A small transport plane flashed quickly in the dark night, leaving only a long trail behind it, and eight crew members, including two pilots, five warriors, and a snake spirit, were performing their duties in the front and rear cabins.

"Brothers, get ready, it's time to arrive at the supply depot!"

The radio sounded in the cabin, and most of the elven warriors didn't make much preparation after hearing about it, but they just tightened the armrest next to the seat slightly, only the warrior next to the snake spirit seemed a little different.....

The elf who had been in charge of inducing and carrying the snake spirit to the transport plane had now shed his armor and retracted it back into his backpack;

At that moment, she grabbed Azra's tail, hugged him into her arms in the latter's slightly dazed eyes, and then said righteously,

"Azra chief, we're going to land, come, I'll help you hold it firm, you're welcome~"

“........”

Seeing this, another male warrior next door turned his gaze and said in a serious voice with some warning,

"Alama, do you want to be confined?"

Alama casually removed her tail from her bosom, then pretended to be 'this is the case' and wrapped it around the armrest of the seat, and said with a puzzled expression,

"What are you talking about? I just want to help her~"

"Equinox, this is on a mission, and she's a foreigner!"

The captain apparently didn't bother with her quibbles, still frowning in warning.

"Understood...."

Azra, whose tail was being moved around, was a little unclear, because she couldn't understand the conversation between the elves......

It's just that after feeling that the stronger warrior on the other side said something, the warrior next to him, who always looked at him with 'bad intentions' and had just moved his hands and feet, stopped a lot.

The snake spirit clan is not a chaste people, but it will be very open in some aspects, but in this unfamiliar place where the snake is born, she really can't let go.....

But just as she breathed a sigh of relief, a warm touch pressed against her neck from behind, causing Azra's scales to stand up a little, and she almost jumped up in the stress to fight back;

But a ..... No, it was a lot of continuous, direct voices, but it interrupted her next reaction,

"Don't be nervous, yes~ My name is Alamates, you can call me 'Alama';"

"Look, how close the pronunciation of 'Alama' and 'Azra' is! We're going to be good friends...."

"By the way, can I call 'you'? The 'you' in snake spirit language is a very distant reference, since we are already friends, let's call 'you'! ”

"If you don't speak, you will agree~"

Azra was a little speechless, and he didn't have the ability to communicate with foreigners without making a sound......

Moreover, looking at the other party's sneaky posture and the previous serious voice of the soldier opposite, she was also worried that if she opened her mouth rashly, it would cause the person next to her to be reprimanded again, and then become angry with herself......

She didn't want to make enemies at will before many things were decided, so she could only nod slightly, indicating 'understood', 'understood', 'okay'.....

"Azra is a snake spirit royalty, right? Have you ever been a king? What does it feel like to be king? Will all your fellow citizens listen to you? ”

Nodding, shaking head, shaking head, shaking head......

"Have you ever seen the Snake Spirit King? Is there still a Serpent Spirit King? ”

Nodding and shaking his head.....

"Is the Snake Spirit King powerful?"

Nod....

As the 'conversation' was going on, there was a feeling of weightlessness in the cabin, and then it landed somewhere with a slight tremor, and then a radio was heard in the cabin......

"Arrive at the supply point, you can take off again after ten minutes, Dilan, what are you going to arrange? The flight crew will follow your instructions this time. ”

Afterwards, Dilansta, the captain of Alama and the other three fighters in the cabin, picked up the microphone beside him and responded,

"Ten lights, let's wait next to it."

"It's okay~ I'll listen to you." The sound in the cockpit is no longer heard, but is transmitted from the earpiece.....

After hanging up, Dylan stood up with his armored backpack and commanded his subordinates,

"We got off the plane first and waited in the rest area..... Alama take the Serpent Spirit Lady around with you, but be careful and don't go where you shouldn't..... And yourself, don't do what you shouldn't do, understand? ”

"Understood! You can rest assured~"

"Okay, just carry the armor and personal weapons, and the rest will stay in the cabin first, let's go!"

After speaking, Dilan nodded politely to the leader of the snake spirit, and then went to the bulkhead to open the door, and walked out along the ramp that stretched out automatically.....

"Alama, don't come nonsense~"

"Yes, be restrained~"

"In case you can't help it, remember to talk about your feelings before being confined, sister."

"!"

"Haha...."

After a few teases each, the rest of the fighters also followed the captain......

"Let's go down too." Alama stood up and addressed the unexplained leader of the snake spirits.

"We ..... Got to your destination? Where do you live? ”

Azra's long coiled tail stretched back, and the elf-like half-body above it also straightened up, and asked a little nervously.

"No, there are still tens of thousands of 'snake spirits' left, although there is no need to stop supplies later, but it is estimated that it will have to fly another half a lamp..... It's almost an hourglass; ”

Alama held out his arm for support and explained,

"Let's rest here for a while, let's go, just go out with me first."

"Ten thousand snake spirits? An hourglass? ..... Well, I get it......"

Azra was a little skeptical, she felt that the warrior of the unknown race in front of her had not mastered the unit conversion when learning the snake spirit language, and how could the distance of tens of thousands of miles be reached in an hourglass hour, even if it was flying.......

But at this time, she could only nod her head, and then she walked to the warrior's side and stretched out her arm, which did not really need support, which was considered to be her wish.....

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Thousands of kilometers north of the southern wall of the continent, there is a terrifying black shadow nearly a kilometer square, floating in the air at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, which is the relay supply platform where the Republic is stationed......

The main body is actually spliced together from two large airships that can be separated from each other, and a large amount of lightweight plant material stretches out from the outer walls of two airbags hundreds of meters long, and combines in the middle to form a closed space that can be opened and closed;

The space is 600 meters square, and it is divided into four layers, including a temporary take-off and landing floor, a nutrient reserve layer, a totem core room, a command room, a maintenance room, and a resident hangar and other facilities.

It and its counterparts in the rest of the airspace are parked at an altitude of about 70,000 meters above the ground all year round, serving as a supply point for large and small aircraft and mimic witch doctors heading in all directions;

In addition, there are plans to use it as an attack platform in wartime, but they have only been engaged in exercises in this area for a long time, and there is no real combat experience.....

At that moment, a fleeting, extremely restrained electromagnetic signal was sent to the command room, and the need for temporary landing and resupply was communicated;

Therefore, under the order of the resident commander, a fully enclosed platform on the top floor opened an entrance for the transport plane to land, and preparations were made in advance for nutrient supplies.

Just a few minutes later, a transport plane that had completed its deceleration came to the top of the platform and, after changing the engine mode, fell vertically into the pre-opened entrance.

Immediately, the entrance closed, the hatch opened, and the four elven warriors stepped out, nodding in the direction of the observation room from a distance, and then began to wait beside the transport plane;

A few seconds later, an elf and a snake spirit walked or crawled out of the cabin, and the former walked around with the latter not far away, like a guide.

At the same time, a conduit extends from the ground and connects into a hole in the bottom of the conveyor, which is also open.....

"Hey ~ Dilan! What's going on over there? Why did you bring a foreigner up? ”

A military elf came from a little farther away, and a more formidable looking flying machine was parked in the direction behind it.

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"Don't talk nonsense, I'm prepared, didn't I see the command room and didn't stop it?"

"Oh, the plateau fills, right.... That's weird, I used to go to the plateau city-state at most, why did this person come here? ”

"I don't know, I'm only responsible for carrying out the task."

"What a rigid guy, he deserves to be single for the rest of his life."

"Hey, hey! How do you speak? It's too vicious! Is our captain very popular, okay? ”

"Haha! Okay~ I apologize, I apologize. ”

The warrior who had approached in three or two steps, after greeting Dilan and the rest of the team, stretched his neck to look at the two females who had already walked farther away.

"Hehe, that's pretty....."

"Who, Alama yet?"

"Both, both of them look good!"

"Tsk, a guy with no bottom line, can also fq against the snake's tail..... If it weren't for the ban, the streets would be full of half-breed monsters by now. ”

"Where is it mixed up, don't you understand that there is reproductive isolation?"

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The leader of the snake spirits, who followed Alama at his side, stepped onto the platform, and from the fine scales on her tail, she sensed the nature of the 'land' beneath her feet, which seemed to be a special plant material.

Looking around, the huge enclosed platform can be seen at a glance, in addition to the warriors who are walking with him, and the 'big bird' behind him, there are also sporadic figures of other warriors, as well as a few strange 'birds', large or small.

Azra had already guessed at this time, she knew that the 'birds' were not really 'birds', but some kind of tool....

For example, the swords and bows in her own camp, but she still couldn't find a suitable word to describe them.

Just as she was looking at this unknown space with curiosity and a little awe, a familiar voice came from her ears......

"Here it is.... Wait, I've got to think about how to express the snake spirit first, emm..... A platform for replenishing supplies for objects flying in the sky..... Uh, do you understand? ”

"Flying objects?"

"Yes, the thing we just got off is called a 'flying machine' in our language, and the one we sat on is called a 'transport plane';"

"And voila! It's also a 'transport plane', and the smaller one over there is called a 'fighter'......"

"Aircraft ....."

Repeating unfamiliar pronunciations with unknown meanings, Azra asked cautiously,

"Excuse me, can you tell me who 'you' are?"

"We are elves, serpents..... I think it can be translated as 'the darling of the world'~"

“......”

Such an 'arrogant' racial name made Azra feel uncomfortable, but the many powerful breaths coming from her perception, even the flying technology she had experienced before, and the strange space in front of her made her faintly feel that the other party did have the confidence to call this name.

"So, is this your city?"

"No~ come, I'll show you."

As she spoke, Alama took the snake spirit's hand and walked to the bulkhead in the distance, which did not face the airbag, and when she got closer, she pressed a few special lines, and the wooden layer closed to the sides, revealing the transparent unknown material inside.

Immediately, she pointed outside and said,

"Look!"

Azra snaked forward, leaned down a little as he got closer, and leaned his head in front of the window........

It was indeed dark, but in the shadows, you could see the shape of the clouds and the hollowness below.....

'Heavenly...... This is heavenly! ’

The previous flying machine had already made her dare not imagine, and Azra was even more shocked by the fact that the huge structure under her feet was actually located in the sky.

She looked down hard, trying to find some pillar-like support, although it felt a little impossible, but it was better to understand it than floating in white, and it was such a huge space.

But she didn't see it......

Maybe it's too dark, or maybe the angle of the window isn't enough; ’

She tried to keep the situation in her imagination as much as she could, but another instinct was telling Azra, 'There are no pillars, this thing is floating here......

"Here..... Not the ground. ”

"Of course not, I can't say how tall it is, but it's far from the ground~"

"How did you get to heaven and how did you get it to stop here? There should be a big pillar underneath it......"

"How could it be~ You're so cute..... You'll have a chance to know later. ”

Seeing that Alama didn't answer this question, the leader of the snake spirit stopped asking, but the 'extreme heat' and the ensuing 'wind pressure' when the 'transport plane' picked her up made her have some guesses.

"Captain! Can I fly her out and see? ”

An incomprehensible language came from his ears, and when he looked up, he saw Alama bowing his head and talking to some small device on his chest;

"No, it will leak information, and there is no such thing in the mission,"

"Don't be so rigid, what chance can she have to leak information? Hinting in depth and imminent heading to the Headquarters, the Witch Doctors would not allow her to leave the Headquarters' sphere of influence. ”

"This is the army Alama, you are no longer a staff member of the Exploration Department, either obey orders or apply for retirement, understand?"

"Okay....."

"Understood?"

"Understood!"

"Very well, go ahead."

Alama hung up the communication with words like 'if I had known', and failed to hold the beautiful snake spirit and show it alone at an altitude of 70,000 meters, which made her feel a little unwilling;

But after all, he is now under the army, and if the official does not allow it, it is not allowed......

"What's wrong? You don't seem to be happy. ”

"No, it's just a stiff guy who said it, come~ Let's continue to talk about private matters for a while, such as the spouse tradition of your snake spirit clan or something!"

"Forehead ....."

The ten lights passed quickly, and all the crew members returned to the cabin after the replenishment was completed;

Immediately, the top of the air-space supply platform cracked again, and the transport plane went straight through it, and after completing the engine adjustment in the air, it began to speed towards the south in acceleration;

After only half a light passed, they carried the group to the northern plateau.......

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After so many years of population introduction, the Republic now has more than 22 million subjects, of which nearly 10 million have been settled in the northern plateau large enough for ease of management;

They have formed nearly 100 city-states here, large and small, of which the large ones have hundreds of thousands, and the small ones can have tens of thousands, and there are main branch roads and main branch intercity tracks connecting the regions.

With so many 'people' converging, the northern plateau became one of the most important dumping places for commodities in the Republic, and the plateau was full of pastures, large and small mines, woolen mills, and metal roughers scattered among the various city-states;

Under such convenient communication, coupled with the mandatory maintenance of peace, the mandatory requirement of 'respect for private property', and the large annual orders for goods in the Republic, a good business atmosphere has been born in the Republic, and it has a tertiary industry that is much more developed than that of the Republic.

All in all, there is a huge difference between the northern plateau and the continent north of the mountains today, almost like two worlds.

And in the very center of these city-states is the Outer North, which is directly part of the Republic......

Today's Outer North City has been completely fortressed and fortressed, both its appearance and its interior are filled with a sense of military-style coldness and hardness, and the purpose of existence has also become deterrence and surveillance.

Moreover, there were only 3,000 elves serving or directly subordinate to the army in the fortress at this time, and many of the factories and farms that had been built had been completely withdrawn to the Black Forest, and now only military service-related facilities remained.

At this time, a transport plane arrived from the north and landed in the field near the left, and then five elven warriors and a snake spirit leader came out of the cabin one after another....

"I'm sorry, Dilan, you can't land in with that foreigner, so I can only throw you here."

When Alama and his party exited the cabin, the pilot explained by burrowing his head out.

"Yes, let's go back."

"Okay, then I'll see you on vacation~ gone!"

So, the transport planes that took off again slipped through the entrance that had been opened in advance at the top of the enclosure, and landed in the fortress that was not as large as the Tulum Department had been, at least on the surface.

And only a dozen seconds later, the fortress opened a gap in their direction again, and then a civilian stepped out, nodding to the warriors and greeting the leader of the snake spirit with a smile,

"Achimstadt, who belongs to the state ministry of the ruling government, is your guide on this trip."