Chapter 144: A Difficult Journey
The stars are moving, and the light and shadow are suddenly closed.
The Voyage came to a halt after his longest gallop in the past few days, and they arrived at their destination in seconds according to the proposed sailing plan, and after the wrench recalculated the performance of the new engine.
When the engine stopped, Arthur came out of his gym sweaty, a towel on his shoulder and a ditty humming.
The clouds cleared, and the worries of so many days were finally gone, and he no longer had to worry about the safety of his teammates, no longer had to be destroyed by the thought of starving to death in the endless cosmic nothingness, and he had anxiety and insomnia day and night.
Before the last jump, he hurriedly hid in the gym to exercise, and he found that this was the only way to avoid his tendon-like sense of crisis sending him overly sensitive signals, venting his energy between cast iron and lead, and raising the limits of patience again and again.
He was keen to do so, and as the default safety captain of the team, he trained himself to maintain his best physical fitness during the journey, and almost missed out on the Sailing.
Back in the base camp of Aeskudabis, who was trying to recruit him, Lilac and Eddie, who were trying to recruit him, asked him about his personal requirements for the journey, and he made only one request, and that was that there must be a gym on the traveling ship.
But the Voyage did not have such luxuries, and it was Lilac's assurances and his constant lobbying efforts that made the largest storage compartment on the ship look like it is today, with all the equipment in the room coming from Arthur's personal luggage, and when he drove the yearning sweeper to load cargo to the ship again and again, he remembered Eddie's surprised but understanding eyes, which made him feel warm.
Unlike the private demands of the other members who disdain him, Arthur is especially disdainful of the request made by Rag Hu: to have a hot bath.
Also a fighting people, the Barrecas have a natural trust and affection for the Fishskins, and they welcome the arrival of this rare large, aquatic fishskin, but they are also dismissive of his lazy personal habits.
He also once invited Raghu into his gym to work out together, and this privilege he did not give to his teammates Wrench and Death.
Fishskin Man is a natural force and began to work out with Arthur for two days, and was able to complete all the requirements of the safety captain and fitness instructor, but then he stopped coming, for which he gave Arthur a jaw-dropping explanation: he liked to take a shower and didn't like to sweat.
Arthur has no temper at all about this, because no matter how he practices, he still has to lose to the Rag Hu, and people's strength is born and nurtured, and he can't pray. But when he was surprised to find out in the battle that this big fat man who could tear the enemy to pieces was focused on long-range blocking, he almost pulled his neck and scolded his mother.
A few days ago, as a promise, he finally coaxed Eddie to the gym, and little Kande was very obedient, standing aside patiently and smiling as he explained various technical movements, which made him addicted to coaching.
But the problem is that the equipment in the gym, even the smallest equivalent level, Eddie can't push it, and he can't use the strength to feed. This was a big blow to Arthur, who was originally full of energy, so he had to teach him to do pre-exercise warm-up exercises such as hip lifts, squats, flexions and extensions, and then the little Kander didn't come the next day, and the explanation to Arthur sounded reasonable: I could do it in my room.
Arthur didn't intend to turn Add into a warrior at all, protecting the Kander was his only purpose and only mission to enter the team, he was just scared of Add's body that fainted at every turn, the Barrecas who were too sensitive to danger had played the same role in another traveling team, and his previous suzerain's body was very good, and he never had the impression that Eddie fell in the wind like this.
After finishing the exercise, Arthur went directly to the cockpit, Eddie and Lilac were already there, and the fairy man couldn't help frowning when he saw Arthur's appearance, pinching his nose and flying away.
"Come to the public area with a stinky sweat, and let people live?" Lilac scolded.
Arthur was about to fight back nonchalantly, when the threat warning lights in the cockpit suddenly began to flash, and the wrench sitting in the driver's seat was responding quickly, his fingers bouncing rapidly on the control panel.
"What's wrong? Haven't we stopped moving? "After these days of blows, the wolf-headed people have almost suffered from a phobia of migration.
"There's a combat airship coming, and we've been locked in close proximity." Lilac looked at the threat interface pulled out by the wrench and gave an alarm explanation, and the multi-armed monster did not look back, holding the steering stick with the upper and lower hands, and the two in the middle adjusted the flight parameters of the spacecraft, drawing up various emergency preparations.
"There's news coming in from the emergency communications channel." Add pointed to the control screen to remind the wrench, and the multi-armed man nodded, his finger swiping lightly on the panel, and a few lines of text from the other party appeared on the holographic screen.
…… For routine military inspections, please turn off the engine, show the voyage code, and we will perform standard scanning procedures......
Such prompts are written on the screen in lingua franca, high cande, the language of the Eunice Outer Language, and the graphic language of Deux Calion.
…… Please identify the examiner......
Wrench replied on the screen in lingua franca, and he had identified on the detector that the two ships that had locked on to them were the most advanced Saloman strike fighters in the human fleet.
Sure enough, the other party quickly replied: 106 Combat Flight Squadron of the Second Fleet of the Military Committee of the Silver Alliance.
"They're coming at us?" Lilac was surprised.
"These persevering bastards!" Arthur gritted his teeth and hated, "Chasing from Qilian all the way to here is to make sure that we didn't hang up halfway!" He turned to get out of the cockpit. Undead, raging, ready to fight. He drank.
"Wait." Eddie stops him. "Humans wouldn't know we were coming to the Anawli, and if that were, it would be too much of a coincidence for them to appear."
"Our last replenishment was at 'Thoclos', that's a public record, and I bet even the Disfaradhoos know we're going to the Andro Sea, how can these smiling bitches not know? Be sure to do it first! They will never let us go. Arthur broke free of Eddie and strode towards the main passage.
"Arthur, you stop!" Eddie shouted.