Chapter 624 Arrival
On this weird surface, even if the Narwhal can fly now, it doesn't dare to fly too high, God knows what's on it.
It was almost only flying a few meters above the ground. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the crew on board began to get familiar with their new ship.
Driving a floating airship is very different from driving a boat. They still need to be familiar with and train. Fortunately, they have not encountered any dangerous things along the way. The Gobi Desert on the surface is still very barren.
As the distance gradually approached, layers of track marks and tire marks appeared on the ground, all of which were left by the previous exploration ships.
In the end, Charles didn't even need a map, just looking at the marks could guide them to their destination.
During this period, Charles would meet the returning exploration team from time to time.
Through them Charles knew that their quest had begun.
Although going to the area in the sky will gradually become a relic, but there are always more ways than problems. As long as you carry all relics on your body, you don't have to worry about relics in any place.
The long time passed quickly, and Charles came under the huge black wall again.
The exploration ships that arrived ahead of schedule stopped beside the darkness. From a distance, it seemed as if a steel town had emerged out of thin air from the huge black wall.
"Captain, it looks very lively. I didn't expect that there would be a day of group exploration." Dipper leaned out more than half of the hull and said excitedly to Charles beside him.
Looking at the airship and exploration ship in the distance, Charles thought to himself: "They seem to form an exploration fleet under the contact of the Explorers' Association. I don't know what new clues they found during the time I went back."
His current purpose is very clear. The first is to find the dark body and find a way to get it back. If there is no way, then contact the foundation and ask them to send it, or force them to send it back.
"Huh~" A circle of sparks suddenly exploded above the huge black wall in the distance.
Under everyone's gaze, the flame in the darkness fell heavily to the ground like a huge firebird.
Charles took the binoculars and looked towards the ground in the darkness. In addition to the wreckage of the previous Foundation planes, there were some dark twisted metals.
It is not so easy to explore easily where the Foundation and Paibo can eat turtles at the same time.
When he saw Charles' Narwhal approaching, the leader of the exploration fleet immediately came to him.
The legs of this man in his fifties were made of iron, and he stepped on the deck and bumped.
The tough eyes under the scar on his forehead let Charles know that since the Explorers' Association made him the captain of the fleet, it obviously had given full consideration.
"Governor Charles, the situation is not optimistic. The situation above is very dangerous. Our people are attacking the fortifications day and night, and the casualties are very heavy. The so-called darkness has not been found for the time being." His voice was hoarse but extremely fast. With a hint of urgency.
"How many meters have you explored?" Charles asked looking up at the huge black wall in front of him.
"This is a simple map. We have explored 1,500 meters upwards, and our people are attacking the third floating island.
A long map was presented in front of Charles, which showed that there were more than one floating island above the surface, they were different in size, and the only similarity was suspended in the middle.
A large part of the map is blank, obviously they haven't finished exploring.
The most conspicuous thing on the map is that there are two new floating islands on the island that Charles has been to, and the two islands are drawn with a dotted line.
There are three islands on the map. It doesn't mean that there are only three floating islands on it. It's just that they only found out so much information after paying a heavy price.
"What's abnormal on the second floating island? What caused the casualties?" Charles asked the most important question.
The man named Dept gestured between the second island and the third island with his fingers.
"There is a strange forest between these two islands. It is 90° as a whole. There are some creatures that often fly out and attack our airship. Most of our damage is caused by them. Obviously, they They are all relict creatures."
"Governor Charles, to be honest, compared with the barren ground, it is very lively up there, and we also found a special thing in that forest. I think it is necessary to show you."
A photo was displayed in front of Charles, and what was displayed inside made his pupils shrink slightly.
A skull was wrapped in the eerie vomit-like colorful moss.
Although deformed, Charles could still tell that it was a human bone.
"Captain, do you think it belongs to the Foundation?"
Hearing Di Pu's question, Charles shook his head in denial. "Not necessarily, if it's really people from the Foundation, their corpses can't decompose so quickly."
But if the skull really isn't the Foundation, then there's something to be said about this matter.
If there are still surviving humans in the landmark, does that mean that as long as their habitat is found, it can be confirmed that the surface can also be used by Earth Sea humans to live?
Now there is only one skull, and Charles can't be sure, he needs more recent information.
"Aside from this skull, are there any other clues of human existence?"
"No."
"Did you meet three pink eyeballs on it?"
Charles now really wants to know whether the things that fought against the Foundation and Paibo live here or just came here by chance. Finding out this will be very helpful for his next exploration.
"No." Just after Dept finished speaking, he felt that what he said was a bit too absolute, and continued to add: "The airships that came back did not report in this regard. Some missing airships may have encountered them, but they could not report to us. .”
This is the truth, if anyone encounters that thing, it will be very difficult to come back alive.
After thinking about it, Charles decided not to ink any more, and ordered to Dept in front of him: "I want to go up and see by myself, and send someone who has been up there and is not dead, to be my guide."
"Yeah." Dept nodded, then quickly turned and left.
When the Narwhal went into darkness, there was a one-armed woman on deck.
Following Charles up, there were three other airships. They also have exploration tasks.
"Captain Charles, the monsters in the forest are generally very fast. The thing that attacked our airbags was a bird without feathers, with five eyes that rotated evenly on its head."
"Its hook-shaped beak is so sharp that it can puncture the air sac in three seconds if left unchecked."
The one-armed woman spoke very slowly, because her right half of the teeth had disappeared, so her words were leaky, but she still tried her best to describe what she had seen and heard.