After breakfast at the palace, the team to Chizhou is ready to go.

The queen mother of Shanglin prepared a travel leather bag for each person, which contained a sleeping bag, clothes, dry food and water cups, and the queen also gave each person ten gold coins for the expenses after arriving in Qizhou.

Both Kabayashi and Kapok wore a trench coat to protect them from the wind and rain, and a sword was pinned to their waists, and Kapok carried his bow and arrows on his back.

The King of Songs and the King of Misty Soup personally saw off several teenagers.

Shanglin's spaceship was parked in the back garden of the palace, when the weather was sunny and the warm sun was shining on the earth, and the three masters of Shanglin had already carefully inspected the various instruments and facilities in the hot air balloon and gondola in the back garden.

At the command of the King of Songs, the masters lit the burners, and the flames rose, and the hot air slowly spread the huge colored cloth and then suspended it in the air, and the six blue metal ropes that connected the gondola were taut.

The cabin is open on all sides, with two rows of leather seats at the front and in the middle, for a total of four seats. At the back of the cabin is a large blue metal tank connected by pipes to the burner at the top of the hull, and a ceramic tank used to store water is also placed at the back of the cabin.

The teenagers climbed into the gondola, and Shang Lin and Wang Fan Zhen'er sat in the front row, and in front of Shang Lin's seat was the operation console of this specially built spaceship. Ah Hu and Kapok sat in the back row, their travel bags at the bottom of their respective seats.

The King of Songs was full of joy and said, "Today is an auspicious day, let the five warriors who have gone out on the expedition set out!" I wish you all a safe arrival on the other side of the sea to the land of Qizhou on the other side of the sea! ”

When the spaceship was about to take off, the King of Mitang said solemnly to his son: "Kapok, on the way, you must learn more from your friends in Shanglin and the outside of the sky, and you can't leave the team and run around without permission!"

"Yes! Father. Kapok replied solemnly.

The hot air balloon slowly rose into the air, Shanglin whistled with his finger in his mouth, and a big white bird flew from a tree in the back garden to the gondola like an arrow, with a yellow cloth belt around its neck, Wang Fan saw that its appearance looked very similar to the eagle common in the mountains at home.

The big bird stood on the deck in front of the forest, and it looked at the two strangers and a small man with two gray shining eyes.

Shanglin touched its smooth feathers and said to Wang Fan and Zhen'er: "It is a petrel that I trained, it is very smart, it can help me deliver letters, my uncle's family lives in Gran Island, the hot air balloon has to fly with the wind for a day to arrive, anything is the petrel to help us deliver letters." Because it is a messenger, we call it a letter swallow. ”

Kabayashi steered the hot air balloon with its back to the morning sun and flew towards the sea to the west, and the balloon was at least 100 meters above the ground. The people sitting on the gondola all stood up and stretched out their heads to look down, the oncoming wind was very cool on their faces, and they saw that the streets of the city were full of people, people looked up at the hot air balloon, and Shanglin waved to them excitedly.

The golden dome of Princess City and the royal palace in the center of the city faded away before disappearing from view.

Facing the sparkling sea, Wang Fan stopped to watch and his heart was full of joy, and the sea in his dream was in front of him! But the sea was not blue as he had imagined, but purple red like the sky.

Hot air balloons fly over the sea with gondolas, various seabirds chirp happily around the gondolas, and the sea is dotted with more than a dozen boats of all sizes with colorful sails.

The sea is calm, and the tiny waves glow golden in the sun.

Less than ten minutes into the flight, the outline of an island mountain appeared in the sky ahead.

Shanglin turned around and said, "Ah Hu, there is the Demon Viewing Island in front, where you can see the Kraken." After those islands are the deep sea, and the Kraken is generally active in the deep sea. However, the Kraken seems to be afraid of the sun, and they are rarely observed during the day like this. ”

The island is made up of several island hills of various sizes, with several striking red houses on top of the highest hill. The hot air balloon flew over a low island hill, and soon after flying over the island, the sea gradually became rough.

After looking at the sea for a long time, I felt a little dizzy, and several people sat down.

Ah Hu said, "Shanglin, you tell us about the structure and working principle of this spaceship, so that we can take turns to control it on the way." ”

Shanglin turned around and said, "Good! This spaceship Kapok is also the first time to sit on this spaceship, and you have to listen carefully if you want to drive this spaceship.

It took my father a lot of time to dismantle the lifeguard pod left behind by my grandfather Hal, and then spent a lot of time and effort figuring out the functions of the various parts, and almost all the parts of the lifesaver were used in this ship.

Let me first talk about the construction of the gondola, which is made of a very strong and light wooden plank, and in order to prevent collision damage when landing on the ground, the bottom of the hull is covered with a layer of blue gold sheets.

Blue gold was discovered and smelted by my grandfather in the grassland, although blue gold and gold are different colors, they have many characteristics in common, blue gold is not only wear-resistant but also easy to process into various shapes. This gas canister made of blue gold is the main part of the burner, and it is filled with ice and firestone. ”

"What is an Ice and Fire Stone?" Wang Fan asked curiously.

"I know!" Kapok Zi was the first to say, "I dived into the sea with Shanglin to find it, it is a white stone hidden at the bottom of the sea, and it can be burned with a little fire. ”

"Ice and fire can be used in hot air balloons much better than burning oil," Kabayashi continued, "Ice and fire stones can produce flammable gases when exposed to high temperatures, but they will stop gasification when they reach a certain pressure, and this gasification tank designed by my father can be easily started and closed, so that the firepower of the burner and the height of the hot air balloon can be automatically adjusted."

Speaking of the hot air balloon above, although the colored cloth is very large, it is not heavy, and the cotton that can spin this cloth is found by my grandfather on the Gobi Desert outside the prairie, and the flower name is silver filigree, and the cloth woven with this filigree can be both fireproof and waterproof. Later, in order to prevent air leakage and insect bites, my father boiled a kind of insect nest called a fire insect nest into a soup and applied it with paint on the cloth, and it became this colored cloth. ”

"The structure is easy to understand," Hu said, "but I observed that this spaceship was floating in the wind in an unknown direction, how could it reach its destination?" ”

Ah Hu's question is exactly what Wang Fan wants to ask, he has been thinking that Qizhou is on the west side of the sea, and only the east wind can blow the hot air balloon to the west, but common sense tells him that the wind direction can change at any time.

Shanglin smiled: "Yes, we will be blown back to the prairie by the wind if we are not careful, hehe......"

The companions were also amused.

Kabayashi retracted his smile and said, "It's impossible for an ordinary hot air balloon to fly in a straight line, but as long as it's not stormy weather, we can try up and down a few more times, and we can often find the wind blowing in the direction we want to go." Even if we can't find the wind direction we need, our ship can still fly in a straight line, and the flywheels you see on the roof and front and back are used to adjust the direction of flight.

But my father said that my grandfather's lifeguard was used for escape rather than long-distance flights, so the power system had very limited energy. We can only activate the propulsion system when necessary, such as if we are too far away from the established course or we have to land on a small island, and the anti-gravitational system is only activated when we make an emergency landing. ”

"Hey, Shanglin, do you have a fishing rod in the cabin?" Kapok suddenly shouted, his attention just now was obviously not on the structure of the ship.

"Absolutely!" "I put two fishing rods in the stern of the boat. At the ends of this gondola are warehouses with spare ice and flint, oars, wetsuits, etc., as well as two swords. Because the combined weight of several of us is lighter than the weight of my three masters, this time we brought more ice and fire stones than usual. ”

Wang Fan said happily: "It's great to have a fishing rod!" We were able to fish when we landed on the island. ”

He has been yearning for fishing since he was a child, and there are also small fish and shrimp in the streams and rivers in the mountains, for this reason, Wang Fan has made his own fishing rod and hook to catch fish in the river, but because the hook is too bad, he has tried several times and has not caught a fish.

"I can fish too!" Zhen'er, who had been silent, suddenly said loudly.

Zhen'er's shout woke Xinyan, who had fallen asleep, and she looked at Zhen'er disapprovingly and closed her eyes. Kapok looked at Zhen'er condescendingly and said seriously: "Zhen'er, if you go fishing now, you will definitely be eaten by the fish!"

"You bad fat man!" Zhen'er scolded Kapok.

The crowd laughed.

After a conversation, Shanglin turned to look at the meter in front of him and said, "Ah, we are too far off course, I have to start the flywheel and turn south, otherwise I won't be able to reach Grand Island." ”

Ah Hu looked at Shanglin and said, "Shanglin, it's too slow to rely on the wind alone, I can let your spaceship speed up, and tell me when you return to the course." After Ah Hu finished speaking, he stood up, took off his coat, took off his hood, and revealed a smooth appearance, and then he walked towards the stern of the boat.

His companions looked at him in amazement, only to see Ah Hu lying on the aft deck, his hands clutching the edge of the boat. Shanglin quickly understood what Ah Hu was going to do, and soon, Shang Lin said loudly: "Ah Hu, the spaceship is back on course!" ”

A jet of air erupted from behind Hu's feet, and the gondola swayed forward for a moment, then accelerated significantly. Shanglin looked at the dashboard and said excitedly: "Ah Hu, the flight speed has doubled!" If we fly like this, we can reach my uncle's house at noon today. ”

Kapok Zi and Wang Fan's faces bloomed with joy.