Chapter 21: Gray Notice III
After passing through the clouds, everyone on the ship saw the full extent of the wind elemental layer.
It resembles a blue mirror, embedded beneath the sea of clouds.
In the ordinary sense, the wind element layer is actually divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. Although the upper and middle elemental layers also have a large amount of wind elements, they are not much different from the other layers of Kukai in appearance.
But in the lower layer, a huge amount of wind elements converge here into a substance, forming a form like the surface of the sea, which is the elemental sea - the lower wind elemental layer, or the true elemental layer.
What they saw here was the Sea of Wind of the True Elemental Layer. However, it is still far away, and it is just an optical illusion created by Kukai, which lacks a reference below the ridge.
Everyone looked up, and the edge of the continent was slanted in a straight line overhead, like the edge of a huge inverted downward mountain range, majestic and oppressive.
There is the ridge of land, which is still very thin at the edge of the air and land, but in the central area, the ridge can be more than 100 kilometers deep, not only through the wind elemental layer and the still wind belt, but even into the abyssal sea.
The feeling of the ship passing through the wind elemental layer was special, as if it had passed through a layer of tangible things, but the transformation between the tangible and the invisible was very fast, and soon the people on the Seven Seas Traveler would no longer feel any difference.
But then the Seven Seas Traveler began to shake violently, and the tables, chairs, beds, wall cabinets, and decorative murals all creaked and shook. The wild and uninhibited nature of the wind element is hidden under the mirror-like surface of the elemental layer, a world full of frenzied imagination, where the endless winds dominate everything like changing ocean currents, and sudden vortices and shear winds are as common here as human breath.
Not many people dared to challenge this forbidden area of Voyagers, but Miss Tata was obviously an exception, as a dragon soul, she only needed to feel the flow of the wind aether to predict the direction of the shear wind, and she controlled the Seven Seas Traveler as accurately as she controlled her own body, a challenge that the world could not match, and in her opinion, it was nothing more than that.
Fang Yu was right, but the challenge has just begun.
The Wind Elemental Layer is twenty kilometers thick, and it takes a day and a night to pass through, and a lot of time hovering in the air to absorb mana for the consumption of the Fairy Heart. Fang Yu expected to reach the lower level of the Wind Elemental Layer within forty-eight hours, and the Seven Seas Traveler would not need any action from them, as long as the people who were on duty in the magic guide cabin would be fine.
He divided two groups of emergency personnel to rotate on duty, and the others only needed to stay in their own rooms, reading or resting, but they were not mandatory.
At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the Seven Seas Traveler entered the middle elemental layer, and the outside world was dim, the stars were dim, and only the sound of the wind howling was left in the cabin, and everything seemed to be the end of the world.
Sylvade drank the water, lay down on the bed for a moment, got up and kept a journal, the wind lamp swaying, spilling the light on the ground.
She put on her trench coat and walked out, the captain's room was quiet, and Fang Yu and the others were catching up on sleep after their shifts.
There were a few people in the corridor on the lower deck, and everyone couldn't help but come out to meet, the big cat man was chatting with Baggins, and the boatswain would lean his back against the ladder, and when he saw his old captain's daughter coming down, he hurriedly got up to greet him.
Red, who had turned into a tabby cat, was lying on the stairs, and when he saw her jump down, he turned around and wagged his tail as a greeting.
Miss Ship Officer smiled slightly.
The door to Ai's small room was open, and Tang Xin was reading a book inside, a large book with a golden cover, two inches thick, the sacred texts of the diocese of Travel, a compulsory course for every Leila priest.
She saw Sylvid passing by the door, looked up, and cast her gaze.
The two said good morning to each other, but Tang Xin was a little embarrassed.
Sylvid smiled and walked over, a few little girls on the air combat deck outside were partying, sitting cross-legged on the ground and listening attentively to Luo Hao's storytelling, this fat man in the military always has endless stories.
For example, the origin of the Rose Crusaders, and how the Descendants of Flor and the Rainbow Alliance came from V. E. Born out of the M-League, the Silver Vislan and the Crusaders, etc.
A small box of biscuits sat next to the three little girls, and Parker sat alone in the back, stuffing his cheeks to the brim.
Shesta, who was fiddling with the marigolds, noticed her young lady's footsteps and turned to look at her.
Luo Yu leaned against the door of the magic guide cabin, carefully recording the engine readings with a pen.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the sun rose on the Kaulin Continent, but the light aether was already difficult to reach the middle layer of the elemental layer, and it was still dark outside.
At ten o'clock, Fang Yu forced everyone except the emergency duty team to go back to their rooms to rest.
In six hours, it will be the moment of the greatest test since the Seven Seas Traveler entered the wind elemental layer.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the rocking of the boat had increased significantly, and Miss Fairy reported that there had been a storm outside, although storms were commonplace at this altitude.
Fang Yu asked Tata to report on the situation outside every fifteen minutes, and the sky outside was already pitch black at the moment, and he couldn't see his fingers. The outboard barrier had been raised, and the upper outer deck had been closed to people, but from the captain's quarters, the air currents outside seemed to be tangible.
The sails were completely folded under Miss Tata's control, and the ship was propelled almost exclusively by the transverse and stern.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone woke up one after another.
The Seven Seas Traveler was entering the lower level of the wind elemental layer, and the swaying of the hull reached its limit, and almost every board of the ship groaned and made a sound, as if it would fall apart in the next moment. But fortunately, at the beginning of the construction of the Seven Seas Traveler, Her Royal Highness the Celestial Princess put in a lot of work and poured the efforts of several master craftsmen, showing extraordinary resilience at this moment.
Tata reported that the ship's hull was in good condition and was hardly affected by the storm.
Everyone was in a state of tension, everyone observing the situation outside every minute that passed, and Kita stared at the probe crystal motionlessly, almost biting her lip to the point of losing her blood.
Miss Ship Officer locked herself in the room with a large pile of charts and documents, and only asked Tianlan to take a pile of calculations to the learned scholar below to check every few minutes.
Sky Blue didn't know how many times she ran back and forth, and she didn't even complain.
By eight o'clock in the evening, the Seven Seas Traveler had completely entered the lower level of the wind elemental layer.
There was no clear demarcation from the Abyssal Sea, and they had to find a possible passage before continuing down to the Calm Wind Belt.
Sylvade told Miss Elf to keep the ship heading south, the direction in which the sky island had historically been.
At two o'clock in the morning, Miss Attila lit a fire for the third time to cook. Although they didn't want to eat, everyone ate more or less to maintain their body's needs and keep them in good shape.
At seven o'clock, a report came from Miss Tata that the wind elemental below was starting to thin out. Although the thinness is relative, and the wind element here is still the sky compared to the air and sea, this is the first time they have detected a decrease in the wind element since they descended the wind elemental layer.
This means that they are already close to the still wind belt.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the boat successfully moored into the passage of the deep sea, Tianlan wiped a handful of sweat, sat on the stairs, she faintly heard a few cheers outside, after nearly twenty hours of tense nerves, this time can finally relax.
There was a bare eye under the abyssal sea, a little more light than in the wind elemental layer, the background of the air sea was immersed in a kind of empty silence, huge and deep, there were some glowing creatures swimming in the distance, the wind stopped, the index of the wind element was about sixty-five percent above the air element, and all the evidence pointed to them coming to the bottom of the elemental layer.
It worked.
Miss Ship Officer was gently putting down the chart in her hand, turning her head and looking at Fang Yu with a slight smile.
Excited, Fang Yu hugged her and kissed her heavily, Sylvide's soft waist rested on the desk, and there was only tenderness in her eyes.
When the two of them came to their senses, they realized that they were already watching outside the door, and Alyssa covered Ai's eyes, who weakly protested that she was as big as Kita.
So Miss Nightingale's other hand, the red-faced Kita also caught her.
Baggins looked at Fang Plover meaningfully, and smiled mysteriously with a look that all men understand.
Sylvide was fine, smiling, calm and generous. Fang Yu was only eager to find a crack in the ground to drill down.
He gave everyone a half-day off, and the Nanami Traveler also needed time to overhaul, and except for the people on duty, everyone else quickly fell asleep, and the night was too tiring.
After Fang Yu finished his work from the magic engine room, he returned to his room, only to find Sylvid waiting for him at the desk and already asleep, he took off his coat and put it on the shoulders of the nobleman's daughter.
Dimming the wind light a bit, he listened to the low cry coming from above the wind elemental layer, and there seemed to be a rumbling sound below the abyssal sea, like the pulse of the sea. This is not the real abyssal sea, at best it can only be regarded as a part of the shallow part of the abyssal sea in the past, and the abyssal sea is often referred to here, where it is hundreds of kilometers down, and it is another world relative to people's perception, an abyss, and a hell.
Fang Yu sat back on the bed and wrote a journal for a while, and then checked the community and communications, and after a while the mischievous cutie appeared, fluttering and jumping on the sheets, and fighting wits with his tail.
Seeing that she was about to breathe fire at her tail, Fang Yu hurriedly pressed the little girl with one finger to prevent her from burning the bed. It seems that since absorbing part of the power of Descartes, Fang Nini has not changed in any other way, but she has become energetic and no longer sleeps at every turn as before.
Looking at the little guy who was babbling and screaming Papa, Fang Yu thought to himself that his little daughter had absorbed the power of several dark saints, could it be that she was the legendary Devourer of Gods?
While thinking about these inconsequential things, he checked the previous message, and the communication was interrupted after entering the wind elemental layer, but this interruption was one-sided, and the messages sent to him by others could be seen now.
I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, and he received hundreds of messages in just one day. That's almost as much as the total number of messages he's received in the past six months.
Looking at them one by one, X sent them to ask about their condition, and the other party's ID turned out to be X. Shana also sent him to ask if he had received the deposit.
There is also a message from Momiji, since Doriphon parted, he and the Oak Knights have not seen each other for almost half a year, and the other party usually contacts him once a month.
And Mia's, the Witch of the Sea asks him what happened.
But there was no news from R.
Of all the messages, the one who posted the most was a certain little princess of Silver Vislan.
Sophie has sent him more than forty messages since yesterday afternoon.
More than half of them are: "Not here, dead or not, not dead to reply, is it really dead?" â
And so on, head-scratching information.
He put down the logbook and replied to the sender one by one.
The others didn't seem to be there for a while, but Sophie replied to his message as soon as possible:
"You're in big trouble, you know?"
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Fang Yu tapped a string of ellipsis in succession.
"Don't be too busy to be speechless, are you safe now?"
Fang Yu was slightly stunned, he didn't expect the news to spread so quickly, even Sophie knew what was happening here.
He described the situation here, and Sophie said: "What do you call me, now most of the continent knows it, I'm afraid that even the next door will know your name soon." â
"Is that an exaggeration?"
"Ed, Ed, don't you know what good you've done?"
What good people and good deeds have you done? Fang Yu thought to himself that he was just wanted by the Kalin people, and with a descendant of Flor, it was nothing more.
"What Flor descendants," Sophie said angrily, "who told you about Flor's descendants, he was talking about the Alliance." â
"Alliance, which alliance?"
"What other league is there besides the Super Athletic League?"
"What happened to the Super Athletic League?" Fang Yu was confused, not to mention that the alliance couldn't convict them.
"Gray notice, you know?"
"What!?" Fang Yu almost jumped out of bed.
Of course he knew about the gray notice, but he wasn't thinking much about it when X told him they might get into trouble.
The Grey Wanted is not a Wanted Warrant, its real name is actually the Grey List, and those on the list are considered persona non grata by the Coalition.
In the grey list, all guilds within the Super Athletic League are not allowed to contact it, have an interest relationship, or provide assistance, otherwise the most severe punishment may be imposed by expulsion from the Super Athletic League.
At the same time, anyone who kills a member of the guild list within the alliance can be rewarded with high points.
After one reward and one punishment, the people on the list have basically become the public enemies of the major guilds within the Super Athletic Alliance, and they belong to the existence of walking points.
This list has always been called the highest wanted warrant in the Super Athletic League because it is too strict, and the name of the gray wanted list has spread far and wide.
"The Super Athletic Federation has decided that you are piracy in Tansnir, so they put you on the grey list, and with the Cowlings wanted for you, many people now think that you are really going to be pirates."
Fang Yu listened to the description of Her Royal Highness the Silver Vislan Princess, and of course understood in his heart that this was the target of the Super Athletic Alliance.
In fact, many people have acted out of the ordinary, who is not a young maniac, there are many people who have really pirated, and the aborigines are not a good stubble, and there are more businessmen and thieves.
There was already a gray area above the empty sea, but the Super Athletic Federation used the wanted warrants of the Kalin people to preemptively define their sex, and others really couldn't say anything.
After all, the greylisting is an internal measure of the Super Athletic Alliance, and it only takes effect for its internal guilds, and it is a matter between the guild and the drafter.
If there is no reason, the military can also use abuse of power as an excuse to stop it, but it is not the same if the division is famous.
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a little tricky, he thought that the Super Athletic Alliance would target them, but he didn't expect the revenge to come so violently.
Sophie then spoke softly again:
"Ed, the agreement between Silver Vislan and you must be broken, you can no longer use the Angels of Energy, and according to the agreement, we will also destroy the self-destructing walkers."
She paused, "...... After all, Silver Vislan is also a member of the Super Athletic League, and there are some rules that must be followed, and I hope you understand. â
"I understand......" Fang Yu was silent for a moment before entering.
To be honest, he actually earned this deal, after all, the Energy Angel has been his main build for a long time, and the Silver Vislan has not used the Self-Destruct Walker yet, and it will cost a lot of money to destroy.
But the interests of the individual and the Grand Guild are not calculated in this way, and behind this transaction is actually the cooperation and recognition between the two parties, and the breaking of the agreement means that there is no longer any connection between him and the Guild of Her Royal Highness the Princess.
He had originally liked the idea of Silver Vislan, but he was inevitably a little disappointed at this time.
It's not a betrayal, but it's still a bit abandoned.
What's more, this news is still worse, he doesn't have any flexible equipment available at the moment, and he was expecting to make another batch of angels to come out to support the scene, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing.
Then he heard the system remind him that the drawings of the Angel were invalid, which was actually an intimate hint from Ms. Roman.
Miss Roman is probably the most dear of the saints of Orin to her followers.
"Actually, there's another thing." Sophie said again.
"What's wrong?"
"You're going to ...... lately Be careful, there are at least seven guilds near Nognes that have declared themselves searching for you. â
"And what does it have to do with them?" Fang Yu was a little out of breath.
"Part of it has something to do with the descendants of Flor, and the rest is the points of the Eye Hot Grey List, the Super Athletic League has opened a sky-high bounty for you, you can go to the community to take a look at it when you have time......"
"And maybe the Crown of Hailin." Fang Yu thought to himself.
"And," said Sophie, "if you are going to go north by St. Hugh, it would be better to take a different course." â
"What's wrong again?"
"I've heard that there is a combined fleet of at least three guilds, and in that direction, the Descendants of Flor have given a death order...... And that's just part of what we know......"
We, this word made Fang Yuan's heart move slightly, "Wait, you are forbidden to help us on the grey list, right?" â
Sophie smiled, "How can it be so strict, if you join us, Silver Vislan can consider working against the Alliance." â
"If we join you, or join any of the Alliance's guilds, the Alliance itself won't be in trouble for us, right?"
Fang Yu entered angrily, where could he not see the text trap of this princess.
Sophie saw that she was being debunked, and sent a playful expression:
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She grinned again, "But at least the descendants of Flor won't be able to trouble you." â
"Excuse me."
"Okay, okay," Sophie shrugged, "it's all a play on words, a guild is a guild, I'm me, and if they dare to take care of me, I'll come to your ship and those people off." â
How could Fang Yu not know that Her Royal Highness the Silver Vislan Princess was making fun of him, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
The atmosphere was a bit dreary for a while.
Sophie heard the babbling sound coming from over there, and couldn't help but type, "Can you let me see Nini?" â
Fang Yu held the little girl with both hands, and Nini thought that Papa was going to hug her, and she was very well-behaved.
But immediately she saw Sophie and Akane on the other side of the communication screen, and immediately stretched out her little hand to hug her.
Sophie couldn't help but laugh, and Akane's eyes were full of little stars.
"I'd love to come and see Nini." She sighed.
"Where are you?" Fang Yu asked.
"In Sopa."
"That place ......," Fang Yu reacted at once.
It was the last gate of the Far South, and beyond that was the land bridge.
He quieted down, "You're going to the Second World?" â
Sophie nodded, "The guild has decided. â
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart for a while, and couldn't help but recall the days of adventure with the other party.
When working with Her Royal Highness the Silver Princess of Visland, he always finds that feeling of being at home.
But I didn't expect the other party to go to the second world so soon, and the Seven Seas Brigade felt that it was still far away.
It's nice to have a big guild on you.
Sophie couldn't help but laugh when she looked at him, "It's really rare, our Captain Ed also has sentimental times, in fact, I'm sure you can come over soon." â
"I guess you'll be higher than all of us by then."
"That's for sure." Fang Yu was full of confidence again.
"Megalomaniac."
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