Chapter 4237 — Pirate Encounter
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But just as he steeled himself to say a few more conciliatory words, the leader cut him off with an impatient sneer: "Enough of your fucking nonsense. This ship is under my command from now on. If you lot know what's good for you, I'll spare your miserable lives. If not—heh—then don't blame me for being unkind. There may be no sea beasts in these waters, but I can still break your dog legs and throw you overboard to drown."
As he spoke, the four let loose the full, unreserved force of their peak late-Golden Core auras, frightening Li Yanji and Guan Zhiyuan out of their wits; they nodded and nodded again, cringing, and dared not speak another word.
Four peak late-Golden Core experts against their side—and though they too numbered four, their strongest was only a peak mid-Golden Core, and the weakest two were merely early Golden Core. They were not even in the same league. How could they fight?
There was no room to resist at all. Apart from yielding outright, what else could they do?
Li and Guan were seasoned men—two old hands, to put it plainly—and in such a situation they would never act on impulse. The goods were not theirs in any case; they were merely running an escort for others. Why stake their lives on it?
Once they got back and explained matters, with the gap in strength plain for all to see, even the Qingtian Escort Agency could hardly blame them—at worst they would forfeit a single trip's pay.
Seeing this, Wei Zhao threw Huang Xiaotao a look, and likewise did not move.
This escort was under Li and Guan's command; if even the two of them had surrendered outright, then Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao naturally had no need to step forward either.
Given Wei Zhao's temperament, had Li and Guan chosen to resist, he and Huang Xiaotao would never have flinched. Even against four peak late-Golden Core experts, with the disparity in strength seeming so vast, the two of them joining forces might yet have had a fighting chance—the power of their combined Frenzied Flame Eight Trigrams Palms was fatal to any Golden Core expert alive!
"Good, you all know your place—saves me the trouble. Hands on your heads, all of you, and squat over there!" The leader sneered, then ordered the man behind him, "You take the helm."
Li Yanji and Guan Zhiyuan dared not resist, and at once squatted obediently to one side; Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao followed in silence.
Moments later, the ship's course suddenly swung through a great angle, veering more than ninety degrees from its original heading.
In Wei Zhao's mind rose the sea chart he had studied before setting out. To turn in this direction now would take them—not to Xianpeng Island, nor even to the Weihu Sea, but straight toward another sea altogether at its edge.
If he remembered rightly, that sea in this direction was called the Zhenduan Sea. Conditions there were much the same as in the Weihu Sea, but word had it that it was even more chaotic—a true lawless land without a master.
Meanwhile, Li and Guan were also puzzling over it—though what puzzled them was how four such villains could have appeared out of nowhere in this place. (To be continued...)