Canghai Guzhou lowered his head and looked at the time. The pointer on his pocket watch pointed to five. The complex Oshu characters were like a group of twisted peaks, glowing darkly under the glass. It was the last period before dawn in winter, and it was about to begin.
The awakening world is about to stir in the darkness, and a hint of white gradually appears in the east.
Amidst the low roar coming from the bottom cabin, Qiao Li walked in from the captain's room, accompanied by several middle-level members of the guild. Qiao Li looked at him and said meaningfully: "Towards the Star Gate.
The communication on the other side is down."
"Just like last time?"
"It's not the same," Qiao Li shook his head: "The community is still fine, but other contact methods have been unilaterally suspended."
"I heard people from the military came to find us?"
"There is this rumor, but no one informed us."
The two looked at each other, and Canghai Guzhou pondered for a moment: "What did the guild say?"
"The president is not sure what happened over there. The people at the club asked about our progress. They need you to have an idea of when we can catch this 'fish'."
"The club is in a hurry?"
"I don't know, but you'd better give me a timetable so I can reply." Jory replied in a low voice.
"I can't answer this question alone. It depends on the abilities of other descendants of Flor. We are allies, but we don't belong to the same guild." Canghai Guzhou answered: "It will only take three days, at the latest
In just three days, we can force the target to the predetermined target area."
Qiao Li nodded. He shouldn't have said what he said next, but after thinking about it, he reminded him: "There seems to be people from the alliance directly involved in this matter. I saw their officials. What the president meant is
, even if the military puts pressure, the alliance will help withstand it."
Canghai Guzhou glanced at his old partner in surprise. He was actually not too surprised by this. The alliance and the guild alliance cooperated closely, and both parties had interests in this matter. What's more, if it weren't for the Southern Alliance, the other party would
There will be no gray wanted notice for this reason.
However, he did not expect that the alliance would be so determined this time, and would get things done even under pressure from the military. On the other hand, they had actually long guessed that the other party had a certain relationship with the military, otherwise after the battle in Kelanao
, the other party will not escape through military exercises.
He listened to his old partner's words, nodded silently, and then asked: "The higher ups want us to enter a state of communication silence?"
"It's almost the same as silence now," Qiao Li replied, "but it's still safer."
"Okay," Canghai Guzhou replied, "I will send an order later to prohibit the entire fleet from making contact with the outside world. Is this what the guild wants?"
"It means alliance."
Canghai Guzhou raised his eyebrows, and he roughly understood something, but his mind was only on this task. He was a middle-level and senior member of the guild, but not a core member of the club - for Etalia
I have neither the ability nor the interest to care about external matters.
He just nodded to show that he understood.
"What about the live broadcast?"
"What the people over there at bbk mean is, let us leave it alone."
Don't worry about it, it means keep it. Canghai Guzhou understands that the personnel sent by the headquarters to live broadcast this time are from two systems. The specially organized project team above is from bbk, not Jefflett Red.
Insiders of the team guild.
The club probably means that they should not interfere.
"Then they'd better not interfere with our actions." Canghai Guzhou understood the meaning of Qiao Li's words and murmured to himself.
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"We found the whereabouts of the other party, Vice President."
Yue Chen's vice-president, Hai Lan, raised his eyelids slightly, looking at his adjutant through his long eyelashes, with an unchanging expression in his ice blue eyes.
She didn't need to speak, and others naturally understood what she meant. At first, people gave her a very cliché nickname, 'Ice Beauty', but as her status in the guild rose, the nickname gradually became something more...
An unpleasant 'iron maiden' kind of thing.
"Their location is..."
The adjutant looked at the text on the report in surprise: "They did not appear in the expected area. The last time they appeared was south of Gray Tree Ridge. Are they planning to go...?"
Hai Lan interrupted the other party with a wave of his hand, as if he was not interested in where the Seven Seas Brigade planned to go: "How far is it from us?"
"It's not far, Vice President... At present, we are the closest to each other."
"That's enough," Hai Lan replied calmly: "Let the fleet form its formation and prepare to release the clockwork goblins to find the opponent."
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Two or three dazzling lights flashed in the night sky.
Under the curtain of unfolding firelight, the Seven Seas Traveler was passing between the shock waves generated by the explosion. Although the people on the deck were shaken here and there, under Miss Tata's superb control skills, the ship was still intact.
Dangerously out of the reach of the two shells.
Although it was only a matter of time before he encountered the squadron of the Descendants of Flor, Fang Plover did not expect to run into Yue Chen's fleet head-on.
Moon, the oldest club in the guild, the predecessor of Yue Chen, is one of the three giants of v.e.m. The long club history has given this guild one of the richest assets in the entire third division, although in recent years they have had some problems in personnel training.
There are quite a few mistakes and gaps, but its fleet can still be ranked among the top three of the top ten guilds.
As for the other two, they are Silver Vislan and God Killer. The former also has a long history, while the latter has a series of excellent alchemists including Hades.
Fang Yu recognized this unique fleet through the opponent's unique blue flag. The 'Blue Ghost' was originally the nickname of Yue Chen's hunting fleet. They had once won a battle in the turbid realm with the weak defeating the strong.
A series of wars have accumulated a great reputation.
What appeared in front of the Seven Seas Traveler was this fleet. Although it was not the complete version of the 'Blue Ghost', the iconic long and narrow hulls of the three floating ships on the left, two on the right and three on the right still revealed the opponent's side.
Identity. It is the unique airship of the 'Blue Ghost' - a three-masted spinnaker sailboat, which has amazing maneuverability and flexibility in sea areas with changing wind directions.
They are like the tentacles and ears and ears of the main fleet, and the hounds in the hunting team. They are especially good at the tactics of scattered attacks. Once entangled by them, few can escape easily.
This fleet has not only left a reputation in the country. In fact, it has had the experience of fighting against the fleets of many famous clubs in North America and Europe. Although it does not say that it can gain the upper hand every time, its historical record is obviously
Win more and lose less.
Fang Yu doesn't think that the current level of the Seven Seas Brigade can catch up with those old guilds and clubs. What's more, even if they can really reach the same level with Miss Tata, they are still at a huge disadvantage in terms of numbers.
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After all, the Seven Seas Traveler is just a ship, not a fleet——
He didn't expect that he would encounter such a difficult opponent at the beginning - it would be much easier to deal with Ragnarok's fleet. Although one of his nominal teachers, the great god Odin, had a good relationship with him - but he had to
Needless to say, Ragnarok's fleet is really unsightly among the top ten in the country, and is even inferior to the fleets of some guilds that are ranked lower - such as the fleet of the Jefflite Red Team.
In fact, Ragnarok's fleet construction has been at a standstill since the last two capable commanders retired. Not only is there a shortage of personnel, but the technology update is also very slow. Recently, Ragnarok asked Odin to directly intervene in order to reorganize his fleet.
, but as we all know, this warrior of the Ten Kings has outstanding personal combat capabilities, but he has always been played around by kun in the process of commanding.
Although saying this may be a bit sorry for the other party, Fang Plover himself also felt that Odin was more suitable to charge forward rather than sit in the formation and command.
The golden track hanging in the night sky has not disappeared yet——
That was the sign that the opponent had previously launched a flying wing ship. The Blue Ghost's response was similar to what they had guessed before. It should first use the wind element detector to determine the location where they last disappeared, and then release the clockwork goblins on a large scale.
Search.
Although Fang Plover moved the Clockwork Fairy forward to a position close to the limit and did not let any of the opponent's 'eyes' leak into the warning range, the opponent obviously still roughly delineated their range of activities based on the location where the Clockwork Fairy was attacked.
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The Seven Seas Traveler had already broken into low altitude at this time, but the other party almost without any hesitation dropped the flying wing craft to several designated locations and dispatched ground teams. These were all possibilities that they had envisioned in advance, but the only one that did not
What was expected was that the accuracy of the opponent's prediction was obviously more than one magnitude higher than that of Jefflett's red team.
'Blue Ghost' did not waste too much time between each step, and seized the opportunity very accurately - and the key is that the location where the opponent dropped the flying wing boat was extremely accurate, and almost every time it was dropped, it hit the right spot.
Above the airspace where the Seven Seas Traveler is advancing.
This made Fang Yu feel a little uncomfortable. The current situation did not exceed their guess, and the opponent did not grasp their position at the beginning. But this ability to predict was probably based on intuition on the battlefield, or in other words
After accumulating a lot of experience, I can judge almost instinctively.
For 'newbies' like them, this is a bit unreasonable.
The 'Hound' sent by Yuechen is smaller than the speed sailing ship of Jefflett's red team. Although it is still huge compared to the Seven Seas Traveler, a sailboat of this size is obviously
It is more handy in low-altitude airspace.
The low altitudes that Jeffree's red team did not dare to venture into easily, but these clippers with long and narrow hulls and large triangle sails had far less worries.
The other party's concerns are undoubtedly bad news for everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade.
In fact, they had spent a lot of effort to break away from the opponent's encirclement, but unexpectedly they still ran into the opponent's scattered hunting fleet. Although there were not many, there were only three ships. It was probably the opponent who dispersed to find their location.
One of the fleet.
But the real threat obviously does not lie with these three 'hounds', but with the main fleet behind them. Once entangled by them, Yuechen's fleet may catch up at any time.
Fang Yu quickly reached an agreement with others and planned to break out of the encirclement by force.
Tian Lan was holding on to the side of the ship tightly with her hands to prevent herself from being thrown away by the inertia of the Seven Seas Traveler's turn. At the same time, she looked nervously at the three ghost-like ships that were catching up behind her.
All three of Yuechen's sailboats had bow guns, and the opponent didn't seem to care about sinking them. They kept using explosive shells to force the Seven Seas Traveler to move. One of the shells almost flew against the left side of the Seven Seas Traveler.
It passed by, causing the shield over there to flicker into one piece, weakening half of the shield value almost instantly.
However, Miss Tata never gave Yue Chen's ship a chance to flank them and fire a salvo, and she always escaped from the opponent's encirclement one step ahead.
The three Yuechen sailboats finally became a little impatient. Two of them began to accelerate at a speed visible to the naked eye, and tried to escape from the safe range, intending to go directly in front of the Seven Seas Traveler to further block its avoidance.
space.
Tianlan's eyes widened and she shouted:
"Brother Ed!"
But there was no need for her to shout. The Seven Seas Traveler had already opened the air combat deck, and the Lancers were launched one after another, and flew up from the night sky with cyan light trails. The opponent had obviously already emerged from the sky.
Fleet Redcoats had heard about this kind of air combat structure, and after noticing this scene, the three ships immediately dispersed.
But unfortunately, the flexibility of the sailboat is far inferior to that of the air combat structure, especially at this distance. Although their well-trained sailors responded immediately, it was still a little late.
The structure that flew away from the Seven Seas Traveler immediately surrounded it in that direction. Its image could not be seen clearly in the darkness. Only a few bright beams of light could be seen, flying to its starboard side - and then a dazzling red light.
Across the night sky, bunches concentrated on the shields of those sailboats.
The Sun Ray is very powerful, but a single Lancer is not enough to break down the shield of the floating ship. However, when the Seven Seas Traveler invested thirty-four air combat structures, the opponent's response seemed a little awkward.
The left and right branches are clumsy.
Fang Yu could clearly see that they concentrated the energy of the shield. This strategy was often used in air battles, because when the aerial ship opened the battle line to face the enemy, only one side or less area would be affected.
Under attack, this technique is obviously ineffective against flexible air combat configurations.
In fact, several scorching rays have passed through the shield. Although they did not cause any damage to the hull, they only left a few marks on the deck, but they took away several lives. There were more than just sailors on the opponent's deck.
, as well as the elementalists on standby and the Marines preparing for boarding operations.
These people are almost equivalent to targets on the deck until they get close to a certain distance.
Several bright firelights bloomed in the night sky again.
The opponent fired back, but the target was not the Seven Seas Traveler, but the Fang Plover's Lancers surrounding one of the ships. The aerospace ship was so expensive that even Moondust could not easily afford to lose it. After shooting down the Seven Seas Traveler,
Before this goal, their more important priority is obviously to protect their own ship.
The swarming lancers obviously posed a great threat to the opponent, making the opponent feel that there was a risk of shipwreck.
But in Fang Plover's view, this is not just a risk.
He must not let the other party follow them unscrupulously now.
Under the flames of the explosion, several lancers that rushed in turned into balls of fire almost instantly, and fell from the mid-air with long tail flames. However, Fang Plover did not control these lancers at all.
They just follow the behavioral patterns already set in the closed-loop device and attack each other around them.
He looked in that direction, then pointed with his hand, and when the Lancers turned to the other side of the sailboat, a golden floating light suddenly flew out from their bodies.
Those members of Yue Chen on the sailboat were obviously knowledgeable people. They couldn't help but scream when they saw this scene - try to go to the Grand Guild to analyze their own opponents before facing the enemy with almost no troops, even for Nanami
The same goes for small goals like brigade groups.
The sailors on Yuechen's sailboat maneuvered their ship at the last moment to make a large lateral turn that was almost impossible in the eyes of others. Even Fang Plover looked at this scene in surprise. He had always thought that only in the tower
Under the control of Miss Ta, the sailboat can make such smart and beautiful movements.
But it is obvious that under the control of well-trained sailors, sailboats can also achieve considerable flexibility.
But this flexibility doesn't mean much.
The golden floating light flew down, but the elementalists on the opponent's deck chanted loudly and raised their staffs - although most of the elementalists were unsteady in the huge lateral turn.
, and failed to successfully cast the spell. However, a few people successfully cast it, and still caused a translucent net to fly up from the sailboat.
After Fang Plover's efreet passed through the light net, it immediately fell on the deck with clatter, like a rain of constructs, but the preset detonation time did not take effect.
The explosive crystal inside seems to have malfunctioned.
Fang Yun was stunned for a moment and immediately realized that it was a vibrating note - an enhanced version of the spell that Tian Lan had used in the refugee camp not long ago. This spell did no harm to the efreet itself, but the resonance and sound waves it produced were
Enough to damage the explosive crystal inside Clockwork Goblin.
Explosive crystal is inherently delicate and has a crystal structure. How could it withstand such an attack?
He didn't expect the descendants of Flor to find a way to deal with the efreeti so quickly. This method might not be very useful for individuals and teams, but it was perfect for use on Sailboat Mountain.
Fang Yu was greatly surprised. His understanding of the abilities of the Grand Guild could not help but reach a new level. But who told you that only clockwork fairies can explode? He raised his hand and took over the control of several Lancers.
When everyone's attention was focused on the fire giants, the lancers walked around to the other side of the sailboat, and then silently rammed into it.
A dazzling fire flashed in the darkness, followed by a deafening roar from afar. The sailboat with the triangular sail shook violently, and broke in the middle as if it was cut off at the waist.
As it came forward, the two cracked hulls were burning with raging flames and slowly fell from mid-air.
Tianlan stared at the sailors who jumped from the burning ship. Most of them had wind element adaptability, so they could float in mid-air for a short period of time and sink slowly, waiting for the rescue of the other two ships. However, the mainland
The people in the team were in a miserable situation, as they fell like stones like the scattered hulls of the ship.
This attack obviously shocked Yue Chen's people, causing the remaining two ships to slow down. They still didn't understand how Fang Plover's attack arrived, so they didn't dare to act rashly.
One of the ships approached the distressed ship, while the other ship slowed down and hung far behind the Seven Seas Traveler, daring not to get close.
Although they may not have figured out how Fang Plover's attack arrived, they roughly understood one truth first. It was obviously not just the efreets that could explode - everything could explode.
"They don't dare to catch up anymore for the time being," Luo Hao looked at this scene and said to Fang Plover: "We have almost reached the Charter City area. The mining area is right in front. This is the time to turn."
Fang Plover nodded.
But just as he was about to give the order, Jita's somewhat irritable voice suddenly came from the sound tube:
"Captain, the wind element detector has responded...another fleet has appeared in front."
Fang Yu was startled when he heard this, and his heart suddenly sank.