"Wow! Today's tour groups are quite wealthy. Your boat looks really good."
The blonde woman looked at the bridge and marveled, while the crew members each observed this familiar guest. She wore a black privately modified military uniform, a coat with a white background and gold rims, and a pair of high heels that were not very conducive to movement. The gun holster on her waist was bulging, and the ends of her waist-length blond hair were slightly curled, giving her a playful flavor.
"Madam, how do you know we are foreigners?" Gongsun Zhizhi was curious. "Listen, I am quite confident in my common language. People in the kingdom say that my accent is like a Hezhong elder."
The blonde laughed again, she seemed to love laughing.
"Don't be stupid, kid! How can any local drive a metal boat near the Magnetic Magnetic State? It will fall apart as soon as the magnetic turbulence comes."
"Our ship has a protective force field." Qiluo said unconvinced.
"Look." The blonde woman winked, "'Our ship is a high-end product from Sky City,' 'My force field generator is powerful enough,' and 'I have made sufficient preparations in advance'... to say this Every one of them is an outsider, and they are used to staying in their own territory and have never suffered the consequences of nature."
Gongsun Ce did not feel any malice in this person. He stretched out his hand to the woman: "This is indeed an angle that we cannot detect. Nice to meet you, madam. My name is Gongsun Ce, and I am the captain of the Venus. I assume you’re not a soldier?”
Gongsun Ce was convinced that this man was definitely not a serious soldier, because no officer would allow his subordinates to modify their military uniforms so seriously: the slits on the sides of the skirt were surprisingly high, and the top of the collar was left open without buttons, making it round. Nearly half of her skin was exposed, showing off her proud figure with an extraordinarily generous attitude. Four years ago, he would probably be unable to take his eyes away. The reason why he has such a calm attitude now is thanks to Qiluo's subtle influence.
"I made these clothes myself with the trophies. Isn't it beautiful?" The blonde shook hands with him, "My name is Servais, and I am a ranger. Looking at the route, I guess you are going to Colored Stone City?"
Caishi City is the capital of Xuanci State and the first destination of everyone’s trip.
"As you expected."
"Then I suggest you stop the ship quickly. If you are in a hurry, take a long detour." Servais pointed to the back with her thumb, "I just came over there, and the entire airspace is full of magnetic turbulence, and the communication signal cannot be transmitted. Go out and dive in, and there’s a 100 percent chance that something will happen.”
Qin Qianbai approached Shigurei and asked in a low voice: "What is magnetic turbulence?"
"One of the abnormal climates in this place." Shigurei pouted outside the window. There were colorful "tracks" extending regularly in the clear sky. From time to time, metal blocks or ores could be seen moving at a constant speed in the air. The Venus activated the protective force field five minutes ago, allowing the alloy hull to isolate the influence of those orbits.
"Magnetic tracks of different colors represent different strengths of magnetism. Generally, the magnetic tracks go their own way without interfering with each other, but occasionally the magnetic tracks will stagger together..."
Not far from the side of the ship, there are two red and green tracks interacting. A screw is flying on the red track and has just arrived at the point of interaction. The magnetic forces with different directions and different sizes tore the screws apart in just an instant, and the metal fragments traveled further and further along different tracks.
Qiluo shuddered silently.
"Is this scary, Miss Qiluo?" The Dawn Knight was slightly curious.
"Uuuuu, I'm always active on my phone." Qiluo said with a sad face, "I feel like I'm seeing a killing machine..."
"Yes, AI will be in trouble then." Rei Shigure concluded with a smirk, "And when the number of interlaced magnetic tracks reaches a certain level, the chain reaction will cause long-term and large-scale chaos in the surrounding magnetic field. That’s what the ranger calls magnetic turbulence.”
Servais's nose twitched slightly, as if she had a pollen allergy. She answered with a smile: "Imagine you are walking fine on the roadside, and suddenly hundreds of spikes fly from all directions..."
"Ugh!"
Qiluo let out a scream and hugged Gongsun Ce's arm like a sloth. Gongsun Ce smiled helplessly: "I understand how dangerous this matter is. Thank you for reminding me, Miss Servais. I wonder if we can help you?"
Servais sniffed: "? I haven't mentioned it yet, have I?"
"If you just want to give me a kind reminder, you don't need to chat so much with strangers like us." Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses and looked at the Dawn Knight, "What do you think, Alandia? I guess she The trouble is boat related.”
"I think Miss Servais needs to replenish water and organic matter because her wooden spaceship is low on fuel." Dawn Knight said.
Servais widened her eyes and looked back and forth between the two of them: "Mind reading?"
"Just a little reasoning. You just sailed back from the dangerous area, but you didn't show any obvious damage. You lack trust in protective equipment, which means you have other ways to avoid magnetic turbulence...such as a non-metallic ship A ship made of wood." Gongsun Ce smiled, "Alandia, what is a wooden ship?"
"A specialty from the Wooden Machinery State, a natural machine that uses plants as raw materials." Dawn Knight explained, "The most common problem that travelers encounter is the lack of resources and fuel. This is a reasonable guess."
Miss Ranger applauded in admiration: "That's awesome! My spaceship really needs watering, so can you let me have the cheek to give you a ride? Just find a town and drop me off."
"No problem, please sit down."
Servais thanked her happily and walked towards the empty sofa. Her nostrils were twitching slightly as she stepped forward, as if she was sniffing some undetectable scent.
"Have you caught a cold?" Qin Qianbai asked.
The ranger walked right up to her and wiped his nose.
"That's not true," she said, "It's just that I felt a little strange from the beginning, so strange... Look, I know it's a bit embarrassing to say this, but..."
She pulled out her revolver like lightning and pointed it at Qin Qianbai's head.
Ranger Servais licked her lips, her azure eyes sparkling with the excitement of finding prey: "How come you smell like a person with super powers, little sister?"
"Is this something you can smell?" Qin Qianbai didn't even raise his eyes.
"Don't underestimate the ranger's nose. There are three superpowers crammed into a small ship. If I couldn't smell it, I would be unemployed..." Servais's hand was steady, and her smile became more cheerful. "Today is really my lucky day. Three superpowers and two are assisting the stowaways. If you hand them over to the authorities, I will have no worries about food and clothing for the next six months!"
"It's only half a year. We are so cheap." Qiluo said.
Rei Shigure spoke lazily: "Half a year is enough, but if the consumption level is high, it won't last even three months."
"...If nothing else, your psychological quality is quite good, isn't it?"
Servais raised her eyes and looked around, realizing that the air in the bridge... was not very serious. No one made any move before and after the ranger drew his gun. Everyone was still doing their own thing on the sofa. Only the woman in black clothes and black hair had a weird smile, with "Someone is going to be unlucky" written all over her face.
Qin Qianbai stretched out a finger to push the muzzle of the gun away, looking as relaxed as if he was declining dessert from his roommate.
"I don't like being pointed at a gun." Qin Qianbai said, "In the words of the captain..."
Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses and emphasized every word.
"This is very disrespectful."
It was as if the scoreboard was being played at the filming site, or as if the announcer was playing the opening gong. The two people in a stalemate turned from extreme silence to extreme movement in an instant. Servais took the lead, and the muzzle of the gun that was removed whipped towards Qin Qianbai's shoulder like a whip. Qin Qianbai did not dodge, and slowly pointed his index finger to the side, but it happened to catch the ranger's right wrist.
"Ouch~!"
The inner strength exploded at this point. While smacking her tongue, Servais tapped her toes on the ground. She jumped into the air as lightly as a butterfly, her delicate body arched with incredible softness, as if a Round white crescent moon.
The fingertips of the ranger holding the gun made a crisp sound like exploding beans, and Qin Qianbai's finger force was gently "pushed" out by him in this leap. When she jumped up, her left toe pointed at Qin Qianbai's right wrist like a sharp blade, and her right hand reached down to pull the trigger at the enemy. The defensive displacement and counterattack are completed simultaneously in one action, with the swiftness of racing against time, as if death is fighting for time. This is not the art-like martial arts of the empire, this is the skill honed by the United Rangers over thousands of years of struggle. For them, the slightest difference means victory or defeat, life or death.
The brass bullet was fired from the muzzle of the revolver, with the extreme speed that the rangers were proud of. Its target was the corner of the sofa. Servais intended to show her strength and attitude with a threatening shot. However, the girl on the sofa was still calm and relaxed, as if she didn't realize what was happening at all, and just raised her right wrist with the inertia.
Servaise's high kick missed the target as if by coincidence. The girl's fingertips were just in front of the bullet's trajectory. She picked up the high-speed rotating bullet with just one finger, like picking up a mung bean from a plate. So easy. The bullet stopped for a moment but did not shatter at all...it didn't even have time to explode!
Gongsun Ce, who was watching, knew clearly that Qin Qianbai was faster, but in his eyes he felt that the warrior's movements were extremely slow, as if the extreme stillness overwhelmed the extreme speed. Servais landed after one blow, her high heels tapping softly on the floor. Qin Qianbai fired the bullet back with a flick of his finger. The ranger caught it and looked at the girl with a slightly approving gaze.
"My skills are pretty good." Qin Qianbai leaned comfortably on the sofa, "For everyone."
"You guy..."
Servais's smile was slightly distorted, and her sharp teeth shone with a cold light, like an angry large carnivore. Gongsun Ce reminded in a low voice: "Miss, your provocation skills have become increasingly good recently."
"?" Qin Qianbai tilted his head, "I didn't provoke you."
Gongsun Ce was shocked: "Wow, are you really praising me? Miss Ranger is so angry with you that she is fuming! Look at her hair standing up!"
"Really, like when Caldesia exploded."
The Dawn Knight couldn't help laughing, and Servais raised her voice in anger. "Ouch! I'm still joking. Let me tell you that I have contacted helpers just now. If you don't surrender, your broken ship will be surrounded!"
A warm reminder from Qiluo came on Gongsun Ce’s cell phone: She was bluffing. The super-powered man stood up from the sofa, thinking about what kind of lie he should make up to convince the ranger lady who was full of bounties.
"Look, we all behave quite relaxedly." Gongsun Ce continued to persuade, "Is there a possibility that there is indeed a small problem with your sense of smell..."
Gongsun Ce was not nervous at all. He had seen many big scenes so far, and he was confident enough to solve this small problem with his eloquence alone. But halfway through, Gongsun Ce was stunned, and the world in front of him suddenly changed.
A moment ago, the bridge was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and the sofa was occupied by his teammates. A moment later, everyone disappeared, and the bridge was dark and lifeless, as if covered with a gray filter. The surroundings were astonishingly cold, as if he were walking naked under the ice and snow, and the source of the extreme cold was leaping behind him, like a ball of icy fire.
A woman in black clothes and a red boy appeared from the silence, her black hair mixed with blood red flying in the flaming stars.
"——King of Silence?"
The Silent King's expression was not as violent as last time. This time, there was a strange look in her eyes, which Gongsun Ce thought was confusion. She looked to the right of the bridge. There was a little colorful light shining outside the one-way transparent glass.
"...It's strange." King Silence said, "Be prepared."
The King of Silence disappeared from his sight, and the dark filter disappeared. The conversation with the Silent King seems to be just a fantasy for a moment, and nothing has changed in real reality. Everyone sitting on the sofa, Servais raising her gun, the words of the ranger are still echoing in their ears. "Don't try to get away with it, my reinforcements are very strong..." Gongsun Ce felt as if he was listening to someone else talking at a loss. "Ce." At the same moment he heard the reminder from the Knight of Dawn, and Gongsun Ce immediately made a judgment.
"zero!"
Accompanied by the soft sound of the clock, the passage of time in the bridge was almost at a standstill at this moment. The burst of telekinesis swept through the hull in an instant, causing all important items and everyone to be invisiblely protected. Gongsun Ce used telekinesis to push everyone to both sides of the bridge, leaving an unmanned passage in the middle, and used white matter to construct heavy defenses on both sides.
"Dream Country has been neutralized." Rei Shigure frowned, "Creation Level...be prepared!"
The colorful flashes slowly amplified in the almost stagnant world, and the flow of time returned to normal at this moment. Rainbow-like light penetrated the heavy hull, and the protective force field and metal defense walls failed to stop it even for a moment. The storm as it moved forward made the white defense walls fly like confetti. The momentum reminded Gongsun Ce of tearing up the sky. Evil star!
The fierce rainbow stopped on the other side of the bridge, and high-altitude winds poured in from the holes in the cabin, making everyone's hair rustle. It was a girl in her early ten years with short colorful hair. Her clothes were made of an invisible silver material and covered her entire body from the neck down. She looked a bit like something from a science fiction film in the 1990s. The alien's space suit in the film.
She seemed to have stopped midway due to some accident. The evidence was that she stopped only when she was about to hit the opposite ship wall.
"Hello?" Gongsun Ce said tentatively.
The girl with colorful hair ignored him. She looked at Qin Qianbai and let out a grunt of satisfaction and appreciation like a leader encountering outstanding employees when inspecting a small company.
"Um."
The alien nodded slightly, looked at Servais aside, and mumbled a little louder.
"Hmm~"
She finally looked at Gongsun Ce, and his eyes and expression reminded him of a swordsman in blue clothes.
"Hmm...? Huh."
She smiled like a child who had encountered something interesting, and her interest was just like a child's mood, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
She crashed through the second wall of the ship with a loud sound, and left as naturally as she came. It was like a flying bird passing by a gathering place of humans, glanced down out of curiosity, and then spread its wings and flew back into the sky again. The two large holes she made allowed the bridge to be improved into a ventilation structure with convection on both sides, and everyone truly understood what it meant to be messy in the wind. Qiluo reminded in a low voice: "The force field generator was severely damaged, and the power system also failed..."
"Where's my ship?!" Rei Shigure screamed.
"Let's not mention when the Venus became your property..." Qiluo said, "it will crash."
"You bastard, stop here!"
Shigure Rei disappeared from the bridge angrily. Qin Qianbai glared at the ranger beside him. Servais smiled sarcastically and shrank her neck. Her expression was particularly flattering when she spoke: "It's just...the reinforcements I called are not like this. Really. You have to believe in my professionalism... This is really a misunderstanding!
"
Without saying a word, the ranger jumped out of the heavily damaged airship and flew bravely to the land where she grew up without any defensive measures. Qin Qianbai casually made a long black knife out of air and quickly chased after the ranger's back.
Gongsun Ce covered his head on the sofa and frowned: "I didn't even have time to give orders...I am the captain! Oh my god, is there anyone on this ship who really listens to me?!"
"New teams always need to be adjusted." Airandia comforted, "Not everyone is as obedient as you were."
"Look on the bright side, at least Airandia and I will listen to you." Qiluo used the internal device to project a report of the ship's damage, with most areas flashing with thrilling red dots, "What should we do now? Captain? It is estimated that we will be exposed to the magnetic turbulence area in 30 seconds."
Gongsun Ce took a deep breath and shouted in a self-defeating tone: "Crash landing! Anyway, find a place to stop the ship first!"
"I always feel like this is the ending every time we fly in the sky..."
"Ce, do you often crash?"
"It's not that I didn't... at least it was really the first time that I fell from the sky at the beginning!
! "
With the help of telekinesis, the Venus flew to the earth like a green onion. This scene seemed to indicate the disastrous future of this trip. Their landing place was on the outskirts of Xuanci State, near a small bank near the town.
There is a priest queuing up to collect his salary for this month. In five seconds, just like the opening of many road movies, a group of cybernetic thugs will rush into the bank and start a long-planned robbery.
