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- After the novelty of the first two days of the trip on the airship wore off, the rest of the trip gradually became boring to Zhang Tie, even in places like the Blackson Human Race Corridor, where the airship flew over There are actually not many opportunities to see the human cities below.
Most of the time, when you look down from the airship's port window, all you can see are rolling hills, undulating mountains and grasslands, and endless forests. All places look sparsely populated. It is so desolate that it is rare to see it, not to mention cities, even larger towns and villages. After all, compared to the land area of ??the Blackson Human Corridor, the population of the Human Corridor countries is too small. Most of these populations are still concentrated in some walled cities and can be seen outside the city. The possibility of a large-scale human settlement is very small.
After getting on the airship, Zhang Tie was assigned a cabin. After getting tired of the monotonous scenery below the airship, except for eating and sleeping, Zhang Tie stayed in his cabin on the airship and quietly carried out activities that ordinary people would not be able to do. The practice of imagination.
Zhang Tie took out the fifth-grade crystal pyramid that Zhang Tie had photographed at the auction house and placed it under the bed in his cabin. When practicing, he sat on the pyramid with a thin bed board separated from it, letting the pyramid's At the top, facing the bright spot on his tailbone, the cultivation effect of the fifth-grade crystal pyramid is much stronger than the crystals Zhang Tie used before. The speed at which Zhang Tie uses his mental power to polish the bright spot is also Significantly faster.
Even when he is not practicing, the special effect of the pyramid crystal fills Zhang Tie's small cabin with a comfortable energy, making his mind much clearer.
The airship Zhang Tie is riding on is a large rigid airship with a length of more than 200 meters and a height of nearly 70 meters. The normal cruising speed of the airship is 110 kilometers per hour. Not too fast, not too slow. In addition to the special passenger Zhang Tie, when returning from Karur to Jinyun Kingdom, the airship also carried more than fifty passengers who were leaving Karur to Jinyun Kingdom. These passengers There were men, women, old and young, and many of them looked like they were all members of the same family. These passengers, at least in terms of their dress and temperament, were all very respectable, and they seemed to belong to the well-educated and wealthy class.
The reason why these people left Karur. Zhang Tie can more or less guess that these are the people with a keen sense of smell in the Andaman Alliance. This sudden war and many signs have made these people see some potential danger, so they began to take action. Opportunity to find a way out of the former city of Andaman Union. Prepare to go to a safer and more ideal place in their minds.
Jinyun Country is probably a place where these people feel safe and can live a better life.
The airship landed once in a city completely unfamiliar to Zhang Tie on the fourth day after leaving Karur. Coal was replenished. After resting on the ground for a few hours, they started flying again.
Zhang Tie originally thought that the journey by airship would be smooth sailing, but it turns out that in this era, there is no absolute safety when traveling outside the city walls.
On the sixth day on the airship. The airship Zhang Tie was riding on was attacked for the first time.
The urgent and short whistle inside the airship woke up Zhang Tie, who was meditating. Then Zhang Tie heard someone shouting outside the cabin, "We are being attacked by dangerous creatures. When we are attacked by dangerous creatures, all personnel should stay in place. Go to your places, passengers on the airship stay in their cabins and don¡¯t come out"
Then, nervous footsteps sounded outside Zhang Tie¡¯s cabin.
If it were in the past, Zhang Tie would have stayed in the cabin like other passengers and not come out. However, the experience of the Iron Blood Camp changed Zhang Tie. When encountering such a dangerous situation, Zhang Tie jumped out quickly. He got out of bed, opened the door of his cabin, and ran out together.
The airship's cabin is twenty meters wide, and the walkway outside is not narrow. When Zhang Tie ran out, many crew members in crew uniforms were busy. Some ran to the deck, and some ran to the engine room and weapons. The passengers who were originally on the open deck of the airship enjoying the scenery and breathing in the morning ran inside in panic one by one. People like Zhang Tie who rushed outside the deck were only wearing uniforms. airship crew.
"What are you doing here?" When Zhang Tie ran to the entrance of the deck, a man in his thirties suddenly looked at Zhang Tie with wide eyes. This man was the first mate on the airship. Zhang Tie got on the airship. At that time, I met this person and the captain of the airship once, but I never saw him again, so I can't say that I was familiar with him. At most, I just knew that everyone's surname was Zhang.
"I have been a soldier!" Zhang Tie replied in a deep voice, "Maybe I can help!"
The first mate on the airship took a serious look at Zhang Tie. It was only after their airship sailed out of Jinyun Kingdom that Huaiyuantang sent a message asking them to call someone Zhang Tie when they were in Karur City. Tie's men picked him up, and on the entire airship, only he and the captain of the airship roughly knew who Zhang Tie was. He seemed to be a descendant of the Zhang family who was left behind, and was wanted by the secret police of the Norman Empire.
Of course, the person wanted by the secret police of the Norman Empire would not be an incompetent person. He also heard that Zhang Tie had served as a soldier. After thinking for a moment, the first officer nodded, "Come on, Huaiyuan." There is indeed no reason for Tang¡¯s descendants to hide when they are in danger!¡±
Zhang Tie and the first mate rushed onto the airship deck together. At this time, the cannon jackets of the ballistae on the airship deck were opened one by one. Many of the crew members who rushed onto the deck quickly sat on their ballistae. On the gun position.
Because the main purpose of this airship is cargo, not military, all ballistas on the airship are non-automatic, and the steam power equipment on the airship only provides power for the airship's propeller.
There are three crew members on each ballista gun position. The crew member who sat on the gun position put his feet on a mechanism similar to bicycle pedals and began to pedal his feet quickly. Between the chains and a pile of Under the action of mechanical gears, the first round of winding and firing preparations of the ballista were completed. The entire process took less than twenty seconds.
"The No. 1 gun position is ready"
"The No. 2 gun position is ready"
"The No. 3 gun position will be secured"
"The No. 4 gun position is ready"
The gunners at each gun position who had completed the launch preparations began to report loudly. Zhang Tie watched coldly and found that the military quality of these crew members was very high. Even compared with the regular army of the Norman Empire's airship force, it was not comparable.
After the crew members were ready, on both sides of the airship deck, two rows of crew members holding crossbows and bows and arrows also took their positions.
"Take it, put it on and buckle it!" The first mate of the airship threw Zhang Tie a set of special equipment to wear on his body, as well as a crossbow.
This is a set of leather-like things similar to a simple vest. After putting it on, there is a safety buckle on the waist of the clothes, which can be buckled to the two fixed metal sliding rods on the side of the deck. Zhang Tie saw it. Every crew member on the deck, including the first mate, was wearing something like this. Everyone fastened the safety buckles on their waists and followed suit. After quickly putting on their clothes, they also fastened the safety buckles.
As soon as Zhang Tie buckled it up, the airship that had been flying in a straight line suddenly began to accelerate and turn to the right. The entire hull tilted hugely to the right, and the horizontal plane of the entire airship deck suddenly tilted at least nearly 30 degrees to the right. Zhang Tie only felt the strong wind blowing against his face. His feet slipped, and he almost lost his balance. He quickly used one hand to hold on to a metal handrail on the deck, and then he regained his balance.
The entire airship, after drawing a huge half-arc in the sky on the right and adjusting its direction once, stood on both sides of the airship deck. Suddenly he saw clearly the appearance of the dangerous creatures that were about to attack the airship.
It was a group of giant birds that had just swooped down from the clouds in the distance. Zhang Tieyun looked over and saw a dark group of things flying towards the airship from a distance. Those things were very big. When the wings are spread out, it is nearly three meters tall. Looking around, there are at least forty or fifty of these giant birds in the dark mass.
After the giant birds flew closer, Zhang Tie could even see the long beaks on the heads of these giant birds.
The first mate of the airship standing next to Zhang Tie turned serious and said loudly, "It's a level four mutant monster, the Iron-beaked Ibis, everyone, be careful!"
The airship made two consecutive evasive maneuvers, but these giant birds just clung to the airship.
Looking at the sword-like and spear-like beaks on the heads of those giant birds, as well as the airbags on the airship, Zhang Tie also understood the huge damage these iron-beaked ibises might cause to the airship.
Although there is a special layer of light metal protective armor on the airbag of this rigid airship, no one knows how long the protective armor on the airship can last under the continuous attacks of these giant birds.
When these iron-beaked ibises approached the airship about two hundred meters away, several ballistae built into the left deck and body of the airship opened fire at the same time.
Zhang Tie only heard a soft "buzzing" sound in his ears. Six of the dozens of iron-billed ibises, after several piercing calls, burst into a few blood flowers in the air, and their feathers scattered in all directions. At the same time, it fell from the sky, and the remaining iron-beaked ibis flapped its giant wings and accelerated towards the airship.
A hail of crossbow arrows flew up from the deck of the airship, and the giant birds dodged very flexibly in the air.??This wave of arrows shot down less than three Iron-billed Ibis.
When the iron-beaked ibises rushed towards him, Zhang Tie did not immediately pull the trigger of his crossbow. Instead, he calmly aimed at one of the iron-beaked ibises, which had just completed its evasive action. , when he got close to the airship, which was about eighty meters away, he calmly pulled the trigger.
"Quack!" In an unpleasant bird cry, the iron-beaked ibis that Zhang Tie aimed at was pierced through the chest by the crossbow arrow shot by Zhang Tie and fell from the sky.
Almost at the same time as the Iron-billed Ibis fell, a cloud of blood mist exploded from the Iron-billed Ibis next to him. Zhang Tie heard a strange vibration in his ears and turned his head to look, only to see the people on the airship. The first mate held a long bow, and the bowstring sounded softly. The iron-beaked ibis just now must have been shot down by the long bow in the first mate's hand.
The first mate didn't seem to notice Zhang Tie's gaze, but quickly drew the bow again, shot, drew the bow, shot, drew the bow, shot, one arrow almost every second. After three arrows, three more balls exploded in the sky. Blood mist.
The remaining iron-beaked ibises pounced, not toward the deck, but toward the airbag of the airship. The harsh scraping sound of metal suddenly sounded above Zhang Tie's head
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