Samuel didn't have much time to deal with the Herring Cult. Soon, two reports were placed in front of him.

The first report was about the damage caused by the attack. The magic furnace and turbine in power room 4 were completely destroyed, and the magic furnace in power room 2 was slightly damaged. In addition to this, a large number of cabins and cargo holds were unusable due to damage. In terms of human damage, about half of the crew was injured or killed, and in addition, about a quarter of the passengers died in the attack, most of them laborers. This means that the fleet is required to pay substantial compensation to the labour agency under the contract of carriage. After careful calculation, everyone found that the voyage was already a big loss, and the amount of the contract of carriage was only slightly higher than the compensation, not counting the repair costs of the ship and the compensation of the dead crew.

Fortunately, Samuel and Toft had already made a lot of money in the Fountain of Youth, and neither of them cared about this small loss.

The second report is the investigation report. After the air attack, the fleet stopped moving and began to stand by and sent all the air cavalry to reconnoiter and keep on guard. It didn't take long to pay off.

"There was a problem with the source fire in Shadow Steel Town, and the strength quickly decayed, and the urban area that had lost the protection of the source fire was invaded by dark creatures on a large scale. The surviving citizens have all entered the shelter beneath the Source Fire Tower. ”

Therefore, the airport in Shadow Steel Town did not respond to the fleet's communication request, and the airport area should have completely fallen at this time, and the survivors were probably using the communication device in the shelter to communicate with the fleet, and the communication range of this backup device is generally much smaller than that of similar equipment in the airport area.

The people in the bridge frowned, Shadow Steel was a large town with a population of tens of thousands, and the fall of a town of this size was already a very serious event.

"Their food reserves won't last long, and the source fire is still weakening, so they are asking us to rescue them. ", Schell concluded.

"How many dark creatures are there in Shadowsteel?", Samuel asked.

"The Sky Cavalry didn't dare to get too close, they confirmed that there were large groups of skeletal griffons and corrupt wurms, and even an undead Sky Whale. There are also a lot of undead on the ground, but the air cavalry is not sure to what extent. ”

Anything else, that Sky Whale alone is already a huge nuisance. It is a cetacean that lives in the sky all its life, and is generally very gentle and will not actively attack passing fleets. But that is under normal circumstances, the Sky Whale entrenched in Shadow Steel Town has died and incarnated as the undead, and there are many kinds of undead creatures, but they all have one common characteristic, that is, a strong hatred of the living. As long as the fleet dares to approach, what awaits them must be the relentless attack of the Sky Whale.

The Undead Sky Whale is a huge threat to any fleet, but the average ship does not threaten the Sky Whale at all. The Sky Whale has a hardened skin that is so powerful that it is impossible to penetrate the Sky Whale's skin unless it is a large-caliber gun equipped with a battleship.

Samuel's current fleet would not be able to do the slightest damage to the Sky Whale even if it had all the shells, so rescuing Shadowsteel was an impossible task. What's more, Samuel and the inhabitants of Shadowsteel are not related to each other, so why should they take a huge risk to help them? Samuel plans to report the situation here to Nulence Tower, which can be regarded as a matter of benevolence.

In fact, Toft and Scheer also have the same idea, but Samuel is the largest shareholder of the company after all, and he still needs to make decisions about this kind of major event.

"Change course and go to Nulenta", Samuel finally decided.

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News of the fleet's turn soon became known to the passengers, and Flairs soon found Samuel. Half of the Origin Fire Scholar's face was blackened, and his hair exuded a faint smell of burning.

"I heard that Shadowsteel has been overrun by dark creatures due to the weakening of the source fire?" asked Fryers.

Samuel nodded, it wasn't a secret in the first place, so he didn't mind revealing any more news: "According to the distress information of the survivors of Shadow Steel Town, they have checked the Source Fire Tower and have not found any fault in the Source Fire Tower, so the Source Fire has weakened inexplicably. ”

"If it is not the energy supply system of the source fire tower, but the source fire weakens on its own, it is likely that the structure of the source fire itself has been damaged and will soon be extinguished. Fryers breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "If it weren't for rescue, they wouldn't have lasted long." ”

After a few weeks together, Samuel and Fryers had a good relationship, so he patiently explained to him why rescuing Shadowsteel was an impossible task. After finishing, he gave Fryers a strange look, this scholar was not the kind of person who was particularly enthusiastic, why would he suddenly care so much about the safety of the survivors in Shadowsteel Town.

Fryers sighed, "Do you remember Kargos?"

Kargs is the boy wearing the Air Force cap that Samuel and Fryers met before, and he follows his uncle to Guleg to join his father, determined to be admitted to the Air Force Academy. Samuel also mentored Kargs several times after that meeting, remembering the boy of course.

"His uncle was killed in the attack just now, and his father ...... Now in Shadow Steel Town. ”

Samuel was silent. Samuel actually likes Kargs a lot, and he can find a shadow of his teenage years in the other party. But this liking doesn't make him change in big decisions. So he ended the conversation with no doubt:

"We can't afford to rescue Shadowsteel, and even if we do, it's the responsibility of the Nurenta government and the Carlin Army. ”

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After sending Fryers away, Samuel felt a pang of irritation.

"You don't seem to be happy?", a girl's voice suddenly sounded behind him

Samuel then realized that Flomina had come to him without knowing when.

Samuel's mood right now is really hard to relate to the word happy, but he doesn't plan to show it. So he gave Flomina a warm and sunny smile and said he was in a good mood.

"If you have time, it's best to spend some time practicing your acting skills," Flomina commented.

...... Okay, I'll definitely practice.

Samuel, who was punctured without hesitation, immediately changed the subject:

"Miss Flominina, have you heard of the Herring Cult?"

"Are you trying to find out about the priest who saved your life?" the latter immediately understood what Samuel meant.

After exchanging three million Imperial Gold Dollars for faith points, Samuel did obtain the Herring God's God-given spell, and so far Samuel has not found any intentions against him in this strange church, but after all, he is still not completely relieved and wants to investigate further. It's a pity that since he lost power, his network has fallen apart, and he can only ask the Anjou family to do him a favor.

The beautiful girl from the Anjou family immediately showed a sly smile, and when she saw the stunning face and charming smile, Samuel secretly screamed badly, and the other party was probably about to start opening her mouth.

"But how do you inform General Samuel when you find a clue?"

What kind of strange problem is Samuel's brain, which was already ready to accept the other party's sky-high asking price?

But when I thought about it, I deliberately kept my distance from such a big family from the beginning, even if Flomina gave her that beautiful badge as a token so that she could contact each other in most parts of the world, but she never left any contact information for the other party, so as not to unknowingly get involved in something big. The other party may have realized this a long time ago, but it has not been broken, and it is only now that he has seized this great opportunity.

You asked me to help you investigate the Herring Cult, so you should always leave me a way to contact you, right?

Samuel couldn't help but blush, no matter what the purpose of the Anjou family befriending him was, so far the other party had not asked him to do anything, but he first used manpower and material resources to help Samuel solve potential troubles, and the price was just to formally establish contact with Samuel, and his attitude was not unfriendly. And he has always been very unkind before, and he didn't even bother to do superficial work, which really didn't seem very kind. Thinking about this, Samuel didn't hesitate long to leave his contact information:

"No. 26 Ganquan Street, the address of my home"

Samuel knew that from this moment on, it would be difficult for him to completely disconnect with the Anjou family. Now that this is the case, many things that were previously scrupulous can now be done freely. Realizing this, he immediately showed a gentlemanly smile:

"Miss Flominina, would you like to have dinner with me tonight?"