Chapter 7: Escape
"So many?" said Deirlando, who now had only seven awake and active pirates on the ship, so wouldn't they all have to let go.
"What do you think? The delicate flight of such a huge thing requires the cooperation of many people, otherwise I would need so many people on my ship. Kermia asked him angrily.
Deirlando thought to himself that he could recapture them at any moment, so what was there to worry about?
The mage couldn't help but lean over and ask what was going on, and Dillando pulled him to the only porthole in the cabin, pointing outside, and said, "We don't have permission to enter the harbor, and we will be attacked from the ground, so they went up to control the airship to avoid the airfire crossbow below." ”
As he spoke, someone shouted loudly, and although it was in Hovland, Dearrando immediately understood the simple phrase: "They fired!"
Sure enough, looking at the island again, something flashed brightly, and quickly flew in the direction of his airship. The airship slanted to the side, then suddenly descended, and with a thud let go of the huge flaming bolt.
Many of them screamed in fright, and the poor ordinary merchants sat on the ground in a huddle, muttering words of prayer. The rest of the circus was fine, except for Radard's big face, which was already a little black and green because of the violent shaking, became greener, and seemed to be about to vomit at any moment.
"Three-point orientation. Left down to get out of the way!" the lookout suddenly shouted again.
"Be careful yourself, find something fixed to hold onto, don't fall and get hurt, I'll go up and have a look." After giving the order, he went to the second floor again, this time untying the elven gauntlet that sealed the dragon's magic in his hand, and was ready to jump out of the window to help the airship stop the fire in case it didn't work.
The eight helmsmen on the second floor all roared, pushing the lever hard, and the airship bounced. Then I brushed it and turned sideways to the lower left. Dearlando had to hold on to the stairs to avoid being thrown out.
Wait until he gets up to this level. Looking out of the porthole, the island of Salar was already in sight. The airship was already less than twenty feet above the sea after two plunges, and it was less than a hundred feet away from the ship's platform, such a fast speed. It looks like it's about to crash into another airship in front of it.
"It's going to crash!" said Kerria in surprise, turning his head to Kermia. Kermia hugged her sister tightly. Holding a pillar in the other hand, he said, "We have to make a forced landing, you see that big lever on your left is not there? pull back, that's the brake." You can release a large umbrella to help us slow down. It takes a lot of strength, don't you say you have a lot of strength? It's up to you!"
Dearlando looked for it, and sure enough, there was a thick metal handle like a rudder against the wall of the ship. He tugged the handle, pulled it back, and then there was a few loud clicks of something loosening around the board, and the next moment, he felt himself falling freely.
The huge impact soon came from under his feet, and the bilge, which was not high above the water, slammed heavily on the shallow sea, and Liliang, who was flying forward, pushed the bottom of the boat that suddenly fell to the white sand beach, and after a period of chaos, finally stuck safely on the shore of Salar Island.
"Hell, that damn liar!" Diarlando looked around him, there were several grooves in the wall of the ship, and inside were open metal hooks, it turned out that the second and third floors of this airship were fixed by a series of metal claws biting each other, and the lever he had just pulled was the unlocking device.
Seeing that because of the weight reduction, it rose rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it had already flown to the black pirate ship hundreds of feet away, Diarrando cursed in annoyance.
In that case, he was able to calmly deal with himself, using his familiarity with airships, and escaping safely to take care of his subordinates, this woman named Kemia is really not simple......
The island guards rushed in all their arms in a noisy voice, and the people in the cabin below opened the hatch and staggered out of it. Many people vomit as soon as they come out, and for ordinary businessmen, this is probably the most thrilling thing they have ever experienced in their lives.
After jumping down and helping everyone out of the hatch, Deirlandor found that everyone had arrived safely, except for one or two with minor bumps and scrapes. The funny little liar was kind enough, because if she had lied to herself that she had lowered the bilge earlier, the average person here would have at least broken bones and everyone would have fallen into the sea, and would never have been so lucky and easy to stop on the island.
"Interesting...... Hopefully we'll see each other again in the future. Dearrando recuperated the elven gauntlets, giving up on the pirate airship that was getting farther and farther away. No matter what, the other party Zuihou still has a little conscience, so he won't kill it all today.
The regular garrison on the island of Salar consisted of about fifty men, wearing two uniforms, blue stripes on a white background and gold stripes on a blue background, as half of them were Turanda's personnel and the other half were from the Duchy of Hovland.
At this moment two columns of guards came and surrounded the entire beach, pointing muskets and spears at the crowd that had just escaped from danger.
The guy who looked like the captain of the guard in his clothes took a step forward, and then asked a little nervously, "Who are you......?" Belch...... Falling on our island? I don't know if other airships are forbidden to land here?" he didn't know how to describe their way of invading for a while.
Diarrando picked up the captain who had been rescued by Radar in the crowd, and then took a step forward and replied to him: "We are the passengers of today's flight of the Sky Airship, this is the captain, you should know each other, right? Thankfully, the giant and the mage were present, and they turned the tide, took control of the pirates, and forced them to send us here. ”
Two guards approached and took the captain to the captain of the garrison. The captain looked at it and nodded: "This is Captain Reims, weishenme is unconscious, where is your shuttle ship?"
"Our ship has been bombed, it has sunk halfway through, and our luggage is ......" Speaking of this, two businessmen next to him immediately shouted in hoarse voices: "Our goods! That is a new painting by the great painter Joseph Arnold! You must compensate! Your airship company must compensate us for our losses!"
The captain frowned, and immediately replied loudly: "Please don't worry, passengers, we must confirm your identity first, and then register your losses." If it is really as you said, we in the Air Feather Airship Association will definitely handle the compensation matter properly. ”
Then he turned his gaze to Dierlando, and stretched out his hand to introduce himself: "I'm Fasoyev Nadro, the captain of the garrison here, who are you?"
Diarlando reached out and shook him, then took out his Zoya and Dino's identification documents from his arms and gave them to each other: "I'm Baron Baron, that's my wife and child, we have urgent business to go to the capital of Hovland." When do you think we're going to go? It's been a long time since we met the pirates......
As soon as Fasoyev heard his identity, his eyes immediately changed, and his attitude immediately became a lot more respectful, it should have been Shakolin who had greeted him in advance. He glanced at the documents and then looked at Zoya who was holding Dino's hand, and then replied carefully: "My lord, if you are really in such a hurry, we can board the ship immediately, the luggage you sent yesterday has already been loaded." Investigative registration of pirates, we can carry out on the fly. What do you think?"
Dearlando nodded, retrieved his proof, and motioned for him to step down.
Fasoyev turned around and whispered a few words to another deputy captain of the garrison in the uniform of the Duchy of Hovland, and then they said politely to everyone: "Please come with us to the waiting room for a little repair." You've arrived a little later than scheduled, and the ship is ready to take off at any moment. Regarding the investigation and level of this incident, we can go back to the road. ”
"Then our clothes are wet with the sea, is there a place to change clothes?" someone in the crowd asked about the reality of the matter, knowing that it is very uncomfortable to wear clothes soaked in the sea on such a hot day.
"No problem at all, there are a number of private rest rooms in the waiting room, but you should move quickly, as any further delay in the airship will affect our landing control. ”
"But our clothes are sinking with the ship!" another person interjected, and as soon as they opened their mouths, there were more gossips around them, and the crowd was thrown into chaos.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please be uneasy! Our boutique lounge has a wide range of clothing sizes, so you can choose whatever you need at the moment, and this cost will be borne by the Air Feather Flight Association. Fasoyev immediately raised his voice to reassure everyone, and sure enough, hearing him say this, everyone's emotions finally calmed down a little. Except for a few who were limp and couldn't walk, most of them walked on their way to the waiting room without the help of the guards.
It was only then that Diarrando had time to return to Zoya's side, he put his arm around Zoya, looked her up and down, and comforted her, and then approached her ear to briefly explain what had just happened.
When Zoya heard this, she had a rough guess about the origin of the strange and mysterious twin female pirates, but now she couldn't say it, so she had to take Deerlando's hand and say in his ear, "I probably know, people will tell you less often." (To be continued......)
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