forth along the deck.

The journey is long. It takes half a month to reach Dongyun from Pinghai City. From Dongyun, turning southeast, it takes another half a month to reach Black Borneo.

Nearly a month will be spent at sea.

In his past and present lives, this was Xing Tianli's first time going out to the sea by boat. It was an extremely novel experience. Xing Tianli patiently walked slowly on the deck, restrained his spiritual power, and used his five senses to quietly enjoy this novelty.

The sky is blue.

The sea water is murky.

The large group of dolphins looked like dolphins, but their size was seven or eight times larger than the dolphins that Xing Tianli had imagined. These naughty guys with black and white bodies suddenly jumped out of the sea, making "yo yo" sounds and swimming at high speed after the passenger ship.

On the deck, cheers of sailors were heard.

They superstitiously told the guests around them that this was a symbol of good luck. They would definitely have a smooth voyage this time and arrive at the terminal safely.

The passengers on the deck also applauded and laughed. Some of them took out their cameras and took a lot of photos of the sea. For most people of this era, ocean voyage is definitely a challenging event worth remembering for a lifetime.

Time is like water, passing slowly and leisurely.

Xing Tianli was on the cruise ship like an ordinary passenger, going to bed early and getting up early, eating three meals a day, and renting two large fishing rods to fish several times. But it was obvious that he was not a good fisherman, and he used a lot of bait but failed to catch a single fish.

Half a month later, a large island ahead, Dongyun Island, was connected.

Two offshore patrol ships blew their whistles and came closer. Relying on their speed advantage, they circled the passenger ship twice and guided it slowly into the port.

The huge port can accommodate three or four hundred large ships at the same time.

Xing Tianli stood on the deck and saw that the port was crowded with people and dozens of large cargo ships were unloading goods. Dong Yunlifu, like a colony of ants, was bare-chested, shouting slogans, and constantly moving bundles of goods out of the huge belly of the steamer.

The cargo bags were so huge, and the tanned Dongyun Lifu were so short. They followed the pedals and took small steps with difficulty. Veins bulged on their arms and calves, and sweat kept dripping from their bodies. It felt like they might be crushed to pieces by the cargo bags at any time.

There were a lot of people on the dock, and some small, agile pickpockets took advantage of the crowd and ran around like frightened monkeys. Some were lucky enough to escape, while others accidentally bumped into the arms of a policeman wearing a black uniform, a wide-brimmed hat, white leggings, and a stick in his hand.

The Dongyun policemen cursed loudly, swung the sticks as thick as eggs, and hit the pickpocket who came to them on his own initiative. Xing Tianli could clearly hear the dull sound of the stick hitting the bones from more than a hundred feet away. The pickpocket rolled his eyes and fell to the ground, twitching like a fish that had been caught.

Amidst the high-pitched and shrill shouts and curses, several strangely shaped carriages drove into the dock.

On a medium-sized offshore passenger ship, a group of men and women wearing loose robes and holding round fans in the hot weather, with stiff but pretentious manners, gave people a sense of "monkeys in human clothing" and slowly disembarked. Next to the carriage, dozens of Tounom warriors wearing long robes and swords at their waists knelt on the ground in unison, and a white-haired old man knelt and respectfully welcomed the group of men and women into the carriage.

The warriors stood up and surrounded the carriage as they left the dock.

Wherever the carriages passed, the Dongyun people, no matter who they were or what they were doing, knelt down on the ground in unison like rice under a sickle. It was not until the carriages were dozens of feet away that they carefully raised their heads and stood up quietly.

There was laughter in the distance, and someone was mumbling something in a heavily accented English language.

These days, relying on the powerful power of the soul, Xing Tianli has mastered the official language of several powerful countries such as Yingjishi, Falushi, Saint Ross, Saint Norman, and Yidoli, which are commonly used in the hundreds of countries in the Far West, and has a certain understanding of their local accents. This kind of Yingjishi language with a strong accent is called "country bumpkin language" by Yingjishi people, and is usually used by Yingjishi market gangs, small vendors and other groups.

This "country bumpkin language" is the representative accent of the Emmy Federation.

The Aimee Federation was established 120 years ago. It was originally a place of torture for prisoners exiled from the Kingdom of Ingish. Most of its main citizens' ancestors were serious criminals who committed heinous crimes, and a small number were bankrupt peddlers and landless refugees from the Kingdom of Ingish.

Taking advantage of the war that broke out among the 100 nations in the Far West thirty years ago, the Aimee Federation rose rapidly. In just a few years, its national strength expanded to the point where it could rival the traditional powers. But their accent, the ancestral "country bumpkin language", could not be changed.

Xing Tianli looked over in the direction of the laughter and saw two giant cargo ships with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons anchored at nearby berths. At the bow of one of the giant ships, several senior sailors were smoking cigarettes and gesticulating and chatting with the Dongyun people who were kneeling and bowing at the dock.

As expected, the flag of the Aimee Federation was flying on the freighter.

More than a dozen new-type gantry cranes that used electricity had their iron chains making a rattling sound. A group of Aimee Federation sailors shouted and directed the gantry cranes, slowly lifting one piece of astonishingly large machinery after another out of the cabin.

A group of Dongyun men, wearing dark blue work clothes and helmets made of vines, who looked quite elite, stood on the dock, watching the large machinery slowly landing. They were all smiling, and some were even so moved that they burst into tears.

Xing Tianli stared at the huge machines with his eyes wide open, totally unable to understand what these things were used for.

The power of his soul swept through, and all the details of the internal structure of these machines were clearly visible. The composition of each component and its material ratio were all easily scanned out by Xing Tianli.

He still didn't know what these big guys were used for.

"Hey, hey, what's wrong with being a liberal arts student? I am just a liberal arts student!" Xing Tianli muttered angrily, tilting his head slightly and listening to the excited shouts of the Dongyun people.

Well, it’s special alloy melting and casting equipment?
Well, it is a large plate forging equipment?
Wow, there's a 100,000-ton forging machine?

What is the concept of 100,000 tons? Is it very impressive to use it in industry? Xing Tianli knew nothing about it.

Listening to the chatter of those Dongyun people, this port city called "Feiyun" will build a large shipyard? Build 18 large docks at once, and each dock can build a 60,000-ton giant ship?

Xing Tianli's eyes wandered for a while.

These Dongyun people were extremely excited and had no sense of confidentiality. Perhaps, they did not think that someone could eavesdrop on their conversation from more than a mile away?
They were discussing enthusiastically the generosity of the Amy Federation.

They gave the Dongyun Island Union an astronomical amount of interest-free loans and helped them build several large shipyards, several large steel mills, and several new weapons factories. With these factories, within two years, the strength of the Dongyun people, especially the navy, will usher in a leap forward.

"I really hope that the giant ships built by our Feiyun Shipyard can bombard Tianjin, allowing our Dongyun men to invade China and take back the world that originally belonged to us!" An old man from Dongyun, who seemed to be of the highest status, waved his arms heroically and made an extremely arrogant declaration.

Tianjin is the most important seaport city in the northern part of the Dayu Dynasty.

If they could land in Jinmen, it would be like a knife directly on the neck of Fentian City, the capital of the Great Yu Dynasty. There, the straight-line distance from Fentian City is only 500 miles, and there are plains along the way, with no strategic locations to defend.

Fifty years ago, the coalition forces of a hundred countries in the far west broke through the gate of Jin and marched straight to Fentian City. Outside Fentian City, they destroyed the three major imperial guards of the Dayu Dynasty in one battle, which frightened the emperor at that time so much that he hurriedly "hunted north" with his family.

Xing Tianli quietly looked at these extremely excited Dongyun people.

Kill them?
It can be done with just a flick of the finger.

But, what's the point?
Kill them. There is no telling how many lunatics like this there are in Dongyun.

These guys have always claimed to be the "legitimate descendants of China". After all, the second son of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the Qin II, who left a "glorious name" in history, was the first Holy Emperor of the Dongyun Island Union.

The successive holy emperors of the Dongyun Island Alliance were all filial sons and grandsons of Qin II.

The history textbooks in Dongyun have always been advocating that they are the most orthodox heirs of the Chinese land.

This is a confusing account that cannot be settled clearly.

There is absolutely no point in killing these Dongyun people.

As for destroying these machines?

Haha, if the Aimee Federation can send a batch of machines, it can send a second batch, a third batch, and a fourth batch. Xing Tianli did not doubt the financial strength of the Aimee Federation at all. Unless he could completely destroy the core high-level officials of the Aimee Federation and change the will of his entire country, what would be the point of destroying these machines?

But, to destroy the core senior executives of the Aimee Federation?

Thinking of the mysterious methods of Oger and Lome, Xing Tianli shook his head. Even though his cultivation level had soared, Xing Tianli still had no confidence that he could do anything to Oger and Lome.

The metal gangway made a 'dong dong' sound when people stepped on it.

A group of Dongyun Customs quarantine officials wearing white uniforms and masks, along with a group of border inspection police, boarded the passenger ship with their heads held high. These dwarfs deliberately raised their feet high and stomped on the ground, as if they wanted to show off their "courage" in front of these tall and strong "foreigners"?
However, no matter how they acted, seeing the Dongyun people, whose average height was only four feet two or three inches (one hundred and forty-two centimeters), and their tense faces and pretentious looks, Xing Tianli, who had grown to about five feet six inches (one hundred and eighty-five centimeters) in height in recent days, could not help but sneer.

The captain, first mate and several senior crew members of the passenger ship came to the deck.

As citizens of the Aimee Federation, they dealt with the officials of the Dongyun Customs with a nonchalant attitude. After a while, a senior crew member came to Xing Tianli and told him that the passenger ship would stop at Feiyun Port for a day and a night to replenish coal, clean water, fruits and vegetables, etc.

During this day and night, the passengers on board can leave the passenger ship and go ashore for sightseeing and entertainment after applying for temporary documents. The senior crew member winked at Xing Tianli and smiled softly, "There are many good Dongyun girls in Feiyun Port. A generous gentleman like you will be most welcomed by them."

Xing Tianli smiled slightly and asked about the procedure for applying for temporary documents. Then two customs policemen, with their heads held high and chests puffed out, ran towards Xing Tianli aggressively.

Xing Tianli was a foot and a half taller than them. The closer the two Dongyun policemen got, the more they could see this pathetic and hopeless height difference. Their faces became more and more ferocious, and they gritted their teeth tightly, with their cheeks bulging out.

"You, a Dongguo person? Why did you come to Dongyun?" A Dongyun policeman raised his head, looked at Xing Tianli with extreme anger, and yelled at him fiercely.

Xing Tianli looked down at the two vicious dwarfs.

There were many other guests on the deck who were enjoying the scenery of the dock like him. However, those guests were all foreign gentlemen with colorful hair and eyes. However, the two customs police officers chose Xing Tianli.

After coughing lightly, Xing Tianli asked the two Dongyun dwarves in fluent English with a surprised look on his face: "Are you looking for trouble with me?"

He raised his left hand and snapped his fingers.

Tom and Jerry, the old partners, came running over and started yelling at the two stunned Dongyun policemen.

(End of this chapter)