Mount Piriede climbs steeply in an almost straight line in the field of vision, like a giant's figure standing tall between heaven and earth, until it fills everyone's eyes.
As the mountains rise, the vegetation on the surface quickly transitions from rain forests to broad-leaved forest belts. The trees gradually become sparse and covered with shrubs and rocks. The gray color begins to become the mainstream.
Further up there are only moss and lichen, valleys scattered with desert rocky beaches, steep cliffs, and clouds and mist hovering above the peaks.
The dark cumulonimbus clouds were thousands of meters high. Even a corner of them covered the area above the glacier line. Fang Plover felt a slight chill on the back of his hands. He looked up and saw that the surging clouds had brought a trace of rain.
Showers are coming.
Walnut in the ground looked at the shadow of this mountain and talked about the information he had:
"There is a camp to the south from here. They started from the camp and walked along the mountain road into Mount Piriede. There should be a valley there."
Fang Plover is familiar with such camps. In areas frequented by adventurers, there are always many such temporary camps. Some temporary ones later became permanent ones, and there were also local people doing business with adventurers - this is the place in the rainforest.
The lizard people, over time, formed villages and even towns.
There are even short-distance shuttle boats between Oronze, Pacheva and such camps, taking adventurers and groups without sailboats across the rainforest to these places.
If it hadn't been for them, Ms. Essally and her teammates would have taken such a short-distance route.
But most of these shuttle ships are not specialized passenger ships, but expedition ships owned by large and small guilds and groups in this area.
The purpose of running passenger transport is just to make use of the sailboat and avoid idling the guild property that has spent a lot of money to maintain; of course, compared to the sky-high maintenance cost of the sailboat, the meager income can only slightly balance the income and expenditure.
The passenger transport business built by some business-savvy people will even go deep into the heart of Asuka, into the harsh rainforest swamps, a country known as the Green Hell.
Most of the adventurers who can take this route are of a high level and have already passed the stage of worrying about a small amount of travel expenses. Therefore, most of the ships that take this route can maintain a good profit.
But in a wild area with few routes and a lawless place, someone will always lose their boat and someone will lose their life. Sometimes it all depends on luck.
Fang Yu browsed through the community, and found nothing but abuse and exposure. It was full of blood and tears, and he couldn't help but be speechless.
The community window was holographically projected in front of him. Sylvide was also watching silently, and said: "Aitaria has always been a dangerous and chaotic place, which is the same as your civilized world. Don't let it
You were deceived by the prosperity brought about by alchemy that you saw in El Paxin, Kapka and the old kingdom, which was the heart of the kingdom. But there are even no rules in more places, not to mention that even within the kingdom, political struggles are barbaric
And the blood—poisoning, assassination, you'll see a lot of things that only happened in your history."
Fang Yu nodded, somewhat touched.
Sylvester looked past the pale window and towards the distant mountains:
"But for many of you, perhaps this is the charm of this world. Risks and opportunities always coexist. It is full of stories of ambitious people and also satisfies the fantasies of those with the same qualities.
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She gently ruffled her hair with her hand, "Actually, I am also one of such people. Did it surprise the captain?"
Fang Yu did look at her with some surprise.
Sylvide smiled and said, "If this were not the case, I would have already accepted my fate. But the more someone like this, the more sensitive they are to the environment around them. Now that I think about it, the reason why I chose the Captain is probably for this reason."
She suddenly looked back at Fang Plover:
"Is your captain ambitious?"
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment.
He didn't know if he had the same ambition, but his yearning for heroes was probably part of his ambition.
Walnut in the ground suddenly grabbed the side of the ship, pointed in one direction and shouted: "I see that road."
The thin mountain road was running through the canyon, looming in the clouds and mist.
The sudden situation interrupted Fang Plover's train of thought, and he immediately called the boatswain and asked:
"Mr. Baggins, can we come down?"
But the latter told them that the Seven Seas Traveler could no longer approach Mount Piriede.
The channel passing through the mountains is probably one of the most dangerous flying areas in the world. The complex airflow caused by the difference in calorific value at different altitudes and the thin distribution of wind elements at high altitudes will put sailboats in many dangers.
Only those large ships with more advanced Guy generating devices are qualified to claim to conquer the world above the glacier line, and the Seven Seas Traveler can only go north along the foothills and valleys.
"We have to find a way."
Fang Plover stared at the inverted mountain road winding on the cliff and said.
Luo Hao also shook his head, "But we can't reach that height, Ed."
But Fang Yu quickly figured out a way:
"Down to the valley below, we split up. The Seven Seas Traveler continued north and sailed along the northern edge of Mount Piriede. The rest of us crossed the mountain peaks from the land. We arrived at Kelan about a week later.
Olympic rendezvous."
It is indeed a feasible method for the ship and the expedition team to separate.
But Luo Hao looked at Fang Yu and asked: "Then how do you plan to divide the people?"
"Mr. Big Cat Man is with us," Fang Plover predicted the possible battle. "You stay on the boat with Baggins and Miss Attila. I will take one of the three spellcasters away for you to choose."
"You can bring Jita with you," Luo Hao thought for a moment and replied, "After all, compared to Xiang Xiang and Luo Yu, she has not gained much experience in recent times."
Fang Yu nodded, he actually thought so too.
In addition to the big cat man and Jita, their expedition team also includes Parker, Tianlan and Tang Xin. A certain little girl from the beautiful country of iris claims that she has been working hard recently, so Fang Plover simply put her
Caught it too.
Tang Xin is the only healer in this team, and she also needs to level up.
Of course, Ai Xiaoxiao's level is also not high, but this is an adventure after all, and we can't bring too many oil bottles, so we can only consider bringing her next time, so that everyone can take turns to improve their level.
Just like most guilds, they carry out adventures in Aitalia in this way, using the old and the new, which is not really an innovation.
The only thing that surprised Fang Yu was that Sylvester looked at him with bright eyes and said to him seriously:
"I'm going too, Ed."
Under the playful, long eyelashes, there is a pair of eyes that are as smart as a deer. The sea blue is like a magnificent gem, and the towering mountains and his shadow are reflected in them.
She added: "Remember what happened with the obelisk? I know the ruins underground better than you do. And you need someone who knows how to find direction in a harsh environment."
"We have Miss Scholar."
"Jita is not from our world after all. I can check and fill in the gaps for you."
"But the ship also needs someone to guide the direction..."
"Baggins is on board."
"Master Captain."
The captain's voice, which was somewhat teasing, finally made Fang Yu react.
What she said made sense. But Fang Yu could see a deep sense of attachment and reluctance in Miss Ship Officer's eyes. She didn't want to be separated from him for a moment, let alone let him take risks alone.
He was stunned for a moment, and finally nodded slightly.
So two more people were added to the expedition team, Sylvide and Siesta, who helped her carry her luggage.
The sailboat lowered its height while swaying, and came to a valley with rainforest layers. The dense forest canopy prevented it from lowering its height further, so everyone had to use small boats to land.
Sylvide wore a fur cloak, tight-fitting and capable adventurer attire, straight trousers, and a pair of dragon skin boots underneath to facilitate trekking in the mountains. Her hair was tied into a bunch and she wore a hat.
A wide-brimmed hat, with bullets inserted into the belt one after another, and behind it hung the gunner's magic furnace and a glowing rhombic crystal.
A silver handgun hung on one side - on the other side was a lizard-man jungle hunting knife, with its bright blade inserted into a leather scabbard.
She jumped off the boat and landed on the soft ground of the jungle, looking neat and capable.
Looking at Sylvester, who was smiling at him, Fang Plover suddenly understood what Miss Ship Officer was like in her past adventures.
Others also got off the ship one by one. In addition to the members of the Seven Seas Brigade, the members of the expedition team also included Miss Bei Ji and the Underground Walnuts who acted as guides.
The civilian girl also wore an adventurer's outfit and tied her hair with a handkerchief. She seemed a little uncomfortable with this outfit, but she still refused the help of others and got off the boat alone.
Only the walnuts in the ground came up to lend a hand.
He carefully asked the other party if they had lost anything, and then told her to follow them closely. Beiji glanced at him with brown eyes and nodded lightly.
Several people from the Art Battle Guild couldn't help but laugh when they saw this scene.
Fang Yu and Sylvester also looked at each other and smiled knowingly.
Everyone could see that this young man was interested in Bei Ji, and even the girl herself had a hint of it. She may not understand what she was thinking, but at least she did not refuse——
She kept a distance from everyone on the ship, except for the one person she trusted, Walnut Underground.
Probably the latter was the only one who was unaware of this and thought he was performing flawlessly.
But no one said anything.
After all, the wine brewed by hazy emotions is often more mellow than intense emotions. It may always become a memory, or it may blossom and bear fruit, but in any case, it is enough to leave something precious.
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After Sylvide recorded the coordinates with a pocket star tracker and determined the orientation, the team began to head towards Mount Piriede along the valley.
Overhead, the Seven Seas Traveler took off and turned to the north. Everyone in the valley looked up through the forest canopy. The sailboat was like a leaf floating in the air. The sky was gloomy, and lightning flashed from time to time between the clouds.
Soon, there was only a tiny speck left in that direction.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the Seven Seas Traveler had completely disappeared from everyone's sight.
In Aitaria, the compass is often useless, and the star tracker is the only device that can confirm the accurate direction between air and land. The principle of this sophisticated magical instrument comes from the star guidance technique of the Numelin elves, and it has been used until the third century.
It was invented by the Kaolin people a hundred years ago, and since then the navigation industry between air and land has flourished.
Over the past three centuries, with the efforts of countless craftsmen, the smallest star tracker has been reduced to the size of a palm. After that, even when traveling on the continent, those merchant groups that traveled long distances gradually abandoned other obsolete
navigation equipment.
However, using a star tracker requires quite professional skills. Most adventurers still use primitive means to confirm their orientation. Only a few professional guilds have their own navigation officers and navigators.
Sylvester's knowledge of navigation comes almost entirely from her family background. Baggins often said that among her peers, few could compare to his young lady in terms of sailing skills.
Although most people on the ship thought that this was a kind of complimentary word from the bosun to his lady, Fang Yu had already discovered in the limited few times that his stewardess was indeed of extraordinary skill.
At least the last time he entered the elemental layer to look for the passage to the abyss, it was a skill that only experienced old captains had.
Of course, isn't it a matter of course that my ship officer is so powerful?
Fang Yu felt that there was nothing strange about it.
The team advanced along the valley, and soon the expected rain began to pour down. The raindrops hit the canopy of the dense forest, making a plopping sound. The dense jungle had not yet let the raindrops fall down the canopy, but between the valleys
It was already filled with rain and fog.
Before five o'clock in the afternoon, the sky had completely darkened. The heavy rain made it impossible to continue moving forward, and the team had to stop temporarily. Fang Pulmon ordered everyone to cut down a few nearby trees and made a temporary structure with dense branches.
the rain shelter, and then pitched the tent to take shelter from the rain.
Tianlan, who was in high spirits a few hours ago, now started to complain. She was soaked to the skin and shivering from the cold. There was no longer a steaming, warming meal prepared by Miss Attila, and she could only barely make it.
It tastes cold and hard in the mouth.
Although the rain shelter worked very well, they had already been soaked in the rain before that. The lit bonfire only emitted a slight amount of heat in the darkness. The boys and girls were divided into two sides, drying their clothes.
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Fortunately, they had anticipated the heavy rain and brought enough spare clothes.
Parker muttered, took off his leather boots, and watched the water pouring out form a waterfall, which merged with the water outside the tent.
Nearby is the only highland in the valley. If it only lasts for a few hours, even if it brings flash floods or mudslides, it will not affect this place. But this does not mean that it is completely safe. No one knows the last one or two of this rainy season.
How long will it rain?
And floods sometimes bring herds of animals.
Fang Plover hung his wet clothes on the wooden shelf, looked at the white smoke rising above, then untied the clockwork goblins from the belt, put on the control gloves, and threw them one by one into the rain curtain outside.
among.
There is no short-circuit in the magic guide. Rain cannot interfere with the operation of the flexible structure. It will only cause some slight load on the flight at most. Adjusting this balance is nothing at all to Fang Plover.
At this moment, he was thankful that he had installed a night vision module for Silver Bee, and it came in handy now. In such an environment, even Miss Nightingale was of no use. Large-scale vigilance was exactly what the combat craftsman wanted.
Good show.
Before setting off this time, he put all the original structures on the Seven Seas Traveler, and only brought four Dragon Hunters and more than 20 Rangers. These Rangers were all he had produced in recent times.
, almost one-third of the Earth Source Crystal was used, filling the space inside the information crystal.
In addition to these two types of main battle structures, the one he brought with him the most was the Silver Bee. This was also the first time that he brought other types of structures, more than the Efreet.
Fang Yu also wanted to see how much combat power he could have without the help of the efreet.