Chapter 200: On the Airship
stayed in the Membrane Law Guild for a day, and the next day Kevin and the six of them went to the nearby vault to exchange the corresponding currency, but this thing is not the more money, the better, too many gold coins also fall into the pocket, just go out and have enough. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info The six of them then took a horse-drawn carriage to the international airport in Ciudad Hirez.
Ciudad Hirez has always been one of the important ports for foreign exchanges, including seaports and airports. There is generally no teleportation array between the world, once the teleportation array is connected, then the other party can directly send troops to receive the teleportation array to invade the inner realm, and it is impossible to resist it with only a little inner wall. Unless the relationship between the two countries is true brotherhood, it is impossible.
The airport is the fastest mode of transportation between the world, in which the hot air balloon is the main aircraft, divided into short or long distances of various sizes, most of the balloons are spindle-shaped, and a basket is hung under the bottom. Hot air balloons are all driven by wind-based fire magic, ordinary weather will not be affected, the driver is more or less a mage, and there is generally no problem with safety.
Kevin's six people undoubtedly traveled long distances, lasting about a week, with three intermediate stops in between. The exact time is also uncertain, and if there is a thunderstorm on the way, it will have to be detoured. However, this long-distance hot air balloon is also quite magnificent, more than 100 meters long spindle-shaped upper balloon, the skin is extremely tough material, and there is a huge cabin hanging underneath.
The number of passengers is about a hundred, but some orcs who are too heavy are three of the average human race, so one person buys three tickets, and as for dwarves and other lighter weights, half a ticket. The weight of passengers in the air is not sloppy, and if you eat too much, you will pay more, and there is no way about this. Moreover, the ticket for the airship is very expensive, far exceeding the price of the ordinary teleportation array.
There is only one flight a day, if there are many people, then you need to book, if you miss it, you will continue to wait for tomorrow. However, since Kevin and the others are officially dispatched, the tickets have naturally been booked a long time ago. Not only that, but the three tanks that were to be brought over were also parked here a long time ago.
The Kevin Six were not ordinary passengers, they didn't need to be checked much, and they even went straight through the special passage with crows and parrots. The three tanks were covered in skin, and Kevin went up to inspect them and made sure they were in good condition. Then he nodded to indicate that he could load the airship, and the staff on the side immediately rolled up his sleeves and pushed the chariot into the cargo compartment on the lower level of the airship. Considering the weight of the vehicle, in order to ensure the balance and stability of the airship, this loading is still a technical job.
In addition to the staff present, several mages wasted half a day to get the car in place and fix it with ropes. And because after loading three cars, this airship can only carry 30 people, except for Kevin's six, the rest of the passenger flow can only have 24. But fortunately, there are few people who have nothing to do with going abroad these years, especially long-distance airships, and there are usually only about 30 people, so there will be no problems.
Kevin, even though he was well-informed, was riding an airship for the first time, and even more so for others. Everyone looked up and down with curiosity at this time, in addition to the frame of the steel bar, the cabin was made of some hard leather in other places, which was very thick and hard when poked, and I didn't know what kind of monster leather was used.
There are sleepers in the cabin, and a row of bunks is divided into three rows, upper, middle and lower, and there are small curtains to separate them. There are toilets, dry food and water, but they are only basic survival, and it is impossible to have a high quality of life.
"Are we going to live here? We're all together. Little Spoon looked at the tickets and quickly found everyone's beds.
Jack patted the middle bunk: "Anyway, everyone is together, or I'll sleep in the middle, whoever is the middle bunk, I'll change it with him." ”
Sain wondered, "Why does it have to be in the middle?"
"This ......," Jack gestured up and down, "looks more comfortable." ”
"Oh," Sain nodded, "I know the bottom bunk might be dirty, and the top bunk is tiring to climb up, so you're going to pick the middle bunk?"
Kevin hurriedly waved his hand: "He's just a pure obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he likes absolute symmetry." ”
"Obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Sain was naturally a little surprised when he met him for the first time.
"Look at the two parrots on his shoulders," Kevin pointed to, "one is an intelligent one, and the other is just an ordinary parrot, just for the sake of symmetry." He was the one who had seen the corpse of a severed arm and cut off the other arm of the corpse. Everyone can get used to it in the future. ”
Everyone looked at him in amazement, which made Jack a little embarrassed, and could only explain: "I'm just forcing it occasionally, don't mind." ”
The crow on Kevin's shoulder suddenly became interested, and he spoke to Kevin through the contract: "He's a parrot mage? ”
Kevin hurriedly replied, "You can rest on the side, do you see the sign on the wall over there?"
The crow turned his head to look, but saw a fist painted on the wall, and then the fist was marked with a red cross. The crow didn't care: "What's wrong with this sign? No fists? I don't have a fist." ”
"This sign means that fighting is strictly forbidden here, are you playing stupid or do you really not know?" Kevin wanted him to explain.
As he spoke, the attendant of the airship came out, a rough aunt, with a rag on her shoulder, holding a mop in her hand, and shouted to the only thirty or so passengers: "That, hello everyone! The terminal is the southern kobold camp - Nansi Zedi, and the next stop is the light elf clan. On this voyage, please ensure basic hygiene, report if you feel unwell, and we have emergency medicine. ”
The aunt picked up the mop and pointed to the sign on the wall: "There are not many rules on the airship, but there is one, no fights are allowed! Fights are never allowed for any reason! Fights of any kind are never allowed! Got it?"
Everyone looked at each other across the aisle and nodded subconsciously.
The aunt then shouted: "This airship is not so strong, everyone is a variety of colors of fighting spirit, all kinds of magic against each other, you have to wait for the airship to fight again." If you want to be really tough, you can fly over by yourself, do you understand?"
The crowd nodded again. Then the aunt can actually use the Lane Imperial Chinese, and the elf language is said twice. Everyone looked surprised, but they didn't expect that a mopping aunt was also proficient in the three Chinese.
"Okay, the airship is about to take off," the aunt said as she walked over, "Those who are confident in their own strength can not wear seat belts, but if they are injured, they will not be responsible." Others please lie down on the bed with two straps on the side of the bed and help themselves on the bed. ”
Kevin naturally didn't have much confidence, so he honestly lay on the top bunk and fastened his seat belt. When the others saw the captain like this, they naturally didn't say anything. After all, they are either soldiers, assassins, or sheriffs, and their sense of obedience to orders is not bad.
With a shaking, strong wind elemental fluctuations and fire elemental fluctuations were clearly heard above the head, and the airship began to rise slowly. Looking out of the window, the ground began to rise farther and farther away. Then I felt the airship tilt slightly and began to fly forward.
"Alright, you can unbuckle your seatbelts. If you want to eat, you can come and sell it. After saying hello, the aunt ran to stand at the counter.
Kevin and everyone unbuckled their seat belts, and couldn't help but subconsciously look out the window, the weather was cloudless today, and everything was shrunk from the top down. For first-time experiencers, it's undoubtedly exciting.
"Why don't we go to the platform up there? it's big, we should be able to go?" suggested Little Spoon.
No one objected, and the little spoon immediately pulled Xiao Jiu up: "Let's go, let's take a look." The two girls excitedly walked all the way up the stairs, and Kevin and the others saw that there was nothing wrong, so they followed.
The crow expressed his disdain through the contract: "Hmph, what a fuss, isn't it flying." ”
Kevin glanced at him, "Do you want me to take you for a swim next time?"
Raven: "......"
Everyone made their way to the platform, where the airship's balloon was above and the passenger compartment was below. There are only cables around, and there is a hut in the middle, which is obviously the heart of the airship.
Xiao Spoon and Xiao Jiu leaned on the cable, pointing to the clouds in the distance, obviously very excited. Kevin and the others followed, all in a happy mood, although not as revealing as they were.
"It's already high in the air here, isn't it?" Sain looked at it, but remembered something, "But the wind is not strong, is this also the effect of the magic array?"
Kevin nodded: "The lift of the airship is obtained by heating the air inside the balloon with a fire spell, but the forward momentum of the airship is obtained by changing the direction of the surrounding wind through these magic arrays above. To put it simply, we've been drifting downwind, so we don't feel much wind on the platform. ”
As he spoke, a few masts suddenly stretched out around the airship, and then three or five sails were opened with a bang, and they were blown up in a moment, and the speed of the airship was obviously a little faster.
"Because it uses magic to change the wind around it, there is no headwind, and you can use the sail to speed up the sail, but because the sail is too big, you usually put it away," Kevin explained, "This technique is also used in the water, and some boats are similar to this." Magically change the current, and there are sails at the bottom of the boat, so you can use no oars, no wind, and all the waves. ”
Everyone nodded, and they all sighed that many high-tech still don't understand.
Kevin just smiled: "It's not difficult to say how these things work, but I really want to implement them on a large airship ship, and there are countless details in it." I don't know if our country has mastered it, but this is mainly in the category of the navy and air force, and I will not mix it with the army. ”
Little Spoon also nodded: "Yes, if you put a lot of weapons on the airship, isn't it a huge fortress?"
Kevin shook his head: "Something that's completely magically driven, although it's high-end, it's also easy to crack. Magic molding involves the process of collecting elements, and certain points in the collection process are very important, and the magic can be easily disrupted by opposing attacks. If the magic that is the driving direction is disrupted, then the whole action is messed up. If this problem is not solved, these things can only be civilian at the moment, at most as transportation. ”
Suddenly, there was applause on the side, and everyone turned their heads to see a dark elf man standing beside them for a long time: "Well said, well said." ”
Kevin looked back in surprise, this person didn't know him, could it be that he was here to talk?
"This gentleman," the dark elf smiled as he stepped forward, "I can feel a little elven in you, and with all due respect, you should ...... It has a lot to do with the elves, right?"
"Elven breath?" Kevin was a little curious, "can you smell it?"
"I can only say one feeling," the Dark Elf muttered, "I don't mean anything else, just a casual conversation." ”
"I'm a half-elf, but my other half-elf bloodline is a light elf, I wonder if you smell it?" Kevin replied. The light and dark elves were hostile, and Kevin estimated that this person was here to find fault, so he simply spread out and tested him.
The dark elf just smiled, and he didn't seem surprised: "Although the light elf has a conflict with us, we are allies with Lou Baole Kingdom, even if it is...... Even if the people of the Light Elf Clan have obtained the nationality of Lou Baole, we can treat them differently. ”
"Your political consciousness is also real and clear. Kevin laughed.
"It's fine. The Dark Elves smiled.
As a result, after the two sides laughed, there was a silence, and the six people looked at him like this, and the dark elf was a little embarrassed for a while, so he could only wave his hand: "Oh, I have to leave beforehand." ”
Watching him walk off the platform, Kevin and the others didn't pay much attention. Kevin also beckoned everyone to come closer, the scenery is almost the same, and it's time to get down to business.
"You may know a little bit about the kobold camp, but just in case anything is missing, I'll tell you something I know," Kevin began, "and if there's anything I don't want to bring up to you." ”
"The kobold camp is located to the west of the territory of the Light Elf Clan, with mountainous terrain and many mineral veins underground. The kobold himself is good at digging holes, has a candle on his head, is about 1 meter tall, and has a dog's head. The main part of their kingdom is underground, which can be considered an underground city, but there are also buildings on the ground. After all, all ethnic groups can now run around, and the buildings on the ground are basically mainly inhabited by tourists or workers of all ethnic groups. ”
"Their beliefs seem to be based on believing in the kobold shamans of the clan, and the shamans are what they say. It is obviously different from the Church of Light or the Nature Religion of the Elven Race, etc., and he does not have a complete theoretical basis. To put it simply, it's just a teaching for people who fool the bottom of the intelligence, and the Church of Light is ...... Forget it," Kevin changed the subject.
"The kobolds are relatively weak, and I don't think I've heard of the kobold sword master, or the kobold archmage or anything like that. They were also enslaved for a long time in their history, but they were liberated after the Second Holy War. Several scattered tribes were also consolidated into kingdoms. It has a good talent for mining and has become the main source of income for the kingdom. ”
"This kobold war is mainly in the southern kingdom of Nanth, a place called Puli is trying to become independent. Then the Nans Kingdom sent troops to suppress it, and this fight lasted for more than two years," Kevin began, "Although the kobolds themselves are relatively weak, all kinds of new weapons are affordable, and there is no such thing as a weapon ban. So if we observe, we should be able to gain something. ”
"When we go over there, we'll find our embassy first, and he'll arrange everything. In addition, let me tell you that the Observation Mission itself is not a secret, and many countries have sent it, and the Empire should send people as well. When the time comes, everyone should be polite. After Kevin finished speaking, he asked everyone again, "Are there any other questions?"
"The ......," asked the little spoon with his hand raised, "can kobolds eat dog meat?"