Chapter 408 Test flight
After a while, the big balloon began to rise, pulling the rope connecting the big basket straight.
"Continue to heat up! I'll cut off the rope!" Jiang Chen looked at the balloon above his head, and it was probably almost the same as flying. At this time, he picked up the axe in the basket and cut off the rope tied to the basket with an axe.
He can use spiritual power to cut the rope, but before taking off, he still changed his mind and prepared not to use spiritual power from beginning to end, simulate the condition of the body refiner sitting on a hot air balloon. If there are any considerations, it is easier to make improvements.
Sure enough, after heating up half a stick of incense, the huge buoyancy of the hot air balloon slowly brought the large basket below and more than 20 people in the basket together and rose to the sky.
As the basket left the ground little by little, and became higher and higher... all the body refiners and craftsmen on the ground held their breath, stared at the eyes widened, opened their mouths and raised their heads to look at the hot air balloons and the big basket that were rising higher and higher...
Some people even opened their mouths and kept looking at the balloon, which caused them to be dislocated and unable to stop, causing the body refiners responsible for the treatment to be busy for a while.
In the big basket, for these body refiners who have never flew up, the current scene is really shocking! And this is not with the help of any flying spirit beasts or spells, so that everyone forgets what they should do. Even Fu Xiaochen himself lay on the edge of the basket, looking at the houses, villages, mountains, rivers on the ground...
Compared to the person who was dazed inside and outside the basket, Jiang Chen was the clearest-minded person. Although he had never sat on a hot air balloon in his previous life, he had been on a plane and was considered a person who had not used his spiritual power to fly.
Therefore, he was not so fussy. Seeing that the physical exercisers around him were cheering so much, Jiang Chen couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.
Seeing Fu Xiaochen and his assistants watching the scenery on the ground and the sky with great enthusiasm, he smiled slightly, then walked to a stove at the end of the big basket and started a fire.
At this time, at the tail of the big basket, the three leaves-shaped thing suddenly rotated rapidly, making a huge roar, and a stream of air was sprayed out along the slurry leaves to the back... The hot air balloon began to slowly move forward with the big basket.
"Ah! I actually forgot that I am the driver of this hot air balloon!" Fu Xiaochen suddenly woke up after he found that the airship had started forward. He hurried to the tail of the basket and took over the work in Jiang Chen. He was so impressed by Jiang Chen that he was so impressed by Jiang Chen. Unexpectedly, this young guardian Jiang was not only a genius in cultivation, but also an excellent commander in military affairs. He was also an excellent craftsman. He could even think of something as wonderful as an airship.
"How is it? Brothers, do you think my airship is OK?" Jiang Chen asked with some smugness.
"So this thing is called an airship!"
"It's really good! A flying ship! A good name!"
The body refiners in the basket looked at their feet happily... The hot air balloon was slowly floating forward, and they had risen to a very high level. The scenery around Redstone Fort, the Qingmu Mountains in the distance, and the canyons in the nearest were all visible.
"Protector Jiang! I didn't expect that the Red Stone Castle looked as big as a slap! It was so amazing!" Fu Xiaochen stood beside the basket and danced.
"Please note: don't stand on one side, as the basket will easily lose balance. You must keep the number of people on both sides equally. This will be stable." Jiang Chen saw that many people were rushing to him, and quickly reminded him.
Everyone woke up and scattered around the basket. They had to ask Jiang Chen all kinds of strange questions from afar.
Jiang Chen also smiled and answered patiently one by one.
After about two hours, everyone had enough view of the scenery.
A leader of a physical exerciser, Fang asked carefully: "Protector Jiang, this airship... I don't know what language to express my excitement... It, it is simply amazing, it is such a wonderful thing... But, what I want to ask is... We have been flying for so long now... how can we land?"
"Haha... Commander Zhang doesn't have to worry. As long as we lower the temperature of the fire in the stove, it will slowly fall... In fact, according to the calculations of the Protector of Jiang, we should have to go to the back mountain camp where we were originally stationed!" Fu Xiaochen walked over and said with a smile.
"What? The camp where our army is stationed in the back mountain? I heard it right!" several physical training leaders asked in unison.
"Have you arrived? You will know if you land in a while and you will go down and take a look?" Jiang Chen also said with a smile.
"No! It takes four hours to get from that open area to the camp where we were originally stationed! We are here so soon now? Brother Jiang, have you made a mistake?" Bu Zheng asked with some doubts.
"Haha, have you forgotten that birds always fly faster than horses? And Guardian Jiang said that the thing he installed at the end of the basket called spiral can make the airship fly faster than the birds. Especially when the flight distance is longer, it is even more obvious." Fu Xiaochen said confidently at this time. He is now a loyal fan of Jiang Chen.
The airship had slowly landed. When it stopped in front of a military camp gate, the physical trainers at the entrance of the camp surrounded him curiously and looked at the huge guy.
"Ah! Guardian Jiang!"
"Ah! Commander Zhang!"
"Ah! Commander Bu!"
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The soldiers were stunned as they looked at the big figures emerging from the big basket.
But these people are more surprised than them.
Commander Zhang and other teams of physical training officers looked at the gate of the military camp in front of him, especially the flags at the gate and the physical training officers surrounding him, and were so surprised that they kept opening their mouths. If an officer hadn't asked him about it, they would have lost their chin.
"General Zhang, why did you and Guardian Jiang go back to the back mountain camp to see us? Didn't you notify me?" A high-level warrior-level body refiner in the camp had already learned the news and hurriedly ran out of the camp to greet him.
Commander Zhang recognized that this was a captain whom he stayed to guard the camp, named Wang Wei.
"This... Wang Wei, is this really... our camp?" Commander Zhang looked surprised.
"Yes! Commander Zhang, are you okay?" Wang Wei was also extremely surprised when he saw so many senior figures from the Demon Soul Peak.
Everyone walked to the gate of the military camp, looked carefully, and talked to the physical trainees for a while, and finally confirmed that they were in the back mountain camp.
"Oh my God! It takes more than four hours to walk normally, but the airship actually arrived in only half of the time. As expected, flying is much faster than running!" All the officers of the physical training officers sighed.
"Okay! Brothers, I think we'd better go back to the airship as soon as possible and start flying back so that we can catch up with the attack launched in the evening." Jiang Chen was stunned when he saw everyone getting off the airship, and he couldn't help but feel funny.
Everyone woke up. It was noon now, so they had to hurry up.
Although the physical trainers in the camp were full of suspicion, they saw that Jiang Chen did not say what this big balloon was, so they did not ask tactfully.
When Zhang Wei heard Jiang Chen say he was leaving, he immediately asked the grain and grass officer to send some dry food and drinking water, and let everyone take it to eat on the airship. This made everyone feel very good to him.
Jiang Chen waved his hand and asked the physical trainees around the airship to leave, and then the group jumped into the basket again.
Fu Xiaochen directed his assistants to reheat the air in the hot air balloon. In an instant, the hot air balloon slowly rose, and the soldiers on the ground also let out bursts of exclamations.
"Senior Brother Jiang, your invention is really an epoch-making feat!" Zhu Na sighed. The stroke was very strong at the sky, and her long hair was blowing straight up.
"Haha, this is just a sudden inspiration." Jiang Chen said a few words of modestness. After all, this is also a creation of plagiarizing the previous inventor Zeppelin.
"By the way, Senior Brother Jiang, how many people can this airship be equipped with at most?" Bu Zheng immediately thought of this question.
"This airship can carry up to 100 people at a time. Because it was built and the fuel was not enough, it could only fly up to 500 miles. If you want to fly further, you probably need to decorate less people and more fuel." Jiang Chen introduced.
"Then if we were to transport the troops behind Redstone Fort and on the top of the main peak of the front mountain, how long would it take to go back and forth?" Bu Zheng asked anxiously.
"I have calculated the distance. From the camp in Qianshan to the main peak of Qianshan, I guess I can fly five rounds in one night." Jiang Chen said.
"This speed is too slow! If we can transport 500 people in one night, when will we transport tens of thousands of people?" Bu Zheng said anxiously.
After hearing this, Jiang Chen laughed and said, "Haha, Junior Brother Bu, you're too worried! The reason we designed a hot air balloon is that the enemy's spirit stone cannons are densely spread on the cliffs, so that the monks cannot fly up. And when we transport people to the main peak, we can clean up all these spirit stone cannons and gunners! By then, all the foundation-building cultivators and the Qi Refining cultivators with flying magic weapons can fly in! The enemy's Red Stone Fort defense line will be useless. They are just trapped in the beasts and will be trapped to death sooner or later!"
"The Guardian Jiang is right! And our transportation speed can be accelerated a little more!" Fu Xiaochen thought for a while and said, "If each airship is equipped with a monk with wind-like spells, he will let a few rays of wind out and run with a hot air balloon, the flight time will probably be much shorter!"
"That's great! Let's do it like this! In addition, this matter is our highly confidential and cannot be known to anyone! Commander Zhang, the physical exercisers who have seen airships in the camp, you should also send someone to say hello specifically. You can't tell anyone about this matter, do you know?" Jiang Chen said seriously at this time.
"Don't worry! I know the importance of this airship, so I will definitely pay attention to confidentiality!" Commander Zhang said seriously.
When they flew back to the front and behind the mountain, it was already dark. Everyone immediately began to organize their troops and gathered the most elite monks and general-level physical trainers and sent them to the airship...
Chapter completed!