After passing through the diffuse clouds and fog, everyone on the ship saw the entire wind elemental layer.
It is like a blue mirror embedded under the sea of clouds.
The wind element layer in the usual sense is actually divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. Although the upper and middle elemental layers also gather a large number of wind elements, in appearance, they are not much different from Kukai's other layers.
But at the lower level, a huge amount of wind elements gather here to form a substance, forming a shape like the sea surface. This is the elemental sea - the bottom wind element layer, or the true element layer.
What they saw here was the Sea of Wind at the true elemental level. But it was still far away, and it was just an optical illusion created by Kukai who lacked a reference point below the ridge.
Everyone looked up and saw that the edge of the continent formed a straight line above their heads, like the edge of a huge inverted mountain range, majestic and oppressive.
There is the ridge of land. It is still very thin at the edge of the sky and land, but in the central area, the ridge can be as deep as hundreds of kilometers, not only passing through the wind element layer and the quiet wind zone, but even penetrating into the abyssal sea.
The feeling when the sailboat passes through the wind element layer is very special, as if it has passed through a layer of tangible things, but the transformation between the tangible and the intangible is very fast, and soon the people on the Seven Seas Traveler can no longer feel anything difference.
But at this time, the Seven Seas Traveler began to shake violently. The table, chairs, bed, cabinets on the wall, and decorative murals all squeaked and swayed. Underneath the mirror-like appearance of the elemental layer, there is hidden the wildness and unruliness of the wind element. This is a world full of wild imaginations. The year-round strong wind dominates everything here like the changing ocean currents, with sudden eddies and shears. Chifeng exists here as universally as human breathing.
Not many people dare to challenge this restricted area for sailors, but Miss Tata is obviously an exception. As a dragon soul, she only needs to feel the flow of wind ether to predict the direction of the shear wind, and she controls the seven seas. The Traveler is as precise as controlling her own body, and the challenges that are unmatched by others in the world are nothing more than that in her opinion.
Fang Yu made the right bet, but the challenge has just begun.
The wind element layer is twenty kilometers thick, and it takes a day and a night to pass through it. During this time, it also takes a lot of time to hover in the air to absorb magic power for the consumption of the fairy heart. Fang Yu expected to reach the lower level of the wind elemental layer within forty-eight hours. During this period, the Seven Seas Traveler did not need any operations from them, as long as the people on duty in the magic cabin were left behind.
He divided two groups of emergency personnel to take turns on duty. Others only need to stay in their own rooms and read or rest, but this is not mandatory.
At twelve o'clock at midnight, the Seven Seas Traveler entered the middle elemental layer. The outside world was dark, the stars were dim, and the only sound left in the cabin was the howling of the wind. It was like the end of the world.
Sylvide drank the water, lay on the bed for a while, and then got up to record the diary. The wind lamp swayed and spread the light all over the floor.
She put on her windbreaker and walked out. The captain's room was quiet, as Fang Pliong and the others were catching up on their sleep after their shift.
There were several people in the corridor on the lower deck, and everyone couldn't help but come out to meet each other. The big cat man was chatting with Baggins. The boatswain leaned his back on the ladder. When he saw the daughter of his old captain walking down, he quickly got up to greet her.
Rhett, who turned into a big tabby cat, was lying on the stairs. When he saw her jumping down, he turned around and shook his tail as a greeting.
The ship officer lady smiled slightly.
The door of Ai Xiao's small room was open, and Tang Xin was reading a book inside. It was a large book with a golden cover and two inches thick. It was the sacred text of the Trawell Diocese and a required course for every Pastor Laila.
She saw Sylvide passing by the door, raised her head, and cast her gaze over.
The two said good morning to each other, but Tang Xin felt a little shy again.
Sylvide smiled and walked over. A few girls were having a party on the air combat deck outside. They sat cross-legged on the ground and listened intently to Luo Hao's stories. This fat man from the military always had endless stories to tell.
For example, the origin of the Rose Crusade, how the Descendants of Flor and the Rainbow Alliance were born from the VEM alliance, the dispute between the Silver Vislan and the Crusaders, etc.
There was a small box of biscuits next to the three little girls, and Parker sat behind and stuffed his cheeks full.
Siesta was playing with marigolds when she noticed her lady's footsteps and turned around to look at her.
Luo Yu was leaning outside the door of the magic cabin, carefully recording the engine readings with a pen.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the moment the sun rose on Kaolin Continent, the light ether could no longer reach the middle layer of the elemental layer, and it was still dark outside.
At ten o'clock, Fang Yu forced everyone except the emergency duty team to go back to their rooms to rest.
In six hours, the Seven Seas Traveler will come to its biggest test since it entered the wind elemental layer.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the rocking of the ship obviously intensified, and Miss Goblin reported that there was a storm outside, although storms were common at this altitude.
Fang Plover asked Tata to report the situation outside every fifteen minutes. It was pitch dark outside Kukai at the moment, and he could not see his fingers. The barrier outside the ship was raised, and the upper outer deck was closed to people. However, looking out from the captain's cabin, the airflow outside seemed tangible.
The sails were completely furled under Miss Tata's control, and the entire ship was propelled almost solely by the transom and tail fins.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone woke up one after another.
The Seven Seas Traveler is entering the lower level of the wind elemental layer. The rocking of the ship's hull has reached its limit, and every ship plank is almost groaning, as if it will fall apart in the next moment. But fortunately, at the beginning of the construction of the Seven Seas Traveler, Her Royal Highness the Princess put a lot of effort into the work and devoted the efforts of several master craftsmen. At this moment, she showed extraordinary resilience.
Tata reported that the hull was in good condition, with little damage from the storm.
Everyone entered a state of tension, and everyone observed the situation outside every minute. Jita stared at the detection crystal without moving, biting her lips until they almost lost their color.
The ship officer lady locked herself in the room with a lot of charts and documents, and only asked Tian Lan to bring a bunch of calculation data to the learned scholar below for verification every few minutes.
Tian Lan went back and forth countless times without even a single complaint.
By eight o'clock in the evening, the Seven Seas Traveler had completely entered the lower level of the wind elemental layer.
There is no clear boundary between this place and the Abyssal Sea, and they must find a possible passage before continuing to descend to the Quiet Wind Zone.
Sylvester asked Miss Elf to keep the ship heading south, which was the direction where the empty island had appeared in history.
At two o'clock in the morning, Miss Attila lit the fire to cook for the third time. Although they were not in the mood to eat, everyone still ate more or less to maintain their body's needs and maintain working condition.
At seven o'clock, Miss Tata reported that the wind element below was beginning to become thinner. Although thinness is relative, the amount of wind element here is still huge compared to Konghai, but this is still the first time they have detected a decrease in wind element since they lowered the wind element layer.
This shows that they are close to the quiet wind zone.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the ship successfully moored into the Yuanhai Channel. Tian Lan wiped her sweat and sat down on the stairs. She vaguely heard a few cheers coming from outside. After nearly twenty hours of intense Nerves, I can finally relax now.
There is silence under the abyss, with a little more light than in the wind element layer. The background of the sea is immersed in a kind of emptiness, huge and deep, and there are some luminous creatures swimming in the distance. The wind has stopped. Now, the wind element indicator is about 65% above Kukai, and all the evidence points to them arriving below the elemental layer.
It worked.
The ship officer lady was gently putting down the chart in her hand, turned around, looked at Fang Plover and smiled slightly.
Fang Plover was so excited that he hugged her and kissed her hard. Sylvester's soft waist was pressed against the desk, and her eyes were filled with tenderness.
When the two came back to their senses, they found that everyone was watching outside the door. Alyssa covered Ai's small eyes, and the latter weakly protested that she was as big as Jita.
So Miss Nightingale also grabbed the blushing Jita with her other hand.
Baggins looked at Fang Plover thoughtfully, and smiled mysteriously with an expression that every man could understand.
Sylvide was fine, smiling and calm. Fang Plover just wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
He gave everyone a half-day off, and the Seven Seas Traveler also needed time for maintenance. Except for the people on duty, everyone else quickly fell asleep. This night was really tiring.
After Fang Yu finished working in the magic cabin, he returned to his room and found that Sylvester had fallen asleep waiting for him at the desk. He took off his coat and put it on the shoulders of the noble daughter.
Dimming the light of the wind lamp a little, he listened to the low cry coming from above the wind element layer, and the bottom of the abyss seemed to respond to a rumbling sound, like the pulse of the sea. This is not the real Abyssal Sea. At best, it can only be regarded as a shallow part of the past Abyssal Sea. The Abyssal Sea that people often call is a few hundred kilometers down here. It is another world compared to people's perception. , is an abyss and also a hell.
Fang Yu sat back on the bed and wrote in his diary for a while, and then checked the community and communications. After a while, the naughty little cutie appeared, jumping and jumping on the sheets, fighting wits with his tail.
Seeing that she was about to spit fire at his tail, Fang Plover quickly held down the little girl with one finger to prevent her from burning the bed. It seemed that after absorbing part of Descartes' power, Fang Nini had no other changes, except that she became more energetic and no longer slept as easily as before.
Looking at the little guy who was babbling and calling Papa, Fang Yu thought that his little daughter had absorbed the power of several dark saints. Could it be that she was the legendary Devourer of Gods?
While thinking about these irrelevant things, he checked the previous messages. After entering the wind element layer, the communication was interrupted. However, this interruption was one-sided. The messages sent to him by others can now be seen.
You didn't know it, but you were shocked to see that he had received hundreds of messages in just one day. This almost equals the total number of messages he has received in the past six months.
After looking through them one by one, I saw that someone called X sent them to inquire about their situation, and the other person’s ID was actually called X. Shana also sent a message asking him if he had received the deposit.
There was also news from Hongye. Ever since Dolifen parted ways, he and the Oak Knights hadn't seen each other for almost half a year. The other party usually contacted him once a month.
As for Miya, the Sea Witch asked him what happened.
But there was no news from R.
Among all the messages, the one who sent the most messages turned out to be a certain little princess from Silver Wisland.
Sophie has sent him almost forty messages since yesterday afternoon.
Most of them are: "Are you here? Are you dead? Did you reply? Are you really dead?"
Such head-scratching information.
He put down the logbook and replied one by one according to the sender.
The others seemed to be absent for a while, but Sophie responded to his message immediately:
"You're in big trouble, you know that?"
"..."
Fang Plover typed a series of ellipses and passed.
"Don't be too busy and speechless. Are you safe now?"
Fang Yu was slightly stunned. He didn't expect the news to spread so quickly. Even Sophie knew what was happening here.
He described the situation here, and Sophie said: "What do you call me? Now most of the continent knows it. I'm afraid even the next door will know your name soon."
"Is it that exaggerated?"
"Ed, Ed, don't you know what good things you have done?"
What good deeds have you done? Fang Plover thought that he was just wanted by the Kaolin people, and with the addition of a descendant of Flor, that was all.
"What about the Descendants of Flor?" Sophie said angrily: "Whoever told you about the Descendants of Flor is talking about the Alliance."
"Alliance, which alliance?"
"What other league is there besides the Super Competitive League?"
"What happened to the Super Competitive Alliance?" Fang Yu was confused. There was no way to convict them without mentioning the alliance.
"Gray Wanted, do you know?"
"What!?" Fang Yu almost jumped out of bed.
Of course he knew about the Gray Notice, but when X told him that they might get into trouble, he hadn't thought about it that much.
Gray Wanted is not a wanted order. Its real name is actually a gray list. People on the list are considered undesirable by the alliance.
Under the gray list, all guilds within the Super Competitive Alliance are not allowed to contact it, have an interest relationship, or provide assistance, otherwise the most severe punishment may be expulsion from the Super Competitive Alliance.
At the same time, any guild within the alliance who kills members on the list will receive high points rewards.
After one reward and one punishment, the people on the list have basically become the public enemies of the major guilds in the Super Competitive Alliance, and they belong to the category of walking points.
Because this list is too strict, it has always been called the Most Wanted List of the Super Competitive League, and the name Gray Wanted spread like wildfire.
"The Super Competitive Alliance insists that you have engaged in piracy in Tansnir, so you have been included in the gray list. Coupled with the fact that you are wanted by the Kaolin people, many people now think that you have really become pirates."
After listening to the description of the Princess of Silver Vislan, Fang Yu knew in his heart that this was the target of the Super Competitive Alliance.
In fact, many people have done something outrageous, and there are many who have been young and arrogant. There are also many people who have actually committed piracy. Besides, the aboriginal people are not good at all, and they engage in a lot of business and piracy.
The area above Kukai was originally a gray area, but with the help of the Kaolin people's wanted order, the Super Competitive Alliance had preemptively identified them, and others really couldn't say anything.
After all, the gray list is an internal measure of the Super Competitive Alliance, and it is only effective for the guilds within it. It is a matter between the guild and the selector.
If there is no reason, the military can still use the excuse of abuse of power to stop it, but it is different if the division has a reputation.
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a bit troubled. He thought that the Super Competitive Alliance would target them, but he didn't expect that the revenge would come so violently.
Sophie spoke softly at this time:
"Ed, the agreement between Silver Vislan and you must be terminated. You can no longer use the Angels in the future. According to the agreement, we will also destroy the self-destructible walkers."
She paused and said, "...After all, Silver Vislan is also a member of the Super Competitive Alliance. There are some rules that must be followed. I hope you understand."
"I understand..." Fang Yu entered after being silent for a moment.
To be honest, he actually made a profit from this transaction. After all, the Archangel has been his main structure for a long time, and Silver Vislan has not used the self-destructing walker, and it will take another one to destroy it. money.
But the interests of individuals and the Grand Guild are not calculated in this way. Behind this transaction is actually the cooperation and recognition between the two parties. Interrupting the agreement means that there is no longer any contact between him and the Princess's Guild.
He originally liked the concept of Silver Vislan, but now he was inevitably a little disappointed.
I couldn't say I was betrayed, but I still felt more or less abandoned.
What's more, this news only made matters worse. He currently had no flexible structures at hand. He originally expected to make another batch of angels to support the scene, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing.
Then he heard the system prompt him that the drawings of the Angel were invalid. This was actually a thoughtful reminder from Ms. Roman.
Miss Roman is probably the deity who cares most about her followers among the saints in Orin.
"Actually, there is another thing." Sophie added.
"What's wrong?"
"You should be... careful lately. At least seven guilds near Nognis have declared that they are searching for you."
"What does it have to do with them?" Fang Yu asked a little annoyed.
"Some of them are related to the descendants of Flor, and the rest are points from the hot gray list. The Super Competitive Alliance has given you a sky-high bounty. If you have time, you can go to the community and take a look..."
"Maybe there is also the Hailin Crown." Fang Plover thought to himself.
"Also," Sophie added, "if you plan to go north via Saint-Hughan, it's best to change the route."
"what happened again?"
"I heard that there was a joint fleet composed of at least three guilds. They were moving in that direction, and the descendants of Flor issued a death order... This is only part of what we know..."
We, this word made Fang Yu feel a little stirred in his heart, "Wait a minute, you are prohibited from providing help to us on the gray list, right?"
Sophie smiled and said, "It's not that strict. If you join us, Silver Vislan can consider going against the alliance."
"If I join you, or join any guild under the Alliance, the Alliance itself won't cause us any trouble, right?"
Fang Yuan typed angrily, how could he not see the trap of Her Royal Highness Princess' words.
When Sophie saw that she had been exposed, she sent a playful expression:
(>﹏<)”
She smiled again, "But at least the descendants of Flor won't be able to cause trouble for you."
"no."
"Okay, okay," Sophie shrugged, "Actually, it's just a play on words. The guild is the guild, and I am me. If they dare to control me, I will come to your ship and make those people angry to death."
How could Fang Yu not know that the Princess of Silver Wisland was making fun of him, so he couldn't help but roll his eyes.
The atmosphere was a little dull for a while.
Sophie heard the babbling sounds coming from over there and couldn't help but typed: "Can you let me see Nini?"
Fang Piao held the little girl in his hands. Nini thought that Papa was going to hug her. She was so well-behaved.
But immediately she saw Sophie and Akane on the other side of the communication screen, and immediately stretched out her little hands to hug them.
Sophie couldn't help but laugh, and Akane's eyes were filled with little stars.
"I really want to come over and see Nini." She sighed.
"Where are you?" Fang Yu asked.
"In Sopa."
"That place..." Fang Yu suddenly reacted.
That is the last door to the Far South Konglu, and beyond that is the mainland bridge.
He became quiet, "Are you going to the second world?"
Sophie nodded, "The guild has decided."
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed for a moment, and couldn't help but recall the days of adventures with the other party.
He always felt comfortable working with the Princess of Silver Vislan.
But I didn't expect that the other party would go to the second world so soon. The Seven Seas Brigade felt that it was still far away.
It's great to have the big guild on your back.
Sophie couldn't help but laugh when she saw his appearance, "It's rare that our Captain Ed can be sentimental. In fact, I believe you can come here soon."
"I guess you may be higher than us by then."
"That's for sure." Fang Yu became confident again.
"Egomaniac."
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