I weave fate in parallel time and space

As Xia's words fell, the wine cellar was quiet for a while.

Nico slowly raised his head, thinking that he had heard wrong.

"What?"

"I did find something."

Shaar got up slowly, and walked behind the sofa, where there was a curtain. He slowly opened the curtain, revealing the scene behind, which was a large painting.

Yes, a pure painting, framed by a picture frame, looks exquisite.

"The situation was too urgent at that time, and there was a storm, so I didn't have time to take out the camera to take pictures, so I could only draw the situation based on my memory." Shaar said.

Nico and Nauda looked at the picture in front of them in a daze.

That's not Sky Island, to be precise, it's a cloud.

A spiral cloud, which is different from the rest of the clouds, is like a huge jar, floating in the air. In the cloud layer is a raging storm, in which thunder and lightning shine.

Nico had never seen such a raging storm, and he could even vaguely see some dragon-like lights and shadows flowing in the storm.

However, the most eye-catching thing is the protruding part of the branches at the top of the cloud, which is full of greenery-it is not something that will appear in a storm at all.

Nico thought of the giant tree in the photo his uncle had taken in the past.

Suddenly, Nico suddenly realized that the picture in front of him was just an unmoving oil painting, not even a photo.

"Your painting skills are really good." Nawuda sighed, "It's just like the real thing."

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

"Of course." Xia raised his eyebrows and said, "Why should I lie to you?"

Nico continued to ask, "How did you find it?"

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

"There is some element of luck." Xia returned to his position, "I encountered a storm and was blown here."

"My uncle also encountered a storm." Nico was thoughtful.

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

Nico said silently for a moment, "I'm not someone who would trouble others."

He smiled wryly, "But I think this should be the best way."

"Don't think too much." Xiaya said, "For me, this is just a matter of little effort."

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

"They must still be looking for us nearby, and it's only a matter of time before they find us here."

"I don't think you should worry about this." Xia Ya said quietly.

"You saved us, we are already very grateful." Nico said seriously, "We can't trouble you any more."

Shaar shrugged and didn't continue to speak, but stood up silently, "Come with me."

After speaking, he led them out of here and walked up to the tavern again. He led the two of them through the corridor on one side of the tavern to the castle, and opened the door to the courtyard.

But the door behind this door is not the courtyard, but the back of the row of houses that Nico and the others passed by when they fled.

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

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

Instead of an elegant clipper he'd imagined, this was just a battered scarlet airbag bolted to a wooden cabin, and a set of rusted engine pods that looked just the same. It's like it's cobbled together from garbage.

"It hasn't been used for a long time." Xia Ya said, "I don't know if it can be activated."

Shaar led them up the gangplank and into the long and narrow cabin filled with dusty smell. As the gentleman said, the airship looked like it hadn't been used for a long time.

The cabin was just a narrow wooden tube with a flight deck at the front, cabins at the aft, and a tangle of other small cabins in between.

They had to stay in a semi-squat position to avoid bumping their heads against the wall cabinets and the dangerous-looking bundles of wires dangling from the overhead panel.

"Are you sure you can steer this ship?" Char said.

"I'll study it for a while."

Nico fumbled on the console, then turned on some switches and pulled up some controls, so various electronic instruments lit up with dark green light, making the cabin full of light like an aquarium.

"Okay." Nico said.

"A week ago, I wanted to take a long trip, but I was delayed by some things. So there is still some food in the cabin, and there is water in the water tank. They are all clean. You can use them as you like. Don't worry, the fuel is also filled up." Char said.

Nico looked at Char, "Then you want to go with us?"

"I'm old, but I can't stand tormenting." Xia Ya laughed.

"Thank you." Nico said again, "I will return your empty boat safely. If you meet my father looking for me, please explain my situation to him."

"No problem." Chara said.

He turned and left here.

Niko pulled the last lever, and the creaking and exhalation of the valves began to echo around the cabin.

Shaar just stood in the courtyard, quietly watching the airship rise slowly.

The fireplace behind him turned slowly, and Calcifer on the hearth flickered the fire and looked at the empty ship.

"Can this thing made out of garbage really fly?"

"Why can't you fly?" Char said displeased, "The silicon silk airbag comes from a fast ship in Beichen, and the twin-engine Carlo aeroengine comes from a gunboat in Britannia. They are all essences. You go to the trash." Can the field find these things?"

Perhaps it was Hal's fate that distorted part of Char's aesthetics.

You can tell by watching the moving castle, Shaar especially likes this kind of patchwork punk style, which he calls "artistic sense".

This empty court was made by him himself, and after recovering Tony's fate, he has a certain amount of mechanical knowledge.

Calcifer flickered the fire, without words...

……

Nauda felt his stomach turn over as it rose into the sky.

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

She saw Jackman and others, they were nearby, next to the empty shipyard, it seemed that they had long expected that they would choose to leave in an empty ship.

This is quite normal. Among them is Jerry, who is a local, and he is very clear about Nico's ability and his relationship with the airship factory.

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

Nawuda slammed into hiding, her heart was beating violently, she wondered if they saw it.

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

"Whose is that airship?" Jackman asked, raising his finger to the sky.

Jerry looked up, only to find 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 airship factory, it looks like it's put together with some parts."

Jackman seemed to realize something, and quickly looked at the others, "Go to the airship! Catch it!"

Unlike airplanes, airships do not need to be watched on the console all the time. Hydrogen will keep the airship stable in the air and will not crash to the ground due to unmanned control.

Just make sure it moves in a certain direction.

As the sky gradually darkened, they took a shower, slept, and ate something, and Nauda decided that life might not be so bad.

At sunrise, the sun shines on the clouds, like golden mountains, and the airship flies between these golden mountains.Looking out from the window of the airship, the scenery is magnificent. Looking at all this, I can temporarily put those painful memories behind my mind.

At breakfast, Naouda found herself enjoying the look of drinking hot chocolate with Nico on the deck.

Airships haven't been popular for a long time. She should have been in an airship in the past, but she was still very young at that time, and she can't remember it at all.

Seeing the golden clouds now, some vague memories gradually emerged in her mind, it was a very beautiful feeling.

Perhaps it was a good reason to rest last night, and her spirit recovered slightly.

She slept in the luggage compartment below the airbag.

It was a one-person boat, so there was no room to sleep, and Nico made her a bed, using some wool from the cabin, and it was warm.

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

Nawuda showed a little confusion, "I haven't thought of this yet."

"Depending on others is always a bad thing." Nico said, "Beichen has the best university in the world, and the better the school, the cheaper it is. Basically, tuition is free. If you study well, there are scholarships."

"Are you going to college?" Nauda murmured softly, "What about you?"

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

He didn't say a word. Beichen is separated from Croatia by a large area. Travel expenses are one aspect, living expenses are another aspect, and there are many complicated and uncontrollable problems.

"Let me show you what I found last night."

Nico got up slowly and led her to the console.

Nawuda studied here last night, a row of knobs, switches, and joysticks that make people puzzled, and the Beichen language and English used, it is estimated that only Nico can understand these.

"Look at this." Nico pointed to the dashboard above his head, on which several maps with wind direction were fixed with magnets.

There is a red line extending from Britannia as the starting point, and it looks like it was painted later.

"what is this?"

"It should be drawn by that gentleman when he was traveling in this airship. These are the routes he traveled." Nico said.

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

On a certain route of this red line, the junction of the Eurasian continent was emphatically marked with black dots.

"What is this black dot for?" Naouda said.

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

Nauda nodded.

Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered something, and looked out at the clouds through the porthole, and a flag was looming in the clouds.

At the same time, there was a buzzing noise on the console, just like the sound that a radio makes when it does not receive a channel, but the sound is more messy.

Nico's complexion changed, and he immediately stepped forward to turn off the radio system.

But then, under the gaze of Nawuda, an airship bigger 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 empty boat.

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

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A continuous burst of shells was fired, several shells whizzed by without causing any damage, the fourth shell exploded in the cabin at the stern, making the cabin shake like a pendulum, and the fifth shell was even closer.

Without any hesitation, Nico directly pulled up a long brass joystick, and the air valve rumbled in the airship airbag above.

The airship began to descend, plunged into the thick white clouds, and Nauda's ear pressure suddenly rose.

Down, down again, and then the clouds became thinner and parted to the two sides. Nawuda saw the boundless wilderness spread out below her, like a piece of crumpled brown-gray paper with blue strips cut out on it. In the north is an endless ocean——it should still be the Black Sea.

Although the empty boat behind them was a military boat, their speed was actually faster than this empty boat.

It should be because their boats are smaller and therefore faster.

But even so, if you want to completely get rid of them in the air, you have to keep a distance. Otherwise, small airships like them have no advantage in this kind of attrition war of chasing after each other, and engine heating will also be a problem.

"Boom~"

At this time, the thunder from the distant clouds attracted their attention.

The sky was gradually covered with dark clouds, and the wind and rain were about to come. The originally clear sky became dark and dense, and the air was filled with moisture.

The strong wind lowered the branches below, and even the black sea in the distance rippled. Niko worked hard to control the airship to keep it in the right direction.

But the strong wind slowed their progress, making them get closer and closer to the airship behind them.

Some shells even exploded directly at their sides.

Nico slowly raised his head, turned his heart to the side, and pushed the copper rod away again. Following the whirring sound of the air valve, the airship rose again, and even crashed directly into the dark clouds above. .

Thick dark clouds separated on both sides of them, thunder and lightning faintly echoed in their ears, and the thick water vapor made Nauda feel that his freshly changed clothes were starting to get wet.

But soon, the fully propelled airship rushed out of the not-too-thick clouds, and then, the things revealed in front of their eyes made both Nico and Nauda's eyes widen slightly.

A huge tornado formed of white clouds unfolded in front of their eyes, like a huge jar, floating in the sky above the dark clouds.

It was exactly the same as the painting they saw under the wine cellar! (end of this chapter)