After leaving Yala Harbour, the New Flyer guard fleet and the two Magic Airships led by Xu Yi didn't go back the way they came, rather they went south.
The guard ships went at their highest speed and the Magic Airships followed in the air, maintaining a speed of forty kilometers per hour. Setting off from Yala Harbour in the morning, they didn't stop until dusk. They were already over four hundred kilometers deep in the endless sea.
Xu Yi poked his head out of the ship and looked at the sea below. He found that the difference between the sea and the sea wasn't that obvious, he could still see traces of the seabed. Looking up again, he could see several small islands floating in the distance.
"Hey, Leslie, how did you find this place?" Xu Yi turned to ask Leslie beside him.
"Most of it was unintentional, but a small part of it was intentional."
Leslie pointed at the sea, "Weren't you looking at the sea just now?
It's clear that you found that there isn't much difference between the sea and the sea, right? "
"Un.
This phenomenon means that this place is still on the continental shelf, which means that there might be large pieces of land nearby. "
"I don't know what continental shelf is, but the sailors of the fleet know what this phenomenon means.
We followed your instructions to explore the southern seas at first, but after finding that this sea was a bit strange, we explored it and found an unexpected harvest. "
"Is that so?"
Xu Yi turned and looked in front of the fleet, but he didn't see anything strange in the sea.
"How far is this place from here?"
"At least two hundred kilometers.
In short, we can forget about reaching it today, unless you plan on having us continue sailing at night. "
"You're not afraid of getting lost, but I'm afraid."
Xu Yi rolled his eyes at Leslie. He looked around and pointed at the two small islands in the distance, "If we're satisfied with that place, we have to consider setting up a stronghold along the way."
Leslie looked at the two islands and shook his head, "These two islands are too small, people can't even live there, so it definitely won't work.
Based on my experience, these two islands are so small that they could be submerged by the sea at any time. We can't leave anyone on them. "
"I didn't say that I would leave people there, I was just planning to set up a magic signal tower there." Xu Yi said.
"To put it simply, wherever we develop New Flyer, we should place the magic signal towers there, ensuring that the Magic Network can cover it."
Leslie frowned. "Do we need to do this?
We're already quite familiar with this part of the sea. Even without this thing, it shouldn't be a problem. "
"But you still don't dare to sail at night, do you?"
Xu Yi's question left Leslie speechless.
"Setting up the magic signal towers and laying down the magic network, other than ensuring a smooth night flight, it can also bring this area under our control.
Think about it. No matter when, we can clearly grasp the situation here. Don't you feel very confident? "
"Of course it would be good to do this, but is this possible?" Leslie had a doubtful look on his face.
"Xu Yi, I've never understood, why are you so invested in this Magic Network?
Is this thing really that strong? "
Xu Yi pointed at Leslie's waist, "Not mentioning anything else, you can talk to your young miss Whitney here, don't you think it's strong?"
Leslie's face that had already turned dark from the sea breeze had a rare trace of red. He gave a cough and awkwardly said, "Your idea isn't realistic at all.
Didn't you say that the magic signal towers only have an effective range of five kilometers?
However, there was no other island within a five-kilometer radius of this place.
Even if you set up a magic signal tower here, the magic wave signal will be cut off. "
"Who told you that we can't set up a magic signal tower without an island?" Xu Yi rolled his eyes at him, looking like he didn't understand anything.
"Then tell me, how do we solve this problem?" Leslie asked back.
"This ….. I don't have a specific method right now, but I have countless ideas in my mind that can solve this problem, so this isn't a problem." Xu Yi waved his hand and said in a confident voice.
Leslie rolled his eyes, "To put it bluntly, there's no other way, I wasted all this time talking to you."
Xu Yi laughed and patted Leslie's shoulder as he said, "Alright, since you think this is a waste of time, let's change the topic. When are you planning on marrying young miss Whitney?"
This young miss Whitney was a young girl that Leslie had saved from a merchant ship being attacked by pirates when he was cruising in the southern seas of the Kandla Empire.
She came from a small noble family in a small city in the central province of the Kandla Empire. She had a beautiful face and a gentle aura. Although she wasn't bad, just based on her appearance, she couldn't be considered outstanding among the noble ladies.
But without knowing why, after Leslie had been with her for a while, this fellow who hadn't fallen in love with the noble ladies of the Lampari Kingdom for over ten years was truly attracted to young miss Whitney.
This young miss Whitney was also attracted to Leslie, so the two of them could be considered to be in love with each other.
But the question of marrying young miss Whitney made Leslie knit his brows.
He and young miss Whitney were in love with each other, but if they wanted to be together, they would face all kinds of obstacles.
One of the biggest obstacles was his identity.
If it was the Leslie of a few years ago, with his identity as the successor of the largest noble family in the Lampari Kingdom, of course he had the qualifications to marry young miss Whitney who came from a small noble family in the Kandla Empire. It could even be said that young miss Whitney was climbing up the social ladder.
But now that time had passed, the Stagg Family had already become history in the Lampari Kingdom. Leslie was even a wanted person in the Lampari Kingdom in name, so he couldn't even return to the Lampari Kingdom.
To be honest, Leslie didn't even have an official identity right now.
The only thing he could say was that he was the commander of the New Flyer's guard fleet.
But no matter how strong the New Flyer's guard fleet was, to the point that even the Kandla Empire's navy feared them, they were just the guards of a company in name. They couldn't show their status on the Sines at all.
Not to mention that the New Flyer couldn't be considered a first class company on the continent, so how could he have any weight as the commander of the guard fleet?
The Kandla Empire was one of the two empires on the continent, so the nobles of the other empires had a sense of superiority over the nobles of the other empires, not to mention Leslie who came from a small country like the Lampari Kingdom.
So even if young miss Whitney fell in love with Leslie because of his experience, her family strongly opposed it. It was hard for the two of them to even meet, so they could only rely on the New Flyer's private contacts in the Kandla Empire to contact each other through letters.
In this situation, Xu Yi asking Leslie when he would marry young miss Whitney was simply making things hard for Leslie.
So Leslie looked at Xu Yi in confusion, feeling a bit doubtful.
He had known Xu Yi for a long time, so of course he didn't think that Xu Yi would make things hard for him. Since he asked this question, he must have other considerations.
Xu Yi saw the expression on Leslie's face and knew that he understood his meaning. He laughed and took Leslie's shoulder, lowering his voice as he said, "Leslie, have you ever thought of reviving your Stagg Family?"
Leslie knit his brows, "Of course I've thought about it.
But Xu Yi, you shouldn't be the one asking this question, right? "
If the Stagg Family was destroyed because they participated in the internal strife of the Lampari Kingdom and failed in the end, then the main culprit for their failure was the New Flyer led by Xu Yi.
If it wasn't for the New Flyer supporting her highness Seveni and providing her with large amounts of military magic machines, greatly increasing the battle strength of her army, it would have been hard to predict what the situation in the Lampari Kingdom would have been like.
So if one really wanted to argue, Xu Yi could be considered the enemy of the Stagg Family.
Of course, Leslie didn't agree with the Stagg Family's political views, so he never blamed Xu Yi for the destruction of his family.
But now that Xu Yi was asking him if he was willing to revive the Stagg Family, Leslie felt it was very strange.
"Don't care about these details." Xu Yi waved his hand.
"I'm just asking you, if you were given a chance to control a large piece of land and develop your Stagg Family into a large and prosperous family, would you be interested?
You have to know that only by becoming like this can you obtain the approval of Miss Whitney's family and have them truly accept you. "
Leslie looked at Xu Yi in confusion for a while before shaking his head, "I say, Xu Yi, what is wrong with you today?
Just say what you want to say, why are you beating around the bush? "
"Ke ….. Because this matter is very important and has a large effect on you, I have to understand your thoughts before asking you."
Leslie angrily waved his hand, "Stop wasting words, just say it."
"Alright then."
Xu Yi revealed a smile before revealing a serious expression. He pointed at the sea in front of the fleet and asked with a serious look, "Leslie, if I had you open up a colony for our company, would you be willing?"