The Narwhal hovered in the dark space, as if waiting for something.
Charles looked at the Foundation's circular communicator in his hand with his single eye and a frown on his face.
He stretched out his thumb and pressed it lightly, but Feuerbach, who was supposed to contact him, still did not come out.
"This shouldn't be the case. If we were at the border and there was no signal because the distance was too great, then we are close enough now, so why is there still no response? Did something happen to them?"
When Charles thought of this, he felt a little uneasy. It was such a critical moment and he must not let anything go wrong.
He has now arrived right below the center of the darkness. He can find the darkness as long as he keeps going up, but the sudden interruption of communication with the Foundation forces him to prepare for the worst.
"Shhh, Governor Charles, did you hear that? This is Captain Ike of the Maiden's Love. According to your order, all the exploration ships of the base below the darkness have come aboard!"
A noisy male voice suddenly came from the speaker next to him.
Charles took two quick steps out of the cockpit. A huge black airship was approaching this side.
There were two pink hearts stuck together painted on its airbag, and scattered searchlights pierced the surrounding darkness. If I was not mistaken, this was the Maiden's Love that had just contacted the Narwhal through wireless communication.
Below this ship, there are other exploration ships that are gradually rising. This was Charles' own order, and it was he who asked these people to come up.
Most of the explorers who have survived to the present are the top ones in the Earthsea. They are a special force belonging to the explorers. With them, no matter what happens above, they can be prepared for any eventuality.
"I hope these people are just here for a formality. It would be great if that's the case."
Charles said as he took out his diary from his arms. He quickly turned to the latest page, wanting to use its predictive ability to predict whether there would be any danger next.
The special ability of this book helped him a lot in the previous year's exploration. Even if the prediction was biased, it could still be of great use. But to Charles' disappointment, there was nothing in the diary.
Looking at the blank paper in front of him, Charles' heart sank slightly. Sometimes blank space also represents information. This situation rarely occurs in diaries. Except for 005-3 encountered a year ago, the other two times were also related to contact with gods.
"Bandage, don't let them get too close, float up in batches, don't let them be wiped out all at once!" Charles turned around and ordered.
Soon the 139 remaining exploration ships were divided into four groups. The Narwhal was always the first group, and the other 23 exploration ships in the first group flew towards the center of darkness in a mighty manner.
Charles walked into the cockpit and took the cube microphone from Dipper's hand. "Everyone, have you received the public channel? I'm Charles. It seems that there is a high possibility of god-level danger up there. Please be prepared."
There were no other voices in the channel. The other captains just listened silently. The people of Earthsea were now fearless. They only wanted darkness. Death was as easy for them as eating.
"Mr. Charles, can we succeed?" Lily flew into Charles' arms and said with a hint of confusion in her eyes.
Charles threw Mai down, stroked Lily's hair with his hand, and said with an unusually firm look in his eyes: "Yes, I will."
The Narwhal continued to rise with the crew members feeling uneasy. There was nothing unusual along the way. There were no monsters in the darkness and no floating islands. This surprised Charles very much. This kind of situation had never happened anywhere else at this altitude. Generally speaking, the higher the altitude, the more lively it should be.
"Has the Foundation been completely cleaned up? They have arrived at the location and started installing darkness? But if they really did that, why didn't they make any contact with us?" Charles wondered in his heart.
Even at the current situation, Charles still had doubts about the Foundation, but no matter how he thought about it, there was no reason for the Foundation to take action at this time.
He saw that in the process of searching for the dark frontier, the Foundation had also suffered heavy losses during this period, and he had no idea how many crashed aircraft he had encountered.
"Woo woo woo~~" A low whistle suddenly sounded, and the cable on the deck suddenly twisted and pointed upwards, which was a warning that there was an enemy above!
"Full left!" "Full left!" As the steering wheel turned rapidly, the Narwhal began to veer rapidly to the right. The other exploration ships nearby also made the same evasive action.
At this time, Charles had disappeared from the cockpit and came to the top of the airbag. He was shocked to see a broken eyeball as big as an island, shining with an evil light, and some tissues behind the eyeball slowly falling downwards.
The fall of such a huge object should have been spectacular, but the eyeball was as light as a swimming jellyfish, without any sound.
A special shudder gradually rose in Charles' heart, and then gradually disappeared as the eyeball fell. This was a divine thing! Something must have happened up there!
"Everyone, full speed! Go up as fast as possible!" As Charles' order was given, all the exploration ships quickly floated upwards at the fastest speed.
At the beginning, the speed of the airship was not very fast, but as the altitude continued to rise, the speed of the spacecraft became faster and faster, so much so that Charles wondered if the exploration ship was controlled by something.
Charles suddenly thought of something, took out the pen from his chest and threw it into the air, but the pen took twice as long to fall back down. "No! No one is controlling the ship, the gravity has been further reduced."
The increasingly abnormal environment made Charles more and more unsure about the situation. He felt that everything was out of control.
Soon after the giant eyeball went down, other things appeared in the area where gravity gradually disappeared. At first, there was a Feuerbach who had been dead for a long time and was covered in purple. Slowly, there were two Feuerbachs, followed by a damaged fighter plane, and a huge aerial fortress broken into two halves began to appear in the sky.
They no longer fell, but floated freely in the air. At this altitude, gravity became almost non-existent.
(End of this chapter)