The stars, but they become the gray wind

"Uh, is that really the case? My driving skills aren't that bad, are they?"

"Yuki was even traumatized by you, and you call that not bad?"

"My job is to make sure you don't touch the cockpit control stick during your return. I don't want to experience what aerobatics feels like."

Aze rolled his eyes at the embarrassed Kalisi.

As the rear door closed, the propellers on both sides of the Osprey transport aircraft gradually increased their rotation speed, and the aircraft slowly lifted off the ground. After rising to a sufficient height, the high-speed rotating rotors on both sides gradually turned from vertical to horizontal, and the entire aircraft began to transition from a vertical take-off and landing state to a high-speed flight state.

The Royal Guards and Military Police who arrived at the scene only saw a strange-looking aircraft flying over their heads at high speed. Several soldiers wanted to raise their guns to shoot at the Osprey flying over their heads, but it was obvious that the Osprey in front of them was not unarmed. A 7.62mm Gatling machine gun extended from the belly of the Osprey, and hundreds of bullets hit the ground around the soldiers who wanted to raise their guns to shoot. The bricks on the ground were hit by the bullets, and the flying stones produced instantly scared the soldiers so much that they quickly covered their heads and crouched for defense.

In the sky, before several airships of the Kingdom Administration's Yi'an Force patrolling the surrounding area could react, the Osprey flying at a speed of 470 kilometers per hour easily left these slow-moving airships behind.

"What the hell is that?" On an airship, the captain holding a telescope exclaimed as he looked at the Osprey flying at high speed in the telescope's field of view.

"Captain, that thing doesn't seem to belong to our kingdom. Could it be from the Republic? Should we chase it?" A soldier asked the captain who was standing by the window of the airship's cockpit, observing the strange aircraft in the distance through a telescope.

"What the hell? We can't catch up with something that moves so fast." The captain put down the telescope and scolded the soldiers behind him.

"Based on my visual estimation, that thing is flying at a speed of at least 250 miles per hour. Not only us, I don't think even the fastest aerial battleship in the kingdom can catch up. What the hell is this thing?"

"Could it be some secret weapon developed by the Republic?"

"If the Republic can develop something like this, I think we won't have to resist and can just surrender."

"Captain, something bad has happened! An unidentified object is rapidly approaching us from the left!" Suddenly, the soldier standing at the observation post on the other side of the cockpit shouted to the captain.

"what!"

Just as the captain reacted and ran to the left side of the cockpit, a silver-gray aircraft with an overall triangular structure and a strange appearance brushed past the cockpit of the airship with a bang and flew past the left wing of the airship. The huge vibration it produced even directly cracked the glass of the airship cockpit. Several soldiers standing by the cockpit and looking out were so frightened by the aircraft flying past their faces at high speed that they collapsed to the ground.

The captain of the airship looked at the strange aircraft flying away with tail flames spraying backwards, and seemed a little at a loss.

"What the hell is this thing?" Before the captain could finish his words, the triangular-shaped aircraft approached the previous aircraft with two huge rotors and an incredibly fast speed, and moved forward at high speed along with the aircraft with rotors.

Inside the Osprey's cabin, Charlotte listened to Mary, who was sitting next to her, telling the story about the angel sister who had been secretly protecting her.

"This is what happened, Sister Charlotte. When I encountered the bombing attack before, it was the angel sister who protected Olivia and me. Also, when I was depressed and wanted to jump out of the window, it was the angel sister who persuaded me. And when I was overwhelmed by study and work, it was the angel sister who accompanied me in secret." Mary happily told Charlotte about her acquaintance with the angel.

"Is that so? Then I really don't know how to thank you, this... uh... Miss Angel? Can I call you that?" Charlotte sincerely thanked the angel who had always protected her sister.

"I just don't want to see children like Mary get hurt, especially being caught up in dirty politics. As for my name, my name is Ze Mingluo, you can call me Aze."

"By the way, Miss Angel, what is the purpose of you and your companions helping us?" Dorothy, who was sitting nearby as a spy and instinctively looked at the various unfamiliar devices in the cabin, asked.

"Because we can hope to promote the progress of this world, rather than being dragged down by the old production relations, so that the entire world can truly enter the next stage of development." The person who answered this question was not Aze, but Kalisi, who had been silent since the beginning.

"Miss Dorothy, we are the external driving force that promotes the development of civilization and the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of civilization, warning everyone at all times." Carisi said with a serious expression.

Chapter 79: Inviting the True Aerospace Carrier, the Hundred-Handed Giant! (5000-word chapter)

Early in the morning, the Duke of Normandy felt a headache as he looked at the urgent report on the table. Not long ago, he received news that there were spies from the Republic in the kingdom who attempted to abduct Mary, the heir to the throne, to flee to the Republic. At the same time, he received evidence from intelligence personnel that Richard, whom he had always been very wary of, was the mastermind behind the assassination of Prince Edward, the original heir to the throne.

The guard troops he sent to arrest Richard were quite successful, even too successful. In front of the gendarmerie of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that came to arrest him, Richard barely put up any resistance and surrendered obediently.

The problem was on the other side. In order to catch the Republic spies who had been hiding in the royal family, the Duke of Normandy personally sent his secretary with hundreds of fully armed gendarmes to catch the Republic spies who wanted to escape with Mary, and took the opportunity to wipe out almost all the Republic's intelligence bases and personnel in the kingdom at one fell swoop.

Originally, the Duke of Normandy's plan was supposed to be this... but... thinking back to the nearly complete annihilation of the military police he had sent to capture the Republic spies last night, and the downfall of the armed airship that had been used to assist them in the capture of the Republic spies by an unidentified aircraft, the Duke of Normandy, feeling deeply depressed and puzzled, silently opened the drawer under his desk, pulled out a medicine bottle, and poured out two blood pressure pills, swallowing them along with the tea in his cup.

"Your Excellency, the soldiers we sent there insisted that they were brought down by some kind of witchcraft-like power?"

"Your Excellency the Duke, these soldiers may have colluded with each other and lied collectively because their mission failed," a subordinate reported at the Duke of Normandy's desk.

"But this lie is too crude. Even if you are lying, you should find a more reliable reason, right?" The subordinates in front of the Duke of Normandy obviously did not believe the "witchcraft" reported by the soldiers. He preferred to believe that this was a collective lie told by the gendarmes who failed because of poor execution of the mission.

"Call in the gendarmerie captain who led the team yesterday. I want to ask him in person." The Duke of Normandy rubbed his temple and instructed the men in front of him.

"Yes."

After a while, a gendarmerie captain with a bandage on his head, a plaster on the left side of his face, and a swollen eye walked into the Duke of Normandy's office.

"Your Excellency the Duke!" The captain of the gendarmerie saluted the Duke of Normandy as he walked in.

"You are the one who led the team yesterday, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty the Duke."

"Tell me in detail what happened last night?"

"Yes... Yesterday, under your orders, I followed your secretary and several hundred of my men to the rooftop of an ancient castle near the London Wall to capture the Republic's spies hiding there."

"After we reached the rooftop, we did find several Republic spies, including Princess Charlotte. Just as we surrounded them, a figure wearing a black cloak and a hood suddenly appeared on the rooftop. She first said something incomprehensible to Princess Charlotte, who was mixed up with the Republic spies, and then..."

"Wait a minute... You said she said something incomprehensible to Charlotte? What exactly did she say?"

"After she appeared on the roof, she first said to Princess Charlotte, 'Charlotte, have you forgotten something?

"I promised before that I would come to help you when you are desperate. These are her exact words at that time." The captain of the gendarmerie repeated honestly to the Duke of Normandy.

"Go on."

"Yes, and then I just saw her raise her right hand and pull it back, and my four men flew out of thin air."

"After being attacked by that guy's 'witchcraft', we first warned her, but she approached us as if she didn't care... and then..." Having said that, the gendarmerie captain took a deep breath, swallowed his saliva, and then continued to report to the Duke of Normandy in front of him.

"Then... one of my men shot her, but the strange thing was that the bullet fired from the gun barrel stopped in the air when it was still a few meters away from her! Not only that, all the bullets we fired at her seemed to be blocked by something as soon as they got close to her. All... all the bullets... were not in line with common sense at all, and they were stopped directly in mid-air! The guy even grabbed the bullet suspended in the air with his hand, held it in his hand like a toy, and threw it away after taking a look!" At this point, the gendarmerie captain's expression was as if he had seen a ghost.

"Then I heard her say, 'Remember, you fired the first shot.' Then I saw her make a gesture as if she was holding something, and I and the dozen or so men around me suddenly felt something strangled around our necks. But when we put our hands on our necks, we felt nothing. Later, when I asked the men who were there at the time, they felt the same way, as if the object that was strangling our necks didn't exist."

"Then, while I was gasping for breath, I saw her raise her hand, and we were directly grabbed into the air."

"When I was about to lose consciousness, Bi casually waved his hand, and we were thrown against the wall like balls. Most of my men also fainted after hitting the wall directly. I was lucky that I was still conscious at the time."

"Then, I watched her grab our people out of thin air like throwing a ball, and then she waved her hand casually, and our people were thrown out like a piece of rag." The military police captain recalled with lingering fear.

"Your Excellency, this is definitely witchcraft, witchcraft! She dealt with us just like a chicken, and knocked down hundreds of us with just a wave of her hand!" The gendarmerie captain said excitedly to the Duke of Normandy.

The Duke of Normandy raised his hand to signal the captain of the gendarmerie before him to calm down. He then continued, "You also said in your report that the airship supporting you was shot down by a strange-looking aircraft?"

"Yes, Your Excellency. To prevent those Republic spies from carrying dangerous weapons, we specially brought an anti-gravity airship equipped with a heavy machine gun. At the time, I was injured and leaning against the wall, watching the airship fly to the top of the castle house and intend to use the heavy machine gun to attack the guy who knew witchcraft. Just before the heavy machine gun was about to fire, I saw something with a white tail hit the airship. The next second, the entire airship exploded violently, and then a strange-looking aircraft flew over my head."

"What exactly is the shape and appearance of that aircraft?"

"The aircraft was moving very fast. I only saw it for a split second, but it looked like it had a triangular head with a very sharp point, and two bulging things at the back spewing fire."

"Then take a look, is this it?" The Duke of Normandy pulled out a blurry black-and-white photo from a pile of documents on table A and handed it to the gendarmerie captain in front of him.

"Yes, Your Excellency, this is what I saw last night!!!" The gendarmerie captain looked at the blurry and strange triangular aircraft in the black and white photo and replied to the Duke of Normandy affirmatively.

"What is this photo?" the gendarmerie captain asked curiously.

"You weren't the only one who saw that aircraft last night. The captain of one of our armed airships patrolling nearby also saw it, and it flew right past his airship at a very close distance. He happened to have a camera on board, and he took this photo before the aircraft flew out of his sight."

"I have another question for you. According to your report, my secretary was kidnapped by that witchcraft guy?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, after all of us fell, only your secretary was left. Your secretary was indeed very brave. Even though he was the only one left, he still did not give up and went to confront that terrible guy."

"While your secretary was confronting the wizard, I heard a loud noise overhead, and then an equally strange-looking aircraft appeared. Several ropes were lowered from the aircraft. After a brief exchange with Princess Charlotte and the Republic spies, Princess Charlotte and the others tied the ropes hanging from the aircraft. Before leaving, the wizard suddenly looked back at your secretary and made a hand-pulling gesture. Your secretary was instantly disarmed and then, like us before, was grabbed out of thin air and brought in front of the wizard. Then, the secretary, unable to resist, was forcibly tied up with ropes and taken away together with the aircraft."

"Your Excellency, I was injured and leaning against the wall at the time, and that's all I saw."

"Okay, I understand. You can go out first." The Duke of Normandy ordered the gendarmerie captain whose face was covered with wounds.

"Yes."

.........

After the captain of the gendarmerie left, the Duke of Normandy was the only one left in the office. He looked up at the garden outside the window with a serious expression, where birds were singing and flowers were blooming, but he couldn't feel happy at all.

"Unprecedented sorcerous power, unprecedented new aircraft. If the captain's report is true, both aircraft must be traveling at speeds of at least 250 miles per hour. How could the Republic possess such technology?"

"No, if it were the Republic, with such advanced technology, they would have attacked us long ago, instead of constantly testing the Kingdom's bottom line like they are now."

"Or... not the Republic? But who else in the world, besides the Kingdom of Albion and the Republic, possesses such research and development capabilities and production capabilities? Who else can create such advanced weapons?"

"What kind of force possesses such advanced technology? What is their purpose in taking Charlotte and Mary away? Why do they want to help that group of Republican spies?" The Duke of Normandy, who felt a sense of ignorance for the first time, looked anxiously at the garden outside the window.

.........

On the other hand, after hearing the news of Richard's arrest, Richard's trusted subordinates also took quick action. In an inconspicuous room in London, Richard's trusted subordinates in the New World Army were holding an urgent discussion.

"Damn it! Your Highness was arrested by that old fox, the Duke of Normandy, on charges of assassinating Prince Edward!" One of the men said angrily, slamming the table in front of him.

"Damn the Duke of Normandy! How could someone like His Highness murder his own brother? The Duke of Normandy must have deliberately framed His Highness!"

"That's right. It must be that old fox, the Duke of Normandy, who is taking the opportunity to persecute Your Highness and trying to stop Your Highness from saving the entire country!" Another subordinate echoed in the room.

"If Princess Mary inherits the throne, won't all power fall into the hands of that old fox, Duke of Mandy?"

"Your Highness must have sensed the Duke of Normandy's cunning old fox's plot to rule the country from behind the scenes, and that's why he took the opportunity to frame and persecute you!!"

"Well said. Besides, how can a little girl like Mary lead the kingdom to prosperity? Only His Highness is our hope!!" Another subordinate also added loudly to everyone present.

"How can we possibly run a good country if we're with the Duke of Normandy and that bunch of rotten old aristocratic worms?"

"Only by getting rid of those damn insects can we allow His Highness to lead us to reunite Albion!!!" A radical subordinate of Richard announced loudly to everyone present.

"In three days, the final batch of troops and weapons and equipment will arrive. By then, we will lead the army directly into the palace, control the Duke of Normandy and the Queen, force the Duke of Normandy to release His Highness, and make the Queen acknowledge that His Highness is the heir to the throne of Albion!" One of Richard's trusted subordinates announced the next plan.

"The Duke of Normandy's police force, which has only dealt with civilians, is no match for us. Once we control the Duke of Normandy and disarm his police force, we can rely on the power of our army to wipe out the corruption within the Kingdom of Albion and restore Albion to its former glory!"

"Long live His Royal Highness Richard!" At this time, one of the men in the room suddenly raised his clenched right fist and shouted.

"Long live His Royal Highness Richard!!"

"Long live His Royal Highness Richard!!!" The others clenched their right fists, raised their hands and shouted loudly.

Sitting in the cabin of an unfamiliar aircraft, Angel's instinct as a spy made her carefully observe the layout and equipment in the cabin. However, as she observed, she soon came to the conclusion that she knew almost nothing about these equipment in the cabin or even the flight principles of this aircraft.

"Ms. Anjie, I know what you're thinking. All the equipment on this aircraft is far beyond the most advanced technology in your world."

"I can guarantee that even if the complete blueprint of this aircraft is sent to the research institutes of the Kingdom or the Republic, they will not be able to understand the technical principles of this aircraft. As for the equipment and complete production system required to manufacture an inconspicuous part of this aircraft, no country in the world can do it." After noticing Angel's eyes looking around, Carlisle said to Angel.

"For example, the aviation-grade high-strength aluminum alloy and composite materials that make up the main body of this aircraft. I can tell you very clearly, Miss Anjie, that even for a world-leading power like Albion, producing such materials with their technological capabilities is a fantasy."

"You sound like you're very confident in your skills?" An Jie asked expressionlessly, still appearing calm.

"Of course, I have no shame in saying that even if the entire European or even the entire world's military forces were combined, they would still not be our match."

"I understand that you possess supernatural powers like that angel lady, and you are indeed invincible, but isn't it a bit too arrogant to go against the military forces of the entire world?" Angel tried to trick the other party carefully.

"I'm not bragging, Miss Angel. You will soon see the reasons why we are so confident." At this time, Carlisle and Aze, who were sitting in the cabin seats, suddenly unbuckled their seat belts.

"It's almost time, but it's a pity that this Osprey didn't choose to increase the area of ​​the windows on the side of the cabin when designing it." Calisi stood up and walked to Anjie and the others, slowly helping them unbuckle their seat belts one by one, even including the secretary who was tied to her seat.

"If you don't mind, would you please come with us to the cockpit to see the reason why we are so confident? The cockpit windows are big enough. I think you can see more clearly." Aze said to them.

"Angel sister, what are you going to show us?" asked the innocent Mary curiously.

"It's a very beautiful thing..." Aze raised his index finger, leaned over and said to Mary with a smile.

.........

Several people gathered in front of the windshield of the cab. Aze took the lead and sat in the main driver's seat, holding Mary on his lap.

"Hey? Are you an angel sister?" Mary asked with a slightly red cheek.

"This is more intuitive." Aze took the opportunity to touch Mary's head without changing his expression.

"Do you really have to take my driver's seat?" Carlisle complained helplessly as she looked at Aze who had gotten into the driver's seat first.

"Anyway, you can't touch the control stick of the main pilot. We don't want to experience the feeling of aerobatics and forced landing with a whole plane of people."

"You really don't trust my driving skills?"

"Even Yuuki was scared like that by you, I don't want to make the same mistake again."

"Uh..." Carlisle was speechless as she looked at Aze, who had extreme distrust in her driving skills.

"01, you are approaching the formation. This ship is descending in altitude. Be prepared for landing." At this moment, Yuki's voice suddenly came from the communication device next to the driving seat.

"Roger that. We've got a few guests here, Yuuki. Give our guests a spectacular display!"

"understand!"

As the words in the communicator fell, a calm and thick cloud layer in front of the Osprey's left was suddenly torn apart, and a huge aircraft with a wingspan of nearly a thousand meters emerged from the clouds.

Inside the cabin, Charlotte and the others stared in amazement at the huge aerospace carrier outside that seemed to cover the sky. They were so shocked that they couldn't speak. But then four more giant aircraft, although smaller in size, but equally ridiculously large, appeared from the clouds behind the lower aircraft. And that's not all. Following the white-headed giant formation, thousands of escort fighters roared past in neat formation, declaring their dominance over the sky.

"Welcome, everyone!!! (Please welcome, the Hundred-Armed Giant!!!)" Looking at the people who were shocked as if petrified, Kalisi said with her arms opened happily.

Chapter 80 Unreliable Food Printer and Knowledge Explanation

"What...is...this...thing?" Dorothy opened her mouth so wide that it seemed as if she could swallow an egg as she looked at the huge creature that appeared in her sight.

"We call it the Aigalion, our mobile aerial base and command center. The four smaller ones next to it are the P-1113 (Kottos), responsible for electronic support, and the P-1114 (Gyges), our heavy fire support escort aircraft for air defense."

"So this is... the aerial battleship you built?" Charlotte looked at the huge monster that was getting closer and closer in her sight, swallowed her saliva, and asked calmly.