A month later, the spring in Beijing is too short, like the morning dew, and the days are bitter.

National Peking University, Qin Beiyang had just replaced the light bulb for the library and came out to meet Ouyang Anna. Liu Si rushed to the face, and the two of them staggered to the princess's hall.

"When I was building this palace, I heard a master say that the princess was the fourth daughter of Emperor Qianlong and was named Princess Heshuo and Jia. These four princesses were born with deformities, and their fingers were connected by webbed membranes, like duck paws, which could not be straightened, and like Buddha's hands, and were called 'Buddha's hand princesses'. ”

"Bergamot Princess?" Anna rubbed the jade ring on the middle finger of her left hand and said, "I like it!" ”

"It's a pity that this princess only lived to be twenty-three years old before she died, married to Fukangan's brother, and had a son before her death. After her death, she was buried in the princess's grave by the Tonghui River, and the tomb is still there. ”

"You like tombs."

Qin Beiyang laughed loudly: "I was born in the tomb!" ”

"If I had webbed membranes between my fingers, or six fingers, and I looked like a freak, would you still like me?"

"This ......" eighteen-year-old Qin Beiyang, who was too simple and honest, actually told the truth, "Maybe not." ”

"Hey! I just like your disposition of not telling lies! The men in this world, all of them have sweet words, how can you have a sincere heart. Anna shook her hair, and the curls of her hair came to his eyes, "I'm going to listen to Mr. Qian Xuantong's class, will you go?" ”

"I'm not a college student, so how can I attend classes with you?"

Ouyang Anna poked his armpits: "But didn't you eavesdrop on every lecture of Professor Wang?" ”

She entered the large classroom of the princess's mansion, and Qin Beiyang climbed onto the roof as usual and lifted the tiles to peek.

A moment later, Qin Beiyang was lying on the tiles of the princess's hall, basking in the twilight spring sun, only to see a huge airship rushing out of the clouds.

The airship got closer, revealing spindle-shaped airbags, black cabins underneath, and slower propellers. The white boat is painted with copper coin patterns in the round sky, isn't this the airship in Shanghai Qianke's house?

The students poured into the large playground, and most of them saw the airship for the first time, as if they were seeing a fairy flying out of the sky. Anna came out to see this spectacle, and remembered Qin Beiyang, a young man who fell from the sky on Dharma Mountain in the East China Sea half a year ago.

The airship broke down and stopped, and jumped a young man with glasses, about the same age as the onlookers. Qin Beiyang on the roof is condescending, and he can see it clearly, and it is indeed Qian Ke.

The first one to greet him was Professor Qian Xuantong. It turned out that he was Qian Ke's uncle, and he was from a famous family of the Qian family in Huzhou. This brand-new airship took off from Nanyuan Aviation School, and Qian Ke personally controlled it and flew to Beijing, just in time to visit his uncle Qian Xuantong at Peking University.

A number of professors rushed to take a photo with the airship. Qian Ke was about to return the same way in the airship, when Qin Beiyang rushed to the front: "Do you still recognize me?" ”

"Qin ...... Beiyang? ”

Reunited after a long absence, Qian Ke hugged him warmly.

"Are you here to study at Beijing Nanyuan Aviation School?"

"Yes, I'm free! In addition to learning to fly, I work with Dr. Holstein, and he wants to see you again. ”

"I'd like to see the doctor again, too!"

In fact, Qin Beiyang wanted to relive the wonderful feeling of flying in the sky.

When he and Chanco boarded the airship, Anna tilted her head in a dazee and waved goodbye to the airship.

The airship sets sail. The Forbidden City is already at the foot of the airship. Qin Beiyang saw the scene of the palace for the first time, and counted the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Hall and the Baohe Palace. Pu Yi is still a little emperor in the inner court, and time is frozen under this large piece of golden glazed tiles.

After the noon gate and end gate of the Forbidden City, the airship passed through the towering Tiananmen Square, and the square was not big at that time, and most of them were government buildings. Flying over the Thousand Steps Corridor and the Daqing Gate, you can see the major foreign embassies in Dongjiaomin Lane on the left, and you can clearly distinguish the queue drills of foreign soldiers.

Qian Ke said that the airship was redesigned and built after he came to Beijing. Corresponding to the "Mr. Sai" in Shanghai, this ship is named "Mr. De", which is the English Democracy, Mr. Democrus.

After the Zhengyang Gate, fly straight to the south along the central axis of Beijing, the Temple of Heaven in the east, the Xiannongtan in the west, and you can also see the water surface of Taoran Pavilion. After the Yongding Gate Tower, there are endless fields. In the distance, you can see a beautiful garden with lush vegetation and lakes and marshes reflecting in the sun. The airship crossed the big red gate and landed on the runway. This is where China's first aircraft took off and landed. The year after the Wright brothers' first test flight in the United States, two French planes performed at South Garden. In the second year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, at the suggestion of French military adviser Barisso, purchased six French-made G-4 biplane trainers and opened the Nanyuan Aviation School, the first pilot school in Asia.

"I'm already flying under the guidance of a flight instructor." Chanco patted the plane on the tarmac, "Next year, I'm going to go to France for a work-study program, specializing in aircraft design." ”

Qin Beiyang touched the double-layer wings of the plane and exclaimed: "The feeling of flying in an airplane must be very different." ”

"Of course! Beiyang, I'll take you to see a more interesting baby. ”

The two walked out of Nanyuan Aviation School and came to the arsenal next door with black smoke.

They were greeted by a bespectacled, unkempt, oil-clad Westerner, none other than Dr. Karl Holstein, the chief adviser of the arsenal.

Qi Yuanshan was also trained at the Nanyuan base, and he was not happy when he met unexpectedly. Everyone walked into a dark warehouse, like a crypt and a dungeon. Qin Beiyang smelled a familiar smell, and a bad omen came to his face, and the warm blood jade pendant on his chest began to heat up.

Turn on the light and illuminate two pairs of black wings - a Baskerville hound-like body, wings more than three times as long, strong claws and limbs, and a strangely shaped animal face.

Four-winged angel.

The tomb beast that inhabited the Nanyuan Arsenal was not dead or completely asleep, with a gurgling sound of gears and a slight heat emitting from its body, as if it would open its eyes and come back to life at any time......

Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan held their breath, the tomb beast that had just been excavated from the Jingjiao tomb in Fangshan last month had not been kept in the vault of the Bank of Communications, how could it appear here? It turned out that half a month ago, the War Department requisitioned this tomb beast and transported it to the Nanyuan Arsenal for transformation.

"You still want to use the Tomb Beast to fight?"

Qin Beiyang was furious, this was the monster he and the Nine Colors captured under the dungeon at the risk of having their heads cut off by Iron Wing.

"No...... Use it to ...... Flight! ”

The doctor spoke in stammering Chinese, and Qian Ke expressed it completely for him: "The four-winged angel town tomb beast, the four wings have powerful flight ability, just like the biplane of our Nanyuan Aviation School." If we can master its operating principle and transform and copy it, we can build Chinese's own flying machines. It's as if the Germans had a zeppelin, and we had the four-winged angel. ”

"You're saying - the future Tomb Beast will not only fight on land, but also take to the skies?"

"The Flying Town Gravemon will change history." "We are repairing its damage, restoring its four broken wings, and adding an aero engine to its heart." According to popular Western parlance, it is a 'soul machine'. ”

"Spirit...... What body? ”

Chanco pointed to the chest of the Four-Winged Angel Tomb Beast: "The so-called 'soul machine' is the combination of modern mechanical power and spiritual power. Although, the 'soul machine' has been rejected by mainstream academia as a pure scientific hoax, just like psychic powers and soulological research. But the truth is often in the hands of a few. ”

"I ...... Do not understand! ”

Qin Beiyang has some low self-esteem, his highest education is only the third grade of primary school, and he followed his father to learn craftsmanship. Even though he was well-read and self-taught in the "Heavenly Library", his knowledge of Western science was still at the stage of a German primary school student.

Dr. Karl Holstein lit a cigarette and did not shy away from the "No Fireworks" warning posted on the wall.

"I've been obsessed with the 'Soul Machine' for ten years. It wasn't until I discovered that a thousand years ago Chinese craftsmen had made the oldest 'soul machines'. The Doctor returned to his native language, "Qin, your father is the greatest 'soul machine' engineer of our time. ”

"But it's against the rules of our ancestors."

"In the twentieth century, all the old rules are gone! Only the 'Soul Machine' is eternal. ”

Holstein stroked the head and broken wings of the four-winged angel like a child of his own.

The tomb beast is eternal, and the nine colors are eternal—Qin Beiyang said to himself in his heart.

"Qin, I hope you will inherit your father's work, stay in the Nanyuan Arsenal, and work with us to transform the four-winged angel, we will create the world's first flying tomb beast."

Qin Beiyang wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at the tomb beast, and shook his head resolutely: "No, please send the four-winged angel back to the bank vault, this is a cultural relic, not a weapon." ”

"I'm sorry, Qin, this is an order from the War Department, be sure to transform this tomb beast."

Facing the doctor's blue eyes, Qin Beiyang took two steps back, and Jiu Se and Tang Dao were not by his side, crying out in vain.

"Why didn't they send the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty over?"

Qi Yuanshan was still mature and sophisticated, tugged at his arm, and whispered: "Think about it in the long run, let's go first." ”