Chapter Seventy-One: The Great Airship and the Strange Dough
The next morning, the rain also stopped in Marina Blue City.
There were still light clouds covering the sky, and the weather was not sunny, but there were still noticeably more people on the streets, and people greedily breathed in the refreshing autumn breath after the rain, enjoying the rainless season that they had not seen for a long time.
Outside Binlan City, on a civilian airship take-off and landing field, Di Xue and others were waiting for the guards to conduct a final inspection of the airship.
After the city lord of Binlan City learned that Di Xue was going to take the airship back to Eternal City, he immediately requisitioned an airship for Di Xue in the name of the city lord.
The streamlined oval huge body is more than 200 meters long, like a huge white whale, and the small and medium-sized airships docked around it have become children's toys in front of it.
The cabin under the airship is also different from the general small airship, the cabin of the small airship is suspended under the airbag of the airship, and the cabin of the large airship is connected with the airbag, the cabin of the airship is about 100 meters long and about 10 meters high, and the cabin is made of alchemy glass spliced all around, which allows passengers to have a glimpse of the high-altitude scene when taking the airship.
For safety reasons, Captain Richard ordered the guards to thoroughly search the airship's cabin, and even found four well-trained military dogs in the city guard to help inspect it.
Based on the seriousness of the Royal Guard, they really found a few safety hazards that even the airship staff didn't usually find out.
The captain of the airship, who had already been frightened by the momentum of the guards, immediately apologized in fear, and used the fastest speed to eliminate the so-called safety hazards, in fact, the vents in the kitchen were a little blocked, and there were signs of loosening in a few portholes......
Hansel and Gretel, who came to see them off, were already impatient, and Gretel teased: "I hope Captain Richard doesn't confiscate the kitchen knives of other chefs, so that our esteemed Highness Snow will not have lunch, ahahaha......"
Di Xue sighed helplessly, and sent someone to urge Captain Richard to move faster.
It wasn't until almost noon that Dexue and Taylor finally boarded the airship.
The cabin of the large airship is enough to accommodate three or four hundred people, and the two hundred royal guards are all on board the airship to accompany them, and it is inconvenient for the horses of the guards to take them on the airship, including the crystal-eating beast that Di Xue bought, all of them are left in Binlan City, so naturally someone will arrange for them to be sent back to Eternal City.
After everyone boarded the airship and took their seats, a low hum began to emit from the huge airbag of the airship, and a few small dots on the side of the airship could be vaguely seen flashing with the light of the magic array.
That is when the wind magic array in the airbag starts to start, the air used to reduce buoyancy in the airship's auxiliary airbag begins to be released, and the airship begins to prepare for takeoff.
After hundreds of years of development, the current empire's airship technology has been extremely advanced, and now every airship is filled with helium produced by the alchemy magic array, this gas is buoyant, does not burn, and is much safer than the ancient hydrogen airship.
The main airbag is filled with alchemical helium that can make the airship rise into the air, and the auxiliary airbag is the air used to control buoyancy.
When the air in the auxiliary airbag is rushed in or released under the action of the magic array, the buoyancy of the airship can be adjusted, so as to control the flight altitude and landing of the airship.
You can see that the pure white airbag has become a little smaller, and the tail of the airship is a round mouth, and at this time, the round mouth of the tail also began to flash with magical light, which is the wind system to push the magic array to start up.
The formless and colorless wind erupted from the round mouth at the tail of the airship, gradually and swiftly, and when the wind rose, the green pines in the distance seemed to be swayed by the wind, shaking the branches as if to see off the behemoth that was slowly moving forward.
The cable that fixed the airship had already been let go by the staff of the airship take-off and landing field, and under the combined action of the wind system driving magic array at the tail and the wind system controlling floating magic array in the auxiliary airbag, the airship began to gradually rise in a constant speed, casting a huge shadow on the ground.
Like a beluga whale jumping into the sea, it seems that the divine beast Kunpeng in ancient myths and legends is about to spread its wings.
The airship, which is more than 200 meters long, proudly raised its head and flew towards the vast sky in the eyes of people in amazement and amazement.
This is the greatness of human ingenuity and magic, the ability of small human beings to create incredible things with their hands.
Above the expanse, thin clouds were blown away by the high winds.
The bright sun took the opportunity to sprinkle brilliant brilliance, the sun shone on the pure white airbag, and the huge airbag seemed to be plated with a layer of white light, making it even more dazzling and indescribable, and there was a tendency to compare the brilliance with the sun.
Under the airbag, the alchemy glass around the cabin reflects the sunlight into a beautiful color, and the dark cyan alchemy glass reflects the scene on the ground, gradually turning into mottled light and shadow.
The light and shadow flow into a painting, which shows a continuous wheat field, with a few farmhouses scattered on the wheat field, and a young man riding a grazing cow and sheep next to the farmhouse.
The blue glass above the sky reflects the world, and this picture seems to be a dream in an ancient fairy tale.
The scenery on the glass adds the beauty of the sun, so the painting on the dark blue glass is as blurred and rhythmic as life
Hansel squinted his eyes as he looked at the majestic airship that was moving away, he and Gretel were only here to see off Di Xue, and did not go to Eternal City with Di Xue.
Hansel suddenly remembered the time he spent with Di Xue in the past few days, especially the things that Di Xue had done to find Gretel and what he had done to the people who had been affected by the flood, which made him a little distracted.
At first, he still had some malicious guesses about whether Di Xue was putting on a show, but when Di Xue ran around the affected villages and towns despite his fatigue, and did not shy away from treating those victims at all, he knew that Di Xue was serious.
"Di Xue, you are really different from many high-ranking officials and nobles of the family. Hansel thought to himself.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" said Gretel, looking at her brother who was a little dazed, and said strangely.
Hansel came back to his senses, thought silently for a while, and said to Gretel very seriously: "Old sister, I'm thinking, if we don't have anything to eat in the future, we may consider going to Eternal City and following this Emperor Snow gangster." ”
Gretel looked at Hansel with some surprise, she knew that what her brother longed for most was a free and unfettered life, and he had always hated those family members and high-ranking officials who looked at people with their nostrils on their toes.
But Gretel knows that Hansel must have his reasons and ideas for saying this, and Gretel seems to like to quarrel with Hansel often, but when it comes to important things, it is always Hansel who makes the decision, because Gretel believes in Hansel's judgment ability.
The wandering life of the two siblings who have depended on each other for so many years has made Gretel understand a truth: the elder brother must be right.
She believed this, just as Captain Richard believed that Leaning on the Railing must be wise
There is still rain in some parts of Xiyue Province, but this kind of light rain does not affect the flight of the airship.
The night in autumn was already getting dark very quickly, and it was already dark at seven o'clock after dinner.
At night, the airship was lit up with powerful searchlights around it, flying between heaven and earth at a medium altitude, heading towards the Eternal City, looking up from the ground, the huge airship seemed to be transformed into a glowing swimming fish.
The Rose Empire is vast, and the smallest province of the Western Moon is the size of a kingdom in the Church Age, and it takes four or five days to ride from Eternal City to Shoreland City.
If it is a magic flying saucer, like the wind angel flying saucer that Di Xue "borrowed" a few days ago, it only takes a few hours to arrive, and one of the shortcomings of the airship compared to the magic flying saucer is that the speed is much slower.
The large passenger airship has a lot of load than the small airship, but the speed is also a little slower, departing at more than 10 o'clock in the morning, at this time, after more than nine hours of flight, it has just arrived at the junction of Xiyue Province and the Heroic Soul Plain.
The territory of the Heroic Soul Plain is a little smaller than that of the Western Moon Province, and it is estimated that when you arrive at the Eternal City in the north-central part of the Heroic Soul Plain, it will already be midnight or dawn.
In the VIP cabin of the airship, Di Xue and Taylor had just had dinner.
Through the porthole, Di Xue looked at the terrain below, but it was pitch black on the ground, the light of the airship's searchlight was difficult to reach the ground, and the mountains and rivers were difficult to identify, so he quickly and decisively gave up guessing where the airship had flown to.
Di Xue said to Uncle Xu, who was cleaning up the table, "Uncle Xu, do you know where we have been?"
Xu Bo said: "Your Highness, I met the captain when I was delivering food just now, and he said that we were about to arrive at the Dragon Crack Canyon. ”
Dragon Crack Canyon is the dividing line between Xiyue Province and the Heroic Soul Plain, and Rift Valley City, one of the eight major cities of the Heroic Soul Plain, is located in the northern part of the Dragon Crack Canyon.
Di Xue nodded, and then took out a book from the space ring and looked at it, the journey was always long, and he had to use reading books to pass the boring time
Xu Bo sent the packed dishes back to the kitchen, just in time to meet a member of the personal guard who was checking a kitchen staff.
Two hundred Royal Guards were stationed in shifts at the various entrances in the airship's cabins, and all those who entered and exited had to be checked, and the security work was superb.
A guard's voice came from his helmet and ordered a kitchen worker, "Open these bags." ”
The staff immediately opened the four black bags in front of them, which contained some garbage from the kitchen after making dinner.
The two guards stepped forward to grope and inspect the garbage bag for a while, but found nothing unusual.
"What is this. A member of the guard asked, holding what appeared to be a mass of dry dough in his hand.
The staff cautiously said, "It's just extra raw dough." After saying that, he added: "The bag is full of discarded garbage, nothing else." ”
The smell of the dough is strange, which may be the reason for the smell of other garbage in the garbage bag.
It doesn't feel normal either, but it's ...... The guard probably hadn't seen anything like a real dough before, and he didn't notice it for a while.
After kneading the dough a few more times in their hands and making sure that nothing dangerous had been wrapped in the dough and taken out of the kitchen, the guards threw the dough back in the garbage bag, searched the staff member, and then ended the inspection.
Xu Bo, who was passing by here, frowned and looked back at the staff member who left with the bag, he just seemed to feel that something was wrong with the flour ball held by the guards, but when the guards checked it, there was obviously nothing in it, and he didn't feel anything strange himself.
Uncle Xu shook his head, sighed to himself if he was old and confused, and left after sending the tableware back to the kitchen
(Flour dough is a big pit, guess what?)