The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

"Ha..." Carly wiped her mouth gently with a handkerchief and exhaled, "It's mainly because my heart is not feeling well..."

"I remember it's been about half a year since we said goodbye to Wilkin?" Aoi looked at Carly's slightly haggard face, "How could so many things have happened in such a short time?"

"Conflicts accumulate and will eventually explode," Carly sighed. "Compared to this, how did you find me?"

"His Highness Cang Huang received information from the Queen of Grau Yad, and we learned that you were in Hillster," Aoi replied simply, "At the same time, King William III of I-Tlan asked the Dila people for help, and we were able to obtain permission to enter the sea."

"Aishiliya actually told Cang Huang the information casually?" Carly was a little helpless, "Isn't she afraid that the guy in the mask will reveal it to the federal people..."

"That's unlikely, because even though it hasn't been made clear, everyone's stance is almost diametrically opposed to the Federation."

Aoi smiled, then looked at Carly's battle-damaged body, and her expression turned worried again:

"By the way, are you sure your injuries are not urgent? I see you have a lot of scratches on your body, don't you want to clean them up and take a shower? If it's inconvenient, I can help you..."

"No, I'm fine..." Carly smiled and rejected Aoi, "You didn't say something similar to Perlis, did you?"

"Yes, I did say I would help her bathe, but... what's wrong with you?"

When mentioning "helping Perlis take a bath", a fierce light suddenly flashed in Carly's ice-blue eyes, causing the [Red Devil] to tremble slightly.

"So did you wash it in the end?" Carly was very calm.

"No...I haven't washed it yet." Aoi realized her mistake and tilted her head back subconsciously. "She...she wouldn't let me."

"That's good, sister."

Carly smiled and took Aoi's hand, shaking it gently, becoming very friendly again.

This sudden change made Aoi shudder in his heart, and he slapped his head silently, regretting that he had forgotten something very important.

Fortunately, I didn't tell her that Pearlis and I slept in the same room...otherwise, it would be a complete disaster.

Aoi sighed softly, leaned out the window and looked at the sea.

At this moment, the airship has crossed the sea area densely covered with black fish, and the "Blue Reef" can be seen not far away.

The brand new factor-energy battleship was floating in the clean sea, quietly on standby.

......

After saying goodbye to Ryan again, Carly followed Aoi and Grissom to the deck of the Blue Reef.

This is a newly launched Dila battleship. According to Aoi, it was named after a flagship of the same name in the old fleet to commemorate the great achievements made by that flagship in the Dila War.

The current captain of the ship is Grissom Tren, Carly's younger brother. He used to be the boatswain on the Blue Reef, and now he has inherited the will of the old captain and become the new captain.

To be honest, Carly had imagined all the possibilities after her father defected to the Federation with her brother, and even thought negatively that her brother and father might be dead.

But she never expected this to happen: her brother would become the youngest captain in the Dila fleet. How incredible it was...

"..."

After boarding the deck, the crew members were already waiting. The leading girl in a court dress came up to Grissom as soon as she saw him, looked at his body, and said with some concern:

"Are you not hurt? There are a lot of fish coming ashore..."

"I'm fine," Gleason nodded, "Everything went well?"

"It went smoothly. His Highness Cang Huang said that William III did not make things difficult for us. We can continue to stay in the waters of E-Tran."

"That's good," Grissom let out a long breath, then pointed at Carly beside him, "Mei, this is me...my sister..."

Following the direction Grissom pointed, Mei looked at Carly beside her and wanted to say hello to her, but she found that those ice-blue eyes had been scanning her for a long time, and she subconsciously wanted to step back.

Is this the [Eye of the Federation]? It has such terrifying penetrating power... When did it start?

Is she speculating about me? No... She must have seen through me... After all, I am from Dila and she is from the Federation. Considering the long-standing grudge, she must...

I have to behave well, after all, she seems to be the only hope to find Miss Perlis... But her eyes are so scary, is she already thinking about how to deal with me next... I heard that she is responsible for many information warfare in the Federation, is she already...

While Mei had a lot of thoughts in her mind, Carly was looking at Xinghui Mei seriously, thinking in her heart:

Is this... my brother's girlfriend? She looks like a civil servant, um... pretty...

Oh, her eyes changed. Maybe she realized I was looking at her. She is a girl who can read people's expressions...

Grissom is actually in a relationship... He doesn't look like the little brat he was before... He's a captain and in a relationship. When he was a kid, I pulled his ears and scolded him for being picky about food... Those are all memories from a long time ago...

Things are different now...

Carly sighed silently in her heart, then reached out to Mei, with a smile on her face that looked like an official business model:

"Thank you for your artillery support, Miss Xinghui Meiyi. I hope my brother has never caused you any trouble."

Mei was stunned for a moment, then held Carly's hand and shook it gently.

She is so scary... I always feel like she has a dagger hidden behind her smile... Mei thought so, and sweat began to seep out of her palms.

"..."

Aoi and Grissom on the side seemed to notice nothing. After the short welcome ceremony, the group went to the meeting room inside the ship and began to exchange information.

——Although everyone was very tired after experiencing the change in Hillster, time was very tight and they could not delay any further.

The exchange of intelligence must be completed quickly, the current situation must be assessed, and then the next course of action must be decided.

In just two days in Hillster, Carly only obtained Chadwick Smith's folder about the "Starry Sky Ladder Project". The string of data was still being decoded, but it always failed and could not be presented quickly.

She had to get relevant information from the Blue Reef crew and then quickly deduce a way to get to the Black Island.

After all, after the "fish" that was obviously from the Black Island came ashore, Carly had an uneasy premonition -

——If she doesn't hurry up, Pearlis will be doomed.

......

7) Stairway to the Stars (Part 3)

Half an hour later, the group completed a quick exchange of information in the conference room.

Aoi described to Carly in great detail the time she traveled with Perlis in Dila, and Carly explained to Aoi everything that happened to her after the [Competition].

After the conversation, both of them sighed softly. The atmosphere in the room was quiet, with only the faint sound of waves hitting the cabin.

After a long time, Carly spoke softly again:

"Did you actually see it with your own eyes?"

"I saw it," Aoi lowered her head, "He stabbed the dagger into Pure White's heart and threw her into the sea..."

Although she had heard similar words from Sean Davis before, when Carly heard it again from Aoi's eyes, she unconsciously clenched her fists.

Suleiman Agust, the vile man lurking in the shadows...

That guy has a strange power...similar to Black Island, similar to those fish crawling up the shore, giving people an uneasy feeling...

It's impossible for me, for us, to defeat him...

"call..."

Carly took a deep breath and then said:

"I went to visit Chadwick Smith when I arrived in Hillster, but he was dead."

"That military industry boss of Hillster?" Mei Xinghui said, "Is he really... dead?"

"Almost certain," Carly glanced sideways, "Do you know that guy?"

"Of course. A large part of the orders for the newly formed Dila Army were customized in his military factories. This is one of the reasons why we have recently made friends with I.Tran. Of course, we help each other. We are also arranged to be on standby at the edge of I.Tran's territorial waters to provide them with support when necessary."

Mei Xinghui explained and sighed softly.

"I was the one who was in charge of communicating with him. He looked like a gentleman who was easy to talk to, but he..."

"Perhaps, he was too close to the sea," Aoi said faintly, glancing at the dark sea with barbs floating on it outside the round window. "He could have just left, but he chose to carry out William III's plan."

After Aoi finished speaking, everyone in the cabin was silent for a few seconds, mourning for a dead businessman.

They may have had different sides, but no one deserved to die like that.

"..."

"He is probably the primary target of the Black Angel," Carly sighed, breaking the silence, "Those guys who climbed ashore are related to the Black Island, right?"

"Yes, Miss Perlis and the former captain of the Blue Reef, Furukawa Wataru, once saw a similar monster in the ruins of a shipwreck," Grissom explained, "a shipwreck from the era before the [College War]. We obtained a nautical chart from a treasure chest in the ruins and confirmed that it was a map of the route to Black Island in the Eastern Ocean."

The route map to Black Island? Carly curled her hair lightly and carefully recalled all the current information about [Black Island].

First of all, the Black Island moves in a certain trajectory... It appears in different seas at different times of the day, and it is basically certain that it moves in a circle around the Admir continent...

But this circular motion does not seem to be fixed, but changes with the weather and seasons. Only the location of Dila East Ocean is confirmed to float to the surface stably... So almost all the legends of the Black Island revolve around the East Ocean...

Since in that report, Chadwick Smith witnessed the Black Island on the night of the Rebirth Festival, which is in the past two days, then the timing now should be no problem...

The question is, how to reach the Black Island? Assuming the royal family knew about this, it would be strange that the E-Tran people had never tried to reach the Black Island...

As if she had noticed Carly's thoughts, Aoi asked:

"We are confident that we can reach the Black Island."

"By what means?" Carly turned to look at Aoi.

"The rudder of the Blue Reef," Aoi said, looking at Grissom, "This story begins with the shipwreck when the Black Angel attacked us."

"You said you fell into the sea, but you didn't say how you escaped." Carly straightened her expression, "Is it related to the [Dark Emblem] you mentioned before?"

"That's right," Aoi nodded. "When we set sail for the Black Island, Perlis placed the [Black Emblem] on the rudder of the Blue Reef, which provided the [Fugue] for the rudder."

"Fugue?" Carly frowned slightly.

"This is a concept in the field of mysticism, which can be understood as assimilation on a mysterious level," Mei Xinghui explained nervously, "The [King of the Islands] Bridge Harmony also used the same method to provide a fugue for the [Yakitaro Soul Eater], so even if he gave the [Black Crest] to the former [Iron Lord], the giant ship could still travel under the ocean current."

This doesn't sound scientific at all...not at all...not right, there is no basis for it at all.

Carly subconsciously wanted to object to this statement, but she recalled everything she felt in Chadwick Smith's office, the strange power of the Black Angel, and the group of dark monsters that landed on the shore.

I may have only just scratched the surface of what this world looks like...

Seeing that Carly was lost in thought, Aoi waited for a moment before continuing:

"After being dragged into the sea by the tentacles, I struggled to free myself and grabbed the rudder in the darkness."

"An intuition made me tremble. I felt the veins under the deep sea. At the same time, a gravitational force attracted me..."

"I saw Mei and Grissom floating on the sea, so I grabbed the two and let them hold the rudder together."

"Hey, Miss Aoi!" Gleason protested against Aoi's choice of words.

"Anyway, we finally used that rudder to escape from the sea polluted by the Black Angel and surfaced in the sea near Donglin Island," Aoi said without interruption. "Afterwards, the Dila Navy went to search that sea area and found the wreckage under the deep sea, but did not find Perlis' body."

"I have also speculated that Miss Perlis is still alive. After all, she is so special, but I have no basis for this." Mei Xinghui shook her head slightly. "Miss Carly, how did you know that she was on the Black Island?"

"I'm not sure," Carly also shook her head, "I just... had a dream."

In her dream, a figure among the stars descended and pointed the way to the end of the sea.

In her dream, she was walking along the beach and saw a streak of starlight shining on the horizon.

How could I be so sure based on just these fragmentary clues?

Carly shrugged self-deprecatingly, and then continued to ask:

"So what you mean is that as long as we rely on the rudder with the [Black Emblem] placed on it, we can go to the Black Island?"

"It should be fine, but we may be blocked," Aoi replied. "Those 'fish' are friendly to us now, but if they approach the direction of Kuroshima, we don't know what will happen."

"Compared to this, Miss Carly was able to deduce the truth about Kuroshima," Mei Xinghui's eyes sparkled, "How amazing..."

"It's just basic logical reasoning," Carly sighed softly, "But right now, I still can't determine the exact location of the Black Island."

"I do have an idea," Mei Xinghui suddenly stood up, "The Black Island route map and the logbook may contain information that I haven't noticed before. Do you want to see it?"

"Of course, there might be clues related to the location pattern of the Black Island." Carly nodded.

"I'll be back soon, then."

As soon as she finished speaking, Mei walked out of the room with a "tapping" sound on the wooden floor and disappeared at the door.

After she left, the atmosphere in the cabin fell silent for a while. But soon, Carly started talking again:

"Okay, brother, you have to tell me everything you need to tell me."

7) Stairway to the Stars (Part 4)