Chapter Seventy-One: The Aetheric Sea
Summer Night dressed as fast as she could, ran to the door, opened it, and stood at the door to inform her crew.
It was a medium-sized, long-haired witch with chestnut hair, dressed in ...... The clothes the other party was wearing made Xia Ye stunned, but now her mind was all on the Aether Sea, and she didn't have time to think about it, so she turned around and ran to the deck.
"Thank you for coming to inform me~~"
By the time these words reached the ears of the crew, the summer night had already run away.
The girl rushed to the deck.
The morning breeze blew in her face, blowing her skirt and long hair, and she ran to the side of the boat, leaning out and looking up.
She saw a "wall".
The wall was right in front of the Moby Dick's journey, it was so huge that there was no end in sight downward, left, and right, and it had an amber-like translucent texture that glowed softly yellow
On closer inspection, Summer Night found that the wall was not a monolith, it was made up of one hexagonal shape after another, each of which was dozens of times the size of the Moby-Dick, and they were so tightly seamed with each other that they left only a very thin gap, like the lines engraved on the wall.
Summer Night immediately realized that this wall was what Yaha called "barrier".
And the barrier and the dome are the same thing.
Thinking of this, she looked up at the top of her head. The dome here looks a little different than what you usually see in the lower town, it is sloping, and the closer you get to the wall, the lower it slopes, until it is completely vertical, like a waterfall falling from the nine heavens, pouring directly in front of the Debussota.
Before she knew it, the Debussota had sailed less than a kilometer from the barrier, and the sound of the stern thrusters suddenly became high-pitched. Immediately afterward, a pale yellow light curtain appeared around it, acting as a miniature barrier that encased the whaling ship in the center.
A moment later, the barrier swooped in.
When the ship's barrier came into contact with the dome's barrier, the hull shook slightly, and then the two barriers, large and small, merged together, like a small soap bubble merging into a larger soap bubble. Summer Night suddenly realizes that the two are most likely the same thing in essence, the only difference is in scale and intensity.
As she pondered, the Debussota had passed through the barrier, the "big bubbles" and "small bubbles" separated from each other, and a pale yellow curtain of light reappeared around the ship.
Suddenly the howling of the wind was much louder.
Though invisible, the summer night could really feel that there was something coming towards it, and it slammed into the ship's barrier, slowing down greatly as it pierced through the barrier, before blowing through the hull and everyone on board.
It was like a gust of wind, but it was obviously different from ordinary winds, it didn't seem to be blocked by objects at all, and when it blew through the body of the summer night, the skirt and hair didn't even sway, but the chest, abdomen, limbs, and even every corner of the body, something was clearly felt penetrating.
It's the etheric wind!
Summer Night suddenly remembered that the word Yaha's words before setting sail, the ether is everywhere, nothing can stop it, and when the ether flows, the ether wind will be formed, and in order to block the blowing of the ether wind, the witches of Debussota invented this light yellow barrier, which is set up on Debussota and the ships that sail.
But why do they do that? If you don't interact with objects, it should be harmless...... Summer Night decided to ask Yaha later.
The reason why it will take a while is because-
The mighty Aetheric Sea was already in front of her eyes, and she didn't want to leave the deck at this time.
Not only did she not want to leave, but she also walked in the direction of the bow, perhaps because of the crew's control, the color of the barrier was rapidly lightening, and when the summer night reached the very front of the foredeck, the barrier finally became completely transparent.
As far as the eye can see, there is an endless sea of golden clouds.
The Aetheric Sea is not a sea, it is a vast expanse of airspace - this is a fact that Summer Night had guessed before she saw it with her own eyes, otherwise the whaling ship would not have been designed to fly in the air.
But the color of the etheric sea completely broke through her imagination, she seemed to have come to a country made of gold, every cloud was golden, and the shades of these gold were different, some were as thin as a mist, and some were as solid as a mountain made of pure gold.
However, unlike real gold, these golds are not dazzling, and the light seems to be imprisoned inside, which is soft and restrained, and even if you look directly at it all the time, it will not cause your eyes to ache.
Having had enough of admiring the golden sea of clouds, the summer night retracted his gaze, crossed the prominent angle of attack, and looked directly below the ship, the space between the clouds was clear and transparent, and the clouds below could be clearly seen...... Even to the deepest depths. She looked closely for a while, and finally realized that the places were not completely colorless, and in a deep enough position, a very light yellow—like the color of an egg white.
Holding on to the railing with both hands, Summer Night leaned out the upper body slightly, looking more intently through the gaps between the clouds to observe the depths of the Aetheric Sea. There's really nothing interesting there, nowhere near as interesting as the clouds of all shapes around it, but...... Maybe it's curiosity, maybe it's the desire to explore, as if there's a force driving her to keep looking deeper.
Until—
The three witches on the body contract together send signals to the body.
The "crack" on the back is a burning sensation, and the "thunder feather" on the back waist is a tingling sensation, which is a feeling that has been experienced once when signing the contract, and the "soul return" on the thigh, which is the first time that Xia Ye feels it, is the numbness of losing consciousness.
These sensations lasted only a few seconds before they quickly vanished, but they were enough to interrupt Summer Night's observation of the depths of the Aetheric Sea.
"Hah...... Whew......"
She retracted and leaned out, clutching her chest and taking a few deep breaths.
Just the state...... Doesn't seem quite normal.
At the very least, Yahab should have been asked if there was any taboo in this area, and then he should have observed the bottom of the Aether Sea.
Thinking of this, she felt that she should go back to the bridge. Anyway, she had already enjoyed the Taihai well, and for the next two or three weeks, she would see this kind of scenery every day, maybe by the time she returned, she would be tired of seeing it.
Summer Night thought as she returned to the broadside from the foredeck, and entered the bridge from the broadside, following the passage and staircase to the wheelhouse on the top floor.
Along the way, many crew members passed by her, some were surprised by her beauty and involuntarily turned back, while others knew that she was a friend of Captain Yaha's and saluted her quickly.
Summer Night politely returned the salute, and at the same time surprise flashed in her heart.
And as she saw more and more crew members, the surprise in her heart grew, to be precise, it was not the crew members who were surprised, but the clothes on their bodies.
If you think about it carefully, the crew member who came to the room to wake him up at the beginning seems to be dressed like this......
Summer Night walked into the wheelhouse with surprise, and when she saw Yaha, she was stunned to find that Yaha, who was the captain, was also wearing-
Sailor suits.
It's not just her, all the crew members who saw along the way were wearing -
Sailor suits.
Not the kind of sailor suit that sailors wear......
Instead, the top is a large lapel and bow tie, the bottom is a pleated skirt, and the legs are over-the-knee socks or a sailor suit in pantyhose.
It's as if the whole boat is cosplaying.