Yin-Yang slowly sat down on a sofa, his staff floating beside him. He smiled unhurriedly. "Then tell me about what you've encountered these past few days. You've been in Port Vias for half a month already. What have you run into?"
Ximen Feng bowed to Yin-Yang, then stood respectfully before him and recounted, detail by detail, everything they had encountered over the past few days.
Early the next morning, before dawn had broken, Lin Qi was already standing barefoot aboard a fast ship called the Busty Flying Fish, dressed in a sailor's short tunic. Beside this fast ship, which could hold several hundred people, were lined up the Long-Legged Flying Fish, the Perky-Bottom Flying Fish, the Red-Lipped Flying Fish, the Slim-Waisted Flying Fish, the Flirtatious Flying Fish, and several other cargo ships that were the fastest in Port Vias.
The sea breeze stirred the waters within the harbor, raising tiny ripples. The fast ships bobbed up and down. Several mangy vicious dogs ran back and forth across the decks, while a few goats and two mongrel donkeys were lazily tethered there. A nest of rabbits lay listlessly at the bow, two black-furred rabbits among them furtively watching the surroundings.
The same scene could be found aboard every fast ship. Their cabins had been converted into mobile livestock pens, packed with large numbers of live poultry and domestic animals. The stench of chicken and duck droppings filled the decks, enough to make anyone want to vomit.
Ximen Feng and her group arrived at the pier in carriages and boarded the fast ships via the gangplanks. The smell wafting from the cabins nearly made them throw up. A Yin Family girl in a gray mage robe, her face pale and bloodless, angrily snapped, "What are you doing? Can these ships even carry