Chapter 1536 Gathering
If the princess hadn't been there, perhaps Ezio would have accepted the support of the elves.
But you have to think so hard to take a noble person with you when performing a dangerous mission. If there is misfortune, can the other person be left behind? Or rescue at all costs?
Compared with setting it up for yourself, it is a mysterious and mysterious statement. This kind of thing that is obviously going to send the entire team to a dead end is even more undesirable.
However, that brief exchange also made Ezio discover a fact. That's what's behind this whole thing, and the elves don't know everything about it.
At least there is still someone who doesn't know, and he is a very high-status person. Although he is older, he is no different from a child.
This little incident was quickly forgotten by Ezio. The most important thing in front of him was the upcoming mission.
He came to the Twin Griffins and, under the witness of the guards, unlocked the airship's seal. Because during the war, the airship will not shut down completely unless necessary, but will maintain a minimum operating state.
Even at the lowest level of static operation, the consumed power energy converted into magic stone units would make an ordinary magician stunned. Fortunately, there are magic towers on the defensive line. All airships can arrange time slots to go to the Magic Tower and recharge with the help of its energy pool.
For this mission, the Twin Griffins made special arrangements and replenished the secondary energy pool on the airship last night.
If it operates at cruising speed and the secondary energy pool is full, the old airship can last for a month without landing. The new airship consumes more propeller engines. Without the assistance of petroleum fuel, the endurance time is shortened, but it can still last more than two weeks.
However, if you perform tactical operations or launch magic attacks, the battery life will be shortened. However, the assigned reconnaissance area was more than enough to cover in one day at the speed of the Twin Griffins. Even if there is any emergency, I should be able to handle it.
And when the seal was opened, the airship made a deep roar. It was like the grunt of a giant dragon waking up, reminding everyone that a ferocious beast had awakened. And this also greatly increases the power consumption of the airship.
The Twin Griffins also have a shuttle-shaped hull, with four external propellers, and auxiliary wings that serve as elevators and steering rudders on the upper, lower, left and right sides. The base has six hydraulic landing gears that can be stowed into the hull during flight.
The appearance looks very simple and monotonous, with only the crown and two-headed eagle shield of the Kavi family being the most obvious. But there are many secret weapons hidden on this airship that outsiders don't know about. They were loaded from the beginning and were not modified by Ezio later.
Those weapons were not used in the previous battles because they were not critical enough to have to be used. But Ezio couldn't guarantee whether it would be used in the future.
The boarding position is on the belly of the airship, with a hatch that opens backward and downward. There are also boarding steps around the middle of the airship and under the bow.
The rear is used for transporting supplies and the main boarding port. The front and middle section is for people serving in different positions, with an entrance and exit for quick boarding and escape. These places will also open automatically after the seal is lifted, waiting for the crew to enter.
Ezio was the first to board the ship, and after patrolling around, he came to the assembly area in front of the airship. All the crew members came back almost on schedule, but no one was late.
People appeared in twos and threes, greeting each other. Of course, Ezio couldn't keep a straight face at this time, but instead made some dirty jokes with everyone enthusiastically.
At this time, and on the defensive line, everyone went to the same place, and there was no other place to go shopping. Everyone went to vent, and some people drank a lot. But no one dares to get drunk.
If he was really drunk and unconscious, Ezio would not blame anyone or use military law to deal with him. But the mission will definitely be lost.
If everyone goes to be heroes, will the people left behind be in a good mood? If they could come back, it would be a shame for themselves. If you can't come back, you will feel guilty for a lifetime.
So everyone is still very restrained. In other words, people who don't know when to perform what they should do will not be selected by Ezio as a member of the Twin Griffins from the beginning.
At the final check-up time, everyone re-checked the status of the airship. It was so thin that I even tried to fasten a screw to make sure it was not loose. Then go to bed.
In fact, at the beginning, everyone was still in a very happy mood, as if they were preparing to go out for a picnic.
But gradually, the voices became less frequent and everyone’s expressions became serious. Because this mission is different from the previous one.
Whether it was the earlier defeat of the Southern Front, the subsequent retreat battle, or the later defensive battle of the Fengdi Mountains, the reason everyone fought was to kill demons and orcs. But in fact, it’s just to live!
This investigation and subsequent rescue mission is not just a 'rescue', but a proof. It proves that what is lost can be regained, and what is lost can be rescued! The meaning is completely different from the previous battles.
There are no simple-minded people who can board an airship. The pressure that has always existed will not disappear in a moment of venting.
But being able to turn pressure into motivation is the greatest value of this crew. This is also one of the reasons why Ezio does not want to accept the assistance of the elf princess.
A group of unknown female elves can easily destroy the balance currently maintained by the Twin Griffins, no matter from which aspect. Unless they have the strength to fight against the gods, it will just reduce the combat effectiveness of the Twin Griffins.
So Ezio did not hesitate to reject the request for assistance from a group of elves playing ticket. Anyway, this is a battlefield, they are an army, not just someone who wants to arrange flowers and just do whatever they want. If you dare to mess around, nothing will happen on the battlefield, right?
In the middle of the night, at the scheduled wake-up time, no matter whether everyone was actually asleep or not, they were all woken up by the duty officer at the same time. After a simple arrangement, they quickly put on their equipment and got into position from the small living area on the airship to various fixed points.
It was like a chicken coop, and everyone's personal space was only a little bigger than a coffin. Even officers didn't have any privileges. Because airships are different from ships on the water. The latter also have sailors doing odd jobs. The former even have handymen who are strong men that ordinary people cannot match, or are talented in a certain field.
Their respective workstations and passages are also very narrow. Even if two people are close to the wall, they will inevitably touch each other if they pass each other. The internal space utilization and volume of the Twin Gryphons are completely different from the Mystery tradition.
In the beginning, anyone who could board the airship could be regarded as a 'noble' among warriors or magicians, and they even actually had noble status. Faced with this kind of airship interior design that has no living functions at all, most people are not used to it.
But over time, they became accustomed to such a design, and even thought that warships should be like this if they wanted to pursue some kind of extreme. Everything must be refined and refined again, discarding what is unnecessary, and all designs revolve around efficiency. The purpose of improving efficiency is to fight, and the purpose of fighting is of course to win and survive.
The Twin Griffins, designed with this concept, are not that large among all types of airships. If placed among the airship corps of the Haider Empire, it could only be regarded as a medium-sized ship, and it was still relatively small in size.
However, the number of crew members, including the crew and marines, is not that of a medium-sized ship, but that of a large ship. At least a ship like the Twin Griffins can accommodate nearly 150 people inside, which is unimaginable to outsiders.
However, the performance of the Twin Griffins is definitely the best among all airships. This is what everyone on board the Twins thinks.
This is not blind confidence, but a fact. Even if there are other airships that are statistically stronger than the Twin Griffins, they will only perform in one aspect.
On a comprehensive level, the designer was proud to say that unless battleship-level robots were brought in to challenge each other, no one would be able to match the Twin Griffins in the field of airships for at least ten years.
From a certain point of view, it was also because of the existence of battleship-level robots that the magician would not hesitate to contribute all his skills and use them on the big toy ship that the old man wanted to build.
But someone's ideas obviously didn't reach the old man. After boarding the ship several times, old Mr. Kawei was still focused on things on the ground. This actually gave Ezio an opportunity to take advantage of today.
The power of the Twin Griffins far exceeds the results of previous tests by the crew of the Kavi family. An unscrupulous designer has castrated many functions.
In fact, Lin's thoughts at the time were not that dirty. It was built by the elderly just for fun, so there is no rush to use some functions. It's troublesome to build it seriously anyway, just leave room for upgrades. If we really want to do it in the future, there is no need to make major changes.
But this airship fell into Ezio's hands. That would be like putting radioactive materials in front of a bunch of Manhattan Project-level scientists.
If we don't develop nuclear bombs, we would be sorry for ourselves. As for the nuclear bomb that exploded after being built, it is another question whether the scientist’s conscience discovered it or whether his morality suddenly awakened and he regretted it.
Someone said: Our Lady is everywhere, but I have never seen them show mercy when they take advantage of themselves.
In short, before the mission began, Ezio gathered all the team leaders together in the situation room for a final mission briefing and clarification of doubts. This is his habit. All doubts are resolved before the mission; after the mission begins, there are only orders and no discussion.
A group of people have been together for a long time, and they are not polite. Although orders were issued from above, they still had to perfect the details themselves. If even these things had to be arranged by the headquarters, then there would be no need for so many officers, and there would be no need for hierarchical management. All would be handed down by the people at the top.
As they prepare to carry out tasks themselves, they will of course want to know how to deal with the details and how to react and identify situations they encounter. Although an army will have its own style, if you can be more specific and careful, no one will be in trouble with his own life.
Therefore, no one will hesitate to ask about things that should be asked.