Chapter 3030 Conch Shell Ship
The mind flayers of Odis responded to the mastermind Noah's call and actively participated in the preparations for refuge and migration.
By the end of June, the five conch-hull ships were finally refitted.
Due to the limited internal space of the ship, in order to take away as many compatriots as possible, many equipment including naval guns and spare engines had to be removed to free up load space and add seats.
Surface time, on the first day of July 1628, in the center of the square in the spiritual city of Odes, the timing column was lit for the last time, and the main tower rang the bell to call the citizens of the city to assemble and prepare to board the ship.
More than 500 mind flayers, each carrying a servant who weighed no more than 200 pounds, plus the 100-pound luggage on the servant's shoulders, walked out of the house in an orderly manner and came to the gate outside the main tower. Assemble in the square.
Five conch shell ships, numbered "Ark No. 1" to "Ark No. 5", the four elders each led 120 compatriots to board No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 ships. The mastermind himself is at the helm.
More than 30 mind flayers worked together to display the telekinesis ability, and moved the huge brain pool out of the main tower. Together with the master brain and countless tadpoles floating in the pool, they were carefully lifted to the cockpit of No. 1 ship and fixed properly. .
Since the main brain and brain pool are too heavy, the number of seats reserved for other citizens on the No. 1 ship is very limited.
Joan was not qualified to board the ship to escape, and gathered around the square with other refugees in the city, as well as many servants who had been abandoned by their masters.
The other abandoned people were more or less resentful and complained endlessly through telepathy.
These refugees and servants regard the "Gnostic Brothers" as the leader of their small group, and almost all come to him to complain. The first sentence at the beginning is surprisingly similar:
"It's fine if I'm left behind, but you, brother Gnostic, are different. You have made great contributions to Odis. You saved the lives of the mastermind and Master Metatron, but they left you alone. I will replace you Felt worthless!"
In fact, Qiao An was eager to stay, and it was inconvenient to tell the truth, so he could only send out telepathy, humming and haha socializing a few words, focusing on observing the mind flayer's spaceship.
He had heard the name of the conch ship a long time ago, and was deeply curious about this kind of vehicle that could travel across planes, so he walked out of the crowd and took a closer look.
The "conch shell ship" is just like its name, it looks like a huge nautilus, the shell cast by star iron is curled layer by layer, showing regular and beautiful threads, and it has a fascinating silver-gray luster under the light.
From the opening of the snail shell, countless flexible and slender tentacles extend out, the color is deep purple, and the texture is similar to the tentacles of the mind flayer.
These tentacles, which are hundreds of feet long, have vitality and can be manipulated by the helmsman of the conchoid ship with mental power. They are like extensions of their own limbs, curling and twisting flexibly.
When the mind flayer drives the conchoid ship close to the surface, it can remotely control these thick and long tentacles to catch the surface creatures, drag them back to the cabin forcibly, and serve as food, hosts, or research objects.
Joan has read several eyewitness reports about conch ships sailing above human towns, and all the witnesses' descriptions are surprisingly similar:
The huge silver Nautilus floated in the sky above the street, stretching out countless purple tentacles, and with a single wave, it swept away high-rise buildings such as churches, penetrated into the ruins, and rolled up the residents inside the building. Amid the opponent's futile struggle and screams, he slowly retracted.
Joan followed a tentacle into the interior of the conch ship, and saw vertical cabins neatly arranged on both sides of the base of the tentacle, like a coffin with a transparent crystal cover, and only one person lived in the inner space, and the purple inner surface showed the texture of organs , the muscle mucous membrane is smooth and moist, like an artificial uterus.
The mind flayer must have felt comfortable lying in this dark, warm, humid environment.
Joan also noticed that there are several tubular organs attached to the head of the sealed cabin, which are the sensing terminals used to connect with the tentacles of the mind flayer.
Passengers lie in it and connect their tentacles with the sensors to obtain the nutrient quota needed for survival from the hull. At the same time, they can also input their own spiritual energy into the hull and gather them in the cockpit to serve as the captain and helmsman. The elders call in unison.
Why gather the psychic energy of all passengers?
The answer is to teleport—in mind flayer parlance, a “warp”—to store energy for the conchoid.
Using the psychic energy stored in advance, the huge conch shell ship can carry all the passengers from the Underdark to the star realm directly.
Since the astral world has its own subjective gravity, the next part of the journey does not require the passengers to contribute spiritual energy. The helmsman can adjust the direction of gravity to make the conch ship sail in the vast starry sky without working fluid.
The end point of this journey is in front of a "star gate" leading to "Vault No. 42", and then the conch ship will use the star gate as a springboard to teleport to the non-magic world where the destination is.
The so-called "star gate", according to Qiao An's understanding, is a natural portal, which exists in the image of a colorful vortex in the star world and is eternal.
Mind flayers, a nation born in the astral world, have been keen to explore the mysteries of the various planes of the multiverse since ancient times, and the "star gate" is their springboard to other planes or crystal wall systems.
Precisely because "star gates" are so important to mind flayers, every time they encounter a new "star gate" during the voyage, they must record the coordinates on the star map, just like human explorers in the age of great voyages. The newly discovered islands will be solemnly marked on the nautical chart.
In this way, the mind flayers traveled from stargate to stargate, from world to world, and spread their footprints to almost every corner of the multiverse.
However, astral travel is not always pleasant.
In fact, most of the natural enemies of the mind flayers also inhabit the astral world, such as the famous githyanki and githzerai.
These two ethnic groups hated the mind flayers to the bone. Once they found that the conch ship appeared in their territory, they would immediately summon their clansmen to intercept and kill them.
The vicious githyanki pirates and their red dragon allies cannot be stopped by tentacles alone. Considering the risk of encountering pirates during the voyage, the conch ship should be equipped with powerful enough weapons and thicker armor as possible.
However, these devices are too heavy and take up too much space. In order to make more space for people, after repeated discussions between the mastermind and the elders, they finally decided to take the risk and dismantle most of the ship's weapons and armor to almost "streaking". The way to carry out this great migration across the star sea.
Just to avoid being intercepted by pirates, Odis's migration plan is strictly kept secret. So far, except for the mastermind Noah, no second mind flayer knows the destination of this trip, where is "Vault No. 42" located? place.
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