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03 The knight of the sky

"Tsk, he actually ran away..." Qilin angrily threw away the leader of the front thief in his hand.

He still overestimated the quality of these air pirates. If he had known that they were a mob who did not even have basic organization, he would not have wasted his energy on Loki, but chose to rush over to suppress the air pirate ship. Kirin couldn't help but regret it, but there was no way. At this moment, the air pirate ship had reached the air hundreds of meters away, and the scared air pirates on it would never give him a chance to board the ship.

As Qilin was gaze, the air pirate ship in the distance slowly adjusted its direction and aimed the naval gun on the bow of the ship at the airship. The bow of the air pirate ship was equipped with large naval guns, which could easily destroy this passenger ship with weak armor. When in the Great Wilderness Village, facing the indiscriminate bombing of the air pirate ship falling from the sky, the villagers had no other means of confrontation except for escaping. However, the situation facing Qilin is even worse than that time - the Virgin, which hovered in the air and could not move, was simply an absolute target of living.

"Bastard! Is this a move really done?" Qilin punched the ship's side, paused, and turned to Yili next to him and asked. "Hey! Are there any weapons on this ship?"

"No..." Yili responded to Qilin with a pale and bitter smile. "If you want to hit the pirate ship in the sky, you must at least have heavy armed ships. It is impossible to configure this kind of civilian ship."

"Is there no other way?" Qilin gritted his teeth and stared at the empty pirate ship.

"Uh, I think..." Erie smiled bitterly and pointed at the red smoke coming out of the bow of the Virgin ship in the distance. "We can also pray to the gods that if the Air Force can come in time, there may be some rescue."

“…What is that?”

"It is a helping signal, indicating that the ship is in danger. If the weather is clear, you can see it from a distance."

"Is it really effective..." Qilin expressed doubts about Yili's expectations.

In the short time of conversation between the two, the air pirate ship had completed the aiming action and fired the first gun at a speed that was lightning speed.

Accompanied by a deafening explosion, the shells of the pirate ship dragged the spiral trail and shot out at high speed, and exploded violently in front of the airship side.

The shells fired by the pirate ship hit the engine on the left side of the airship, and the violent explosion made the hull of the airship tremble violently. Fortunately, the engine of the pirate was connected to the hull through short wings, so this explosion did not directly affect the structure of the hull. The engine and paddles instead of the hull absorbed most of the impact, and the floating mechanism located on the brink of the ship was not damaged. After the smoke of the explosion dissipated, the pirates were stunned to see the airship dragging its residual wings and barely floating in the air.

It is incredible that even such a close-range bombardment failed to blow the opponent away!

The thieves subconsciously recalled the scene when the Kirin swept the deck alone, and couldn't help but feel some irrational fear. Since it took half a minute to cool down after the first gun was launched, the thieves began to hesitate to take another strike to completely destroy the airship, or to take advantage of the Kingdom Army's arrival and then slip away.

The hesitation of the pirates gave Qilin a breath, but at this time the people on the airship were in a crisis moment with their lives hanging on their backs.

The airship relies on the floating mechanism in the vent of the boat to provide buoyancy to support the hull, and the engine at the bow provides propulsion to make it move forward. In addition to providing propulsion, the left and right engines also have an important role in adjusting the balance of the hull. At this time, due to the loss of the weight of the left engine, the fragile balance of the airship immediately collapsed, and the huge hull slowly tilted to the right. As the hull tilted, the hinges, cargo boxes, ropes, etc. on the deck slide to the right.

Some of the empty thieves who were knocked down by the Kirin, and some captured passengers were thrown into the void without any bearing in panic screams.

"Damn it!" Qilin jumped to the left, holding the armrest that protruded the deck with his right hand, and grabbed the countess who had slid past him with his left hand.

"...ah...ah..." The terrified countess hugged Qilin tightly, and his body trembled constantly.

"Those shameless bastards can only use this method..." Qilin frowned tightly. Although he barely rescued the countess nearby, the person thrown into the void was more than ten times more. In the face of the huge disaster of the hull capsized, his personal strength was minimal, and if this airship capsized, everyone on the ship, including him, would have to be buried with him.

"Hey! The one over there! Is it okay?" Qilin shouted at Yili not far away.

"My side...well, although it can't be called okay...but I think I can hold on for a while..." Yili was holding a railing on the deck with both hands, desperately preventing herself from sliding down.

"Okay, is there any way?" Qilin asked, pointing to the overturned hull. The airship was completely unfamiliar to him. The only person who could ask in front of him was this gentle young man. Judging from Yili's previous performance, Qilin felt that he could trust his judgment.

"Just, even if you ask like this..." Yili, who was under this trust, showed a distressed expression. He looked around at a loss, and the huge engine on the right side of the airship reflected his vision.

"Yes... yes! If the engine on the right is cut off, the hull should be restored to balance... Well, it is possible to restore balance, but it should be impossible to destroy that thing... it should not be possible?" Yili showed a lack of confidence. After all, the connection between the engine and the hull can be said to be one of the most solid structures on the airship. Even a team of fully armed engineers can not destroy it in a short time.

"So that's it. Just let the weights of both sides be balanced..." Facing Yili, who was not confident, Qilin nodded confidently.

"Woman, grab this place and hold on for half a minute." Qilin pushed the Countess onto the handrail, letting her hold it tightly, and then letting go and slipped down.

"Hey! Wait! No matter what, it's too dangerous..."

Under Yili's stare, Qilin slid along the deck to the short wing on the right. At this moment, the hull had been inclined more than thirty degrees, and the strong wind brought by the rotation of the huge paddles blew violently from the front, as if he was about to lift him off the boat. Qilin had to hold the railings of the ship with both hands and barely fix his body, but he couldn't free his hands to perform his kung fu. In addition, he had to pay attention to various objects that kept sliding down from the deck behind him. From the perspective of the bystanders, it was so thrilling.

"Really, there are so many surprises along the way... When we reach the capital, we must let Chechen explain it carefully..."

Kirin muttered, turned around and kicked the slide deck fragments away, jumped high with the power of recoil, and then hit the middle of the short wing and the engine.

"Broken it for me! The celestial teeth crack and rush!"

There was only a dull sound of "dong", and the energy of "Sky Teeth" smashed the skeleton of the short wings on the spot.

After losing the support of the skeleton, the outer skin could not bear the strong stress from the engine and was completely torn apart within a few seconds. The engine rushed into the void ahead with a part of the wreckage of short wings, while the Kirin grabbed the wreckage on the other side and did not fall out, but was also scared by the thrill just now.

At the same time, after losing the engines on both sides, the airship regained its balance, and the hull slowly returned to a level with the sound of groaning. Many people, including the Countess, lie on the ground. Yili was also lying on the deck in a panting, gasping for breath. Even if the footsteps of the Kirin sounded beside him, he did not get up, but just looked at the Kirin with a mixed look of fatigue and confusion.

"...Well, can I ask a question?"

"What?"

"Are you really a human? I heard that some monsters can transform into human form..."

"Go to you, my name is Qilin, I am a traveler from Dahuang Village." Qilin replied unhappily, and reached out to pull Yili up. "Get up, the empty pirate ship over there has not been solved yet. Do you want to lie down and wait for death?"

"Ah, don't worry about that, they are ready to escape..." Yili waved his hand tiredly.

"What?" Qilin looked in surprise and found that the empty pirate ship that was originally aiming at this side had turned around in panic, and couldn't help but wonder: "What's going on?"

"It should be the Air Force coming..." After getting out of Qilin's hand, Yili sat on the ground again. "The Air Force is not blind. If such a big thing happens, the Wangdu must have noticed it a long time ago. The air cavalry patrolling nearby may have set up a siege around. These guys can't escape this time."

"Changqi? What is it?" Qilin became interested in this noun that he had heard for the first time.

"It's the cavalry in the air, the most elite combat unit of the Kingdom Army... Ah, look there! It seems to have arrived!" Yili suddenly pointed to the sky on the other side in an excited tone.

"That's... the Kongqi?" Qilin narrowed his eyes and looked at the three small black dots that appeared in the air.

From this distance, the "air rider" mentioned by Yili is much smaller than the airship. The slender body and wide wings extending to both sides are the most obvious features on its appearance. If it weren't for the propulsion engine similar to the airship behind it, the Qilin would definitely regard them as some kind of giant birds. In the low trembling sound of the high-speed rotating blades cutting the airship, the Qilin rushed towards the airship at an extremely fast speed. The moment the two sides passed by, the Qilin noticed that the air rider in the head was painted with a flag with a blue background and white pattern.

"The green one... is the 'Cangkong King'!" It seemed that seeing the same thing, Yili jumped up excitedly. "Great! Those guys can't escape!"

"Is that true..." Qilin held his hands in front of his chest and looked at the air cavalry with some doubt. After all, in terms of size, an air cavalry is about one-tenth of the size of an air pirate ship. If the combat power of both sides is proportional to the volume, even if three air cavalry is on the same side, the air pirate ship will not surrender. Maybe there will be a hard battle in the end.

Although Qilin speculated this way, the development of the facts was completely beyond his expectations. In fact, the three air cavalry had no intention of being the most powerful. Seeing the pirates fleeing in a panic, two blue-painted air cavalry on the left and right took the initiative to leave the attack route. The two air cavalry waved their bird-like wings and drew two 180-degree arcs in the air, and then floated around the air boat like an escort, allowing the blue air cavalry to rush towards the air pirate ship with ten times the volume alone.

"Hey, I'm just rushing over there alone... Is there no problem?" Qilin couldn't help but worry.

"Look at it! The 'Cangkong King' is the most elite unit of the Air Force. It doesn't take any effort to eliminate air thieves of that level." Yili assured confidently.

Hearing him say this, Qilin temporarily pressed his concern and focused on observing the battle between the air cavalry and the air pirate ship. He swept the ravages of the air pirates on the deck, and it was the first time he saw someone who could compete with the air pirates in the air.

Although Qilin was full of anticipation and hope to see a wonderful air battle with each other, in fact, the battle process can only be described as one-sided.

The blue air cavalry chased the air pirate ship at a speed that was far away, and then flew around the air pirate ship like warning the air pirates to stop the ship and surrender.

Perhaps it was because of the pirates who were aware of their own evil deeds and knew that even if they surrendered, they would inevitably die. They tried to use the secondary cannons installed on the side of the ship to kill the pursuers.

Faced with the artillery fire of the air pirates, the blue air cyclist simply stretched his wings, and the oncoming strong wind brought it to a height that the air pirates could not reach in an instant.

When the pirates' shells fell into the void weakly, the air cavalry above their heads had turned over and swooped down.

The air cavalry rushed to the deck of the air pirate ship at a right angle of nearly ninety degrees, and in the next second, a fierce tongue of flames was sprayed out from the cannon on its head. The bullets with huge kinetic energy poured on the deck like a rain. The bullets tore the bodies of the air pirate ship, penetrated the deck of the air pirate ship, and destroyed the floating mechanism under layers of protection... But in just a few seconds, when the blue air cavalry flew high again in the wind, the air pirate ship with a huge body had exploded in a violent explosion, and it was blown into two sections from the belly of the ship where the air pirate was located.

The violent explosion swallowed up all the pirates on the ship. The wreckage at the bow and stern of the ship turned into two huge burning fireballs and fell to the ground. Half of the sky was painted in flames. The unicorn on the airship stared blankly at the magnificent scene in front of him, and it was not until the green air rider rowed over his head that he came to his senses.

"Ah...ahh..."

Qilin sighed and greedily chased the figure of the air rider with his eyes. His incredibly beautiful posture had a more overwhelming impact than falling in love at first sight.

Qilin felt his heart beating wildly at an unprecedented speed, and when his eyes fell on the flag pattern with blue background and white patterns again, he suddenly remembered that in the letters sent by Chechen to the home, it seemed that the name "Cangkong King Rider" had been mentioned...
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