The Engineer Walker jumped to his feet and shouted, "We're under attack!" "We're under attack!" As he spoke, he abruptly pried open the handle that controlled the marionette and pulled out a magical screen from the center. There were even many targeting and lock-on symbols on the screen. It was as if he was going to go all out and turn these natives into human sticks.
However, just as his finger was about to press the fire button, Baiyi stopped him in time.
"There's no need for that. Why don't we let this magic puppet follow them onto the ship?"
"Tsk tsk! What a waste of the Multicolored Cannon that I installed yesterday!" The Engineer Walker pursed his lips in regret. Perhaps he thought that Baiyi had a point, but in the end, he retracted the horrifying aiming interface.
So, this magic puppet had taken so long to be ready yesterday because it was equipped with new equipment? But why would a scout marionette be equipped with something as scary as a multicolored cannon? Was this really necessary for a reconnaissance mission? Do you want to add some floating cannons as well? Speaking of which, wasn't this magic puppet supposed to be equipped with a green eye? Wouldn't it be strange to add these things? Baiyi cursed inwardly.
Following Baiyi's suggestion, the Engineer Walker allowed the marionettes to remain still. The Engineer Walker waited for the Sky Troopers to believe that they had caught a big guy, and after they had tied the lassos to the levitating sleds, the Engineer Walker turned off the marionettes' propulsion system.
However, he had probably overestimated the skills of the cavaliers. The marionette, which had lost its magical propulsion, instantly plummeted to the ground like a heavy weight. Even though the sleighs were running at full speed, they couldn't move it at all. Screams of despair rang out from the sleighs.
"Tsk, tsk." The Engineer Walker pursed his lips in disdain. He reactivated the propulsion system, and the marionette floated in the air once more, saving the lives of the riders.
"How strange. This magic puppet isn't that heavy, is it? Their technology is enough to make that giant ship fly, but they can't even pull this marionette? "Baiyi asked curiously.
The scout marionette had undergone a lot of weight-loss procedures to make it fly better. Although the Engineer Walker had secretly added some unnecessary weapons to the marionette, when Baiyi cast a levitation spell on the marionette, he could tell that the marionette was not heavy at all. It weighed about three tons at most, right? That was only slightly heavier than a car. A medium-sized truck from Earth would be able to pull it easily, so why were the cavaliers unable to pull it? Then how did they manage to get that ten-thousand-ton steamship into the air?
The Engineer Walker was also a little curious about this problem. He even carried out an outrageous experiment. The cavaliers were probably frightened by the scene just now and hurriedly called for more sleds to be harnessed to the marionettes just in case. So the Engineer Walker turned off the propulsion system every time he saw two sleds harnessed to the marionettes. When the cavaliers were dragged down by the marionettes, he would turn the propulsion system back on again, and so on and so forth.
In the end, more than twenty sleighs were attached to the marionette, and the marionette, whose propulsion system had been turned off, was teetering on the verge of collapse. The cavaliers dragged the marionette at a very slow speed towards the giant ship.
Although they had been tortured to death, the cavaliers' faces were still brimming with happiness and contentment. Such a huge prey, which required twenty sleighs to haul away … How much could they earn in return? They could probably spend the rest of their lives in bars and sleeping on women's bellies! In order to drag the marionette away by force, the cavaliers had suffered serious damage, and it would be difficult for them to fly again in the future. But as long as they could successfully sell the marionette, this small loss would be worth it!
Finally, the cavaliers carefully placed the marionette on the deck of the giant steamship, Merry. A large crowd had gathered around the marionette, including the captain. He was even more excited than the cavaliers, imagining that after selling the marionette, he would be able to upgrade his ship to Merry.
"It's a wise move to take to the air again," the captain said with satisfaction. The captain said in satisfaction and ordered the crowd to retreat. He was ready to admire the biggest prey he had ever seen in his life from a close distance.
"Sir, please be careful. This thing may be dangerous," the Engineer Walker cautioned the captain with a respectful expression. As someone who had received the inheritance, he knew better than anyone else what this big thing represented.
"Hmm? Didn't the cavaliers say that it can't move? " The captain asked doubtfully. He had already walked to the side of the marionette, ready to reach out and touch its eye-catching green shell.
At that moment, a red dot suddenly lit up on Nana's round head. She moved and grabbed the captain's head with her thick arms, lifting him up like a chicken. A strange green light shone in the middle of her palms.
The poor captain immediately went into a seizure. His body trembled uncontrollably, and white foam came out of his mouth. Dark red blood flowed out of his eyes and ears. When the green light finally disappeared, the captain was no longer moving. The marionette had thrown him to the ground as if he was a piece of trash.
The whole process happened so quickly that the spectators took a while to digest what had just happened. They immediately let out a series of panicked screams, but they did not run away. Instead, they took out all kinds of crude weapons and started attacking the marionette.
For a moment, the marionette was hit by gunpowder guns, flying knives, crossbow arrows, and even spears and dung pitchforks. A series of clanging noises could be heard, but the marionette did not retaliate. It just stood there quietly, motionless.
Only the Engineer Walker noticed that even though the marionette was being attacked by all kinds of weapons, there was not even the slightest scratch on the surface of the marionette. After failing to dissuade the crowd, the Engineer Walker knelt in front of the marionette and begged for mercy like a sinner begging for mercy.
Then, he witnessed a scene that would forever haunt his nightmares. The marionette silently raised its hands. Its shoulders and knees opened up at the same time, forming the shape of a flower petal. In the next second, colorful rays of light shot out from its fingers, fingers, shoulders, and knees. The rays hit the crew members who were still attacking the marionette, turning them into charred corpses in an instant.
The deck fell silent. The frenzied crew members looked at the charred corpses, which were still emitting white smoke, and smelled the stench of burnt flesh in the air. Immediately, they gave up on the idea of fighting back and scattered like birds and beasts. The scene was a complete mess.
Amidst the chaos, the marionette took heavy steps towards the Engineer Walker, who was still kneeling on the floor. Using a mechanical voice that the Engineer Walker could understand, she said, "Who is the next captain?"
The Engineer Walker was so frightened that his body trembled like a leaf. He stammered, "S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-That …"
"Bring him to me," the marionette ordered. After Nana gave the order, she stood still on the spot. However, the red eye on her head moved left and right from time to time, as if she was examining something.
While the Engineer Walker was busy trying to find the first mate and stabilize the situation, the Voidwalkers were reading the memories that they had forcibly extracted from the captain's mind. The green light that had appeared on the marionette's hand was actually a necromancy spell that extracted memories. Baiyi had engraved the spell on the marionette's hand so that he could obtain information about this world more quickly and easily. Thanks to the spell, Baiyi had quickly learned the language of this world and was able to issue commands to the Engineer Walker.
According to the captain's memories, the people of this world had been living on ships ever since they were born. They had never seen land before, and their understanding of the concept of land was limited to records and oral histories. In their minds, land was a terrifying place. Fire and explosions were everywhere, and there was a mysterious force that could kill without leaving a trace.
The people of this world lived on floating ships, and their main job was to wander around, capture flying creatures, or rob other floating ships. They lived like fishermen or pirates.
There was no government in this world. Only a few like-minded captains had joined forces to form a force known as the Fleet of Ships. They often fought wars around the city.
The cities of this world were similar to the floating islands in Gouve. They had a certain amount of arable land, water, and docks for shipbuilding. They were the foundation of survival for the people of this world, and naturally, they were the focus of all the Fleet of Ships.
As for the question that the Engineer Walker was concerned about: How did such a huge ship fly? The captain did not know about this. Perhaps the engineer in his memory knew about it? However, that person had already been sent away by Baiyi to stabilize the situation.
"Well, that's about it. Honestly, this world is not that different from the so-called apocalypse. Even though I haven't seen the propulsion system that allows this ship to fly, what I've seen so far is enough to prove that this world has a very exaggerated technological gap. The technology that they developed is not even on the same level as the technology used to build this ship. There must have been an advanced civilization that existed in this world before, and it must have been war or something that caused this place to become like this. Let's go and take a look at the surface later. "
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