Chapter 1073 Tower of the Sky

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 sailing in this world.

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 completely appear in our sight. It was a double- or three-layer metal structure ship. It was carved with strange colorful lines. There was no sail, but layers of white waves could be seen rising from the stern of the ship. I felt from a distance that there was a stable energy source inside it that was releasing energy, which may explain why we didn't see any sails on this wooden boat: it seemed 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 another 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 The energy activity and certain "frequencies" of the surrounding space. Alaya can determine more than 80% of the magic forms in this world.

I have to say that this is a very terrifying 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, she also comes out every now and then to ask me to comb her hair. Alaya has really degenerated into a complete piggy now.

Sakina used her own personal space (after Lin's direct "blessing"), the two half-dragon girls now have their own personal space. Although they are not yet skilled in using it, it is much more convenient than their original large backpacks. .) and took out a small yellow-brown square lump. After fiddling with it for a while, the steel freighter that was gradually approaching here gave out three short whistles, which 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 this kind of thing when they go out. Many large teams working outside have 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 may be from Lilina I learned the word "welfare" there, and now I can apply it accurately immediately.

Me: "..." Meow. No one on earth has this technology - of course. It can be said that this technology exists, but it is not as perfect as this magical world. People have established a worldwide instant help network. Is this really a rule?

Soon the big ship came near us, it was still several hundred meters away from the shore, and it just put down a small boat. The people driving the small boat were three strong black sailors wearing coarse shorts: "Hey! Was it you who just sent the signal?"

"Ah. We are... travelers," Sakina replied. While taking out money from his pocket, he said, "We are going to the Sky Tower. I hope we can take a boat. Of course, we pay for the trip according to the rules."

"Going to the Tower of the Sky?" The leader, Uncle Hei Zhuang, glanced at our group of people. "There are so many people... Well, let me tell you, 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. It was the teleportation area from the mother continent. As a sailor who walked 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 at us with an uncertain look. In the end, he probably felt that no matter how bold the privateering group was, they would not lead their wives 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 once again set sail on 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 off and keep taking pictures. I guess she plans to post it on Weibo after she goes back - I have to think of a way to stop her then. My sister was lying on the side of the boat, blowing the gentle breeze from the suspended river. Her black hair was slightly swaying 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. Looking 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 a river suspended in the sky. What you can see is not the water surface and river banks, but the boundless sea of ​​clouds. The river below is so clear that you can even see the bottom. I could vaguely see 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 empty. It’s so vast, and sure enough, there are still many things that I’ve never seen before: like 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 finally came 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, I could see that the huge hole in the castle gate was still there!

"What I put there just now 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. "Isn't this more like a fairy tale world? I have dreamed of this since I was nine years old. I am 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 The witch from the north went to snatch the prince from the princess..."

Lin Xue was standing next to her, and she was also intoxicated by the wonders here. She was even more attracted by the fairy tales told by Qian Qian: at least in the first half, but when she heard the second half, she still couldn't hold her breath and choked: "Ahem... turned into a witch and followed The princess robbed the prince? What happened to this girl when she was a child? "

"There is a continuation of her story." I glanced sideways at the eldest lady. "She met the Eastern Witch, the Western Witch and the Southern Witch on the way, so the four of them teamed up to slay 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. She is still hiding it as a treasure, do you want to see it?"

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……"

I smiled and looked at Qian Qian beside me. Suddenly I felt that this might also be the cutest side of the other person, regardless of the messy associations. I have been able to treasure the fairy tale from when I was nine years old until now, and really built a cloud castle in the sky. 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 fishes in the river!" Qianqian couldn't rest for a moment, and just put away the ice castle at my urging (I was worried that the thing would scare people, although it looked the same here) 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, they were called fish because they were swimming in the water. They are just moving. These strange creatures are very different from the fish on the earth. They have gray-black carapaces on their backs. 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. It looks like they are Want to hang myself on the boat. Occasionally, we would see weak monster "fish" being repelled 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 a spot, you will have to swim upstream by yourself.”

"Oh -" Shandora said in a long voice and suddenly tugged on my arm, "Ajun, I want to eat."

I covered my head and said, "These are rare animals, so please 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 off and kept scolding her: "This is unlucky!"

Spending time with this girl is so much fun, can't she do something that normal people can think of?

The voyage was smooth and fast. The magic-driven cargo ship relied on directly controlling the water element 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 in the Hanging River is more dangerous than sailing in the river on the ground, that is, you must not get close to the shore. When sailing on land, if the course loses control and approaches the river bank, the worst-case scenario is that it runs aground on the rocks. Even if the boat sinks, it is easy to rescue. But in the Xuankong River, once it rushes out of the river... 60 to 70% of the surrounding There is no river bank in this area, so 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 went. It is said that a similar accident happened in history. It was in the early days of the establishment of the Hanging 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, that A wrecked cargo ship is still floating in the clouds, slowly drifting around the Hanging River as the clouds and mist flow. The crew members aboard were lucky enough to be found and rescued by the Griffin Knights before they starved to death. But people couldn't pull the huge ship back to the river. So it became a monument of warning. If your eyesight is good enough and you are lucky, you may even occasionally see the tall bow of the "rogue ship" peeking out from the very far clouds.

The above stories were all told to me by Sakina, she is like an encyclopedia. Although she laughs at her low level of education, she knows a lot of weird legends and stories, all of which she has accumulated in her adventure life over the years.

"Duh--" A whistle sounded louder than before, interrupting the chatter of our group of heartless tourists. It turned out that the cargo ship had begun to slow down unknowingly. In front of us, the river suddenly became unusually wide. Both sides are already covered with vast expanse of river, if it weren't for my enhanced vision. Maybe you can’t see the river bank and the rows of buildings in the distance at all, and mistakenly think that you are on the sea. In front of it is an island covered with green vegetation. There is a recessed place opposite the island, 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 and not the mother continent. The people stationed here are stationed in a different space. Naturally, it cannot be too large. In addition to the cargo loading and unloading port, there are some military and military personnel on this island. Except for the permanent residence of workers, other places are basically barren areas: no one intends to settle down and start a business in such a place anyway. The teleportation point of the Sky Tower is under the cliff a hundred meters away from the port. On the back is a huge rock cliff, and in 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 is that There is only a stone brick floor on the river beach, which is only about a hundred square meters: a stone brick floor is projected abruptly on the river beach where gravel and stones are piled up. 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 from standing on the ground. Except for this huge stone square, everyone's eyes were empty. There was nothing else. They could only see the edge of the square 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 still an amazing miracle. It's a pity that Sona and I have only been here. Once or twice here, the Sky Tower became too dangerous for a weak team like ours.”

"I'll go!" 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 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 him was an endless wall with a slight curvature. The wall extended to both sides to the end of his sight, just like a vertical horizon. And 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. But this place is different. This is not the Shadow City. This is a different world, 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 the components of the tower wall, but she was obviously thinking about more than just what the tower was made of, "The height of the tower reaches thirty Five kilometers, self-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 in a fixed period. In addition, there is energy shielding in the tower." (To be continued. If If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)