Liu Zhi's question left the shipbuilder with no answer.
Although Liu Zhi had brainwashed him, he hadn't scrambled his brains. Of course he knew he couldn't answer a question like that, so all he could do was laugh awkwardly.
Fortunately, just then, the ship announced that everyone should return to their posts. They were preparing to move on to the next acceleration point.
Liu Zhi didn't have time to press him further. It was enough to know there were Fishmen aboard.
As for when to take them out, that depended on when they showed themselves and came looking for trouble.
With that in mind, Liu Zhi suppressed his urge to kill the Fishmen and quietly got on with his own business aboard the ship.
Over the next few days, the Death Star Ship encountered nothing unusual, and that feeling of being watched never returned.
Although Liu Zhi still had the Fishmen aboard on his mind, he had no contact with them, and no conflict arose.
Soon, Liu Zhi and the others reached the location indicated by the map he had given them at the start.
It was a small island near South Africa, conveniently located close to the Xida Empire's Gold Route.
For all these years, Eagle Country's intelligence services had only managed to learn that the Xida Empire's Gold Route was somewhere nearby. They had never found out where its entrance was or how to get in.
They only knew that Xida Empire transport ships appeared in the area from time to time. The surrounding waters had practically become forbidden territory for the Xida Empire, and any ordinary ship from another country that showed up there would receive a warning from the Xida Navy.
Pirate ships, on the other hand, sometimes slipped through unnoticed because they didn't know what