Chapter 260: Travels in the Clouds

March 10, 200 kilometers from the outpost core, 300 kilometers from the super-large sky island.

The return route of the first batch of caravans dispatched by the territory.

"They are still chasing us!"

The lady from the Geological Society said in a panic, obviously experiencing this kind of thing for the first time.

"There are always some guys who want to get something for nothing, haha, they can't catch up with us."

Jiang Liu said to Aina, asking her to let go. Our ship moves faster than them, and their broken wooden barrels are still too much to catch up with the territory's floating ships.

Even if they are caught up, the eleven musketeers on their ship are not afraid of the opponent in hand-to-hand combat.

He is indeed afraid of fighting, because most of the things on this ship are living plant seeds. If they are sent back to the territory for cultivation, he will be hurt if one is damaged.

"We'll probably have to pass another empty island as a jump point. We're almost there."

Jiang Liu steered the ship and shook off the robbers who wanted to catch up with him but couldn't catch up with him because of his speed. These guys are often able to build a small camp on an island. If they see other merchant ships coming, they will be eager to find them to make money.

As the opponent's barrel ship disappeared into the clouds, Jiang Liu turned around to check the map on the cockpit wall hanging on his side. The rough map only used small dots to mark the location of each island and the inaccurate relative distance. A mechanical clock purchased from the Holy City was placed in the cabin to provide accurate time.

Jiang Liu would use a ruler, his direction, the time of sailing, and the island he left to calculate his location. After arriving at any island recorded on the map, he would repeat the above process, over and over again, and then accurately return to his own port.

Only a madman would do a point-to-point sailing across a straight-line distance of more than 600 kilometers. It is something that every captain should do to constantly correct and confirm his relative position. If he cannot confirm his relative coordinates, the map is just a piece of waste paper.

Jiang Liu was not very worried, because once they found obvious deviation. The lord can also find their position through the small map and send a rescue fleet to help them.

But they are not super-patient people, and they also avoid troubling the patrol forces of the territory. Along the way, Jiang Liu used the sky island as a jumping point to move forward steadily, and rested on the sky island when he could.

And the geologist lady they took on board would occasionally collect some plants under their protection when they rested. Then take the airship to travel around the entire sky island, and she outlined the shape of the floating island.

Jiang Liu did not ask her for money, but only asked to share the map after the preliminary exploration with her. Aina touched her not full wallet and agreed readily.

She still had to keep the funds to hire these guys on the sky island to help her find her master, so she would save as much as she could in such a place.

Slowly sailing in the air, it was just as difficult to tell the direction and coordinates as sailing on the sea.

The sky and the clouds were one color.

The drifting clouds and mist blocked their vision, and occasionally rain clouds passed by, blocking their way forward, swallowing them with their gray-black bodies and obscuring their vision.

The upper, lower and left sides were all covered by gray clouds, as if entering a completely lightless night. With the crisp echo of raindrops hitting the wall of the ship, the portholes were closed in the ship, and the rune lights for temporary lighting were lit. Every crew member prayed that the abnormal celestial phenomenon would pass soon.

The dark clouds would not affect the hull, but would greatly affect their observation field of view and increase the management pressure.

Hanging alone in the sky, it seemed as if they were the only ones left in the sky to face nature alone.

Occasionally, they could hear some terrifying cries coming from the depths of the clouds, and some cloud-dwelling creatures shuttled through the rain clouds.

"Wait, are we almost at this island?"

Aina suddenly remembered something, took out a more detailed map from her bosom, and pointed to an island on it to Captain Jiang Liu.

Her teacher specially marked a coordinate point with a small blue mark on one of the very few islands on this map, which she discovered recently when she was looking over and over the map of the sky island in her own compartment.

Life on the ship was extremely boring, and there was no fun except watching the soldiers play cards.

Occasionally, they would gather together to share stories about their hometown, and Hackett would talk about the good days in the manor before his small family collapsed...

More often, they would play cards there, a kind of cards they called poker; or two people would play a kind of chess there, and a group of people would shout loudly around them.

Aina also saw that they all had no ears, but the leader Jiang Liu fooled them by saying that their group just had no ears.

Not being special is also a kind of special. You see, he can also use spells, so there is no need to worry at all.

Already on the pirate ship, she could only convince herself with difficulty to believe Jiang Liu's statement.

There was no way not to believe it, he was the biggest on the ship.

At least the other party didn't look like a bad guy.

She could only look through her map again and again out of boredom, and then she discovered the specialness of this map. But when she found out, the ship was almost in the airspace of Sky Island No. 3, and that island was the last island connecting the known airspace and the unknown airspace on the map in her hand.

"Well, you mean this island? It's about an hour's journey."

Jiang Liu used a scale to confirm the location of the islands on the two maps, and finally gave an uncertain answer.