Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Looking at the sunset in the distance, it's not even dark yet. Are they about to fly out of the mountainous area?

Zhou Xu, who had little experience in this area, never expected that the movement efficiency of a hot air balloon could be so fast.

When he conducted a mobile test between Black Rock City and Huangsha City before, his feeling was not so strong.

The fundamental reason is that there are mountains and mountains below!

The previous test was the ratio of riding efficiency on flat ground to flying efficiency in a hot air balloon.

But now, hiking in the mountains is as efficient as a hot air balloon!

Everyone knows that climbing mountains takes more time and effort than walking on flat ground.

The biggest advantage of a hot air balloon is that it can ignore the terrain that requires climbing up and down, take the shortest route from a completely obstacle-free altitude, and fly directly to the destination.

Even if calculated based on the efficiency of ten kilometers per hour, that would be 240 kilometers per hour in twenty-four hours, let alone how could their speed stop at ten kilometers per hour under Silk's control?

Besides, you are tired from hiking, so you need to rest, right? You have to sleep at night, right?

But hot air balloons don’t need that! As long as there is enough fuel and two people are arranged to take shifts in the morning and evening, where does the hot air balloon need to rest?

Of course, under this premise, Silk's 'driving skills' and Zhou Xu's mantra strengthening methods also played a vital role in this feat!

If the two operators of Silk were replaced by ordinary human operators, it would be impossible to achieve this efficiency.

As for Zhou Xu's two blessing mantras, he has now begun to think about finding opportunities to give them to those hot air balloon operators.

Not to mention anything else, these two mantras of his can indeed effectively increase the stability and safety of hot air balloon flights and improve flight efficiency. They can be used as standard mantras for hot air balloon operators in the future.

Pulling back his thoughts that had accidentally wandered away, Zhou Xu cheered up, wrapped himself in a thick animal skin blanket, put his hands on the bamboo basket of the hot air balloon, and looked outside.

Sure enough, from where they are now, they can already see the towering rock wall in the distance!

Starting from the station at the foot of the barren mountain, that area is connected to a large stretch of barren beach and Gobi desert. There are also towering rock walls on the outside, which looks like a large continuous mountain wall.

Standing in the deserted beach area and looking up at the mountain wall, you can basically see the top. Moreover, the steepness of the mountain wall is almost 90 degrees vertical, and there is no 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 is no different from seeking death.

But things are different now, they have hot air balloons! Now he 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 has no plans to directly explore the top of the mountain wall for the time being, but he is flying in the sky now, so what does it matter if he takes a look first?

At this position, in order to land at the foot of the mountain relatively accurately, Hilke had begun to slowly lower the flight height of the hot air balloon.

Now that he had received the order from their king, he did not panic. He maintained his current height and flew a certain distance in the right direction. The scene at the top of the mountain wall on the opposite side soon caught Zhou Xu's eyes. It really is a transverse mountain range.

It's just that on the side facing them, the mountain wall is too steep and impossible to climb. This also makes it impossible for them to climb over it under normal circumstances, let alone explore it.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu fell into brief contemplation.

[This mountain range stretches from here to the grassland area. When it reaches the grassland area, it passes through the original tribe of the grassland elves. If you continue to go north, you may be able to touch the foot of the mountain with a gentle slope. 】

The situation is similar to the situation here in the mountains. I was busy dealing with the lizard people at the beginning, and there was an area in the grassland area that I had not yet explored.

Of course, having said that, they have actually been there.

Earlier, the grassland elves' village was destroyed by the attack of the lizardman army. The surviving grassland elves fled north along that route.

They had known this route for a long time, and originally wanted to free up manpower for exploration after the matter was resolved.

Who would have thought that more and more things would happen later. As time went by, this matter was temporarily forgotten by Zhou Xu, and he didn't think of it until now.

"Your Majesty, can we land?"

Although Hilke and the others showed excellent hot air balloon operation skills by relying on their perception of wind elements, they could not change the errors that would occur during landing.

If they continued to fly, Hilke was really worried that they would accidentally fly to the other side of the rock wall.

Zhou Xu, who also realized this, was unambiguous and immediately signaled Silk to land.

But it is difficult to land completely accurately outside the mountain station.

During this period, the guards at the inn noticed their presence and directly chased them out on horseback.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu quickly got out of the bamboo basket and shouted at the guards below...

"Hold the rope!"

While talking, Zhou Xu threw down a bundle of thick ropes.

"Hold the rope and find a place to tie it!"

This thick rope is used to assist the hot air balloon in landing. If it works well, the hot air balloon can land relatively accurately.

But they had never cooperated before, and their cooperation at this time was obviously not very good.

One of the guards was so busy that he was almost dragged to the ground.

In the end, they flew for almost a kilometer before successfully landing on the deserted beach.

After getting off the hot air balloon, Zhou Xu looked around, then turned to look at the hot air balloon and the mountains they had flown over. His whole state was filled with uncontrollable excitement, and his heart was racing. It kept beating wildly.

"Hahahaha! Silk, can you believe it? We flew over the mountains so easily!!"

At this time, Hilke could completely understand why their king was so excited.

Even as people who have personally experienced the whole thing, they still feel that it is unreal.

Especially under the premise that they have personally crossed these mountains with their legs before.

It is no exaggeration to say that this flight is enough to go down in history! It’s a historic feat! !

Of course, he was excited. He had something serious to do when he came back this time, and he would not forget it.

But now the sun has set, and they have been tired for the day. It is not wise to travel all night, so Zhou Xu decides to rest one night at the inn at the foot of the mountain.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, the group mounted the horses prepared for them by the inn, took the disintegrated hot air balloon, and rushed towards Black Moon City as quickly as possible.