Chapter 868

"Aha, this is your first time building an airship, right?"

Brian Bronzebeard, who tied himself tightly to the swaying seat with a seat belt, looked pale, but the old dwarf still didn't miss any chance to hit Lorewalker Zhou Zhuo.

Because just last night, the second fight between the two of them still ended in Brian's failure, which made the old dwarf who was addicted to alcohol very depressed.

Facing the old dwarf's malicious jokes, Lorewalker Zhou Zhuo gritted his teeth, holding the tool bag in his arms tightly, without saying a word, and the two leather locks were firmly locked on the pandaren's chubby body, to ensure that the draenei flying rapidly in this storm would not throw him out.

At this moment, this beautiful silver-white shuttle airship was struggling to stabilize its course in the strong winds of the storm cliffs, but probably because the situation was too bad, the three draenei pilots yelled at each other. The scream made the atmosphere in the entire airship cabin very dignified. It seemed that the next moment the spaceship might crash into the dead snow-capped mountains on the stormy cliffs.

But the actual situation is not that bad... This silver-white spaceship is a small airship copied by the Draenei people in recent years. Its blueprint is the four frigates that carried the Draenei across the stars. Of course, after 25,000 years of long exile, the Draenei, who were originally a race of stars, have lost too much technology, and the years of suffering have even caused faults in their civilization.

However, Prophet Velen is a seasoned and prudent leader. As early as in the world of Draenor, Draenei technicians were trying to reshape the spaceship technology, but this process was interrupted by the orc war. Azeroth, and after gaining a new foothold in the Borean Tundra, this time-consuming technological reshaping work began again.

Almost 10 years have passed, and the Draenei people have lived up to expectations and come up with Azeroth's first engineering airship that can fly long distances.

But to be honest, compared with the original four star frigates, its technical content is simply the gap between bugs and giants. This silver airship named "Far Traveler" can only fly in the atmosphere, and the speed It cannot exceed Mach 2, otherwise there is a risk of disintegration, and the internal area is narrow. It can only carry 8 passengers including the pilot at a time, and items not exceeding 200KG. Except for the escort firepower that is better than nothing, there is nothing Weapons for air combat and ground warfare, and they have to be recharged in time after each flight.

But in the eyes of the Draenei, this airship is already a very remarkable masterwork in the current engineering level of Azeroth. Even the master craftsmen in the Black Iron District also came to visit it. Visit, the shameless goblins are also trying to bribe the draenei technicians to get the blueprints for this airship. However, under Velen's order, the draenei technicians who participated in the construction of the airship were guarded day and night by the defenders, and the once simple and honest draenei, now under the influence of Azeroth's business environment, have become Much smarter, it is said that they seem to have plans to sell this airship, but the asking price is extremely high...

"Boom"

As the wind on the storm cliffs became more and more violent, the bumps of the Farstrider airship became more and more terrifying. The steel plates glued together by the draenei with gem technology even began to shake wildly. Boldly looking out of the porthole, he found that the wings of this cigar-shaped airship were covered with terrible frost, and the tail of the airship began to emit black smoke.

"I remember you saying we have emergency parachute bags, right?"

Zhou Zhuo turned his head in fear and looked at the old dwarf who was holding on to the seat tightly. Brian Bronzebeard was also very scared, but the face-saving old dwarf didn't want to lose face in front of his new friends, so he didn't say a word and put on a show He put a cigar in his mouth.

Facing Zhou Zhuo's question, the old dwarf answered with difficulty under the terrible shock:

"Ha, the parachute bag? It's best not to count on that thing...that thing was outsourced to the goblins by the draenei. It is said that there is a 5% chance of failure. In such bad weather, the failure The rate will increase to 30%.

"Then what should we do? The ship is smoking black!"

Zhou Zhuo shouted: "Think of it, Brian!"

The old dwarf clenched his fists, glanced at the panicked pandaren, and said:

"There is a way..."

"Um?"

"Pray, pray to every goddamn god you can think of... pray that we don't fall down in this ice and snow..."

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Facts have proved that the Creator always favors certain gifted beings...

After nearly 30 minutes of bumping in the wind of tens of degrees below zero on the storm cliff, when the lorewalker was about to spit out his intestines, under the desperate operation of the highly skilled Draenei captain, the airship Finally, it was difficult but lucky to pass through the windy area, and successfully sent several distinguished guests from the Explorers' Association to the expedition base camp on the Xueliu Plain.

The moment he set foot on the snow again, the pale Zhou Zhuo's legs softened, and he just knelt in the cold snow.

He swore that he would never take a Draenei airship again, this thing...is too exciting.

The old dwarf showed a fearless look. He held the gangway, talked loudly with the draenei pilots, shared cigars with each other, and then directed a few dwarf assistants to fly the air into the air. All the materials in the boat warehouse were moved out.

Brian's legs were also very weak, but he was very smart. He stayed on the gangway until he regained his mobility, and then swaggered into the base camp in front of him.

The Bronzebeard Dwarves and the Explorers' Association have been in this isolated ice and snow area for several years. The original simple camp has now been pruned into a decent fortress, just like the other fortresses of the dwarves. The underground area of ​​this thing is larger than the buildings exposed on the surface.

"Has Muradin gone out again?"

Walking into the warm fortress, Brian took the hot wine from Dashiell and asked the person in charge of the place:

"I'm only away for 4 days, I hope you don't mess up our work."

"No! Brian! We have a big discovery!"

Facing Brian's inquiry, the person in charge here, a senior master of the Explorers' Association, Stormpike dwarf Phil Harpy waved a map excitedly, and shouted to Brian:

"Just yesterday, a sudden avalanche destroyed our outpost on the northeast side. Several guys were severely frostbitten, but this is a good thing! Prince Muradin took soldiers to rescue them, and guess what?"

The dwarf frantically lit the ground with his thick fingers:

"It's there! Brian, the avalanche disaster exposed a mountain platform, where there are obvious traces of man-made excavation... There are still many ancient mechanical creations that have not been activated, at least a few years ago 20,000 years old, and very gnome-like... mechanical gnomes, you understand? The ancestors of gnomes! We found them!"

"Mechanical gnome?"

Brian's eyes widened suddenly at this moment, and the slightly embarrassed appearance of the old dwarf came alive at a speed visible to the naked eye. He drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, wiped his mouth, and carried himself on his back. With a heavy luggage, he walked outside and shouted loudly:

"Dashiel! Dashiell...start the drilling machine! And you, Zhou Zhuo, there is no time left for you to recover. Come on, it must be good luck brought by you, we have made a big discovery !"

"Uh...I'm so sick."

The lorewalker lying by the brazier replied weakly:

"Give me a break...God, this sucks...Damn it! Ugh..."

Before Zhou Zhuo could finish his words, the shadow beside him became active, following Zhou Zhuo all the time, Aila, who was hiding her figure, raised her hand and threw a small piece of strange pill into Zhou Zhuo's mouth, Then forcing the pandaren to swallow the pill, she let out a deep, high-pitched laugh, then turned around and disappeared into the shadows.

That weird potion seemed to be able to stimulate people's spirits. In just a few minutes, Zhou Zhuo's face turned rosy. He breathed heavily, drank two glasses of wine frantically, and then followed out with his backpack.

In permafrost layers like Stormy Cliffs, the drilling machine that can quickly dig underground passages is also very slow, but this kind of drilling machine is accepted by the dwarves because of Queen Moira, and they drive underground. The vehicle can avoid the terrible low temperature on the surface, so even if the speed is a little slower, it is tolerable.

In the slightly narrow cabin of the drilling machine, the old dwarf in a cowboy hat was busy with the matter, spreading the knowledge of this land to Zhou Zhuo, who came to the Stormy Crag for the first time.

"Listen to me, Zhou Zhuo, you must not run around in this hellish place."

The old dwarf's fingers waved across the map of the Storm Peaks:

"This land is full of crazy steel beings. There are steel dwarves who are very similar to us, and some violent and terrifying steel vrykul. In the first two years, they often came to besiege us in groups. The stronghold, we took a lot of effort to destroy their base camp, now you go to the depths of the snow flow plain, you can still see the Thundercast Colossus built by those crazy steel beings there, that is a terrifying steel giant, It's a good thing they didn't finish it."

"There are some flesh and blood vrykul women tribes in the mountains of the Storm Peaks. They are all a group of female wolves. They are crazy and warlike, and they have a bad habit of plundering men. Months will really be drained."

Having said that, Brian let out a deep, wretched laugh, but there are still women here, so the old dwarf quickly stopped talking, and moved his finger to the southwest corner of the map:

"Here! This is the hometown of the frost dwarves we discovered before, Frost Castle. We have the same blood as them. They are local aborigines and have a good relationship with us. Occasionally, they will use their domesticated giant eagles to help us transport some Things, but the frost dwarves are very afraid of this land near Ulduar, they almost never come here, and now we have a backup base over the Frost Castle."

"Finally here!"

Bronzebeard's finger tapped fiercely on the southeast side of the map:

"Here are the only two plains in the Storm Peaks, but those nasty goblins have set up a trading station here. Those bastards must have heard about Ulduar, and they plan to make a fortune here... .That damn place is called K3, but those goblins are too reckless, their city is built next to the mammoth's lair, so they are often besieged by those beasts, but it's a good thing...wait, this is What?"

Brian's eyes were quickly attracted by some metal disc parts in Zhou Zhuo's hands. This old dwarf also had some studies in engineering, and he could tell that the parts in Zhou Zhuo's hands could be assembled together.

Facing Brian's curiosity, Lorewalker did not answer immediately, but quickly assembled the disc parts in his hand. After a few minutes, a yellow disc with a diameter of about one meter appeared in his hand. Zhou Zhuo His fingers pushed a few buttons on the disc, and the spar around the disc lit up, and then the metal disc was suspended in front of the two of them, and the nozzle below it continuously ejected The mist of wind elemental breath quickly enveloped Yuanpan in the mist.

"This thing, called a flying disc, was found by lorewalkers in some Mogu ruins. We call it "somersault cloud" in private. It's a very useful flying device."

Zhou Zhuo introduced to the bright-eyed Brian:

"Lorewalkers often use this thing to investigate huge ruins. It can't fly too high. If the height exceeds 50 yards, it will make it difficult to maneuver the disc, but it is very flexible. Before, we thought this thing was a magic weapon. It was made by the ancients, and I found out later that it should also be a technological creation left by the mysterious Titans... I thought about the possibility of using it, so I brought 3 this time."

"This thing... may be used to get past many horrible traps..."

The old dwarf rubbed his chin, he turned to look at Zhou Zhuo:

"What is this... somersault cloud, right, can it be imitated?"

"sure!"

The traveler nodded:

"We have the complete blueprint of the flying disc, which is kept in the headquarters of the Pandaria Lorewalker. This thing is actually very simple to imitate, but the energy source is difficult to solve. After using it several times, it needs to be charged with a special magnet. And That kind of magnet is only available in Pandaria."

"marvelous!"

The old dwarf patted Zhou Zhuo's stomach fiercely. He rubbed his hands. He seemed to have seen the scene of archaeologists flying in the relics on flying discs. After tens of minutes, the group finally crossed the ruins with difficulty. After passing through the frozen soil of the Snowflow Plain, we came to the entrance of the ruins located northeast of the Storm Cliff.

After rushing out of the drilling machine, the old dwarf saw the ruins that were closely guarded by the Bronzebeard Legion at the first sight. This was a large platform made of marble, which seemed to have been buried in the snow for nearly ten thousand years. Around the platform, there are still many strange metal parts scattered around.

"Brian!"

A deep voice came from the tent next to the ruins:

"You are finally back, my brother, come with me, we found something, Your Excellency Elonaya told us that this was the former "creator data table", which sealed some important data left by the creator, but we Don't know how to operate it, we can't read the bloody text...wait, who is this bear?"