A low and long sound came from the lower reaches of the river, with a low-octave echo, as if a giant beast was inflating hard with its nose. I had never heard such a sound, but Sakina's face suddenly showed a happy look.
His expression: "Ah, we are so on time, the ship is here so quickly!" It seems that just now it was the whistle of a ship in this world when it was sailing.
A huge figure appeared in the distance with the sound of the whistle. It moved very fast, and it didn't take long for it to fully appear in our sight. It was a double- or three-layer metal structure ship.
It was engraved with strange colorful lines. There was no sail, but layers of white waves could be seen rising from the stern of the ship. From a distance, I felt that there was a stable energy source inside it that was releasing energy. This might be able to
Explain why we don't see any sails on this wooden boat: it appears to be powered by magic...
Is it the product of alchemy technology... Well, I'm used to all kinds of clever civilian machinery popping up in this magical world. Who says magic can't produce the same civilian fields as technological civilization? Following the fully automatic anti-gravity magic
After the elevator, we saw a steel freighter with a magic power shield and a speed of 35 knots. Moreover, this freighter also used enchantment technology to solve the problem of water resistance - this last point is what I am thinking about in my mind.
Alaya discovered that the sleepy man's mystical knowledge is at its peak. In terms of knowledge alone, even a true god like Bingtis who lives by fighting cannot compare with her. No matter what rules the current world follows, as long as she analyzes it
Alaya can determine more than 80% of the magic forms in this world based on the energy activity value and certain "frequency" of the surrounding space.
I have to say that this is a very scary ability, but it seems that the only role of the guy with this terrifying ability is to take naps and take care of the children in my mind. Oh, by the way, he also comes out every now and then to let me comb her hair, Alai
Yeah, now he has really degenerated into a complete piggy.
Sakina took out a small yellow-brown square lump from her pocket. She fiddled with it a few times. After a while, the steel freighter that was gradually approaching here gave out three short whistles.
, seemed to be responding to something. Sakina smiled and raised the small square in her hand to me: "This is a help transmitter. Explorers will carry one of these when they go out. Many large teams working outside
There is equipment to receive this kind of help signal because of the existence of the Lost World. Various wild rescue technologies are developing the fastest here. This can be regarded as the last necessary benefit that the world retains for the high-risk profession of explorers."
Sakina probably learned the word "welfare" from Lilina, and now she immediately applied it accurately.
: "..." Meow. People on earth don't have this technology - of course. It can be said that they have this technology, but it is not as complete as this magical world. People have already established a worldwide instant help network. This is true.
Are there any rules?
Soon the big ship came near us. It was still a few hundred meters away from the shore. It just put down a small boat. The small boat was driven by three strong black sailors wearing coarse shorts: "Hey!
Was that the signal you just sent?"
"Ah. We are... travelers," Sakina replied while taking out money from her pocket, "We are going to the Sky Tower. We hope to take a boat. Of course, we have to pay for the trip according to the rules.
of."
"Going to the Tower of the Sky?" The leader, Uncle Hei Zhuang, glanced at our group of people, "There are quite a lot of people... Well, I said, you didn't come from the teleportation point here, right?" The other party seemed to suddenly remember.
He raised his head and looked at the mist on the far side of the river bank. That was the teleportation area from the mother continent. As a sailor who has been walking on this river all year round, he certainly knew that now was the day when teleportation was open.
"Well, there is a special reason." Sakina smiled noncommittally, "Can we get on the ship now?"
The dark sailor looked around us with an uncertain look. In the end, he probably felt that no matter how bold the privateering group was, he would not lead his wife and children out to rob the cargo ship hanging on the river, so he nodded and said angrily.
Said: "Come up, but don't move around, and remember the rules on the suspended river, children are not allowed to go to the back deck."
A large group of people came to the huge steel freighter in a small boat. The freighter made a long flute sound and embarked on the voyage again through the wind and waves. Qian Qian led a group of baby heads to run around happily on the wide deck.
Go, get a camera card and wipe it and keep taking pictures. I guess she plans to post it on Weibo after she goes back - I have to find a way to stop her then. My sister is lying on the side of the boat blowing the gentle breeze from the hanging river.
, her black hair flickered slightly in the air, and then she turned her head and glanced at me: "It wouldn't be so fun if it were teleported directly upstream. Look below, it seems that you can vaguely see the clouds under the river.
.”
I agree with my sister's opinion. Take a cargo ship driven by magic and sail on the river suspended in the sky. What you can see is not the water surface and the river bank, but the boundless sea of clouds. The river below is so clear that it can even be faintly seen.
Yueyue saw the clouds under the deep water. This kind of fairy tale-like scenery is indeed rare. Although I have been to many strange worlds and witnessed various magical scenes including the wonders of the universe, the void is so vast.
, and sure enough, there are still many things that I have never seen before: such as here.
With such a wonderful scenery, it's no wonder Qian Qian is so happy.
"Arjun Arjun! Look at that!" Qianqian suddenly ran over, took my arm and pointed to the horizon. Following the direction of her finger, I was suddenly surprised: on the edge of the sea of clouds, there was a faint figure.
A pure white castle.
It is also suspended in the sky, as if it is made of clouds, and the magnificent castle is white and crystal clear. It reflects the gleaming light under the skylight of unknown origin above the Hanging River.
"It feels like a fairy tale world!" Qianqian shook my arm happily. "My childhood dream has finally come true!"
After identifying it for a long time, I finally recognized that the cloud castle on the horizon was none other than my own frozen castle. If I looked carefully, the huge hole in the castle gate was still there!
"What I just put there is already stationary in the sky," Qian Qian said with a proud look on her face, as if she was waiting for others to praise her creativity. "Wouldn't this look more like a fairy tale world? I have dreamed of it since I was nine years old.
Now, I'm sitting on a flying magic ship. There is a castle built by clouds in the distance. In the castle lives the beautiful Princess of Clouds and Mists. Then I am a witch from the north, going to fight the princess for the prince..."
Lin Xue was standing next to her. She was also intoxicated by the wonders here. She was even more attracted by the fairy tales Qian Qian told: at least in the first half, but when she heard the second half, she was still breathless.
He choked when he didn't come up: "Ahem... turned into a witch to fight for the prince from the princess? What stimulation did this girl receive when she was a child?"
"There is a continuation of her story." I gave the eldest lady a sideways glance. "On the way, she met the Eastern Witch, the Western Witch and the Southern Witch, so the four of them teamed up to kill the princess, and finally teamed up with the prince to demolish the Cloud and Mist Castle.
She wrote sequels to every fairy tale book Qian Qian read when she was a child, and she still keeps them as treasures, do you want to read them?"
Lin Xue was stunned and murmured to herself: "...until I was eleven years old, I still dreamed of being the princess of the Fairy Kingdom...I am really weak compared to this guy who has been planning to become a witch since he was nine years old to slay princesses and princes.
exploded……"
Smiling and looking at Qian Qian next to me, I suddenly felt that this might be the cutest side of him. Putting aside the messy associations, I was able to treasure the fairy tale from when I was nine years old until now, and really built a tower in the sky.
Castle in the Clouds. And she is still enjoying it, not caring about the impact of the passage of time on her heart. How else can such a girl be described as cute?
Okay, I know there is another way to describe it: stupid... I don't deny it, really.
"Ajun, look! There are fish in the river!" Qianqian couldn't rest for a moment. As soon as she put away the ice castle at my urging, she pointed to the side of the ship and shouted. It turned out that there was something on the side of the freighter.
At that time, a large school of fish gathered closely against the side of the boat. Of course, they are called fish just because they swim in the water. These strange creatures are very different from the fish on the earth. They have fish on their backs.
They have a gray-black carapace, and their bodies are almost perpendicular to the water. They use their abdomens to get close to the high-speed cargo ships. They gather in groups, apparently trying to hang themselves on the ship. Occasionally, you will see strange "fish" with weak physical strength.
They were pushed back by nearby shock waves, but most of them ended up close to the hull of the ship unharmed.
"That's the gray-armored snapfish, a unique specialty of the Xuankong River," Sakina introduced. "This kind of fish lives in clusters near the broken banks in the middle reaches of the Xuankong River. It has to go upstream to lay eggs every other month. Because the small fish
Frylings are weak in physical strength and will not look for rock nests to avoid turbulent currents. If they are born directly downstream, they will be washed out of the Xuankong River and float into the clouds. They are very smart guys and will wait specially when going upstream.
Follow the passing cargo ship and rush up to catch a ride. Of course, if you don't squeeze into the spot, you will have to swim upstream by yourself."
"Oh -" Shandora prolonged her voice and suddenly tugged on my arm, "Ajun, I want to eat."
Covering his forehead: "These are rare animals, so you should keep your mouth shut."
"Arjun Arjun," Qianqian didn't know when she stood on the tip of the bow of the boat, and greeted me with open arms facing the river breeze, "come and hug me from behind to see if it looks like Titanic."
I can still sing that song, the law of conservation of my heart..."
My sister and I quickly pulled the girl down and kept scolding her: "This is unlucky!"
This girl is so happy when we are together, can't she do something that normal people can think of?
The voyage was smooth and fast. The magic-driven cargo ship relied on controlling the water element directly at the rear of the hull to generate propulsion. At the same time, it used the enchantment on the hull to offset 70 to 80% of the water resistance, so the speed was astonishingly fast.
The ship slowed down once: when it was approaching a narrow river channel, the cargo ship needed to slow down for safety reasons.
One thing about sailing on the Hanging River is more dangerous than sailing on the river on the ground, that is, you must not get close to the shore. When sailing on land, if you lose control of your course and approach the river bank, the worst case scenario is that you will run aground on a rock or something like that.
, even if the boat sinks, it is easy to rescue, but in the Xuankong River, once you rush out of the river... 60 to 70% of the surrounding areas have no river banks, you will fly out of the water body and rush into the clouds more than ten kilometers thick.
.Then I don’t know where it drifted. It is said that a similar accident happened in history. It was in the early days of the establishment of the Xuankong River route. A magic-powered cargo ship lost control when passing through a curve and plunged into the nearby sea of clouds. To this day,
The wrecked cargo ship was still floating in the clouds, drifting slowly around the Hanging River as the clouds and mist flowed. The crew members on it were lucky enough to be found and rescued by the gryphon knights before they starved to death. But people couldn't do anything to save them.
The huge ship was also pulled back to the river. So it became a warning monument. If your eyesight is good enough and you are lucky, you can even occasionally see the tall bow of the "wandering ship" from very far away.
The clouds peek out.
The above stories were all told to me by Sakina. She is like an encyclopedia. Although she laughs at herself for her low level of education, she knows a lot of weird legends and stories, all of which she has learned in her adventure life over the years.
something accumulated.
"Duh--" A louder siren than before interrupted the chatter of our group of careless tourists. It turned out that unknowingly, the cargo ship had begun to slow down. In front of us, the river suddenly became abnormal.
It's open. Both sides are already covered with vast rivers. If my eyesight hadn't been strengthened, I might not have been able to see the riverbanks and rows of buildings in the distance, and mistakenly thought I was on the sea. In front of me was a covered building.
There is an island covered with green vegetation. There is a recessed place facing here, which happens to be a pure natural port, and the cargo ship is about to dock.
"Both sides of the strait are residential areas, but there is nothing to see. The place is crowded and there are only two military towns with soldiers stationed there," Sakina said. "The teleportation area of the Sky Tower is on the island, not far from the shore. Let's go, do it
Be prepared for a fight, the back door of the Sky Tower is guarded."
Sona went to say hello to the boss of the ship, and then helped her sister and Saezi gather together the naughty children and large naughty children who were running around on the deck. A group of us got off the ship and set foot on the
This is the land of the largest island in the Hanging River.
There are not many people in the Xuankong River area. After all, this is a lost world rather than the mother continent. The people stationed here are equivalent to stationed in a different space. Naturally, it cannot become too large. In addition to the cargo loading and unloading port, this island has some military and
Except for the permanent workers, other places are basically barren areas: no one intends to settle down in such a place anyway. The teleportation point of the Sky Tower is under the cliff a hundred meters away from the port, with a huge rock cliff on the back
, facing an open river beach in front, the scale of this teleportation point is quite small. In fact, the only abnormality that can be seen is a stone brick floor of only about a hundred square meters on the river beach: in the accumulation of gravel and stones
A piece of stone brick floor is projected abruptly on the river beach. This is the entrance to the Sky Tower.
However, as soon as we stand on this stone tile floor, the scenery around us changes instantly.
The wide water surface of the Xuankong River disappeared before our eyes, and was replaced by a staggeringly huge boulder square.
Huge stone bricks with a side length of several meters are laid on the ground with a smoothness that is unparalleled in the sky. Each stone brick has simple and mysterious lines with a sense of proportion. These lines extend out perfectly, forming a pattern throughout the square.
Complete pattern: Of course, you can't tell what pattern this is when standing on the ground. Except for this huge stone square, everyone's eyes are empty. There is nothing else. Only the edge of the square can be seen connecting with the clouds.
"That's the Sky Tower," Sakina turned around and pointed behind everyone, "It's really spectacular, isn't it? No matter how many times you see it, it's an amazing miracle. It's a pity that Sona and I have only been here.
Once or twice here, the Sky Tower has become too dangerous for a weak team like ours."
"I'm going!" I turned my head and took a look, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "This... this damn thing is actually bigger than the World Tree!"
What I saw was not a tower at all! In other words, it was indeed a tower, but I couldn’t see its structure as a tower at this distance: this thing was too huge! What appeared in front of me was basically
An endless wall with a slight curvature. The wall extends to both sides until the end of the line of sight. It is like a vertical horizon. How high is it?
You can't see the top. If you raise your head to the limit, you can only see this wall that towers over the sky until it disappears at the end of the clear sky.
Of course, this is not the first time I have seen such a huge thing. In fact, as long as you get closer and look at the giant space battleships made by the Empire, each of them can give you the same feeling, which is so huge that it makes people think of "a vertical field."
I have seen a lot of the illusion of the "rising earth" in the Imperial Starport. No matter how big the Sky Tower in front of me is, it will definitely not be able to defeat the Eternal-class mothership - it is even the size of a medium-sized Imperial battleship.
It's just that this place is different. This is not a shadow city. This is a different world. It's a different world where even building houses relies on stones and wood!
This tower was definitely not created by any existing civilization in this world - of course, I have known for a long time that every ruin in the lost world was not created by any existing civilization in the mother continent, but the tower of the sky is
The scale is still beyond my expectation.
There is no decoration visible on the outer wall of the Sky Tower. It is just a light yellow smooth surface. There are no windows and no cracks in the bricks. There is no sign of layering. The material is neither gold nor wood nor stone. It is just
This exterior wall aroused a lot of interest in us.
"It's a complex synthetic material." Sandora just glanced at it and scanned the components of the tower wall. However, she was obviously thinking about more than just what the tower was made of. "The height of the tower reaches thirty."
Five kilometers, its own weight... is meaningless. It relies on anti-gravity and regional vector fine-tuning to maintain its stability. The entire tower is changing its net mass at a fixed period. In addition, there is energy shielding inside the tower."