03 Knight of the Sky
"Tsk, I escaped......" Qilin angrily threw away the former air thief leader in his hand.
He still overestimated the Su zhì of these air thieves, if he had known that they were a rabble who did not even have basic organization, he would not have wasted his strength on Loki, but chose to rush directly over to suppress the air thief ship. Qilin couldn't help but feel regretful, but there was no way, at this moment, the air thief ship had reached the air hundreds of meters away, and the frightened air thieves above would never give him a chance to board the ship again.
Under the gaze of the Kirin, the air pirate ship in the distance slowly adjusted its direction and aimed the ship's guns at the airship. The pirate ship is equipped with large naval guns, which are capable of destroying the weakly armored passenger ship. When they were in Dahuang Village, in the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of air pirate ships falling from the sky, the villagers had no other means of confrontation except to escape, but now the situation faced by the Qilin is even worse than that time - the Virgin, hovering in the air and unable to move, is simply an out-and-out live target.
"Bastard, did you really do this?" Qilin slammed his fist on the side of the ship, and after a pause, he turned to Erie next to him and asked. "Hey, is there any weapon on this ship?"
"No, yes......" Yili replied to Kirin with a bitter white smile. "If you want to sink an air pirate ship, you need to be at least heavily armed, and it is impossible to configure this kind of civilian ship. ”
"Is there no other way?" the Kirin gritted his teeth as he glared at the air pirate ship.
"Uh, I think ......," Erie smiled wryly and pointed to the red smoke coming from the bow of the Virgin in the distance. "We can also pray to the gods that if the air force arrives in time, maybe there will be salvation." ”
“...... What's that?"
"It's a distress signal, and it means that the ship is in danger. If the weather is clear, you can see it from a distance. ”
"Does it really work......" Kirin expressed doubts about Yili's expectations.
And in the short time that the two were talking, the air pirate ship had already completed the aiming action and fired the ship's guns with lightning speed.
With a deafening pop, the pirate ship's cannonballs shot high with a spiraling wake and exploded violently in front of the airship's flanks.
The cannonball fired by the pirate ship hit the engine on the left side of the airship, and the violent explosion caused the airship's hull to tremble violently. Fortunately, the airship's engine was connected to the hull by means of a short wing, so the explosion did not directly affect the structure of the hull, and the engine and paddles absorbed most of the impact instead of the hull, and the floating mechanism located in the belly of the ship was not damaged. When the smoke from the explosion cleared, the air thieves were stunned to see the airship dragging the remnants of its wings on one side, barely floating in the air.
It's unbelievable that such a close-range bombardment couldn't blow the other side away!
The air thieves subconsciously recalled the scene when the Qilin swept the deck single-handedly, and they couldn't help but feel a certain irrational fear in their hearts. Since it takes half a minute of cooldown time after the ship's guns are fired, the air thieves began to hesitate whether to strike another blow and completely destroy the airship, or to smear the soles of their feet and slip away before Wang ** arrived.
The hesitation of the air thieves gave Kirin time to catch his breath, but at this time, everyone on the airship was in a moment of crisis.
The airship relies on the floating mechanism in the belly of the ship to provide the buoyancy that supports the hull, while the engine in the bow provides the propulsion to keep it forward. In addition to providing propulsion, the left and right engines also play an important role in adjusting the balance of the hull. At this time, due to the loss of the weight of the engine on the left side, the fragile balance of the airship immediately collapsed, and the huge hull slowly tilted to the right, and with the tilt of the hull, the noose, cargo boxes, ropes and other unfixed things on the deck slid to the right.
Some of the air thieves who were defeated by the Kirin, and some of the captured passengers, were all thrown into the void without any bearing in a panicked scream.
"Damn it!" the Kirin swooped to the left, his right hand tugging at the handrail that protruded from the deck, and his left hand grabbing the countess as he slid past him.
“...... Yes...... Ahhh......h
"Those shameless bastards will only use this method ......" Kirin frowned tightly. Although he could barely save the Countess in the vicinity, more than ten times as many people were thrown into the void. In the face of the catastrophe of the capsizing of the ship's hull, the power of the individual is minimal, and if the airship capsizes, everyone on board, including him, will have to be buried together.
"Hey, it's okay over there?" called out to Yili not far away.
"My side...... Uh, I can't call it okay though...... But I think I'll be able to hold on a little longer......" Erie was clutching a railing on the deck with both hands, desperately trying not to let himself slip.
"Okay, is there any way to do it?" asked Kirin, pointing to the capsized hull. Airships were completely alien to him, and the only person he could ask about was this young man, and judging from Yili's previous appearance, Kirin felt that he could trust his judgment.
"Just, even if you ask like that......" Erie, who had received this trust, looked distressed, and he looked left and right at a loss, and the huge engine on the right side of the airship came into view.
"Right...... By the way, if the right engine is removed, the hull should be balanced...... Well, it's possible to restore balance, but to destroy that thing...... Shouldn't it be?" said Erie, looking disconfident. After all, the connection between the engine and the hull is arguably one of the strongest structures on an airship, and even a team of heavily armed sappers on it cannot be destroyed in a moment.
"I see, just let the weight on both sides balance it......" Facing Yili, who was not confident, Kirin nodded confidently.
"Woman, hold on here and hold on for half a minute. Kirin pushed the countess onto the handrail, let her hold on to herself, and let go and slide down.
"Hey, wait, it's too dangerous......"
Under Erie's stunned gaze, the Kirin slid all the way down the deck to the short wing on the right. At this moment, the hull of the ship was tilted more than thirty degrees, and the strong wind brought by the rotation of the huge blades was blowing violently from the front, as if it was about to tear him off the ship. The Kirin had to hold on to the railing of the ship's side with both hands, but he couldn't spare his hands to perform his work, and he had to pay attention to the various objects that kept sliding down the deck behind him, which was thrilling to the point of view from an onlooker's point of view.
"Really, there have been a lot of surprises along the way...... When you wait until the royal capital, you have to let Chechen explain it well......"
The Kirin muttered, turned around and kicked the sliding deck debris away, leaping high with the force of the recoil, and then slamming into the middle of the wings and the engine.
"Break it for me!
I only heard a muffled sound of "dong", and the strength of "Tianya" shattered the skeleton of the short wing on the spot.
Without the support of the skeleton, the outer skin could not withstand the strong stresses from the engine and was completely torn apart in a matter of seconds. The engine rushed into the void in front with part of the wreckage of the short wings, and the Kirin grabbed the wreckage on the other side so that it did not fall out, but it was also scared out of a cold sweat by the thrill just now.
After losing its engines on both sides at the same time, the airship regained its balance, and the hull slowly returned to a level state with a burst of groaning. Many people, including the Countess, lay down on the ground as soon as they let go. Yili also lay on the deck in shock, gasping for breath, even when the footsteps of the unicorn sounded next to him, he didn't get up, just looked at the unicorn with a mixture of tired and dazed eyes.
“...... Well, can I ask a question?"
"What?"
"You're really human, aren't you? I've heard that some monsters can transform into human ......."
"you, my name is Kirin, and I'm a traveler from Dahuang Village. Kirin replied unhappily, and reached out to pull Yili up. "Get up, the air pirate ship over there hasn't been solved yet, do you want to lie on your stomach and wait for death?"
"Ah, don't worry about that, they're ready to escape......" Erie waved his hand tiredly.
"What?" Qilin looked at in surprise, and now the air pirate ship that was originally aiming at this side had turned around in a panic, and couldn't help but wonder, "What's going on?"
"It should be the Air Force coming......" Getting out of the Qilin's hand, Yili sat down on the ground again. "The air force is not blind, making such a big move, Wang Du must have noticed it a long time ago, and the air cavalry patrolling nearby may have laid an encirclement net around it, and these guys will not be able to escape this time. ”
"What is it?" the Kirin was intrigued by the term he had first heard.
"It's the cavalry in the air, the most elite combat unit of the king...... Ah, look there!, it looks like it's already here!" Erie suddenly pointed to the sky on the other side in an uplifting tone.
"That's ...... Sky Rider?" Kirin narrowed his eyes and carefully examined the three small black dots that appeared in the air.
From this distance, the "air ride" in Yili's mouth is much smaller than the airship, and its slender body and wide wings that stretch out to the sides are the most obvious features of its appearance. If it weren't for the propulsion engines behind them, which are similar to those of airships, the Kirin would have thought of them as some kind of giant bird. In the low tremor of the high-spinning paddle cutting air, the airrider rushed towards the airship at an extremely fast speed, and the moment the two sides passed by, Kirin noticed that the airrider was painted with a flag with white stripes on a blue background.
"Cyan...... It's the 'Sky King Ride'!" Yili jumped up excitedly as if seeing the same thing. "Great! those guys can't run away!"
"Is that so...... Kirin clasped his hands in front of his chest and looked at the empty riders with some suspicion. After all, in terms of volume, an air pirate is almost one-tenth the size of an air pirate ship, and if the combat effectiveness of both sides is proportional to the volume, even if three of them are on the same page, the air pirate ship will not be captured, and maybe there will be a bitter battle in the end.
Although Kirin speculated so, the actual exhibition was completely unexpected. In fact, the three airriders had no intention of being outnumbered. Seeing the appearance of the air thief cabin fleeing in panic, the two blue painted air horses on the left and right took the initiative to break away from the attack route. The two airhorsemen waved their bird-like wings, drawing two 180-degree arcs in the air, and then floated around the airship like escorts, allowing the cyan airrider to rush towards the pirate ship with ten times its size alone.
"Hey, there's just one person over there...... Is there no problem?" Qilin couldn't help but worry.
"Look at it!' The 'Sky King Cavalry' is the most elite unit of the Air Force, and it is not easy to eliminate that kind of air thief. Yili confidently assured.
Hearing him say this, Kirin temporarily suppressed his worries and focused on observing the battle between the air riders and the air thief ship. Regardless of the ravages that swept through the air thieves on the deck, it was the first time he had seen someone fight the air thieves in the air.
Although the Kirin is full of anticipation and hopes to see a wonderful air battle between you and me, in fact, the battle process can only be described as one-sided.
I saw that the cyan air rider caught up with the air pirate ship with a degree that was far above the air pirate ship, and then flew around the air pirate ship as if warning the air thieves to stop the ship and surrender.
Perhaps aware of their own evil deeds, and knowing that even if they surrendered, the air thieves tried to use the secondary guns mounted on the side of the ship to knock down the pursuers.
In the face of the gunfire of the air thieves, the cyan air rider simply stretched its wings, and the oncoming strong wind brought it to a height that the air thieves could not reach in an instant.
When the cannonballs of the air thieves fell limply into the void, the air riders above their heads had flipped over and dived down.
The air rider rushed at a right angle of nearly ninety degrees to the defenseless deck of the air pirate ship, and in the next second, a fierce tongue of fire erupted from the cannon in its head. Bullets with tremendous kinetic energy rained down on the deck, tearing through the bodies of the pirates, piercing the decks of the pirate ships, destroying the floating traps under the layers of protection...... It was only a few seconds, and when the cyan air rider flew high again in the wind, the huge air thief ship had already exploded violently, and it had exploded into two pieces from the belly of the floating mechanism.
The violent explosion engulfed all the air thieves on board, and the wreckage of the bow and stern of the ship turned into two huge fireballs that burned to the ground, and half of the sky was painted in the color of flames. The unicorn on the airship stared blankly at the magnificent scene in front of him, and did not come back to his senses until the cyan airship crossed overhead.
"Ah...... Ahhhh......h
The unicorn sighed, greedily chasing the figure of the aerial rider with his eyes, and his incredibly beautiful posture had an overwhelming impact more than love at first sight.
Qilin felt his heart beating wildly like never before, and when his gaze fell on the blue background and white striped flag pattern again, he suddenly remembered that in the letter that Chechen had sent back in the past, it seemed that the name of "Sky King Rider" had been mentioned......
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