Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 267: Sky Beast
The team members felt like a mountain was pressing down on them.

The banshee stood in front of the group, blocking the glaring sunlight. She looked around, then her confused gaze fell on Kyle, who still had the copper whistle in his mouth.

"Did you call for backup?"

"Yes!" Kyle saluted.

The tall banshee paused, took off her helmet, and her golden hair fluttered in the air.

"Lady Nini!"

"It's Lady Nini!"

"Oh my god, it's actually the living Lord Nini. I saw Lord Nini!"

Several new recruits of the Crusader Army immediately began to discuss in a low voice. Nini was very popular in the Crusader Army. Apart from anything else, if she had not used the fish-herding spell to store a lot of dried fish in advance, the food supply would have been restricted during the previous war.

Coupled with her statue in front of the school, Nini's name is well-known on the island.

Nini placed her five hands on her waist and held her helmet with one hand. She enjoyed the attention of several people for a while before asking Kyle:
"Where are the enemies?"

Kyle pointed at the murloc who was still crawling and charging on the ground not far away.

Nini bent down, looked at the fishman with her head down for a while, and carefully reached out to poke it.

The fishman responded with a strange cry.

"It turns out he's still alive. I thought he was a corpse."

She looked carefully at the fishman's cracked skin for a while, then paused for a moment, as if communicating with someone in her heart.

Kyle had heard that these banshees could talk directly to people far away in their minds. What a convenient ability.

Soon, Nini came back to her senses. She circled the fishman a few times, then stopped and fell into deep thought, stroking her chin with her five hands in turn.

"Ah, my lord, the fish-man!"

Suddenly, a Crusader called out softly, and Kyle and Nini hurriedly looked at the murloc.

The fishman seemed to have exhausted his last bit of strength, and he just lay there on the ground, as if dead.

Under the gazes of several people, the fishman quickly melted into a pool of semi-fluid like an ice cube. The color gradually turned black, and then slowly condensed into small black insects.

"pollute?"

Everyone is familiar with this thing. Most people on the island have come into contact with steam engines. Except for the first few, the subsequent steam engines basically used physical pollution as raw materials.

After the war broke out on the island, people were often sent to pull back the corpses of monsters from the battlefield, and after they became polluted, they were filled into steam engines and burned.

What they see before their eyes is indeed pollution.

"How long does it take for a monster's corpse to become contaminated?" Nini muttered to herself.

"A whole day after death." Kyle answered without hesitation. He used to be a boilerman and was responsible for this area, so he was very familiar with it.

Then, their gazes fell on the squirming black semi-fluid mass. "It turns into pollution immediately after death." Nini was stunned again, but after a moment, she nodded. "I see. I know what's going on."

"The seawater has dried up. There is no seawater here at all. I just asked other observation posts, and all the monsters are slowly dying and turning into pollution. And this pollution..."

Nini moved to the side and made way.

The ball of pollution seemed to have its own will. It was not attracted by the few living people next to it, but slowly moved in a certain direction outside the island.

"This pollution will slowly flow to Gem Bay, to the monsters of the Pirate King's Court. Even though there's no sea water, it still attracts them."

Nini turned her head and looked into the distance facing the sunlight, which was the direction of the Pirate King's Court.

Suddenly, it got dark above their heads, and the sunlight was blocked by something huge.

Not only these few people here, but a large area around them was plunged into shadows.

The patrol and Nini raised their heads together.

Half the sky darkened, as if something was moving above the clouds, and they soon saw it.

A huge oval shadow fell in the eyes of several people, and its head with sharp fangs pierced out from the rolling clouds - it was a huge airship with a yellow skin. The steel spokes supported its frame like a spine, and it reflected a cold and hard lead-gray light in the sunlight.

A few wisps of white clouds were pulled into long lines by the airship, and an array of propeller blades in different directions were slowly rotating, driven by a roaring engine.

When it fully revealed itself, even the sun was obscured into a dim spot of light, and the circular tail at the rear cut the clouds into strips.

Several people were so scared that they sat on the ground. The giant beast floating in the sky seemed to be about to swallow them up in the next moment, and it also seemed like the sky was about to fall, and the whole world seemed to be destroyed at this moment.

But it did not fall, it did not even notice the few people, it just moved straight forward, and what just fell was just its unimaginably huge shadow.

"That's it"

"The lord has named the newly built airship the Sky Curtain Behemoth, which is a very appropriate name." Nini held her helmet and looked up at the huge airship.

"It's said that they were originally going to build ten airships, but Hughes suddenly changed his mind and asked the researchers at the Fire Moth to build something bigger. So they combined the original airships together and added a lot of materials to create this giant beast."

The airship's airflow blew Nini's long golden hair. She smiled and said, "I made the steel hoop on top myself. It took a whole day just to fill the airship with hydrogen. Those air bags are piling up like a mountain."

Kyle swallowed hard. He was so scared that he sat on the ground. Although he stood up now, his legs were still shaking uncontrollably.

"Lord Ninini, what is this airship used for? Don't we need to fight anymore?"

"There's really no need for war, but Castel is running low on fuel. Look, there are so many factories on the island, and they consume countless tons of pollution every day as fuel. Without the corpses of the fishmen and the arm monsters, won't those factories stop operating?"

Kyle was stunned.

He had never thought about this problem. He was just a boiler operator. To him, fuel seemed to appear out of thin air and would always be refreshed on the transport vehicle.

If the fuel ran out, the boiler stopped, the factory stopped, he lost his job, and was back to the days when he couldn't even eat.
"No, we can't stop, sir. The war can't stop. We still have to go fishermen and get fuel!" Kyle gripped the gun tightly in his hand.

"That airship is used to carry fuel." Nini said with a smile, "Go to the Pirate King's Court and bring back a piece of fuel that will never run out!"

(End of this chapter)