Because most towns are occupied by ferocious beasts, human settlements are in remote places far away from towns and transportation lines. In this way, the risk of being discovered by ferocious beasts is greatly reduced.
If you want to go to those settlements, it will be difficult for vehicles to pass through.
Among the children who came to Hedong Town, the leader was named William. He was said to be seventeen years old, but compared with children who grew up normally in the Empire Continent, he looked only thirteen or fourteen years old.
Going to the settlement where William belonged, Lu Ming summoned an airship.
Although the Imperial Continent has long abandoned the development of hot-air balloons now that the aviation industry is extremely developed, there are still some manufacturers that hope to create nostalgia. Similar to Lu Ming in his previous life, hot-air balloons, airships, etc. are still flourishing in some fields.
New life, such as amusement parks, advertising industry, weather detection, etc.
The prototype of the airship that Lu Ming took out was a manned model that served the Montenegrin Corps twenty years ago, but it has been modified beyond recognition. Not to mention that helium has replaced hydrogen. In addition, there are skin materials and balloon overpressure technology.
Innovations, the improvement of the use of diesel engines in airships, etc. These airships are now mostly operated in scenic spots, short-term manned experience projects and the like.
Although William and other young people from the settlement were extremely surprised when they saw the airship, they were even frightened to death when they were asked to board the airship. One boy was so frightened that he peed his pants.
But they can still understand this kind of thing, which is a big balloon that can fly and carry people.
After Lu Ming and a few servants boarded the airship, William and others followed bravely. They originally thought they were going to be thrown to death in a balloon, but it seems not. These city-state people are not committing suicide?
If you occupy a town, you will naturally become a city-state person, which is very different from a settlement.
Lu Ming left Guiying and Zhuge behind, and Queen Hera took charge.
The people he chose to go to William's settlement with him were Sekhmet, Yang Youji, Zhang Xiaoniang, Yuanba, Yuan Qing, Jack Wheel, as well as ten gladiator slaves and ten slave musketeers who performed well in training.
This kind of airship is operated in scenic spots and can seat a hundred passengers inside, but it is a very compact row of seats.
The interior of the car brought by Lu Ming has naturally been transformed.
There are three rows of seats at the front and rear with an aisle in the middle, with six seats in each row, and a total of six rows of seats at the front and rear, which means a total of thirty-six compact seats similar to those on scenic airships.
Five foot fighters and five musketeers sat in the front row, while the other five musketeers and five musketeers sat in the back.
Several children were also divided into two groups, two sitting in the front row and two sitting in the back row.
These are not considered from the perspective of combat or security, including compact seats occupying three rows in the front and three rows in the back. These are all for the purpose of weight balance on the airship.
The business area of the airship is in the middle of the compact seats in the front and rear, and the layout is very comfortable. The sofa seats are wide and soft, and there is a coffee table in the center surrounded by a milky white sofa, which is no different from a small living room.
Sekhmet, two female agents, and two male agents, Yuan Ba and Yuan Qing, were seated in the official area.
However, Yuanba and Yuanqing were sitting on the fringes.
Lu Ming was in the cockpit, and there was no co-pilot. There was nothing that could be done about it. The special service team came from the New World, and all kinds of airplanes, cars, etc. could not trouble them, including the driving of armored vehicles and tanks. Before they came to Lu Ming's side,
After special training, I have never operated an airship.
Spinner Jack's little eyes looked outside eagerly.
William, a boy from the settlement, was also in the cockpit, serving as a guide.
However, the terrain seen from the sky is naturally different from what you see when climbing mountains and wading on land.
The airship was very slow to make it easier for William to identify the terrain and confirm the route in his memory.
However, it seems that from birth to now, these teenagers have never seen movies, pictures, etc. from the sky, so it is difficult to suddenly form a thinking mode that is compared with the ground. William only pointed to a steep mountain in the distance and knew that
Except for the fact that he came around the mountain peak, he had no other clue at all.
Lu Ming changed several children to identify them, and they were all similar to William.
More than an hour later, the airship slowly circled this towering black mountain peak.
Viewed from a high altitude, the dry black riverbed in the vast expanse of cracked yellow desert looks like the traces of some terrible torture.
William looked at the ground in confusion, unable to distinguish anything.
Jack the Wheel suddenly said, "Boss, that long black strip is the riverbed, right? Hey! Boy, are you taking the mountain side from the riverbed and then over the hills to get to my city?!" Speaking to William, Jack
The sound and appearance are both fierce.
Now Jack is very proud of his identity as a city-state citizen.
In the traditional culture of the third continent, the citizens who can live in the city-state are the best people.
Nowadays, it is completely impossible to become a city-state citizen.
But the boss is obviously good at making the impossible possible.
The word "river bed" does not exist in the Third Continent, and Jack is still learning and selling it. The people in the settlement call this kind of terrain "Majimi".
Lu Ming heard Jack say that where there are riverbeds, people in settlements often use them as roads, because the riverbeds are extremely solid. Although it is a terrible place without any living things and no insects, it is very suitable as a road because the yellow sand ground
It is very dangerous, and it is easy to be attacked by sandworms. The sandworms are not big, but their bite will be painful.
It is true that before attacking Hedong Town, we were lying in ambush in the river bed, and the dry river bed formed a natural road.
Over there, under Jack's questioning, young William became even more panicked, "I, I don't know..."
"No need to force him, I'll go along the river bed." Lu Ming pulled the yellow joystick in front of him, and the airship slowly turned.
The black river bed winds eastward, and the desert on both sides gradually changes from yellow to black-red. Occasionally, there are sparse dark red plants. It is a drought-resistant plant that is particularly suitable for survival in the desert. Many settlements use it for their black bread.
The seeds were ground into flour, and the weeds began to be planted around the settlement. Lu Ming felt that this process was similar to how humans tamed wheat, rice, etc. on Earth.
"Ah, ah, it's Truth Head, Truth Head!" Young William suddenly pointed excitedly at the bank of the river bed.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! They are stone statues buried in the black and red desert, more than a dozen of them are crooked, very similar to the style of statues on Easter Island.
"I know, this is where we came from, the black belt! The black belt is Jimmy Ma! Right, it's Jimmy Ma!" William shouted excitedly for his new discovery.
Lu Ming was too lazy to pay attention to him, so Jack asked fiercely: "If I go to your settlement, can I get there along Majimi?"
William nodded repeatedly and said: "It takes a whole day to walk from Truth Head to our settlement. Every time we leave the settlement in the morning, we can walk to Truth Head after sunset."
Lu Ming didn't say anything.
In fact, an hour later, from the airship cab, one could already see a black belt winding away from the riverbed in the distance. There was a faint terrain that was different from other places, and it looked like there were vertical traces.
Lu Ming knew that this should be the settlement of young William people.
Although the airship seems slow, it is much faster than William and the others walking.
We are not far from the settlement now, but this settlement is very small, so from a high altitude, the dark and light traces are somewhat different from the surrounding red and black land.
Lu Ming thought for a while and said: "It's coming down!"
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The airship slowly stopped in the river bed. Gladiator slaves and musketeer slaves lined up to get off the airship, and soon stood neatly in two rows in front of the airship.
They maintain absolute discipline and loyalty at all times.
There, Jack told William and the others to return to the settlement and ask the leader of the settlement to come here to meet the third magician.
Lu Ming's eyelids twitched as he heard this.
After William and the other teenagers walked away, Lu Ming waved to Jack.
Jack immediately ran over and said with a smile: "Boss."
"Magician Yuan San?" Lu Ming asked.
Jack secretly looked at Lu Ming's expression and said with a flattering smile: "If you want to be scared by people here, everyone has a nickname. Like me, it's called Wheeljack, and Hammer John. They are all meant to scare people. The boss is too mysterious.
That guy John has always said that the boss is a magician, but he is the most terrifying magician, the one who can use all kinds of scary props to turn the entire town into oblivion? This nickname fits your mystery so well, boss."
Lu Ming nodded, seemingly noncommittal, but Jack immediately breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his boss was not disgusted or opposed.
Lu Ming was thinking about it. Mr. Magician Three is a pretty good code name. Using the number "three" to represent himself also fits the magician's mysterious aura. Jack should have considered this, but he didn't dare to explain it to himself in detail.
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Because if you understand this, he will seem too verbose. If you don't understand its inner meaning, you still need him to tell you. It will appear that he is very understanding in this regard, and it will easily arouse your resentment.
Looking at the surrounding terrain, Lu Ming strolled towards the airship.
Naturally, you have to be prepared. The most common contact between different settlements here is bloody killings.
Naturally, he is not here to wipe out the settlement of William teenagers, but to spread his reputation and make Hedong Town the most famous and safest trading city-state nearby. It is necessary to show a strong deterrent in this way.
But as Jack said, although he only has about twenty servants, for many small settlements, this is already a terrifying and crushing force.
And it's not about real combat power, it's just the force that the people in the settlement can see clearly, that is, the muskets of the slave musketeers. A gang of more than 20 people has ten muskets, and they are all extremely well-maintained muskets.
Not to mention small settlements, even many medium-sized tribes may not even have ten intact muskets.
Judging from the shocked expressions on young William's and his friends' faces when they saw the ten slave musketeers before boarding the airship, we knew that what Jack said was true.
Although the William boys were allowed to enter the town, they were brought to him blindfolded. They did not know what kind of weapons were in the town.
