Just after the New Year, the bitter cold of winter still envelops the entire Sainz continent.

The Maro Empire is located in the northern part of the continent, and during the winter of each year, it is naturally colder than the countries in the south of the continent.

The small city of Stasom, located in the northernmost part of the Maro Empire, is not only a matter of colder than the rest of the continent, but is almost completely two worlds.

When the cold wind blowing from the endless sea in the north enters the south wind of the mainland, it can only be regarded as a breeze on the face, which makes people feel a little chill, but when the small town of Stratholme faces this cold wind, you will find that the wind blows on the face, it is like a sharp blade, blowing the face of the person.

"Silk—"

A cold wind hit their faces, making Hogan and Dicardo gasp involuntarily, and couldn't help but wrap the leather jacket wrapped around their bodies tighter again, their necks shrunk, and even a pair of eyes that were only exposed involuntarily narrowed, leaving only a gap to look north.

"Hey, Dicardo, you said that on such a cold day, even if we join up with the people from the transport fleet, how are we going to get the goods back?" Hogan's voice through the mask was extremely muffled, and it felt a little strange when it reached Dicardo's ears.

But this was certainly not Dicardo's concern at this time, he glanced at the sea in the distance, where there was no trace at all, and shook his head with a wry smile.

"You can only take one step at a time. Who let the guys from the transport fleet come not at all as planned, more than two months later than scheduled. If they had arrived more than two months ago, it would have been much easier to do it before it was so cold. ”

Hogan was silent for a moment. Sighing, "I can't blame them either. After all, it's so far away from Stantin. Running around the entire continent. It's such a long journey. The situation at sea is so complicated, and it is inevitable that there will be some emergencies in the middle. To be honest, it's already amazing that they were able to arrive safely. ”

"Hmm...... That's right. ”

Dicardo replied, and looked again at the harbor of Stratholme, which appeared in the distance.

This port was originally the largest seaport in the north of the Maro Empire, and after the signing of an agreement between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Maro Empire last year, it invested three million gold coins to renovate and expand, and built it into a new seaport that can accommodate large ships.

The New Flyers sent a fleet led by Neval last year to explore the northern seas. It is with this harbor as the destination.

Originally, according to the plan, the first fleet of the new flying chamber of commerce transport fleet led by Neval was supposed to arrive around October last year.

At that time, it was only early winter in the Maro Empire, and the weather was quite normal.

However, the First Fleet was delayed at sea for more than two months, and even lost contact completely at one point, making the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce almost think that something had happened to them, and they were all buried in the endless sea.

Fortunately, the two magic airships that Xu Yi sent to them out of safety played a great role at this time, and in the middle of last month, that is, about half a month after the fleet lost contact, a magic airship flew to the territory of the Marquis of Southgate, bringing a message from the fleet.

After receiving the message. Hogan, who is the head of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's office in the Maro Empire, and Dicardo, the deputy head of the office and the main liaison, immediately organized the manpower and the team. Came to Stratholme.

They waited for more than half a month after they arrived, keeping in close contact with the fleet every day through the Guò Magic Airship, and finally got the confirmed information three days ago that the fleet would arrive safely in Stratholme today.

So today, although it was cold and cold, and the temperature outside was almost freezing to death, the two of them still left the warm bed early in the morning and came to the port of Stratholme.

Dicardo observed the harbor of Stratholme for a moment and exhaled softly.

"Luckily, I was worried that as the weather gets colder, the harbor will be completely frozen and there will be no way to dock. Now it seems that no matter how cold the weather is, it is impossible to completely freeze the Endless Sea. ”

Hogan laughed when he heard this: "We were completely frightened by the rumors of these guys in the Maro Empire. They said that as long as it entered winter, the Endless Sea would freeze completely, and there would be no way out to sea. At the time, I thought they were talking about the whole sea being covered with ice, but now that I look at it, there is ice, but it's nothing at all. ”

"It's not that they're completely wrong, because the fishermen here are just small wooden boats that fall apart when they are loaded with these drifting ice cubes at sea. Dicardo laughed. "When they see the steel sea ships of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with their own eyes, they will know that such a little ice is not a problem at all. ”

Hogan shrugged: "No way, who let them have no knowledge." When the fleet arrived, these guys didn't know how surprised they would be when they saw all the magic machines produced by our Chamber of Commerce brought by the fleet. ”

Dicardo and Hogan looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Before the two came to the Maro Empire, they had a fear and deep inferiority complex for this huge empire, but when they actually came to the Maro Empire and stayed here for half a year, they found that in addition to the large area, the other places of the Maro Empire were much worse than the Lampari Kingdom and the Duchy of Stantin.

Most of the people the two usually come into contact with are nobles and big businessmen from the Maro Empire, these people are undoubtedly at the top of the Maro Empire, and their lives are indeed extremely luxurious.

However, in the eyes of Dicardo and Hogan, although these people's lives are luxurious enough, they are very backward in every way, so that they find it inconvenient to live here in every way.

After the two of them stayed here for half a year, not only did the sense of awe for this huge empire completely disappear in their hearts, but they even gave birth to a trace of inexplicable superiority.

The Marquis of Southgate and the big noble merchants around him still made them feel superior, not to mention the noble merchants in the small town of Stratholme.

During their month and a half in Stratholme, all the nobles and merchants they came into contact with left a very strong impression on them - uninformed hillbillies.

Of course, the living conditions of these guys are even worse than many peasants in the Kingdom of Lampari and the Principality of Stantin.

At least the peasants of the Kingdom of Lampari and the Duchy of Stantin do not seem to be happy to eat a single meat......

The two waited patiently for about twenty minutes, when a familiar roar suddenly sounded in the distant sky.

The two of them looked up in unison, and they saw a dark shadow flying in the northwest sky, quickly approaching, turning into a magical airship, and then slowly falling on the flat ground on the port of Stratholme.

"By the way, Hogan, you said that now that the wind is so strong, how can this magic airship fly so smoothly in the sky?"

Huo Genlai was about to raise his feet and walk over, after hearing this question, he was stunned for a moment, tilted his head and thought for a while, and shook his head: "I'm not from the Magic Research Institute and R&D Center, you ask me how I know." ”

"That's right. Dicardo shrugged. "I'll ask Captain Yoon in a moment. ”

The two of them walked quickly towards the magic airship, and at this time, the hatch of the magic airship had also been opened, and Captain Ian of the magic airship mentioned by Dicardo just now jumped down from above, walked in front of the two of them in a few steps, and said loudly: "Director Hogan, the fleet can resist here in an hour at most, please make all preparations immediately!"

Hogan nodded: "Okay." ”

Without further ado, he turned around and went to arrange the manpower that had been prepared long ago, and began to make some final preparations for the arrival of the fleet.

In fact, these preparations have already been properly arranged in the past half a month, and what they need to do now is just to confirm again.

Dicardo, who was left behind, exchanged some details with Captain Ian.

Their conversation focused mainly on whether the fleet had any special needs, such as supplies, corrections, etc., and then reconfirmed the arrangements for the fleet upon arrival.

For example, according to the plan, when the fleet arrives, the cargo will be unloaded in the port of Stratholme, and then the first sale will be made in Stratholme and the surrounding cities, and then it will be decided to take how much into the hinterland of the Maro Empire according to the situation.

This sea route, which took nearly four months to explore and succeed, although there will be exchanges with the coastal countries along the way, the main task is to connect the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Maro Kingdom, and finally connect with the land trade route of the Duchy of Stantin to the Maro Empire, forming a complete business district.

After the two chatted for a while, Dicardo suddenly thought of the question he had accidentally remembered just now, and brought it up to Captain Ian.

"Flying steadily in the air?" Captain Yin En laughed, waved his hand, and said, "Director Dicardo, do you think that these problems will not be thought of by the group of magicians at the Magic Research Institute?"

"No, no, no, of course I thought they would have figured it out, but I couldn't figure it out. Obviously the wind is so strong, why can the magic airship still fly so smoothly?"

"Well...... There's actually an aerodynamic balance on the magic airship - don't ask me what it is, because I don't know. All I know is that as long as there is a strong wind in the sky, you can turn on this aerodynamic balance, and then you can cancel out a large part of the effects of the strong wind, so that the magic airship can stay stable in the sky. ”

"So amazing?" Dicardo blinked, thought for a moment, and guessed: "The magic airship relies on wind magic to fly in the air, so this aerodynamic balance device must also be a kind of wind magic, right?"

Captain Ian rolled his eyes: "Don't ask me, I just need to know how to use it, I don't need to know the principle." ”

Dicardo thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out the principle, so he could only sigh helplessly: "Okay, now these things produced by our Chamber of Commerce, even the people in the Chamber of Commerce are not completely able to figure it out." I see, those guys outside the Chamber of Commerce want to imitate it at will, it's just a dream!" (To be continued......)