A long, low voice came from the lower reaches of the river, echoing in an octave lower, as if a giant beast was blowing hard with its nose, I had never heard this sound, but Sakina suddenly showed a happy look on her face: "Ah, we are in such a good time, the ship is here so soon!" "It seems that it was the whistle of the ship of this world as it sailed.

A colossal figure appeared in the distance with the sound of the whistle, it was moving fast, and it didn't take long for it to be fully in our sight, it was a large double or triple metal structure, the hull was carved with strange colored lines, and there were no sails to be seen, but layers of white spray could be seen at the stern. I sensed from afar that there was a steady source of energy releasing energy inside it, which might explain why we didn't see sails on this wooden ship: it seemed to be magically driven.

Is it the product of alchemy...... Well, I'm used to all kinds of ingenious civil machinery popping up in this magical world, who said that magic can't produce the same civilian realm as technological civilization, following the fully automatic anti-gravity magic elevator, 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 enchantment techniques to solve the problem of water resistance - the last point was discovered by Alayya, who was stretching in my mind, and the occult knowledge of the sleepy insect was at its peak, just in terms of knowledgeNo matter what kind of rules the current world follows, just analyze the energy activity value and certain "frequencies" of the surrounding space. Alaya was able to determine more than eighty percent of the magic forms in this world.

I have to say it's a terrifying ability, but the only thing that seems to be the guy with this terrifying ability at the moment is to doze off and take the child in my head. Oh yes, and every once in a while for me to groom her, Alaya is really degraded into a complete piggy now.

Sakina has taken care of her own personal space (after Lynn's direct "blessing", the two half-dragon girls now have their own personal space, although they are not skilled in using it, but it is much more convenient than their original large backpacks. He pulled out a small yellow-brown pimple. After a few fiddles in his hand, after a short while, the steel freighter, which was gradually approaching, let out three short whistles, as if in response to something. Sagina smiled and held up the small square in her hand to me: "This is a help-seeking transmitter, explorers will carry one of these things when they go out, and many large teams working outside have equipment to receive this kind of help-seeking signal, because of the existence of the Lost World." All kinds of wilderness rescue techniques are the fastest developed in our country. This can be regarded as the last essential benefit reserved for the high-risk profession of explorer in this world. Sakina may have learned the word "welfare" from Lilina and is now applying it accurately.

Me: "......" meow. None of the earthlings have this skill—of course. It can also be said that there is this technique, but it is not as perfect as this magic world, and everyone has already established an instant help network within the entire world, is this really the rule of where there is.

Soon the big ship came near us, it was still hundreds of meters away from the shore, but it lowered a small dinghy, and the small boat was piloted by three strong black sailors in coarse cloth shirts: "Hey! Was that your signal? ”

"Ahh We are ...... Traveler," Sagina replied. While pulling money out of his pocket, "We're going to the Sky Tower." Hopefully we can get a boat, of course, we pay according to the rules. ”

"To the Sky Tower?" Uncle Hei Zhuang, who was in the lead, glanced at our group of people, "There are really a lot of people...... Well, I mean, you wouldn't be from the waypoint here, would you? The other party seemed to suddenly remember something, and looked up at the fog on the far side of the riverbank, which was the teleportation area from the mother continent, as a sailor who walked on this river all year round, of course he knew that the teleportation was open now. …,

"Well, for a special reason." Sakina smiled noncommittally, "Can we get on the boat now?" ”

The black sailor looked at us with uncertain eyes, and finally probably felt that even the most daring privateer group had not led his wife and children out to rob the cargo ships on the hanging river, so he nodded, and said angrily: "Come on, but don't move, and remember the rules on the hanging river, children can't go to the back deck." ”

A large group of people came to the huge steel freighter in a small boat, the freighter let out a long whistle, and once again rode the wind and waves to embark on the voyage, and shallow led a group of doll heads to run around happily on the wide deck, taking a camera card to 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 suspended river, her black hair swaying slightly in the air, and then she glanced at me: "If you teleport directly upstream, it won't be so fun." If you look below, you can see the clouds at the bottom of the river. ”

I agree with my sister's opinion, riding on a magic-driven cargo ship, sailing on the river hanging high in the sky, what you can see is not the surface of the water and the riverbank, but the boundless sea of clouds, the river water below is crystal clear, and you can even faintly 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 have seen all kinds of magical scenes, including the wonders of the universe, but the void is so vast, Sure enough, there are still many things that I have never seen before: here, for example.

With such a wonderful view, it's no wonder that Asa is happy to be like that.

"Ah Jun, Ah Jun! Look at that! Shallow suddenly ran over, took my arm and pointed to the sky, following the direction of her finger, I was suddenly surprised: on the edge of the sea of clouds, a white castle faintly appeared.

It was also suspended in the sky, as if it were made of clouds, and the magnificent castle was white and crystalline, reflecting the light of unknown origin above the Hanging River.

"It really feels like the fairy tale world!" Asa shook my arm happily. "My childhood dream has finally come true!"

I recognized it for a long time, and finally recognized that the Cloud Castle on the horizon was nothing else, it was the frozen castle of my own house, and if I looked closely, the huge hole in the castle gate was still there!

"What I just put there is still in the sky," said a smug face, as if waiting for others to praise her creativity. "Isn't that more like a fairy tale? I dreamed of this when I was nine years old, sitting on a flying magic ship, and in the distance there was a castle made of clouds, and in the castle lived the beautiful princess of the clouds, and then I was a witch from the north, and I went to rob the princess of the prince......"

Lin Xue was standing next to her, and she was also intoxicated by the wonders here. was even more attracted by the fairy tales told shallowly: at least in the first half, but when she heard the second half, she really didn't come up and choked: "Ahem...... Become a witch and rob the prince with the princess? What stimulated this girl when she was a child? ”

"There's a follow-up to her story." I glanced 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 brush the princess, and finally partnered with the prince to demolish the Cloud Castle. Every fairy tale book she read when she was a child was written by her, and now she is still hiding it as a baby, do you want to see it? ”

Lin Xue was dumbfounded and muttered, "...... Until I was eleven years old, I dreamed of being the princess of the fairy kingdom...... Compared to this guy who turned into a witch at the age of nine to brush the princess and explode the prince, it is really weak......"...,

I smiled and looked at the shallow shallow side around me. Suddenly felt that this might be the cutest side of the other party, and put aside the messy associations. I can treasure the fairy tale of the year I was nine years old until now, and really build a cloud castle in the sky. And I'm enjoying it, I don't care about the impact of the passage of time on my heart, how can I describe such a girl except cute?

Well, I know there's another way to describe it as stupid...... I don't deny it, really.

"Ah Jun, look! There are fish in the river! As soon as she put away the frozen castle at my urging (I was afraid that it would scare people, though it looked like a mirage here), she pointed to the side of the ship and cried out, for I don't know when a large school of fish had gathered on the side of the freighter, and it was clinging to the boat, of course, fish, only because they were swimming in the water, these strange creatures were very different from the fish on earth, with gray-black carapaces on their backs, and their bodies almost perpendicular to the water, With their bellies close to the high-speed cargo ship, they gathered in groups, apparently trying to hang themselves on the ship. Occasionally, a weak "fish" will be seen being repelled by a nearby shock wave, but most of them eventually come close to the hull unharmed.

"It's a Grey Swift Fish, a specialty of the Hanging River," Sagina introduced, "and this fish lives near the broken banks of the middle reaches of the Hanging River, and every other month it has to go upstream to lay eggs, because the small fry are weak and do not look for rock nests to avoid the turbulence, and if they are born downstream, they will be washed out of the Hanging River and float into the clouds." They are very smart guys, and when they go upstream, they will wait for passing cargo ships to rush up and take a hitchhiker, and of course they will have to swim upstream by themselves if they don't squeeze into a position. ”

"Oh-" Shandora stretched out her voice and suddenly tugged at my arm, "Jun, I want to eat." ”

I clutched my head: "These are all rare animals, so you can keep some virtue." ”

"Ah Jun Ah Jun," Qian Qian didn't know when he stood on the top of the bow of the boat, and greeted me with open arms to face the river breeze, "Come and hold me from behind, see if it looks like Titanic, I can still sing that song, I ...... the law of conservation of my heart"

My sister and I hurriedly pulled this girl down and counted them in a loud voice: "This is unlucky! ”

The days with this girl are so much more joyful, can't she do something that a normal person can think of?

The journey was smooth and fast, and the magic-powered cargo ship relied on controlling the water element directly at the back of the hull to generate propulsion, while using the enchantment on the hull to counteract seventy or eighty percent of the current resistance, so the speed was amazing, and the ship slowed down once the whole way: it was close to a narrow section of the river, and the cargo ship had to slow down to be safe.

One of the more dangerous things about navigating a hanging river than navigating a river on the ground is that you should never get close to the shore. On land, if the course is out of control and close to the riverbank, the worst situation is just to run aground on the reef and run aground, even if the boat sinks, it is easy to rescue, while in the hanging river, once it rushes out of the river...... Sixty or seventy percent of the surrounding area has no river banks, and you will fly headlong out of the water and into the clouds more than ten kilometers thick. It is said that a similar accident occurred in history, it was in the early days of the establishment of the Hanging River Route, a magic power cargo ship lost control while passing through a bend and plunged headlong into the nearby sea of clouds, and the wrecked cargo ship is still floating in the clouds, slowly drifting around the Hanging River with the flow of clouds and mist. The crew was lucky enough to be found and rescued by the griffon knights before starving to death. But there was no way to pull the huge ship back into the river. So it became a monument of caution. If you're good enough and lucky, you might even occasionally see the "wandering ship" poking its head out of the clouds with its head high up. …,

All of these stories were told to me by Sakina, who was like an encyclopedia. Although she is not self-deprecating and has a low level of culture, she knows a lot of strange legends and stories, all of which are accumulated over the years of adventure life.

"Mmm In front of us, the river suddenly became unusually open. Both sides were already full of vast rivers, if it weren't for the strengthening of their vision. You may not even see the riverbank and the rows of buildings in the distance, and mistakenly think that you have come to the sea. In front of it is an island covered with verdant vegetation, and there is a recess on this side of the island, which happens to be a natural harbor where cargo ships are about to call.

"It's a residential area on both sides of the river, but it's not much to see, it's crowded, and there are only two military towns with soldiers," Sagina said, "The teleportation area of the Sky Tower is on the island, and it's not far from the shore. Let's go, get ready for a fight, the back door of the Sky Tower is guarded. ”

Sona went to say hello to the boat boss, and then helped her sister and Tsuko gather together the bear children and the large bear children who were already running on the deck, and a group of us got off the boat and set foot on the land of the largest island in the hanging river.

There are not many people in the Hanging River area, after all, this is also the Lost World Realm rather than the Mother Continent, and the people stationed here are equivalent to being stationed in another space, so naturally it will not be too large-scale, except for the cargo loading and unloading port, where some troops and workers are stationed, the rest of the island is basically a barbaric area: no one plans to settle down in this kind of place anyway. The teleportation point of the Sky Tower is just under the cliff 100 meters away from the port, with a boulder cliff on the back, and a large river beach in front of it, the scale of this teleportation point is quite small, in fact, the only anomaly that can be seen is a stone brick field on the river beach that is only about 100 square meters: a stone brick field is abruptly projected on the river beach where the sand and stones are piled up, and this is the entrance to the Sky Tower.

However, as soon as we stand on this stone and brick floor, the scenery around us changes instantly.

The wide expanse of the Hanging River disappears before your eyes, and in its place is a staggeringly large megalithic square.

Huge stone bricks several meters long are laid to the ground with a skilful levelness, and each stone brick has a mystical line of simple and proportional beauty, which extends out of the square in perfect harmony: of course, it is impossible to tell what it is from the ground. Except for this megalithic square, everyone's eyes were empty, and there was nothing but the edge of the square that could be seen meeting the clouds.

"That's the Sky Tower," Sakina turned and pointed behind the group, "it's spectacular, isn't it?" No matter how many times you've seen it, it's an amazing miracle, but it's a pity that Sona and I have only been here once or twice, and the Sky Tower is too dangerous for a weak team like us. ”

"I'll go!" I turned my head to look at it and couldn't help but exclaim, "This...... This Nima is even bigger than the Tree of the Worldly Realm! ”

What I saw was not a tower at all! Or rather, it's a tower, but you can't see it as a tower at this distance: it's a huge thing! What appeared in front of me was a slightly curved, boundless wall, which stretched to the end of the line of sight, like a vertical horizon, and how high was it?

I couldn't see the top, and I tilted my head to the limit, and I could only see this wall that stood on top of the sky and the earth until it disappeared at the end of the clear sky. …,

Of course, this is not the first time I have seen this kind of 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, something similar to something so huge that it gives the illusion of "a vertical land" I have seen a lot in the Imperial Starport, and no matter how big the Sky Tower in front of me is, it will definitely not be able to beat the Eternal-class mothership - even the size of a medium-sized Imperial warship. It's just that this place is different, this is not a shadow city, this is an otherworldly realm, an otherworldly realm where even building houses still relies on stones and wooden blocks!

This tower was definitely not built by any of the existing civilizations in this world - of course, I have long known that every relic in the Lost World was not made by any of the existing civilizations in the mother continent, but the scale of this sky tower is still beyond my expectations.

There is no decoration on the exterior wall of the Sky Tower, it is just a smooth surface of pale yellow, there are no windows and no brick joints, and there is no sign of its layering, the material is neither gold nor wood nor stone, just this outer wall makes us a lot interested.

"It's a complex synthetic material," Sandora scanned the composition of the tower's walls with just a glance, but she clearly thought of more than just what the tower was made of, "the tower is thirty-five kilometers tall and weighs ...... It doesn't make sense, it relies on antigravity and area vector fine-tuning to stabilize itself, and the entire tower is changing its net mass at a fixed period. In addition, there is an energy shield inside the tower. (To be continued)