Lord Highlander

  Chapter 208 207. Falling

The battle with the Fire Skylark continued, and the injured crew members and those fighters who helped temporarily were dragged back from the outside. They were originally treating the wounded in the corridor on the first floor of the ship building, but as the number of wounded gradually increased, The narrow space in the corridor could no longer hold so many wounded, so the captain of the airship temporarily decided to use dining room No. 1 as a temporary treatment room.

  Suldak's initial thought was only to see the silver armor knight being sprayed by the putrid liquid of the mutated fire lark, so he came up with the idea of ​​treating him. But at this time, the crew also begged Suldak to treat the other wounded instead of returning to the deck to continue fighting.

  Suldak couldn't ignore the crew's request, so he began to treat the other wounded.

There are also healers on board, but they can only do some simple cleaning and bandaging of the wounds. For the seriously wounded who are difficult to treat, there is not much they can do. Nowadays, the prices of healing potions and antidotes in the magic market are ridiculously expensive. Antidotes Although it is expensive, at least it can be bought, and a bottle of healing potion is hard to find.

  Hearing that Suldak could treat the wounded, the people around him looked at him with more respect. No matter where he went, someone would take the initiative to move out of the way.

Suldak didn't expect that the healer had such a higher status than the combatant. Check the wound, clean the wound, use the holy light to treat the wound initially, and then perform a simple bandage. No matter which wounded, this process is almost the same . What is slightly different is the severity of the injury.

   At this moment, there was a sound of bowstring breaking on the hull, and then the airship shook violently, and the hull seemed to tilt to the left, but then the tilt stopped immediately.

Everyone in the dining room was startled by the sudden shock, and the injured crew members turned pale. Suldak was squatting to treat an injured crew member, when he saw the injured crew member's face turned pale instantly, like Some kind of shock happened, and Suldak quickly asked, "What's going on outside?"

  The crew member shook his head again and again, his face was very ugly, expressing that he didn't know.

  Suldak kept staring at him until he lowered his head in shame, then he whispered to Suldak: "It is possible that the cable between the hull and the hydrogen balloon has broken."

  His eyes were full of unconcealable horror, it seemed that the worst thing for the magic airship had finally happened.

The injured crew member was worried that Suldak didn't understand, so he explained to Suldak: "This magic airship is now fully loaded, and its self-weight has almost reached the critical value of the maximum load of a hydrogen balloon. Once the broken cable exceeds Four, the rest of the cables may be overwhelmed, and all of them will collapse, and our airship will fall directly from the sky..."

   I didn't expect this to happen, but then the cable showed no signs of continuing to break, so I continued to settle down and deal with the wounded in the restaurant.

  The battle on the magic airship continued into the night. Suldak spent almost all the time in the daytime treating the wounded in the No. 1 restaurant, and he didn't know the specific situation of the battle outside.

The intensity of the battle gradually weakened. In the evening, there were almost no wounded in Restaurant No. 1 who needed treatment. Suldak leaned against the wall, the sacred aura in his body was almost exhausted, and he leaned his head on the wall wearily, Close your eyes and rest for a while, there is still half a piece of cheese scone on the plate beside you, which was delivered by the crew member he saved. At this time, Suldak has no appetite, and feels that he should take this opportunity to rest for a while meeting.

According to the crew returning from the outside, the airship has successfully passed through the central area with the densest bird tide. There are still some crew members left behind on the deck, and most of them have withdrawn to the cabin. Now there is a thick layer of fire on the deck. Skylark can only wait for the next day to clean up.

Suldak squinted his eyes, and consciously felt that his body seemed to be falling in a trance. He supported the floor with his hands indiscriminately. After standing up, the feeling still did not disappear. Suldak suddenly woke up. He fell, but the speed of the fall was not very fast, and the feeling of the people in the cabin was not very obvious, so Suldak hurried towards the door of the restaurant.

   Some people have already come out of the cabin and walked out along the corridor one after another to check what happened.

Suldak also followed the flow of people to the deck, only to see that the outside was shrouded in night, and he could not see the distance. At this time, the tide of birds had subsided. The deck is full of fire lark corpses, and the upward airflow can be clearly felt on the deck.

  The magic airship was falling downwards. Suldak raised his head and glanced at the hydrogen balloon above his head. Even though several searchlights were shining upwards at the same time, the light was still very dim.

  A crew member is tied with a safety rope and is constantly climbing up the simple ladder of the mast, probably wanting to check the situation of some overhead hydrogen balloons.

  However, in such a dark night, it is also very dangerous to climb onto a giant hydrogen balloon like a football.

   "Activate the aerostat..."

   "Hold the airship steady..."

Commands came one after another from the captain's room on the top of the ship building. The panicked crew members quickly carried out the captain's orders. As the floating devices were opened one after another, light blue magic vortexes appeared on the floating devices. The descent speed of the magic airship continued to slow down.

  With the eight floating devices fully activated, the magic airship finally stopped falling and hovered steadily in midair.

  The crew members standing on the deck excitedly raised their arms and clenched their fists, signaling that the crisis of crashing the ship has passed safely for the time being, and the magic airship just hovered in the night sky.

  In order to reduce the weight of the hull and reduce the additional burden on the airship's eight floating devices, the captain ordered all the crew to start cleaning the bird carcasses on the deck overnight, and discard all the useless groceries in the bottom compartment of the airship.

In this way, from midnight to early morning, when the black sky gradually faded, all the bird carcasses on the deck had been cleaned up, and more than 20 drainage pipes on both sides of the ship continuously discharged domestic water. At this time, Su Only then did Erdak see the specific condition of the hydrogen balloon above his head. It seemed that the huge hydrogen balloon could still maintain the shape of an olive. Three crew members tied safety ropes and climbed on the hydrogen balloon like a spider, trying to handle the hydrogen balloon. Air leaks.

The damaged part of the balloon is not too big, and the magic airship has a hydrogen generator, which is continuously replenishing hydrogen into the hydrogen balloon, but it seems that the added hydrogen can only maintain the current shape of the hydrogen balloon. It can't generate any buoyancy on the airship at all. The magic airship can hover in mid-air because the power of the eight floating devices is fully activated.

It seemed that the crew could not deal with the leak on the hydrogen balloon, and after waiting for a while, the captain stood on the top of the ship building, holding on to the fence, and waved to the crew on the hydrogen balloon, indicating that they could come down from the hydrogen balloon , the captain's face is very ugly...

  (end of this chapter)