Chapter 733: Forge City and Airship
Through the teleportation array of Zakop City, Ruan Chi and Reba Luna successfully traveled to a human nation closer to the Dwarven territory, and then sat in a carriage across the border under Enstor's arrangement.
At noon the next day, a city of steel appeared in front of Ruan Chi.
System: You discovered Forge City.
On the carriage, Enstow introduced to Ruan Chi: "The Forge City is a large city fortress in the province of Camoranesi in the northwest of the dwarves, built on the mountain, the throat of the Kes Mountains, most of the buildings of the entire city are made of refined black stone, which has extremely high resistance to magic, although it is far from the legendary forbidden magic stone, but it is still very easy to deal with the magic attacks of ordinary small wars. ”
Originally, this guy only needed to help open the teleportation array, but along the way, Enstow was very enthusiastic that he could serve Ruan Chi, not only opening up the joint with other Penglai Pavilion branches with teleportation arrays, but even the airships and locomotive teams on the dwarven side were all prepared by him.
Enstow worked so hard, naturally to win the favor of Ruan Chi, the inspector, and Ruan Chi was also happy to succeed and let him follow.
"To the northwest of Forge City is the territory of the Blood Elves? Shall we take an airship from here? Looking at the huge fortress outside the carriage, Ruan Chi was just concerned about when he could go to the Dragon Clan.
"Yes, the other side of the Melting City is the territory of the Blood Elves, as long as you take the airship, it will take five days at the slowest, and you can reach the Blood Shadow City in three days at the fastest, and at that time, you will have to take a motorized convoy through the Sunset Desert, and you will soon be able to reach the territory of the Dragon Clan."
"Will the Blood Elves allow our airship to enter?" Ruan Chi blinked and asked curiously.
In general, a border like this is heavily guarded. What's more, the blood elves and the dwarves are two races that belong to different camps. Then the border between them should be heavily guarded.
Ruan Chi looked far away. Sure enough, I saw that the thirty-meter-high wall of the Casting City was installed with swarthy cannon barrels, all of which were magic crystal cannons studied by the dwarves.
"Blood Elves, unlike the dwarves, prefer to live in dungeons, so it's impossible for them to build a military fortress on the Kath Mountains, and they don't seem to value the concept of territory as much as other races. ”
"What do you mean?"
Ruan Chi wanted to continue asking, but Enstow was about to answer, but Reba Luna, who had not spoken next to him, said coldly: "That's because the blood elves are some shady guys who like to steal other people's things. In the eyes of the blood elves, anything worth grabbing in this world belongs to them, so the blood elves who are used to robbing around have a very vague concept of territory, and these guys have an indifferent attitude towards others entering their territory, but on the contrary, the blood elves also have a natural attitude towards themselves when they enter other people's territory. ”
"Miss Reba Luna is right, the territory of the blood elves is the smallest of the nine major races in the Miracle Continent, and the territory of their territory is only one-twentieth of that of the human race. This is also due to their personalities. Enstow then added.
Ruan Chi opened the system map, and sure enough, he saw that the territory of the blood elves was almost cowering in a corner in the southwest of the Miracle Continent. Sandwiched between the dwarven territory and the dragon territory, there are no resources in the south except for the boundless bitter sea.
Probably because there are no resources, the blood elves will loot everywhere, remember that when Rachel mentioned the blood elves before, her face did not hide her disgust, Rachel said, in addition to adventurers and assassins, the only profession that the blood elves prefer is bandits. Most of the leaders of the large bandit groups that have appeared in the territory of the Terrans are blood elves.
Ruan Chi didn't see many blood elves, and the only blood elf he had ever fought in his impression seemed to be the only gray killer who worked for the Platinum Consortium.
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Because there was already a branch of Penglai Pavilion in the Casting City, the airship was very well prepared, and when Ruan Chi came to the terminal building, a branch director of the local Melting Casting City had already been waiting for a long time.
"This must be the Inspector, hello, I'm the director of the Penglai Pavilion Melting City Branch, my name is Owen. Gurudil. ”
The director of Forge City was a dwarf, and he greeted Ruan Chi warmly as soon as he saw him.
Ruan Chi nodded, and at the same time looked at the terminal building in front of him very curiously, Ruan Chi has come to the dwarf territory only a handful of times, and when he saw this airship terminal building today, he couldn't help but be amazed in his heart.
The whole terminal building, like most of the buildings in the Casting City, is made of black stone mines, and the dome is hollowed out to let in the sunlight from the outside. The interior is designed without stone pillars, making the entire terminal building look very spacious.
This bold architectural style is simply comparable to the modern architecture of the earth, and the technology of the dwarves is once again beyond Ruan Chi's imagination.
According to Owen's introduction as a dwarf, this airship terminal is actually a military facility of the dwarf clan, which is not allowed to be used by ordinary people.
However, because Penglai Pavilion is too famous, and it has a lot of trade contacts on the dwarven side, so after Owen opened up the relationship, the city lord of Melting City was willing to provide an airship to Ruan Chi.
Under the leadership of Owen, Ruan Chi and the others walked out of the terminal building and came to a very huge tarmac, where Ruan Chi could see more than a dozen huge airships parked there.
Ruan Chi had seen this kind of flying tool developed by the dwarves before, and he saw such an airship throwing "garbage" out of the air in the wasteland of the fraudsters of the Forgotten Land of Oberdo.
According to Owen's introduction, the cost of this airship costs about 300,000~400,000 gold coins, and every time it flies, it needs to consume a large amount of magic cores.
"The biggest trade between our Penglai Pavilion and the dwarves is the business of selling magic cores, and the number of magic cores we supply to the dwarves is as high as 60 tons every year......"
Along the way, Owen also dutifully explained to Ruan Chi the operation of the branch under his jurisdiction, and it seemed that he, like Enstor, really regarded Ruan Chi as an inspector sent down from above to do inspections.
In fact, Ruan Chi didn't know that Owen and Enstow didn't just treat Ruan Chi as an ordinary patrolman. also regarded Ruan Chi as a real high-level Penglai Pavilion.
Penglai Pavilion was originally controlled by the Huaxia people behind the scenes. But because there are too few Huaxia people. There are not many high-level leaders like pure-blooded Chinese like Li Yinong who came to the Miracle Continent to personally manage Penglai Pavilion.
Therefore, Penglai Pavilion occupies the branches of the Nine Cities, and they all hire local talents like Owen and Enstor to serve as supervisors, and black-haired and yellow-skinned Chinese people like Ruan Chi generally only hold important positions at the headquarters.
When the two saw Ruan Chi, their first reaction was that Ruan Chi must be a senior executive of the Penglai Pavilion headquarters, so he stammered so hard, hoping that he would be transferred to the headquarters one day.
Ruan Chi didn't know what the two were thinking. His eyes were now on the airships, which were not very fast, but they had the advantage that anyone could fly into the sky with a little training.
In addition, the most important thing is that the airship can carry a large number of people at a time, and if one day the war comes to Dream Town, when they want to escape, Ruan Chi can also let Rachel and them escape in such an airship.
Ruan Chi is now thinking about whether to pay for an airship to go back immediately in case of trouble. Of course. Ruan Chi was just thinking about it, not really buying it right away. It's not that Ruan Chi is short of money. Instead, Ruan Chi thought that a special means of transportation like an airship should be relatively rare in the Miracle Continent, and it should not be easy for the dwarves to sell it.
"Inspector, we can go up now." Owen's voice came at some point, and Ruan Chi looked up at one of the airships, only to see a long ladder on top of it.
The shape of the airship consists of a hull, powerplant, tail and pod, and looks similar to Earth's hot air balloon, but the airship is larger.
Through the long ladder, Ruan Chi walked to the inner cabin and sat down, the space inside the airship was larger than expected, similar to the cabin of an airplane, and there was a narrow bridge outside.
"Boom!"
Not long after Ruan Chi sat down here, a noisy sound of propeller rotation sounded, this kind of sound Ruan Chi had heard from a distance before, and now the sound of sitting in the cabin was even louder and deafening, this is probably a defect in the design of the airship, and the sound insulation effect is very poor.
As the airship slowly lifted into the air, Ruan Chi saw the Forge City beneath his feet, a huge fortress that almost stretched across the middle of the entire Kath Mountains, isolating the territory of the dwarves from the territory of the blood elves.
System: You entered the Blood Elf territory.
Not long after the airship lifted off, Ruan Chi quickly received a prompt from the system, and through the glass windows on both sides of the seat, Ruan Chi saw a yellow rocky field under the Kesi Mountains.
Similar to the Blood Elf City that passed along the coastline of the Bitter Sea, the Blood Elf territory here was almost all barren rocky land, it didn't grow a single grass, let alone the crops of the Zhuang family, and Ruan Chi couldn't even see any signs of life.
After the defeat of the chaotic camp where the blood elves were located in the Third Throne War, except for the kraken, who could continue to live in the deep sea without being harassed, the blood elves were driven to the most barren southwest of the continent with their eldest dragon clan.
This kind of place is even worse than the north where the orcs live, and the dragons are already very domineering, so the unfortunate ally of the blood elves can only cower on such a small territory, living in a gloomy dungeon all year round.
The flight speed of the airship is not very fast, and when the weather is clear and the field of vision is wide, the fastest flight speed is only 80 kilometers per hour, which is much slower than Nguyen Chi's flight with Gaia's battle qi.
In desperation, Ruan Chi had no choice but to sit in the cabin and doze off, opening the system menu by the way, and turning on the music playback function to pass the time.
The music sounded directly in Ruan Chi's head, and others couldn't hear it, so it was just enough to cushion the noisy propeller sound of the airship in their ears.
Unconsciously, Ruan Chi fell asleep to the long music, and when he woke up, he found that Reba Luna was missing from him, but he was draped with a towel on his body.
Tearing off the towel, Ruan Chi stood up from his seat, just as the door to the cab suddenly opened, and Enstow walked out of it.
"Did the patrol wake up your lordship?" Enstow asked delightfully.
"Hmm." Ruan Chi nodded, yawned again, and then asked, "What time is it?" Where does the airship fly? ”
"Lord Inspector, the sun has just set, and now our location is in the southeast of the Blood Elf Territory, near the Barisai Wasteland on the coastline of the South of the Bitter Sea."
"The shoreline of the Bitter Sea?"
Ruan Chi was stunned for a moment, and then looked outside the window, and sure enough, the sky had darkened, but due to the light and distance, Ruan Chi couldn't see anything.
"Inspector, are you hungry now, I'll immediately order someone to prepare something for you to eat." Enstow said again at this time.
In addition to their few passengers, the airship also has two captains who are responsible for piloting the airship, and three dwarven logistics attendants.
Ruan Chi naturally won't feel hungry if he has a systematic shielding function, but if he is not hungry, others will be hungry, and when he fell asleep just now, Enstow and Owen didn't dare to disturb Ruan Chi, resulting in them and the other people on the airship still haven't eaten dinner.
Ruan Chi waved his hand and said, "Go get something to eat." ”
Enstow hurriedly smiled and said, "Yes, I will order someone to prepare." ”
As soon as Enstow left, Ruan Chi walked to the outside of the bridge of the airship, and when he arrived, Ruan Chi really saw Reba Luna's back.
Although the airship did not fly fast, the wind outside the bridge was still strong at an altitude of several thousand meters, and Rebaluna stood against the edge of the bridge fence, the wind blowing her golden hair to the hunting sound, and the thin black gauze skirt hugged her delicate body, outlining the charming curves.
Ruan Chi was also so blown by the wind that he could barely open his eyes, and when he walked to Reba Luna with his support to the fence, he had to tear his throat and say to her loudly: "What are you doing standing here?" ”
Reba Luna's veil didn't know when it was torn off, but the beauty of the originally beautiful face was completely ruined by two hideous scars, and she stared in a certain direction with a pair of cold eyes, stunned, as if she couldn't hear Ruan Chi's words.
Ruan Chi looked in the direction she was looking, but because she couldn't see anything in the dark night sky, she felt bored, Ruan Chi retracted her gaze, put a hand on Reba Luna's forehead, and joked half-loudly: "This place is so windy, you be careful of catching a cold." ”
"......" Reba Luna still kept her eyes on it, and only after a long time did she open her lips faintly, "Do you know how anxious I am now? ”
"Are you anxious?" Of course, Ruan Chi knew what Reba Luna was anxious about, so he said angrily: "Even if you are allowed to return to Longxia right now, it won't change the fact that your son was injured by the assassin." ”
"At least, I can be there for him." In the raging wind, Rebaluna's voice was erratic, as if it were nothing. (To be continued......)