In the west of Shangri-La, more than a thousand miles away, the weather tonight is not very good, because of the arrival of the humid air current, the sky is full of dark clouds, and it is raining heavily.

This area is all mountainous, the land is barren, the population is not large, only a dozen families scattered in the mountains, adjacent to the terraced fields opened up by the hand, living an ordinary life insulated from prosperity, because there is nothing to do, after nightfall very early to sleep, except for the sound of rain outside the window, people do not hear anything unusual.

However, if someone has a sensitive hearing that is dozens of times more than that of a normal person, then from the thunder, wind and rain, some unusual sounds will be heard, small and fragmented, like the cry of a strong wind hitting the canvas.

The source of the sound does not come from the earth, but from the heavens.

At an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet above the ground, there was a huge flying object, which was moving against the wind at high speed, and was whirring by the strong turbulence.

The shape of the giant flying object resembles a spindle of yarn. It is two miles long, about dozens of feet high, an oval cone, with long wings on both sides, the whole body is bright and white, non-gold and non-iron, like jade, I can't see what material it is built of, riding the wind and rain in the flashing thunder, and going eastward at high speed.

If it weren't for the dark clouds, let the people below directly see this flying object that does not belong to the current era, they would probably think that they saw some prehistoric giant bird or monster, and they would be frightened! But this flying creature is not only not a creature, but there are thousands of people in it, and it is rushing towards Shangri-La.

At the front of the flying object, a command center known as the "bridge" is where people come and go, busily reporting data to confirm the proper functioning of the entire airframe, while trying to keep an eye on the part at hand to increase the speed of the voyage.

"The wind speed is 270 miles, the wind spirit continues to resonate, and the convection engine is running at 88%, gradually increasing. ”

"The three-dimensional magic array at the stern of the ship is operating normally, and the current speed is 1,700 miles per hour, and it is estimated that it will arrive at Shangri-La after fifty-seven minutes and forty-eight seconds of the ancient magic path time. ”

"The auxiliary wings on both sides gradually retract and turn on full convection mode. ”

"Lightning and strong winds slow down and require the use of protective shields. ”

One by one, the reports and instructions were sent to the command center above through the sound transmission loop, and the latest orders were also issued from there.

"You can't use a protective shield, every ounce of energy counts before you arrive at Shangri-La, and you can't afford to waste it easily. The shell of the body is made of reinforced ceramics and magic alloys, and unless it is affected by the Heavenly Rank Battle at close range, the natural forces cannot cause any serious damage, so don't worry. ”

The cold and calm tone gave the operator confidence in a timely manner, although they were the technicians of this magic house, not everyone knew everything, in fact, due to the wide range of technology involved in this magic house, coupled with some special secrets, except for the lady who was the owner of the magic house, no one really knew everything about this magic house.

For example, the pilot officer who operated the defense system, although he knew that the magic house could be equipped with an energy shield when flying, he didn't know much about the composition of the outer wall, he didn't understand what the "strengthening ceramic" was, he didn't know how the so-called "magic alloy" was synthesized, and he didn't know how durable these substances were, so when the air pressure and impact on the meter soared, the first idea he thought of was to open the protective shield.

Through a roll of beads, seeing the reactions of his subordinates, the lady sitting on the command tower had a lot of sighs.

Something beyond the technological level of the world today, suddenly used, it is indeed shocking, there is a strong shock effect, but on the other side of the two-sided blade problem, it is also facing difficult technical problems, after all, the use of machinery is still human, if human beings do not have enough knowledge to use, then the more powerful the "unknown" weapon, the higher the possibility of hurting themselves.

The magic house built by the Chiba family on the continent of the wind,It is a high crystallization of magic civilization,The pinnacle of alchemical achievements,Even so,There are many things in it that are similar to the primeval magic road,But in terms of training talents,The Chiba family seems to be inferior to the white character family much,They have two Taiyan institutes respectively to supply the talents who operate the machinery,And the Chiba family is for the exclusive and confidential inheritance of technology,All the secrets of the magic house are only passed on to one person per generation,Thousands of years,No one is worried that if the head of the house dies suddenly,The essence of the magic house technology will be lost,After all, not everything can be passed on through books and words！

(But...... Even we can't help it, Zhou Gongjin's Ancient Demon Dao team is only a few dozen people, and together with himself, is he really capable of controlling that Jinao Island? That is a super-ancient civilization billions of years ago...... ）

Such doubts not only existed in the lady's heart, but were also repeatedly raised in the discussion meetings of the Qinglou Alliance. Although Zhou Gongjin, a man, gave the enemy the feeling that no matter what impossible difficulties came into his hands, they would be reversed into possibilities, but this feeling was limited to him personally, and when the problem expanded to the whole, no one believed that his subordinates could be like him, constantly turning decay into magic.

If it is judged according to normal reason, the possibility that the Jinao Island will get out of control and injure the enemy itself is very high. However, the Qinglou personnel in the Demon House did not have much room to be lucky, because the weapons possessed on Jinao Island were too terrifying, and if they went out of control, while destroying the enemy, it would be impossible for their own side not to be affected, and even the entire Wind Continent would be affected.

If there is no place on the Wind Continent that is safe, then it is not a question of whether they are in the center of the fierce battle, especially when they receive urgent information that Shi Chong is about to plot to destroy Shangri-La and destroy the entire base area, the Demon House, which has been working on the border of the Free City, immediately returned to the full range with maximum speed to try to prevent the destruction from happening.

(Shi Chong's move is really clever, he knows that he can't find us, and he can't easily force us out, so he simply destroys Shangri-La...... Only then can we no longer hide...... It's worthy of the demon race that takes destruction as its nature, and the means are really thorough...... ）

When Shangri-La was usurped, the forces of the Qinglou Alliance hid in the darkness, and they took the opportunity to investigate everything about Shi Chong. Hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, even if they can't operate openly, their ability to gather intelligence is still terrifying, and many secrets have been dug up in a short period of time, but the deeper they dig, the stronger the shock of the Qinglou Alliance itself becomes.

The inheritor of the Chiba family on the Wind Continent has no racial restrictions when choosing, having said that, for thousands of years, there have only been humans, elves, half-elves, orcs, and even rare dragons, but they have never looked for demons as inheritors. What was the elder thinking at the beginning, and why he would find a demon clan to inherit the power, these things are really puzzling.

The Qinglou Alliance quickly passed the information at hand to Shangri-La and handed it over to Gengoro, so that he could immediately take contingency measures, and thus disrupted Shi Chong's arrangement, but he didn't expect Shi Chong's counterattack to be so powerful, but as soon as he did, the Qinglou Alliance was forced to appear from the shadows, and immediately encountered a terrifying enemy who should be able to avoid.

"All the people, give you a quarter of an hour to prepare, the latest news, Zhou Gongjin may have completely mastered the Tongtian Cannon, this time our operation, may be nine deaths, everyone prepare for me, if you don't make up your mind, wait a minute, when we land on the mountain in front, all of them will disembark for me." ”

Before receiving urgent information and deciding to rush to Shangri-La, the lady made this final announcement to the whole ship, and asked about one-tenth of the Qinglou personnel to leave the ship at the last chance to dock.

"Even if our army is wiped out, the Chiba family will continue to exist, this is the supreme rule of every generational change, the battle of the roses, so your departure is not shameful, and the future will be handed over to you. ”

In this form, after the final salute handover, the spaceship formed by the Demon House erupted into flames, broke through the air, and sailed straight to Shangri-La.

After solving the worries in one fell swoop, what is now concentrated in the demon house is the most elite combat power and the strongest force of the Qinglou Alliance, and each of them has full consciousness, fearless of life and death, and is driving towards the goal.

"Nier, Izumi Sakura...... You two have to hold on! We're coming soon. ”

On the conning tower, the lady looked directly at the transparent screen in front of her, only to see a flash of lightning, wind and rain, and next to her seat, a short-haired woman in red, with no joy or joy on her beautiful and cold face, seemed to be indifferent to the external environment, but the occasional flash of worry in her eyes silently explained everything.

"What do you see, do you think you can delay time? Let me be honest and go!"

In the other corner of Jinao Island, in the dark underground, Gengoro was urging Zhu Yan to speed up his steps towards his destination.

"What the hell is this ancient ruins, it's so dark, there is not even half a lamp, it's really a mess, is there an energy crisis here in ancient times? No lights, forget it, such a dark night road, all the ghosts and ghosts have come out, alas, the ruins are really not a place for people to live. ”

Gengoro's complaint came from a reason, on the one hand, the speed of their progress was not ideal, the dark and winding passage did slow down the expected progress, but the other thing that made Gengoro feel stunned was that after entering Jinao Island, there was actually a ghost incident.

It's ridiculous to say, but the time is about half an hour after Zhu Yan entered the tunnel, Ailing, who was walking at the end, suddenly exclaimed, saying that there was a white shadow in front of him, at that time Yuan Goro was staring at Zhu Yan, and Zhu Yan was also on guard against Yuan Goro behind him, the two people who paid attention to each other and walked without looking at the road, so they didn't see anything in front of them, and when they heard the exclamation, they looked up, and the front was black and black, and there was no white shadow in sight.

Ailing, who exclaimed, also felt strange. She thought that she should not be dazzled, but looking at the records of the first few minutes, T1000's records did not show any abnormal energy around, in other words, T1000 did not find anything wrong, judging from the scientific records alone, nothing appeared just now.

The three people who were disturbed by this incident moved forward again, but in the following journey, Ailing saw it several times in a row, and in the fork in the road in front or behind, a miserable white translucent shadow suddenly appeared, flashing quickly, extremely fast, but Ailing was sure that he saw it.

"I really have, I really see it. ”

Ailing, who felt a wave of fear of an unknown object in the dark, loudly emphasized his discovery, and Gengoro was suspicious of it, because his heavenly consciousness did not find anything wrong. Having said that, he is currently in the enemy camp, surrounded by mechanisms, even if Ailing really saw something, it would not be surprising, it is most likely the hands and feet of this guy in front of him.

(Strange, what did the little sister see?)

Bearing the suspicious gaze of the enemy, Zhu Yan himself felt inexplicable, but the bad thing was that even he couldn't be sure whether the white shadow in the mouth of the little junior sister was related to him. Before he was about to fight Gengoro, Gong Jin had said something to him, telling him how to deal with it.

“...... But if you meet Gengoro Amano, this person is soft-hearted and indecisive, and will never kill him as soon as he sees him, so you must remember to introduce him to Jinao Island. In terms of martial arts, you are not his opponent, but he is not thirsty for killing, he will capture you as a guide, you use this to lead him to a predetermined position, then there will naturally be a way for you to retreat safely, and then ......"

Gongjin-sama expected that he was extremely accurate, and Gengoro really didn't take a heavy hand on himself, but what is the so-called way to get out? As far as I know, there is no such thing as ghosts and ghosts in the various organs on Jinao Island, of course, if you purely use the method of stereoscopic projection, you can make this effect, but what is this look for?

On the way to the target location, although the surrounding walls do not look unusual, there are indeed some hidden mechanisms inside, and he originally planned to use these mechanisms to launch a surprise attack on the enemy, but if Gongjin-sama has other arrangements, then should he continue to take risks?

There was no answer for a while, Zhu Yan continued to lead the way silently, according to the time, Lord Gongjin should have already known the winner with Hai Jiaxuan, but he didn't know which side was winning, thinking about it, Zhu Yan glanced at the corner of the wall, remembering that there was a machine gun there, if it was suddenly attacked......

As soon as his mind moved, Zhu Yan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his brain, knowing that Gengoro was oppressing himself with his Tianxin consciousness to prevent himself from moving, so he wanted to smile bitterly, but he heard Ailing scream again.

"Again, again!"

happened again at this embarrassing time, Gengoro and Zhu Yan gave up the confrontation and looked up together, but they couldn't see anything, but Zhu Yan had other plans, and he was talking in a very serious voice with a very serious expression.

"Yes, I saw it. ”

"Senior brother, did you see it too?"

"Yes, as you said before, a white transparent shadow flickered past at once, and I don't know what it was. ”

"Also...... What else, a ...... It must be that kind of thing...... It's so annoying, except for spiders and cockroaches, what I'm most afraid of is that kind of thing, it's not scientific at all......"

Ailing's voice trembled, sounding in great fear, although under the semi-protection of the T1000, his whole body trembled, and he grabbed Gengoro's sleeve even harder with one hand, making him cry and laugh.

"Miss, can I remind you that we are now deep into the enemy formation, and what you see is likely to be a trick made up by your senior brother to distract you. ”

"But, but my brother and I really saw it just now......

"Aren't you an ancient demon scholar? In this case, you should also know very well that eyes are not necessarily reliable, and many times eyes can deceive people, why do you only see it, but I can't see anything? The legendary goblin can only be seen by kind-hearted children, so that's it, you don't have to be kind-hearted when you see a ghost!"

"Ah, Mr. Gengoro, don't say that!"

"Psychopathy, didn't I say that ghosts wouldn't appear? This is an ancient ruin, and the inhabitants have perished for hundreds of millions of years, how can there be such an old dead ghost in the world? Have you ever heard of ghost stories that are hundreds of millions of years old?"

Reminded by Gengoro, Ailing also thought that it might be the result of stereoscopic projection, based on this consideration, her heart should be able to settle down a little, however, she still wanted to confirm, so she started the T1000's image record, trying to find something from it that could make her feel at ease.

The video record will appear directly on his chip blindfold, through which he can see that Zhu Yan and Gengoro have both turned around, as if they want to know the answer, and the two pairs of eyes are looking at him. It feels really good that he can be so valued, Ailing began to look at the film record, but after watching the record of just half an hour in just a few seconds, he found that the filmed film, from beginning to end, except for the backs of his senior brother and Gengoro, was deep darkness, and there was nothing, let alone a hellish white shadow.

(The eye sees it, but it doesn't in the film...... Is it, is it really ...... ）

The uneasy tension in the whole heart suddenly climbed to the top, Ailing put away the blindfold in panic, worried that she would immediately see the white shadow in front of her, and on the other hand, she hesitated and didn't know how to explain to Gengoro and her senior brother, but without saying a word, she saw that although the eyes of the two of them looked this way, they did not stop at themselves, but looked at something behind them stupidly.

"Division...... Senior brother, there are ...... Mr. Gengoro, I'm going to ...... Is there a ...... in the back?"

There was no response to this question, Gengoro didn't say a word, and looked behind him with a rather solemn expression, while Senior Brother Zhu Yan nodded slightly as if he was stunned.

（...... No, don't scare people like that...... ）

Excessive nervousness, hands and feet began to disobey the call, Ailing didn't even dare to turn his head to look behind him at once, just look at the T1000 scanning the surrounding data, but found that although several other values were normal, but the temperature behind him was rapidly dropping, and he did feel a trace of chill, seeping straight from his ears, as if he was in a big ice cellar.

Although he was reluctant to turn back, time was still passing, and the weird thing behind him seemed unwilling to let himself go. A strange white light, following the cold air that made the blood freeze, spread from behind the ears, like a jellyfish floating in the sea, and the transparent body glowing with a miserable white glow slowly floated through itself.

Judging from the shape of the object, Ailing felt that it seemed to be some kind of clothing, some like a long skirt, so the unknown life form that appeared behind her should be a woman.

"Ah~~"

Ailing thought that she would be so frightened that her body would go limp, and she sat down, but when the miserable white light next to her disappeared suddenly, and the surrounding temperature suddenly rose, she seemed to turn into a fire yao with a fuse, and in the scream, she suddenly bumped into Fukato Goro and Zhu Yan, and rushed into the long dark corridor in front of her.

"Ah, girl, it's dangerous!"

Gengoro came back to his senses and realized that it was too dangerous for Ailing to run away alone like this, but he heard a loud bang in front of him, as if Ailing was rushing too fast, hitting the wall, and crashing through the wall.

(Wow...... It's such fierce armor...... ）

Thinking it was a little funny, Gengoro suddenly noticed a strange noise coming from the armored wall on the right, followed by something crashing through the wall and rushing out.

In an instant, Gengoro couldn't understand why the person who crashed through the wall from the front would drill through his right side, but in an instant, he realized that something was wrong, this thing that crashed through was too large and couldn't be Ailing.

(This is ...... Scarf Lux!)

Such a behemoth suddenly rushed out of the wall, and Gengoro was indeed startled. The enemy's size was too large, and the corridor he was in was too narrow, so it was not easy to dodge, but with the magic of Jiuyao's extreme speed, the place close to him could still retreat at speed, and Gengoro slid away to the right, narrowly avoiding the sweep of the arm of the scarf wrestler.

"Boy, don't you want to run!"

As soon as he flashed out, Gengoro saw Zhu Yan's back, and was seizing the opportunity to rush into the darkness, if he couldn't intercept it, he might really be about to escape.

"Did you run?"

Gengoro snorted coldly, and was about to use Tianxin Consciousness to cooperate with spiritual techniques to directly bombard Zhu Yan's brain, but at this time, the left wall also burst out, and another scarf wrestler burst out of the wall, sealing the way forward, and came towards him.

"What the hell, do you want to play sumo with me?"

The previous scarf wrestler couldn't block Gengoro's actions, and now of course this one can't do it, Gengoro's body moved at will, and he stopped the advance in an unreasonable manner, and Jiuyao quickly retreated instantly, avoiding the pounce of the scarf wrestler.

However, the previous scarf wrestler cooperated with the flanking attack and intercepted it from behind. In this kind of small space, the bulky and huge body of Cang Scarf Lux has become a tactical advantage, even if Jiuyao is as fast as a flying bird and "Ziwei Xuanjian" is as slippery as a swimming fish, but when the entire corridor is blocked to the point that only a fist is left with a big gap, Gengoro can't drill through.

It doesn't work to retreat, the one in front also rushed over, and wanted to use Jiuyao's extreme speed to dodge, but it didn't work, Gengoro frowned, ready to transport his strength, and forcibly shook these two mecha giants, who knew that the Xiaotian Star Sword was launched, and the sharp sword qi struck three times in the same position, destroying the hard mecha, and sparks erupted from it, but the two scarf wrestlers didn't defend at all, and rushed over all of a sudden, pounced and hugged each other, and pushed him back violently.

The direction of retreat is the same as the direction of Zhu Yan's escape, and if you want to chase it like this, you can't catch up. The two mecha giants were full of horsepower, the huge metal body rubbed against the walls on both sides, rubbing out a long series of dazzling sparks, Gengoro wanted to stabilize his body several times, but he couldn't do it, he was thinking about how to knock down these two machines to get out of trouble, a secret door suddenly opened on the right side of the road behind him, and the scarf wrestler retreated towards the door, deviating from the original passage, the wind whirred in the dark, as if there were many things jumping up, not snakes and insects, lifeless, but not metal, judging by the sense of touch, Gengoro found that those things were some kind of ceramic.

(What is this? Metal is followed by clay, and there are endless mechanisms on Jinao Island?)

There was no answer in his mind, and suddenly there was a bright light in the rear, and a cold strong wind poured in suddenly, and Gengoro woke up to the fact that the enemy had taken such a shortcut to clear himself from Jinao Island, and before he could make a move, he and the other two super heavy objects mixed with the other two Cang Turban Lux had been thrown out of Jinao Island, and after a short pause, he fell straight down.

Glancing down from the corner of his eye, he can confirm that the lights below are like stars, and there are many circles of people around the concert venue, and you can imagine the incomparable pomp and circumstance in the concert venue, but I have no time to care about it now, so I have to try to get out of the embarrassment of becoming a free fall.

(It's a vicious ploy, but if I fall straight down from a high altitude like this and hit the ground, will I really be seriously injured?)

No matter how arrogant Gengoro is, he doesn't think that he will be unharmed if he falls, and in the same way, no matter how stupid the enemy is, he won't think that he can hurt himself if he falls like this, right? So, the meaning of Zhou Gongjin's tactic is just to buy time to fight against his master?

This question swirled in his mind, but Gengoro suddenly saw a group of things, which were a bunch of short, fat and short clay puppets in shape, clinging to the body of the scarf wrestler, the two together, I am afraid that there are no hundreds of clay puppets, but this strange and funny thing made Gengoro feel dangerous, making him think of Yuxue, and even more of what Yuki once said.

"There are so many mechanisms in that underground ruins, not only a bunch of cannons and machine guns, but even inconspicuous clay puppets are very dangerous, my little relatives call those things Tao Wa, these Tao Wa...... It's super explosive, it's so powerful, anything can blow up to the sky. ”

Yuxue's words flashed through Gengoro's mind, reminding him of the role of this pile of pottery dolls. As if echoing the warning of the snow, one of the pottery dolls suddenly jumped on the elbow of the scarf wrestler, less than a foot away from Gengoro's face, and danced like a demonstration in the falling strong wind.

Tao Wa's dancing posture is really not very good, at best it is just a bloated swing from side to side, but the digital changes that appear on Tao Wa's chest can see that Gengoro's eyes are about to protrude.

０３·０２·０１......

This thing...... Will it explode?

In the next moment, the large ball of metal and clay mixed formed an incomparably brilliant ball of flowing fireblood in the air.