"Mr. Ed." Fang Yu looked at Mei Yiluo, who was standing outside the door, with white breath in his mouth, covering his hands on his chest and looking at him, with some surprise. "Miss May, what's the matter?" The faint white mist quickly dispersed for the wind on the deck, and Maye blinked her watery eyes and was about to nod. But at this time, Fang Yu heard Ji Ta's voice coming from the microphone:

"Ai, Brother Ed, there are some discoveries."

Fang Yu motioned to Miss Knight to wait for a moment with his gaze, then turned his head sideways and asked, "What's the matter, Kita?" ”

"There are an unknown number of wind elemental reactions ahead, one directly ahead, and one on the left and right...... Their spacing...... They seem to be very evenly spaced, no, not quite like a sea of clouds......"

Fang Yu paused for a moment: "How far is it from the exercise area here?" ”

"Less than thirty kilometers."

"These people are really not giving up," Fang Yu thought to himself, if it wasn't a sea of clouds creature, it could only be a wind boat. The front had already entered the airspace of Kailanao, and the other party really did not surprise him, and laid an ambush circle here early. But a mere 30-kilometer encirclement, above the empty sea, is not much thicker than a piece of paper, can it really defend against anyone?

"Got it, Kita," replied Fang Yuan, "we can go on as usual, without changing course." ”

"Don't you have to change course?" Miss Naturalist's voice was a little surprised.

"No need, tell Luo Hao, enter the state of combat readiness, and I will come below the deck later."

"Okay."

Fang Yu then turned his head to look at Mei Yi and said, "Miss May, Kai Lanao is in front, we will send you down first, the matter here has nothing to do with you." He paused, "By the way, did you just do something?" ”

Maye nodded slightly, "I don't have to get off the boat for a while, Mr. Eddard." ”

"What?"

"The Knights have just sent a notice that the target is no longer heading to Kailano, and that they may have left Nognes. The head of the group said that the information of the target has been lost for the time being, and asked me to wait here to meet with the others, but there is still a month in between, and I think I can be with you to investigate the matter of the dark believers. Mei Yi said a little happily, looking at Fang Yu with expectant eyes.

Fang Yu paused for a moment, and immediately understood what was going on, and couldn't help but cry and laugh for a while. However, he was stared at with a winkling expectant gaze by a lovely knight lady, and he couldn't say anything even if he wanted to refuse, so he nodded. "If Miss May is willing, she can stay on the ship for as long as she wants, and there will be one more person on the ship." He said half-jokingly.

But Maye was serious, "I'll pay for my living expenses, Mr. Ed." ”

Fang Yuan: "This ...... Actually, there is no need for that......"

"It's necessary, self-reliance is the minimum of Ori's faith, Mr. Eddard."

"Well, okay."

Since it involves the precepts of knights, Fang Yu is not easy to refute, ancient knights are a profession that needs to strictly abide by ancient rules, otherwise they may even lose their professional abilities.

"And the others," said May, again, "are the descendants of Flor?" "She's been on the ship for so many days, and she's naturally heard about the feud between the Seven Seas Brigade and the descendants of Flo. Fang Yu told her about the grey list, but he didn't say much about the wanted notice.

Of course, Miss Knight didn't ask, and didn't even think much in that direction. She was temporarily assigned a mission to travel from Guta to Kaolin Ishurian, and she was not a picker in the Third Division, so she didn't know the details of Parker's local wanted warrant, let alone the cause and effect behind it.

"Not all," Fang Plover shook his head and said honestly, "The people of the Flor Descendants are actually just a part of it, and seriously their influence in Nognes is not that great, and more people are here for the grey list. ”

"But the people of the Flor Descendants slander you," said May, in a childish voice, but in a sonorous voice, "I have heard of them in Sanshak that they have a bad reputation, and in my own observation, Mister Ed could not be a pirate. These people who are full of lies will be punished as they deserve, and even if they are irrelevant people, regardless of right and wrong, if they blindly obey each other, I will stand by everyone and fight side by side. ”

Fang Yu looked at her with some surprise: "The descendants of Flor slandered us? Who told you this, Miss May? ”

"I see it myself," replied May, earnestly, "the doctrine of Ori tells us to be good at discovering facts and truths with our own eyes, and not to blindly follow rumors, for in the face of the light there will be no darkness to hide." ”

Well, although the logic is somewhat strange, at least the conclusion is correct. And most of this conclusion was not thought up by Miss Knight herself, but was imperceptibly instilled in her by Tianlan, that little girl ran to Mei Yi twice in three days, where would Fang Yu not know what it was for?

But in a sense, this can probably be regarded as a white lie. He shook his head slightly, "Thank you, but I don't really need you to do it, Miss May. ”

Mei Yi sighed softly and looked at him a little curiously, "Mr. Ed, have you figured out how to deal with those people?" ”

"Come with me, Miss May, and I'll show you how the Seven Seas Traveler fights."

……

"Miss Tata, please take over Fairy Heart."

"Mr. Knight, you've taken over."

"Miss Tata, open the side hatch."

"Done."

A glimmer of light emerged from the darkness, and the side hatches on both sides of the air combat deck were slowly opening with a creaking sound, and a glimmer of light projected from the outside fell into the eyes of Miss Knight, making her blink slightly.

As the gears turned, the console rose from the ground, and Fang Plover stepped forward, resting his hand on the crystal. Luo Hao and the others walked out of the cabin in front of them against the strong wind that poured into the air combat deck and watched this scene.

With a flash of light, a lancer projected on the air combat deck, and the jet of air blew the cyan wind elemental particles, slowly pushing it forward, pushing it away from the air combat deck, and adjusting its attitude and flying into the sea of clouds. There seemed to be a faint, fleeting silver net—

Under the precise control of Miss Tata's mental power, the structure gradually broke away from the inertia of the windboat, and it paused slightly, and then suddenly crossed an arc, accelerating and flying forward.

Then came the second, third, fourth, and fifth, and they left the Seven Seas Traveler one after the other, one after the other, and followed the previous construct and formed a flight formation. Fang Yu raised his head and looked in that direction, only to see a small black dot, which was flying into the clouds and gradually disappearing.

He opened his pocket watch—

At 7:30 a.m., the Seven Seas Traveler unleashed its first wave of attacks.

This will be the elven dragon knight, the first time in combat in Aitalia, and at this moment, perhaps no one can guess what this first time will bring.

But those who witnessed this scene at least understand that the history of magic technology may always remember this moment.

The dreams and painstaking efforts of our predecessors reflect reality at this moment.

……

The swordsman took the announcement order that rattled in the wind, pushed open the door and walked onto the deck, "Big L, the third announcement order from the military has come down, the exercise area has been blocked, and the airspace thirty kilometers to the north and three hundred kilometers to the east from here is all under martial law. ”

Above deck, the people of the Descendants of Flor were looking up in this direction. Lair took the notice from the other party's hand, looked at it with a frown, and then silently folded it into his arms. He looked up at the towering wall of clouds in the distance, the military's exercise had come at a bad time — but that wasn't a reason for them to give up.

They had already spent half a month wandering around, he didn't care about the casualties and losses of the other guilds, the battle in the Empty Gorge might have deterred some people, but for them, if they couldn't catch each other, their work for half a month would be in vain.

Anyway, they're going to have to stop the boat at this place.

"Thirty kilometers," Lair silently calculated in his heart, "in order to seek a glimmer of life, the other side will almost certainly force its way into the exercise area demarcated by the military...... "The military's exercise area is a rectangle with a long side of 1,300 kilometers, but the short side is only 300 kilometers, as long as the opponent cuts through the exercise area from the southwest corner of this short side and passes through the exercise area in an oblique way, there is still a certain chance." It is impossible for the military's fleet to be densely packed in this exercise area, and the other side may not be able to collide with the military's fleet at all, but do these pursuers dare to take this risk and chase into the exercise area together?

Lair certainly understands that the answer is no.

So they have to intercept the other side before they enter the exercise area.

"Let the ships be more connected," said Lair, "and there are thirty-three sailboats on this line at the moment, and if they take this route, they will surely run head-on." Thirty kilometers, it will take at least half a day to cross this line, and if anyone finds them, this time is enough time for us to get closer and form an encirclement. ”

"And what about the Wind Knights?"

"The Wind Riders need to be dispersed as well, they can come out a little bit to give us enough time to warn." Lair replied.

The Wind Knight is the Wyvern Rider, and this is not a variant of the class, but a few Drafters who have mastered the art of Wyvern Riding can do it - the slightly larger wind boats have large corrals that can be used to raise these medium-sized flying beasts, but there are generally not too many of them, and two or three heads per ship is the limit.

Wind Knights have no class requirements, and mostly exist as scout units on battlefields above Kukai. However, the more high-end guilds will generally choose the Spear Knight or the Elemental Envoy as the backup candidate for the Wind Knight, so that their Wind Knight also has a certain combat ability.

"Inform the other guilds," Lair said, looking at the cloud wall in the distance, "let them scatter the Wind Knights too, don't be afraid of losses, and tell them that if they catch those people, the bounty and points will go to them, and we only need people." ”

"All we need are people?" The swordsman was slightly stunned.

"That's an order from above," Lair glanced at the other man, "don't worry, we'll only get more rewards than those things if we catch someone." ”

"These people from above?"

"It's none of our business, don't ask what you shouldn't," Lair replied lightly, "just do your own thing." ”

The swordsman was stunned for a moment, and quickly nodded.

But it was at this time that a sailor rushed up from the deck below. "Mr. Lair, I have just received the news that the Ornoi, the Torch and the Seagull have spotted their targets at the same time, and as we expected, they are coming from the direction of Mount Piried."

Lair immediately dropped the swordsman and turned around and asked, "The position and course of the other party?" ”

"To the southeast of us," said the sailor at once, "the other party is heading for the Onoi, and has not changed course, and we do not know whether they have spotted us, but the Torch and the Seagull have approached. ”

Lair immediately turned to the swordsman and said, "The Ornoi is the ship of the Seabreeze Guild, the Torch is the ship of the Orca Guild, and the Seagull is the ship of the Cast Iron Spear Guild. ”

The swordsman nodded immediately, turned and left.

"Follow me." Lair said a word to the sailor, and immediately turned and walked towards the chart room. By the time he arrived, it was already a busy scene, with navigators of different colours coming and going, and from time to time someone using a ruler and compass to mark the unrolled nautical map, or nailing a pin.

The thirty-three pins represent the position of the thirty-three sailboats above this airspace, and to the north of them, a striking dividing line is drawn with a red ink pen. Behind that, there is the exercise area demarcated by the military.

Lair subconsciously looked at the star tracker in the center of the room, and a faint beam of light was projected from the crystal below the star tracker, projecting three flickering points of light in the space above the star orbiter.

And those three points of light are located by the wind element detector, the position of the three wind ships, the Onoi, the Torch and the Seagull.

A middle-aged man in a captain's coat was biting his pipe and watching the scene, and he turned around to see Lair walking in, and then he said, "You have come just in time, the target has appeared, as long as the Ornoi, Torch and Seagull are not stupid, they will not be able to escape." ”

"How are you doing so far?"

"At present, the Onoi, the Torch and the Seagull have dealt with it quite well, I heard that the opponent is just a small ship, the Torch and the Seagull are both bigger than it, and the firepower is far fiercer than it, and the Onoi is almost the same as our ship, and that small ship will not have a chance."

The captain said as he picked up a pin and thrust it into the chart.

"How far away we are from there."

The captain looked at his pocket watch: "Half an hour." ”

"Mr. Captain, I'll leave it to you."

"Don't worry," replied the aboriginal captain, "I've been in this business for more than twenty years, and it's a little little thing. ”

But just as the two were talking, one of the three points of light on the star tracker suddenly flickered. The largest point of light flickered about two or three times, and then suddenly vanished, without a trace, as if it had never existed in that place.

The two of them were stunned for a moment, thinking that there was something wrong with the projection crystal of the star tracker, but the captain reacted very quickly, and he had already walked up with an arrow step and pressed his hand on the crystal. But he seemed to have adjusted it several times, and the points of light projected on the crystal were always stubbornly only two.

Lair's brows furrowed, and he suddenly asked, "Which ship is the point of light that disappeared?" ”

"It's the Onoi."

The captain replied subconsciously, but after answering, he seemed to suddenly realize the problem - in the previous news, the wind ship was heading towards the Ornoi. His face changed, and he suddenly stood up and shouted in the direction of the microphone:

"Contact the Ornoi and ask what's going on over there?"

There was a murmur of unknown meaning echoing from the microphone, but after a while, a voice rang out: "Captain O'Demiller, we can't reach the Ornoi...... No, it should be said that we can't find a shadow of the Ornoi at all, it's like...... It's as if it disappeared from the wind elemental detector......"

"We don't know if there's something wrong with the wind elemental detector, but the captain's magicians and craftsmen are urgently investigating."

"There's no need to investigate—" Lair said flatly, "Where is the nearest Wind Knight, let them go over and see it at once." ”

But he didn't say anything.

Suddenly, another extremely anxious voice came from the microphone:

"The falconer calls the Torch, the falconer calls the Torch, or any ship that can hear us—"

"We're in trouble, and again, we're in trouble......"

"We are the Wind Riders on the Torch, and we are under attack...... They, they're ......"

The voice was so full of panic and nervousness that it seemed a little choppy. The sudden communication stunned everyone, so much so that there was silence on the microphone for a while, and after a while, Lair shouted, "Ask them what's going on!" ”

"Okay, Captain, we'll do it right away," ...... sound of chaos came from the microphone, as if it was a shout, but there was also the sound of something falling on the ground.

But suddenly, a scream of horror interrupted everyone's movements:

“…… They're coming...... It's a construct! There are a lot, there are so many of them, one, two...... Three, at least three formations ......"

"They're swooping down from the clouds, spread out, spread out!"

Then came a screeching sound.

It was like the sound of metal or something, shattering, and then all sound fell silent, leaving only the rustling aetheric background murmur.

Lair heard the source of the sound—it was the sound of the communication crystal cracking.

He was silent for a long time before he spoke somewhat calmly:

"Fifteen minutes later, contact the men on the Ornoi."

"Ask them ......"

"What's going on."

Lair looked back, "Mr. Captain, please get this ship closer in that direction at once." ”

The aboriginal captain seemed to be still immersed in the shock before and did not react, although he was an old sailor, he had never experienced such a thing. Not to mention, he hadn't actually been involved in a real naval battle - except for a few encounters with air pirates.

He was stunned for a long time before he hurriedly nodded.

……

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