Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1997 Airspace Dangers
While incorporating the dark elves, Dark Spirit Island undoubtedly became part of their Great Zhou territory.

Wright agreed with this point.

After all, they didn't really contribute much to this expedition; Zhou Xu was the one doing all the work. Their main focus was on participation.

Not to mention that Dark Spirit Island is an island. Even if you let them occupy it, they would never allow their people to leave the Elf Forest and come to this island to develop and live.

Thus, it seemed only natural that Dark Spirit Island would fall into the hands of the Great Zhou.

Although the island is not far from the mainland, considering that it is overseas after all, and that Hydra Delar is also temporarily staying here, if we want to keep things in order, we can only arrange for a combatant at the level of the Transcendent Realm or the Nascent Soul Realm to be stationed here.

Once these prerequisites are laid out, there is basically no room for choice.

Zhou Xu couldn't stay here. He also wanted to take the newly recruited Eredar with him, and Wright wasn't his subordinate. So, that left only Hilke.
Hilke didn't care about this arrangement.

He had learned almost everything Wright could teach him, and now all that was left was to study hard and practice diligently. And this didn't matter where he did it.
"The last general takes command!"

After quickly arranging things on Dark Spirit Island, Zhou Xu soon embarked on the return journey with Ereda.

Zhou Xu naturally had a choice between airships and destroyers, and casually asked Ereda, "Which one would you like to ride?"

Having already ridden on the destroyer Eredar, he decisively chose the airship this time, and Zhou Xu readily granted his wish.

Ereda had been wondering how such a big thing could fly in the sky without wings.
In his view, everything from the Great Zhou Dynasty was utterly outrageous.

"Your Majesty, how exactly did you manage to do that?"

As the airship took off, Ereda finally couldn't hold back and asked the question that had been on her mind.

"This one"

Zhou Xu pondered for a moment.

"First, you need to know that this entire world is filled with something called 'air,' and the gas inside this airship's hot air balloon is lighter than air, so it generates buoyancy and rises..."

However, listening to Zhou Xu's description, Ereda could sense that their emperor had tried his best to simplify things, but instead of gaining clarity, he felt even more confused.

This feeling was exactly the same as when he asked about destroyers before.

Seeing Ereda's predicament, Zhou Xu patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, you'll understand naturally in time."

When there are no threats in the airspace above the sea, airships are still a very good means of transportation.

But the problem is that the skies of this era are not actually that safe.

Before they subdued the Dark Elves, they dared not send airships out to sea, and they didn't even set up any around the elven ports, because if the harpy army appeared, they could easily cause the airships to crash.

Of course, people on the airship can parachute to safety.

But during this process, the harpies can continue to attack you.

Even if you're lucky enough to land successfully, there's the ocean below. If you fall into the ocean and no rescue team comes to save you, do you think you can swim back to the mainland on your own?

Aside from special races like these that can fly, this era also saw the existence of strange beasts and even more powerful supernatural beings.

If faced with either of them, the airship would be completely at their mercy. Therefore, to ensure safety, airships can only be used in safe areas to a large extent.

The so-called safe zone generally refers to the airspace directly above their Great Zhou territory.

This actually takes advantage of the fact that ordinary beasts and extraordinary creatures will consciously avoid large forces like them and simply not come into contact with them.

Since those strange beasts and extraordinary creatures don't come here, it's naturally safe.

But there's always the possibility that some creatures might pass by.

Of course, these creatures are quite intelligent, and even if you encounter them, you might not actively provoke them and cause trouble. But what if you do? You never know what might happen!
At this stage, their Great Zhou does not have the ability to blockade airspace, so doesn't that mean they can only rely on luck and the mood of those creatures?

From this perspective, the reason why the Great Zhou is still using airships is mainly because there is no other way; more advanced transport aircraft have not yet been built.

In reality, even if it were built, it would only improve safety to a certain extent, but it would not be able to prevent the problem from occurring.

Therefore, when airships are carrying out transport missions, they are usually accompanied by giant eagle riders to escort them along the way, just in case.

Living in a magical world with so many unscientific things, the technological side is sometimes quite helpless.

For various reasons, rail transport, located on land, has become the safest and most reliable mode of transportation.

The airship quickly landed at the Elf Port.

Stepping off the airship, one could see that the Eredar's attack that summer had caused some damage to the elven port, but thanks to the efforts of the Great Zhou staff, it had all been repaired by now.

Furthermore, many facilities in Elf Port have been upgraded.

After all, this port will be part of their Great Zhou territory after this. According to the original plan, it was to be built into a naval base, which would then be able to echo the Dark Spirit Island at sea.

At this stage, Zhou Xu's primary task in this sea area is to secure Dark Spirit Island and simultaneously build up the fleet of their Great Zhou.

Further exploration of the open sea is a matter for later; it's unlikely to happen in the next three or four years.

At this moment, at the Elven Port, the architectural style of the Great Zhou, which was completely different from that of the Elven race, was already revealed. Coupled with the various facilities, Eredar couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Unfortunately, Zhou Xu had no intention of showing him around here.

Leaving the airport used for airships to land and take off, you are directly connected to the train station.

The airships will continue their transport missions along the route from Elf Port to Dark Spirit Island, and their next stop will undoubtedly be by train.

Throughout the journey, Ereda's heart was never at peace, as the new things that appeared before him constantly challenged his original common sense.

If, to some extent, he could still understand the previous ships...

At this moment, he was completely at a loss for words when faced with this metal box that was speeding along the railway tracks.

He could hardly believe that something like this existed!

But this time he didn't ask again.

After all, he had figured it out: even if Zhou Xu answered, he wouldn't understand.

(End of this chapter)