Chapter 735: A Historic Feat (Additional chapter for the leader's 'Dreamy Helplessness')
Looking at the sunset in the distance, it wasn't even dark yet, and they were about to fly out of the mountains? Zhou Xu, who had no experience in this area, had never expected that the efficiency of traveling by hot air balloon could be so fast.
When he was conducting mobility tests between Black Rock City and Yellow Sand City before, his feelings were not so strong.
The fundamental reason is that there are mountains below!
The previous test was a comparison between the efficiency of riding a horse on flat ground and the efficiency of flying a hot air balloon.
Now, the efficiency of hiking in the mountains is compared with that of hot air balloons! Climbing a mountain takes more time and effort than walking on flat ground, which is something everyone knows.
The biggest advantage of hot air balloons is that they can ignore the terrain that requires climbing up and down, and take the shortest route from a high altitude with no obstacles, flying directly to the destination.
Even if we calculate it based on the efficiency of 10 kilometers per hour, that's 240 kilometers in 24 hours, not to mention that under Silk's operation, their speed will never be more than 10 kilometers per hour? In addition, you need to rest when you are tired from climbing the mountain, right? You need to sleep at night, right? But the hot air balloon doesn't need it! As long as there is enough fuel and two people are arranged to take turns in the morning and evening, why does the hot air balloon need to rest? Of course, under this premise, Silk's "speeding technology" and Zhou Xu's mantra strengthening method also played a crucial role in this feat!
If Silk's two operators were replaced by ordinary human operators, it would be impossible to achieve such efficiency.
As for Zhou Xu's two blessing mantras, he has now begun to think about finding an opportunity to bestow them on the hot air balloon operators.
Apart from anything else, his two mantras can indeed effectively increase the stability and safety of hot air balloon flights and improve flight efficiency. In the future, they can be used as standard mantras for hot air balloon operators.
Pulling his thoughts back to the present that had wandered away without him noticing, Zhou Xu perked up, wrapped himself in a thick animal-skin blanket, placed his hands on the bamboo basket of the hot air balloon, and looked outside.
Sure enough, from where they were now, they could already see the towering rock wall in the distance!
Starting from the post station at the foot of the barren mountain, that area is connected to a large area of barren beach and Gobi Desert, with towering rock walls on the outside, which is suspected to be a large continuous mountain wall.
Standing in the wasteland area and looking up at the mountain wall, you can basically not see the top at a glance, and the steepness of the mountain wall is almost 90 degrees vertical, and there is not even a place to climb.
In this state, they would never have thought of climbing up the mountain wall to see what was on the top.
That's no different from seeking death.
But now the situation is different. They have a hot air balloon! It is flying directly in the sky, higher than the mountain wall! "Silk, fly over and take a look."
Zhou Xu pointed to the mountain wall in the distance.
"It's time to open the map."
Zhou Xu had no plans to explore the top of the mountain wall directly, but he was already flying in the sky anyway, so what was the harm in taking a look first? At this location, in order to land at the foot of the mountain relatively accurately, Silk had already begun to slowly lower the altitude of the hot air balloon.
Now that he had received the order from their king, he was not in a panic. He maintained the current altitude, and after flying for a distance in the right direction, the scene on the top of the opposite mountain wall soon came into Zhou Xu's sight. It was indeed a horizontal mountain range.
However, the mountain wall on their side was too steep and impossible to climb. This also meant that under normal circumstances, they would not be able to cross it, let alone explore it.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu fell into a brief contemplation.
[This mountain range stretches all the way from this side to the grassland area. Once you reach the grassland area, you can go through the original homeland of the grassland elves and continue walking north. You may be able to find the foot of the mountain with a gentler slope.]
The situation is similar to that in the mountains. We were busy dealing with the Lizardmen at the time, and there is also an area in the grassland area that has not been explored.
Of course, having said that, they have actually been there.
The early grassland elves' village was destroyed by the attack of a large group of lizardmen. The surviving grassland elves fled north along that route.
They had known about this route for a long time, and originally wanted to free up manpower to explore there after they had resolved the issue.
Who could have thought that more and more things would happen later, and as time went on, Zhou Xu temporarily put this matter behind him, and only remembered it now.
"My Lord, can we land now?"
Although Silk and his team demonstrated excellent hot air balloon operation skills thanks to their perception of the wind element, they were unable to change the errors that would occur during landing.
If they continued flying, Silk was really worried that they might accidentally fly to the other side of the rock wall.
Zhou Xu, who also realized this, did not hesitate and immediately signaled Silk to land.
But it is also difficult to land accurately outside the station at the foot of the mountain.
During this time, the guards of the post station noticed their presence and rode out on horseback to chase them.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu quickly got out of the bamboo basket and shouted at the guards below...
"Grab this rope!"
As he spoke, Zhou Xu threw down a bundle of thick ropes.
"Hold the rope and tie it somewhere!"
This thick rope is used to assist the hot air balloon in landing. If coordinated well, the hot air balloon can land relatively accurately.
But they had never cooperated before, so it was obvious that their cooperation was not very good at this time.
One of the guards was in such a panic that he was almost dragged to the ground.
The end result was that they flew almost a kilometer before successfully landing on the deserted beach.
After getting off the hot air balloon, Zhou Xu looked around, then turned back to look at the hot air balloon and the mountains they had flown over. He was filled with unstoppable excitement, and his heart was beating wildly.
"Hahahaha! Silk, can you believe this? We actually flew over the mountains so easily!!"
At this moment, Silk could fully understand why their king was so excited.
Even as people who experienced the whole thing firsthand, they still feel it's unreal.
Especially since they had all crossed these mountains on foot before.
It is no exaggeration to say that this flight is enough to go down in history! It is a historic feat! Of course, although he is excited, he has something important to do when he comes back this time, and he will not forget it.
But now the sun has set, and they are already tired after a whole day. It is not wise to travel overnight, so Zhou Xu decided to rest for a night at the post station at the foot of the mountain.
The next morning, after breakfast, the group rode on the horses prepared for them at the post station, took the disassembled hot air balloon, and rushed towards Black Moon City as fast as possible.
(End of this chapter)
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