Just as surface ships rely on docks and docks, floating ships need towers to complete loading and unloading of cargo and personnel, and some large towers even have floating docks attached to them, allowing them to make simple repairs. These towers are often built in airports far from the city, both to avoid the noise of the floating boats and the casualties caused by the crashes of the floating boats.

The civil airport area of Karenta is located in the southwest of the city, and 51 large towers make up the largest port in Carlin. The towers are more than 100 meters high, and at the top of them is a huge lighthouse that emits light signals to the passing floating ships, and there are several platforms scattered over the 100-meter-high towers. These platforms are the docks for floating boats, and about half of the platforms are docked for loading and unloading cargo at the moment. On the platform, employees dressed in different colors of overalls communicate dispatch instructions in flags, and they dispatch large constructed creatures that are more than five meters tall. A century ago, expensive constructed creatures were generally only used for military purposes, but the development of magic technology has greatly reduced the cost of manufacturing these constructed creatures, so they quickly spread to all walks of life, and now it is more affordable to use constructed creatures in the docks than to use human labor.

Samuel and Toft are currently on Tower 33 in the middle of the port area, and the floating ship "Twilight Swordsman" that they need to fly on is moored at berth 2 on the tower. The old armed personnel carrier had turned off its engines and was held in the air by buoyancy anchors provided by the tower.

The crew was busy carrying cargo to the garments, including food, ammunition, medicine, etc. The passengers boarded the ship in an orderly manner under the guidance of the crew.

"Why do we have so many passengers?" Samuel asked curiously. The main purpose of Samuel and Toft's trip was to sail these armed ships to the New World and sell them to suitable buyers, who could often sell for a higher price in the New World than in Carlin itself.

"Most of the passengers were hired by Degen Minerals and a labor agency paid us to send people to Nulenta. Toft spat out a smoke ring from his mouth and pressed the cigarette out of the railing. "Of course, there are also some ordinary travelers."

"The labor agency had already booked another fleet, but unfortunately that fleet was now trapped in the White Rock anchorage by the storm, so it found us. Anyway, we still have empty cabins, so let's make some extra money by the way. ”

Samuel nodded in understanding.

As the number of jobs in Carlin dwindled, there was a sudden surplus of labor. The surplus of labor severely depressed the average wage, which caught up with the wages of the colonies. As a result, the cost performance of Carlin's labor suddenly increased. Many colonial employers began to recruit off-site through Carlin's native labor agencies, and then shipped these cheap workers across the Thunder Ocean to work for them in the New World.

Of course, these displaced workers could not afford to pay for the voyage across the ocean, and the task of transporting them had to be carried by labour agents, who often did not have their own fleets, and the task ended up in the hands of the shipping companies. Shipping companies that lack orders are already worried about the ultra-high idle rate of ships, and these labor intermediary companies are really sleepy and send pillows. As a result, the employer-labor intermediary-shipping company hit it off, and a mature business model immediately took shape.

"It's time for us to get on board," Toft urged.

The tower had signaled to the Twilight Swordsman that it was running out of time for berth 2 and that it would need to pay again if it wanted to continue using it. Fortunately, the loading was almost completed, and all the passengers boarded the ship, so there was no problem leaving the port on time.

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In addition to the Twilight Swordsman, Toft's company's ships to Gureg this time also had two old armed troop carriers of the same class, namely the "Fat Ovo" and the "Sledgehammer". The three ships completed the formation near the port area and began to head north, after which they would turn westward, cross the Thunder Ocean and head to Guleg.

The shape of the floatship is similar to that of surface ships, and the internal structure is similar, as it is composed of multiple decks, the top deck is lined with bridges, watchtowers, chimneys for cooling the mana furnace, mage towers to maintain the ship's main shield and other large spells, turrets, and other possible devices, such as silos for ejecting heavy structures. However, unlike surface ships, the threat to floatships comes from all directions, not just the upper hemisphere of the floatship, so floatships must have an all-round view. Therefore, in addition to the overtime bridge on the upper side, there is generally an underside bridge at the bottom of the floating ship for observing the situation in the lower hemisphere. In addition to this, the armament of the floatship must also be able to deal with all kinds of threats, so the floatship has guns deployed on the upper deck, the bottom deck and both sides.

As an old-fashioned armed transport ship, the Twilight Swordsman was naturally far less powerful than the battleships once commanded by Samuel, but although the Sparrow was small, it had all kinds of equipment, two small-caliber batteries on the upper and lower decks, and three small-caliber batteries on each side. But these guns were far less powerful than those on cruisers, and even less than frigates. Naturally, veteran seafarers such as Samuel were not interested in them. But for many of the laborers who were riding in a floating boat for the first time in their lives, these huge lumps of iron seemed very new.

The workers were working overtime on the upper side at the moment, and sometimes groups of workers tried to get close to the turret, touch the metal barrel, and then leave in disgrace under the loud shouts of the crew. Older, more experienced laborers were reluctant to move, leaning on the railing and basking in the sun. The float was encased in a windbreak barrier, and the cold wind above did not affect them at all.

But the autumn air was still a little cold, and Samuel only stayed for a while before deciding to go to the lower layer of toluene to warm up. Just as he opened the door and walked into the staircase below Tongo, a dark shadow flashed in front of him, and then he felt like he had been hit. Samuel immediately reacted that he had hit someone. After awakening, Samuel not only had a huge increase in mental strength, but also an astonishing increase in physical strength, and this collision made the other party lose his balance and fall backwards with a muffled snort.

Samuel was quick and quickly grabbed the other party's hand, and this pull pulled the other party into his arms.

Feeling the slender and slender body in his arms and smelling the faint fragrance of the other party, Samuel knew that this should be a girl. The girl was hugged by Samuel like this, and it took a while to come back to her senses, and she hurriedly pushed Samuel away, panicking with a hint of shyness. Samuel saw it clearly. She had a delicate face with brown hair, a beautiful ponytail, and beautiful light blue eyes staring at Samuel.

Samuel also stared at each other, and couldn't help but secretly exclaim in his heart that it was so beautiful. It took me a while to realize that this was rude.

"I'm sorry, I was too careless just now," Samuel apologized

As soon as the girl wanted to say that it didn't matter, she heard the sound of "kicking and kicking" from below, and immediately knew that someone was coming up. Samuel recognized the comer at a glance, Sher Granno, the captain of the ship, and the commander of the fleet, Samuel said hello, as the largest shareholder of the company, Samuel was ready to introduce himself to his employees, but he didn't expect the other party to recognize him immediately.

"General Samuel Evanson", the other party directly pointed out Samuel's identity, then laughed, stretched out his thick right hand and shook Samuel.

"My nephew served in the 23 fleet, and your actions to block the 31 fleet were very beautiful, and the sentence of the military court against you was unfair. ”

Samuel didn't notice that the pretty girl next to her looked a little surprised when she heard Samuel's name.

"Thank you, but that's all in the past" No matter how beautiful he played at the time, he couldn't change the outcome of being kicked out of the army.

"Hahaha, but now is not the time to talk about this, we have met something, come with me to the lower bridge."

Although he didn't know exactly what happened, since Scheer said that, Samuel still planned to go and see, and after saying sorry to the girl next to him, he hurriedly walked to the lower bridge with Scheer. The girl stared in the direction Samuel had left for a long time before leaving.

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Samuel, who came to the lower bridge, found that the atmosphere was a little solemn.

"What happened?"

"See for yourself," Toft handed Samuel a telescope and pointed to the north. Samuel picked up the telescope and pointed it in the direction Toft pointed.

About ten kilometres from Kalenta, it was a wilderness with no settlement, but it was full of people, men, women, and children, even children. Through his telescope, Samuel saw a large number of tents – some professional travel tents, but most of them were improvised tents made of tree trunks, rags, and hay.

Samuel knew this was the army of outcasts he had seen in the newspapers a few days earlier.

It was already noon, and smoke was already rising in front of some of the tents, and since the height of the floating ship was not very high at the moment, and it was not particularly far from these tents, Samuel saw a lot of details.

Probably because of the scarcity of pots, there are dozens of tents sharing a pot. Around the pot are some ingredients, mostly wild vegetables, wild fruits and tree bark. There are many of these ingredients in the wilderness of Calenta, but due to the poor flavor and lack of nutrition, no one usually eats them, but at this moment these wanderers have no choice, and for them who have been hovering on the verge of starvation for many years, the flavor does not matter at all.

The water in the pot was already boiling, but no one put any ingredients in the pot, and it took a lot of time for the wanderers to collect these ingredients, but at the moment the wanderers were not in the mood to eat. At this moment, the crowd of black pressure in the distance was slowly approaching them.