Southeast Asia, Luzon Island.

This originally lush island has been billowing with smoke like a dragon. This situation has been occurring since the end of February, reached its peak in March, and continues to persist in April.

As the fire gradually spread in central and northern Luzon, many trees were burned, more and more animals or people were hiding in the fire, and many tribesmen had no choice but to move away from their original residences.

For the original inhabitants of Luzon Island, this was undoubtedly a catastrophic disaster. Many tribes perished as a result, and the islanders who were lucky enough to survive found it difficult to find food to satisfy their hunger, and they were simply reduced to savages.

Just like this, on the coast of Luzon Island, there are many islanders who make a living by fishing. They use simple homemade tools to carry out fishing activities on the seaside.

The girl Nuona stood quietly in the water holding a good harpoon. When a dark brown grouper swam close by, she immediately stabbed the grouper hard.

Seeing the iron fork piercing the grouper's body, before she could get happy, she heard a loud noise from the sea, but she couldn't help but look up blankly.

But they saw a cannonball weighing ten kilograms hit the sea hard, and immediately raised a large water column more than ten meters high. Several pirate ships surrounded a merchant ship from everywhere.

"pirate!"

When she saw this scene, Nina immediately ran towards the tribe with a harpoon in hand.

A group of natives were fishing in the shallow sea when they heard the sound of cannons from the sea. When they realized something was going on, they couldn't help but look at the sea with worry, and at the same time they were curious about which pirates dared to rob here.

"It's a robber, leave quickly!"

Guangdong businessman Zhou Dachun was originally a very ordinary ceramics merchant. When he learned that there was gold all over the Southeast Asia, he couldn't help but dream of getting rich. He bought a second-hand ship and went to Southeast Asia to pan for gold.

However, he never expected that on just his second voyage to pan for gold, he would be attacked by pirates on this route known as the safest "Fragrant Mountain-Luzon" route.

When they saw the pirates appearing, dozens of crew members and several merchants on the ship panicked. However, facing the threat of death, they seemed to cooperate and continue rowing southward, because dozens of nautical miles away were joint merchants.

The group's territory.

As long as they can escape from the pirate encirclement and escape to the seaport of the United Merchant Group, then they will be absolutely safe. In the waters of the South China Sea, no force can compete with the United Fleet.

Bang!

Just as they were working together to escape towards the Union City in the south, with only a distance of less than a hundred meters, a pirate ship was already guarding them and hit them hard from the side.

This collision seemed to be premeditated. A white boat had already ambushed in front, accelerated from the front and hit their bow, causing many of their bodies to fly into the air immediately.

"Pull quickly!"

Zhou Dachun fell heavily in the cabin, and a tooth vomited out of his mouth with blood. However, many years of business had given him a tough temperament, and he endured the pain and ordered to the crew.

Several crew members were members of his Zhou clan. When they heard his instructions, they all stood up and continued rowing, trying to escape from this group of pirates.

"Uncle Eighth, I said you really shouldn't have unloaded the cannon, otherwise we would have given them a few black pancakes to eat!" A young crew member did not forget to complain to his uncle while rowing hard.

said one sentence.

Due to the careful calculation of the businessman, Zhou Dachun did do something reckless. However, he cannot be entirely blamed for this matter, because the old ship was seriously damaged, and experts told him that the ship could withstand at most two or three shellings.

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"If I survive this catastrophe and make money in the future, I will definitely buy a three-masted gunboat!" Zhou Dachun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said loudly and bloodily.

But no one believed what he said, not to mention that they were likely to die at the hands of pirates today, and the cost of building a three-masted gunboat was at least one hundred thousand taels. This was definitely not what Zhou Dachun could achieve.

"What's going on? Why is it getting slower and slower!"

Zhou Dachun was urging his crew to row away from the pirate encirclement as soon as possible, when he suddenly discovered that although the ship continued to move forward, its speed had slowed down significantly.

"Uncle Eighth, our boat is hooked!"

A tribesman ran into the cabin in a panic, bringing everyone a very bad news with a worried look on his face.

But at some point, the white boat that collided with them had already thrown out the iron fishing line, tightly connecting the two boats together, and they were just dragging a large boat forward.

"This time it's really over!"

When Zhou Dachun learned this fact, his face suddenly turned pale. Knowing that he was doomed this time, he murmured to himself.

"Uncle Eighth, I'm afraid of him, so we'll fight him!"

The young tribesman in charge of rowing the boat immediately threw down the boat poles. Knowing that the cargo on the boat was the entire property of the Zhou family, he even drew his sword and said bitterly.

"Yes, fight them!"

More than ten people also responded and decided to fight to the death with the pirates.

"Okay, let's fight him!"

Zhou Dachun also drew his sword and pointed it at the ship channel next to him.

He was a businessman by nature, but he had to endure hardships in order to accumulate a little family fortune. It was also thanks to Lin Lei's public opening of the sea that he benefited from it, and then he had the capital to go to Nanyang to pan for gold.

Just thinking that the wealth he had worked so hard to accumulate would be snatched away by these pirates made him very unwilling, and he was ready to fight to the death with these pirates.

By the time Zhou Dachun led a group of people to the deck with murderous intent, the white ship had already approached from behind, and a ship-to-ship battle seemed imminent.

"I only want the supplies on the ship. You can leave in a small boat!"

On the deck of the white ship, a middle-aged man with the air of a general held the hilt of a knife and said calmly to Zhou Dachun and others.

"This is all my eighth uncle's property, and part of it belongs to my Zhou family. You can't even try to rob it!" A member of the Zhou family immediately stood up and expressed his position.

Zhou Dachun saw that the other party had an extraordinary temperament, but when he thought that this boat was his decades of hard work, and part of it was the savings of his clan, he immediately became filled with high fighting spirit.

"Then don't blame me for being heartless!"

The middle-aged man's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was filled with murderous intent.

"Then step on my corpse, Zhou Dachun!"

Zhou Dachun knew that if he wanted to make a living at sea, he would have to be prepared to die in battle, so he held his sword tightly and answered loudly.

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Chapter completed!