Anyone who knew the price of the Eternal Flame would instinctively be a little less wary of him when they saw that he possessed it.
Chu Sheng was practically a shining beacon of righteousness!
Sure, I'm scheming, cold, heartless, and inhuman, but deep down, I'm a good person.
As Chu Sheng thought this, his gaze fell on Poyang Lake. Through the thin mist over the water, he spotted four or five tiny black dots seven or eight hundred meters away.
The tiny dots rapidly grew larger in his eyes. Though the mist still obscured them, he could make out blurry dark shapes.
They were five boats.
Every one of them was larger than the boat Zhu Qing had used to fuse with the van yesterday.
Chu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, watching the figures moving aboard the boats. Something felt strange.
He kept feeling that something was wrong with those figures.
"They're here!" Chu Sheng called to the others behind him.
At his words, Captain Hui immediately put aside the question of how Chu Sheng could possess the Eternal Flame.
He walked over to Chu Sheng and gazed out over the lake, but saw nothing.
Still, he trusted Chu Sheng. With his ability to fuse Sacrificial Items, Chu Sheng possessed items and methods far beyond theirs.
His eyes in particular were obviously Sacrificial Items. It was perfectly normal for them to see things other people couldn't.
"How far away are they?"
"About six hundred meters. They don't seem to have noticed us," Chu Sheng said, sounding puzzled.
As the boats drew closer, the scene hidden behind the mist became clearer.
One person stood aboard each of the five boats, while more than thirty people knelt below them.
There were men and women among them, but none were old, frail, sick,