Chapter 183, Battle with the Island Aboriginals
As soon as it entered the sea, the Xuanwei's performance immediately became worse in all aspects, because even though it was still very close to the mainland, the aura in the air was already very thin. The flight altitude and speed of the spacecraft dropped rapidly, while the energy consumed soared.
The sea in the Tianlong world is very scary. Since there are three moons rising and setting in the sky, the sea in the Tianlong world rarely has tenderness. Whenever the huge moon is full, the violent sea often stirs up dozens of waves. No man-made ship can survive the turbulent waves that are tens or even hundreds of feet high. Faced with this power of nature, no man-made ship can survive.
Therefore, no one lives very close to the sea, and few people take the risk of sailing out to sea, at least ordinary people. If monks want to go to sea, they can only find opportunities to sail short distances.
The waves will be gentler farther away from the coast. Therefore, people living on islands farther away from the mainland go sailing more often, but they do not dare to sail long distances.
The deeper the sea is, the waves may be smaller, but there will be more ferocious spiritual beasts in the sea. Once far away from the mainland, the spiritual energy over the vast sea is thin, so long-distance travel by spacecraft is almost impossible.
Thin spiritual energy is not enough to carry a large spaceship, and it is difficult for the spacecraft to fly very high. There will be terrifying strong winds near the sea. Sometimes the strong winds will roll up huge waves dozens of feet high, and even directly knock down the spacecraft flying in the air. On the sea surface, he fell to pieces.
As for building a diving boat to go underwater, it is even more undesirable. The spiritual beasts in the sea are several orders of magnitude larger in number and more ferocious than those on the mainland.
Fujia Island, which is 2,300 miles away from the mainland, is not that far away. In fact, there are thousands of large and small islands in this large sea area, especially going east there are several large islands with a radius of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of miles. island.
This area does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Tianxuan Empire. There are seven large countries among the large and small islands. The people of each country are fierce and fierce, and countries have been attacking and killing each other for generations. Therefore, this sea area is also called the Seven Evil Sea.
Fujia Island is located in the westernmost part of the Qisha Sea, sandwiched between the Laosha Island Kingdom and the Tanlong Islands of the Black Sea Kingdom. It is relatively independent. It was originally secretly occupied by people sent by the Tianxuan Empire shortly after its establishment. It was an outpost to spy on the intelligence of various sea nations.
Later, its main function gradually became to collect precious marine products for the royal family. The Tianlong Empire spent a lot of effort to set up a huge shielding array for it, making it completely invisible. As time passed, the natives of the surrounding islands no longer knew that such an island existed. A few years ago, when the Jiang family was destroyed, the island fell into the hands of Xiang An.
At nearly noon on the second day, the spacecraft was already very close to Fujia Island. The weather was rare and sunny. There was only a breeze blowing on the sea surface and the waves were calm. Qingshi turned on the stealth mode of the Xuanwei, lowered the flight altitude and flew towards the intended target.
The spacecraft quickly approached the target. Logically, there should be nothing visible here, but Qingshi was surprised to find that there was a small airship floating in the air far ahead, and there were three ships on the sea below the airship.
Qingshi looked back at Xiang An. Xiang An realized something was wrong and quickly ran to the bow to take a look. Then he yelled: "Oh no, it seems that Fujia Island has been discovered by locals."
"How could it be discovered?" Qingshi stared at Xiang An in confusion, "It has not been discovered by the indigenous people here for thousands of years, and now it is exposed like this? What a coincidence!"
"How do I know?" Xiang An said dissatisfied, "You suspect that I am the trouble again? You are really suspicious."
"That's just for you!" Qingshi said, while observing the front.
Soon, Qingshi saw a huge shielding magic circle flickering next to the airships and ships. It was obvious that the structure of the magic circle or its patterns had been destroyed, causing the boundary to become unstable.
As the barrier flickers, you can vaguely see an island within the barrier. It is obviously a volcanic island. This volcanic island is only a dozen miles in area, and it is not high above the sea. The island is lush and well-vegetated. This is an extinct volcano that has been extinct for many years.
The magic circle barrier where the airship and ship were located was severely damaged, and a large hole was opened that was several feet wide and more than ten feet high. Qingshi controlled the Xuanwei to slowly move closer, preparing to see more clearly, when unexpectedly a puppet in charge of vigilance made a tinkling sound.
Qingshi quickly looked back and saw that at some point, two small airships appeared not far behind the Xuanwei. It turned out that these two airships had just been circling the island. When the Xuanwei came over, they happened to be surrounded by the island. The barrier blocked it, so Qingshi didn't see it. Now, they circled the island and came to the rear of the Xuanwei.
Qingshi was about to use the Xuanwei to ascend to escape, but unexpectedly, the two spacecrafts fired two cobblestone shells as big as coconuts at the same time, attacking the Xuanwei. Qingshi was shocked and knew that they were probably too close, so they discovered the wake of the spacecraft, or they discovered the distortion of the surrounding air by the spacecraft's shielding barrier, so they discovered the invisible Xuanwei.
Qingshi did not dodge, but immediately turned the ship's bow. He believed that the defense of the Xuanwei was definitely not something that these small airships could penetrate, and besides, there was no time to dodge.
Sure enough, two stone cannonballs directly hit the Xuanwei's energy defense cover. The light and shadow of the barrier flickered, instantly revealing the Xuanwei's huge and slender black hull, and the spacecraft shook slightly.
If such an attack were on the mainland, it would be nothing more than a drop of a worm on the tree for the Xuanwei. However, at sea, because the spiritual energy in the air is too thin, both the Xuanwei's stealth and defensive functions are greatly reduced. Although the small airship's stone shells were weak, they were enough to threaten the battleship.
Qingshi quickly turned off the invisibility function, used all his energy to strengthen defense, and controlled the huge hull to move sideways and turn quickly.
At this moment, the airship in front also fired a cannonball, which bombarded the Xuanwei. The shell actually exploded, and the shock wave generated by the explosion immediately caused the Xuanwei to shake violently.
Qingshi gritted his teeth and cursed: "Who are these people? Why did you just open fire without asking questions?"
"They're from the Black Sea Kingdom!" Xiang An grabbed the side of the boat and shouted, "They're probably the army of the old thief Annaba from Tanlong Islands!"
Qingshi had already seen the people on the airship clearly at this time. He saw that all of those people were only wearing shorts, most of them were bare upper body and feet, and their bodies were covered with various tattoos. Most of them were bald, even those with hair. Shaved into a weird shape.
Seeing that the ship's hull had turned to the attack position, Qingshi immediately aimed at a small boat on the side and rear and fired two cannons in succession, using two port side cannons. The power of Xuanwei's energy cannon was countless times greater than that of the small boat's stone cannon, and the small boat had no energy shield at all. However, the advantage of the small boat was its flexibility. The small boat immediately moved when it found something was wrong. It escaped the Xuanwei's first shot, but the second shot hit the hull of the boat solidly. Suddenly, the boat was blocked and bombarded into two pieces. With a huge explosion, sawdust flew into the air. The broken boards were scattered in all directions, and the people on the boat fell down one after another crying and howling. The boat, which was broken into two pieces, fell straight down into the sea.
I originally thought that one cannon destroyed a small boat, and the remaining airships and ships would definitely escape. However, the barbaric natives like Clinker were not afraid of death, and instead launched a fierce attack on the Xuanwei.
In addition to the remaining two airships moving quickly and firing at the Xuanwei from time to time, the three sea ships also launched an attack on the Xuanwei. The attacks from the sea ships were not energy cannons, but shots fired from huge machine springs. Each harpoon is more than one foot long.
The defensive barrier of the Xuanwei is mainly aimed at attacks from energy cannons and large destructive weapons. For such small and sharp weapons, its defensive effect cannot be watertight, not to mention that it is compromised at sea, with hundreds of thousands A harpoon attacked, and most of it was blocked by the defensive shield, but dozens of steel harpoons were quickly inserted into the bottom of the ship.
The prongs of these steel forks were tied with linen and soaked in fish oil. They were ignited before launch. After being inserted into the Xuanwei, the fire began to burn the bottom of the ship.
Qingshi was furious and had an idea to fly the Xuanwei over a sea ship. Then he turned off the suspension power and transferred all the energy to the energy shield on the bottom of the ship. The huge Xuanwei fell straight from an altitude of more than ten feet. It fell and hit the sea ship, immediately smashing the ship into a pile of pieces.
The huge impact caused some minor injuries to the Xuanwei itself. Several steel forks penetrated the bottom of the ship, and a large piece of the starboard side was also broken off. Xiang Anxin cried out in pain: "What are you doing? Is this necessary? It's simple and crude..."
Qingshi ignored him, restarted the power system, and changed the angle. At this time, the Xuanwei was already floating on the water, and the fire on the bottom of the ship was extinguished by the sea water. Qingshi aimed his bow main gun at a sea-going ship and fired one shot. The energy cannon beam hit the bow of the sea-going ship. With a loud noise, the sea-going ship exploded from bow to stern, turning into debris flying all over the sky.
Another sea ship was still desperately approaching the Xuanwei, launching a large number of flaming steel forks as it rushed. Soon some of the fire forks broke through the Xuanwei's defensive shield and ignited on the hull. A dozen open fires came.
Qingshi ordered the puppet to extinguish the fire, threw the Xuanwei control array plate in his hand to Xiang An, and shouted: "You take care of it." He himself activated the Xuanyuan Armor and flew into the sky, piercing the Xuanwei's The energy barrier flew into the sky.
The people on the two airships discovered Qingshi, and they all yelled and shot harpoons and flying arrows. Qingshi's figure flashed far away. One of the two airships chased Qingshi, and the other turned towards Xuan. The mighty horn swooped away.
On the Xuanwei, Xiang An controlled the steering rudder and aimed the bow cannon at the last sea ship. The ship knew how powerful it was and kept moving to prevent Xiang An from aiming. A few puppets extinguished the fire very quickly, but more steel forks came flying like dense raindrops with flames. At least one or two of the ten can be inserted into the Xuanwei.
It's easy to deal with the fire fork hitting the deck, and the puppet can be destroyed quickly, but there are already hundreds of fire fork burning around the ship, and the puppet is inefficient in dealing with them.
Although the Xuanwei's hull wood has been treated with fire protection, it will ignite over time. Xiang An saw an airship above his head rushing towards him again, and thought to himself that if the airship got too close to the Xuanwei, it would easily hide in the blind spot of his gun position. Under the current situation, the energy structure It's hard for the enemy to stop the enemy from slowly squeezing in. With so many people squeezing in together, he can't defend himself at all.
Xiang Anxin jumped into the cabin and went down two decks. Xiang An came to a long, empty and large cabin at the bottom of the ship. He didn't know where he moved it, but suddenly something appeared in the originally empty cabin. A stone pillar over a foot long and as thick as a person, followed by a second one, a third one...
The Xuanwei began to sink rapidly. The natives continued to attack while cheering. They thought they had sunk the enemy ship. In fact, they did not know that the Xuanwei's defensive barrier could protect the hull from seawater penetration. Come in, as long as you don't dive too deep, a little water seepage will not cause sinking at all.
In the sky, Qingshi threw away the airship for a distance and then stopped and floated in the air. He turned to face the airship and waved his hand. A huge black spaceship appeared out of thin air behind him. Its length was almost as long as two Xuanwei ships.
Seeing this giant that appeared out of thin air, the indigenous people on the airship, wielding bows and arrows and operating crossbows, suddenly opened their mouths in horror and froze.
Qingshi lightly jumped onto the Xuanhu, and the two cannons, one large and one small, that were ready to fire, stretched out from the bow emplacement, revealing the black muzzles.
The people on the small airship suddenly woke up, and then there was a rush. It wanted to turn but it was too late. The muzzle of the small cannon on the bow of the Xuanhu flashed, and Wa Lan's energy cannon beam fired instantly. The small boat was hit instantly, and the hull was shattered into pieces amidst the huge roar.
Qingshi did not hesitate, steering the Xuanhu to turn gently, then lowered the bow and tilted towards the sea. The last airship saw something bad, and made a smart turn to avoid it, and actually went directly through the hole in the island's barrier.
The main gun of the Xuanhu was fired, and the last sea-going ship exploded instantly, turning into a pile of broken boards and debris floating on the sea. Among the wreckage, there were still many indigenous people struggling hard.
Qingshi slowly lowered the Xuanhu, and from the air you could see the figure of the Xuanwei under the sea. Its deck was only about a foot deep under the water.
Xiang An clearly saw what was happening above under the water, jumped down from the storage warehouse in a few steps, and put all the stone pillars into a special storage device. The Xuanwei suddenly rose out of the sea, setting off a huge wave, and then slowly broke away from the sea and climbed upwards. Extinguished steel forks were stuck everywhere on the hull, like a body of spikes.
Qingshi checked the situation of the Xuanhu. There was no damage, but the energy consumption was very huge. Now it was neither fully defending nor flying, and its energy consumption was more than ten times greater than the normal situation on the mainland. Fortunately, the energy cannon Launching is not like the power and defense system of the spacecraft. It must rely on the aura in the air, otherwise it may not even be able to use the cannon.
Qingshi took away the Xuanhu and flew lightly onto the Xuanwei. He stretched out his hand and Xiang An quickly handed over the array plate. Qingshi smiled and said, "You are quite clever and thought of sinking the ship into the sea to put out the fire."
"That's because the Xuanwei is a battleship," Xiang An said proudly, "its defensive barrier can withstand the water pressure of ten feet underwater. Although your Xuanhu is big and majestic, it shouldn't be able to Let’s dive! My Xuanwei is more comprehensive! I just checked and there is only a little skin injury!”
"The Xuanhu is also a battleship, and the diving function is better!" Qingshi replied expressionlessly, "Besides, the Xuanwei is mine too!"
"This..." Xiang An had a sad face and was speechless.
"There must be at least twenty or thirty indigenous people who were not killed by the explosion and fell into the sea!" Qingshi asked, "What should we do with these people?"
"Tell Fatty to come out and eat them!" Xiang An said, rolling his eyes.
"What?" Qingshi frowned.
"They're all going to be eaten anyway," Xiang An said nonchalantly, "Just let the little fat guy eat two. Do it quickly. If it's too late, you won't be able to eat."
Qingshi was stunned, and quickly walked to the side of the ship and looked down. He saw hundreds of five- to six-foot-long shark-like sea spirit beasts in the sea, which were devouring the natives crazily. There were not many people left on the sea. Qingshi Da He asked in surprise: "Is this a shark?"
"That's right!" Xiang An said, "This is a saber-toothed ghost shark. Even Yuandan realm monks can't deal with a few of them in the sea. You'd better pay attention to Lao Duan and Xiao Shen. I guess they got in through the hole. There are quite a few people, and there are at least ten people on the airship just now, two of them are quite powerful and their minds move very quickly."
"Okay, let's go in." Qingshi said. Just as the two were talking, all the natives in the sea had been eaten by sharks.
