529. Above the sea of clouds
As the maca plane war comes to an end, the busy scene on the airport docks of Hylanza City is gradually returning to its original state.
Without the mountains of war materials, the tower of the airport terminal has become extremely empty, and there are no coolies waiting in line to carry bags outside the airport terminal.
A group of nobles, surrounded by servants and maids, climbed onto the platform of the tower of the airport dock, and a magical airship with the words 'Exocet' written on both sides of the ship was quietly moored on the pier, and the outside of the bow was painted with a lifelike flying fish head, which looked like a giant sea fish floating in mid-air.
Surdak followed the crowd and boarded the airship along the railing pedals between the ship and the dock.
Several aristocratic ladies with folding fans in their hands gathered together, they were dressed in the most popular imitation court summer dresses of the moment, their delicate and graceful bodies looming under the light fabric, and on their heads were large hats full of flowers, which looked like a grand fruit basket except for some precious beaded flowers and feathers, and Surdak could not understand how their slender snow-white necks could hold such a hat up.
The group of aristocratic ladies walked at the front of the procession, and they were chattering all the way, as if they were full of anticipation for this journey, and a group of maids followed them.
Several young nobles carried a simple salute in one hand, following behind this group of women, the servants around them were all armor-piercing knights, each of them was fully equipped, and there was a murderous aura on their faces, although they were more well-equipped than the knights of the guard battalion, but he didn't think that these armor-piercing knights had a lot of combat experience.
The two noble ladies walked in the middle of the procession with two attendants and two personal maids, they looked silent, their faces were covered with a black net veil, and their hands were also wearing white gloves with hollow patterns, and they looked good at maintaining their figures.
At the back of the procession were a few silent nobles, who had boarded the ship with their horses and knights' spears, as if they were about to go to battle.
In addition to these nobles, there was also an old nobleman, accompanied by an old butler, who quietly boarded the magic airship.
Perhaps there was a group of noble knights who were about to embark on a journey, and Surdak was inconspicuous in the crowd in a magical pattern.
A group of crew members stood on the left and right sides of the deck of the magic airship, led by the captain of the airship, to express their heartfelt welcome to the nobles who boarded the ship, and there was a special crew responsible for arranging the rooms of the nobles on the airship, and they carefully explained the benefits of riding the airship as they went, and of course, there were some services specially prepared for the nobles.
Surdak only knew that the original airship can also prepare breakfast and afternoon tea separately, three meals a day can also be ordered at will, the types of dishes are also varied, every day on the airship there will be the chef on the menu of recommended dishes, of course, these orders are not rich can eat, in addition to being able to afford money, you also need to have a noble status.
In fact, the cereal porridge and the hard baked wheat cakes on the airship, which were as unpalatable as the marching rations, were all for the common people, and the ordinary merchants, even if they were rich, were at best white bread with red sausage ale, and the choice of dishes was far less abundant than that of the nobles.
The cabins on the airship deck are provided with hot water for bathing every morning and between 8 and 9 pm.
Of course, to be able to enjoy this service, you need to have a small bathroom in the room.
However, not all rooms have bathrooms, and the ticket for a room with a bathroom is more than twice as expensive as the one without a bathroom, and Surdak happened to buy one with a small bathroom, just in the innermost part of the corridor on the right side of the deck, and he felt that the crew must have treated him as a group of noble knights who were about to go on an expedition, so he would have such special treatment.
In fact, he had just participated in the Maga Plane War, and was therefore canonized as a third-class baron in the city of Highlanza by Charles the Great of the Grimm Empire.
Pushing open the wooden door of the room, you will see a clean and tidy wooden bed, covered with thick mattresses and snow-white sheets, the room is about less than six square meters, there is a round glass window on the wall opposite the wooden door, and there is a folding table on the wall next to the bed, which is usually folded together, and can only be put down when needed.
In addition, there is a bathroom of more than one square meter on the left hand side of the entrance, and in addition to a bathtub, this bathroom only has a washbasin at the door.
Surdak unfastened the heavy upper body armor and hung it on the wooden hanger in the room, and took out five copper plates from his bosom and stuffed them to the crew at the door, who thanked them and took them, and reminded Surdak: "Thank you for your generosity, Lord Baron, the head chef who flew with us to Bena City this time is Chef Antonio, and his best dishes are smoked Moraci fish and stewed white rock rhino backbone, I hope you have the opportunity to taste Chef Antonio's specialty dishes." ”
Surdak nodded, indicating that he understood.
However, he was not ready to eat the delicacies made of these Warcraft meat on the airship, in the high-end restaurants of Highlandsa City, the prices of these dishes need to be settled in gold coins, and now that they are on the airship, it is initially estimated that they must not be cheap, Surdak is not the kind of wealthy nobleman who does not feel distressed when he squanders a dozen gold coins, and the crew recommended the high-end dishes of Warcraft meat to him, mostly because he was wearing a top-level magic pattern structure.
He wasn't even ready to go to the restaurant for dinner.
Mrs. Cohen prepared a food box for Surdak this time, and Surdak put it in his magic waist bag, and the food prepared in the food box was quite rich, in addition to a few sandwiches with cream and luncheon meat, there was also a roast sausage and a few apples, which was enough for Surdak to eat two meals.
When the crew member left, Surdak closed the hatch and sat alone on the wooden bed.
Looking through the clean glass windows at night in the city of Highlandza, the streets are lit up with colourful lights, especially at the castle at the top of the city.
After the civilians were on board, the crew retracted the ropes hanging from the airport dock to the deck.
Sixteen magic devices roared, and the magic airship broke free from the control of the airport dock and slowly rose into the night sky.
The two crew members constantly adjusted the direction of the bow of the airship, testing the altitude of the ascent, and they needed to accurately judge the strong wind belt in the sky, and only by entering the strong wind belt could the airship sail far.
The cabins inhabited by civilians are all below deck, and of course, even civilians, those who can afford to sit on magic airships are the middle class with small families.
A group of civilians put their luggage in the cabin and ran to the deck to enjoy the gorgeous night view of the city of Highlandsa high in the sky, and they chatted on the deck.
After the two experiences of riding the magic airship, Surdak no longer has the novelty he had before, and he almost stayed in the cabin for the first two days to feel the dark star in his body, because he carried enough food, and he didn't need to go to the airship restaurant to eat, but unfortunately he still couldn't find the way in the cultivation method, and he had almost no gain.
After two days in the cabin, Surdak finally came out of the cabin, and he casually walked around the deck.
The airship entered the channel, the three-masted sails were full, the sails and spinnakers on the bow were also pulled high, and the ship was like a flying fish, speeding forward in the wind, this airship was just a medium-sized and thin magic airship, and the hull was very long.
Surdak held his hands on the right side of the ship, just in the gap between the two floating devices, and looked underneath the airship.
Locked in the cabin for two days, now standing on the deck blowing the cold wind, I feel very comfortable.
Two noblewomen in black capes were standing at the bow of the ship looking up at the spinnaker leading the way, several crew members were constantly fiddling with the noose that did not need to be adjusted at all, and several young nobles stood not far from the bow, talking and laughing loudly, as if trying to attract the attention of the two noblewomen.
Surdak gave up the idea of walking over to see the red copper impact angle at the bow of the ship, he turned around the main mast, and saw that there was an open observation deck on the top of the ship, and there seemed to be few people on it, so he went up to the top floor along the zigzag staircase of the ship, and the two crew members stood at the door of the ship, persuading the two civilians to retreat, and saw Surdak hurriedly saluting and letting him go.
Watching the two civilians leave with a grim face, Surdak stepped up to the observation deck on the top floor of the ship's building.
The observation deck on the top floor is not large, and when you walk up, you find that there are really a lot of people on the observation deck.
On the deck, due to the viewing angle, I didn't see the crowd on the observation deck, and when I boarded the ship, I saw several aristocratic ladies who had changed into cloaks to protect themselves from the cold, and were crowded in the corner of the left rear side of the top floor of the ship, admiring the ever-changing sea of clouds under their feet.
At opposite corners, an old nobleman, accompanied by a butler, stood in the wind, his wrinkled face blown by the cold wind, and he stood quietly by the railing looking out at the sea of clouds in the distance.
Surdak walked up to the ship's building.
I saw the butler whispering a few words in the ear of the old nobleman, and then, with the support of the old butler, he passed by Surdak and slowly walked down the stairs of the ship.
At this moment, a strong whirlwind suddenly blew from the side of the ship, and the whole sail swayed violently, followed by the hull swaying from side to side with a 'creaking' sound, and the huge mast seemed to fall down at any moment.
Surdak leaned over and grabbed the railing next to him.
I heard the captain in the wheelhouse shouting to the crew on the deck: "Turbulence, quickly lower the sails for Lao Tzu......"
Then there was a sudden violent shaking of the hull, and Surdak felt his body bounce up, and hurriedly grabbed the railing on the side.
The old nobleman, who had not gone far, did not grasp the handrail on the ship's building, and slammed into the railing, and planted his body out of the railing, and the butler was caught off guard and his hands were empty.
Seeing that the old nobleman was about to fall off the top of the ship, Surdak took the first step, propped himself on the railing with one hand, leaped out and grabbed the old nobleman's belt in his hand, and instantly dragged him back from the outside of the ship.
At this moment, the old nobleman was also so frightened that his face turned red, his body hit the railing, his breathing was a little short, and his lips became a little purple.
The turbulence came and went as fast as it came, and soon the airship was calm again, and there was chaos on the deck and on the rooftop.
Fortunately, this turbulence did not cause major casualties, and if this short-term turbulence lasted for more than a quarter of an hour, it would be called a storm in the wind layer, and if it was not handled well, the ship could be destroyed and people could die.
Surdak and the butler helped the old nobleman into the corridor on the third floor of the ship, and the old nobleman was speechless.
The butler thanked Surdak again and again, and respectfully asked for Surdak's name.
Surdak smiled implicitly and said to the butler and the old nobleman: "Don't thank me, I just did what I could, and I believe that every young man will be as ...... as I am when he sees this situation."
Seeing that the old nobleman's breathing had gradually calmed down and that his health was fine, he declined the butler's warm invitation and turned around and returned to his cabin.
Tired of the cold food he had brought with him, Surdak was ready to see the restaurant on the airship, so he ordered a dinner for the day on the recommendation of the crew.
When it was time for dinner, Surdak walked into the restaurant on the second floor of the ship, the waiter in the restaurant took Surdak to the seat against the wall, and the waiter brought up boiled peas and fried meat steaks, Surdak tasted it, and felt that the chef on the airship really had no problem, the meat steak was fried just right, and the sauce was also very unique.
Two noble ladies were also dining in the dining room, and across from them sat two young nobles, who seemed to be talking merrily, and from time to time bursting into suppressed laughter.
Surdak wiped the gravy from the bottom of the plate with a piece of white bread, stuffed it into his mouth along with the last piece of bread, and was about to wipe his hands with a napkin to leave, when he saw the waiter of the restaurant come over with a golden cider in his hand, stop beside him, put a crystal goblet on the table, bow his head and say respectfully to Surdak: "Alexi. The Count of Iter would like to treat you to a drink......"
Surdak looked up in surprise, just in time to see the old earl sitting in the middle of the dining room, he must have just arrived, and the waiters were placing plates on the table one after another.
Seeing Surdak looking at him, he hurriedly raised the goblet in his hand and shook the golden liquor in the cup to salute Surdak.
In this case, Surdak could not refuse, so he asked the waiter to pour him a glass of wine. The Count of Ite raised his glass and drank a glass of slightly sour golden cider before leaving the restaurant.
Probably because of a glass of wine, after taking a bath, Surdak lay on the bed. Sleep extra sweetly at night.
Early the next morning, Surdak practiced basic swordsmanship on the deck of the bow of the ship.
Not long after, those nobles who seemed to be preparing to go on the expedition also ran to the deck to exercise, they stood on the deck with wooden swords in their hands and practiced in pairs, the heavy wooden swords in their hands drove out of the fancy sword style from time to time, and the defending side did not use a shield to block, but they had to hold wooden swords, and dismantled those sword moves very fancifully, as if they could not dismantle them, even if they lost.
They practiced on the deck for a while, and saw that Surdak was still half-crouching in the bow of the ship, practicing those basic movements repeatedly, with some sneer and ridicule on his face, but no one took the initiative to provoke.
It wasn't until Surdak left with the blood-red crescent moon that the nobles chuckled softly.
When Surdak returned to the cabin, he saw the butler waiting at the door, and when he saw Surdak returning, he took the initiative to send an invitation to Surdak......