Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

But the seriousness of the matter made it hard to say what would happen. The ship's engine involved the lives of everyone on the ship. Perhaps it was for this reason that the old man could not bear to watch it.

But the concept of shadow factory made Li Ang hesitate again.

The old engineer didn't say much. He took the salary given by the store manager, counted it, put his tools in his bag, or hung them on his work clothes, turned around and walked out of the store.

When passing by Andasu, Li Ang and others, he turned his gaze and looked at them a few more times.

Andasu was a little dazed. She didn't expect that things would happen completely differently from what she understood.

"Let's go." Li Ang walked up to her and called her.

The boss seemed to have regained some of his composure and said to Andasu, "Why are you standing here? You've been standing there for a long time, just looking at things without buying anything. Are you a poor bastard from the ruined city?"

White Wolf said, "I was originally thinking of discussing changing his position. Maybe it could be changed for the better."

Li Ang and the shop owner were stunned.

It turns out that this guy is not someone who speaks up for justice. Li Ang scratched his head, forgetting that her previous identity was not a good person. It was just that her upbringing made her particularly strong in some aspects, but also particularly simple in other aspects.

Pulling White Wolf and the girls out of the store, Farina immediately asked softly, "That Shadow Factory is special? Did you know that?"

"Shadow Factory. I heard the knowledgeable Sky Knight talk about it while visiting the Rudder City. It's a bit like a local urban legend."

Li Ang recalled: "According to what I heard at the time, opponents from many major factories in the Rudder City set up their own factory, hoping to build the ultimate battleship to seize power."

"The ultimate battleship!" Zoe's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Have they been oppressed and treated unfairly?" Alulu asked.

"I don't know the details, let's find a place to live first."

After taking a few steps, Li Ang discovered that the Water Dragon had disappeared at some point.

But he didn't intend to pay attention to her. It was obvious that the incarnation of the god did whatever he thought of. She was probably going to look for wine or saw something else that interested her.

Originally, I was walking around the street to relax, but in order to find the shipyard, I had to settle down first.

However, this road is difficult to walk.

One is the scene on the eve of the so-called grand ceremony. Tourists of all races and accents crowded on the narrow streets. This place was not like a holy city or a trading city. There were no wide commercial streets. The grand ceremony seemed to be held temporarily without any preparation.

Secondly, many roads that are easy to walk on were temporarily closed, saying that it was for preparations for the competition, and many hotels were located on these roads. The hotel that Li Ang had stayed in before was also not accessible because it was booked by unknown persons. The person who blocked the road could not explain who booked it.

After walking a little further, we saw that the center of a wider street was divided and turned into something like a motorcade parade.

These "cars" are all small airships, which are more in line with the concept of "airship" than the wasteland-style airships in the Flashing Wilderness. Some of them may have been built in the factories of the Rudder City. They all look gorgeous and stylish, and there is nothing wrong with them.

The people who drive these airships are naturally enthusiasts from various sky islands. Apart from the Glittering Fields, there are not many such competitions in other places. No one knows who organized the ceremony here, but there are a lot of these people.

At this moment, they were sitting in their own racing boats, attracting everyone's attention, and some women who seemed to be watching the race for the first time were screaming wildly in the crowd.

The racing boats were lined up and stopped in a relatively wide small square. The road ahead was temporarily closed and cleared.

A young man climbed up a statue in the square, waving a flag. He wore a magic megaphone on his collar and shouted, "Beautiful ladies, I am your beloved Reard. Welcome to another training match for our racing aces!"

This person was not very popular and the response was mediocre.

He continued, unfazed, "Alright, everyone is familiar with each of the twelve airship racers in front of me. They're all exceptionally impressive. So, why don't you take a guess and see who will be the winner today?"

There was a burst of banshee's howling all around, and ordinary people grinned, covered their ears and retreated.

Zoe covered her ears: "Are these people crazy?"

"That's about right," Dorothy sighed, covering her ears gracefully. "Oh, this happens everywhere. I don't know why you're so excited."

Leon frowned. His first reaction was that the young man who hosted the training match was the same person who was at the port just now, but when he looked closely, it was just because they were both wearing the Soul Peak Cloak and had an exaggerated temperament.

Farina gave him a look, and he nodded, indicating that he understood. They both understood that the further they went, the more they found that the Soul Peak was deeply connected with the things happening here.

"Also, who will be the final winner of the official race? You can place your bets now. The betting is on, and the location is—"

Reard listed several places in a row, and Leon thought they sounded like shops in some large shipyards.

"And now, for the ladies who have just arrived on the island, let me introduce you, the racers, and your airships.

"The first one is the Sky Flame ace, Gel's ship, the Sky-Breaking Flame! Look everyone, its hull was crafted using the Sky Flame Shipyard's exclusive smelting technology..."

The host had only said a few words when Li Ang judged that these racers were not important. The audience who cared about them were those who came from nowhere and were being led by the nose and definitely needed an idol. The key point was the airship under them.

These airships come from major shipyards, and it can be said that they are using them to promote themselves.

Listening to what Reard said, among the people around Leon, except Zoe, everyone else was not interested.

But Andasu was different. She was listening attentively.

"The first one is the most presentable among them, but it still has many problems. If these materials were given to me, I could make it better."

White Wolf declared, "Even so, it's still not as good as my Running Wolf."

Speaking of the Wolf Run, it is now also staying in Leon's dimensional rift.

When the matter at the Glittering Fields was over, it was Ellaphia's God of Weapons that carried Leon, Andasu and the others away. At her request, the Running Wolf was also brought on board.

Leon's original plan was to ask Alafia to temporarily store the Wolf Run and Dorothy's boat at the Order Flame Corps' base, but when he left the Holy City, he had already mastered the method of opening rifts, so he loaded the Wolf Run on the ship.

After that, he felt that Andasu occasionally wanted him to take it out, but was constrained by some kind of... obedience? She didn't want to make any demands on him.

Of course, another reason was that she spent more time studying Cormac's golem and imperial armor. Although she had deep feelings for the Wolf, new things were often more attractive.

Every time the host introduced a racing boat, Andasu refuted it.

"That one is complete garbage. Do you think that structure will be free of resistance? The fact is that this long and narrow structure has extremely poor stability and is completely industrial waste.

"For the sake of appearance, one-third of the engine's power is wasted.

"and this--"

Li Ang and the other girls had wanted to leave a long time ago, but Andasu didn't seem to want to move at all.

This gave Leon an idea that he could find time to get a set of communication equipment so that they wouldn't have to worry about not being able to find anyone when they acted separately.

"...Every racing boat here was specially built by our proud shipyard in the Rudder City for our Double Eagle Rudder Ceremony, having turned down countless commercial orders for this purpose. Okay, now that the last boat has been introduced, let's begin today's training match!"

As soon as the host Reard finished speaking, the crowd around him became even more excited. Although he only had eyes for the "ladies", many people who were not paid attention to by him also joined in the fun.

It was only then that Li Ang learned the name of this grand ceremony, and Shuangying didn't know what it meant.

But he could understand that this had clearly been deliberately promoted for some time, probably since his time in the Holy City. When something was promoted, its audience usually didn't mention its full name, but rather had a deep understanding of it and a sense of pride in it.

"Wow, I can't stand it anymore." Zoe ran behind Leon. He was standing farther back, and he could see the whole scene clearly by stepping on invisible air.

Meimei and Dorothy retreated with Zoe. The former kept muttering, "What a decadent atmosphere. We don't even know where the enemy is lurking." The latter had a look of disgust on her face.

As soon as they came over, they bumped into Meluna.

Dorothy was immediately stunned. It was not because there was any conflict between the two sides, but because she saw Meluna put her hand on the hilt of the sword.

"W-what are you going to do?"

Without even turning his head, Li Ang said, "These people cannot be killed."

"Oh." Meluna let go and covered her ears.

"What do you mean?"

Dorothy was horrified. "She really, she really was going to kill all these people without you stopping her?"

"I can only say that this is a possibility, but since I met her, she has never attacked anyone randomly."

"Since, since?"

"They're not just hacking randomly, they're noisy," Meluna said.

"Then you should go away." Meimei said.

"Leon is here."

Meimei rolled her eyes.

Li Ang actually wanted to leave, but this time it was Andasu's turn to take root and he couldn't be pulled away.

"As per convention, our racers can choose a fan to ride with them. Everyone, please seize the opportunity to show yourselves. You won't have this chance again in the main race!" said the host.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ang and his group understood: No wonder these fans were so excited, it turned out that there was such an opportunity.

"It turns out those people on the boat yesterday were so-called fans. I thought they were the girlfriends of these rowers," said Dorothy.

"What training? They even arrogantly rushed past the boat we were on!" Zoe said unhappily.

As soon as the host finished speaking, enthusiastic fans began to stretch their bodies and show themselves, while some of the racers were well prepared and found their intended targets and opened their arms, while others began to choose from the flowers around them.

"Let's go, I can't bear to watch this anymore." Dorothy pushed Leon's arm.

The Star Flower Brigade took great pains to squeeze through the crowd before leaving the gathering area.

Li Ang used the Wind Shield to surround them all the time, preventing outsiders from directly crowding into his group, but he used the Wind Shield to push the crowd away with all his strength, which might cause a stampede, so their progress was not difficult, just slow.

Next, it was also troublesome to find a hotel because many places were fully booked. There were not many foreign tourists in the Helm City, and there were not many hotels here. After walking for most of the day, it was sunset when we finally found a tavern with rest rooms. It didn't look very decent.

It was obvious that the girls were not very satisfied with the environment and hygiene here and were just trying to get by for one night.

A group of people were standing in the corridor. Before Leon took out the luggage from the dimensional rift for them, a voice that could not be suppressed from the depths of the throat came from the room next door.

The well-traveled elder sister like Farina didn't show any change in expression, and Meluna had always been indifferent to the outside world, but the young girls who were no longer ignorant all blushed at once.

The resting place is really just a resting place. Since it is not time to go to bed yet, there is no need to stay in this tavern. The environment on the first floor of the tavern is also very poor. In order to avoid the discomfort caused by overly aggressive gazes, the girls all wore the same cloak hood as Andasu to cover her body.

The crowd that had gathered for the rowing training competition dispersed temporarily, and Li Ang planned to find a good restaurant in a busy area.

"Let's take a detour on the way there. Xiao Mo's house is not far from here." said Farina.

"Who is Xiao Mo?" Meluna asked immediately.

Dorothy and Zoe had only half opened their mouths when she spoke.

The half-elf immediately complained, "How come you are more active than us? Who are you?"

After she finished speaking, she immediately went around behind Li Ang, placed herself between him and the female swordsman, and half-crouched to avoid sight.

As expected, Meluna placed her hand on the hilt of the sword.

"Stop mocking her." Leon whispered to the half-elf.

"Humph, I just can't stand the way you insist on staying here. I'm not going to die anyway, I'm just afraid of the pain."

"I won't die either." Meluna argued.

"Who asked you?" Leon pressed his temple with a headache and pushed Dorothy forward.

Led by Farina, everyone arrived at Xiao Mo's house. His house was a single-family villa with a courtyard. The residential area where it was located was very different from the overall style of the Helm City. It was a villa area built on a flat land in the architectural style of the Trade City without the use of pre-civilization equipment.

"It's quite well-maintained here. I didn't expect such a rough city to have such a unique place." Dorothy commented.

Li Ang was about to knock on the door, but Farina smiled and pulled him back, touching the mailbox in front of the courtyard gate.

A magical device was activated, which was a preparation to prevent intrusion by outsiders. Obviously, Xiao Mo had told Farina about this visiting old friend before.

The next moment, the gate of the villa was blown away, and a black lightning flashed across the sky.

Almost at the same time, two sharp blades crossed in front of everyone, blocking the attacking giant sword wrapped in black thunder.

"Knight Annihilation!"

The enemy that rushed out of Xiao Mo's house was the Annihilation Knight wearing heavy black armor and with a one-eye mark on his helmet, but this one was bigger than any Leon had ever seen.

It was Meme and Meluna who drew their swords. Leon and Farina also reacted, but they did not fight much with the Annihilation Knights. They just raised their shields and prepared to retreat. However, these two swordsmen were already fully familiar with the combat logic of this kind of military force of the Empire, and knew how to respond at the first moment.

The dancing of the sword blade exceeded the visual limit of others. Before the Annihilation Knight could move, Meluna's Sky Fury instantly ignited the Annihilation Knight, and "burned" the flesh and blood inside the Annihilation Knight through the armor into a pile of ice chips.

291. Water Shield Wall

Melna killed the Annihilation Knight as if she were killing a small soldier. The last time she experienced this feeling was when Alafia killed the same enemy, but this one was obviously stronger, perhaps because the power of the Annihilator was reviving.

Leon didn't even have time to use the panel to check the information of the Annihilation Knight.

"More than that." Meluna did not put away her sword.

"There should be more." Meimei was sensing her surroundings seriously.

As expected, other corners of the house also exploded, and the walls and glass shattered into countless small pieces. Three black figures rushed out, and the force of the black lightning swept the wreckage of the building like a storm of destruction.

One charged head-on, while the other arced back from a distance, trying to bypass the range of the two swordsmen and reach the weaker girls in the back row.

Meimei immediately retreated to guard upon seeing this, but the third person showed some abnormality, and came directly into the air, quickly leaping over the team's heads, facing the rear where the defense was weak.

【Annihilate the Mutants】

[The Imperial Spell Attacker, created by the forbidden power mastered by the Holy Sporir Empire, can eject a surge of destructive power from the alienated flesh and blood of its annihilated victims.]