It doesn't matter. Hitzfeld also thinks it's not suitable to wear any stockings when going out in this kind of climate.
Check the environment first.
Xia Yibing's description of the "floating island fragment" yesterday is very appropriate. This fragment is about half the size of a basketball court, with only a small flat area on the top. The rest of the debris is horrible, with broken gaps and wildly growing steam pipes.
There is an advantage to the existence of these things. It didn't seem that cold last night, and a big reason for this was that there was a row of raised pipes in front to block the wind for them.
But there are also disadvantages... This core fragment is now full of holes, it is leaking water everywhere, and there is no telling when it will actually fail and take them into the sea.
After thinking about the possibility with great concern, Hitzfeld made the open-minded decision to go see the person first.
There is a difference between close and distant relatives, so we should definitely look at Xia first.
The place where they lay last night was on the east side, right next to the windbreak, under the wall. When Hitzfeld discovered this, he couldn't help laughing - no matter how you look at it, Madeline is too pitiful.
"Um... Aisuen..."
Xia Yibing was still talking in her sleep. The girl gave her a basic physical examination and confirmed that she just had a low-grade fever.
As for herself...her wrist was broken and her arm was dislocated. Strictly speaking, she was the one with the most serious injuries.
Both of them carried the medical bandages provided by Shadow Lion. Hitzfeld endured the pain and straightened his shoulder first, then used half a roll of bandage to hang his right hand around his neck, and used a pen he could find to support and fix the injury on his wrist.
It is definitely unscientific, but the conditions are limited and we can't do better.
After taking a closer look at Xia Yibing's condition and letting her continue sleeping there, Hitzfeld ran to the other side and saw a pair of women's feet in the gap between a row of pipes.
I walked up and saw Madeleine lying inside. Her fever was much more severe and her body felt very hot to the touch.
There's not even any fresh water in this damn place. Can we really survive two days like this?
The worry in her heart gradually grew. The girl stood up and suddenly felt that the wind direction had changed.
No, it's not that the wind direction changed, but the flight trajectory of this thing changed... It deviated slightly from its original trajectory and seemed to be falling.
This was both good news and bad news, the hope of escape was definitely on the ground, but she was not sure how exactly they would land.
Even landing was simply a luxury... There was a vast ocean below. Even if they entered the water safely and it sank, how would the three injured women survive at sea?
From this point of view, my previous speculation was indeed wrong. This fragment was not flying like this because it was looking for the whirlpool. It should just be because of inertia... It was flying in the direction that Alessia finally controlled it to crash into. It can be said that it had no purpose...
As he was thinking, Hitzfeld suddenly smelled blood.
She frowned, held on to the pipe and walked forward, following the fishy wind to the edge of this side, where she stood and looked to the side and below.
It was a very dangerous move, as half of her body was exposed, with the sea and gray fog below, but she could still see clearly - there were several broken corpses hanging in the gaps on the edge of this thing.
It turns out they are not the only ones.
Hitzfeld pursed his lips.
They are the only ones alive.
……
Meanwhile, Iverria was in chaos.
The floating island of the palace rose from the ground, leaving a huge deep pit in its place. Even the palace was gone, and for the people, it was simply a collapse of faith. Most people thought that King Oman had died in the battle between the two kingdoms of God, and the ships on the seashore were quickly robbed.
No one is stupid. They can't want to escape to the gray fog area in the south, but if they go further north, they will have to cross the sea and have a ship to go to Sara.
The collapse of order made this process extremely bloody. No one suppressed the riots in the city, and with those animals...it only took one day and one night to develop. At dawn the next day, thick smoke was rising everywhere in the city.
Many places were on fire, and the raging flames engulfed the houses, but no one cared whether there was anyone inside.
Everyone was worried, and everyone was in danger. A huge crowd gathered on the west coast, looking at the harbor and talking, calculating how much they would have to pay to buy a ticket to Sarah if they couldn't grab the boat and the people who occupied the big boat had guns.
Indeed, no one cared about them. A few miles away on the fjord coast, the apostles from the Mechanical Kingdom came into contact with the expedition team for the first time.
"Leon!"
Baliu rushed over and hugged her beloved husband tightly, regardless of the fact that he was soaked all over.
"..." Daryl watched the whole thing from behind. Her eyelids twitched unconsciously and she muttered softly, "Low-level biological sexual disturbance."
Luo Xin was much more polite than her. He stood there with Daryl waiting for the two of them to be intimate - in fact, it didn't take long, because both sides had more important things to talk about than being intimate.
"I believe we have calculated the approximate losses after a night of inventory." The person sent to negotiate was Ethan. He stepped forward without any etiquette such as shaking hands. While speaking, he looked at the sea in the distance, "I heard from Leon that you also want to find our captain?"
There was a bulging black shadow standing on the sea surface. It was the fallen mechanical fortress. Ethan couldn't help but frowning, not knowing whether it would be completely scrapped.
He was indeed more familiar with negotiation because he was the most senior and experienced among all the people. He knew very well that the reason for the negotiation was that the power of both sides was close.
There can be no negotiation when there is an imbalance of power. If that thing can still be driven and fly, the power on both sides will be unbalanced.
The Pierre lost both its captain and its first mate. Although it can only be considered missing for now, it is also a fact that it could not sail out safely.
"Ethan..." Leon called out.
He thought that if they wanted to cooperate, they had to build trust. He had just briefly explained what he had learned. Ethan's attitude seemed a bit too harsh to him.
But Baliu stopped him and whispered in his ear: "Shut up and let him talk."
Why?
Li Ang stared at his wife, not understanding why she treated him differently.
"When a person has played all the cards in his hand, he either wins the game or loses everything." Baliu whispered, "Can we win the game now?"
Li Ang didn't say anything.
"Then let him do it." Baliu gently combed his hair. "He is the best card player among you... You should learn from him in this regard."
Therefore, we have no intention of telling the Mechanical Kingdom about the submarine.
Li Ang pondered over these words and felt that they did make some sense.
If it was just one ship, it wouldn't be a big deal, but there was an Apis Cube on board, so we had to be on guard against outsiders.
"There is a high possibility that Aisuen Hitzfell is the princess of the Mechanical Kingdom, the one we must serve."
Luo Xin noticed this defensiveness, and he decided to speak out: "You don't have to be like this."
"I understand." Ethan nodded, "But please also understand us... After all, we are all flesh and blood... Once we die, we are really dead."
Was he referring to the crew members who died when the two floating islands collided?
Luo Xin frowned. He couldn't say anything else since he was using this as an excuse.
This man is much more difficult to deal with than Leon Cornerell. In human terms, he is very oily and you can't find a way to have a heart-to-heart with him.
"You're talking as if our private soldiers don't have any lives?" Daryl protested. "We lost more than 200 private soldiers! They are also close to being able to think independently... They may become mechanical apostles!"
"I think... the most urgent thing is that we need to exchange the intelligence we know, confirm each other's positions, and make sure that we are not enemies."
Ethan raised a hand: "The second is to unite and salvage the sea. We need to find the bodies and determine their specific movements."
This was the most pragmatic proposal. Luo Xin nodded, and the two sides quickly exchanged the intelligence information they had.
Of course, although it is called an exchange, in fact it is Sarah who is taking advantage.
What could this team know? They might know more about the Sara continent and some of the local customs and experiences there, but these were not important to the Mechanical Kingdom. They didn't even care who the current Sara king was.
There was only Aisuen Hitzfeld - they only cared about this one person. Their pilgrimage-like attitude was like the ancient apostles' pursuit of miracles, which made many people waver. Some believed that these people really wanted to serve the girl as their master.
But the problem now is that the Hitzfeld people are gone.
The two sides joined forces to support the Sara merchants at the port to seize the large ship, and together they went to that sea area to dive and salvage.
A lot of broken corpses were fished out. The process was silent and sad, because except for the female officers and attendants who had not had time to escape, the remaining corpses all belonged to the Pierre.
The people who had just gathered together to sing and drink a few days ago had suddenly become like this, some of them not even had a complete body left... Even though everyone was very rational about this kind of thing, and had experienced it before, their emotions were still inevitably depressed.
This atmosphere reached its peak when a smart child handed in an exquisite pistol. All the girl's acquaintances recognized it as the White Whale, her personal weapon.
"So she's dead?"
In the cabin of the merchant ship, Daryl glared at the white whale on the table.
"Her body was not found." Ethan shook his head. "All female corpses have been checked, and none of them match their body types."
Not only was Hitzfeld not among them, but Xia Yibing was not there either. This was really one of the few good news.
"Can you confirm this?" Luo Xin thought for a while, then raised his eyes and looked at Ethan.
His eyes were very deep, and his dark pupils were like an abyss. Ethan's mouth twitched involuntarily.
Damn...are they robots or are they transformed from living people?
"I can confirm that." He nodded and replied, "...Obviously, the skin color doesn't match."
The women in the palace were selected through various levels, and they all had good figures. It would be wrong to say that this group of men and the few women could distinguish the figures purely based on experience, after all, they had not carefully seen the naked bodies of the two people, so it was hard to say for sure.
But one thing is easy to distinguish: these women have lived in the hot climate of Goli for a long time, and their skin is inevitably tanned - not that ugly black, but more like copper or olive.
Very healthy, but certainly not as healthy as those two. So a glance at the skin color of the corpse basically ruled it out.
"After that thing collided with you, a piece of debris continued to fly away." Ethan looked at Luo Xin and then at Daryl, "We didn't find the monster... It's possible that they were on that thing, and it was that thing that captured Elsa."
Everyone saw that the fragment was flying eastward. The only place east of Ivenria could land was the Elsa continent. He didn't think the monster wanted to cross the ocean to find Laceres.
There were no setbacks between the two sides from meeting to communication to separation.
After confirming that there was a high probability that Hitzfeld would be taken away by the debris, Luo Xin politely said goodbye on the spot.
That evening, the agents lay on the outer edge of the merchant ship and saw a blurry black shadow break away from the wreckage of the fortress, rise into the air, and fly away to the east, and then fall into a strange silence again.
"Are we too useless?"
Torres was the one who didn't know how to read the atmosphere the most. He always said whatever he wanted to say: "This is of no use at all... They don't think highly of us at all!"
is not that right.
Although it sounds harsh, it is the truth.
Otherwise, he wouldn't just leave like that. He should at least choose one of them to take with him.
"No, no... This is based on the assumption that we still have a trump card." Darent shook his head, "We haven't lost yet... Think about it from another perspective, even if they value us, what can we do to help?"
"If you mean the Pierre, Mapus, remember that we have lost both the captain and the first mate..."
Darent shut up immediately. He also understood this: if only Hitzfeld was missing, they still needed Xia Yibing to drive the submarine. But now that both of them were gone, it was like there was no one left who could use that operating system.
It's disgusting that I have the submarine but can't drive it... I was thinking of catching up with Elsa and finding people quickly, so what should I do now?
"Has the girl named Glen settled down?"
Ethan turned around and asked a crew member.
"She's settled down." The crew member nodded. "She was just a little over-frightened. We found an empty room for her to stay in. Mrs. Neil gave her an IV drip. She should be fine."
"She's really good at fortune-telling." Ethan sighed, then turned around and took out a folded nautical chart from his arms.
"What is this?" Others were attracted by his actions.
"A more detailed map of the sea area." Ethan nodded and spread out the sea map. "I traded some of Hitzfeld's intelligence with them. It was worthless intelligence... but I got this in exchange. It can be of great use to us!"
"You want to do it manually?" Li Ang was the first to react and shook his head slowly: "I don't think so..."
The Mechanical Kingdom must be more familiar with the nearby sea areas than they are. There is no doubt about it. The value of this sea area topographic map is also very high, it is indeed true.
However, without using the Apis Cube, it is only theoretically possible to sail the ship to Aisha Island based on this nautical chart using only a hand-controlled operating system.
They are blind...
No one could sense the outside world, and there were too many accidents and hidden dangers along the way. Li Ang thought that instead of taking the risk of using this method, it would be better to cross the entire Goli and cross through the legendary Seahorse Fjord.
"No, I didn't say pure hand-job."
Ethan shook his head.
"Not by hand?" Darent laughed. "Not by hand but by that thing? It will explode into pieces if you touch it!"
They all understood the hidden dangers of the Apis Cube. No one refuted the wooden man at this time, as they all knew that this was not a joke.
"I think you are either still immersed in the blow and haven't gotten over it, or you took too much time off and can't even do the elimination method."
Ethan's tone was somewhat sarcastic.
"Have you forgotten? There is actually another person who can drive this ship."
How can it be?
Everyone's eyes widened and they looked around unconsciously, trying to find the hidden face.
Darent?
It can't be him...
