my age of magic

Chapter 516 14. Wind Snake
Day and night alternate, the stars gradually dimmed, and the light band in the sky continued to extend towards the horizon, as if an invisible big hand lifted the dark blue veil, standing at the front of the airship deck At the collision angle, I closed my eyes to feel the changes of the magic elements at the turn of day and night. Those magic elements merged into long rivers flowing slowly in the air.

Our airship is in
Above the clouds, a huge light wheel rose from the sky, emitting dazzling light.

The cold wind blows over my cheeks, fresh and cool.

Captain McIntosh's rough voice came from the captain's cabin at the tail of the airship: "It has entered the predetermined wind belt, all units pay attention, get ready, set sail, set sail!"

Accompanied by the sound of the low-pitched horn, the nearly [-]-meter-long huge airship stopped sinking, all the magic crystals on the eight floating magic circles lit up, the airship shook violently, and then stopped on the north wind belt , the sails on the five masts were slowly pulled up by the crew, the strong north wind blew on the thick canvas, and the huge canvas was full of wind force, and the five tall masts were pulled by the hurricane and creaked The airship began to accelerate continuously in the wind belt. Captain McIntosh controlled the rudder and began to constantly adjust the direction of the airship.

An hour before the airship, the experienced Captain McIntosh finally managed to find the wind layer of the north wind. After adjusting for about half an hour, the airship finally entered the wind belt and let the airship sail south-southeast at full speed. .

There were not many passengers on the deck, and everyone seemed to be immersed in the events of last night. Some were secretly rejoicing that they had survived the catastrophe, some were mourning for their deceased relatives in grief, and some were complaining about their misfortune. The ship hijacking operation delayed my itinerary, many people rested in the room, and no one slept well after tossing the whole night.

Princess Sha and Sophie also moved into Moraya's room. When old friends meet, there are always some endless topics to talk about.

When Mrs. Alia left, her eyes showed more curiosity about me. Although she seemed to have a lot to say, she obviously restrained her impulse and took the poor maid with a first-aid bandage on her head. , returned to his room.

When I turned around, I saw a touch of charm in her slender eyes, and her bright red lips seemed to contain a red cherry. After hesitating for a while, she took out a red gold name card from her bosom. I said: "When you are in the imperial capital, if you have spare time, you can come to my house as a guest. If you are not very familiar with the imperial capital, please believe me, I will be the best guide. I am familiar with every street in the imperial capital!"

I politely accepted the bronzing name card handed over by her smooth and tender hand like a girl, put it in the magic pocket, and then nodded politely to Mrs. Alia and said: "Thank you for your kindness." Invitation, I will visit."

I once heard from Ann that Aunt Alia married a very well-established old aristocratic family in San Carlos Province, but it has only declined in recent years.

I think, maybe I can find out Qige's whereabouts from Alia's mouth.

Thinking of that lonely girl who is as beautiful as a country and a quiet moon in the sky, I don't know how she has been living in the imperial capital these years, maybe she is already married!

……

Sitting on the sofa in the captain's cabin, drinking barley wine with a weird taste. Obviously, this light drink is more in line with my taste. Compared with the sweet and sour golden cider, I prefer the barley wine's wheat aroma. It is more like the beer in my original world. Although the taste of the wine is very light, the smell of wheat is slightly stronger, but the white foam constantly overflowing from the mouth of the cup makes some memories in my mind suddenly The child became clear.

I asked Captain Mackintosh strangely: "Captain Mackintosh, why are you so surprised when you hear that the airship is approaching the edge of the Ziqing Mountains? Are you worried about something?"

Captain Mackintosh leaned on the rudder with one hand on the rudder, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance. He pointed at the giant peak piercing into the sky dozens of kilometers away, and a flash of light flashed in his eyes. With a look of fear, he opened his mouth for a long time without making a sound, as if he was lost in the sky all of a sudden. After a while, he took a puff of cigarette silently, inhaled the acrid smoke into his lungs and turned it around, and then spit it out.

He raised his wrinkled eyelids to look at me, and then said: "I'm worried about the dangerous peaks in these mountains and those magical beasts that can fly freely. Look there..."

He held a dark green pipe in his hand, a trace of green smoke was blown away from the pipe by the wind, and the aroma of the tobacco leaves was a bit pungent.

With a light wave of his big wrinkled hand, it seems to have pushed away the layers of mist, and my sight followed his fingers to extend to the distance, and saw dozens of miles away, like green bamboo shoots, emerging from the thick clouds. The mountain peak drilled out of the middle, looked at Captain Mackintosh puzzled.

Captain Mackintosh said slowly: "That's the gateway mountain at the easternmost end of the Ziqing Mountain Range. Entering here is considered an entry, and the airship is considered to have entered the Ziqing Mountain Range."

I asked Captain Mackintosh: "I went to Ziqing Mountain City last time, and it took seven days to fly, but now we only touched the edge of Ziqing Mountain in just one night?"

I can't figure out why it only takes one night to reach the edge of the Ziqing Mountains, why the last time I went to the mountain city, I stayed on the airship for seven days before arriving at the Ziqing Mountain City.

"Hehe, this is the easternmost end of the Ziqing Mountains, and there is indeed a long way to go to Ziqing Mountain City from here, but having said that, we captains who fly airships like to abide by some ancient traditions, and every safe The routes are the safest routes that have been summed up after years of exploration by countless ancestors. For the monsters in the Ziqing Mountains, we are the intruders from outside." Captain Mackintosh chuckled and said casually Said.

He then beckoned to the crew member on the mast, and cursed loudly: "Little brat, how many times have I told you that when you get down, you have to climb a ladder. If the airship encounters turbulence, it can knock you out of the airship." , why do you T_M_D always take Lao Tzu's words as a deaf ear?"

The crew member who was sliding down with his hands on the main mast shrank his neck in fright, and got into the cabin below the deck like a rabbit after landing.

"Aren't those rebels afraid of death?" I asked curiously.

Captain Mackintosh narrowed his eyes and said: "After all, they are a group of rebels holding their heads in their hands. Maybe they are no longer afraid of death!"

It can be seen that he doesn't have much hatred for the rebels who hijacked his airship. Perhaps sending these rebels to the prison in the imperial capital is already his greatest wish.

"I don't think they are not afraid of death. My subordinates chased them on the deck like wild rabbits on the prairie!" I said with a smile. In my impression, the only old witch was the only one of these rebels. The , crazy young captain and the black-clothed archer seemed to have a bit of backbone, and the rest were not even comparable to ordinary residents in the city of El.

"You think those people are really rebels. If you say they are rebels, then respectable Mr. Magician, you must have underestimated the rebels in this mountain!" Captain Mackintosh showed me a hint. Come with a wry smile.

"Aren't they rebels?" I looked at the deck of the airship. Under the watchful eyes of the crew, several rebels were holding their hands in shackles, poking their buttocks, trying to clean the blood stains on the deck.

"There should be only three real rebels, and two of them have already died. My crew collected their corpses. They are the old female magician and the young man who is good at wielding a rapier. As for The last one, I believe you are more familiar with it, is the archer, they are the real rebels, as for the others... those fighters are just the young man's followers, as for the other rebel crew They are just refugees and vagabonds who cannot survive. They cannot be regarded as rebels in the true sense. Real rebels can walk freely in the poor mountains and rivers where monsters are rampant. Rebels who can survive, every Both are elite fighters," said Captain Mackintosh.

I looked at the rebels who were curled up and wiped the blood on the deck, and asked him, "Then do you hate them?"

"They are just a group of poor homeless people, but after all, they violated the laws of the empire, and almost killed all of us in the boat. If the people on the boat really arrived at the rebel camp, we I don't think anyone will come out of the Ziqing Mountains alive! Maybe my crew and I will die earlier." Captain Mackintosh said to me seriously.

He seems to be very familiar with the Ziqing Mountains. In his eyes, I always feel that he has a faint worry.

"Is the cruel living environment a threat to us from the Ziqing Mountains? Aren't these rebels afraid of the monsters in the mountains and sailing at night?" I asked Captain Mackintosh.

"In the Ziqing Mountains, I don't know how many such bamboo shoot-shaped portal mountains that go straight into the clouds. These rebels live in the mountains all year round. They probably know the location of these peaks, so they dare to fly into Ziqing at night. Between the mountains of the Green Mountain Range." Captain McIntosh pondered for a while before he said uncertainly.

Then he went on to say: "It is also our luck that this airship did not hit such a male peak, otherwise, according to the speed of this airship, if it hits such a portal mountain while sailing at night, we don't know what happened to the ship. How many people will survive."

He glanced worriedly at the Gate Mountain again, and said, "As for those ferocious monsters, all we need to do is pray to the goddess!"

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Although these crew members still looked sluggish, they only drank a little golden cider to warm their bodies throughout the night besides eating a piece of dry bread, and then these crew members devoted themselves to their work. Started to clean up the dead bodies on the deck, arranged for the lost passengers on the airship in an orderly manner, repaired the broken hatches on the airship, and disposed of the rebel prisoners, who have now become hard labor on the airship.

A temporary water intake point was set up on the deck of the airship, and a magic rune plate of the water gathering spell was hung on a wooden wall. It was a very simple metal plate of magic runes, even a bit crude, and the magic runes inside The texts are all clearly exposed. The owner of the shop selling this magic rune plate is very smart. He surrounded the edge of the metal plate with a thin iron plate to form a simple water trap. It flows out of the water tank, which is a very practical little design.

Sister Guoguo was squatting next to the water trap, watching the clear water flow into a large wooden barrel curiously. When the clear water was full, a thick and powerful arm would pick up the big wooden barrel and walk to the place where the blood was deepest. place, with a 'wow', he poured the whole bucket of water on the floor, and then shouted loudly to the rebel prisoners in a rough voice: "If you don't want to be whipped, let me be quick!"

The rebel prisoners squatting on the deck with their buttocks pouting heard the shout, immediately buried their heads and quickened their pace, pushing the rags in their hands and galloping across the deck.

……

At this moment, a terrible hissing sound that almost pierced the eardrum came from a distance with the sound of the wind, and the sound almost became one piece.

The old captain Mackintosh, who was standing next to the rudder with a very leisurely expression, suddenly came to his senses. He widened his eyes and looked towards the towering Portal Mountain on the left. The rudder wheel in his hand suddenly turned to the right. He beat the rudder wheel to death before stopping. With a look of fear in his eyes, he shouted in a hoarse voice: "Go and raise the hornsail on the front bow!"

"Captain, how many spinnakers are you hoisting?" The first mate standing on the deck was taken aback, but immediately prepared to mobilize the manpower and run to the bow.

"All!" cried Captain Mackintosh without hesitation.

The first officer obviously hesitated a little, but still said firmly: "Yes!"

I stood up from the sofa chair, looked out of the captain's cabin, and saw Captain Mackintosh's cautious expression, so I asked him: "Captain, what happened?"

McIntosh's wrinkled forehead was twisted into the shape of "Chuan" at this moment, he turned his head to look at me, and said to me seriously: "Your Majesty, I am sorry, we are very unfortunate to encounter Ziqing Mountain The wind snakes inside, they are cruel and bloodthirsty by nature, this kind of monsters especially like to live in groups, they are born with a pair of wings on their backs, come and go like the wind, and are good at wind magic, they are simply our captain's nightmare!"

"After all, we have not escaped this catastrophe!" Captain Mackintosh said dejectedly.

His face became extremely pale, and his eyes were full of worry.

I asked Captain Mackintosh: "What level of monster is the wind snake?"

"They are a group of second-level high-level monsters, and they are witty and cunning, very cruel and bloodthirsty!" Captain Mackintosh replied without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)