Chapter 204: Some legacy strategies were severely damaged
After returning to the spherical airship, Qingshi said confidently: "I have thought of a way to cross the river. There should be no problem."
"What's going on?" Chen Tianye asked.
"Brother Qi and I tried it out," Qingshi said with a smile, "Those sea spirit scorpions are indeed powerful, but they only move within the river channel and will not pursue them like ghost bats and bone-spur demon wolves. Let's rush over directly. That’s it, the airship’s defense capability should be able to withstand this distance.”
"What about after crossing the river?" Chen Tianye continued to ask, "There is no defense over there?"
"There must be one," Qingshi said, "but it should be in a more central area. It doesn't seem to be on the river bank. Let's go there first and then talk about it."
"Qingshi is right," Duan Wutian said, "The first time we pretended that the strong wind blew down the trees and threw a broken branch to the other side of the river, the second time I shot a flying gun directly, and the result was twice There was no response from there.”
Seeing Qingshi and Duan Wutian say this, Chen Tianye and Xiang An felt relieved.
Qingshi has seen the power of water arrows and knows that although water arrows are powerful, they can definitely be resisted by the airship's defense. As long as they are not shot by hundreds at the same time or shot continuously for more than half an hour, they should be able to withstand it. .
Although Qingshi believed that the spherical airship's defensive capabilities could completely withstand Hai Lingbiao's water arrows, he still did not choose to rush over directly.
Qingshi arranged two strategies. One was to divert the tiger away from the mountain. A hundred feet to the right of the selected crossing point, Qingshi broke the main veins of a huge ancient tree, and then waited for the violent storm to blow the big tree down on the river. , when the nearby Hai Lingbiao is attracted by the big tree that has fallen into the river, it is the best time to cross the river.
The second strategy was to fake the truth. Qingshi took out an airship in the worst condition, and then let a puppet drive the airship to attract firepower. He sacrificed an airship and a puppet in exchange for the safety of the spherical airship. Qingshi thought it was worth it.
After all, in the next adventure, the spherical airship may play more roles. It is necessary to make it suffer as little damage as possible. Qingshi does not have more black iron and fine steel to build another one.
The plan went smoothly. When a strong wind blew down the big tree, a pot immediately exploded in the river there.
Qingshi immediately released the bait airship and flew out of the forest and rushed into the sky above the river. At the same time, the spherical airship also rushed towards the other bank.
Qingshi tried his best to make the flying height of the airship reach the extreme value, which was about two feet above the height of the tree canopy. As expected, those Hai Lingbiao could not jump so high to attack the airship with their bodies and flippers. They could only attack with water arrows.
The puppet airship used as a bait had just flown into the middle of the river when it was riddled with water arrows and broke into two pieces and fell into the river. The spherical airship only withstood less than one-tenth of the water arrows and flew across the river almost unscathed and into the sky above the forest on the other side.
Seeing that the plan was successful, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
At this moment, with the help of a flash of lightning in the sky, Qingshi discovered that there was a vague circular depression in the tree canopy not far in front. Through the sparse branches and leaves around the circular depression, he could see that there was a three-foot tall tower below. The black tower is tall and six feet thick. The black tower is located in the center of a dark golden metal disk about ten feet in diameter. Qingshi discovered that the black tower was not upright but pointed toward him crookedly. There was a dark round hole on the top of the thick tower.
"What's that bluestone?" Xiang An obviously noticed it and pointed over there.
That is? cannon!
Thoughts just flashed through Qingshi's mind before he had time to react. The dark muzzle flashed brightly, and at the same time with a loud bang, a black cannonball with a diameter of more than a foot spewed out of the muzzle and shot toward the airship. .
Qingshi only had time to steer the airship to the left, and the terrifying shell had already hit the seemingly non-existent spherical airship.
There was a deafening roar, the black cannonball exploded violently, and the spherical airship flew out like a ball hit by an iron rod, flew across the river in an arc, and crashed towards the forest on the east bank.
The spherical airship appeared and changed its shape and flew back to the east bank. Its speed was faster than the speed it had previously rushed to the west bank with all its strength, so that it avoided most of the water arrows when flying across the river.
It obviously lost control, spinning wildly and breaking the branches of several big trees. Finally, it fell hard to the ground, and rolled forward a few feet, until it hit the trunk of a big tree. down.
And this last impact not only knocked down the big tree, but also finally caused the spherical airship made of black iron and fine steel to completely fall apart, scattering broken and deformed pipe fittings and four human bodies like sandbags all over the floor. .
The wind and rain were still there, and without the protection of the airship's energy wall and armor's protective aura, the four people lying in the mud, their heads covered with mud and water, remained motionless and unaware of life or death.
After a long time, Qingshi regained his strength and sat up. He looked inside and found that two meridians were damaged and all the internal organs were injured, but it was not serious. The main reason was that his head was dizzy.
As for the several wounds on the torso and limbs, they were all scratched skin wounds and not worth mentioning.
Qingshi took out a healing pill and swallowed it. Looking around, he saw Xiang An sitting up in the mud a few feet away, followed by Duan Wutian, who also sat up. Only Chen Tianye was still there. Lying on his back in the muddy water motionless.
Seeing Xiang An and Duan Wutian taking pills while dealing with their injuries, Qingshi asked: "Lao Xiang, Seventh Brother, how are you two?"
"I can't die!" Xiang An simply replied, obviously too injured to say anything.
"I'm fine!" Duan Wutian said, "There are no fractures or severed meridians. The main reason is that the internal organs were shocked and the head was stunned."
Among them, Duan Wutian's body was the most powerful, and it seemed that he was the least injured. Although Qingshi was seriously injured, his recovery ability was the strongest. Xiang An seemed to be seriously injured, but his life was not in danger. Only Chen Tianye looked worried.
Duan Wutian wanted to get up and check on Chen Tianye, but he couldn't bring himself to do it for a while, so he couldn't help shouting: "Old Chen! Old Chen!"
There was no movement.
Duan Wutian became anxious and shouted loudly: "Sassy Beard, are you dead? Hey! Can you make a move... You can't die! I won't allow you to die... You Isn’t his mother pretty good at beatings?... What a naughty beard... What a good brother..." His voice was already crying.
"Shut up!" Chen Tianye's voice sounded low, but his body still didn't move, "I'm not dead yet, why are you so fucking mourning!"
"You're not dead!" Duan Wutian laughed through tears, "I thought you burped! Hahaha... Oops..."
A quarter of an hour later, Qingshi stood up, walked to Chen Tianye and put his hand on his shoulder to detect his injuries. He found that he had three broken bones and two meridians, but he had already used his true energy to repair all the broken parts. , the reason why he lay on the ground motionless and did not speak was because his healing technique was unique.
Qingshi saw that his injury was far less serious than expected, so he immediately fed him the best healing pill. As an alchemist and a rich man, his healing pill was naturally much better than Chen Tianye's.
Qingshi went back to check Xiang An's body and found that he was more seriously injured. He immediately fed him a healing pill and asked Xiaopang to take him back to the egg house.
After dealing with Chen Xiang and the other two, Duan Wutian unexpectedly stood up.
Qingshi looked around, jumped up to a giant tree more than ten feet high, waved his hand and released a small airship with a shed, fixed it on two thick tree branches, and then took out eighteen formation flags and planted them separately. On the big branches, surround the boat.
When Duan Wutian saw that Qingshi was almost ready, he picked up Chen Tianye and launched his flying armor to jump up.
The three of them entered the boat and each worked hard to recover from their injuries. Qingshi activated the concealment formation composed of formation flags. Soon, the formation flags and the boat slowly became transparent, and finally disappeared among the dense tree trunks and leaves.
Soon, night began to fall, the dimly lit forest became darker and darker, and the wind and rain began to lighten up.
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When the first ray of long-lost sunlight shone into the forest, Qingshi slowly stopped and opened his eyes.
The wind and rain have long since stopped, and the air in the forest is fresh and moist. The sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves with golden spots. The whole forest looks quiet and beautiful. Only the evil spirit that floats from time to time makes the forest lack birds and insects. Ming, it lacks some vitality.
Thanks to the powerful vitality of the Five Elements Qi, the injuries to Qingshi's internal organs and meridians have healed, and most of the fractured ribs have healed.
Seeing that Duan Wutian and Chen Tianye were still doing exercises to heal their injuries, and Qingshi didn't bother them, he frowned and began to reflect.
Soon, Duan Wutian got up and stretched his body. When he saw Qingshi lowering his head and thinking, he came over and sat down. He took out two bottles of wine and handed one to Qingshi. He smiled and said, "Qingshi recovers faster than me! It's amazing, worry." What? Drink!"
Qingshi took the wine bottle, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Brother Qi is still so good, he didn't get hurt at all."
"That's right!" Duan Wutian said proudly, "My body of steel and iron is not comparable to that of Shao Huzi and Xiang Bailian, haha..."
"What are you talking about?" Chen Tianye opened his eyes and said, "You are just a rough skinned person who can withstand beatings. You haven't been trained by me for decades of continuous beatings!"
"That was before," Duan Wutian said with a smile, not angry, "How many punches can you take from your brother now with your small body?"
Seeing that Chen Tianye was getting better, Qingshi felt a little more relaxed and asked, "How is your recovery going, Tianye? Do you want to take another healing pill?"
"I won't take the healing pill," Chen Tianye also sat over and said with a smile, "There is no better healing medicine than wine!" After saying that, he grabbed Duan Wutian's wine bottle and started drinking.
Qingshi sighed and said, "This time it's all my fault. I was so self-righteous that I made a mistake in judgment and everyone was hurt."
"What did the stone say?" Duan Wutian said, "If the bird cage you invented was not strong enough, we might have really finished playing."
"Yes Qingshi," Chen Tianye also said, "We all know that there is danger ahead, but no one can predict the specific danger. Encountering danger is certain, and being able to survive the danger is the key. You have both merit and demerit, so why should you blame yourself?"
Listening to the two good brothers talking like this, Qingshi felt a little better.
"We seem to have been hit by a cannon, right?" Duan Wutian scratched his head and said, "What kind of cannon is this? Why is it so powerful?"
Qingshi and Chen Tianye both shook their heads.
Qingshi and Chen Tianye have indeed never seen such a cannon. The cannons in Tianlong Continent are either energy cannons using spiritual stones as their energy source, or stone cannons powered by machine springs.
Both types of cannon have their own pros and cons. The energy cannon is powerful, but it takes a long time to recharge each time it is fired. It consumes very terrible spiritual stones, is technically complex and expensive, and has a very short service life. The more powerful the energy cannon is, the shorter its lifespan is. Energy cannons often blow themselves up after just a few shots. Flying example.
The stone cannon is a trebuchet, which can throw or eject stone and iron shells. Of course, its power is far inferior to the energy cannon. Moreover, its hit accuracy is low and its firing speed is slower than that of energy cannons. It can generally only be used to attack large targets that cannot move, such as city walls. However, its advantages are low cost and durable.
The shelling that Qingshi and the others encountered was fired by explosives, and the shells would explode. There are no such cannons or cannonballs on the Tianlong Continent.
Its hit accuracy is extremely high, its firing speed is extremely fast, and its power is not much worse than that of an energy cannon. It's really a powerful killing weapon.
In Qingshi's view, this cannon is very similar to the cannon on Earth, and it must be more powerful in terms of power, but Qingshi knows that it is different.
Although the unknown cannon will roar and flash when it is fired, and the same will happen when the shell explodes, Qingshi can clearly see that this flash is not the explosive fire of gunpowder, but more like the energy flash of the energy cannon when it is fired. .
Qingshi couldn't answer Duan Wutian's question, but he kept thinking about it.
Seeing that everyone was basically fine, Qingshi contacted Xiang An in the egg house and asked him to come out if he recovered better and everyone could discuss it together.
