Chapter 103: Lucky
The entire merchant ship was still shaking, and the 100,000 tons of steel were not able to maintain the stability they should have under the steam-powered lifting device. Even though the www.biquge.info was built with a silencing system in mind, during the period when the merchant ship was activated, a loud complex beep noise was transmitted through the metal walls and into the merchant ship.
The airship's huge body was slowly rising, and the whistle sounded one after another according to the inherent rhythm. In the control room, the captain of the merchant ship was familiar with such a situation, and in middle age, he drank a glass of wine placed next to his seat, and the swaying hull made the ice cubes in the glass collide with a crisp sound.
"Increase the lift, loosen the steam valve, speed up a bit, we need to break through to this storm cloud quickly. Otherwise, the lightning protection system on the hull would have to be completely scrapped under such natural power. The captain smiled and said to the group of crew members behind him who were looking at the data, his eyes reflected the lightning that penetrated the sky and the earth outside, and it was also a flashing appearance, and it was not lost to lightning.
This is a captain with a lot of experience.
"Oh, by the way, and tell the passengers, don't run around in the hull at this time, the vibration will be much bigger when the merchant ship reaches the clouds. If they fall somewhere, we don't have a reason to control it. The middle-aged captain continued to give orders with ease, and someone next to him answered every command.
The merchant ship is very large, divided into thirteen floors, the top three floors are the location of the crew and the control layer, without the corresponding password card, it is not possible to enter and exit freely. The bottom five floors are the warehouse level and various airship mechanisms, because they are merchant ships in nature, so there are many more warehouses than those airships built for passengers.
Finally, the remaining five floors in the middle are of course for passengers. There are comfortable rooms, as well as beautiful halls, and there are no less bandgirls. In the shops brought by the merchant ships, all kinds of items are a huge shop on the move, and everything that should not be there can also be found with the power of money. From time to time, there are balls organized by some people on merchant ships. With the trend of alcohol and warm atmosphere, it is no longer surprising that the physical transactions and confusion are staged. After all, the journey is still very long, stuffed in something that is almost a tin can, although there is a good ventilation system, but they still need to find many ways to vent the suppressed emotions in their bodies.
In the corridor of the passenger floor of a certain floor, the light is no longer cold white, but has changed to a warm yellow light, which looks closer to natural light, and the eyes look very soft.
The corridor still has the same feeling as in the hotels, with a soft red carpet below, and houseplants fixed on the side, all of which are fresh, and they have been replaced during the time they stopped at Gerun Oasis. There was a little floral smell in the air, and then there was the indescribable smell of steel, which was an intuitive sensation, as if it had been transmitted to the nose by the senses of the eyes in some way.
A loudspeaker hidden in the ceiling was broadcasting a radio message telling those who were still in the corridors and halls to return to their rooms as soon as possible, and the merchant ship was climbing at an accelerated pace, and the hull would shake violently.
Under the sound of the radio, a young man was staying in front of the store to buy something. The proprietor managed to bring out the expensive sailing wine from the warehouse, as well as the goblet and some food that the man who looked very young, probably less than twenty years old, needed. At this time, he was the only one in the store, and he could only be the boss, so he packed these things in a bag one by one and handed them to the man in front of him.
"Dear sir, a total of fifty-three thousand holy coins. He said with a smile on his face, very kind.
The man in front of him took out the bank card issued by the golden bank and shook it, and completed the delivery of the account under the operation of the enthusiastic boss and the indifferent man.
"Dear guests, please enjoy the trip, it is the time of the airship climb, please hurry back to your room. The shopkeeper kindly reminded the young man. But there was no answer, only the air called indifference fluttered there. The boss smiled, not showing any expression, he was used to such things.
The young man left the hallway of the store and headed straight for the lift. There was no one in the hallway, only the sound of lights and horns, and everyone except him followed the radio and stayed in their rooms.
The air didn't seem warm because of the slight heating supply, probably because it was wrapped in a cold steel shell. Pressing the green button in front of the elevator door, it immediately opened its mouth when no one was riding at all.
No matter where the elevator is, the structure and appearance inside are similar, or almost identical. The young man stepped in a few steps, thinking in his mind that he would report back to his family and to the school—because this time in the mission, it could almost be described as a fiasco. The mission goal was not completed, and even had to cooperate with the target in the end, so as to get rid of the entanglement of the group of wolves in the military school, which is really a deep mission memory.
He sighed, thinking about the school punishment he was very likely to face when he went back, as well as some punishments issued by the family, and his heart was a little irritable. Reaching out and pressing the button to close and start the lift, he pressed the floor he was supposed to be on, and then waited quietly for the protective door to close. The elevator under his feet was also swaying with the merchant ship, but the young man was still standing straight, this was already something that had penetrated deep into his spinal cord, and it was very likely that he would not be able to change it in the future.
"Dear Sir, please wait. ”
An ordinary man's voice came out of the hallway unexpectedly, very ordinary, with an apologetic smell in it, but there was no sound characteristic to speak of, as if you could see a cat and determine that it was a cat. Hearing this voice, the corresponding information naturally appeared in my mind - the owner of the voice was a man, and he wanted to take my elevator up.
But the young man's body stood there like a stone sculpture, carrying a bag full of belongings, and his eyes were indifferently looking into the corridor in front of him. A man in a loose white-gray gown was running towards him at a faster pace, carrying the same bag in his hand, but with an extra delicate cane.
Probably the same as him, the person who came to this level to buy things. The young man guessed, then heard a voice coming from the loudspeaker, and panicked and tried to hurry back to his room. This is normal, and everyone who goes to an unfamiliar place will especially follow the prompts on the radio. It's like when you go to the hospital, every word the doctor says can be heard as an order in your ears.
The man in the gray and white dress was unsteady on his feet, burying his head and looking at his feet, probably afraid that if his feet were slightly unstable, he would fall. Almost clinging to the wall on the edge of the corridor, the white and gray top hat on the head of the man in the dress was a little crooked during the run, and the pale blonde hair fell a little.
The hair was good, the young man in the elevator said something in his heart, but his body still stood stiff and motionless. There was still not the slightest intention of helping the man in the dress stop the lift, even if it was as simple as just pressing the button again. The protective door in front of him began to close, and the vision in the eyes of both young men and men in formal dresses was being compressed smaller and smaller by the closed protective door.
Finally, when the protective door was closed to a gap the size of a head, the man in the dress came to the elevator door with difficulty with the things in his hand, at least in the eyes of the people standing in the elevator, difficult and panicked. The button was pressed again, and before the door could close, it opened its steel mouth again.
The man in the dress walked in with his head down, and while breathing heavily, he didn't forget to hold his crooked top hat.
The young man on the side whistled loudly and glanced at the man next to him: "What a lucky day." He was talking about the man in the gown who was still breathing shortly next to him, and he still caught the lift.
"yes. The man in the dress next to him took another breath, "It's lucky for you, but it's expected for us." ”
The young man didn't expect the person next to him to actually reply to his words, and just when he was wondering, something flashed out of the corner of his eye. Without alertness, he didn't even have time to see what it was. Then the cold hair on the neck immediately exploded, and a clear and strong touch of one hand passed from the back of the neck.
"Bang!" the voice was very crisp, and it came from behind the young man's ears into his own ears.
His mind suddenly blurred, it was a condition of extreme lack of oxygen and blood. The straight body began to collapse like a dilapidated old house in shaking.
The young man's body slumped in the elevator, and his pupils, which were about to dilute, saw the face hidden under the top hat, like a clown. The turned face smiled at himself, then took a step out of the elevator, taking the items he had bought.
The protective door began to close, but the young man could no longer feel it. His neck was shattered by the tremendous force contained in one hand, and all the tissues in it were destroyed, so that death found him in less than a second.
The protective door closed, and the elevator began to ascend to the corresponding floor, according to the wishes of the man who had died.
In front of the elevator door, there was no one else except a man in an off-white dress.
"It was a great day. At this time, the feminine voice echoed briskly in the corridor, and the desire in the gown's body was already uncontrollable, and his body even trembled slightly at the smell of death in his palm.
"Mr. Kasia, I want to make your steward-like face a picture that will never be damaged!" the sentence did not come out, only echoed wildly in a certain distorted space.