The steam airship with billowing black smoke, with a loud rumbling sound, slid through the sky a black line of filthy exhaust gases, and headed into the distance. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At first, Ingres stood on the deck and could still blow the wind, comfortably reminiscing about the past. But soon after, black smoke with foul fuel filled the deck, and in an instant all the people on deck were back in the airship.

After Ingres followed the flow back to the airship, Promi returned to his lounge, while Ingres chatted with David in the hall, which had a ring of transparent glass that allowed a clear view of the situation outside. At this time, one side of the outside world has been covered by black smoke.

Ingres could still faintly smell the pungent breath as he looked at the billowing black smoke, and he felt the floor under his feet vibrate, giving him the illusion that the airship would disintegrate at any moment.

Seeing the worry on Angels' face, David smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, this airship has always been like this since I bought it, it has a lot of pollution, weak maneuvering, and the engine is shaking terribly, so there will be no problems." ”

"It's a lot worse than the Savage. Ingres frowned slightly.

"That's for sure, the Savage was ordered from Sky Machinery City within the organization, and this airship was purchased privately, both in terms of price and channel, it is weaker than a notch. ”

As David explained, Ingres understood the difference between the Savage and the airship.

It turned out that almost all of the airships parked in the harbor of Windmill Town were privately operated, and the owner of this airship was a third-level wizard apprentice, who bought the airship to earn money for the ticket price. Because the speed is not fast, only take the short route.

After Davy finished speaking, he pointed out the window: "Look at those people. ”

Angel then looked over, only to see several people in the sky in the distance. Some use magic to fly, while others ride directly on vehicles, and you can see people riding magic pets speeding over the vast land.

"Those who know how to fly can fly on their own, or those who have a vehicle can go by themselves. David sighed with emotion: "After a while, I will also go to the resource distribution hall to buy a flying vehicle, although the speed is not fast, but it takes less than a day to get from the savage cave to Daredevil, which is much faster than the train." ”

"Why don't you try to learn how to fly?" asked Ingres.

David shook his head: "There is so much knowledge that needs to be learned in flying arts, I want to learn it from scratch, and it is estimated that it will take several years." The spell is also expensive, and I don't plan to consider learning flying until I advance to the rank of third-level apprentice. ”

"But you don't need to buy a flying vehicle and make your own. Angel recalls the first time he met David: "If you continue to study that spiral flying vehicle, won't it be able to be used as a flying vehicle?"

At the mention of the spiral aircraft, David's face was shy: "It's just a pure mechanical device, and it can't bring people." ”

"Take your time. "Angel actually plans to study flying vehicles in his heart, but for the time being, it is only an idea, and the specific situation has to go back and look at the "Elementary Alchemy Basic Collection", he remembers that there are several flying vehicle launchers in it, but the scope of application is not clear.

"I also want to study it slowly, but the Frost Moon passage to the outer edge of the abyss will be closed in three months. I'm going to have to go before he closes, so flying vehicles are going to have to be purchased. ”

The two chatted for a while, and Angel said to David: "Yesterday I worked hard overnight, and I haven't rested yet, I'll go back to the lounge to sleep for a while, and then talk when I get to the place." ”

David nodded: "Okay, if you can fall asleep in this environment, I will obey you." ”

Stepping on the shaky floor, Angels walked a little dizzily to the lounge.

Back in the cabin, Angel sighed slightly and took Toby out of his pocket and placed it in his palm.

Toby flapped his wings and brushed his cocked feathers with his beak.

Angel smoothed out its rough feathers, and then whispered as it whispered, "Where's your music box?"

Angel remembers very well that when he went to the attic in the morning to look for Toby, he didn't see the music box. That is, Toby left with the music box.

But when Toby came back from outside in the afternoon, he didn't bring back the music box, and Ingres thought it was strange at the time, but he kept his composure and didn't ask, until this time, when Ingres was going to have a good talk with Toby, he asked this doubt.

Angel asked suddenly, and Toby froze suddenly. Then he turned his head and blinked innocently, with an expression that I didn't understand anything.

Toby made a big move of "pretending to be innocent", after all, the species are different, it doesn't want to answer, and Ingres can't force it.

In this regard, Ingres could only say well: "Because I have a goal in mind, I am desperately moving towards this goal every day, meditating, alchemy, and studying...... My time is almost entirely occupied by these things, and I even rely on dry food to feed my daily diet. You're going to be bored with me all the time. I'm sorry for that, and I'm sorry for Grea-sama's entrustment. ”

It seems that because of the mention of Grea, Toby didn't pretend not to understand anymore, but whispered a "mutter" with a longing emotion.

Because Angel learned from "The Infinite Plane Expedition" that Grea had an accident in the world of Hante, and Angel had been hiding this news from Toby, so he had always felt sorry for Toby in his heart. Just like at noon, Angel found out that Toby had broken the promise of the morning, and he was not angry, also because of this sense of guilt.

"So I'll let you go out, and I won't stop you from making friends. Ingrell paused when he said this: "However, what I want to tell you is that even if mortals are bound by moral laws, they are full of bad people and evil, not to mention the wizarding world without any constraints. The vast majority of transcendent beings are profit-seeking, and even if they have not done anything evil, they are not necessarily good. And they are cunning from heart to mouth. ”

After Ingres counted his kind, he continued to Toby, "You have comprehended the gravitational vein, so I am not worried about your safety, but I am worried that you will be used by others. ”

Toby kept his head down and didn't say anything.

Angel felt that his "fatherly education" should have played a role, so he gently coaxed: "You don't know much about the complexity of the human world, so when you go home this time, you take me to meet your little friend, and I will help you judge, how about it?"

Angel waited for Toby's response with a kind face.

After a long while, Toby raised his head, but his little eyes were still full of innocence: I don't understand what you're talking about.

Seeing this, Ingres wailed and collapsed to the bed in the break room in frustration.

"Well, since you don't listen to me, then let it be. I gave you the music box, and I gave you full authority to deal with it, whether you threw it away, gave it away, or something else, I don't care. But you remember to be extra distracted with everyone and don't trust others completely, this is your protection. ”

Hearing Angel say this, Toby waved his wings and "muttered" a few words.

"You said, you just lent the music box to someone else?" Ingres understood Toby's gesture.

Toby nodded, and muttered a few more times.

"When you go back, your little friend will return the music box to you?"

Toby continued to nod.

Ingres didn't speak, but he didn't have much confidence in it, and the music box wasn't a great thing, but at least it was a work of art. And even Lord Kagamihime, who is standing at the pinnacle of the transcendent realm, praises this, which shows that the music box he refined still has a certain circulation value.

In the wizarding world, where personal interests are paramount, will the things that have circulation value be returned to you after others get their hands on them?

Anyway, Angel didn't expect it.

But he didn't point it out, but nodded to Toby: "That's good, after all, the music box made for you also took a lot of thought from me." ”

That said, Angel decided to wait until the twilight well to buy some Echo Flowers, and when Toby was severely educated by the "indifference of reality", he would make a music box for Toby again.

For Ingres, Toby was his closest friend. A music box is a good thing to make Tobey recognize the reality of the wizarding world.

Either way, Ingres doesn't pop the fairy tale bubble himself, he wants Toby to grow up on his own. It's kind of living up to Grea's trust.

The heart-to-heart conversation with Toby, although it had a slight effect, was a failure overall. But Angel is not worried, many things can only be experienced by himself, and he will understand the useless truth that others say.

Time passed, and after three hours, when the distant sky was full of glow, the airship finally arrived at its destination.

Angel took a nap, so when he stepped down from the airship, he was more energetic.

The airship landed in the middle of a slope of about 30 degrees. There was a wide flat field, and the airship stopped in the middle of it.

He hadn't felt much on the airship yet, but when he got off the airship, Angel felt a chill.

Although it is the height of summer, the Perennial Low Temperature on the Pamiji Plateau shows from the white water on the slopes that it is actually a good day today, at least there is no snow.

Ingres noticed that there were some circular bunker-like structures on the flat land, and there were two blackened caves near the mountain wall, and a railroad track connected the two caves.

David then walked over with Promi.

"It's only half an hour to get from here to Daredevil's center of the earth train, let's wait a while, that apprentice of the private airship has contact with the train management station of Daredevil, we have landed now, presumably the train should enter the station soon. ”

Not long after Promi's words fell, a puff of smoke came out of the cave, accompanied by the smoke and the sound of wheels turning, and the long whistle of a train that seemed to be covered by boiling water.