A deep and long sound came from the lower reaches of the river, with an octave lower echo, as if a giant animal was blowing air with its nose. I had never heard such a sound, but Sagina suddenly showed a happy face. Look: "Ah, our time is really good, the ship is here so soon!" It seems that just now is the sound of the ship's whistle when it is sailing in this world.
A gigantic figure appeared in the distance with the sound of the siren. It moved very fast, and it didn't take long for it to completely appear in our sight. It was a double- or three-story metal structure ship with a Strange colored lines are depicted, the sails are not seen, but layers of white waves can be seen from the stern of the ship. From afar, I sensed a steady energy source releasing energy from within it, which might explain why we don't see sails on this wooden ship: it appears to be magically powered.
Is it a product of alchemy technology... Well, I am used to all kinds of ingenious civilian machinery emerging from this magical world. Who said that magic cannot produce the same civilian fields as technological civilization? After the automatic anti-gravity magic elevator Afterwards, we saw a steel freighter with a magic power shield and a speed of thirty-five knots, and the surface of this cargo also used enchanting technology to solve the problem of water flow resistance-the last point is Alai who is stretching in my mind Yeah, I found out that the sleepy bug's knowledge of mysticism is at its peak. In terms of knowledge alone, a true god like Bingtis who lives by fighting for a living can't compare with her. No matter what rules the current world follows, just analyze the surrounding space energy active value and certain "frequency". Alaya can judge more than 80% of the magic forms in this world.
I have to say that this is a terrifying ability, but it seems that the only function of the guy with this terrifying ability is to doze off and take care of the child in my mind. Oh, by the way, and I come out every now and then to let me brush her hair. Alaya has really degenerated into a complete piglet now.
Sagina started from her own portable space (after Lin's direct "blessing", the two half-dragon girls now have their own portable space, although they are not yet proficient in using it, but it is much more convenient than their original big backpack. .) took out a small yellow-brown square pimple. After fiddling with it a few times, after a while, the steel freighter that was gradually approaching here let out three short whistles, as if it was responding to something. Sagina smiled and raised the small square in her hand to me: "This is a help transmitter. Explorers will bring one of these things when they go out. Many large teams working outside have equipment to receive this help signal." , because of the existence of the Lost World. Various field rescue technologies are developing the fastest here. This is the last essential benefit that this world reserves for the high-risk profession of explorers." Sakina may be from Lilina The word "welfare" was learned there, and now I immediately apply it accurately.
Me: "..." Meow. Earthlings don't have this technology—of course. It can also be said that there is this technology, but it is not as perfect as this magic world. People have established a worldwide instant help network. Is this really a rule
Soon the big ship came near us, it was still hundreds of meters away from the shore, but it just lowered a small boat, and the small boat was driven by three strong black sailors in coarse cloth shorts: "Hey! Was it you who sent the signal just now?"
"Ah. We are explore... travelers," Sagina replied sideways. While pulling out money from his pocket, "We are going to the Sky Tower. I hope we can take a boat. Of course, we pay the travel expenses according to the rules."
"Go to the Sky Tower?" The leader, Uncle Hei Zhuang, glanced at our group of people, "There are quite a few of us... Well, I said, you didn't come from the teleportation point here, did you?" The other party seemed to suddenly remember What, looked up at the mist on the far side of the river bank, that is the teleportation area from the mother continent, as a sailor who walks on this river all year round, he certainly knows that now is the day when teleportation is open.
"Well, for a special reason." Sagina smiled noncommittally, "Can we board the boat now?"
The strong black sailor looked around at us with uncertain eyes. In the end, he probably felt that even the most daring privateers did not lead their wives and children out to rob the cargo ships on the hanging river, so he nodded and said in a low voice. Said: "Come on, but don't move around, and remember the rules on the Hanging River, children are not allowed to go to the rear deck."
A large group of people came to the huge steel freighter in a small boat. The freighter let out a long flute sound and set off on the voyage again. Qianqian led a group of baby heads happily running around on the wide deck Go, take a camera card and wipe the card and take pictures non-stop. I guess she plans to post it on Weibo after she goes back—then I have to find a way to stop her. My sister was lying on the side of the boat, blowing the unhurried breeze on the hanging river, her black hair fluttering slightly in the air, then she turned her head and glanced at me: "It wouldn't be so fun if it was directly teleported upstream. Look Looking below, it seems that you can vaguely see the clouds under the river."
I agree with my sister's point of view. Taking a cargo ship driven by magic power and sailing on the river suspended in the sky, what you can see is not the water surface and the river bank, but the endless sea of clouds. The river below is so clear that you can even I can vaguely see the clouds under the deep water. This kind of fairy tale-like scenery is really rare. Although I have been to many strange worlds and seen various magical scenes including the wonders of the universe, the void is like this. As expected, there are still many things that I have never seen before: such as here.
With such a wonderful scenery, it's no wonder that Qianqian is so happy.
"Ajun, Ajun! Look at that!" Qianqian ran over suddenly, took my arm and pointed to the sky, following the direction of her finger, I was suddenly amazed: at the edge of the sea of clouds, faintly appeared built a white castle.
It was also suspended in the sky, as if it was made of clouds, the magnificent white and crystal-clear castle reflected the brilliance under the unidentified skylight above the Hanging River.
"It really feels like a fairy tale world!" Qianqian happily shook my arm. "My childhood dream has finally come true!"
After identifying it for a long time, I finally recognized that the cloud castle in the sky was nothing but the frozen castle of my own house. If you look carefully, the huge hole in the gate of the castle is still there!
"The one I put there just now has stopped in the sky," Qianqian said with a smug expression, as if she was waiting for others to praise her creativity. "Isn't this more like a fairy tale world? I dreamed of this when I was nine years old. Sitting on a magic flying boat, there was a castle built of clouds in the distance, and the beautiful cloud princess lived in the castle. Then I was A witch from the north, to fight the princess for the prince..."
Lin Xue was standing beside her, and she was also intoxicated by the wonders here. She was even more attracted by the fairy tales told by Qianqian: at least in the first half, but when she heard the second half, she still didn't come up and choked: "Ahem... I became a witch and went to talk to the princess. Robbing the prince? What kind of stimulation did this girl receive when she was a child?"
"Her story has a follow-up." I squinted at the eldest lady. "On the way, she met the Eastern Witch, the Western Witch and the Southern Witch, so the four of them teamed up to hunt the princess, and finally teamed up with the prince to demolish the Cloud and Mist Castle. Every fairy tale book Qianqian read when she was a child was written by her. It is still being hidden by her as a baby, do you want to see it?"
Lin Xue was dumbfounded, and murmured to herself: "... until I was eleven years old, I still dreamed that I was a princess of the Fairy Kingdom... Compared to this guy who turned into a witch at the age of nine to kill the princess and smash the prince, he is really weak …”
I smiled and looked at Qianqian beside me. Suddenly felt that this might also be the cutest side of the other party, regardless of the messy associations. I have been able to treasure the fairy tales from my nine-year-old age until now, and really built a cloud castle in the sky. And I was still enjoying it, and I didn't care about the impact of the passage of time on my heart at all. How can such a girl be described other than being cute
Well, I know another way to describe it is stupid... I don't deny it, really.
"Ah Jun, look! There are fish in the river!" Qianqian couldn't rest for a moment, just put away the frozen castle under my urging (I was worried that it would scare people, although it looks the same as here) It’s almost like a mirage), she pointed to the side of the ship and shouted again. It turned out that a large school of fish had gathered on the side of the freighter at some point, and was clinging to the side of the ship. Of course, it was fish because they were swimming in the water. These strange creatures are very different from the fish on the earth. They have gray-black carapaces on their backs, and their bodies are almost vertical to the water surface. Want to hang yourself on board. Occasionally, some strange "fish" with weak physical strength were repelled by the nearby shock wave, but most of them finally got close to the hull unharmed.
"That's the gray turtle fish, a unique specialty of the Hanging River," Sakina introduced, "This kind of fish lives near the broken riverbank in the middle reaches of the Hanging River, and it has to go upstream to lay eggs every other month. The fish fry are weak, and they don't know how to find rock nests to escape the turbulence. If they are born directly downstream, they will be washed out of the hanging river and float into the clouds. They are very smart guys, and they will wait for them when they go upstream. Follow the passing cargo ship, rush up to take a ride with the wind, of course, if you don’t squeeze into the position, you can only go upstream by yourself.”
"Oh—" Sandora raised her voice, and suddenly tugged at my arm, "Ah Jun, I want to eat."
I covered my forehead: "These are rare animals, so please save some virtue."
"Ah Jun, Ah Jun," Qian Qian didn't know when she stood on the most pointed corner of the bow, and greeted me with open arms to face the river wind, "Come and hug me from behind, see if I look like a Titanic, I can still sing that song, I keep the law of heart conservation..."
My sister and I hurriedly pulled the girl down and scolded: "This is unlucky!"
The days with this girl are simply too much fun, can't she do something that normal people can think of.
The sailing was smooth and fast all the way. The cargo ship powered by magic relied on controlling the water element directly at the rear of the hull to generate propulsion. The ship slowed down once: it was approaching a narrow river, and the cargo ship needed to slow down for safety.
One thing that is more dangerous than navigating in rivers on the ground is that navigating in the suspended river is absolutely not close to the shore. When sailing on land, if the boat gets out of control and gets close to the river bank, the worst case is that it will run aground on a rock or something. Even if the boat sinks, it is easy to rescue. But in the hanging river, once it rushes out of the river... 60% to 70% of the surrounding area But if there is no river bank, you will fly out of the water body and rush into the clouds that are more than ten kilometers thick. Then I don’t know where to go. It is said that there have been similar accidents in history. It was in the early days of the establishment of the Hanging River route. The wrecked cargo ship was still floating in the clouds, slowly drifting around the suspended river as the clouds and mist flowed. The crew on it were lucky to be found and rescued by the Gryphon Riders before starving to death. But people couldn't pull that huge ship back to the river. It thus became a monument of warning. With good eyesight and luck, you might even occasionally see the high prow of the "stray ship" peeking out from the far clouds.
All the above stories were told by Sagina, she is like an encyclopedia. Although the level of self-deprecating culture is not high, she knows a lot of strange legends and stories, all of which are accumulated in the adventure life over the years.
"Duuuu—" A louder siren sound than before interrupted the chatter of our group of heartless tourists. It turned out that the cargo ship had begun to slow down before we knew it. In front of us, the river suddenly became unusually wide. Both sides are already full of boundless rivers, if it is not for the strengthening of my own eyesight. Maybe you can't see the river bank and row upon row of buildings in the distance at all, and mistakenly think that you have come to the sea. In front is an island covered with verdant vegetation. There is a recess facing the small island, which happens to be a pure natural port where cargo ships are about to dock.
"The two sides are residential areas, but there is nothing to see, the place is crowded, and there are only two military towns stationed with soldiers," Sakina said, "The teleportation area of the Sky Tower is on the island, and it is not far from the shore. Let's go, do it." Prepare for a fight, there are guards at the back door of the Sky Tower."
Sona went to say hello to the boss of the ship, and then helped her sister and Saeko gather together the big and big kids who were already running around on the deck. A group of us got off the boat and set foot on the boat. Land on the largest island in the Hanging River.
There are not many people in the Hanging River area. After all, this is a lost world rather than the mother continent. The people stationed here are like stationed in a different space. Naturally, it cannot be too large. Apart from the cargo loading and unloading port on this island, there are some troops and Except for the permanent residence of workers, other places are basically barren areas: no one intends to settle down in such places anyway. The teleportation point of the Sky Tower is just under the cliff 100 meters away from the port. The backside is a huge rocky cliff, and the front is facing an open river beach. The scale of this teleportation point is quite small. In fact, the only difference that can be seen The shape is only a stone brick floor on the river beach, which is only about 100 square meters: on the river beach where gravel and stones are piled up, there is a piece of stone brick floor projected abruptly, which is the entrance of the Sky Tower.
However, as long as we stand on this stone brick floor, the scenery around us will change instantly.
The wide water surface of the Hanging River disappeared in front of his eyes, replaced by a huge and staggering boulder square.
Huge stone bricks with a side length of several meters are laid on the ground with an ingenious levelness. Each stone brick has simple and mysterious lines full of beautiful proportions. Complete pattern: Of course, you can't see what pattern it is standing on the ground. Except for this boulder square, everyone saw nothing in front of them, except for the edge of the square connecting with the clouds.
"That's the Tower of the Sky," Sagina turned around and pointed behind everyone, "It's really spectacular, isn't it? No matter how many times you've seen it, it's still an amazing miracle, but it's a pity that Sona and I only came here once." Once or twice here, the Sky Tower is too dangerous for a weak team like ours."
"I'm going!" I turned my head and glanced, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "This... this damn is bigger than the World Tree!"
What I saw was not a tower at all! In other words, it is indeed a tower, but I can't see its structure as a tower at this distance: this thing is too huge! What appeared in front of my eyes was a slightly curved, boundless wall. The wall extended to both sides until the end of my line of sight, almost like a vertical horizon. And how high is it
I can't see the top, and I can only see this towering wall 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 look closely at the giant space battleships made by the empire, each of them can give you the same feeling, similar to being so huge that it makes people feel "a piece of vertical space." I have seen a lot of the illusion of "rising earth" in the Empire Starport. No matter how big the sky tower is, it must not be able to beat the Eternal Mothership—even the size of a medium-sized Empire warship. It's just that this place is different, this is not the shadow city, this is a different world, a different world where even houses are built with stones and wood blocks!
This tower is definitely not made 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 on the mother continent, but the scale of this Sky Tower Still exceeded my expectations.
No decoration can be seen on the outer wall of the Sky Tower, it is just a layer of light yellow smooth surface, no windows and no brick cracks, let alone signs of its layering, the material is neither gold nor wood nor stone, just This outer wall has aroused our interest.
"It's a complex synthetic material," Sandora just glanced at the composition of the tower wall, but she obviously didn't just think of what the tower was made of, "The height of the tower reaches thirty Five kilometers, self-weight... meaningless, it relies on anti-gravity and regional vector fine-tuning to maintain its own stability, and the entire tower is changing its net mass at a fixed cycle. In addition, there is an energy shield inside the tower." (To be continued) RQ