Although the air cyclist and the air craft are very large in appearance, the basic structures of both are the same. For example, their torso are composed of skeletons and skins, and the sides of the torso also have wings that control the flight posture. Although based on functional needs, the wing ratio of the air craft is larger and more flexible than that of the air craft. As for the manufacturing materials, the skeletons and skins of the air craft are usually made of wood, while the skeletons are made of bones that are stronger than wood, and the skins are also made of monster skins.

Although wood, bones and monster skin seem to be incompatible at first glance, if you analyze their relationship, you will find that they have one thing in common - that is, they all belong to part of biological tissue. Whether it is wood, tree bark, bones, or animal skin, the material used as the material for making aircraft can only be the tissue part of a certain organism. The reason for such limitation is that it is the characteristics of "airflow" itself.

You should know that "air current" is the cycle of magic energy scattered in the atmosphere. It is not only the power of monsters, but also the source of power for all aircraft. Air currents can be smoothly transmitted in biological tissues composed of organic materials, but in contrast, inorganic materials such as metals will hinder the conduction of air currents. For this reason, metals and other mineral elements are kicked out of the list of main materials for making aircraft. Among the remaining shortlists, wood can be said to be the cheapest and easiest material, so it is naturally the material for making airships.

Of course, airships with low performance requirements can be made of wood, but air riding cannot.

Unlike airships that are purely transport vehicles, air cavalry is an aircraft born for combat and has requirements for performance far exceeding the former. Fragile wood cannot withstand the inertia force that changes dramatically in combat, so the skeleton core of air cavalry must be made of bones that are stronger than wood. In the bones, the materials are divided into three or six, six or six, among which ordinary monster bones are the second, and monster bones are the best.

In addition to the skeleton, the skin covering the surface of the skeleton is also a very important part of the body. Since the skin of the skeleton plays a decisive role in the body's defense, wood that cannot resist the penetration of the bullet is of course not to be considered, and the monster skin with excellent toughness is the best choice. However, since this type of advanced material is quite rare, more skeletons use monster skin as body skin and take various measures to wrap metal in key parts to increase defense.

The structure of the wings of the air riding is also similar to the torso, but for the need for flexible manipulation, it is often made of lighter materials and designed to be foldable structures to facilitate storage and mooring.

Basically, the three parts of the skeleton, skin and wings form the main external structure of the skeleton, while the interior of the skeleton is mainly composed of three components: floating mechanism, engine and cannon.

The "floating mechanism" can be said to be the heart of the air cavalry. Its principle is to use the energy of the "floating stone" to create an air flow cycle surrounding the body, and resonate with the air flow in the atmosphere, so as to generate a buoyancy that offsets gravity. Since the air flow cycle generated by the air cavalry is also the source of power for the engine and cannon, it is very appropriate to regard the air cavalry as the energy silo of the air cavalry.

The "engine" is usually directly connected to the floating mechanism, and relies on the energy provided by the floating mechanism to drive the propeller to rotate, thereby providing the propulsion required for the air rider to fight at high speed.

"Machine Cannon" is the fangs of an air cavalry, which uses high-speed kinetic energy to kill target weapons. The power of the machine cannon also comes from the airflow cycle generated by the floating mechanism, so the bullets it uses must of course be organic materials. In fact, most of the bullets of the machine cannon are made of animal teeth. Although the teeth of monsters can produce more powerful and lethal bullets, they are special ammunition that can only be configured by a few models.

Whether it is a skeleton, skin, or bullets, basically, air riders made of tissue materials on monsters usually have higher performance than other air riders, but because of the high cost, only senior pilots can configure it.

What surprised Qilin was that the "Wolf Flame" given to him by Nuoyin was such a high-level air rider.

The skeleton of the wolf flame is made of the bones of the deep-sea magic ray as raw material. It is extremely strong. Even if it is hit by a huge impact when falling, the skeleton has no trace of deformation. Unfortunately, the several defensive reinforcement ribs at the wound on the back were broken into two pieces due to heavy blows from the monsters. The middle part is even more completely shattered, which makes the Qilin feel so distressed that he thrust for a long time.

If the slight damage to the skeleton is barely acceptable, the scarred skin of the wolf flame almost made him faint. The skin of the wolf flame is made of the skin of the Corodod dragon, and the Corodod dragon is a famous monster that appears in the volcanic area. Its vertical scales are covered with even the armor-piercing sword. Apart from using poison traps, humans have almost no way to capture them. The air cavalry armed with such giant lizard scales should have been indestructible, but large and small scars can be seen everywhere on the skin of the wolf flame.

Some of the scars were thick in fingers, some were big in fists, and several claws were connected together. In addition, the huge wounds penetrated the back, so when they were peeled off from the skeleton, they broke into dozens of pieces. Qilin looked at the half-human-high broken skin piled in the corner of the hangar, showing a crying expression.

"Um, it's broken like this. Even if it's sewed again, it's impossible to use it..." Qilin muttered, grabbed a piece of broken skin and looked at it, and thought about whether he would just grab a few Corodod dragons to be skinned.

"Hey, help me move this out." Xiude's voice sounded behind him. Qilin looked back and saw Xiude, who was wearing work clothes, struggling to drag something out of the wolf flame's body.

"Is this... a machine cannon?" Qilin went over to help Xiude move things out, but saw that the machine cannon's straight barrel had been bent at a right angle of about ninety degrees, and his face suddenly became bitter.

"This is useless. The impact on landing not only destroyed the barrel, but also deformed the chamber. Instead of taking time to repair it, it is better to rebuilt it as scrap iron and rebuilt it faster." Before Qilin asked a question, Xiu De first said the conclusion, then shrugged his shoulders and let out a long sigh. "As a result, all four cannons were destroyed, and the engine that was beaten to pieces by monsters, two of the three major items of the Air Rider were scrapped. If the floating mechanism had not been miraculously preserved, there would be no need for this Air Rider to repair it."

The floating mechanism is the heart of the air rider and is equivalent to the soul of the air rider. For an air rider, all components except the air rider have some degree of substitutability, but the air rider cannot replace it. Once the air rider is damaged, even if the other components are intact, the air rider is equivalent to death. But on the other hand, as long as the air rider is not seriously damaged, no matter how serious the trauma is, it can be repaired - at least in theory.

"It's good that the floating mechanism is not broken, but so many scrapped parts..." Qilin threw the cannon into a corner of the hangar, and Xiu De's gaze also moved over. There were abandoned parts like a hill, accounting for two-thirds of the total folded parts, and it also became the material for the two people to sigh in the past few days.

"Yes, these parts are enough to assemble and half-floor riding. It's a pity that you can sort them out all of them..." Xiu De looked through the thick list of damaged parts in his hand, showing a headache. "Anyway, repair the parts that can be repaired first, as for the rest... I will only talk about it then."

"Let's talk about it then..." Qilin stared at the pile of damaged parts with critical eyes. "If there is no way, would you want me to fly into the sky with an air riding without engines, wings, and even a helm?"

"Well, this is quite difficult..." Xiu De's forehead broke out with cold sweat and nodded to admit Qilin's opinion. "That's right, if you can't find a replacement for damaged parts, it will be useless even if other parts are repaired. But the question is, where should you find these replacement parts..."

"...I said, is there any place to buy it? It's best if you don't have money." Qilin asked.

"Money is not a problem. The problem is that you may not be able to buy these parts if you have money, unless it is a 'black market'..." Xiu De looked at the list in his hand with a grievance.

"Black market?" Qilin's ears stood up. "Where is that? Can you get parts?"

"Well, the 'black market' is an illegal trade network all over the world. It should be said that nothing is impossible to get..." Xiu De looked puzzled. "But the problem is that the prices of black market goods are usually several times the market price. If you really buy these parts from the black market, the price may be similar to a new air rider. Moreover, the black market has never done business with strangers. If you don't have any way, you can't find it even if you have money."

"Besides, I have no money..." Qilin lowered his shoulders and sighed heavily.

"Damn it! If there is no other way, just sneak into the air base and remove the parts from the air rider parked there and replace it..." Under Xiu De's gaze, the young man from the Great Wilderness who was suffering from money bit his finger and began to plan a certain criminal plan.

"...Well, let me ask, are you serious?" Seeing the dark pupils flashing with a faint fierce light, Xiu De couldn't help but shivered.

"No, I just think about it casually..." Qilin restrained the fierce light in his eyes, but what he said made Xiude even more frightened. "For example, it is not simply to remove it, but to replace the good parts with these bad parts. How about it? Although there are so many, but to allocate them to dozens of air riders, each air rider will be very burdened. As long as you master the opportunity and do not expose your tracks, even if you find damaged parts, you should be treated as natural loss. Isn't that a problem?"

Xiude looked at Qilin in a daze, as if he had known him for the first time. If he had not heard such an evil and definite plan, Xiude would probably not have thought about how the extra expenses in the treasury would be paid in the future until he died. Although he couldn't help but want to applaud Qilin's wonderful plan, from the standpoint of the king, Xiude felt that he should still stop him.

"Uh, I think it's not that easy for the air force base to sneak in? And if you are caught, it's a serious crime?" Xiu De reluctantly reminded Qilin.

"No problem, unless the air cavalry is dispatched, no one can catch me on the ground." Qilin confidently promised. "And as long as you act at night, you don't have to worry about being discovered."

For the Great Wilderness warriors who can even fight monsters head-on, the alert at the Air Force Base is just a joke. Even during the day, with the skills of the Qilin, you can still go in and out as if you are no one, let alone at night. Although Xiude has not had the chance to see the Qilin's strength, he sounds full of confidence in his tone. For someone who is absolutely restless, sneaking into the Air Force Base for sabotage under the cover of nightfall, it sounds so tempting that he overwhelmed the responsibility of being a king for a while, making Xiude frown and fall into a situation of war between heaven and man.

"First of all, we need to figure out the layout of the air force base. I roughly saw it on an airship last time, and it should be like this..." Qilin found a piece of paper and drew a floor plan of the base based on the general impression in his head.

"The hangar is at this location. If you invade from here, you can reach it in just five minutes, but the problem is the sentry on the way... Well, is it better to touch the virtual and the real tonight..." Staring at the floor plan, Qilin had begun to conceive the steps to implement the crime plan in his mind.

"Wait! Wait! Wait!" As the king's ethics narrowly won at the last moment, Xiu De stopped him urgently. "If you want to find replacement parts, you don't have to go to the air force base. I know a better place."

“A better place?”

"Well, I just remembered it..." Xiu De wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Qilin: "Have you heard the name of 'Occasional Cemetery'?"

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The so-called "air riding cemetery" is a place for scrapped air riders, literally, to place scrapped air riders. Although the service life of air riders is more than ten years theoretically, few air riders can actually achieve theoretical service life. From quality hazards to training accidents, there are many reasons for early scrapping of an air rider, and the biggest reason is combat losses. As for the Kingdom of LaVillis, although its air force has been independent of the army's management system for less than twenty years, it has to face the heavy load of the air pirate group that is more than ten times its own number, so the loss rate is far higher than the average level of other countries.

So far, more than fifty air cavalry have been buried in the Air Cavalry Cemetery in the Kingdom of LaVillis, which is almost half of all the air cavalry. However, it is worth thanking that compared with Air Cavalry, the loss rate of the pilot is far lower than that of the air cavalry. In any case, whether it is a forced landing or an emergency return, the fact that the air cavalry can be kept recycled and landed on the ground is proven that the pilot has a stronger battlefield survivability than the air cavalry.

In fact, an excellent pilot who crossed the line of life and death is a priceless treasure. Even if he uses more than ten air riders to exchange, he will organize without hesitation. In this sense, the twelve air riders in the Kingdom of LaVillis may have the value of more than one thousand,200 air riders. Despite this, the reality is that due to the absolute number gap, the air force of the Kingdom of LaVillis has never gained any advantage in the battle with air pirates.

There are only two ways to break this disadvantage. One is to improve the quality of the pilots, and the other is to increase the number of pilots. For example, if the pilots are divided from low to high into ordinary pilots, elite pilots and ace pilots, about half of the 120 pilots in the Air Force of the Kingdom of LaVillis can be divided into the level of elite pilots. Although this proportion is already quite high among the air forces of various countries, when it comes to higher-level ace pilots, there are only three Baixiang Chiefs in the entire air force, including Noin.

If the proportion of ace pilots rises to one tenth, the LaVillis Air Force will in turn have an overwhelming advantage over the air pirates, but this situation is an almost impossible miracle. Therefore, if you want to truly eliminate the air pirates, the second method is more practical, that is, to increase the number of pilots. For the LaVillis Air Force, which is seriously short of human resources, even an elite pilot will have a great impact on the situation, let alone the ace seeds with admiration for even the "Sheng Thunder Dome Light" and an unlimited future.

Xiu De concluded that Qilin had great value, so he planned to win him over into the Kingdom Air Force at any cost. Under this premise, the control ban on the air cavalry cemetery issued by the previous generation of the Assistant Duke himself was just a seasoning to make the adventure more interesting for someone whose personality deviation was at the two extremes of "scattered" and "dangerous".

So, on a night when I couldn't see my fingers, two sneaky figures appeared in front of the heavily guarded air biking cemetery...
Chapter completed!