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"Floating city! The floating city is floating above the earth!"
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At the same time, the merchant ship Gama was sailing on the Mayunya River.
Earlier, the Gamma and the merchant ships going upstream along the Mashunya River received news that the legendary salvation team's ship, the New Star Chaser, had anchored on the main road and no one knew what it was doing.
In order to take precautionary measures, the captain of the Gamma increased the number of lookouts and deck sailors on duty, and switched the Gamma's only crossbow from spare parts to standby mode.
In order to make these preparations, the captain had the Gamma drop anchor under the two giant statues at the entrance of the River Kingdoms and waited for about a day. Today, only after making all the preparations did he go deeper into the River Kingdoms.
In this section of the Ma Xunya River, there is basically no vision on both sides of the river. If the existence of the rainforest itself increased the difficulty for robbers to set up ambushes on both sides of the river, this section of the river would have become a holy place for robbery.
After entering the river countries, the captain himself went up to the poop, ready to deal with unexpected situations at any time.
But he didn't expect that this unexpected situation was so damn unexpected.
"Lancelot's ass!" The captain cursed the most unpleasant words in his life, so unpleasant that he would go to Lancelot's temple to buy indulgences the next time he docked. "What the hell is that!"
The sailors also looked in the same direction, and no one could answer the captain.
At this time, in the southeast, there was a square man-made object in the sky.
The captain grabbed the first mate beside him and asked, "Do you see that thing? What is that?"
First Mate: “How should I know?”
Captain: "Aren't you from the Thorn Islands?"
The Thorn Isles are now considered the second main city of the dwarves. Dwarves who travel out of the dwarves' real main city, Brynden, will gather in the Thorn Isles to exchange knowledge and information, and then embark on an adventure again.
This has led to the Thorn Islands becoming a gathering place for all kinds of strange stories on the mainland.
In addition, just like dwarves like to tinker with armor and weapons, gnomes like to tinker with all kinds of wonderful mechanical devices. Strange machines can often be seen in the Thorn Islands, some of which can fly.
At the same time, this is the place with the most airships in all of Gralia. You can see the airships built by the dwarves whenever you look up.
That's why the captain of the Gamma said that.
The first mate spread his hands and said, "Even though I was born in the Thorn Islands, I have never seen this! This thing must be very far away, so it may be bigger than all the dwarf airships I have seen so far!"
The captain was shocked: "Is it so big?"
At this moment, someone on the ship shouted, "It's the floating city! Lancelot, this is the floating city!"
This term reminded the captain: "Floating city? The floating city in the bard's ballad?"
In the songs of bards, floating cities are usually the residences of villains.
This may be because the existence of the Cyclops Empire in the First Age changed the perception of most humanoids. For the humanoids that already existed at that time, the Cyclops was definitely the worst existence. Not only did they enslave them, they would also unscrupulously drain their life to prolong their own life.
The captain looked at the floating city and suddenly said, "Wait a minute! Since the floating city is flying, we should know what happened. This is great intelligence. Just taking this information out can make money!"
The first mate said, "Indeed. Didn't we have intelligence that the rescue team's ship was anchored on the main road? They might know what happened! Maybe this has something to do with them!"
The captain nodded: "Yes! Go find them!"
On this day, more than a dozen captains of merchant ships who happened to witness the floating city taking off made such a judgment.
The place where the new Star Chaser is currently anchored will soon become bustling with activity.
Chapter 182 Have you seen the wind-powered floating city?
At this time, Wang didn’t know that he had become “the brightest star in the sky”. He now had a problem.
"How fast did you say this thing was flying?" he confirmed.
Control center: "One kilometer per hour."
Wang muttered: "The Cyclops meter is about 7.1 of the current common unit meter... That's not fast!"
Central: "Because this machine does not include a power unit. This can be solved by adding an additional one."
"Where the hell can I get you a power device left over from the Cyclops Empire?"
Flint soothed him, "This is actually easy to solve. Once we get to the Thorn Islands, we can ask the dwarves to install a row of propellers, and everything will be solved."
Marika: "Then we have to climb to the Thorn Islands first. Or we can take the Star Chaser. If we want to go faster, we can take the captured Order airship."
Wang silently calculated in his mind and said, "No, let's not rush. According to the information we have obtained so far, it will end when we reach Catalonia. We will arrive next year by taking the floating city.
"My teacher said that it will take five years for the world-destroying crisis to come. It's July of our first year now, and we won't meet at the tavern to start our journey until the end of March. It's still early!"
Oscar said: "You guys...are you really going to save the world? Is it really okay to be so leisurely? A lot of innocent people will die when the crisis comes, right? I think we should take the fastest airship..."
Wang: "No! The Order has an army, so we must have an army too!"
Xiao Bai: "Stop making excuses. I swear on all the experience I've gained from riding you and being ridden by you that you absolutely can't bear to part with the floating city you just got."
Flint: "I support the little brother this time - no, Captain! Anyway, the world-destroying crisis is still early. It's not even the second stage yet. We have already found out the mastermind behind it. It looks like it's almost over. Let's just sit in the floating city and slowly drift over."
Nini: "Won't it cause the cult to run away? Look, this time the cult retreated in a hurry."
Wang: "The retreat itself will also delay their plot. Look at this base, they were originally building a good seedbed, but the retreat disrupted many things.
“And you see, the cult usually lurks, making it difficult for us to find them, but now the cult has mobilized airships. I’m afraid that the intelligence agency from Catalonia and the shadow thieves from Monrovia have already noticed something.
"If my guess is correct, the Shadow Thief will send us a message soon."
Oscar: "You... mean, you're just going to sit there and wait for the Shadow Thief to deliver information? Aren't we the main force against the cult?"
Wang: "Of course, and the cult will start to retreat because of us. Let me tell you a story from another dimension, which was told by my teacher. My teacher said that a large-scale war broke out in another dimension, and one side was preparing to attack the other side, but the other side's defense was very tight.
"So what should we do? The attacking side came up with a plan. They put their most powerful generals in the fake attack direction and trained them every day. The real attack direction actually revealed many flaws and looked like a fake one.
"In the end, the attack was successful, and that brave general also shared some of the credit! After the war, he was hailed as the Blood and Courageous General."
Oscar blinked his eyes and said, "He just acted as a false target?"
"Not really. He rode a pack animal called a jeep and rushed to the front of the army. The troops cheered when they saw him passing by during the march."
Oscar: "Then his contribution is obviously not obtained by being a false target! You lied to me! I still think we should..."
Wang: "How many people can be carried on an airship? How can we face the army of the cult?"
Oscar shut up.
Wang comforted him, "You should seize the time to train your troops. You are the leader of the Floating City Self-Defense Corps! Leader, do you understand? I heard the sailors say that they would not accept it if a little girl came to manage them!"
Oscar immediately threw all thoughts of saving the world out of his mind: "Who doesn't accept it? I'll fight him in a one-on-one duel! I'll beat him until he accepts it!"
Xiaobai: "Are you really a woman?"
Oscar looked at Xiaobai's steel plate and said, "It's not your turn to say that! You're the guy that even the captain, a pervert, is not interested in!"
Xiaobai: "You say that as if he would be interested in you."
"At least I have it!" Oscar emphasized.
Wang was shocked: "Really?"
Rosalie: "No. Okay, that's enough sleeping with me, stop staring at my sister."
Rosalie had obviously completed the transformation of her inner role, and felt that being a sex partner and village chief was also good. After all, a certain wooden man now firmly believed that it was impossible for him and Elizabeth to be together, and at least he had gone one step further than Elizabeth.
It's just that I didn't get the steps right and skipped the love part.
Wang: "Anyway, let's float to where the Star Chaser is moored, find a place to land, and then use land boats to move the Star Chaser up. Considering that we are going to Catalonia, we need the captain's cabin with a compressed space on the Star Chaser.
"In addition, we have to find a way to solve the water storage problem. The central control told me that the spaceship - no, the floating island - originally had a design for water storage facilities, but for some reason they were not built."
Flint: "I don't know why. The One-Eyed Empire was destroyed, so naturally no one built it anymore."
Rosalie nodded. "Water storage is important. It doesn't matter here because we have a lot of rainfall. But in Catalonia, the only green areas are along the Masonya River. There are very few oases in the desert, and only the Bedouins know where they are."
Xiao Bai and Oscar asked together: "Bedouin?"
Wang: "They are a nomadic tribe in the desert. They mainly run desert caravans. It is said that they have a main city in a rift valley in the yellow sand. But my teacher doesn't think it exists because this tribe doesn't seem to have a main city."
Flint: "Perhaps they 'had' a main city, just like our old capital of the dwarves."
Wang: "Yes, when we get to Catalai, maybe we can ask the Bedouins."
Nini: "Teacher, are you trying to say that there really is such a main city, and you discovered something that your teacher didn't, and took away the treasure inside?"
Wang: "Good student, you understand me better and better."
Rosalie: "Let me ask you a question. We are talking so happily here. Is the island already drifting towards the Star Chaser?"
Wang was stunned.
It was normal for Rosalie to ask this, because only the king understood the language of the Cyclops Empire, and no one else knew what the king had said to the Central.
Wang: "No. (Switching to One-Eyed Imperial language) Start the power system now!"
Central: "Please enter the destination coordinates."
"What the hell?" Wang scratched his head. "I don't know how the coordinate system of the Cyclops Empire corresponds to the coordinate system established by the current Dwarf Explorers Guild! I'll show you the whole map!"
Central: "Unfold the map table!"
Then a huge map table rose from the ground.
Although everyone could not understand the Cyclops' language, when they saw the map table, Flint said, "This is to mark a point on the table, right? The mechanical arm hanging down from the ceiling should be used for positioning. The dwarves' best airships have similar equipment."
Marika was studying the map, and she immediately noticed the problem: "This map... doesn't match ours!"
Wang: "This is a map from tens of thousands of years ago. Nini! Go adjust the pointer at the bottom of the mechanical arm. The position the mechanical arm is pointing to should be our position now. Move it to the position of the Star Chaser. It depends on your ranger skills!"
Before Nini could answer, the central controller spoke first: "Slaves are prohibited from touching any command devices. Or is this slave also special?"
King: "Very special! She is our ranger - I mean, she is the servant who leads the way! You let her move."
Central: "Registering a new slave with command authority requires authorization from the Lord of this floating city."
Wang raised an eyebrow.
He was only the acting city lord. The real city lord recognized by the Central was the one-eyed necklace that was inserted into Elizabeth's secondary sexual characteristics.
Wang pulled Elizabeth over and was about to reach in and take it, but he changed his mind midway and made a gesture to ask for the thing.
Elizabeth understood immediately. She grabbed the necklace chain and pulled out the one-eyed man. She carefully wiped the oil off the man's face before handing him over to the king.
She did not take off the necklace the whole time, and the chain around her neck made her naturally close to the king.
Wang held the one-eyed man, and did not use ventriloquism: "Certification!"