The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 707 Set sail
"Then we must find Laputa before the military does." Ryan suggested after Sheeta revealed her identity. "The beam of light before is likely to indicate the location of the sky city. You know, those people wearing black glasses can find Sheeta, who is just a shepherdess now, which means they know a lot of things. Maybe they have a way to control the sky city.

"You're right, let's go now." Baru waved his hand and said, but soon his movements froze, "But, but how do we get there? Although Sheeta remembers the location of the light beam, we don't have a flying ship. What's more, we have to find it before the military."

"We can solve this problem." Hermione said directly, and then she led everyone out of the tent and opened the space gate. Then she summoned the small spaceship that she got from the world of the men in black last time from the space gate.

In fact, when choosing an aircraft in this world, it would be more appropriate to summon the airship of the Brotherhood in the Fallout world. However, time is a bit tight now, so it is more appropriate to focus on practicality.

"This airship is so strange, I've never seen anything like it before." Baru said in confusion after seeing a bus-sized airship suddenly appear in front of him. "It feels much smaller than the ones I've seen before."

"Don't worry, no human ship on this planet can catch up with us. Okay, now let's get on board quickly and set off while the plane that was previously scouting over the canyon hasn't come over yet." Ryan waved his wand to pack up the tent quickly, and then entered the spaceship with everyone.

After entering the spaceship, the door of the spaceship closed automatically. After the soft light on the ceiling came on, Baru and Sheeta opened their mouths in surprise, because the interior of the spaceship was much larger than it looked from the outside.

"Is this magic?" Baru rushed to a display screen and saw that the screen faithfully reflected the situation outside in the spacecraft. It looked like a huge porthole.

"Of course, this is a product of the integration of technology and magic." Ryan introduced with a proud tone, "After we bought this spaceship, we cast a lot of spells in it, making this spaceship much more powerful than before." After saying that, Ryan raised his head slightly and shouted: "Now start the invisible engine and head due east."

After a slight vibration, the spaceship flew up from the grass on the hill. At the same time, a blue light circle appeared from the bow and moved horizontally to the stern, directly sweeping across the entire spaceship. As the light circle moved, the spaceship slowly disappeared into the air.

"This spacecraft can fly at a speed of Mach 15 in the atmosphere, which is 15 times the speed of sound." Ryan explained to Baru and the others, "So we should be able to reach Laputa ahead of the military."

"You're right." Baru nodded vigorously. "I heard that the fastest flying warship in the military can only travel 60 kilometers per hour, and our speed is more than 300 times that of it. If the direction is correct, we should be able to reach Laputa in a few minutes."

"Let's take a look at the military's plan first." Ryan ordered the ship's artificial intelligence, "Now monitor all military radio communications and list the movements of flying warships and flight plans."

Just a dozen seconds after the order was given, a projection appeared in front of them, displaying a large amount of data. At the same time, the ship's artificial intelligence said in a mechanical voice: "We have now detected 17 radio communications related to the movement of flying warships. After excluding normal patrols and movements, there is only one radio communication related to us."

"That was too fast." Baru showed an incredible expression. "I heard that the military radio used the latest code, but you cracked their secrets in almost an instant."

"Of course, the technology here is too far from what we have, and their codes are useless to us." Ryan said. His words were not an exaggeration. Sometimes the generation gap in technology can crush the inferior technology. For example, with the help of quantum computers, the military's encrypted telegrams using early cipher machines are no different from plain text messages. After explaining, Ryan asked the spaceship: "Okay, now tell us what the information about the movement of the flying boat related to us is, and all the sailing plans of that ship."

"Ship location, from B7 base to Grand Canyon base." The ship's artificial intelligence continued in that flat tone. "According to the transfer order, the military's fastest flying warship will depart for Laputa tomorrow morning. The estimated flight time is 24 hours."

"It seems that we should be able to reach the Sky City two days earlier." After listening to the words of the artificial intelligence on the spaceship, Ryan turned around and said to everyone, "In two days, we should be able to hide the Sky City from being discovered by those ambitious people in the military."

Now that they knew the military's plan, Ryan and his team were not so aggressive as to sail at the highest speed. Instead, they controlled the sailing time to about half an hour, so that they could just have a simple lunch on the boat.

Steak, salad and some fruit juice constituted the main course of this simple lunch, but the cooking skills of the skilled gentlemen still made everyone very satisfied. After everyone finished lunch in more than ten minutes, they left the messy table to the robot to clean up. They went to the small room next door to drink tea and chat.

"You have such advanced technology and powerful magic. Why have we never heard of your existence?" After chatting for a few minutes, Xida mustered up the courage to ask. "People with such power as you will definitely not submit to the rule of the military, but I have never heard of any conflict between you and them."

"That's because..." Ryan and Hermione looked at each other and discussed a few words through the Phoenix Brand. They did not expect that Sheida could see the problems in their previous description in such a short time.

But this is also expected, after all, magic can be a powerful force mastered by some individuals. But a spaceship like this must represent a complete industrial system, and it is not something that a few people can make simply by their own strength.

Soon the two reached a consensus on how to answer Sheida's question. Hermione cleared her throat and looked at Sheida and said, "Because we come from other worlds outside this one, so naturally you have never heard of us."

"What?" Sheeta and Baru stood up from their seats in surprise, but Ryan made a calming gesture. "Don't worry, we are just here to travel and pursue our knowledge that does not exist in our world, not for conquest or war."

"Is what you said true?" Baru asked in a skeptical tone, but he soon thought that Ryan and his men had not done anything evil before, so it was inappropriate for him to ask this question, so he stumbled and said. What I mean is that we have seen many people who have enough strength and are greedy for Laputa before-"

"You are worried that we will use the city in the sky for evil purposes after we find Laputa." Ryan directly brought up the topic and said, "I can understand why you think so, but I need to tell you that we really won't use this city for evil purposes. After all, for us, the weapons on the ancient Laputa are not even as powerful as the power we originally possessed."

"Similarly, we have ruled several countries in other worlds, but we did not conquer them. Instead, we were elected kings by the local people after we eliminated the oppressors and evil forces." Hermione said seriously, "Power is accompanied by obligations. For us, ruling a country is a heavy burden. Compared with ruling a country, we prefer to pursue endless knowledge."

(End of this chapter)