C251 (2/2)

”What, is there a problem?”

”I'm not too sure about that yet, but I'm sure that Luzon Island has strict control over the ships that come and go. At a very distant place, a ship will come over to guide us, and we'll have to follow their route. I'm guessing that before we go ashore, we might even have to verify their identity.”

Xie Jingxi frowned, ”Is it really that strict? Even if you were to enter our Great Chen, it would not be so heavily guarded, right? ”

Zhao Zhang said: ”Who says that's not the case, who knows who caused this? It wasn't like this in the past, do you think it's possible that Fu Lang's people have already controlled the Luzon?”

This was really unknown, Luzon was originally not worth mentioning, but the location was very important. Now that Fu Lang had set his eyes on it, couldn't he be on guard against the ships with Great Chen?

Not only did they have to ascertain everyone's identity, they also had to record their purpose of coming and going, and the time they stayed, had to be kept in the records. There were even Great Chen people mixed in to make it easier to communicate with them, but the one who looked like the leader was a fair-faced Westerner, so Martin decided to get closer to him.

Martin muttered something to the leader and tried to give him some gold, but it was not easy.

She whispered to Xie Jingxi to translate their words, ”Mother, that person's meaning is that we must verify her identity and must not be accommodated. Then, Mr. Martin asked him why she was being so strict, and he said that it was because of the above meaning, and even mentioned the Master Dong.”

Master Dong? Xie Jingxi thought about the name, no matter how she looked at it, it sounded like the name of a person from the Great Chen, could it be that the Luzon was controlled by the people from the Great Chen? But since they were from Great Chen, why were they so guarded against the merchant ships of Great Chen? Could it be …

Xie Jingxi's heart jumped, did she really run into people from the mysterious powers just like that? This Master Dong, who was she? Why didn't her heart stop beating?

Therefore, there were no problems. Although the inspections were complicated, it was fortunate that they passed in the end. However, just as everyone was preparing to go ashore, the leader of the group came again.

He stooped down and conversed with the person who understood the words of the Great Chen, then that person translated and said: ”It's like this, since you are people with tickets for the Sheng Yuan, then we, the Master Dong, would like to invite you all to live in the Sacred Hall, in order to have a warm welcome. Also, since you all plan to come here to do business, we, the Master Dong, would like to chat with you all, and see if there is an opportunity for us to cooperate.”

This was out of everyone's expectations. Were they invited as guests? Fortune and misfortune were intertwined. Could it be that good fortune had come after the disaster?

Xie Jingxi was not that surprised. Even though it happened so easily and and the others were interested in him, and she had so effortlessly come into contact with what seemed to be an extremely important person, and she even treated the Sheng Yuan ticket number extremely well. It seemed that his journey to business was rather smooth, but in reality, it was probably not that simple.

From the moment they were about to land on the shore until now, no, perhaps from the beginning of the storm, they had already been forced into a passive state step by step. First, they had an urgent need for supplies, and in addition to their unknowns and nervousness about Luzon, after such a huge mental gap, suddenly came a form of courtesy, as if they had already predicted that they would follow him.

He looked at the surrounding guards, they were tightly guarded and gave off a sense of pressure. Although it was not difficult on the spot, once they disagreed with the Master Dong's invitation, he knew that once they went ashore, all kinds of troubles would inevitably befall them.

This was after all, not Great Chen's territory, so they were not familiar with it at all.

The Manager Qi did not have any reason to reject, since the other party had first offered him the olive branch, and did not have the principle of taking Qiao Qiao now, it was only a matter of time before they would come into contact with him, thus saving a lot of effort.

To Xie Jingxi, they were in urgent need of time to rectify the situation. That whatever meeting hall, regardless of whether it was a dragon's lagoon or a tiger's cave, they could enter first to catch their breath before considering further.

Thus, the group of people received all sorts of courtesies. Not only were they specially sent a carriage to receive them, but there were even servants who served them. Like a diplomatic mission, they were invited to that meeting hall.

However, what surprised Xie Jingxi was that after entering the Sacred Hall, there was a special maid that came to invite them. She led Xie Jingxi, Gu Xiaoyu and Fang Dai to a separate room.

Did he see through their real bodies just like that? Didn't that mean that their faked identities had already been exposed, and they knew that their identities were fake? Yet they still treated them so courteously. What was this? Wasn't this a proper Hongmen Banquet?

It seems that this Master Dong is definitely not an ordinary person.