The weather was sunny and cloudless.

Such weather is best for flying.

Imperial Capital Airport has a total of four runways, of which runway 4 is much shorter than the other three, and is reserved for private jets taking off and landing.

Early in the morning of July 3, a group of high-value, high-style aristocratic men and women walked to the VIP waiting room dedicated to Runway 4 under the escort of the subordinates.

At the forefront were captain and bassist Gu Yang and drummer Virgil.

Lead singer Eliza and guitarist Ziyin walked behind them, talking and laughing.

After that, there were four attendants and servants.

Gu Yang and Virgil are juniors, both 21 years old. They had long since stopped using the original minions, and instead had Daybreaker as their direct attendants.

Gu Yang's attendant is named Kevin. He is tall and big, mediocre in appearance, silent all year round, not smiling, but clean and neat in doing things, and hard-working, it can be said that he is the most suitable for the position of an attendant. Now he is dragging a box with a net weight of 40 kilograms; Backpacks full of band members' daily necessities on their shoulders; The free hand carried a huge special-shaped suitcase, which contained the owner's usual bass, replacement bass, strings, sheet music, stationery, etc......

Virgil's chamberlain, Anthony, had the same silver-haired purple eyes as his master, and wore a trench coat with a stand-up collar over a tight, sleeveless casual jacket that was not buttoned at all. With high boots and leather pants, the whole person exudes an aura of 'bad comers'. If it weren't for Virgil's special introduction, it would be hard for everyone to imagine that such a ruffian would be his direct attendant.

Zi Yin, like Eliza, is a first-year student, and is not old enough to recruit winged squires. But somehow, he actually brought a plump female winged man wearing battle armor over today.

"My servant? Resigned! …… My mother said that the original people in the imperial capital have been making trouble recently, and it is not safe. Besides, if he has to go abroad, it is also troublesome to go through the formalities for him, so he simply dismisses. Anyway, I will turn 20 in a few months, and the attendants have already been selected. ”

“…… Oh, you say the one I brought with me - her name is Manxing, and she is a mercenary. ”

"Where did you find it? I don't know! My mom found ......"

"How did my mom know a mercenary? …… How do I know! Anyway, why are you asking my mom about it? It's not fun......"

In the end, of the eight people who took the plane, all of them were Winged Men except for the Shadow Lord.

The sky outside the cabin was as blue as it was painted, with the occasional small cloud floating in the air, like a small piece of marshmallow about to melt in the blue sky.

The temperature in early summer is a little high, but if you sit in the plane and have air conditioning, it is a time to enjoy life.

The crew started broadcasting, asking to straighten the seat backs, fasten seat belts, or something......

Virgil was still the same as always - sleep when he got on the plane and wake up when he got off the plane. Before the plane had even slid into the runway, he had already fallen asleep completely.

Zi Yin fiddled with the small TV in front of the seat, and when she saw the list full of bad movies, she inevitably complained again.

Workaholic Gu Yang has been answering the phone since before he got on the plane. The itinerary for this trip abroad was full, and in the first few days after arriving in the kingdom of Blaze, the band had to meet people almost from morning to night. Fortunately, everyone has already had the experience of touring before, and they all know in their hearts that Gu Yang's state of working like a perpetual motion machine may last for a long time......

And the lead singer Eliza, for the convenience of boarding today, rarely gave up her skirt and wore a crisp and crisp white T-shirt and denim shorts. She has a very strange temperament - no matter how simple the clothes are, they can look different, fairy-like, and delicate and lovely when worn on the body.

Ever since she got on the plane, she's been listening to music from her headphones — the first album she's about to release when she debuts, featuring eight of their most popular tracks they've written in less than a year since they started the band, as well as two new songs specially prepared for their debut. For the rest of the band, it was nothing more than a touring tour; But for Eliza, that's where she really started – a jury with not only winged people, but also important human assessments.

The plane taxied into the runway, and the bright yellow dotted lines on both sides stretched endlessly. As the speed increases, the edges of the dotted line blur and merge into a solid yellowish line, then tain, disappear, and the plane rises into the clear blue sky.

The four members of the New Wing Band set off from Lingxiao City, the capital of the Qingyun Empire, and their destination was the neighboring country, the capital of the Kingdom of Blaze, Belanhill City.

Because they were flying on the Guyang family's private jet - 14 seats, a typical small passenger plane, they could not enter the stratosphere, and could only fly at an altitude of several thousand meters, and the speed was slower than that of ordinary large passenger planes. A trip that would have taken about three hours to reach the destination would take five or six hours for a private jet. But the benefits are also clear – the 14-seater aircraft, in addition to eight passengers, has two dedicated crew members who can prepare coffee and coffee, and even help with some paperwork. And it's also easier for small planes to take off and land - if you have plans to move to other cities after you have finished talking about business in Belanhill, then using a private jet to move between several cities will definitely be much faster than a sedan.

The Kingdom of Blaze and the Qingyun Empire are very different in terms of transportation planning. If it is to move between cities within the Qingyun Empire, a car is faster than a private jet; However, in the Blaze Kingdom, because of the airship research and development technology that is decades ahead of the Qingyun Empire and the United Human Alliance, almost every prosperous area has its own airport, so there is an abnormal situation that private jets are more convenient than private cars.

The Kingdom of Blaze is a large producer of air vehicles, and it exports a large number of civilian airships and planes every year, and even the private jet that the New Wing Band is riding on today was ordered by Gu Yang's grandfather from the kingdom's airship manufacturer, the "Hurricane Society".

After takeoff, the passenger plane enters a state of smooth flight.

After watching a bad movie for an hour and a half, Ziyin, who guessed all the plots and got all the lines right, finally couldn't bear it anymore and ran to watch the news on another channel: "What kind of world is this!" The news is more interesting than the movies. ”

Eliza was still listening to the music in her headphones as she thought about the stage moves.

Suddenly, a strange scream frightened half of the people in the cabin.

Except for Virgil, who was still wearing headphones and sleeping soundly at this time, everyone couldn't help but look in the direction of Ziyin. I saw the guitarist classmate holding the TV remote control and pointing to the news report on the screen in shock: "Let's ...... There was a murder at the gate of our school! ”

Eliza was sitting in the same row as Ziyin, and was surprised to hear him say this, so she leaned over to look at the screen. I saw that the news headline read: The aristocratic university has 24-hour security, and the original person was killed at the school gate but no one cares!

Although the headline does not name the university, and the footage taken in the news has covered the plaque engraved with the name of the school with mosaics, the students who live at the Imperial Conservatory of Music all year round can tell at a glance that what is filmed in this shot is definitely the main entrance scene of their own school!

"Isn't this our school? I'm not blind, am I? Zi Yin pointed to the screen and excitedly confirmed to Eliza, "It's the murder at the gate of our school, right?" It was yesterday! The body was found this morning! ”

Although Eliza is not the type of little girl with delicate nerves who is about to faint at the sight of blood, she still inevitably frowns when she sees such news: "Is this true or fake?" ”

Zi Yin pointed to the radio logo in the upper right corner of the screen: "Shuanglian TV - their style is a little extreme, they always like to incite the people's hatred of the rich, but they never fake." Otherwise, this kind of radio station would have been investigated by the justices a long time ago! ”

The news continues, and the camera stops near the bushes at the school gate. The clearing in front of the bushes was also pasted with a yellow line in the shape of a human figure, and it seemed that this was the scene of the crime.

"This place is quite hidden, huh?" Zi Yin commented with great interest, "It is said that last semester, the school police caught a few voyeurs from the trees near here! I drove the telescope to the balcony of the girls' dormitory to take a secret photo, if it wasn't for the forestry department, our school would have cut down those two ancient trees. ”

"How do people die?" Eliza asked.

"You're so bold!" Zi Yin glared, "It is said that it was almost yesterday when I got out of school, and I said that my neck was broken......"

"Can a normal person break someone's neck?"

"Wingman's words...... Probably, right? Zi Yin imagined it for a moment, and suddenly shuddered, "I don't know!" I haven't tried it again! ”

Eliza squinted: "I feel like you're less daring than me." ”

"How is that possible!" Zi Yin wailed, "Master, I've watched more than 300 ghost movies and practiced iron courage!" ”

Just as the two were teasing each other, the plane suddenly jolted a few times.

Considering that the cabin was full of VIPs, the captain quickly turned on the playback line to reassure the passengers, saying that they finally encountered turbulence during the flight, please fasten your seat belt, etc......

Hearing this, Eliza leaned back in her chair and sat down.

She had just sat down when the plane suddenly started jolting again.

This time, the turbulence was much more violent than before, and not only did it shake up and down, but the plane that was originally flying in a straight line actually shook from side to side, causing the passengers in the cabin to lean to the left and the right for a while.

The plane they were flying in was divided into front and rear cabins. In order to avoid interfering with each other, the owners sat in the forward cabin, which had only four seats; Attendants, servants, and crew sat in the aft compartment.

On the back cabin, the mercenary Man Xing brought by Ziyin was the first to show a nervous look, and asked the person sitting in front of him in a low voice, "Do you feel it?" That doesn't seem right. ”

Sitting in front of the full stars was Virgil's squire Anthony. At this moment, his expression was also a little nervous, and his hands were put on the armrests on both sides of the seat, intentionally or unintentionally, and he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The mercenary looked him up and down, and then asked, "Are you from the Dulus region?" ”

"That's right!"

"Tsk......" Man Xing leaned back in his chair and muttered in a very small voice, "Silver-haired and purple-eyed, it is indeed the standard appearance of that area." ”

"The people of the Duluth area are simple, and the people have a sense of rejection of high technology. Anthony hadn't flown much, and it made sense. The person who said this was Kevin, who hadn't said half a word since the beginning.

"Oh?" Man Xing looked at him in surprise, "So you can speak!?" ”

And Anthony, who was poked in the sore spot, "cut-" fiercely.

Just as the few of them were talking, the plane suddenly jerked upward, and then flipped over to the right.

This rough stance was definitely not caused by air currents - even a layman with no flight training could tell the truth. Fortunately, the luggage storage area in the plane is very well designed, and all the luggage is firmly buckled in the position where they should stay without any loosening, otherwise after the moment of abnormality just now, the cabin may be turned upside down.

"It's not good...... Man Xing frowned and looked at the porthole on his side. It's morning, and the sun is shining outside, the clouds are light and the wind is light," this evasive action...... It stands to reason that you only need to ...... when you are attacked."

Before she could finish speaking, she saw a gray shadow flash outside the porthole, and a fighter jet with a pitch-black body swept by in the distance, quickly disappearing from view.

Almost at the same time as the fighter disappeared, a cold voice came from the seat on the left side of Man Xing: "Huangquan-10, an anti-air fighter developed by the Windwind. ”

Kevin and Anthony looked at the back seat in surprise - the phrase actually came from the mouth of the original man with the self-detonation collar around his neck!?

Not to mention that Anthony did not know much about air combat weapons because of his place of origin; Kevin had been serving under his grandfather, General Gu Wu, before he was signed by Gu Yang, and in terms of his knowledge of modern weapons, Kevin boasted that he was not inferior to anyone. However, even he, based on the fleeting shadow just now, could not accurately identify whether it was "Yellow Spring" or "Black Witch" that flew by—the appearance of these two series of fighters developed by the Hurricane Society was very similar, and the color was pitch black.

"No, that's Huangquan-13. The Huangquan-10 is a model from 6 years ago. It's just that over the years, the appearance of the Huangquan fighters has not changed much. "Man Xing has been working in the Blaze Kingdom all year round, and he has no prejudice against the original people. She heard that someone was like her, who could judge the model of the fighter plane just by a glance, and couldn't help but look at him curiously, "Boy, what's your name?" ”

"Shadow Owl." The human youth has a poker face, and he can't see the slightest emotion.

"How old are you this year?"

“20。”

"Oh?" Man Xingxiu raised his eyebrows, "If you can survive today...... Do you want to consider working in my sister's mercenary group? ”

As the plane's evasive maneuvers became more and more intense, the in-flight radio sounded again, and the captain's voice sounded tense: "Passengers, please note that our plane is being attacked by an unknown enemy aircraft, and we are trying our best to avoid and reduce altitude. Please stay focused, sit in your seat and fasten your seatbelts, and always pay attention to the captain's notices. Complete. ”

"I have a job right now." Shadowlord quickly put on the float device prepared under the seat, and said to the mercenary in a nonchalant voice, "Don't consider changing jobs. ”

Anthony, who was sitting in front of the full star, turned his head a little nervously: "What do you mean when you just said, 'If you can survive today......!?" ”

Man Xing held his cheeks, looking like he was used to seeing strong winds and waves, and said with his other hand: "You don't know that we are riding 'Skylark 225'...... Hey, you don't understand the model. To put it simply, we are flying on a private airliner, and the other party is the latest fighter developed by the kingdom. There are a few planes over there, but now this view is not clear. With such a big difference in strength, do you think our plane can land without injury? ”

Kevin was trying to look out of the porthole at the moment, and when he heard what she said, he nodded and said, "Lowering the altitude is to get into the flight altitude of the Wingman." ”

Shadowlord silently fiddled with the float's controller, the buttons crackling.

The airliner they are now flying on was developed by the Kingdom of Blaze and exported to the Empire. And in the kingdom where winged humans and humans coexist equally, all aircraft are designed with the question of how to escape if the guests are humans. Therefore, the floating device that the Shadow Owl is wearing now can be started smoothly, and the embedded battery is also fully charged. The floating device is a portable high-altitude landing device developed by the Hurricane Society in conjunction with the airship to replace the parachute. This made him a little more sure of the air battle that was very likely to happen next.

"So, protect your master!" Man Xing raised the corners of his mouth full of fighting spirit, "According to my estimates, this plane can hold up to an altitude of 3,000 meters. ”

Before he could finish speaking, a shell came at him.

The engine of the right wing of the private airliner was hit, and it caught fire in an instant.