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Chapter 65

Chapter 65

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As twilight descended, a flat-bottomed junk disguised as a Siamese merchant ship sailed into Quanzhou Bay. Shen Xitang’s rain cape, soaked in Magnetic Marrow Liquid, shimmered with an eerie, ghost-fire blue in the moonlight. As the hull brushed past the third lighthouse, the gold needle on her wrist suddenly pointed toward the seabed. Twenty iron coffins were slowly rising with the rhythmic tide, their lids painted with the activation diagram for the Burning Heaven Array, a new development from the Armory Directorate of the Ministry of Works. "Let me go first—"

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