Videnina didn't care whether the Sun God's badge was real or not. Liu Zhi told her to attack, and she swung her sword.
The fat merchant had been used to throwing his weight around on the island. He never imagined anyone would dare attack him here. He didn't even have time to react before Videnina cut off his head.
After the fat merchant died, the Sun God's badge fell to the ground.
Liu Zhi stepped forward and picked it up, then said disdainfully, "A fake Sun God's badge. Aren't you afraid of dying?"
Just then, many people rushed out from nearby, weapons in hand. They froze when they saw the corpse on the ground, then looked at Liu Zhi in confusion.
According to their plan, the fat merchant wasn't supposed to die. Nobody dared attack someone carrying the Sun God's holy emblem; doing so would be seen as hostility toward the Sun God.
Looking at the people who had rushed out, Liu Zhi immediately understood what was going on.
The fat merchant had probably been throwing his weight around on the island for a long time, using a fake Sun God's badge to pose as one of the Sun God's servants.
He used that status to bully strangers coming and going from the island.
After scaring the outsiders, he would call these people over to rob them.
If they couldn't get anything, that was fine too. They controlled the ships the outsiders needed, and without a ship, the outsiders couldn't do anything. No matter how angry they got, they had no choice but to bow their heads and obediently pay several times the price for one of the battered ships the merchants didn't want.
The fat merchant had done this so many times that he'd forgotten the Sun God's holy