"Mr. Ed." Fang Yu looked at Mei who was standing outside the door, breathing heavily, covering his hands and putting his hands on his chest, looking at him with a little surprise. "Miss Mei, what's the matter?" The light white mist was quickly blown away by the wind on the deck. Mei blinked her moist eyes and was about to nod. But at this time, Fang Yu heard Jita's voice coming from the sound tube:
"A-Brother Ed, I made some discoveries."
Fang Luo motioned Miss Knight to wait for a moment with his eyes, turned his head and asked, "What's the matter, Jita?"
"There are an unknown number of wind elemental reactions ahead. There is one directly in front, and one on each side...their spacing...their spacing seems to be very consistent, no, it doesn't look like a creature in the sea of clouds..."
Fang was stunned for a moment: "How far is it from the training area?"
"Less than thirty kilometers."
"These people are really determined to give up," Fang Plover thought to himself. If it wasn't a creature of the sea of clouds, it could only be a sailboat. The front has entered Kailan'ao's airspace, and the opponent did not exceed his expectations and set up an ambush here early. But a mere thirty kilometers of encirclement, above Kukai, was no thicker than a piece of paper. Could it really protect against anyone?
"I got it, Jita," Fang Plover replied, "We can just move forward as usual, there is no need to change the route."
"Don't we need to change the route?" Miss Naturalist's voice sounded a little surprised.
"No need, tell Luo Hao to enter combat readiness. I will come below the deck in a moment."
"OK."
Fang Yu then turned back to look at Mei Yi and said, "Miss Mei Yi, Kailan'ao is right in front. We will send you down first later. Things here have nothing to do with you." He paused, "By the way, what happened to you just now?"
May nodded slightly: "I don't have to get off the boat for the time being, Mr. Ed."
"What?"
"The Knights just sent a notice saying that the target is no longer going to Kelan'ao. They may have left Nognis. The leader said that the target's information was temporarily lost and asked me to wait here to meet the others. But there is still a month in between, and I think I can investigate the dark believers with you." Mei said a little happily, looking at Fang Plover with expectation.
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, and he immediately understood what had happened. He couldn't help but feel dumbfounded for a moment. However, being stared at by a lovely knight lady with blinking and expectant eyes, he couldn't say no even if he wanted to refuse, so he nodded. "If Miss May is willing, she can stay on the ship as long as she likes. There is room for one more person on the ship," he said half-jokingly.
But May was very serious, "I will pay the living expenses, Mr. Ed."
Fang Yu: "This...actually it's not necessary..."
"This is necessary. To be self-reliant is the minimum conduct of a believer in Ori, Mr. Ed."
"That, okay."
Since it involves the knight's instructions, Fang Plover can't refute it. The ancient knight is a profession that needs to strictly abide by the ancient rules, otherwise he may even lose his professional abilities.
"And those people," Mei said again, "are they the descendants of Flo?" She had stayed on the ship for so many days, so naturally she had already heard about the grievances between the Seven Seas Brigade and the descendants of Flo. Fang Yu told her about the gray list, but didn't say much about the wanted order.
Of course, Miss Knight didn’t ask, or even think too much in that direction. She received a temporary mission from Guta to Kaolin Ithulian. She was not a selectee of the third division. She didn't know the details of Parker's local wanted order, let alone what happened next. causes and consequences.
"Not entirely," Fang Yu shook his head and said truthfully: "The descendants of Flor are actually only a part of them. Seriously speaking, their influence in Nognis is not that great. There are more people Came here for the gray list.”
"But the people of Flor's descent slandered you," May said in a childish voice, but her voice was sonorous and powerful. "I heard in Sanshak that they have always had a bad reputation, and in my own observation, Mr. Ed can never be a pirate. These people who tell lies will definitely get the punishment they deserve. Even if they are irrelevant people and blindly follow them regardless of right and wrong, I will stand by everyone and fight side by side. "
Fang Yu looked at her in surprise: "The descendants of Flor slandered us? Who told you this, Miss Mei?"
"I can see it myself," Mei replied seriously: "Ouli's teachings tell us that we must be good at using our own eyes to discover facts and truth, instead of blindly following rumors. In the face of light, darkness will have nothing to lose. Escape."
Well, although this logic is a bit strange, at least the conclusion is correct. Moreover, this conclusion was probably not something that Miss Knight came up with on her own, but something that Tian Lan subtly instilled into her. That little girl ran to Mei Yi every two days. How could Fang Plover not know why?
But in a sense, this can probably be regarded as a white lie. He shook his head slightly: "Although I'm very grateful, you don't actually need to take action, Miss Mei."
May took a breath and looked at him curiously: "Mr. Ed, have you figured out how to deal with those people?"
"Come with me, Miss Mei, and I will show you how the Seven Seas Traveler fights."
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"Miss Tata, please take over the fairy heart."
"Mr. Knight, the takeover has been completed."
"Miss Tata, open the side hatch."
"Opened."
A ray of light emerged from the darkness, and the side hatches on both sides of the air combat deck were slowly opening with a creaking sound. A ray of light projected from the outside fell into Miss Knight's eyes, making her gently Blinked.
As the gears rotated, the console rose from the ground. Fang Plover walked forward and placed his hand on the crystal. Luo Hao and others braved the strong wind that poured into the air combat deck, walked out of the cabin in front, and watched this scene.
With a flash of light, a Lancer was projected on the air combat deck. The jet of air blew the cyan wind element particles, slowly pushing it forward, away from the air combat deck, and adjusted its posture to fly in. Between the sea of clouds. There seems to be a faint, fleeting silver net there——
Under the precise control of Miss Tata's mental power, the construct gradually broke away from the inertia of the sailboat. It paused slightly, then suddenly drew an arc and accelerated towards the front.
Then came the second, third, fourth and fifth constructs. They left the Seven Seas Traveler one after another, and followed the constructs in front of them one after another, and formed a Flight formation. Fang Plover raised his head and looked in that direction, only to see a small black dot flying into the clouds and gradually disappearing.
He opened his pocket watch——
At 7:30, the Seven Seas Traveler launched the first attack wave.
This will be the first time that the Fairy Dragon Knight has been put into actual combat in Aitaria, and at this moment, no one may be able to guess what this first time will bring.
But people who witnessed this scene at least understood that the history of magic technology might remember this moment forever.
The dreams and efforts of our predecessors are reflected in reality at this moment.
…
The swordsman took the notification order that rattled in the strong wind, opened the door and walked onto the deck, "Big L, the military's third notification order has been issued. The exercise area has been sealed. From here to The entire airspace thirty kilometers to the north and three hundred kilometers to the east is under martial law."
On the deck, the descendants of Flor were raising their heads and looking in this direction. Lair took the notification order from the other party, frowned at it, then silently folded it and put it in his arms. He raised his head and looked at the towering cloud wall in the distance. This military exercise came at a bad time - but this was not the reason for them to give up.
They have spent less than half a month wandering here. He doesn't care about the casualties and losses of other guilds. The battle in the empty gorge may have scared some people, but for them, if they can't catch it, On the other side, their half-month efforts have been in vain.
No matter what, they had to stop the boat at this place.
"Thirty kilometers," Lair silently calculated in his mind, "In order to seek a chance of survival, the opponent will almost certainly break into the exercise area designated by the military..." The military's exercise area is a long side with a length of 1,300 kilometers. It is a rectangle with a length of 300 kilometers, but the short side is only 300 kilometers. As long as the opponent cuts in from the southwest corner of the short side and passes through the exercise area in a diagonal manner, there is still a certain chance. It is impossible for the military fleet to be densely packed in this exercise area, and the opponent may not be able to hit the military fleet at all, but do they dare to take this risk and pursue them into the exercise area together?
Of course Lair knew the answer was no.
Therefore, they must intercept the opponent before they enter the exercise area.
"Let the ships communicate more closely," Lair said: "There are currently thirty-three sailboats densely clustered on this line. As long as they take this route, they will definitely run into each other. Thirty kilometers, through It will take at least half a day to cross this line. As long as someone discovers them, this time is enough for us to get closer and form an encirclement."
"What about the Wind Riders?"
"The Wind Knights also need to disperse. They can move forward to give us enough warning time." Lair replied.
Wind knights are bipedal flying dragon knights. This is not a career variant, but some selectors who have mastered the bipedal flying dragon riding skills can do it - there are large corrals on larger sailboats that can be used These medium-sized flying beasts are raised, but the number is generally not too large. Two or three on a ship is the limit.
Wind Knights have no professional requirements and mostly exist as reconnaissance units on the battlefield above Kukai. However, higher-end guilds usually choose Lance Knights or Elementalists as backup candidates for Wind Knights, so that their Wind Knights also have certain combat capabilities.
"Inform the other guilds," Lair looked at the cloud wall in the distance and added, "Let them disperse the Wind Knights as well. Don't be afraid of losses. Tell them that if they catch those people, the bounty and points will belong to them. We just want people.”
"We only want people?" The swordsman was slightly startled.
"This is an order from above," Lair glanced at the other party, "Don't worry, if we catch the person, the reward we will get will be more than those things."
"What do you want these people from above?"
"It has nothing to do with us, don't ask if you shouldn't ask," Lair replied calmly, "Just do your own thing."
The swordsman was stunned and nodded quickly.
But at this moment, a sailor rushed up from the deck below. "Mr. Lair, we just received the news that the Onoyi, the Torch and the Seagull discovered the target at the same time. As we expected, the other party came from the direction of Mount Piriede."
Lair immediately dropped the swordsman, turned around and asked: "The opponent's position and heading?"
"To the southeast of us," the sailor said immediately, "the other party was heading towards the Onoyi without changing its course. We don't know whether they have discovered us, but the Torch and Seagull have already passed by. "
Lair immediately turned around and said to the swordsman: "The Onoyi is the ship of the Sea Breeze Guild, the Torch is the ship of the Orca Guild, and the Seagull is the ship of the Cast Iron Spear Guild. Contact these three guilds immediately and tell them what I said before. Repeat it to them and tell them we will be there soon.”
The swordsman nodded immediately, turned around and left.
"Follow me." Lair said to the sailor, and then immediately turned around and walked towards the chart room. When he arrived, the place was already a busy scene, with navigation officers in different colors coming in and out. From time to time, someone used a ruler and compass to mark the spread out navigation map, or nailed a pin.
Those thirty-three pins represent the positions of thirty-three sailboats in this airspace. To their north, a striking dividing line is drawn with red ink. Behind that is the exercise area designated by the military.
Lair subconsciously looked at the star tracker in the center of the room. A faint beam of light was projected from the crystal below the star tracker, projecting three flashing light points into the airspace above the star tracker.
And those three light spots were exactly the positions of the three sailboats, the Onoyi, the Torch and the Seagull, which were located by the wind element detector.
A middle-aged man wearing a captain's coat was chewing his pipe and watching this scene. He turned around and saw Lair walking in, and then he said: "You came just in time. The target has appeared. As long as the Onoyi, the Torch and the If the Seagull isn’t too stupid, there’s no way they can escape.”
"How's it going so far?"
"Currently, the Onoyi, the Torch and the Seagull are dealing with it quite well. I heard that the opponent is just a small ship. The Torch and the Seagull are larger than it, and their firepower is much stronger than it. The Honor The Yiren is even more similar to our ship, that little ship won’t stand a chance.”
As the captain said this, he picked up a pin and inserted it into the chart.
"How far are we from there."
The captain looked at his pocket watch: "Half an hour."
"Mr. Captain, I leave it to you."
"Don't worry," the aboriginal captain replied: "I have been doing this for more than 20 years, and this little thing is nothing."
But while the two were talking, one of the three light spots on the star tracker suddenly flickered. After the largest light spot flickered about two or three times, it suddenly disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed in that place.
The two were stunned for a moment, thinking that there was something wrong with the projection crystal of the star tracker. The captain reacted very quickly. He already walked up and pressed his hand on the crystal. But he seemed to have debugged it several times, and there were always only two spots of light projected on the crystal.
Lair's brows gradually wrinkled, and he suddenly asked: "Which ship did the disappearing light spot belong to?"
"It's the Onoyi."
The captain answered subconsciously, but after finishing his answer, he seemed to suddenly realize the problem - according to the news he had received before, the sailboat was heading towards the Onoyi. His expression changed, and he suddenly stood up and shouted in the direction of the microphone:
"Contact the Onoyi and ask what happened over there?"
There was a burst of unexplained noises from the sound transmission tube, but after a while, a human voice came out: "Captain Odemuller, we can't contact the Onoyi... No, it should be said that we can't find it at all." Without the shadow of the Onoyi, it seems...it seems to have disappeared from the wind element detector..."
"We are not sure if there is something wrong with the wind element detector. The captain's magicians and craftsmen are urgently investigating."
"There's no need to investigate—" Lair said flatly: "Where is the nearest wind knight? Let them go and check it out immediately."
But he didn't finish his sentence.
Another extremely anxious voice suddenly came from the other side of the microphone:
"The Falconer calls the Torch, the Falconer calls the Torch, or any ship that can hear us—"
"We are in trouble, I repeat, we are in trouble..."
"We are the Wind Riders on the Torch, we are under attack... They, they are..."
The voice was so full of panic and tension that it seemed a little choppy. This sudden communication shocked everyone, so much so that there was silence on the other side of the microphone. After a while, Lair shouted: "Ask them what happened!"
"Okay, captain, we'll do it right away..." There was a chaotic sound from the microphone, which seemed to be calling, but there was also the sound of something falling to the ground.
But suddenly, a terrified scream interrupted everyone's movements:
"...They are coming...they are constructs! There are so many of them, one, two...three, at least three formations..."
"They are swooping down from the clouds, spread out quickly, spread out quickly!"
Next came a piercing sound.
It was like the sound of metal or something breaking apart, and then all the sounds fell silent, leaving only the rustling etheric background noise.
Lair recognized the source of the sound—it was the sound of the communication crystal cracking.
He was silent for a while and then said calmly:
"In fifteen minutes, contact the people on the Onoyi."
"Ask them..."
"what happened."
Lair turned back: "Mr. Captain, please move the ship closer to that direction immediately."
The aboriginal captain seemed to be still immersed in the previous shock and did not react. Although he was an old sailor, he had never experienced such a thing. Don't talk about such things, he has actually never encountered a real naval battle - except for a few encounters with air pirates.
He was stunned for a while, then nodded quickly.
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