Chapter 4 'Affairs' related to docking and rest
The wind elemental detector couldn't help but make a sudden sound, and Kita wrapped herself in a blanket, looking intently in the direction of the crystal in the dim environment. The dial of this rudimentary detector was eight crystals, and she looked at the one to the north, which hadn't lit up for a long time, not even a trace of background clutter.
Fang Yuan's voice came from inside the microphone: "Ji Ta, have we gotten rid of them?" ”
"It seems to have been shaken off," Kita glanced at the crystal again, "Brother Ed, there hasn't been any movement in the north. ”
Fang Yu's relieved voice came from the microphone. The Cowlings chased them for two days and two nights, so that he almost thought that the other man was crazy or not, and whenever he mentioned it to Sylvid, the latter laughed and said that it was probably the Prime Minister who took her father too seriously.
But he also thought privately that a secret hidden to the Third World might indeed be worth paying so much attention to.
Luo Hao, who was outside, heard the conversation inside, and then lifted the curtain and walked in, interjecting: "Commander, if we get rid of the Kaulin people, I suggest that we better stop and overhaul it." I checked the pipe that had a problem, and the pressure inside was getting bigger and bigger, and I was worried that something was wrong. ”
"Yes," Fang Yu replied, in fact, even if it was not overhauled, the Seven Seas Traveler would have to find a place to rest. Because of the hurry of leaving Tansnir, in fact, the upper deck has not yet been fully built, and it is usually fine, but if it encounters some bad weather, it will cause big problems.
However, there were timber and other materials on board, and it didn't take long to repair the deck.
The other point was that they also had to stop to look for supplies, and the ship had enough food for a week, but the water was really gone. They desperately need to find a place to dock and find a drinkable, clean source of water.
"Wait another hour," Fang Plover looked at the clouds outside the window, "if there is no movement in the north in an hour, we will descend below the clouds first." ”
"No problem." Over there, Luo Hao answered.
An hour later, there was still no incident.
The box and Luo Yu got up and replaced Luo Hao and Ji Ta, who had been on duty for twelve hours, and for forty-eight hours, they had been on duty in pairs to maintain the operation of the magic guide cabin.
On the sail side, Baggins and Parker also changed the class of Big Cat Man and Pasha, in fact, the team of two people was far from enough to control the Seven Seas Traveler's eleven sets of sails (including side wingsails), two sails and six spinnakers, but this was only a last resort with insufficient manpower.
And when the wind direction does not change much, it is barely usable -
The Seven Seas Traveler began to slowly descend and break through the clouds.
Fang Yu also rubbed his eyebrows, he hadn't closed his eyes for almost twenty-four hours, and others could take turns, but he, the one who gave orders, couldn't do it. Sylvide and Baggins could do it for him, but they have their own jobs.
After the ship broke through the clouds, it was imperative to find out where they had been, and theoretically they had sailed south for two days and two nights, and if they had not deviated, they should have entered the Misty Fjord.
That's the area they originally planned to be the place to ship.
When the wind boat broke out of the clouds, Fang Yu found that his premonition was not too different.
Beneath the clouds, the fog was thick and like smoke, and only the outline of the cliff could be faintly seen in the distance, and a steep rocky mountain was slowly passing below the Seven Seas Traveler.
The landform below is a typical empty gorge. "Sylvide," Fang Plover began, "help us determine the coordinates." ”
The ship's officer, who was in front of a standing cabinet, turned around and nodded lightly at his words, put a roll of maps in it, closed the glass window, and walked back to the star tracker.
She observed the scale of the track erected on it, then flicked the rail with her hand, and then picked up an instrument to measure it.
At this time, a sky blue voice came from the microphone: "Do you think we will be so lucky to drive to the same place that Miss Sylvid said before?" ”
But Fang Ou didn't expect them to be so lucky, otherwise the fjord that Sylvid had said could be used as a site for a shipyard, and would have been an excellent place to recuperate.
However, the Misty Fjord, stretching from Dohrin in the east to Nognes in the south, is nearly one-third the size of Istania. It's too hard to navigate exactly within this area to the right fjord.
And the truth shatters their illusions.
Sylvid straightened up from the side of the star tracker. "We should be in D2340781, near D2350780, this place should be right in the middle of the Misty Fjord," she smiled, "quite far from the place I said." ”
In the microphone, Sky Blue let out a 'oh' in disappointment.
However, Fang Yu was not disappointed, this was a matter of course, and he didn't give up hope.
"Ed, this place is far from the normal course," Sylvid said abruptly, looking at the star tracker, "Generally speaking, no ship will come here, it looks like we're deflecting badly." ”
"Is there any danger here?" Fang Yu asked.
Sylvid shook her head, "I don't know much about this place either. ”
She whispered, "There are generally two routes through the Misty Fjord, one east and one west, and the east one goes north along the Misty Fjord, passing through the southern foothills of the Crimson Mountains and entering the southern border of Kaulin. The one to the west goes directly to the sea off the coast of Hanruina, and goes straight to Nognes. ”
Sylvid looked up at the fog outside the window and continued, "Little is known about the Misty Fjord, few people come here, it used to be a hiding place for pirates, and then even pirates are decreasing. ”
Fang Yuan frowned when he heard this, this place sounded like that kind of unknown place that was inaccessible to the people, because it was too troublesome to venture in the fog, and there was nothing special to produce in the Misty Fjord, so even the Chosen One was willing to come here.
Such places should be circled on the map with a thick, red pen and marked with the word danger. But there wasn't much they could do right now, and the Seven Seas Traveler had to find a place to dock and recuperate, even though it seemed like a troubled place.
"Let's go along the fjord first," he said after a moment's thought, "put the sails away, slow down, and be careful not to hit the mountain." If we find a suitable place, we will stop again to resupply. ”
All those on duty are in the microphone.
Half of the sails were folded, the Nanami Traveler slowed down, and it would take some time to get down high enough to see the land below.
The kitchen was lit up, and the orange glow cast into the mist, and Miss Attila boiled the water and prepared to cook. She had to prepare steaming food for two shifts of people twenty-four hours a day, relying on Tang Xin and Ai Xiaoxiao to help her.
Xie Sista brought a hot drink to the two of them in the captain's room, Fang Yu said thank you and took it, he was not idle at this time, and checked the information of the creatures in the Misty Fjord in the community, only to find that due to the lack of sunlight all year round, the surface vegetation and biome are actually quite poor, and most of them are inhabited by flying creatures.
This made him frown even more, if it was a flying creature, wouldn't it be a threat to the Seven Seas Traveler?
The horned lizard crawled up and down on his desk, tilting its head from time to time to look at him with dark eyes, and Kita set up its nest on the ceiling of the captain's quarters, where the guests of the Seven Seas Brigade made a new home.
And he didn't think of himself as an outsider at all.
Nini and Miss Elf were on the other side of the desk, lying on top of a stack of books, showing her small white fangs, glaring nervously at the uninvited guest, threatening it with her eyes not to approach.
Tata fiddled with a page of light in front of him, quietly helping him look things up above the community.
Fang Yu looked at the little 'sisters', and everything that happened in that world not long ago didn't seem to have any effect on them. After Nini 'ate' Descartes' divine power, there seemed to be no change except that the flames were a little brighter and more active when she opened her teeth and claws.
The only change is that he can have some sense of his brilliance, but it is not as obvious as in Descartes' world. He was going to find a time to experiment, but he obviously didn't have the opportunity right now.
On the other hand, the abilities that Miss Tata displayed in the spiritual world at that time naturally could not be seen again in the real world. But now that the Seven Seas Traveler is already available, with the help of the Fairy Heart, maybe Miss Tata can also exert her ability to use 12/12.
This also requires a time to test it out.
As if sensing his gaze, Miss Fairy turned her head and looked at him with emerald green eyes: "Mr. Knight, do you need to inquire about anything?" ”
"By the way," Fang Yu came back to his senses, "You can help me check the news from Istania, is there any repercussion to our actions?" ”
Tata nodded quietly and looked back.
However, the results of the search are unexpected, and the information here should not have been transmitted back to Kaolin for the time being, and the Kaolin people have not reacted for the time being, and the community is quiet.
However, since he did so, he naturally expected the consequences, and the wanted of the Kaulin Kingdom would be sooner or later. On the side of the Super Athletic League, because their previous negotiations broke down, maybe they will come to him for trouble.
He also had to explain to the Xingmen Port side that his relationship with the military was about the only place worth consoling. If it weren't for that, he wouldn't dare to make such a decision rashly.
In addition, in the battle not long ago, it ended in the complete defeat of Descartes, but according to Xing, when the world collapsed, most of the people who remained in it never came back.
This made him think of those people in the Dragon Fire Guild, if they never came back, what did it mean they had gone? Will it return to Earth, or will it disappear completely?
With this question in his mind, he couldn't help but want to ask someone from the military to verify it, of course—now is not the time.
After the Seven Seas Traveler parted the fog, the outline of the gap below became clear.
The place was even more barren than expected, with only bare cliffs in the distance in the fog, and the rocks were gray and formed in various shapes in the mist.
Those rocks with teeth and claws slowly retreated, silent and silent, like a mime.
Fang Yu looked out the window, and it was hard to imagine that there would be any supplies to be found in this place, but the ship's elemental detector detected a water elemental enrichment area to the east, and he thought that there would probably be a river there.
The food was unthinkable, he just hoped that he could find a clean water source in that place.
He ordered the Seven Seas Traveler to reroute, but soon, they ran into the expected trouble—
It was an arrowtail buzzard.
Sky Blue first saw this huge bird flying under the side of the ship on the side of the Seven Seas Traveler from the watchtower, and the little girl was so frightened that she couldn't stop screaming in the microphone.
"I see a big bird," she cried out in horror, "it, it, its wings are as big as a sail, come out quickly, is it going to attack us!?" ”
When Fang Plover pushed open the door from the captain's room, he saw Baggins looking up in one direction in the mist, and the others were also coming up from below deck.
"An arrow-tailed buzzard." The experienced old sailor turned around, looked at Fang Yu and said.
Fang Plover knew that kind of creature—a giant bird of prey that preyed on the empty seas, was usually accustomed to living in isolation, and had a strong sense of territory—that could reach an adult level of twenty-seven or more, growing to a third the size of the Seven Seas Traveler, and had a high IQ, and was a flying creature that was very threatening to sailboats.
He didn't expect them to be so lucky, and they came across this thing as soon as they came up.
At this moment, the whirring wind came, and Fang Plover looked up, just as he saw the bird of prey flying over the Seven Seas Traveler. It flapped its huge wings and rolled up vortices, with a wingspan of at least twelve meters.
The giant bird swept past the windboat, and the two iconic arrow tails of the other party disappeared into the mist in an instant, and the air currents it brought up almost made the Seven Seas Traveler shake for a moment.
Fang Yuan opened his mouth-
An adult arrowtail buzzard, and it seems to be a little larger than an ordinary arrowtail buzzard, I am afraid that it is an elite individual.
"We've trespassed into its territory," Baggins said, "be careful, it might attack us next." ”
"What are we going to do?" Ai Xiaoxiao's voice trembled, she didn't expect that there was so much danger on the empty sea, the giant bird's fangs and claws frightened her, and she closed her eyes as if she had seen herself swallowed.
"Just knock it down," Parker said with a big grin, "with a ballista, don't we have another ballista?" ”
But Fang Yu knew that this proposal was purely a joke, the ballista could not keep up with the speed of the arrowtail buzzard, and the ballista was on the bow of the Seven Seas Traveler, and this big bird would not easily enter the firing range.
Now that the fog is thick, the Seven Seas Traveler is having a hard time catching up with the agility of an arrow-tailed buzzard. He glanced at the half-loaded gun mount at the stern of the ship, and thought that it would be good if the magic guide cannon from the Craftsmen's Guild had been brought over, and it would come in handy right now.
Moreover, the batch of battle equipment promised to them by Her Royal Highness also remained in the Tansnir Artisan Guild in vain, originally thinking that they had plenty of funds now, and these things would be lost.
But before I could get to the next port, I encountered an occasion to use these things-
He had used the flexible construction of his reserves in the previous battle, and he couldn't even come up with any means to fight at the moment, but there were still some 'silver bees' left, but they didn't pose a threat to this big bird at all.
However, Fang Yu was still calm, he looked at the mast first, and shouted: "Sky Blue, you come down first, be careful that it may attack you." ”
He immediately said to Baggins and the box, "Mr. Baggins, you go up, one left and one right, on the mast, and wait for it to come over and see if it can try to attack—"
"No problem," said Baggins, who was an old sailor after all, drew his scimitar and climbed up the mast.
The box also nodded silently, looking very indifferent, and walked over, just looking up at the mast in a daze.
Tianlan was already scared of the six gods when she hid in the watchtower, and she hurried after listening to Fang Yuan's words, but she had an expression that was about to cry, "I, how should I get down." ”
Luo Yu raised his head and said, "Tianlan, you can just jump directly." ”
"Then I'm really jumping."
Sky Blue shrunk and climbed out of the watchtower, looking down with a blank face, but she was still bold enough to close her eyes and leap outward.
But it was at this moment that an eagle crowed, and the wind whistled, and the huge bird of prey appeared from the side of the Seven Seas Traveler again, flapping its wings and swooping down towards the sky blue in mid-air.
Tianlan had already opened her eyes when she heard the sharp cry, and she almost screamed in fright when she saw this scene: "Help! ”
But Fang Yu had expected this scene, and thought that the cunning of the arrow-tailed bustard was indeed worthy of its name, and at this moment there was a gunshot behind him, and the flames burst out, and a golden ray staggered past the giant bird.
The arrowtail buzzard flapped its wings to dodge the shot—
It turned in mid-air and looked down, and in the dark pupils, a beautiful lady with a silver firearm was reflected, and she pulled the bolt of her gun, and a golden bullet shell jumped down with smoke and bullets.
But before it could make the decision to dive down again to retaliate, Baggins on the mast bit the scimitar in its mouth, and then swooped down from mid-air.
Lunge down on the back of the great bird of prey.
The arrowtail bustard apparently didn't expect that there was another person on top of the mast, and he turned over in shock, trying to throw Baggins off his back in mid-air. But the boatswain grabbed its long feathers, took the scimitar from its mouth with his backhand, and stabbed it with one stab.
A bright silver light caught the flat-haired monster's eyes, and at the last moment, it slid sideways toward the mast. Baggins's knife went down, although this strange bird would probably be accountable - but he himself hit the mast like this, I am afraid it is also more than lucky.
"Mr. Baggins," after Tianlan was cast a wind feather spell by Luo Yu, he slowly fell, raised his head, and just saw this scene, and couldn't help but shout: "Get out of the way!" ”
Fang Yu also shouted: "Mr. Bargins, get out of the way!" ”
The boatswain turned his head and saw that he had no choice but to give up the slash that was bound to be hit. He reached out and grabbed a cable that came across it, swinging in mid-air, and then falling back to the mast.
The Arrowtail Buzzard chirped triumphantly, looked back, and was ready to turn in mid-air, and then stretched out its claws to pounce on the boatswain. The arrow-tailed buzzard is an extremely aggressive bird with a strong vindictive mentality.
But it was only halfway through the turn when the box below suddenly shot under the first mast with an arrow, drew its sword with its backhand, and a silver light flashed, and the cable tied there broke with the sound.
The general sail that was rolled up in mid-air hung down with a whirl, and its head fell towards the arrow-tailed buzzard. No matter how cunning this big bird is, he never expected this scene, and he was covered on the spot.
Its wings were tangled in the sails, and it lost its balance and crashed headfirst into the bow of the Seven Seas Traveler. The tremendous force of the impact almost knocked the ship downward, creaking and tilting in the direction of the bow.
Everyone subconsciously grabbed the railing or cable around them, and Fang Yu grabbed Ai Xiaoxiao, who was sliding down in that direction in a daze, with a backhand, and shouted to Luo Yu on the side:
"Trap it!"
In fact, there is no need for him to say that the moment the arrowtail buzzard fell to the ground, Luo Yu had already raised the elemental staff in his hand with one hand.
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