On the way to the Red Leaf Manor, Saran gave a little introduction to the situation of the Red Leaf Manor, so when the carriage drove into the red finch forest around the Red Leaf Manor, Leo did not show much surprise when he sensed that there were more than a dozen fully armed warriors lurking in the woods who were physically strong enough to reach the limit of ordinary people.

After entering the manor, the servant with a weapon stepped forward, opened the car door, greeted Sylvia down, and then took up the salute.

"You don't have to send it to the house, you just have an airship. Sylvia turned to the housekeeper of the manor who came over and said, "How is the airship ready?"

"It's been prepared for a long time. The butler lowered his body and replied, "After receiving your letter from Miss, the airship was ready on the same day, but you did not come in the past two days, Miss, so we did an inspection and test flight every day, so that you could use it immediately after you came, Miss." ”

After saying that, the butler led Leo and Sylvia to a garden lawn at the back of the manor, and at this moment a large airship had been parked on the lawn, although the shape of the airship had changed somewhat, and some other damaged places had been carefully repaired, but Leo could still recognize the airship as the airship he was on.

Except for some of the reception staff, the technician in charge of the airship's operation and the pilot who operated the airship were all retained, and when Leo got on the airship, the technician he had spoken to also recognized him, with a look of surprise on his face.

Leo didn't talk to him again, but went straight into the airship's cabin, put his luggage away, and Sylvia went to the antechamber and ordered the ship to sail.

With a slight vibration, the airship gradually rose, and the propeller at the tail end of the hull slowly rotated, driving the airship towards the north.

As the airship ascended and left, those who were secretly spying on the Red Leaf Manor recorded all this, and it was clear that these intelligence collectors knew very well that the whereabouts of a witch were far less valuable than a strategic weapon.

At that time, the emergence of the steam engine crossbow reversed the rules of war in the world, the knights gradually withdrew from the main sequence of the battlefield, the emergence of the steam train broke the world pattern, and the emergence of steam ships made the connection between the continents more close, and the appearance of any kind of thing related to steam machinery had an unparalleled impact on the world.

At present, the appearance of this steam airship, any discerning person can see the value of it, and the countries and forces that get the relevant news will definitely try their best to get this airship, and their attention will definitely be focused on this airship for a long time.

"You deliberately let the airship get the attention of those people. After Sylvia returned to the room, Leo, who was sitting by the window with the wizard's notebook in his hand, suddenly said to Sylvia.

"Those people are so sluggish, they didn't see them at all when I came in an airship before, and even if someone did, they would just think it was nonsense if they told them. Sylvia shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly: "Make me, I have to play another scene, and just now let the airship hover in the air again before leaving." ”

"Are you looking for a collaborator?" Leo quickly guessed Sylvia's intentions.

"Yes. Sylvia nodded and admitted: "The fuel burned by this thing is too expensive, each piece is about the same as gold, my personal financial resources can't afford it, and the rest of the Witch Group is not interested in this thing, I can only find other collaborators!"

Leo smiled and asked, "Do you think anyone would be willing to cooperate, especially when you hear that two pieces of wood are needed to make a piece of fuel." ”

"It may not have been before, but not now. Sylvia smiled and said: "Don't forget that the sea is shrouded in fog now, I don't know when it will disappear, and the various continents and islands have lost contact with each other, but now this airship can be in the air, avoid the fog, and go to various continents, I think any kingdom will pay attention to this airship." As for the fuel, it is not a problem, the most important function of the refined fuel is to repel birds, and the birds at sea are very scarce, and it is completely possible to replace the special fuel with different charcoal, and when it is time to deal with the birds, the special fuel is used. ”

"Looks like you've already figured it out?" Leo smiled and said, "What about the buyer?

Sylvia laughed but didn't say a word.

Leo could see some clues on Sylvia's face, and said with a little surprise, "You've really found a buyer?"

"I think I can trade when the airship reaches Deliyat?" Sylvia said with a smile.

Leo quickly understood what Sylvia meant, and asked curiously, "When did you talk to Kerry Fao about this?

Sylvia replied, "That morning, thanks to his help, I was able to get it with relative ease. But it wasn't me who looked for him, it was he who looked for me, and he seemed to know about the airship from other witches. ”

"But why did Dalyat buy an airship?" Leo frowned and said, "According to Dalyat's situation, there shouldn't be any need for them to buy an airship, just to give the queen a toy?"

"I don't know, but it's true that he's interested in airships," Sylvia thought for a moment and said, "But he also has a condition, which is that the airship must be able to fly over the Minsk Mountains, and even has an observer on board for this purpose, which is the guy in black at the back of the crowd when we come in." ”

"Asking to be able to fly over the Minsk Mountains?" Leo quickly thought of a possibility when he heard this request, and said, "It seems that Dyad is going to make some moves as well." ”

Sylvia was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and immediately understood what Leo meant, and said: "Probably not! Although there are many wars with the southern countries, most of them are patriotic wars, and they rarely invade others. ”

"At that time, the reason for not invading was that the national strength was not strong, and now the situation is completely different," Leo said simply: "Since that queen ascended the throne, the national strength of the Dyad has been thriving, and the overall strength has long surpassed the two kingdoms in the south, and now most of the people in charge of the Dyyat are young and strong young and strong, and they must be thirsty for military achievements, wealth and land." If Dyyat doesn't send troops now while the civil strife in the Kingdom of Maris has not subsided, then it will be too late for them to send troops when the civil strife in the Kingdom of Maris is over and the Church of the Kings of the Hill regains control of secular power due to the presence of the gods. ”

"You have a point. Sylvia nodded, and quickly entered the state of mind of war, and said: "If Daliat wants to invade the kingdom of Mares, he must cross the Minsk Mountains, and the only way to cross the Minsk Mountains is to take the Isgu Road, and the two ends of the Isgu Road are built with strong walls and castles, and it is almost impossible to capture it head-on, unless the Ice Queen breaks the contract and strikes at ordinary people." But if they have an airship, it is different, they can use the airship to bypass that line of defense and attack the rear, or sneak attack the line of defense and occupy the line of defense to open the way for the wrong behind. ”

"Are you still selling them the airship?" asked Leo.

"Of course sell," Sylvia looked at Leo with a look of why would you ask that, and said, "not only to sell, but also to sell at a high price, but also to use the resources of the Dyadat to build a better airship for ourselves that can fly across the sea." ”

Leo smiled and said nothing more.

Then, the two-day ship slowly moved north, and soon flew out of the border of Yasha County, and was flying towards the town of Lobe, the last town in the northern part of the kingdom of Mares, the ruins of the wizard's tower mentioned by Sherf were on Mount Lobe near the town of Lobe, which means holy tower in the ancient Mares language.

Leo carefully read the books in his hand in the past two days and compiled them into the database of his brain, and the notes of the wizard Barton are the objects of his key research, and he even tried to transform some of the methods of using witchcraft into psionic skills, although this did not allow her to gain any powerful abilities, but it allowed him to practice various psionic skills more easily and quickly, and even the power in the divine imprint, which also gave him a deeper understanding of the various powers in his body.

And Sylvia also benefited a lot in the past two days, Leo could only find Sylvia to practice when testing new abilities, Sylvia happened to be familiar with her own strength, in the process, she found that she could also use some of the techniques recorded in the Wizard Barton notes, which also made her have a lot of means of attack.

On the fourth day after leaving Moonlight City, the airship began to enter the mountains of the Minsk Mountains, and when entering the mountains, the number of birds alarmed by the airship began to increase, but as soon as these birds approached the airship, they were driven away by the smell of the special fuel.

Leo was also curious about why the birds were so crazy about attacking things flying through their air, so when a bird approached, he would use the spirit net to carefully perceive the situation of the birds, and he found that when these birds were preparing to attack the airship, the blood flow rate on their bodies was more than twice as fast, and a certain part of their small brain would be extremely congested. Swelled, and when the birds were deep in the special gas around the airship, all the anomalies on their bodies calmed down, and they returned to their normal state, fleeing as quickly as if they had encountered a natural predator.

To do this, Leo found a small piece of charcoal essence of that quality, and then lit it in a small enclosed room, looking for details from the smell to the energy release, and so on, to find the factors that could restore the birds to normal, but the result was nothing.

Later, he tried to imitate the method of the steam engine, so that the heat and smell of the fuel were integrated into the steam, and although this method made the steam smell a little pungent, the fine particles contained in it did not have any effect on inhibiting blood flow and soothing nerves.

Until the ship had already flown outside the town of Lobe, he still hadn't figured out a single reason.

However, although Leo did not find out why, he was already certain that the cause of the birds' return to normal was hidden in the unknown substance produced by the fusion of gases and fog after the combustion of the special fuel.

Because he was binding the gas formed by the combustion of fuel alone with psionic energy, and then using the gas formed by fuel and steam to bind it with psionic energy, and when some mad birds approached, he let two gases wrap the two birds, and as a result, the gas mixed with the steam quickly made the mad birds return to normal, while the gas produced by fuel alone made the birds even more crazy, and even after getting close to the airship, they were unable to suppress the special gas, and had to kill them by other methods.

Leo tells Sylvia about this discovery, and Sylvia is also interested in this particular fuel gas, apparently not to solve the negative effects of this gas, but to think about how to use it as a weapon.

Instead of telling Sylvia that it was impractical, Leo gave the idea of collecting the gas, sealing it in a jar, and throwing it out if necessary to create an environment where the birds could go wild.

However, there are two drawbacks to this method, one is that you need to find an environment with a large number of birds, otherwise only a dozen crazy birds will not be able to exert the maximum effect of this gas. The other thing is uncontrollable, crazy birds will not know who is who, they will frantically attack all living creatures around them, if they are not able to run out of the range of birds, then the launcher may also become the target of attack, or even put it on the battlefield, both friend and foe will suffer.

After hearing Leo's words, Sylvia immediately lost interest in the gas and stopped paying attention to it.

However, she didn't know that Leo actually felt that this gas could be used on the battlefield, that is, to analyze the reason why this gas caused birds to attack living creatures frantically, and then refine it and use it on the warriors, so that the warriors could inflict maximum damage on the enemy when the battle was decided.

The reason why Leo didn't say this method was because with the current level of technology in the Valon World, it might be difficult to find out the hidden mystery in this gas, after all, the spiritual network of the sixth-level psionic has begun to come into contact with the microscopic world, and this kind of accuracy has not been able to detect any anomalous elemental substances, let alone other rudimentary tools in the Veron World.

Another reason why Leo didn't say this method was actually his previous experience when he was a cyborg, using super concentrations of adrenaline when the war was in a desperate situation, which was a common thing, whether it was the numbness of using it, or the pain after using it, it was not what he wanted to feel, and he didn't want others to feel it, because he felt that this kind of person who died of madness did not have any dignity as an intelligent being.