Although the speed of the battleship is fast, it is still far inferior to the airship, Yuan Fang wants to fly over directly, but no, the Dongsheng Empire is far away from the Wanliu Empire, and the weather at sea is uncertain, if it has been calm, it is fine, but once it encounters a storm, the airship can hardly survive it, at this time the airship needs a platform, this is the role and purpose of the battleship.

The mothership of the catamaran structure designed by Yuan Fang is still being manufactured, and now the Navy's long-distance carrier ships are transformed from captured super-large warships, and each carrier ship can take three to four airships, which can fully meet the needs of small-scale voyages, but the fixtures of the airships on the carrier ships are not very reliable, so except in case of bad weather, airships generally sail on their own.

The course was determined, everything was arranged, Xueqin found Yuan Fang, and was a little embarrassed to tell Yuan Fang about spreading rumors, hoping that Yuan Fang could help keep the secret, Yuan Fang saw that the old acquaintance was a little more relaxed, and even joked, ridiculing Xueqin for saying the truth, and also stopped Xueqin's shoulder and declared in public that he was begging Xueqin the most, which made Xueqin's face flush with shame, but the aircrew in the airship, especially those male soldiers, had their last hopes shattered, and they became depressed one by one. Looking at Yuan Fang's gaze is very unkind, but he dares to be angry and dare not speak, Yuan Fang's performance can be regarded as a complete solution to Xueqin's troubles, but it also leads to a long time in the future No one dares to think about her wrongly, and she knows that it was not until a long time later that she met a more courageous Ruyi Langjun to get married and have children.

Long Roundabout, since the last time Yuan Fang left Yuan Fang is the first time to come, see Situ Muran, the two of them a little greeting Yuan Fang ordered to set off, Situ Muran didn't know the inside story, and thought it was a regular diplomatic activity, learned that Yuan Fang was also there, and specially prepared a lot of small seafood that Yuan Fang liked, but he didn't expect Yuan Fang to be so anxious, which made him very passive. The fleet left the long roundabout island and sailed to the direction of the Wanliu Empire at the fastest speed, according to the sea chart, there is nowhere to transit the islands on the way, where you can dock to repair and replenish supplies, these islands do not belong to the Dongsheng Empire, but are occupied by pirates or sea merchants, the current name of the Dongsheng Empire, even if it is a pirate island, it is not afraid, normal supply, the pirates have also become merchants of the division.

On the second day after leaving Changhuan Island, Yuan Fang couldn't stand the speed of the turtles in the fleet below, and kept urging to accelerate, but after the transformation of these large warships, nearly half of the sails were unloaded, and the speed really couldn't be raised, so Yuan Fang could only accept this reality. In the next two days, Yuan Fang has been spending time anxiously, Xueqin chatted with Yuan Fang a few times, Yuan Fang chatted not very much because he had something in his heart, and Xueqin didn't bother after seeing that Yuan Fang had something on his mind.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yuan Fang received news that Pang Ying had reached an agreement with a group of pirates in the eastern seas, and the other party had a lot of eyeliner in the Wanliu Empire, and promised to help inquire about Ren Fei, and now, there was a response.

The pirates heard that not long ago, a group of black forces in the imperial capital of the Wanliu Empire took advantage of the night to take advantage of several rival strongholds, this kind of thing is not uncommon, but the strange thing is that no corpses were found at the scene, after confirmation, among those so-called strongholds, there are two Ren Fei their contact stations, and the gang of black forces has a mysterious official background, these are the news that the pirates spent a lot of money to get. Hearing this news, Yuan Fang really couldn't wait, regardless of dissuasion, he left most of the airships with the fleet, escorted with three airships and two small boats, and set off for the Wanliu Empire first.

Compared with the Dongsheng Empire to the Wanliu Empire, Yu Jingqiu's destination Liusang Empire is much closer, and there are several suitable islands on the way to hide from the wind and waves, so they did not have a fleet to accompany them, after a few days of flight, at this time Yu Jingqiu and his party have arrived in the waters of the Liusang Empire, and to the Liusang Navy to show their identity and intentions, stop in the coastal areas of the mainland and wait for the other party's permission to enter the other party's territory, in order to express their goodwill and respect.

Things did not go in the expected direction, Yu Jingqiu and his entourage waited for a whole day, the other party still did not have any news, sent people to inquire several times, and the navy replied that they were also waiting for the news from above.

In order to apologize, the commander of the navy drew an area near the military port for Yu Jingqiu and his party to land and repair, and also sent a lot of food supplies, Yu Jingqiu was steady and careful, and felt that the atmosphere was a little unusual, and ordered the accompanying airships to maintain a combat state, except for the two airships that took off and landed several times to replenish fresh water for everyone, the other airships were all on standby, and the dinghy was not idle for a moment, patrolling the surrounding waters, and sometimes taking advantage of the darkness to sneak into the territory of the Liusang Empire from a high altitude, Send the intelligence personnel brought here this time to land and start looking for the whereabouts of Luo Siping, but the language of the Liusang Empire and the Dongsheng Empire is not comprehensible, and the intelligence personnel who don't understand the Liusang language are not useful, so only two teams landed, although the Liusang Empire is not big compared to the Dongsheng Empire, it also has an area of one and a half continents, and it is quite difficult to find a dozen people in such a large area, not to mention finding a needle in a haystack.

At noon on the second day after Yuan Fang left the fleet, Xueqin put down the telescope in her hand and said to Yuan Fang behind her with a solemn expression: "Brother-in-law, the weather ahead is not very good, there may be a storm, should we find a small island to take shelter from?" The official was thinking about things, and Xueqin repeated it before Yuan Fang came back to his senses.

Yuan Fang came to the front cab to look at Yuan Fang, at this time, the sea breeze gradually rose, the sea surface was undulating, and the sky in the distance was gray, as if the sun was blocked by something.

Yuan Fang took the telescope handed by Xueqin, and was shocked at a glance, the sky in the distance in front of him was dark and oppressive, there were occasional thunder flashes in the clouds, the sea was turbulent, and the huge waves were monstrous, as if it was boiling water. Affected by the strong wind, the hull of the airship shook a little, because it was moving against the wind, the speed became extremely slow, and the pilot struggled to control the direction of flight.

Yuan Fang put down the telescope and said with a solemn expression: "It's a storm, yes, is there a suitable island to land on nearby?" ”

Xueqin had already looked it up on the chart: "Brother-in-law, there are three islands around here, two of which are slightly larger reefs, not suitable for airships to land, only one can, but it is already the territory of pirates, it is the group of pirates who provided us with information, are we in the past?" ”

Yuan Fang looked at the chart and asked, "Where is it?" ”