As Char's words fell, the cellar fell silent for a moment.

Niko looked up slowly, thinking that he had misheard.

"What?"

"I did find something."

Char slowly got up and walked to the back of the sofa, where there was a curtain, and he slowly opened the curtain, revealing the scene behind it, behind which was a large painting.

Yes, pure paintings, framed, look exquisite.

"The situation was so urgent and there was a storm, so I didn't have time to take out my camera and take pictures, so I had to draw the situation according to my memory." Char said.

Niko and Nauda looked at the scene in front of them in distraction.

It wasn't Skye, it was a cloud to be exact.

Unlike the rest of the clouds, a spiral-shaped cloud, like a huge jar, floated in the air, and in the clouds, there was a raging storm, in which thunder and lightning shone.

Niko had never seen such a raging storm before, and vaguely, he could even see some dragon-like light and shadow flowing through the storm.

But the most striking thing was the protruding branches at the top of the clouds, full of greenery — something that doesn't happen in a storm at all.

Niko remembered the giant tree in the photo his uncle had taken in the past.

Suddenly, Niko suddenly realized that the picture in front of him was just a moving oil painting, not even a photograph.

"Your drawing skills are really good." Nauda sighed, "It's the same as the real thing." ”

"Did you really see it with your own eyes?" Niko asked.

"Of course." Char raised her eyebrows and said, "Why am I lying to you?" ”

Niko continued, "How did you find it?" ”

His tone was a little urgent, with a suppressed excitement.

"There's an element of luck in that." Char returned to his position, "I was caught in a storm and blown here. ”

"My uncle was also in the storm." Niko was thoughtful.

"So, do you need my airboat?" Char said.

Nico was silent for a moment, "I'm not one to trouble others. ”

He smiled wryly, "But I think that's the best thing to do." ”

"Don't think too much about it." Char said, "It's just a gesture for me. ”

"Do you want to rest for a while before leaving?" He asked.

"They're definitely still looking for us in the neighborhood right now, and it's only a matter of time before they find us."

"I don't think you should have to worry about that." Char said quietly.

"We are already grateful that you saved us." Niko said earnestly, "We can't afford to trouble you anymore. ”

Char shrugged his shoulders and didn't continue to speak, just stood up silently, "Come with me." ”

So saying, he led them out of the place, and re-entered the tavern, where he led the two of them through the corridor on one side of the tavern to the castle, and pushed open the door to the courtyard.

But behind this door was not the courtyard, but the back of the row of houses that Niko had passed as they fled.

Behind is a large plain, and in the distance are rolling mountains.

In the courtyard of this back door, an empty boat is docked.

Unlike what he imagined of an elegant clipper, it was just a wooden cabin bolted to a worn-out scarlet airbag and a set of rusty engine pods that looked like they had been put together from trash.

"It's been a long time." Char said, "I don't know if I can start it." ”

Char led them up to the gangplank and into the long, narrow cabin that smelled of dust, and as the gentleman said, the empty boat looked like it hadn't been used in a long time.

The cabin was just a narrow wooden tube with a flight deck at the nose, a cabin at the end, and a series of other jumbled cabins in the middle.

They had to stay in a half-crouched position to avoid hitting their heads into wall cabinets and bundles of dangerous-looking wires hanging from the roof dashboard.

"Are you sure you'll be able to steer the ship?" Char said.

"I'll study it for a while."

Niko fumbled around the console, then turned on some switches and pulled up some of the control cases, so that the various electronic instruments lit up with a dark green glow, filling the cabin with a light like an aquarium.

"That's it." Nico said.

"A week ago, I wanted to go on a long trip, but something delayed it. So there's still some food in the cabin, there's water in the tank, it's all clean, you can use it as you please, don't care, and the fuel is full. Char said.

Niko looked at Char, "Do you want to come with us?" ”

"I'm old, but I can't afford to toss." Char laughed.

"Thank you." Niko added, "I will return your airship safely, and if you meet my father coming to me, tell him what is going on with me." ”

"No problem." Char said.

He turned and walked away.

Nicol pulled up the last lever, and the crunch and exhalation of the air valve began to echo throughout the cabin.

Char just stood in the courtyard, quietly watching the empty boat slowly rise.

The fireplace behind him slowly turned, and Cassif on the hearth swayed the fire and looked at the empty boat.

"Can this garbage really fly?"

"Why can't you fly?" Char said unhappily, "The silicon silk airbag is from a clipper ship in Beichen, and the twin-engine Carlo aero engine is from a gunboat in Britannia, they are all essences, can you find these things when you go to the garbage dump?" ”

Perhaps it was Howl's fate that distorted part of Char's aesthetic.

Just look at the moving castle, Char is particularly fond of this patchwork of punk style, which he calls "artistic".

He made the empty court himself, and after recovering Tony's fate, he had some mechanical knowledge.

Cassifer flickered the fire, speechless......

……

As it ascended into the vault, Nauda felt her stomach flip upside down.

She stumbled to a porthole and saw that the town below seemed to be falling, like a model of the town in a museum.

She saw Jackman and the others, who were nearby, next to the empty boat factory, and seemed to have expected that they would choose to leave in the empty boat.

This was normal, as one of them was Jerry, a local, who was well aware of Niko's abilities and his connection to the airboat factory.

Suddenly, he seemed to notice something, and slowly raised his head to look at the sky.

Nauda ducked, her heart pounding, not knowing if they saw it.

"What's wrong with you?" Jerry noticed that Jackman seemed to have found something, and asked curiously.

"Whose airship is that?" Jackman raised his hand to the sky.

Jerry looked up, only to see an empty boat floating in the sky at some point.

"I don't know." Jerry shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like a big airboat factory, it looks like it's made of some parts." ”

Jackman seemed to realize something, and hurriedly looked at the rest of the people, "Get on the skyship!" Catch up with it! ”

Unlike airplanes, airships don't need to be watched from the console all the time, and hydrogen will keep the airship stable in the air all the time, without crashing into the ground because it is unmanned.

You just need to make sure that it can go in a fixed direction.

As the sky darkened, they took a shower, got some sleep, and ate a few more foods, and it became apparent to Nauda that life might not be so bad.

At sunrise, the sun shines on the clouds like golden mountains, and the airboat flies between the golden peaks. Looking out of the window of the airship, the scenery is magnificent, and watching all this can also put those painful memories in the back of your mind for a while.

At breakfast, Nauda sipped hot chocolate on the deck with Niko, and she found herself enjoying it.

Airboats hadn't been popular for long, and she should have ridden them in the past, but she was too young to remember them at all.

Now seeing the golden clouds, some vague memories gradually appeared in her mind, and it was a beautiful feeling.

Maybe it was because she had a good rest last night, and her spirit recovered a little.

She slept in the luggage compartment under the airbag.

It was a single boat, so there was no extra place to sleep, and Niko helped her make a bed and used some wool from the cabin, which was very warm.

"If you go to Beichen and find your aunt, what are you going to do?" Niko asked, sipping hot chocolate.

Nauda looked a little confused, "I haven't thought of this yet. ”

"It's never a good thing to send someone under the fence." "There are some of the best universities in the world, and the better the school, the cheaper it is, basically the tuition is free, and if you study well, there are scholarships," Nico said. ”

"Go to college." Nauda whispered, "What about you?" ”

"I also have plans to go to Beichen." Niko said, "But."

He has no words, Beichen is separated from Croatia by a large land, the cost of travel is one thing, the cost of living is one thing, and there are many complex and uncontrollable problems.

"I'll show you what I found last night."

Niko slowly got up and led her to the console.

Nauda had studied it last night, a puzzling array of knobs, switches, and joysticks, in Beichen and English, which only Niko could read.

"Look at this." Niko pointed to the instrument panel above his head, on which were magnetically held several maps depicting the direction of the wind.

There is a red line that starts from Britannia, and at first glance it is drawn later.

"What is this?"

"It should have been painted by the gentleman when he was traveling in this airboat, and these are the routes he walked." Nico said.

He pointed to a corner of the map, "Look here." ”

On one of the lines of this red line, the border between Europe and Asia, is marked with black dots.

"What does this black dot do?" Naouda said.

"I'm adjusting to this course right now." "It should be there this afternoon, and by then, there should be a result." ”

Nauda nodded.

Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered something, and looked through the porthole into the clouds outside, and a flag loomed in the clouds.

At the same time, there was a murmur on the console, similar to the sound of a radio when it wasn't receiving a channel, but it was a bit more cluttered.

Niko's face changed, and he stepped forward to turn off the radio.

But then, under Naouda's gaze, a faster airship than them emerged from the clouds not far away, like a whale rushing out of the sea.

Nauda could even see Jackman looking this way through the porthole of the airship.

At the same time, she also saw the group of men in black walk quickly outside, aiming the cannon on the empty boat at them, and then.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

A succession of shells fired, several of which whizzed by, causing no damage, and the fourth exploded in the aft compartment, making the cabin shake like a pendulum, and the fifth came closer.

Without any hesitation, Niko pulled up a long brass lever, the air valve rumbling in the airship airbag above.

The airboat began to descend, plunging headlong into the thick white clouds, and Nauda's ear pressure suddenly increased.

Down, down, and down, and then the clouds thinned and parted on either side, and Nauda saw a vast expanse of wilderness spread out beneath her, like a crumpled brownish-gray piece of paper, with long blue strips cut out of it, and to the north was an endless ocean—it should still be the Black Sea.

Although the airship behind them was a warship, they were actually faster than this one.

It was probably because their ships were smaller, so they were faster.

But even so, if you want to completely get rid of them in the air, you have to keep a distance, otherwise, this kind of attrition war where you chase me will not have an advantage in a small airboat like them, and the engine heating will also be a problem.

"Boom~"

At this moment, the thunder of distant clouds attracted their attention.

The sky gradually became cloudy, the wind and rain were coming, and the originally clear sky became black and oppressive, and the air was filled with a breath of moisture.

The wind lowered the branches below, rippling the Black Sea in the distance, and Niko struggled to control the airship to keep it on its course.

But the wind slowed them down, bringing them closer and closer to the airships behind them.

Some shells even exploded directly on their sides.

Niko slowly raised his head, turned his heart sideways, and pushed the copper rod away again, and the airboat rose again with the whirring sound of the air valve, and actually crashed directly into the dark clouds above.

Heavy clouds parted on either side of them, thunder and lightning echoed in their ears, and the thick vapor made Nauda feel like her freshly changed clothes were starting to get wet.

Soon, however, the all-out airship quickly broke out of the not-so-thick clouds, and the next thing that unfolded before their eyes made Niko and Nawda's eyes widen slightly.

A huge, white tornado unfolded before their eyes, like a giant jar, floating above the dark clouds.

It's exactly the same as the one they saw under the cellar! (End of chapter)