Canghai Guzhou lowered his head and looked at the time. The pointer on his pocket watch pointed to five. The complex Osu characters were like a group of twisted mountain peaks, glowing darkly under the glass. It was the last period before dawn in winter. The world that was about to wake up was about to stir in the darkness, and a hint of white gradually appeared in the east.
Amidst the low roar coming from the bottom cabin, Qiao Li walked in from the captain's room, accompanied by several middle-level members of the guild. Qiao Li looked at him and said thoughtfully: "The communication to the other side of the star gate has been interrupted."
"Just like last time?"
"It's not the same," Qiao Li shook his head: "The community is still fine, but other contact methods have been unilaterally suspended."
"I heard people from the military came to find us?"
"There was a rumor, but no one informed us."
The two looked at each other, and Canghai Guzhou pondered for a moment: "What did the guild say?"
"The president is not sure what happened over there. The people at the club asked about our progress. They need you to have an idea of when we can catch this 'fish'."
"The club is in a hurry?"
"I don't know, but you'd better give me a timetable so I can respond." Jory replied in a low voice.
"I can't answer this question alone. It depends on the abilities of other descendants of Flor. We are allies, but we don't belong to the same guild." Canghai Guzhou answered: "It will only take three days, at the latest In just three days, we can force the target to the predetermined target area."
Qiao Li nodded. He shouldn't have said what he said next, but after thinking about it, he reminded him: "There seems to be people from the alliance directly involved in this matter. I saw their officials. What the president meant is , even if the military puts pressure, the alliance will help withstand it."
Canghai Guzhou glanced at his old partner in surprise. He was actually not too surprised by this. The alliance and the guild alliance cooperated closely, and both parties had their own interests in this matter. What's more, if it weren't for the Southern Alliance, the other party wouldn't have put up a gray wanted notice because of this.
However, he did not expect that the alliance would be so determined this time, and would get things done even under pressure from the military. On the other hand, they had actually long guessed that the other party had a certain relationship with the military, otherwise after the battle of Kailan'ao , the other party will not escape through military exercises.
He listened to his old partner's words, nodded silently, and asked: "The higher ups want us to enter a state of silent communication?"
"It's almost the same as silence now," Qiao Li replied, "but it's still safer."
"Okay," Canghai Guzhou replied, "I will send an order later to prohibit the entire fleet from making contact with the outside world. Is this what the guild wants?"
"It means alliance."
Canghai Guzhou raised his eyebrows, and roughly understood something, but his mind was only on this task. He was a middle-level and senior member of the guild, but not a core member of the club - for Aitaria I have neither the ability nor the interest to care about external matters.
He just nodded to show that he understood.
"What about the live broadcast?"
"The people over at BBK are saying, let's just leave it alone."
Don't worry, it means keep it. Canghai Guzhou understood that the personnel sent by the headquarters to live broadcast this time were from two different systems. The specially organized project team above were personnel from BBK, not internal personnel from the Jifflett Red Jackets Guild.
The club probably means that they should not interfere.
"Then they'd better not interfere with our actions." Canghai Guzhou understood the meaning of Qiao Li's words and murmured to himself.
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"The other party's whereabouts have been found, Vice President."
Yue Chen's vice president, Hai Lan, raised his eyelids slightly and looked at his adjutant through his long eyelashes, with an unchanging expression in his ice blue eyes.
She didn't have to speak, others naturally understood what she meant. In the early days, people gave her a very cliché nickname, 'Ice Beauty', but as her status in the guild rose, this nickname gradually changed to the more unpleasant 'Iron Maiden'.
"Their location is..."
The adjutant looked at the text on the report in surprise: "They did not appear in the expected area. The last time they appeared was south of Gray Tree Ridge. Are they planning to go...?"
Hai Lan interrupted the other party with a wave of his hand, as if he was not interested in where the Seven Seas Brigade planned to go: "How far is it from us?"
"It's not far, Vice President... At present, we are the closest to each other."
"That's enough," Hai Lan replied calmly: "Let the fleet form its formation and prepare to release the clockwork goblins to find the opponent."
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Two or three dazzling lights flashed in the night sky.
Under the curtain of unfolding firelight, the Seven Seas Traveler was passing between the shock waves generated by the explosion. Although the people on the deck were shaken here and there, under the superb control skills of Ms. Tata, the ship was still intact. Dangerously out of the range of the two shells.
Although it was only a matter of time before he encountered the squadron of the Descendants of Flor, Fang Plover did not expect to run into Yue Chen's fleet head-on.
Yue Chen's predecessor, Moon, the oldest club in the guild, is one of the three giants of .M. The long history of the club has given this guild one of the richest assets in the entire third division. Although they have made some mistakes and gaps in personnel training in recent years, their fleet can still be ranked among the top ten guilds. Among the top three.
As for the other two, they are Silver Vislan and God Killer. The former also has a long history, while the latter has a series of excellent alchemists including Hades.
Fang Yu recognized this unique fleet through the opponent's unique blue flag. The 'Blue Ghost' was originally the nickname of Yue Chen's hunting fleet. They had once won a battle in the turbid realm with the weak defeating the strong. A series of wars have accumulated a great reputation.
And what appeared in front of the Seven Seas Traveler was this fleet. Although it was not the complete version of the 'Blue Ghost', the iconic long and narrow hull of the floating ship, one on the left, two on the right, and three on the right, still revealed the opponent's identity. That is the Blue Ghost's unique airship - a three-masted spinnaker sailboat, which has amazing maneuverability and flexibility in sea areas with changing wind directions.
They are like the tentacles and eyes and ears of the main fleet, and the hunting dogs in the hunting team. They are especially good at the tactics of scattered attacks. Once entangled by them, few can escape easily.
This fleet has not only left a reputation in the country. In fact, it has had the experience of fighting against the fleets of many famous clubs in North America and Europe. Although it does not say that it can gain the upper hand every time, its historical record is obviously Win more and lose less.
Fang Yu doesn't think that the current level of the Seven Seas Brigade can catch up with those old guilds and clubs. What's more, even if they can really reach the same level with Miss Tata, they are still at a huge disadvantage in terms of numbers. .
After all, the Seven Seas Traveler is just a ship, not a fleet——
He didn't expect that he would encounter such a difficult opponent at first - it would be much easier to deal with Ragnarok's fleet. Although one of his nominal teachers, the great god Odin, had a good relationship with him - but he had to Needless to say, Ragnarok's fleet is really unsightly among the top ten in the country, and is even inferior to the fleets of some guilds that are ranked lower - such as the fleet of the Jefflite Red Team.
In fact, Ragnarok's fleet construction has been at a standstill since the last two capable commanders retired. Not only is there a shortage of personnel, but the technology update is also very slow. Recently, Ragnarok asked Odin to intervene directly in order to rectify his fleet. However, as we all know, this warrior of the Ten Kings has outstanding personal combat power, but he has always been played around by KUN in his command.
Although saying this may be a bit sorry for the other party, Fang Plover himself also feels that Odin is more suitable for charging forward rather than sitting in formation and commanding.
The golden track hanging in the night sky has not disappeared yet——
That was the sign that the opponent had previously launched a flying wing ship. The Blue Ghost's response was similar to what they had guessed before. It should first use the wind element detector to determine the location where they last disappeared, and then release the clockwork goblins on a large scale. Search.
Although Fang Plover moved the Clockwork Fairy forward to a position close to the limit and did not let any of the opponent's 'eyes' leak into the warning range, the opponent obviously still roughly delineated their range of activities based on the location where the Clockwork Fairy was attacked. .
The Seven Seas Traveler had already broken into low altitude at this time, but the opponent almost without any hesitation dropped the flying wing craft to several designated locations and dispatched ground teams. These were all possibilities that they had envisioned in advance, but the only thing they didn't expect was that the accuracy of the opponent's prediction was obviously more than one magnitude higher than that of Jefflett's red team.
'Blue Ghost' did not waste too much time between each step, and seized the opportunity very accurately - and the key is that the opponent's position of launching the flying wing boat was extremely accurate, and almost every time it was launched, it was just right. Above the airspace where the Seven Seas Traveler is advancing.
This made Fang Yu feel a little uncomfortable. The current situation did not exceed their guess, and the other party did not grasp their position at the beginning. But this ability to predict is probably based on intuition on the battlefield, or almost instinctive judgment after accumulating a lot of experience.
For 'newbies' like them, this is a bit unreasonable.
The 'Hound' sent by Yuechen was smaller than the speedboat of Jefflett's red team, although it was still huge compared to the Seven Seas Traveler. But a sailboat of this size is obviously more comfortable in low-altitude airspace.
The low altitudes that Jeffree's red team did not dare to venture into easily, but these clippers with long and narrow hulls and large spinnakers had far less worries.
The other party's concerns are undoubtedly bad news for everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade.
In fact, they had spent a lot of effort to break away from the opponent's encirclement, but they didn't expect that they still ran into the opponent's scattered hunting fleet. Although there were not many, there were only three ships. It was probably the opponent who dispersed to find their location. One of the fleet.
But the real threat obviously does not lie with these three 'hounds', but with the main fleet behind them. Once entangled by them, Yuechen's fleet may catch up at any time.
Fang Yu quickly reached an agreement with the others and planned to break out of the encirclement.
Tian Lan was holding on to the side of the ship tightly with her hands to prevent herself from being thrown away by the inertia of the Seven Seas Traveler's turn. At the same time, she looked nervously at the three ghost-like ships that were catching up behind her.
The three Yuechen ships all had bow guns, and the opponent seemed not to worry about sinking them, and kept using explosive shells to force the Seven Seas Traveler to move. One of the shells flew almost against the left side of the Seven Seas Traveler, causing the shield there to flash into one piece, weakening the shield value by half almost instantly.
However, Miss Tata never gave Yue Chen's ship a chance to flank them and fire a salvo, and she always escaped from the opponent's encirclement one step ahead.
And the three sailboats of Yuechen finally became a little impatient. Two of the ships began to accelerate at a speed visible to the naked eye, and tried to leave the safe range, intending to go directly in front of the Seven Seas Traveler to further block its avoidance space.
Tianlan's eyes widened and she shouted:
"Brother Ed!"
But there was no need for her to shout. The Seven Seas Traveler had already opened the air combat deck, and the Lancers were released one after another, and flew up from the night sky with cyan light trails. The other party had obviously heard about this air combat configuration from the Jefflite Red Team. After noticing this scene, the three ships immediately dispersed.
But unfortunately, the flexibility of the sailboat is far inferior to that of the air combat structure, especially at this distance. Although their well-trained sailors responded immediately, it was still a little late.
The structure that flew away from the Seven Seas Traveler immediately surrounded it in that direction. Its image could not be seen clearly in the darkness. Only a few bright beams of light could be seen, flying to its starboard side - and then a dazzling red light. Across the night sky, bunches concentrated on the shields of those sailboats.
The Sun Ray is very powerful, but a single Lancer is not enough to disintegrate the shield of the floating ship. However, when the Seven Seas Traveler invested thirty-four air combat structures, the opponent's response seemed a bit awkward. The left branch and the right branch are clumsy.
Fang Yu could clearly see that they concentrated the energy of the shield. This strategy was often used in air battles, because when the aerial ship opened the battle line to face the enemy, only one side or less area would be affected. Under attack, this technique is obviously ineffective against flexible air combat configurations.
In fact, several scorching rays had passed through the shield. Although they did not cause any damage to the hull, they only left a few marks on the deck, but they took away several lives. There were not only sailors on the opponent's deck, but also elementalists on standby and marines preparing for boarding operations.
These people are almost like targets on the deck until they get close to a certain distance.
Several bright firelights bloomed in the night sky again.
The opponent fired back, but the target was not the Seven Seas Traveler, but the Lancers of Fang Plover surrounding one of the ships. The aerospace ship was so expensive that even Moondust could not easily afford to lose it. Before shooting down the Seven Seas Traveler, their more important priority was obviously to protect their ship.
The swarming Lancers obviously posed a great threat to the other party, making the other party feel that there was a risk of shipwreck.
But in Fang Plover's view, this is not just a risk.
He must not let the other party follow them unscrupulously now.
Under the flames of the explosion, several lancers that dived in almost instantly turned into balls of fire, falling from the mid-air with long tail flames. However, Fang Plover did not control these lancers at all. They just followed the behavior pattern already set in the closed-loop device and circled the opponent to attack.
He looked in that direction, then pointed with his hand, and when the Lancers turned to the other side of the sailboat, a golden floating light suddenly flew out from their bodies.
Those members of Yue Chen on the sailboat were obviously knowledgeable people. They couldn't help but scream when they saw this scene - try to analyze their own opponents with almost no troops in the Grand Guild before facing the enemy, even for Nanami The same goes for small goals like the brigade.
The sailors on Yuechen's sailboat maneuvered their ship at the last moment to make a large lateral turn that was almost impossible in the eyes of others. Even Fang Plover looked at this scene with a little surprise. He always thought that only in the tower Under the control of Miss Ta, the sailboat can make such smart and beautiful movements.
But it is obvious that under the control of well-trained sailors, sailboats can also achieve considerable flexibility.
But this flexibility doesn't mean much.
The golden floating light flew down, but the elementalists on the opponent's deck chanted loudly and raised their staffs - although most of the elementalists were unsteady in the huge lateral turn. , and failed to successfully cast the spell. But a few people succeeded in using it, and still caused a translucent net to fly up from the sailboat.
After Fang Plover's efreet passed through the light net, it immediately fell on the deck with clatter, like a rain of constructs, but the preset detonation time did not take effect. The explosive crystal inside seems to have malfunctioned.
Fang Yun was stunned for a moment and immediately realized that it was a vibrating note - an enhanced version of the spell that Tian Lan had used in the refugee camp not long ago. This spell did no harm to the efreet itself, but the resonance and sound waves it produced were Enough to damage the explosive crystal inside Clockwork Goblin.
Explosive crystal is inherently delicate and has a crystal structure, so how could it withstand such an attack.
He didn't expect the descendants of Flor to find a way to deal with the efreeti so quickly. This method might not be very useful for individuals and teams, but it was perfect for Sailboat Mountain.
Fang Yu was greatly surprised, and his understanding of the Grand Guild's abilities couldn't help but reach a new level. But who told you that only clockwork fairies can explode? He raised his hand and took over the control of several lancers. When everyone's attention was focused on the fire djinn, he asked the lancers to go around to the other side of the sailboat, and then It hit quietly.
A dazzling fire flashed in the darkness, followed by a deafening roar from afar. The sailboat with the triangular sail shook violently, and broke in the middle as if it was cut off at the waist. As it opened, the two cracked hulls were burning with raging flames and slowly fell from the mid-air.
Tianlan stared at the sailors who jumped from the burning ship. Most of them had wind element adaptability, so they could float in mid-air for a short period of time and slowly sink, waiting for the rescue of the other two ships. But the Marines were in a miserable situation. Like the scattered hulls, they fell like stones.
This attack obviously stunned Yue Chen's people, causing the remaining two ships to slow down. They still didn't understand how Fang Plover's attack arrived, so they didn't dare to act rashly. One of the ships approached the distressed ship, while the other ship slowed down and hung far behind the Seven Seas Traveler, daring not to get close.
Although they may not have figured out how Fang Plover's attack arrived, they roughly understood one truth first. It is obvious that it is not just the efreeti that can explode - everything can explode.
"They don't dare to catch up anymore for the time being," Luo Hao looked at this scene and said to Fang Plover: "We have almost reached the Charter City area. The mining area is right in front. This is the time to turn."
Fang Plover nodded.
But just as he was about to issue the order, suddenly Jita's somewhat irritable voice came from the microphone:
"Captain, the wind element detector has responded...another fleet has appeared in front."
Fang Yu was startled when he heard this, and his heart suddenly sank.
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