Chapter 163: Conquer the Sky
Jacques had arrived with the supplies he had been looking forward to, but with them came Marianne West.
Marianne, who tied her hair into two ponytails and came all the way, pointed to the convoy behind her: "Three thousand steel spears, a thousand machetes, and a thousand sets of stamped plate armor, do you know how my factory made them in a week?"
Also, the first drawing you gave my brother he had already made that thing! For that thing, he didn't sleep for more than half a month! I also brought it to you!
This time you gave him another drawing, are you trying to kill him?"
Jacques smiled and said, "What I gave Graves this time is in the same vein as last time, he should make a sample soon, as long as he doesn't use that thing himself, he won't be killed."
Thank you so much for your support, I thought you would have bargained back. ”
Marianne frowned and said, "Of course I'm going to bargain!
Graves blew up one of my houses using the method you taught him to extract 'flammable air', but luckily there were guards by his side to protect him with an ice shield.
If something happens to him, I'll kill you!"
I got you so many weapons and armor, if someone finds out, how much impact it will have on our family, do you know?......"
"A Beastmaster's bones!" Jacques interrupted her, "Isn't it worth it? And I can't get anything you want, the stones in the wasteland, the water in Lake Texco, you can take it. ”
Marianne's momentum was suppressed by Jacques, and she muttered that she had lost money, and turned her head to direct her subordinates to hand over weapons and equipment to the Sioux.
Jacques and Lily opened the box, and saw the spear made from coarse steel and the machete made from scraps of iron, Jacques could not help but sigh: "Industrial production is so great that it will take at least a day for a blacksmith to make such a knife." The Vester factory produces a thousand in a week!"
With a few swings of the machete, he commented: "It's a little rough, but it works! With this batch of equipment, it is enough for moose to take the city." When we're ready to assemble the airship, we're ready to go!"
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In the clearing of the settlement, many Sioux people were gathered around, watching with amazement as the new Imperial people assembled a strange thing.
The aluminum metal strips are connected to each other, gradually forming an oval cylinder, but one end of the metal frame is reduced to a pointed end, and the other end is somewhat like a fish's tail, and when the assembly is almost completed, I don't know who shouted: "Silver Arowana!"
Jacques, who was watching from the sidelines, also felt that it was indeed like a round fish, and designing the so-called airship to look like a fish was not a bad taste of fat oranges?
Fat Orange immediately defended himself: "The emperor didn't change the design randomly, that's how Lee Baptiste's drawings were drawn!"
After the construction of the fish-shaped aluminum skeleton divided into four separate parts, the skilled workers brought by Marianne began to add a skin made of sheepskin to the metal skeleton.
After putting on the skin piece by piece, Jacques felt that it was not the fat orange that was funny, but Greyfus, and the pattern painted on the skin turned out to be a fish!
Fish head, fish eyes, fish mouth, fish scales, fins!
Another group of skilled workers by the lake, operating equipment with a huge spherical jar, relies on the reaction of iron, zinc and acid to produce "flammable air", after the flammable air squeezes out the water in the spherical jar, the workers seal the tank, transport the jar to the "big fish", under the control of the gas supernatural, the "flammable air" is pressed into the body of the "big fish".
After two hours of busyness, the four independent cabins inside the "Big Fish" were filled with "flammable air", and the Big Fish also began to shake off the shackles of the earth, swaying lightly, if it were not for the ropes on the ground, it seemed to be about to fly into the sky.
The skilled workers brought in a large rattan basket and slightly loosened the rope that bound the "big fish", and the "big fish" actually left the ground!
The onlookers of the Sioux were shocked, and there was a chaotic noise, and someone shouted: "Lake God Niangniang!" and knelt down.
Jacques said to the moose beside him, who was also dumbfounded: "Uncle Moose, tell them that this is an airship, not the lake god, if the lake god knows, he will blame me again." ”
The moose settled down and muttered, "What a trick!"
Turning his head and wearing his cronies, he went down to maintain order around him.
A few days ago, Gao Ma, a young man of the Soviet nationality who threw the head of the tax collector on the city tower and shouted "No tax and no slave", closed his chin with his hands, and looked at the airship swaying slightly in the wind with envious and longing eyes.
"Are they really going to take to the skies?"
The skilled workers finished installing the rattan basket and came to Marianne to report the completion.
Knowing that it was finished, Jacques led Lily, who was holding the fat orange in his arms, and strode towards the airship in the shape of a large fish, stretching out his legs and stepping into the rattan basket.
When he turned around, he found Marianne carrying the corners of her skirt and stepping into the basket.
Jacques hurriedly stopped: "No! No, according to the design, it can only fit two people, and now it's full, you can't come up!"
Marianne shook the hair that slipped down to her forehead and said, "I have already asked Graves to change it, and now I can fit three people, and I am only 45 pounds, not heavy!"
Jacques looked her up and down a lot, he didn't seem to believe the number 45, and thought it was at least 50, but he didn't dare to say it, so he had to change the reason: "This is just a prototype, it's easy to have an accident, if it crashes, Lily can use the Sky Stepping Technique to save me, if there is one more of you, Lily can't take care of it." ”
Marianne didn't care, and after entering the basket, she said with a smile: "If it crashes, you can jump, ask for more blessings, anyway, you are already a molder, if you are not particularly high, you will not die." Lily just save me, right, Sister Lily?"
Lily nodded.
Jacques struck in grief and rage to cut the ropes that bound the airship, and the airship with the appearance of a big fish slowly rose into the air.
The airship got higher and higher from the ground, the people on the ground became smaller and smaller, and gradually the people became a small black dot, and the house became a matchbox.
Jacques activated the source stone device at the tail of the airship, and the three blades mounted on the fish's tail rotated, and the airship slowly moved forward.
"Lily Navigator, please report the altitude!" Marianne said excitedly.
"Four thousand three hundred meters!" Lily checked the mercury altimeter.
Marianne approached the instrument and confirmed, "How is it possible? I see that the lake is not far away! Also, you want to call me Captain!"
Jacques, who was squatting in the corner of the rattan basket and was seized of power, whispered: "Stupid, this is the plateau ......"
Marianne looked at Jacques and said majestically, "Handyman Jacques, I'll give you a chance to organize the language well, can you explain what our height is?"
"Report to Captain West, we have a plateau under our feet, and we have about 2,600 meters above sea level above the ground, so our altitude is indeed 4,300 meters, but the height above the ground is about 1,700 meters. Jacques did not dare to provoke his own big creditors.
Marianne asked Fat Orange in her arms, "Good Fat Orange, is he right?"
Jacques and Lily were stunned, and Fat Orange, who was rubbing his face against the softness, stopped moving.
- Did she know the identity of Fat Orange?
However, Marianne continued: "Fat Orange said it didn't know, how did the cat know that!"
Jacques: "......"
Lily leaned on the edge of the rattan basket and looked at the ground, "Look, that's the city of Zidilan! I've never seen the city from this angle!"
Marianne also looked down: "O small man, at first glance it looks like a myriad of black stitches on a mat, clustered and flowing in a small box-like building. ”
Jacques glanced at the city of Zidiran, but stared intently at the towering clouds like a mountain in front of him, and said, "Our destination is in the south, and the clouds ahead will obscure my vision and make me unable to see the direction, so now I am going up, we are going above the clouds!"
Jacques stretched out his hand to the top of the high cloud.
Jacques adjusted the source stone equipment, and the airship seemed to become more relaxed, and continued to rise, and the city of Zidiran, which was still faintly recognizable, became smaller and smaller, and finally became only the size of a palm, until the airship rushed into the clouds, and the ground could no longer be seen.
After entering the clouds, there were only gray clouds around them, and they couldn't distinguish between southeast and northwest, and the three of them also lost interest and sat down leaning on the rattan basket.
"It's cold!" complained Marianne.
Jacques only realized at this time that Marianne was still just an Awakened Being, unlike him and Lily, who were already infallible and much less hardy.
After asking Fat Tangerine, Jacques pretended to reach out and let Marianne hold it, and said, "I'll give you a little heat with my Source Energy Technique, you have to hug Fat Tangerine, it's also afraid of cold." ”
Feeling the body gradually warmer, Marianne smiled and said, "How do I feel that Fat Tangerine is so warm, it feels so comfortable to hold it!"
Jacques said perfunctorily: "Cats have a higher body temperature than people. ”
- If I tell you that Fat Orange warms you with blessings, I'm afraid you won't dare to hug it.
The airship finally broke through the clouds and was bathed in warm sunshine!
Lily exclaimed, "Look up, the sky is so open, I can see the stars in the daytime!"
Jacques said, "My mother must have seen this landscape, but she is the forerunner of the conquest of the sky!"
Jacques stopped his ascent, judged the direction according to the sun, adjusted and continued southward.
Under your feet is the vast white sea of clouds, the airship seems to sail on the ocean in the sky, and the abrupt clouds and mountains are like islands in the ocean.
As the airship moved forward, the clouds below revealed a hollow through which the shores of Lake Tesco and the rice paddies cultivated by the Sioux could be seen.
Marianne, a water transcendent, stretched out her hand to the rattan basket and released the source energy to condense the water droplets, and a drop of crystal water slid down her slender jade hand, and Marianne whispered:
"What could be happier than that?
Can it be compared to pleasure, can it be compared to dominating all things?
Rain rains fall between heaven and earth, moistening the splendid flowers and plants.
Take in all things that are pleasing to the eye. ”
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