From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 296 Snake Spirit and Warrior

A small transport plane flashed quickly in the dark night, leaving only a long trail behind it. Eight crew members, including two pilots, five soldiers, and a snake spirit, were flying behind the two pilots.

Everyone in the cabin performs their duties.

"Brothers, get ready, we are about to arrive at the supply station!"

The announcement rang in the cabin, and most of the elven warriors did not make too many preparations after hearing it. They just held the armrests next to the seats slightly tighter. Only the warrior next to Snake Spirit looked a little different.

The elf who was responsible for inducing and taking the snake spirit onto the transport plane had now taken off his armor and retracted it into his backpack;

At that moment, she grabbed Azra's tail, held him in her arms while the latter looked slightly dazed in his eyes, and then said righteously,

"Leader Azra, we are about to land. Come, let me help you hold on tight. You're welcome~"

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Seeing this, another male warrior next door turned his gaze and said in a serious voice with a hint of warning,

"Alama, do you want to be detained?"

Alama calmly removed the tail from her arms, then pretended to be like "that's how it is" and wrapped it around the armrest of the seat, and said with a puzzled expression,

"What are you talking about? I just want to help her~"

"Be calm, this is a mission, and she is a foreigner!"

"By the way, can I address you as 'you'? The word 'you' in Snake Spirit Language refers to a very distant person, right? Since we are already friends, let's use '伱' to address us!"

"No~ Come, I'll show you."

"So, is this your city?"

"Hey! Why are you talking? You're too vicious! Our captain is very popular, okay?"

"No, there is still a gap of tens of thousands of snake spirit miles. Although there is no need to stop for supplies in the future, it is estimated that it will still take half a light hour or almost an entire snake spirit hourglass hour;"

Such an 'arrogant' racial name made Azra feel uncomfortable, but the many powerful auras coming from her perception, even the flying technology she had experienced before, and the strange space in front of her made her vaguely feel that the other party was indeed.

I have the confidence to call this name.

Azra's coiled long tail extended backwards, and the elf-like body above him also straightened up, and asked slightly nervously.

"clear?"

But she didn't see it.

'Maybe it's too dark, or maybe the angle of the window isn't enough;'

"I understand, go back quickly."

Repeating unfamiliar pronunciations with unclear meanings, Azra asked cautiously,

"Excuse me, can you tell me who 'you' are?"

"I understand! Don't worry~"

After speaking, Dylan nodded politely to the snake spirit leader, then went to the bulkhead, opened the door, and walked out along the automatically extending ramp.

"Alama, don't do this~"

"This is not the ground."

Alama muttered something like 'if I had known earlier' and hung up the call. She was somewhat unwilling to be able to hold the beautiful snake spirit and show off alone at an altitude of 70,000 meters;

But after all, I am now affiliated with the army. If the superior officer does not allow it, then it is not allowed.

"What's wrong? You don't seem happy."

"How could it be possible~ You are so cute. You will have a chance to know about it later."

"No, I was just told by a rigid guy. Come on, let's continue talking about private matters for a while, such as your Snake Spirit Tribe's spouse tradition and so on!"

"I don't know, I'm only responsible for carrying out tasks."

"Have we arrived at our destination? Where are you staying?"

Moreover, there are only 3,000 elves serving or directly affiliated with the army in the fortress at this time, and many factories and farms that were once built have been completely withdrawn from the Black Forest. Now only those related to military service are left here.

facility.

With such a large population gathered together, the northern plateau has become the most important commodity dumping ground in the Republic. The plateau is crisscrossed with roads, pastures, and large and small mines, woolen mills, and metal refineries.

among various city-states;

With such convenient transportation and communication, coupled with mandatory peace maintenance, mandatory 'respect for private property' requirements, and the Republic's annual large material orders, a good business atmosphere has been created, and it has

It has a tertiary industry that is much more developed than that of the Republic.

Seeing that Alama did not answer the question, the leader of the snake spirit stopped asking. However, the 'extreme high temperature' and the accompanying 'wind pressure' that he had felt when he picked her up on the 'transport plane' made her

She had some guesses.

Azra had already made some guesses at this time. She knew that those 'birds' were not really 'birds', but some kind of tools.

For example, the swords and bows in her own camp were like that, but she still couldn't find a suitable word to describe them.

At this time, a transport plane arrived from the north and landed in the nearby field. Then five elf warriors and a snake spirit leader emerged from the cabin one after another.

"I'm sorry, Dylan, we can't land inside with that foreigner, so I can only throw you here."

She looked down hard, trying to find some pillar-like support. Although it seemed a bit impossible, it was better to understand than floating in vain, and floating in such a huge space.

Azra was a little speechless, and he did not have the ability to communicate with foreigners without making a sound.

Moreover, looking at the sneaky posture of the other party, and thinking about the serious voice of the soldier opposite, she was also worried that if she spoke rashly, the person next to her would be reprimanded again, and then angry at herself.

She didn't want to make enemies casually before many things were decided, so she could only slightly nod her head to express 'understood', 'got it', and 'ok'.

"Azra belongs to the snake spirit royal family, right? Have you ever been a king? What is it like to be a king? Do all your compatriots have to listen to you?"

"Look, the pronunciations of 'Alama' and 'Azra' are so close! We will definitely become good friends."

"All right."

The warrior who had already approached in a few steps, after greeting Dilan and the rest of the team members, said while stretching his neck to look at the two females who had walked further away.

"Hehe, it's so beautiful."

Then, she pointed outside and said,

"Look! That one is also a 'transport plane', and the smaller one over there is called a 'fighter plane'."

"Very good, continue."

The Snake Spirit Clan is not a chaste nation, but is very open-minded in some aspects. However, in a place where Snake is not familiar with, she really can't let go.

But just when she breathed a sigh of relief, a warm touch touched her neck from behind, which immediately made the scales on Azra's body stand up a little, and she almost jumped up to fight back in the stress;

Azra was a little doubtful. She felt that the warrior of an unknown race in front of her had not mastered the unit conversion when learning the snake language. How could a distance of tens of thousands of miles be reached within an hourglass hour? Even flying was impossible.

.

But at this time, she could only nod in agreement, and then she snaked to the soldier's side and stretched out her arm that didn't actually need support, thus fulfilling her wish.

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Thousands of kilometers north of the south wall of the continent, there is a terrifying black shadow nearly a thousand meters square, floating in the sky tens of thousands of meters high. This is the Republic's permanent supply relay platform here.

Its body is actually made up of two large airships that can be separated from each other. A large number of lightweight plant materials extend from the outer walls of two airbags hundreds of meters long, and are combined into an openable closure in the middle.

style space;

The space is 600 meters square, and is divided into four floors. There are temporary landing and landing floors, nutrient storage floors, totem core rooms, command rooms, maintenance rooms, permanent hangars and other facilities;

It, as well as platforms of the same type located in other airspaces, are parked at an altitude of about 70,000 meters above the ground all year round, serving as a supply point for large and small aircraft heading in all directions, as well as for mimic witch doctors;

In addition, there are plans to use it as an attack platform during wartime, but so far only drill missions in this area have been carried out, and there is no real actual combat experience.

At that moment, a fleeting, extremely restrained electromagnetic signal was sent to the command room, conveying temporary landing and supply requirements;

So under the command of the station commander, the uppermost fully enclosed platform opened an entrance for transport planes to land, and preparations for nutrient supply were made in advance.

"Stop talking nonsense. I have a record. Didn't you stop me even if you didn't see the command room?"

Afterwards, Dilansta, the captain of Alama and the other three soldiers in the cabin, picked up the microphone next to him and responded,

"Don't be so rigid. What chance does she have to leak information? With the deep hint and the fact that she is about to go to the headquarters, the witch doctors will not allow her to leave the headquarters' sphere of influence."

"Haha! Okay~ I apologize, I apologize."

"Forehead"

"Let's rest here for a while. Let's go. Just follow me out first."

"clear!"

"Ten thousand snake spirits? One hourglass hour?. Okay, I understand."

"A flying object?"

"aircraft"

At the same time, a conduit extended from the ground and was connected to the hole also opened at the bottom of the transporter.

"Hey~ Dylan! What's going on over there? Why did you bring a foreigner here?"

"If you can't help but act recklessly, remember to talk about your feelings before being locked up, sister."

"This is Army Alama. You are no longer an employee of the Exploration Department. You must obey orders or apply for retirement. Do you understand?"

"We are elves, and the snake spirit language should be translated as 'darling of the world'~"

Alama stretched out his arm for support and explained,

When Alama and his party exited the cabin, the pilot pulled his head out and explained.

"Then it's ten minutes, we'll wait nearby."

"How can they get mixed up? Don't you understand that there is reproductive isolation?"

After only half an hour passed, the group arrived at the northern plateau.

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After the population introduction plan has been implemented for so many years, the Republic currently has more than 12 million citizens. For the convenience of management, about 10 million of them have been resettled in the northern plateau of sufficient size;

"Look!"

Azra, whose tail was being moved around, was a little confused because she couldn't understand the conversation between the elves at all.

However, I felt that after the stronger warrior on the opposite side said something, the warrior next to me who always looked at me with "malicious intentions" and who had just moved his hands and feet stopped a lot.

All in all, today's northern plateau and the continent north of the mountains are almost like two worlds with huge differences.

nod

While the 'conversation' was going on, there was a feeling of weightlessness in the cabin, and then it landed somewhere with a slight tremor, and then a broadcast sounded in the cabin.

"After arriving at the supply point, we can take off again in ten minutes. Dylan, what are your plans? The flight crew will follow your instructions this time."

"Then how did you send such a big place to the sky, and how did you make it stop here? There should be big pillars supporting it below."

"Who, Alama?"

Nod, shake your head.

"Is the Snake Spirit King very powerful?"

Immediately, the entrance was closed, the hatch was opened, and the four elf warriors stepped out. After nodding in the direction of the observation room from a distance, they began to wait beside the transport plane;

But one, no, many continuous sounds that came directly into her ears interrupted her next reaction.

"Don't be nervous, that's right~ My name is Aramates, you can call me 'Alama';"

"Captain! Can I take her out to have a look?"

They formed nearly a hundred city-states here, large and small, with large ones having a population of hundreds of thousands, and small ones having tens of thousands of people, and there were main and branch roads and main and branch cities between the regions.

Connected by international tracks.

"Tsk, tsk, a guy with no bottom line, he can fight against a snake's tail. If it weren't for the ban, the streets in this department would be full of hybrid monsters now."

"What a rigid guy. He deserves to be single for the rest of his life."

The captain obviously didn't intend to pay attention to her sophistry, and still frowned and warned.

"Yes, you have to exercise restraint~"

"Both, both look good!"

"Okay, just bring the armor and sidearms, keep the rest in the cabin, let's go!"

She tried her best to keep the current situation within the scope of her imagination, but another instinct was telling Azra, 'There are no pillars, this thing is just floating here.'

"Ha ha."

As she spoke, Alama held Snake Spirit's hand and walked towards the far bulkhead that was not facing the air bag. When she got closer, she pressed a few special lines, and the wooden layer gathered to both sides, revealing

Transparent unknown material inside.

There was an unintelligible language coming from my ears. When I looked up, I saw Alama lowering his head and speaking to some small device on his chest;

"No, it will leak information, and this is not included in the mission,"

"clear."

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"Yes, the thing we just got off is called an 'aircraft' in our language, and the one we are riding on is called a 'transport plane';"

Nod, shake, shake, shake.

"Then have you seen the Snake Spirit King? Is there still a Snake Spirit King now?"

The previous aircraft had already made her unimaginable, and Azra was even more shocked by the fact that the huge building under her feet was actually in the sky.

Azra meandered forward, and after approaching, he lowered his body slightly and put his head to the window.

It is indeed dark when you enter the scene, but you can also see the shape of some flowing clouds in the shadows, as well as the hollow feeling below.

'Heaven. This is heaven!'

An elf in military uniform came from a little distance, and a more powerful-looking aircraft was parked in the direction behind him.

Ten minutes passed quickly, and after the supplies were completed, all crew members returned to the cabin;

Immediately, the top of the aerial supply platform cracked open again, and the transport plane went straight through it. After completing the engine adjustment in the air, it began to speed toward the south while accelerating;

A few seconds later, an elf and a snake spirit walked or crawled out of the cabin, and then the former led the latter around not far away like a guide.

Just a few minutes later, a transport aircraft that had completed its deceleration came to the top of the platform, and after changing the engine mode, it fell vertically into the entrance that had been opened in advance.

After joking for a while, the other soldiers followed the captain and filed out.

"Let's go down too." Alama stood up and said to the leader of the snake spirit who was confused.

"That's okay~ I'll listen to you." The voice in the cockpit was no longer heard from the public, but came from the receiver.

After hanging up, Dylan stood up with his armored backpack on his back and ordered to his subordinates,

Just as she was looking at this unknown space with curiosity and a little awe, a familiar voice came to her ears.

"Wait a minute here. I have to think about how to express it in Snake Spirit Language first. Em is a platform used to replenish supplies for objects flying in the sky. Do you understand?"

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The snake spirit leader who was following Alama 'stepped' onto the platform. From the fine scales on her tail, she noticed the nature of the 'land' under her feet, which seemed to be a special kind of plant material.

"Oh, the plateau is filled, isn't it? That's weird. In the past, I mostly went to plateau city-states to visit. Why did you bring this person here?"

"Roll, roll, roll!"

"If you don't say anything, I'll assume you agree~"

"Of course not. I can't say exactly how high it is, but it's quite far from the ground~"

Looking around, you can see the huge closed platform at a glance. In addition to the warriors traveling with you and the 'big bird' behind you, you can also see sporadic figures of other warriors, as well as a few strange, large and small birds.

'Bird'.

"Let's get off the plane first and wait in the rest area. Alama, you take Ms. Snake Spirit around for a walk, but be careful and don't go where you shouldn't go. And yourself, don't do anything you shouldn't do.

, Do you understand?”

At the very center of these city-states lies the Outer North City, which belongs directly to the Republic.

Today's Outer North City has become completely fortress-like. Both its appearance and interior are full of a military-style coldness, and its purpose of existence has also become deterrence and surveillance.

"Okay, I'll see you on vacation then~ let's go!"

Therefore, the transport plane that took off again entered through the entrance that had been opened in advance on the top of the fully enclosed area, and landed in the fortress, which was not as large as the Tulum tribe at the beginning, at least in the surface area.

And just ten seconds later, another gap opened in the fortress facing their direction, and then a civilian came out, and while nodding to the soldiers, he greeted the leader of the snake spirit with a smile,

"Achimsta, who belongs to the State Department of the ruling government, is your guide for this trip."

(End of chapter)