The lonely boat looked down at the time, the hands on the pocket watch pointed to five, and the complex arcane text was like a set of twisted peaks, dark and glowing under the glass. It was the last time before dawn in winter, and the world that was about to wake up was stirring in the darkness, and the east was gradually faintly white.

Amid a muffled roar from the bilge, Jory walked in from the captain's room, along with several guild mezzanine. Jory looked at him and said in a wordy voice, "Communication to the other side of the Star Gate has been cut off. ”

"Same as last time?"

"It's different," Jory shook his head, "the community is fine, but other means of contact have been unilaterally suspended." ”

"I heard that people from the military approached us?"

"There were rumors of this, but no one informed us."

The two glanced at each other, and Canghai Guzhou muttered for a moment: "What does the guild say?" ”

"The president doesn't know exactly what's going on over there, the people at the club asked us about our progress, and they need you to be sure when you'll be able to catch this 'fish'."

"The club is in a hurry?"

"I don't know, but you'd better give me a timeline and I'll get back to you." Jory replied in a low voice.

"I can't answer this question alone, it depends on the ability of the rest of the Flor descendants, we are allies, not the same guild," Canghai Guzhou replied, "But three days, at the latest, we can force the target to the predetermined target area." ”

Qiao Li nodded, he shouldn't have said the rest of the words, but after thinking about it for a while, he reminded him: "It seems that there are people from the alliance directly involved in this matter, and I see their officials." What the president meant was that even if the military put pressure on him, the alliance would help resist it. ”

Canghai Guzhou glanced at his old partner in surprise, he was actually not too surprised by this, the alliance and the guild alliance worked closely together, and both sides had their own interests in this matter. What's more, if it weren't for the Southern Alliance, the other party wouldn't have hung up a gray notice because of this.

However, he didn't expect the alliance to be so resolute this time, even if it was under pressure from the military, they had to get things done, on the other hand, they had already guessed that the other party had a certain relationship with the military, otherwise after the battle of Kailano, the other party would not have taken advantage of the military's exercises to get out.

He listened to his old partner's words, nodded silently, and asked again, "The above wants us to enter a state of communication silence?" ”

"It's almost like silence now," replied Jory, "but it's safer." ”

"Well," replied Canghai Guzhou, "I'll send an order down later, so that the whole fleet is forbidden to communicate with the outside world, which is also what the guild means?" ”

"It's the meaning of the Alliance."

Canghai Guzhou raised his eyebrows, he probably understood something, but his mind was only on this task, he was a middle and high-level member of the guild, but he was not a core member of the club - he was neither capable nor interested in caring about matters other than Aitalia.

He only nodded his head to indicate that he understood.

"What about live streaming?"

"What the people over there at BBK mean, let's leave it alone."

Leave it alone, it means keep it. Canghai Guzhou understands that the personnel sent by the headquarters for live broadcast this time are two systems with them, and the project team specially organized above is from BBK, not the internal personnel of the Jeffrey Redcoats Guild.

The meaning of the club is to let them not interfere.

"Then they'd better not interfere with our operations." Canghai Guzhou understood the meaning of Jory's words, and muttered a word.

……

"Found the whereabouts of the other party, Vice President."

Yuechen's vice president, Hailan raised his eyelids slightly, his eyes looked at his lieutenant through his long eyelashes, and there was an unchanged look in his ice blue eyes.

She didn't have to speak, and the others naturally understood what she meant. Earlier, she was given the cliché nickname 'Ice Beauty', but as she rose through the ranks of the guild, it gradually became more unpleasant as the 'Iron Maiden'.

"Their location, in ......"

The adjutant looked at the text on the report with a little surprise: "They didn't show up in the expected area, the last time they showed up was south of Ash Ridge, they were going to ......?" ”

Heilan interrupted the other party with a wave of his hand, as if he was not interested in where the Seven Seas Brigade was going: "How far is it from us?" ”

"Not far off, vice president...... At the moment, we are the closest to each other. ”

"That's enough," Hailan replied lightly, "Let the fleet spread out in formation, prepare to drop the clockwork goblins, and find the other party." ”

……

Two or three dazzling lights flashed in the night sky.

Under the curtain of unfolding fire, the Seven Seas Traveler was passing through the shock wave of the explosion, and although the people on the deck were staggered, the ship was able to get out of the range of the two shells without danger thanks to Miss Tata's exquisite handling skills.

Although it was only a matter of time before he encountered the detachment of the Descendants of Flor, Fang Yu did not expect to collide with the fleet of Moon Dust head-on.

Moon, the predecessor of Moondust's predecessor guild, is the oldest club of the guild, which belongs to . One of the Big Three. The club's long history has given it one of the richest foundations in the entire Third Division, and although there have been some mistakes and gaps in personnel training in recent years, its fleet can still be ranked in the top three of the top ten guilds.

As for the other two, they are Silver Vislan and the Godslayer, 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 dark blue flag, the 'Blue Ghost' was another name for the hunting fleet of Moon Dust, and they had won a series of wars in the Turbid Domain with their weak and strong, and accumulated a great reputation.

And the one who appeared around the Seven Seas Traveler in front of him was this fleet. Although it is not the full version of the 'Blue Ghost', the iconic narrow hull of the three floating ships on the left and the right still reveals the identity of the other party. It is the unique air ship of the 'Blue Ghost', the three-masted dhow, which has amazing maneuverability and agility in the sea where the wind direction can change.

They are like the tentacles and eyes and ears of the main fleet, the hunting dogs in the hunting team, especially good at the tactics of dispersion and combo, once they are entangled, few can get out calmly.

This fleet has not only left a reputation at home, in fact, it has played against the fleets of many famous clubs in North America and Europe, although it has not always gained the upper hand, but the historical record is obviously more victorious than defeated.

Fang Yu didn't think that the current level of the Seven Seas Brigade could catch up with those old guilds and clubs, not to mention that even if they could really reach the same level with Miss Tata, they were still at a huge disadvantage in terms of numbers.

The Seven Seas Traveler is, after all, a ship, not a fleet—

He didn't expect to encounter such a tricky opponent when he first came up - it would be much easier to deal with Ragnarok's fleet, although one of his nominal teachers, the god Odin, had a good relationship with him - but he had to say that Ragnarok's fleet was really a bit unsightly among the top ten in the country, and even inferior to the fleets of some guilds that were further down the ranks, such as the fleet of the Jeffrey Redcoats.

In fact, since the retirement of the last two capable commanders, Ragnarok's fleet construction has been at a standstill, not only with a lack of personnel, but also with a slow pace of technological upgrading. Recently, Ragnarok has let Odin directly intervene in order to reorganize his fleet, but it is known that this warrior Ten Kings has outstanding personal combat effectiveness, but he has always been played by KUN in the way of command.

Although it may be a little sorry for the other party to say this, Fang Yu himself also felt that the Great God Odin was more suitable to charge forward than to sit in command in formation.

The golden trail hanging in the night sky has not disappeared yet—

That was the sign of the other party's previous release of the airplane, and the 'Blue Ghost''s response was similar to what they had guessed before, it should have been to use the Wind Elemental Detector to determine the location where they finally disappeared, and then release the elves on a large scale to search.

Although Fang Plover moved the clockwork goblin forward to a position close to the limit, and did not let one of the opponent's 'eyeliners' leak into the warning range, the other party obviously roughly delineated their range of activity according to the position where the clockwork goblin was attacked.

The Seven Seas Traveler had already broken into a low altitude at this point, but the other side dropped wings into several designated locations almost without hesitation, and sent a ground team. These were all pre-conceived possibilities, but the only thing they didn't expect was that the opponent's prediction was clearly more than an order of magnitude higher than that of the Jeffrey Redcoats.

The Blue Ghost didn't waste much time between each step, seizing the opportunity with great precision – and crucially, the airwing was dropped in such a precise position that almost every drop was stuck in the airspace where the Seven Seas Traveler was heading.

This made Fang Yu feel a little uncomfortable, the current situation was not beyond their guesses, 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.

This is a bit of an unreasonable field for these 'newbies'.

The 'Hounds' sent by Moondust are smaller than the Jeffrey Redcoats' fast sailboats, although they are still huge compared to the Seven Seas Traveler. But a sailboat of this size is obviously more handy in low-altitude airspace.

The Jeffrey Redcoats don't dare to set foot in the low altitudes, and these long, narrow hulls with spinnakers are far less worried.

And the concerns that the other party did not have were undoubtedly bad news for everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade.

In fact, it took them a lot of effort to break away from the other party's encirclement, but they didn't expect to run into the other party's scattered hunting fleet, although there were not many of them, only three, which was about one of the other side's scattered fleets to find their location.

But the real threat is obviously not in these three 'hounds', but in the main fleet behind them, once they are entangled, then the fleet of Moon Dust may catch up at any time.

Fang Yu quickly reached an agreement with the others, intending to force a breakthrough.

Azure was clutching the side of the ship with her hands, beware of being thrown out by the inertia of the Nanami Traveler as she turned, while nervously watching the three ghostly ships that had caught up behind her.

The three moondust ships all had their bow guns, and the other side didn't seem to have any scruples about sinking them, and kept forcing the Nanami Traveler to move with flowering shells. One of the shells flew almost against the left side of the Nanami Traveler, causing the shield on that side to flicker and weaken half of its shield value almost instantly.

However, Miss Tata never gave Moondust's ship a chance to flank them and fire a salvo, and always escaped from the encirclement of the other party one step ahead.

And the three moondust windboats finally became a little impatient. Two of the ships began to accelerate at a speed visible to the naked eye, and attempted to get out of the safe range, intending to go straight in front of the Seven Seas Traveler and further seal off its evasive space.

Sky Blue's eyes widened and she shouted:

"Brother Ed!"

But she didn't need to shout, the Seven Seas Traveler had already opened its air deck, and one Lancer after another was thrown out, flying out of the night sky with a cyan light trail. The other party had apparently heard of this air combat structure from the Jeffrey Redcoats, and the three ships immediately dispersed after noticing this scene.

Unfortunately, the agility of a sailboat is far less than that of an air combat build, especially at this distance. Although their well-trained sailors reacted at the first time, it was a little too late.

The structure that flew away from the Seven Seas Traveler immediately outflanked it in that direction, and in the darkness it was impossible to see its image, except for a few bright beams of light, flying to its starboard side—and then a piercing red light streaked across the night sky, beams focused on the shields of the ships.

The power of the Sun Ray was great, but a single lancer was not enough to dismantle the shield of the floating ship, but when the Seven Seas Traveler had invested in as many as thirty-four air combat structures, the opponent's response was a little clumsy.

Fang Plover could clearly see that they had concentrated the energy of the shield, a strategy that was often used in air combat, as the float ships often had only one or fewer areas to attack when they opened the battle line against the enemy, but this technique was obviously ineffective against flexible air combat structures.

In fact, several scorching rays had passed through the shield, and while they did little damage to the hull, they left a few marks on the deck, but they took several lives. There were not only sailors on the opposing deck, but also Marines on standby who were ready to engage in combat.

These people, until they get close to a certain distance, are almost equivalent to targets on the deck.

A few bright fires once again burst into the night sky.

The other party fired back, but the target was not the Seven Seas Traveler, for the lancers of the Plover surrounding one of the ships, the floating ship was so expensive that even Moon Dust could not afford to lose easily. Before taking down the Seven Seas Traveler, it was obviously more important for them to protect their ship.

The swarming lancers obviously posed a great threat to the other party, making the other party feel at risk of sinking the ship.

But in Fang's view, it's not just a risk.

He must not let the other party follow them unscrupulously now.

Under the light of the explosion, several lancers who rushed into it turned into balls of fire almost instantly, dragging a long tail flame and falling from mid-air. However, Fang Plover did not control these lancers at all, they just followed the behavior pattern that had been set in the closed-loop device, and attacked around the opponent.

He looked in that direction, then gestured with his hand, and as the lancers turned to the other side of the windboat, a golden flash of light flew out of them.

The members of the Moon Dust on the Wind Ship were obviously knowledgeable people, and they couldn't help but exclaim when they saw this scene—try that the Grand Guild had almost no troops analyzing their own opponents before facing the enemy, even for a small target like the Seven Seas Brigade.

The sailors of Moondust's windboat steered their ship at the last moment to make a large lateral turn that seemed almost impossible to others, and even Fang Yuan watched this scene with a little surprise, he had always thought that only under the control of Miss Tata could the windboat make such a sharp and beautiful movement.

But it is clear that with a well-trained sailor, the sailboat can be quite agile as well.

It's just that the flexibility doesn't make much sense.

The golden float flew down, but the elemental envoys on the opposing deck chanted aloud and raised their staffs—though most of the elements were unsteady in their footing during the massive lateral turn, and they were unable to cast their spells. But a few people succeeded, and a translucent net flew from the ship.

After Fang Yuan's fire djinn passed through the light web, it immediately crackled and landed on the deck, like a rain of construction, but the pre-set detonation time did not take effect, and the explosion crystal contained inside the clockwork elves seemed to be out of order.

Fang Yuan was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted, it was a concussive note—an enhanced version of the spell that Azure had used in the refugee camp not long ago, this spell did no harm to the fire djinn itself, but the resonance and sound waves it produced were enough to damage the explosion crystal inside the clockwork elf.

The explosion crystal is already delicate, and it is a crystal structure, how can it withstand such an attack.

He didn't expect the Flor descendants to find a way to deal with the fire djinn so quickly, it might not work well for individuals and the team, but it couldn't be more appropriate for Windboat Mountain.

Fang Yu was greatly surprised in his heart, and his cognition of the Great Guild's ability couldn't help but go up to a new level, but who told you that only clockwork goblins can explode? With a lift of his hand, he took control of the spears, and while everyone's attention was on the fire djinn, he sent them around to the other side of the windboat and crashed into them silently.

A blinding flash of fire flickered in the darkness, followed by a deafening roar in the distance, and the sailboat with its spinnaker shook, as if it had been cut off by the waist, broke in the middle, and the two cracked hulls burned with raging flames, and slowly fell from mid-air.

Sky Blue stared dumbfoundedly at the sailors who jumped ship on fire, most of them were wind elemental adaptable, so they could float in mid-air for a short time, slowly sinking, and wait for the rescue of the other two ships. But the Marines were miserable, and like the scattered hulls of the ship, they fell like stones.

This attack obviously stunned Yuechen's people, and made the remaining two ships slow down all of a sudden, they hadn't figured out how Fang Yuan's attack had arrived for the time being, so they didn't dare to act rashly for a while. One of the ships approached the shipwrecked, while the other slowed down and hung far behind the Seven Seas Traveler, not daring to come closer.

Although they may not have figured out how Fang Yuan's attack arrived, they roughly figured out one thing first, it was obvious that it wasn't just the fire djinn that could explode—anything could explode.

"They don't dare to catch up for the time being," Luo Hao looked at this scene, and said to Fang Yuan: "We are almost in the area of Charter City, and the mining area is in front, and it is this time to turn around." ”

Fang Yu nodded.

But he was about to give the order, when suddenly Kita's somewhat uncalm voice came from the microphone:

"Commander, the wind element detector has responded...... Another fleet appeared in front. ”

Fang Yu was stunned when he heard this, and his heart couldn't help but sink suddenly.

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