Chapter 262: Hope in Despair.
The sky was dark, dark clouds covered the top, and the rain was still pouring down, sometimes even accompanied by lightning and thunder.
However, under this bad weather, a team flying in the sky was gradually approaching them.
Obviously the two sides have not had any communication yet, but the people in the friendly territory who had fallen into despair instantly ignited hope in their eyes, because they knew that it was the rescue they had been waiting for for a long time.
"It seems... it seems that someone has come to save us!" Before the
words were finished, the speaker was already excited to tears.
Others were also ignited, and many people who were still sitting on the ground in a decadent moment got up in an instant, raised their arms, waving and shouting loudly.
"Hey! We are here, here! Help... help..."
At first, only a small number of people who noticed the distant rescue team were shouting, and then more and more people noticed the team above the sky, and immediately Also excitedly got up to join the shouting ranks.
Not only did they shout, but they immediately squeezed each other again, barely making a small space on the land of the island, piling up everything that could burn, and desperately trying to ignite them despite the heavy rain.
Just so that the smoke signal could be released to remind Skyrim's rescue team that they were here.
"No, it's raining too much, I can't ignite it!"
Dozens of fireballs were thrown in a row and couldn't ignite the pile of combustibles that had been soaked by the rain, so anxious that those who kept setting fireballs almost burst into tears .
"Don't worry, we'll block it for you."
Seeing this scene, someone immediately took off their shirts, or took out everything that could block the rain, covered them on the pile of combustibles, and signaled to others: "Hurry up , get some dry, burnable stuff on it, ignite it, and we have hope!"
In fact, everyone knows that if the team in the distance is really a rescue team, then they must know the specific coordinates of their own territory, and even if they don't, they will rush over to save them.
But at this time, as long as they can do more things that seem to be useful, they can see more hope for life.
Because they are not only waiting for the rescue of others, they are also trying very hard to save themselves.
Without the intrusion of rain, after some tossing, the fire was finally lit.
Those who are holding clothes or other rain-proof items do not let go of their hands, for fear that the fire of hope that has just been raised will be quenched by the rain, so they would rather look at their clothes and so on, slowly. It was slowly scorched black by the flames and eventually burned out.
With no shelter, the rain came down again to put out the fire.
But it doesn't matter, the smoke has risen, and the team in the sky seems to have seen their existence, and began to fine-tune the direction according to the guidance, rushing towards the acceleration.
Seeing this scene, all the people in the Friendly Territory cheered.
"Great!"
"We have saved!"
"Help, we are here!"
"Woohoo ... Mom and Dad, we don't have to die." ...
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Lord Lord!"
"I know."
Reminders from his subordinates, Bai Ai'ai, the lord of the friendly territorial land who has been maintaining the territorial protection array, immediately opened the authority to the other party, so that the rescue team that responded to their request for help could come in smoothly.
Seeing that the opponent was about to enter the defensive range of their territorial protection array, suddenly...
"Boom!" The explosion sounded.
A behemoth jumped out from the bottom of the sea. It was ferocious and huge, and its bloody mouths were full of rows of serrated teeth, biting the flying team in the sky.
The ferocious and terrifying appearance shocked a group of people into cardiac arrest.
"Big Sawtooth Demon Shark!" I don't know who exclaimed.
Anyone who lives by the sea or on an island will know that this is one of the most ferocious and terrifying sea beasts in the sea, and it is also the top predator in the sea. Anyone who is caught in the sea by it will almost die!
Even the prey in the sky is the same.
Because their jumping power is extremely good, they can jump to hundreds of meters high in an instant, and they can swallow the prey in the air without giving the prey the slightest time to react.
"It's over..." Seeing that the rescue team was about to be swallowed up, someone murmured desperately in their hearts.
Many people's faces turned pale in an instant.
They thought that the hope that had just appeared would turn into despair in an instant.
Don't look at the flickering of personal thoughts, but in fact, everything only happened in half a breath. It was too fast. Even if there was a heart to save people, Bai Ai'ai and the masters in the Friendship Territory would not have time to take action.
I hope that the entire group of people in the territory also did not expect it.
They were flying so fast, and a fish could pop up halfway, and the fish had such a big appetite that he wanted to swallow all of them in one bite.
Gu Mi didn't even need to take the shot himself.
At the moment when the Great Sawtooth Demon Shark was about to swallow them, the sound of a long sword being unsheathed sounded, and then, several silver-white sword lights flashed by, and time seemed to have been pressed at the stop button at this moment.
The big serrated devil shark stiffened in midair and stopped all movements.
The next moment, its huge body, which was hundreds of meters long, collapsed suddenly, shattered into large chunks of fish, fell from the sky, and smashed into the sea with a bang, smearing a large piece of thick blood.
"Lord Lord, the obstacle has been resolved."
When he retracted the sword and sheathed it, the stern expression on Avery's face did not change at all. When facing Gu Mi, he brought respect and humility. He lowered his head slightly and reported to her the trivial battle situation just now.
"Yeah." Gu Milio nodded and motioned for the team to move on.
The group entered the friendly territory unimpeded, and seeing the densely packed people on the tip of the island and on the boat, she turned her head and gestured to Cheng Keyi.
Cheng Ke understood and immediately shouted loudly: "We are a rescue team from the Hope Territory. We came to the rescue because we received a distress message from your territory. Now, please cooperate with our rescue work, arrange for personnel to put on the basket and pick up the When you get down, we will take you to a safe place!" When the
words fell, the rescue team in the hope territory flashed out large baskets that could carry people.
With years of development, it is not even necessary for Gu Mi to deliberately take Niya out to subdue other griffin groups, Nya will go out to find other wild griffin groups when she has free time, and challenge her leader.
If he loses, he runs over to his master to cry in despair.
with her constant efforts.
Now, Niya is already the leader of a griffin who governs a group of more than 2,000 griffins.
This time, Gu Mi came out with almost all the griffins in the territory except the cubs.
With the help of the bamboo basket, each griffin can take at least 20 people to leave. Some of them are very strong, and it is not impossible to bring some more people, and there are quite a few. Flying cavalry and flying orcs, they want to take away all the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire friendly territory, it seems...
impossible.
But if it can be taken away in batches, there is still some hope.
Although it took five days to arrive, it didn't take that many days to rescue the first group of people. They only needed to take them to a relatively safe place on the shore and put them down, and then they could rush back. The second batch of rescue.
Normally, it only takes about three days to fly from the island where the Friendship Territory is located to the coast closest to them. If you catch up, you may be able to arrive in about two and a half days.
Therefore, after saving the first batch of people, Hope Territory will take five days at the earliest to come back and save the second batch.
Then comes the problem.
Can the island survive another five days without being submerged by rising waters? Even if the island can last for that long, what about the territorial protection array of the Friendly Territory?
Also, how to arrange the order of the rescued?
Who is in the first group, who is in the second group, what to do when everyone wants to live?
"I'll stay, all the elderly and children must go first." Bai Ai'ai made a choice without any hesitation.
"I'll stay too, just let my daughter go first."
"I'll stay and let my parents go first. I'm still young and in good health. It doesn't matter if I stay here for a few more days and get some rain, but my parents are too old. , I really can't stand it any longer, please take them away first."
"I'm also..."
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No, I'm old, and I don't have a few years to live, so let the young people and children go first. Let's go."
"Yeah, let my sons and grandsons go first, don't they just wait a few more days? We're fine."
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Obviously it's a rare chance to survive, and it's the hope they've been looking forward to for a long time, but However, when the hope is really rewarded, these people recommend each other for the survival of their relatives, friends, and even strangers, as if being able to be rescued by the first batch of people is a hot potato.
While their performance surprised Gu Mi and others, they couldn't help but admire them.
Not everyone can have such a lofty character in a desperate situation, but most people in the Friendship Territory have done it, and it really deserves the name of 'Friendship'.
"Territory announcement: everyone is quiet, listen to my arrangement, the elderly, children, pregnant women, the injured and the injured will leave with the rescuers first, and the rest will wait for the second batch of rescues."
Seeing that the scene was going to be chaotic, Bai Ai'ai immediately showed the courage that belonged to the lord. , issued a territory-wide announcement, so that all the noisy territory people were quiet, and obeyed the command in an orderly manner, and accepted the rescue.
Gu Mi subconsciously glanced at Bai Ai'ai.
She is a woman with a very gentle temperament and looks. She doesn't have the same strong aura as Gu Mi, but Bai Ai'ai is not inferior to any lord in the control of her own territory.
This is a qualified lord, Gu Mi is sure.
If it wasn't for this irresistible disaster, maybe one day, the Friendship Territory could gradually develop into a large city-level territory?
It's a pity...
the cruelty of this world always makes people helpless.
Under the assistance and management of Bai Ai'ai, people in the Friendship Territory began to cooperate with the rescue team in the Hope Territory, holding or supporting children, the elderly, pregnant women, and the injured, and let them enter the bamboo basket first.
One bamboo basket is full, and another one is loaded. A griffin has two pairs of claws, front and rear. They can lift two bamboo baskets full of people in one breath. In addition, it can barely seat two or three more people.
In this way, when one end is full, replace the other end.
There are also those flying monsters and flying orcs that operate similarly. Those who can afford a bamboo basket can use a bamboo basket to carry people. If there is no way, even if they can bring one or two more, it is good.
With a base of more than 100,000 people, there are not a lot of elderly and children in the Friendship Territory. There are tens of thousands of people. Fortunately, I hope that the rescue team in the territory will be large enough to at least take so many people away in one go.
time is life.
Everyone is racing against time to rescue.
When the last young child was also carried by Emilia on the baby dragon's back, with Nia's roar, all the griffins, flying beasts and flying beasts carried these heavy burdens together. Qi flew into the sky and went into the distance.
At this moment, the heavy dark clouds in the sky seemed to dissipate a little, and a few rays of golden sunlight poured down and shone on the people who were flying in the air.
The people who were left on the island below stared intently at this scene, with a look of farewell in their moist reddish eyes.
Not that they are pessimistic.
But they clearly understand that maybe, this look is really a goodbye.
