Lu Chuan was no longer a rookie entering the world. When encountering such a situation, he first found Hu Liubao who was keeping watch, and then went to find Tong Erhuan and Li Sanlang together.

The two leaders of the Giant Whale Gang did not rest early. The two people who dealt decisively during the day were in a low mood at this time.

Although they always said that everyone was fine, this sea trading ship was a piece of property that they had spent decades fighting for at sea with Fang Dachui. If it was damaged in the storm, how could the two of them not...

Deplore.

If they hadn't been in danger at this moment, the two of them would have been drinking and crying.

Hearing Lu Chuan say that someone was calling for help not far away, the two of them did not ignore his feedback because his meridians were severed. Li Sanlang cautiously walked out of the yard and explored the direction Lu Chuan pointed for a while, then circled back after a while.

courtyard.

"Your hearing is pretty good. Does that mean you have a better physical condition?" Li Sanlang stared at Lu Chuan with some suspicion. He had just walked nearly two hundred meters in the direction Lu Chuan was pointing before he heard what Lu Chuan said.

"It turns out that I have practiced music cultivation and am more sensitive to sounds." Lu Chuan said frankly, but he was a little confused as to why Li Sanlang came back so soon.

"What's the noise?" Tong Erhuan sat in the hall and asked, clasping his fingers on the table.

"It's nothing. Someone is making a nest at the beach. I don't want to cause trouble. I took a look and came back." Li Sanlang also sat down, took a sip of water, and replied without raising his head.

"Oh." Tong Erhuan nodded and said no more.

Lu Chuan stood there blankly, and everyone in the room seemed to understand. Even Hu Liubao and Fang Zhixi relaxed.

What does "making a nest" mean? It seems to be a commonly used word when fishing, right? Does it mean that someone is fishing on the beach, and when a sea monster is caught, it cannot be dealt with and the result is that it can only call for help?

Then this old fisherman is indeed quite desperate.

Hu Liubao tugged on Lu Chuan's clothes and pulled him out of the main hall. After walking out of the room, Hu Liubao prepared to return to the entrance of the courtyard to keep vigil, while Lu Chuan followed him silently.

"Uncle Liu Bao, what do you mean by making a nest just now?"

"To make a nest is to make a nest. What does it mean? Lay a trap in the water, tie someone to float on it and let some blood flow. If the sea monster comes and eats the bait, it will be detained. The sea monsters that eat meat are generally of a high level.

, catch one and kill it, including the skin, meat and inner elixir, you will definitely be able to sell it for a good price."

Hu Liubao didn't even turn around and explained casually, thinking that Lu Chuan was really a young master from a well-known family. He probably had never lived by the sea and didn't even know about such a common thing as making a nest.

Lu Chuan stopped, frightened and angry, Zhuo, the hell are you going to fish with a living person?

Hu Liubao was still walking forward and didn't see Lu Chuan's reaction. He just continued to explain things related to making nests. "That is, if you dare to play like this on the offshore shore, if you do it at sea, the sea beasts coming over will be too much.

No, I'm afraid the boat will be capsized."

"Uncle Liu Bao, are you going to fish with a living person?" Lu Chuan took a deep breath, controlled his emotions, and continued to ask.

Hu Liubao turned his head and glanced at Lu Chuan in confusion, as if he didn't quite understand why Lu Chuan would ask such a question.

"Bait making is very common among sea people. If you go to a reliable sect to make bait once, you will get a huge reward regardless of whether you attract a sea monster or not. If you catch a sea monster, it will be even more amazing. Making bait is also very common.

They may not necessarily die, so in most cases sea dwellers voluntarily serve as bait to make nests.

There are people like this who force others to use them as bait to make nests, and most of them are rogue cultivators with evil intentions. They even give people money for selling their lives, and they are not afraid of retribution."

Hu Liubao shook his head as he spoke, "Most of these disgusting casual cultivators are desperadoes, and we will not take the initiative to provoke them when we are full."

"But that's a human being." Lu Chuan looked at Hu Liubao with a complicated expression.

"It's rare that you are kind-hearted. No wonder Zhixi can get along with you. It's rare to see a noble person who can treat ordinary people as human beings." Hu Liubao smiled.

"People are always going to die. Those who rely on the mountains go to mines. People die every day in almost every mine. Those who rely on the sea naturally make bait. If you become immortal, you can stay rich for half your life, even if you are eaten by sea beasts.

Losing an arm and eating a leg will allow your family to live a good life even if you die, which is better than staying alive.

If you have nothing to rely on, you will become the noble's plaything. If you are in a good mood, you will reward him with some gifts. If you are in a bad mood, you will be killed. This is your fate. This is a fate that is determined when you are born. You cannot enter Taoism and practice.

There is only one life left to fight for."

Hu Liubao glanced at Lu Chuan who was silent, and then said again, "Before you got into trouble and jumped into the sea, you should have had such servants around you, right? I heard that some of your more noble sects have ordinary cultivation qualifications like ours.

A monk can only be a servant who brings tea and water."

Lu Chuan didn't know what to say. Hu Liubao's cultivation qualifications were indeed average as he said. At such an age, he was still only a spiritual monk. That's why he said "people will die eventually" and "people are just playthings."

And "This is how it is meant to be" made Lu Chuan feel even more harsh.

He had no intention of telling Hu Liubao about the concept of equality in Utopia, nor did he want to tell him whether ordinary people should live like this in this world. He thought for a while before asking, "Do you also make nests?"

"That was a long time ago. When people were robbed at sea, it would be a waste to kill the disobedient ones. It would be better to use them as bait.

It can’t be done now. The little emperor won’t even allow robberies, so how can he allow them to make nests? The offshore waters now belong to the big shots. The emperor will have the navy clean up the sea beasts every year during the fishing season.”

Hu Liubao said calmly that they were pirates, and robbery was their means of livelihood. They would only make a nest to make some extra money when they had nothing to do and didn't go to sea.

Lu Chuan looked at Hu Liubao and felt a little ridiculous, "Jing Congyun won't let you make a nest, just because he has to catch all the sea beasts himself?"

"What else?" Hu Liubao vaguely felt that there was something wrong with Lu Chuan calling Jing Congyun by his name, but he did not go into details. "The little emperor's methods are very powerful. All twelve families obey him. The punishment for making a nest in private is very severe. In recent years,

After we came down and caught a lot of people, there were fewer and fewer people secretly making nests on the beach."

Lu Chuan also noticed that the exchange between the two was somewhat inconsistent, and suddenly felt a little boring. He suddenly thought that Fang Zhixi was also in the room just now, but this kind-hearted girl was also familiar with the sea people making nests.

"Uh-huh"

In the quiet night sky, a sudden but slight scream floated along the wind.

Lu Chuan couldn't help but clenched his hands, and immediately looked around. Finally, he could only sigh, and sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard again.

[Brother Copper Coin, how much energy do you need to absorb to help me poke Uncle Yu? 】

Lu Chuan didn't even have a Jingguo coin in his hand, so Brother Copper Coin just lay there lazily.

【A piece of Yuan Stone?】

Brother Copper Coin has turned to the negative side, why are you sending the beggar away?

【Ten yuan?】

Yang side! Go and do it, go and do it!

[But I don’t have it. Can’t you give it on credit? First, I’ve been saved. Don’t I have all the Yuanshi? 】

Brother Copper Coin didn't want to speak and spit out a big mouthful of demonic energy towards Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan didn't know how much demonic energy it had absorbed from the Never-Returning Tree. Now it was slowly spitting out every day, and then gathered into his heart that seemed to have changed color.

[Brother, my heart has absorbed so much demonic energy, will I become a demon?]

Brother Copper Coin did not respond, seeming to say that this was a question that should be charged.

[Isn’t that too disrespectful? Then can I ask you questions related to Lu Changsheng? 】

[If I really committed suicide a few days ago, would you still be here if I were resurrected?]

[Can’t say this? Then I always call you Copper Coin Brother, are you Gege or Meimei? 】

Bang, Lu Chuan was thrown out of the spiritual vision state with a confused look on his face. He couldn't enter the spiritual vision state again when he closed his eyes, so he couldn't help but panic.

Damn, this Copper Coin Brother seems to have become more temperamental after he was able to communicate.

Lu Chuan was not the only one who didn't sleep in the quiet night. Hu Liubao kept vigil, while Fang Zhixi and Shao Ping were busy taking care of the wounded. Li Sanlang and Tong Erhuan didn't sleep either, and they didn't know who was in the house. What are you discussing?

The person who made the nest at the beach seemed to have gained a lot. Lu Chuan later faintly heard some cheers. He didn't know what happened to the owner of the scream, but then he thought about it. Since that person was forced to be bait, Even if you survive this time, you may not be able to escape next time.

His heart was in chaos. Even when he saw the scavengers in Wu State, it didn't have such a big impact on him. After all, he had never seen the mines where the scavengers dug, but the sad cries of the people who were baiting the sea were passed into his ears.

This made him truly realize that the gap between cultivators and ordinary people in this world seemed to be wider than the gap between cultivators and magical beasts, but it was clear that the former two were the same species.

"Tidy up, we're ready to leave." Lu Chuan didn't know how long it had passed before Tong Erhuan and Li Sanlang walked out of the main hall. The sky outside was still dark, and they seemed to be preparing to run at night.

"We have to rush to the southeast coast before dawn and follow their early boat."

Lu Chuan's mobility was quite convenient, so he took the initiative to carry a wounded person on his back, and followed the others out of the small courtyard at night. He followed Li Sanlang out of the village and headed southeast.

They didn't have to say hello to the village chief when they left. According to the rules at the beach, the wreckage of the merchant ship left on the shore was the cost of their stay.

Lu Chuan heard the sea people's cry for help tonight, which made Li Sanlang update his impression of him. After leaving the village, Li Sanlang specially asked Lu Chuan to help pay attention to the movements around the wild. Lu Chuan naturally did what he could. I happily agreed.

He silently closed his eyes in the night. In an environment where his vision was unclear, the spiritual vision perspective was more convenient than the eyes. Perhaps it was because he could absorb a little vitality on his forehead while running, and suddenly he could enter the spiritual vision state again.

Oh, Brother Copper Coin, it’s so true.

Buzzing Island is not that big. After traveling for nearly two hours, the group finally arrived at the shore when the sky was dim. On the shore, there was a person who had just entered Ruyi Realm and was waiting for them.

"Hurry up, why are you here so late? If you come any later, it will be dawn!" The man growled at Li Sanlang dissatisfied. Li Sanlang kept apologizing with a smile on his face, while stuffing a bag of Jingguo into the man's hand.

currency.

As soon as Lu Chuan and others got on the boat, it started to move. The last people who got on the boat could barely stand still. The ship that was temporarily found to transport them was also a sea trade ship, but it was smaller than their original sea trade ship.

Much more.

The person who helped with the transportation finally flew onto the ship from the shore, drove Lu Chuan and others into the cargo hold, and told them to stay in and not come out.

Although the other party was a little rude, no one from the Giant Whale Gang said anything, and Lu Chuan, who was always just trying to get along with the boat, would naturally not be too troublesome.

He sat in the corner and closed his eyes. While resting, he thought about what to do when he arrived in Chenxi County. Should he ask the Giant Whale Gang to take him to the Chamber of Commerce or simply leave the team and go find it on his own.

"Stop! What kind of ship is this? Check it out!" Lu Chuan was thinking when a voice suddenly came from outside.

"My lord, what my cargo ship carries every day is just some ordinary sea goods."

Lu Chuan listened to the man outside negotiating with the other party, but what was strange was that he saw from his spiritual vision that the so-called Yao people who came to inspect had already surrounded the cargo ship before the negotiation was completed, and some people even seemed to be on the way.
To be continued...