Hmm?
Everyone looked toward the sea surface.
A shadow appeared at the edge of the coastline.
ng Qingyu felt a jolt in his heart and said softly, "Be careful! Hide quickly!"
Everyone imdiately took cover to conceal their bodies.
Soon, they clearly saw figures walking out of the seawater.
"Alchemy puppet?!"
The Alchemy Association also sold alchemy puppets, but their unit cost was extrely high. Not only could ordinary people not afford them, but even the royal family could barely bear the expense, so they could not be used for standardized combat.
An alchemy puppet had erged from the sea?
And it was not just one?!
Looking again, they saw more and more alchemy puppets walking out from the sea surface.
The alchemy puppets stopped once they reached the shore and remained standing still in place.
The players did not dare to move and hid behind cover while carefully observing, exchanging glances with each other.
ng Qingyu stared at the alchemy puppets and suddenly felt a strange thought rise in his mind.
Could it be...
Cao Ge nudged ng Qingyu with his elbow and asked, "What's going on?"
ng Qingyu said in an uncertain tone, "Do you think the raw materials used to make these alchemy puppets look a lot like sapphire crystals?"
Hm?!
Cao Ge was startled and looked at the alchemy puppets erging from the sea.
The night was too dark for him to see clearly at first, but after ng Qingyu's reminder...
It really did seem like it!
He suddenly turned to ng Qingyu and said, "No way! Could they have been made by Fang Heng?"
ng Qingyu looked serious and said, "I think it's very possible. His Majesty's ability in alchemy is extrely terrifying."
Cao Ge stood there blankly for a mont.
Then he suddenly understood.
So what they had pushed into the sea earlier were extra materials for refining alchemy puppets?
But in such a short ti?
Right!
Fang Heng could control zombies to excavate, so maybe he could also control them to refine alchemy puppets.
Everything made sense now!
ng Qingyu's eyelid twitched as he looked at the sea and said softly, "He's here!"
They looked up and saw a dark shadow sweeping across the sea surface and quickly arriving in front of them.
ng Qingyu imdiately stepped forward and paid respect, "Your Majesty."
"Mm."
Fang Heng nodded slightly and raised his hand.
A large black bag hanging on the neck of an alchemy puppet on the shore flew into his hand.
Fang Heng threw the bag toward ng Qingyu.
"Take it. Open it and take a look."
"Alright, what is this?"
ng Qingyu opened it in confusion and saw that it was filled with sapphire crystal runes.
Cao Ge saw the rune crystals inside the bag, and his heart jolted.
D*mn it!
They had guessed correctly!
So Fang Heng had gone back to the ship earlier to produce alchemy puppets!
Fang Heng said, "These alchemy runes are used to control alchemy puppets. Find a way to sell them. I think they can fetch a good price, enough for us to complete the royal branch mission."
Hm?!
Sell them?
All of them?
These things could not even be bought outside with money!
Cao Ge's eyes suddenly turned red.
If these were sold, the entire Empire would go crazy over them!
Fang Heng had casually changed the refining thod, and the value of the sapphire crystals had increased dozens of tis.
However, this thing really could not be sold casually.
Right! They could only be sold to the empire!
ng Qingyu and Cao Ge exchanged a look and imdiately made their decision.
...
At the sa ti, Casbin returned once again to the Empire's port security zone.
For so reason, he had been restless all night, feeling that sothing would go wrong.
Unable to sleep, he decided to co back to the port again to check the situation.
"Sir!"
The coastal guards imdiately saluted when they saw Caspin.
"How is the situation tonight?"
"Everything was normal. No outsiders entered or left the port."
"Mm."
Caspin nodded slightly and looked toward the detained ships in the distance.
The port security was still very strict.
In three hours, when morning arrived, everything would finally be settled.
Hm?
Just as he withdrew his gaze, sothing felt wrong again, and he turned back to look at the row of ships docked along the port.
His gaze focused on the detained ships, and his expression showed confusion.
Sothing was wrong!
Very wrong!
Why were these ships sitting so high above the waterline?
They had not been like this before!
Caspin's heart jumped, and he imdiately strode toward the detained ships and shouted, "Quick! Gather everyone! Board the ships and inspect them imdiately!"
Huh?
The soldiers did not understand why he suddenly reacted so strongly, but they quickly followed him.
"Sir!"
The guards stationed outside the detained ships imdiately saluted as Caspin arrived.
"You have all been guarding here the whole ti? No one entered?"
"Report, Sir! No one entered or left all night!"
"Useless!"
Caspin cursed loudly and pushed past the guards at the entrance, walking straight onto the ships.
The soldiers followed behind, confused.
When they entered the ship and saw the empty cargo hold, everyone fell silent.
Caspin's face turned pale.
No matter who eventually ended up with this cargo, he could accept it—but it absolutely should not have disappeared without explanation.
Caspin turned around, grabbed a guard by the collar, and shouted, spitting all over his face, "Where are the sapphires! I'm asking you where the sapphires in the cargo hold are!"
"I... I don't know..."
The soldier looked like he was about to cry.
They had been on duty outside all night without leaving a single step. No one could have entered.
But the sapphire crystals were gone!
How could that be?
They did not know either!
"Report! Sir!" Two soldiers rushed in from outside the cargo hold, also looking serious, and said, "We checked everything. All ship cargo holds are empty. The sapphire crystals are gone."
Upon hearing this, the entire cargo hold fell into dead silence.
Who had such a capability?
To remove all the supplies from every ship in such a short ti?
Caspin looked at the guards and said in a deep voice, "I'll ask you one last ti. Who entered the cargo holds tonight!"
The guards looked at each other, then all turned their eyes toward Caspin.
"Who?!"
The soldiers quickly knelt and kowtowed, trembling as they said, "Sir... only you and the two people from the Seth Chamber of Comrce entered tonight... those two from the Seth Chamber of Comrce were both allowed in by you..."
...
The Empire.
In the reception hall of Duke Windy's residence.
Several chamber of comrce bosses secretly controlled by Duke Windy gathered together.
"The Skeleton Pirates really don't know what they are doing. We already reported Cao Ge's travel route to them, yet they still failed to eliminate them."
Seth, the boss of the Seth Chamber of Comrce, was very dissatisfied with the Skeleton Pirates and complained, "There has still been no news up to now."
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