There is a cliff outside the place where the shipyard and the dry dock are connected. In Aitaria, there is actually no fixed name for the dry dock and the floating dock. The locals call it 'Uridar'. The reason why it is called this is just a matter of choice. The callers are just accustomed to it.
In front of the dry dock is the lock. The outside of the lock is connected to the sea and the sky, and the straight cliff is located at that place. Fang Plover discovered that even if they both belong to the Kaolin-Ithurian sky and land, the rock formations along the coast are very different in different areas.
The steep cliffs made of gray-white chalk and the black forests that were common in the north disappeared in the south. Here there are only undulating yellow sandstones and sporadic thorny shrubs growing on the cliffs, and the wind above the sea blows by. , the thin leaves on the shrubs rustled.
Fang Plover was sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking at the distant sky, the cotton-like floating cloud island, and the scenery between the sea and the sky. On earth, the line between sea and sky is just an adjective, but here, you really can't tell the boundary between sea and sky.
This is a transparent sea. Except for clusters of clouds and mountains suspended above the 'sea surface', between the cloud islands you can only see schools of fish swimming around in the air, or in the distance there are three little whites with triangular sails. point, sailing above the sky, with three long tail marks - cyan - trailing from the stern.
Looking down, you can see that the cliffs go vertically downwards for thousands of meters, so that the rock formations are layered with different colors. The part near the surface is dotted with green shrubs, and further down, the color of the rocks becomes darker. Bare.
Below the clouds in the distance is a real sea, as blue as green, sparkling in the sun - but it is too calm, like a dark blue crystal. It is not actually the water surface, but the stratosphere, where there is no wind. element, the aerostat will lose lift as soon as it enters it.
But it looks very close. The Kukai layer is actually ten kilometers high. From the middle layer where the sky and land are located to the windless layer, it is also nearly four kilometers. The thickness of the stratosphere is half of the Kukai layer. After passing through the windless zone of the stratosphere, It is the entrance to the Abyssal Sea.
So far, people have not actually entered the deepest part of the Abyssal Sea that they have visited. They are just some relics left on the surface of the Abyssal Sea during the Xinsas era, including the one that Sylvide visited. The same is true for the ruins where the obelisk is located.
Tata's voice came from his thoughts: "Mr. Knight."
Fang Yu finally came back to his senses and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong?"
"There's something going on in the community."
When Fang Yu was slightly startled, Miss Goblin had already projected a page of light screen in front of him. Now she is quite skilled in handling these matters. Fang Yu looked at the light screen. First there was a line of bold headings, indicating an emergency - below was the content. He looked down and couldn't help but be startled:
"Did something happen again in the South?"
The content of the article is that the New Southern Territory Alliance integrated by BBK once again encountered trouble - when they settled in Baicheng, one of their official teams suffered spontaneous resistance from the local selectees. In fact, it was the same as the last time in the capital. The events in London were exactly the same.
But this time the problem was much more serious. It was reported that after the attackers killed BBK people, they announced that Baicheng was not within the jurisdiction of the Southern Alliance.
Fang Yu has always been paying attention to things in the Southern Territory. As early as a few months ago, after the Du Lun Resolution occurred, most of the large and small guilds in the Southern Territory that originally belonged to the Southern Territory Alliance followed Ye Hua's orders and disbanded like their guilds in the forest. .
Some of these people, like Lin Lin and others, became true free adventurers and looked for another future. The other group of people still stayed in the southern border. Although they had lost their status as members of the alliance, privately most of them still maintained their old contacts and formed a potential alliance.
These people are actually the vast majority.
Fang Plover has also heard about this secret alliance. In fact, the Elfendor Council has played a role in fueling it. Although the Southern Alliance has been disbanded, the Elfendor Council is still there. The council is an organization dominated by indigenous people. , the Super Competitive Alliance has no right to dictate to the alchemists.
The Parliament used secret means to bring more members of the old Southern Alliance into this alliance. It is equivalent to reintegrating the originally divided alliance. This method is somewhat similar to that of the Oak Knights of Tapolis, although one is intentional and the other is unintentional.
Due to the Van Rijk incident, the Super Competitive Alliance was too busy to take care of itself, and BBK's integration of the New Southern Alliance was stalled for a while, and it was not resumed until recently. But these few precious months lost allowed this secret alliance to develop and grow.
Fang Plover knew these things, naturally through his teacher Ander. Ander-Uriel re-entered the Elfendor Council after the Vanric incident and replaced Pudra's original position. After the incident involving Count Silin-Spica, the other party's status in the parliament was further elevated. As one of the decision-makers of many matters in the parliament, he was naturally qualified to know these secrets and tell his students.
BBK can be said to be the culprit for the dissolution of the old Southern Alliance. The interests of both parties are completely opposite, so of course they don't have any good impressions of each other. In fact, during its journey south, it was obstructed by the "Dark Alliance" more than once.
It can be said that the opposition between the two sides has existed for a long time.
BBK is clearly a collaborator of the prime minister's party, and the Elfendor Council is also unwilling to allow its influence to penetrate further into the south, so it secretly adopts a resigned attitude towards the conflict between the two parties.
But the conflict in Baicheng was still somewhat beyond Fang Plover's imagination.
Because although the Elfendor Council is happy to see the conflict between the two, it will never let this conflict further escalate into the open. So last time in Du Lun, although the old Duke of Phoenix was not on the prime minister's side, he finally took action to quell the turmoil.
Therefore, the reason why the Southern Territory has been peaceful for the past half year can be said to be that the old Duke played the most important role in it, playing the role of a needle that calms the sea. After all, the stability of the region is closely related to the indigenous people who have lived here for generations.
The confrontation between the nobles and the royal family also adopts an attitude of cooperation and confrontation. The Kaolin-Ishulian is not a division between the north and the south, but just a political game.
But what happened in Baicheng was obviously a bit out of line.
But what's puzzling is that White City is not much smaller than Van Rick. The local nobles, guards and garrisons are not dead. There is also a magician organization "White City Secret Guard" there. How can they watch it helplessly? The chosen ones sealed the city and became independent.
This declaration is clearly a 'Declaration of Independence' - it simply means that from now on, Baicheng will break away from the earth and become autonomous, and will no longer be under the rule of the Kaulin-Ithurian Kingdom. It doesn’t matter if the chosen one does such a shocking thing, does the local noble think the same way?
He was full of questions and couldn't help but ask: "Miss Tata, what is going on?"
Tata shook his head slightly: "That's all the news at the moment, Mr. Knight."
She added: "A few hours ago, White City blocked several roads leading to Vanrick and Eder Fortress. Since then, no news has leaked out, at least for now."
This action was clearly confirming what Fang Plover was thinking.
Unable to sit still any longer, he dusted himself off and stood up from the edge of the cliff. He finally looked back at the blue sky in the distance before walking back to the shipyard. After questioning the workers, he found the noble daughter who was standing in front of a blueprint, supervising the progress of the workers.
The blueprint was the last one he selected among the many drawings he drew. It was being nailed to a wooden board at the moment. Sylvide looked at the lines on it with focused eyes, and sometimes looked at the work of the workers. .
When she heard the footsteps behind her, she turned around. When she saw Fang Plover, she couldn't help but smile and cast a gentle look at her captain.
But Fang Yu got straight to the point and said, "Sylwede, something happened in Baicheng."
"Um?"
Only then did Fang Yu describe the previous events to the ship officer.
It was obviously the first time for Sylvide to hear about such a thing. She immediately thought of the same place as Fang Pliover, thought for a while and said: "Captain, you should ask your teacher's opinion immediately on this matter. There are two reasons. There are two possibilities. One is that the electors of the old alliance made this decision themselves, which means they intend to part ways with the parliament."
"Another possibility," she paused, "is that this operation was planned by the Parliament, which means that the Parliament's judgment on the situation in the southern border has changed."
Although he was far away in Istania, Fang Yu could still tell from the analysis of his ship officer that the situation in the southern border had taken a turn for the worse.
He thought for a moment and then asked: "Which situation is better?"
Sylvide shook her head gently for the first time: "I personally think that the first situation may be slightly better, but it is also limited. Unless some people go alone, but judging from Baicheng's reaction, this possibility is very small .”
She raised her head, a trace of worry flashed through her light blue eyes: "If the public break really becomes an established fact, we may really see a war next."
"What are the odds?"
"It's not clear yet, but Captain, you may have to make some preparations."
Fang Yu couldn't help but open his mouth, but no sound came out.
They are still in Tansnir, and this war may have nothing to do with them in the short term, but if the third division falls into turmoil, they will be affected by it anyway.
From the perspective of outsiders, this may just be a matter of watching the excitement, but when he puts himself in the situation, he feels completely different - the most intuitive thing is that he knows who is looking forward to such a turmoil. ?
Dragon worshipers.
Their plans in the south may be related to this.
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a deep worry in his heart. Their group had just made some progress against the Dragon Worshipers, but if Kaolin-Ithurian fell into turmoil, not only all the previous efforts would be in vain.
And maybe, the Dragon Worshipers will take this opportunity to make a comeback and recreate the disaster of the Dragon Witch incident in the past.
Those people will never target without aim——
He knew this.
But at the same time, Fang Yu felt a deep sense of powerlessness. For the first time, he felt that his personal power was too weak in the face of the general trend. The confrontation between the north and the south of Kaolin-Ithurian has been going on for more than a year. During this process, not only the indigenous people, but also the electors had great conflicts.
It can even be said that the Southern Selectmen have been waiting for such an opportunity to resist the 'invasion' of the descendants of Flor for a long time. This is by no means something he can easily change with a few words.
Not to mention that there are more complex interests involved behind this, the entanglements between the electors and the electors, the electors and the aboriginal people, and the aboriginal people and the aboriginal people are so complicated that even the Stargate Port cannot calm down the king. The confrontation between the party and the southern aristocracy, let alone him?
He is somewhat famous in Vanric, Dolifen and even Fenris, but to put it bluntly, he is just a popular figure for a while. In this matter, his appeal may not be as good as Sophie's, but even a Silver Wisland princess, what right can she have to say?
Fang Yu couldn't help but be silent for a while.
Everything has gone smoothly during this period, and he once thought that the Seven Seas Brigade was initially on the right track. Of course, it was not as good as those big guilds, but at least it had the capital to establish a foothold in this world.
Especially after defeating the Rangers, the Dragon Witch's matter seemed to have come to an end for the time being, although they did not really defeat each other and completely solve the problem of Dragon King Lifgard. But the opponent was also seriously injured and needed a long time to recover, and time could be said to be on their side.
But once the situation changed, everything immediately took a turn for the worse, leaving them no time to react. There is even no chance to correct this.
In the past, he placed his hope on the Phoenix Duke, hoping that he could always play the role of the mainstay. He believed that as long as the other party did not fall, the situation in the southern border would not be corrupted after all. The confrontation between the nobles and the new king, based on the history of Corrin-Ithurion, will not last long after all.
As for how the two sides would compromise in the end, he didn't need to worry about it——
Anyway, he might have left the first world long ago and took Miss Ship Officer to look for her father.
Unexpectedly, the problem first appeared on the side of the selector.
Sylvide looked at him and blinked her long eyelashes lightly, as if she could see what he was thinking, and said softly: "Captain, the first priority is to confirm with the Elfendor Council and your teacher. Let’s check the authenticity of this news.”
Fang Plover nodded.
This was exactly what he was thinking at the moment.
However, the only way for the Seven Seas Brigade to communicate with the Elfendor Council is through one Linn. Unfortunately, this guy is still an alchemy research madman, and the communicator is not online every three days. Therefore, more often than not, both parties still transmit information through magical messengers.
The magic messenger is a magical creation that can travel through the etheric realm and play a role in connecting two places. Although it is not as convenient as the communication crystal, it does not have as many restrictions on its use. It can be used directly as long as it is in an area where magic is not allowed.
In fact, the magic homing pigeon they often use is one of them.
However, magic carrier pigeons are often lost on the way due to various reasons. For this important information, Fang Plover simply releases three or four carrier pigeons at once, and one of them will arrive eventually. The movement of the magic messenger in the ethereal realm ignores distance, but it usually takes half a week to a week to arrive. With a safe attitude, he sent another message to Linn.
Just in case this guy suddenly gets a whim and goes online midway? Maybe you can save a lot of unnecessary time.
After doing these things one by one, Fang Yu gradually calmed down.
There are some things they cannot prevent, and all they can do to prepare is to minimize the impact on them after these things happen. The Seven Seas Brigade has experienced so many dangerous situations since its inception. There is no reason why they should stop moving forward today even though they were able to overcome things in the past.
Compared to the desperate situation in Fenris, the current situation does not seem to have reached its worst yet. The Dragon Worship Cult can cause trouble, and they can also prevent it.
If you think about it carefully, the current situation is still much better than when they just started to get involved in the Dragon Worship Cult conspiracy.
After thinking about this, Fang Yu completely calmed down. Although true and false news began to spread all over the community in a few days, he didn't care and just waited silently for further news from the Elfendor Council. Pass back.
It was at this time that news came from Her Royal Highness Princess Rupert.
Penelope's royal family sent someone to tell them that someone from the princess's mother's family agreed to their request and was willing to take the time to meet with them.
After receiving this news, Fang Yu temporarily put aside all those things that were not there. He knew in his heart that the leisure time of the Seven Seas Brigade in Tansnier was coming to an end. Next, they have to get back into the commission regarding the Princess.
…
The girl sitting next to the window was leaning on the wooden table with one hand, holding her cheek in the palm of her hand, looking at the scene on the street outside the window in a daze.
The long ebony hair was like a straight line hanging down from her cheeks, separated from the white porcelain skin like a clear boundary. She blinked her long eyelashes gently, and her black and white eyes seemed to contain a bright and clear light.
It attracted many passers-by to look sideways and look in this direction.
This is a small roadside tavern - there are countless such places in the South, but this place is a little more special than others - because it has a door facing the street, a large hollow that is quite rare in Aitaria. Windows, like elves.
Green vines and leaves hang outside the wooden window lattice. In the distance is a lake bay with a forest of trees. A little closer there is a street, dotted with some southern-style wood and stone buildings on both sides.
But the scenery here is slightly better. You can see through the woods and even see the sparkling lake. A trestle goes deep into the lake. There are even people fishing on the trestle - some aborigines and some selected people.
The girl then turned around. She was wearing a tight-fitting dark night leather armor, which outlined an almost perfect figure - except for her somewhat flat chest. She played with the silver dagger on her fingertips with one hand, looked across the wooden table, and said:
"How about it? It's beautiful here, isn't it?"
Directly opposite her, there sat an elf girl with blue frost-like hair. She was wearing a moon-white mage robe, holding an oak magic wand in one hand, and was looking at her angrily.
"I said, is this interesting?"
"What's wrong?"
"Do you still want me to praise you for how beautiful you are?"
The black-haired girl smiled slightly: "That's okay."
In the frosty weather, I had to gnash my teeth: "Wash your hands, please give me enough."
"Okay, okay, Xiao Shuangshuang, we are here to do business." The black-haired girl looked at herself and replied with crooked eyes: "I am also in disguise. Look, there is no one around. Recognize us.”
"No one will recognize you without makeup."
"Hey, am I not famous that much? I can still be considered a star player, right?"
Shuangtian took a breath and said quietly: "Isn't it because you have always looked like this in public? How many people do you think will recognize your true self?"
The black-haired girl smiled and showed her white little fangs: "Not necessarily, I know a little guy who has seen my true self. Haha, I made him stunned for a while, do you know how cute he is? ?”
The girl with short blue-frosted hair rolled her eyes and decided never to discuss this kind of thing with this lunatic again.
She sighed, then changed the subject and said, "So where do you plan to start investigating?"
"We have already started investigating?"
"Wash your hands, you bastard!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no," the black-haired girl quickly raised her hand. She turned around and looked around. It seemed that because of her conflict with the other party, she attracted a lot of curious eyes around her - the tavern was not big, but the guests were not. Shao: "What I said is true. Do you want to listen to my analysis?"
Shuang Tian resisted the urge to hit the other person in the face with a magic wand and looked at the other person coldly.
"You don't know, Xiao Shuangshuang——"
"Wait, wait, let me get to the point, don't do anything," the black-haired girl saw her companion about to raise the magic wand and quickly changed her words: "Do you know where Quicksand last appeared?"
Shuang Tian rolled his eyes again: "Please don't talk nonsense to me, of course in this place, otherwise what are we doing here?"
But the black-haired girl shook her head: "I'm not talking about the end, but before that."
"You said it last."
The girl with short blue-frosted hair held the magic wand in her hand almost squeaking, and a pseudo-dragon demon pet crawled out of her backpack. As if feeling the anger of its master, it aimed at the black man in front of her. The hair girl spread her wings and made a hissing sound.
"Okay, okay, I made a mistake. Now I am correcting my story. It was before that."
Shuangtian frowned slightly when he heard this, then shook his head.
The black-haired girl then answered more seriously: "Quisha, he has been to Nevard."
"Nevad?" Shuang Tian was slightly startled and asked, "What is he doing there?"
"Actually, I've been there and met him."
"What?"
"Don't look at me with that look," the black-haired girl quickly explained: "This matter has nothing to do with me. Besides, I'm not the only one who went to that place, Odin, Hades, September and Silver Weiss. That guy Lan, they are all here."
Shuangtian couldn't help but look surprised when he heard these names.
After all, these names are not ordinary names. Each one of them is a famous figure in the third division. But how can these people gather together? For example, the guy in front of me is relatively leisurely among the first-line players, but that is actually just the perception of outsiders, not true leisure.
In fact, the other party is always running between various tasks and news. As a top recruiter, he rarely has any personal time. If these people can take time out of their busy schedules to get together, then something big must have happened.
But the black-haired girl shook her head: "It's not as big a deal as you think. It's just a party. It's a way of showing off to the guy who sold Odin. He asked us to teach a little guy, the little guy I told you about before. , he’s so cute, he blushes at every turn. By the way, I’ll introduce you to him when I get the chance—”
"Wash your hands," Shuang Tian glared at the other person: "Can you please stop talking like that to a man? It's so disgusting. And, to be honest, I'm not interested in those things."
Although she said this, she was still slightly curious about the newcomer that Odin valued. After all, it was not an easy thing to get so many big men to teach him.
"Okay, okay," the black-haired girl smiled, but didn't take it seriously: "If you don't like to hear it, I'll just stop talking about it. Quicksand also accepted Odin's invitation. He stayed there for more than half a week, and then he left. Say your goodbyes and we leave.”
"He said he had a meeting to handle, and the destination was Baicheng." She glanced around and lowered her voice: "I quietly asked him who he wanted to meet, but he refused to say, but I found out the location of the meeting. Right in this wine shop.”
"Will he tell you the meeting place?" Shuangtian sounded very doubtful.
"Of course it's not free," the black-haired girl replied, "I'm an information dealer, so he has to give me face no matter what."
"right here?"
"To be exact, it's where you sit."
Shuangtian was startled and almost stood up from her seat, but after she calmed down, she couldn't help but looked at the other party angrily: "Wash your hands, do you think our target is not conspicuous enough?"
"What?" The black-haired girl was very puzzled: "We want to investigate the whereabouts of the other party. After all, the other party disappeared after arriving in Baicheng. There must be a whereabouts, right? There is no news from the guild. We must complete the client's commission. Of course we have to start from this place.”
"So, can you pick a less conspicuous location?"
"This... I haven't thought about it."
Shuangtian was also a little helpless about his partner's character, but at least he understood that his partner's professional level was still one of the best, so he sighed and said, "Okay, have you discovered anything?"
"There are quite a few."
"for example?"
The black-haired girl had a very mysterious look on her face and looked around.
Then she stood up from her seat, approached her friend, and lowered her voice: "Shuangtian, your bust seems to have gotten smaller?"
There was a loud bang, and all the guests in the wine room turned around involuntarily, just in time to see the girl with short frosty blue hair. She violently knocked the beautiful black-haired girl off her chair with a magic wand. Local scene.
The other party turned back to look at them angrily and said angrily: "What are you looking at? Haven't you seen it?"
The guests were so frightened that they turned around.
The girl then dragged her half-dead companion out.
However, not long after the two left, a man stood up from his seat, paid the bill, and hurried out.
It was a thin and tall elf, but the biggest difference between him and ordinary elves was that he had an indigo stripe painted on each side of his cheeks - this is a typical sea tribe, a descendant of Naga, a man who is now living in Ai. Taliyah is already a very rare ethnic group.
Scholars even claim that the original sea people ceased to exist after the Giant War, but since the influx of the Chosen, this group has been resurrected. Because the selectors discovered that after certain screening, they could actually choose to be from the Sea Clan.
However, this race has no special advantages compared to other races, so generally no one would ask for this trouble.
After the Hai clan walked out of the hotel, he looked around and saw Shuangtian dragging the black-haired girl into an alley not far away.
When he saw this scene, he pondered for a moment, then immediately pulled his collar and followed quickly.
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