Chapter 37: The Nightingale's Cry
The hot air balloon carrying four people and some miscellaneous items, such as the carrier pigeons of the Liaison Hub and Egger's baby garbage, began to slowly rise into the air. www.biquge.info At the moment, what they have to do is to find the air flow blowing in the direction of Elada during the lift-off, and then as long as they maintain the floating altitude of the hot air balloon, they can fly all the way in the direction of Elada. Of course, it's impossible to get to Elada in a hot air balloon, but it's more than enough to get rid of d'Estaing's trackers. They will then land on the north bank of the Prancing Horse River and buy some supplies in a nearby town to prepare for the rest of their trip.
If you're lucky, you might be able to meet Ola as soon as they reach the north bank of the Prancing Horse. Either way, the fact that everyone would be disconnected from the ground for a long time was clearly very excited about Egger, who kept checking the various instruments and muttering endlessly. Akachi, like most people, rested his hands on the frame of the rattan basket and watched the distance between himself and the ground grow. However, the last thing everyone wanted to see happened at this time. They saw Ola turn his horse's head and rush back to the Ring Mountain Library, and behind Ora, a large number of guards had already followed.
The sight caused Akachi to put away the casual look that often hung on his face, and he leaned almost half of his body out of the rattan basket, while the troubled Orah left his horse and rushed into the library as soon as he stepped on Egger's private land. However, the guards had shifted their aim as they had pursued the mountain path, for the huge spherical object floating in the air was undoubtedly more noteworthy than a girl on a black horse, especially when some of the sharp-eyed soldiers saw that there were still elves in the rattan basket hanging from under the orb, and these people became even more fanatical. It's just that after feverishly rushing to the take-off site of the hot air balloon, they too fell into the confusion of having nowhere to focus.
"What the hell is this?"
"I guess it's a weird thing made by the elves with demonic methods, but does it hurt?"
"That elf is really up there! I was absolutely not mistaken!"
"Get out of here, coward!"
The first to arrive, mostly spearmen, were helpless in the face of the hot air balloons that flew higher than the tip of the bell tower of the Huanshan Library, while the few archers among the soldiers were stunned for a moment before finally trying to bend their bows and shoot at the figures on the rattan baskets at the fingers of others. Most of the arrows hit the sturdy rattan baskets, causing no harm to the Akachi group, but they were enough to prevent them from removing the sandbags hanging from the baskets.
Faced with this situation, Egger, who built the flying machine, obviously knew the gravity of the situation best, knowing that the hot air balloon had not yet flown out of the range of the bow and arrow, and if a decent character appeared among those shooters, if his arrow coincidentally shot through the balloon, then the four of them would definitely be in a desperate situation. Egger prayed that things wouldn't go the worst and opened the damper of the ignition burner to the maximum, but in order to get into the air faster, he had to find a way to lighten the load on the balloon. In this regard, he had to make the decision to abandon some of the "treasures", and for this decision, Lusman, the bad friend, carried out the most cheerfully, all kinds of scrap metal and incomprehensible things were thrown from the hot air balloon with the sound of Egger's heartbreak, which attracted a lot of shouting and scolding below.
Perhaps it was Egger's prayers that worked, and it never occurred to the Guard's archers to aim their bows and arrows at the balloon's balloon. However, they creatively came up with an even worse way of attacking - rockets. This method may have been thought of because these ignorant soldiers always believed that hot air balloons were related to magic or filthy sorcery, and that the flames seemed to them to be the heart of filth. So can the rattan basket withstand the rockets? The answer, of course, is no. At the thought of becoming a roast pig hanging in the air, Egg involuntarily covered his eyes.
However, the rocket, which was destined to kiss the hot air balloon in a beautiful arc, suddenly lost its track halfway through. Seeing this unexpected result, both the soldiers standing on the ground and the white sparrows hanging in the air had a momentary blank mind, but Akachi saw the whole thing clearly.
It was Ola! He saw the girl standing in the bell tower at a glance.
At this moment, Aura is proudly holding her hunting bow, ready to volley all the arrows of the attacking aircraft at any time. The question is, isn't she afraid of attracting attention again? Doesn't she understand that if the aircraft on which the people are flying is out of range of the bow and arrow, she herself will be in a desperate situation of being besieged?
Akachi once again leaned most of his body out of the rattan basket, and the unforgettable face of the Great Evil Deeds instantly attracted all the firepower. Looking at the rockets that kept shooting in his direction and the feathered arrows that kept flying in his direction, Akachi smiled fearlessly in the direction of Ora, and even though Iger and Lusman kept persuading, even if Ekor tried to drag him out of danger, he was not willing to waver.
The world is ridiculous. Akachi thought that he was like a princess trapped in a tower by a dragon in a fairy tale, and could only watch the knight fight for his life without doing anything.
The top scout of the guard finally arrived at the scene, and after watching the chaos for a while, he held out a finger in the direction of the bell tower, and the spearmen rushed into the library. Then, the seemingly non-inferior archer commanded the other soldiers to launch a rocket attack, believing that the interceptor might be a shooter who could hardly even match himself, but he did not believe that the interceptor had prepared enough ammunition in a hurry! This action forced Aura to shoot a series of arrows, and the feathered arrows in her quiver poured rapidly, while the sound of soldiers banging on the door was heard behind her. Ola didn't take this disturbing crash seriously, after all, there were so many things blocking the doorway, and it was absolutely impossible for these guards to handle it without a moment or three. It's just that the feathered arrow in her hand is empty, but her opponent, the belated scout leader, should still be able to shoot a deadly arrow!
"That's not right!"
Aura suddenly reacted that he still had an arrow. Because she never used the arrow, she almost forgot it existed. Just like some superstitious archers always keep a lucky feather arrow in their quiver, Ola's arrow is also very unique, it is shorter than the average feathered arrow, and the arrow is perforated, because it is actually a chirping arrow, and its arrow body is engraved with the word "Riich", which is also Ora's surname.
After the Guard's top scout flew out the last and deadliest rocket, Aura Rich's chirping shot flew out, crashing into the rocket with a nightingale-like sound!
"Is it the nightingale?" the scout muttered in surprise, his whisper not being heard, for the soldiers around him, after making sure that the balloon was completely out of range, immediately turned their attention to the girl who was descending from the window of the bell tower with a zipline, and on the balloon that rose higher and higher, the white sparrows saw with palpitations an arrow in Ola's shoulder blade, and she stumbled into the woods beside the trail with her arm hanging feebly, followed by a large number of followers.