For the following week, the team remained in Goland to recuperate. But the crowd was not idle, on the one hand, they continued to track down the mastermind behind the erasure of the record by the Adventurers' Union, and on the other hand, they did not forget their original mission, which was to find the recipient of Mazak's letter.

The recipient of the letter was called Sir Duke, and it sounded like an old gentleman of some status, but in Golland, how many more than so old gentlemen and nobles with status? Although Mazak told them the old gentleman's original address, they had investigated the place, which had been rebuilt more than a decade ago, and most of the original occupants had long since left.

Fortunately, from the people who remained, they learned that most of the original residents had moved to three places: the Upper Town, the Binno District, and the Port District, and although these three districts were also very large, they were not clueless.

Everyone could only pray that the old knight was not part of a few, otherwise it would be tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack to investigate the whole of Goland.

In contrast, there is a clue on the other side. It's not a difficult task for Sky Blue, Kita, Parker, and Chest to go around investigating information about the Adventurers' Guild officials, after all, it's easy to get this public information in the streets and bars.

And it doesn't take much time and material resources.

The next step is more difficult to eliminate suspicion, through contacting the Night Thieves Guild and purchasing information, everyone narrows down the scope layer by layer, and it is only in the last few steps that their investigation is difficult to determine because the authenticity of the information is difficult to determine.

While the group is at a loss, Parker's portrayal of Lady Papamo shines when she's befriended a guild official's servant, a dwarf tailor, during an investigation.

The latter, on the other hand, had no doubts about the 'newly-arrived' laundry lady, and fell in love with the beauty and loveliness of the 'Lady Papamo' at first sight, and from then on remained loyal and had nothing to say.

But our lady Papamo, of course, was very loyal and bothered by this, but it was only when Sky Blue accidentally learned about it, so under the coercion of this little devil girl, the latter had no choice but to make a false deal with her.

In the course of a 'date' – as Azure describes it, but Lady Papamo adamantly denies it, only admitting that it was a mission – the loyal and reliable Mr. Midget inadvertently reveals a message to the crowd.

Of course, he did not take the initiative, but only bragged to the lady whom he saw as 'very lovely' how he was valued by his master—as if it were because of this that the official had nothing to say to him, and the master and servant often kept secrets together.

But this is not the case, and Kita discovers early on that the dwarf servant is actually sensitive and inferior in private, and in order to satisfy his vanity, he often hides in the closet and eavesdrops on his master's secrets, and takes pride in it, boasting about his status.

It was also thanks to the poor man's inconspicuousness in the eyes of that official that he had not been discovered for so many years, but based on this, Kita and Sky Blue worked together to make a plan.

So at this moment, 'Ms. Papamo' pretended to be disdainful - of course, this is actually 'her's true thoughts, and ruthlessly exposed the loopholes in the other party's words. Because the expression of 'Ms. Papamo' was so realistic and hurtful, Mr. Dwarf jumped up as if he had been stabbed, and his face was red: "You wait! ”

With that, he jumped off the flower bed, turned and left. Just when Parker thought he had failed his mission and breathed a sigh of relief, he saw the other party run back far away and pant and throw a badge in front of her.

Then he told her about a recent incident with a smug face—

It turned out that his master had been commissioned not long ago to help erase a matter in the Adventurer's Guild. Although that matter is not big, it is a serious illegal operation after all, and once it is discovered, he will not be able to eat and walk around with his master's status.

So his master told him to be careful about keeping this secret, and gave him a badge as a witness.

Our lady Papamo looked at the badge and couldn't help but be startled, and the dwarf seemed to be greatly satisfied by the way she looked. It's just that when Parker took the initiative to ask the other party for this badge, the other party seemed to be a little cautious.

He put away the badge, shook his head, and told 'her' that the badge was a contract between his master and him, so he couldn't give it to the tasker.

"I swear, that badge is exactly the same one we've seen before, it's the damn thing of the Dragon-worshippers, and I can assure you that I'm not mistaken."

After returning to the inn, Parker replied somewhat exaggeratedly to the crowd.

Kita shook her head as well.

"The dwarf is lying, his master can't tell him these things, most of those words are overheard by him, maybe there is some value, but not all the truth." Miss Naturalist's voice was soft, and a little childish: "Most of the badge was stolen by him, so he didn't dare to give it to Parker—"

The others nodded in agreement with her analysis.

But Luo Yu put forward his own opinion: "Then what should we do next?" ”

"The official had left Gollande and gone south to Van Rik, apparently to avoid the limelight, or perhaps for some other reason."

"Isn't that exactly in the Long Lake area, south of the Cave Bottom Mountains?"

Hearing this, Fang Yu looked at the others, especially Attila and Sylvide, and only after seeing the two of them bowing slightly, did he speak: "We can go to Van Rick, but there is no need to disrupt the original plan, improving the strength is still the first priority for the current Seven Seas Brigade." ”

The elf girl did not object, Red cut tobacco on the sofa beside him, the afternoon sun shining through the window on his mane, the scissors in his hand were bright and clicking, and the big cat man looked like he was enjoying his leisure time, and he did not intend to speak.

Miss Ship Officer was naturally on Fang Yuan's side, and the others had no opinions, so the next plan was decided.

Only Tianlan complimented: "In any case, this time Ms. Papamo has a lot of credit." ”

However, how could Parker not understand what the little witch meant, and retorted loudly: "It's Parker, not Ms. Papamo." ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.

This is mainly because of an incident that happened in the meantime, the story between the poor dwarf and Ms. Papamo came to an end, but I didn't expect that in the process of confirming the news for the last time, the other party actually took out a gem and courted Ms. Papamo in public.

According to the description of Sky Blue, who was smiling at the time, Lady Papamo was very moved at one point, and after accepting the poor Mr. Midget's gem, she rejected the courtship.

This high-minded operation naturally became a joke among the adventure group for a while, and the name of 'Charming Lady Papamo' also spread.

Unfortunately, Parker was unable to keep the gems he had earned so hard, and Miss Atira took them into public possession on the grounds that all the expenses and income from the mission were the team's assets.

It was an emerald, and it was said to be worth a lot of money – and of course, it was probably stolen by the loyal and reliable Mr. Dwarf.

So the last remaining task for the adventure group was the recipient that Mazak asked them to find. But this seemingly uncomplicated task has not progressed for the first time for no other reason – the Upper Town, Binno and Port Districts.

Since there are no shortcuts, everyone can only check a little bit.

Seeing that another week had passed, and everyone had stayed in Goland for nearly half a month, in order to save time, on the one hand, they continued to walk the streets and alleys during the day, looking for clues left back then.

On the other hand, after nightfall, Mr. Limestone's platform renovation work in the animal pen began to proceed in an orderly manner.

Although the materials of the platform have not yet been resolved, the ordered airbags have arrived, and Fang Yu and Luo Yu plan to make a frame first, or at least take out the design first. After all, it wasn't a short trip from Golland to the Cave Mountains, and the Seven Seas Brigade wasn't the same nine-man squad they had before, so they couldn't let Alyssa, Baggins, and Boxes sleep on the hanging nets on the platform all the time.

Although Baggins has been a sailor in the past and has seen a worse environment, the box has no problem with this, the cute Lisa is still a girl after all, not to mention that everyone in the team is equal, and the previous arrangement of the box is only a temporary simplification, and it is by no means a long-term solution.

In addition, Fang Yu also took into account that Golland's conditions were better in all aspects, and some of the tools and parts needed could be purchased nearby, so he didn't need to waste time making them himself—not to mention that the quality may not be up to standard (because of the grade).

Since the pack beast platform was by no means the first of its kind, there was also a factory in the enclosure that could be rented to remodel the platform, so it was far better to design it here than to do it in the field.

As a result, the renovation work was also planned ahead of schedule.

The renovation work is naturally based on the actual needs of the team, it is first and foremost a mobile camp, which should provide some basic functions of the camp, such as shelter from the wind and rain; On Mr. Limestone's original platform, four carriages provided this function, but compared to the current team of twelve people, four small carriages are definitely not enough.

However, with the additional buoyancy generated by the airbag, the platform can be further amplified, and with the help of the original Guy generator, the maximum load increase can be about seven times, so it is not impossible to increase and improve the original living space. It's just that on this little thing, everyone has a lot of differences.

To be precise, for the sake of training, Fang Yuan's plan was to distribute and arrange the modified platform as similar to the airship as much as possible, and the original carriage should no longer be simply placed on the platform frame, but turned into a cabin structure.

However, his idea was relatively simple, the distribution of cabins was only enlarged according to the structure of the original platform, from four to eight, the same size, each room lived two people, a total of sixteen people.

Although there are only twelve people in the team at present, twelve people are obviously far from enough to control an airship, and there are still many key positions lacking for a team, and they will need to recruit people sooner or later, professional sailors, professional mages, and doctors and priests on the ship.

Therefore, vacating a part of the cabin is also the need to expand the team in the future-

But this plan was met with the first opposition from the ship's master officer.

Sylvide's opinion is very simple, she thinks that since it is similar to an airship, the distribution of cabins should naturally be as close to the airship as possible, and as a future captain, Fang Yu naturally needs to have his own captain's room and ship room.

Seriously, it was the first time that Fang Yu had been refuted so positively by Sylvid, and the other party's reason seemed a little unreasonable to him.

He had always thought that Sylvid's title to himself as captain was just a joke, and the small platform space was limited, so how could he set up a separate captain's room and a ship's room that he didn't think was of much use.

But I didn't expect others to agree with Sylvid.

This is mainly because of an opinion from Kita.

The future Miss Naturalist believes that their captain, as an alchemist, naturally needs a dedicated alchemy laboratory as well. This is also the greatest benefit of the platform for a team with alchemists as the main body, and if you ignore this, it is tantamount to abandoning the basics.

So she proposed that Miss Sylvide's proposal merge the separate captain's room with the alchemy workshop as a single cabin, both as a studio and a captain's room. Although this is not traditional, it is not unacceptable considering that the platform itself is not large.

So everyone agreed on this opinion, after all, a professional alchemist can help the team for all to see, and Sylvid also accepted such a compromise, and once she agreed, Baggins and Shesta naturally had no opinion.

And so this was established.

The captain's cabin is located at the rear of the platform, about one-seventh of its size, and is divided by a wooden wall, behind which is the square plover's private space, including a bed with two ends against the bulkhead, which is small but comfortable compared to the conditions in the wilderness.

On one side is a row of gridded windows, stained glass that obscures the view of the inside from the outside, but the Plover can get close to the captain's room to observe the situation behind Mr. Limestone to the left and right.

At the same time, when the shield above the airbag is in a state of diffusion, it can also provide some protection for these windows located on the upper part of the platform, so that the grille glass above will shatter at the touch and need to be replaced at any time.

Under the windowsill is a long desk, on which are placed some small fixed objects, such as the captain's logbook, inkwells and quills, etc., in addition to the map hanging on the wall, a row of bookshelves, a pile of books, and a few boxes of blueprints, which are all the personal belongings of Fang Yuan.

Outside the captain's room, there is a cramped studio, which is compared to the studios in the craftsmen's workshops, but the conditions here are many times better than in Fang Yuan's original single carriage.

The studio is a bit narrow, with a carpentry table on one side and a simple blacksmith's table on the other, and a row of cabinets on the middle wall for simple materials and tools.

It is also said that a place was reserved for the future installation of a small alchemy generator - a miniature version of the huge orb furnace that Fang Ou had seen during the Al Pahim competition, and which would be essential for the craftsmen to make high-end productions in the future.

Of course, they can't afford the high price of such a thing.

And thanks to Luo Yu's ingenious design, the carpentry workbench can be opened when not in use and turned into a simple tailor's workbench, so the replacement and sewing of airbags can also be carried out temporarily in this studio.

At the other end of the studio, also separated by a wooden wall, was a small cabin, roughly the size of the captain's room of the Plover, which housed Sylvede's room, which insisted that the purser should live in a place connected to the ship's room, as was the rule on board.

It was difficult for everyone to convince the young lady that she was the only one to go—she had been living with Fang Yu before, and nothing had happened, and there was a small cabinet in Sylvede's room for a map and compass, which were useful for traveling.

At the same time, there is no need to set up an additional map and compass room.

Behind the Alchemy Workshop is a separate warehouse, with airbags and important items stored in the center, and compartments for food and other supplies on either side, which are often cheap and can also be used as a protective layer for the central warehouse in the event of an attack.

At the same time, these cargoes are generally heavier and are used to balance the platform. Just when accessing, carefully calculate the weight on both sides to prevent the platform from rolling due to an unbalanced center of gravity.

At the same time, Shesta and Baggins' cabins were also located on the left and right of the warehouse, and neither of them had any requirements for living conditions, and Sylvid arranged only a place for each of them in a hammock.

But Baggins had a rack of his own weapons, filled with his collection of scimitars and firearms, while Shesta, on the other side, had a small flower bed nailed to the porthole and a pot of marigolds swaying in the wind.

Further back were the other quarters, like two rows of wooden houses, facing each other, with a patio in the center at Attila's suggestion, to which her original flower beds and exotic plants had been transplanted—and could be used as a livestock pen in the future.

At the same time, the open patio also makes it easier to access and maintain the airbags and Guy inflators above.

The space at the front of the platform is about the same size as the captain's quarters at the back, and it becomes a dedicated dining room and meeting room for meals, discussions, and future adventures.

In addition, the tables and chairs can also be used as a temporary training room when they are put away on weekdays.

However, the main purpose of this cabin is actually to facilitate the reservation of space for future renovations. For example, a professional carpentry workshop and a sailmaker's workshop cannot always occupy an alchemy studio.

And after the basic cabins were decided, each of them had some opinions, large and small—such as Miss Atila's galley, which had a metal stove and flue, an infirmary, a wooden pulley crane, and so on.

The latter is because food and some other materials can still be transported by manpower (mainly relying on big cat people), but after the total load of the platform is lifted, it has to rely on the strength of cranes and pulleys.

In addition, since it is a cabin structure, the drainage problem that the platform does not have to worry about must also be taken into account. Fang's solution was simple, it wasn't really a float boat, so he solved it with just a series of drains and a small elm pump.

The renovated platform took two weeks to complete, and the final shape resembled an elongated octagonal shape – flanked by a top deck with a breastwork and bulwark, and two inclined stairs at the front and rear connected to the patio below; The two original crossbow machines were placed on the deck, and the center and side of the ship were suspended by the upper airbags through a cable, and the Guy gas generator was simply protected, not mainly by the shield generator.

The bottom is also processed into a curved shape similar to the bottom of a ship for defensive and structural load-bearing considerations, and the bilge can also be used as a temporary warehouse, but it is usually mainly used to place some repair materials and other ballasts, but because it is not a real airship after all, it does not actually use a high-strength keel.

And because it is suspended in the air, the height of the platform is about three or four meters higher than the original, and the Guy generator on Mr. Limestone's back is also hidden from the platform, but directly exposed.

As a result, the protection of Mr. Greystone himself and the Guy generator on his back during the battle becomes a problem, and the only temporary solution is to let the melee class go down to the ground to protect the beast of burden after the battle.

However, ranged and non-combat classes are much safer on the platform than before.

In the end, the entire platform looked like it was moving forward, except that the material had not been changed and the outer armor had not been added, as if Mr. Limestone was dragging a floating dinghy forward.

Of course, that is, it looks like it, but in fact it is far from it, and it is not even comparable to it in terms of structural complexity, and this platform is at best a decent 'toy' compared to a real airship.

But it was just a 'toy', and when it was completed, everyone in this little adventure group gathered together for a small celebration. Everyone seemed a little excited at that moment, even the box and 'Ms. Papamo'.

The two walked around the platform several times in a row, looking up and down.

Sky Blue was even more excited and crazy, even Kita couldn't pull her, and ran all the way to her room, jumping and jumping, barely shouting a few times.

Only Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, looking at his work with some satisfaction, he couldn't help but look at Luo Yu on the side, and said:

"Good work, Luo Yu."

"That's what I'm supposed to do."

Luo Yu just nodded. In the reconstruction of the platform, in addition to Fang Yuan, it can be said that it is he, the half carpenter who acts as a boatman, who contributed the most, so Fang Yuan will speak like this.

Behind them, the aristocratic girl was looking up at the platform, her light blue eyes shining with a strange brilliance, as if she had seen what her father had described to her from the top of the 'dinghy'.

That great ship.

And that shining bridge—

……