Chapter 265: Encounter on the ship (Part 2)

After the city gate was lifted, Xu Changqing and his men quickly entered the city, arrived at the dock, and found the sampan fishing boat that was about to head to Jakarta. Although they found the fishing boat, it took Andy a lot of trouble to get on board. The old Chinese ship owner seemed to have some concerns. No matter how much Andy paid, he was unwilling to take the business. In the end, Andy found a port official and used his power to suppress others before he solved the problem.

Xu Changqing stood beside him and looked at him without saying anything. After the negotiations were made to board the boat, he got on the boat and waved to Andy to leave. After Andy and the port official left, the old ship owner immediately told him to stay in the cabin and not come out, and did not treat him as a patron or a guest at all. The old ship owner's attitude was really unpleasant. Xu Changqing frowned, but didn't say much, and his short body penetrated into the dark cabin.

This sampan is about twenty meters long, twice as long as an ordinary sampan. Although it looks like an ordinary fishing boat from the outside, it is actually a cargo ship. In various ports in Southeast Asia, the tax on cargo ships is several times heavier than fishing boats, so most cargo ships will dress up as fishing boats, then make some tricks in the cabins, build several hidden cabins to evade taxes and smuggle cargo. In this regard, the tax officials at each port understand the tricks, but they will accept bribes from the owners of these smuggled sampans in their hands, so they will not say much. As long as they don’t do too much, they will turn a blind eye and pretend that they have not seen it.

According to common sense, this sampan should have come to Lampung Port to purchase goods, and then follow the tide, circle the Southeast Asian islands, and sell the goods to the natives on the local islands in exchange for goods to earn the difference. Although the difference seems not too large and is not seen by the local large trading companies, for most fishermen, this difference is enough to make them live an enviable and wealthy life. In this way, the competition at sea becomes extremely fierce, and almost all fishing boats coming and going on at sea will not leave empty boats, and they will always take some local local products. However, the ship Xu Changqing is now on is an empty boat with a shallow draft, indicating that there is no cargo inside, which is obviously a bit abnormal. Most of the empty boats usually walk on the sea are pirate ships that do not have the money to buy or sell.

Xu Changqing had already noticed it before boarding the ship, but he did not say it clearly. After all, for him, no matter whether the people on this ship were pirates or not, there was no danger at all. After entering the cabin, Xu Changqing looked around. The cabin was empty, and there was only an altar at the corner of the entrance. On it was a statue of the Tantric Buddhism, and strands of sandalwood filled the cabin, which made people feel a little more peaceful.

"Spiritual Sect?" Xu Changqing's eyes moved upwards. After seeing an extremely familiar icon on the altar shrine, he was slightly stunned and said in his heart.

At this time, the old ship owner walked into the cabin with a few offerings, carefully placed it, then lit three incense sticks, bowed a few times with great devoutness, then turned around and left the cabin with expressionless expression, feeling like he was treating Xu Changqing beside him as air.

Regarding the old ship owner's cold attitude, Xu Changqing just smiled bitterly and shook his head, then leaned on the low chair beside him, waiting to drive the boat. Time passed quickly, and the three incense sticks on the altar were burned halfway. Xu Changqing felt something was wrong, so he took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. The pointer on the watch pointed to the three o'clock position at this moment.

Xu Changqing's face turned slightly dark, and he walked to the door of the cabin, and asked at the old ship owner who was squatting aside and smoking, "Boatman, the time for the ship has passed, why haven't you driven the ship?"

"There are still people who haven't arrived." The old ship owner turned to look at Xu Changqing, with no expression on his face, and said coldly.

At this moment, a young man standing on the mast of the ship suddenly whistled downwards and shouted: "Dad, they are here!"

Hearing the shouts of the young man, the old ship owner immediately became excited on his face, which looked like ice. He stood up, looked over in the direction the young man pointed, and then raised the pipe in his hand vigorously, shouting loudly in local language: "Get off the sail, raise the anchor, and prepare to drive the boat."

Just as the old ship owner and his crew were busy preparing for the boat, Xu Changqing couldn't help but stretch his head out of the cabin curiously, seeing who could make such an old man who was willing to do so excited. However, after seeing it, a look of surprise appeared on Xu Changqing's face, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

On the dock, four people were walking towards this side. The one who walked in front was a middle-aged man dressed in plain clothes, with a superior power in every move, and a strange true energy vaguely emitted from him. Although it was messy, it was extremely deep. Behind him was a white-haired Chinese man. The old man looked a little crazy, with dozens of scars crisscrossing on his face covered with hair.

His eyes were blind, leaving only dark sockets, which looked extremely ferocious. What shocked ordinary people the most was that his arms and body were densely surrounded by two chains, which made his body more than several times thicker and looked very strange. These two chains were made up of thousands of walnut-sized skulls. Although ordinary people who saw the chain would not think that these skulls were real, they would still shivered involuntarily.

Walking to the old man's right was an ordinary Chinese. Although she looked ordinary, she was not ordinary in Xu Changqing's eyes. Because this man was given a very clever trick, the appearance of this Chinese was just an illusion. Although this trick was very clever, it had no effect in front of Xu Changqing's Dharma eyes. The person hiding behind the trick vision was the prophet Moses who had met Xu Changqing.
Chapter completed!