In the dim mine, a rumbling sound echoed. Tunas' pupils shrank into a thin line. Red flames engulfed his entire field of vision. The scorching heat hit his chest fiercely, causing him to suffocate. His body flew backward as if it had been hit by a giant hammer, drawing a parabola in the air before landing heavily on the ground.
"Cough …"
Tunas got up from the ground in a sorry state. His whole body seemed to be falling apart. He looked at the collapsed mine with a gloomy face. Not far from where he landed, there were a few guards who were also submerged in the blast. He glanced at them and determined that their internal organs had been shattered. Blood was spurting out of their seven orifices.
Tap, tap, tap, tap … A series of hurried footsteps came from behind him.
"What's going on?" Black Scorpion Lothar gasped and looked at the collapsed mine in shock. The air was filled with a burnt smell.
"We were fooled by Lombardi. This is a trap." Tunas pulled out his shaking teeth from his mouth and spat a mouthful of blood on the ground. "The one who greeted us was not a spy. It was a lunatic who wanted to perish together with us. It seems that Lombardi had long discovered that there was something wrong with Lang Shi. He deliberately used Lang Shi to send us the wrong information."
"I see. No wonder there were no ghosts in those places." Lothar suddenly understood. He then said hatefully, "Then what should we do now?"
Tunas' gaze swept past Lothar and faintly looked at the town at the foot of the mountain. The fire in the town had already lit up half the sky. Screams could be heard everywhere in the raging sea of fire. The rising black smoke intertwined in the air like a deformed monster roaring above the town.
"Lombardi is a lunatic. He's planning to burn the entire Colorful Stone Town to ashes." The muscles at the corner of Tunas' eyes were twitching. He absolutely could not allow such a terrible situation to happen. Otherwise, his many years of hard work would go to waste, and his position in the Chamber of Commerce would plummet.
Tunas now had a vague, chilling guess in his heart. The first message he received from Lang Shi was probably Lombardi's doing. The so-called Alabasta, the mole on the Di Fleet, and so on. Could it be that Lombardi deliberately let him know about this information?
His goal was to bait him into stepping into today's dead-end situation.
Of course, this did not mean that the bait used to lure him was fake. After all, the name of Alabasta was indeed real. It could only be said that Lombardi was too sinister and vicious. It was hard to say whether the bait was real or not, but it could not be any more real when it was laced with poison.
"At this point, I have no choice but to bite the bait even if I don't want to." Tunas stared at the burning sea of fire, his heart burning with anger. He quickly walked to the foot of the mountain, bypassed the quarry, and went straight to the pier.
Noxus quickly followed behind, and heard Tunas gnashing his teeth. "It's already a dead end now. If we're not careful, not only will Colorful Stone Town be destroyed, but you and I will also die here. However, this doesn't mean that we can't make a comeback. Since he doesn't want to leave me a way out, I'll let him know what it means to be trapped in a dead-end."
At the pier, the huge ships lined up in a row were lit up with torches. The guards and sailors left behind on the Tiago Fleet turned pale. The return of Tunas and Noxus had allowed them to find their backbone and restore order from the noisy quarrel.
"All the sailors, get off the ship and go to the town to put out the fire. Noxus, bring the remaining half of the guards and follow behind. If you find anyone suspicious, don't interrogate them. Just kill them directly." As soon as Tunas finished speaking, Noxus nodded, glanced at his men, and quickly got off the ship and rushed towards the town.
The group of people left in a grandiose manner, and the people on the ships immediately became much emptier. Tunas said in a ferocious voice, "Raise the sails and set sail. All the ships, set sail. Open the muzzles and aim at those small merchant ships. Don't leave a single one alive."
The anchors were stretched, and the sound of steel cables interlocking could be heard on the beach. The ships stranded on the pier slowly reversed and turned around. At the same time, more than ten iron cannons were pushed out from the decks on both sides of the ship. They extended out from the square gate, and the black barrels vibrated in unison.
The continuous sound of gunfire tore the beach apart in an instant. Dozens of cannonballs splashed towards the row of small merchant ships like scattering flowers. Then, there was a thunderous boom. The first ship was blown to pieces, and the broken masts and deck fragments spun and shot onto the beach. The entire beach was filled with slanted fragments, as if it had been plowed by gunfire.
Just as the cries and curses rang out, another round of firing came, suppressing all the voices. Blood and flesh collapsed under the bombardment of the cannons, leaving dregs all over the ground.
The range of the cannons was very short, and they could only hit the first few merchant ships. The three small merchant ships anchored at the back were spared. At this time, they quickly raised their sails and drove their ships away from the beach.
The Sea Shark was anchored at the outermost position. Compared to the panic on the other merchant ships, they seemed to have been prepared. Almost at the first round of gunfire, the Sea Shark had already left the beach and the bow of the ship was turning around.
Big ships turned slowly, but small ships turned quickly. At this speed, when Tiago's merchant ships set sail, the Sea Shark would have already run one nautical mile away.
On the Sea Shark, Ka Ba was wearing binoculars with a cold smile on his face. He raised his bandaged wrist and waved at Tiago's caravan.
"By the way, are we really going to run away like this? Are you not afraid that the Marine will settle accounts with us later? "Ka Ba asked with some worry.
"I knew that Tunas would be desperate and try to blow up our merchant ship. That way, he would be able to trap us on this island. Hehe … Unfortunately, I've predicted every step of yours. I'm always one step ahead of you." Originally, Lombardi was supposed to appear in the quarry, but he was one step ahead of Tunas. He sneered and said, "What explanation do you want from the Marine? We have already done everything we can. Do you really want us to fight Tiago's people to the death?"
"It's better to leave this dangerous job to the Marine." Lombardi said sinisterly, "We have already blown up half of Tiago's caravan's guards. This is already more than enough. In addition, since 153 Branch cares about their reputation, I will also think for them. I even gave them a good reason to come to the island. They are going to the island to put out the fire, and while they are at it, they also eliminated a group of evildoers who were entrenched on the island and saved the residents of the island from the sea of fire. With such a big contribution, the Marine will be very grateful to us. Why would they blame us for being a little cowardly?"
"You should know that the people on the Sea Shark are just honest and legal merchants …" Lombardi laughed loudly.
Behind him, on top of a mountain, the sea breeze gently blew through his hair, revealing his hidden face. A pair of long, narrow, and cold eyes looked down at the sparkling black sea in the distance. A huge shadow was sailing out from the darkness.
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