Chapter 348: Molten Iron City
Su Ming sat in the cabin, looking at the foggy sky outside. He took out his cell phone and wanted to call Xia Xiaoyu, but found that his cell phone was broken in Jestan's attack just now. This was the nth cell phone he had broken.
But it doesn’t matter, because the phone was not his in the first place. It was stolen by Xia Xiaoyu from the pocket of a random passerby on the street.
Su Ming looked at the silent crew member opposite him and wanted to ask him to borrow his cell phone, but he closed his mouth again when he was about to speak.
He walked to the crew member whose hands and feet were broken by Flora and squatted down. The other crew members around him looked at him warily with complicated expressions.
Su Ming's image in their eyes is very complicated. He is a criminal being hunted by the alliance, which is the main reason forcing them to wade into the muddy water, but he is also a well-known hero on Dongyang Island. This contradictory impression makes these crew members unsure of how to treat Su Ming.
Some people even couldn't figure out whether he was a coercer or a person seeking help?
"Move aside, I will help him with the treatment." Su Ming said.
Su Ming's hand touched the crew member with a broken bone, and activated his special power [Xia Xiaoyu's exclusive], slowly transferring the other party's injuries to himself. His arm slowly twisted within ten minutes, his muscles and tendons were broken and sprained, and even his bones had tiny cracks.
The intense and slow pain made Su Ming sweat on his forehead. Compared with the fracture caused in an instant, this slowly transferring injury brought more pain. Although Su Ming was accustomed to being injured, he still could not get rid of the physiological reaction of his body.
The injury on the first arm had completely transferred to Su Ming. The crew members around him were stunned when they saw Su Ming's bent arm, and their expressions were more interesting than each other.
In front of everyone, Su Ming held his arm and with a "click" sound, he bent the dislocated bones to the correct position. He savored the feeling of the bones moving in his body at that moment and noticed some special effects.
After synthesizing the bone demon's thoughts, Su Ming's bones have become extremely hard, and an incredible special connecting force has been generated between the bones. Even without the connection between muscles and bones, the bones can move freely.
Normally, an ordinary fracture should not be able to break his bones, but after using Xia Xiaoyu's exclusive skill, all the injuries of the injured crew member were completely transferred to him. This means that Xia Xiaoyu's exclusive injury transfer completely ignores defense.
If you encounter an enemy with particularly strong defense in the future, you can use Xia Xiaoyu's exclusive skills to penetrate the enemy's defense.
"Please bring a cup." Su Ming said.
Seeing that Su Ming had healed his companion's arm, the others' attitude towards Su Ming was obviously no longer so distant. Someone immediately went to get a cup for Su Ming. Su Ming cut his wrist and drained blood into the cup, restoring all the broken bones and damaged muscles in his body.
Recovering from injuries by devouring one's own flesh and blood was originally the effect of the [Ouroboros] trait, and was later merged into [Bone Demon's Life Intentions].
The damage to the bones and muscles will be replaced by the consumption of blood, and then Xia Xiaoyu's exclusive ability will be used to transfer the ischemic symptoms in his body to other people, which is equivalent to letting the group donate blood to eliminate the fatal injury. With this kind of cooperation, in the future, as long as the opponent does not kill Su Ming in one go, Su Ming will have the opportunity to adjust his injuries and turn the fatal injury into a minor one.
In other words, for Su Ming, future battles will not just be real battles, but more like games. He no longer has a weakness that can kill him with one blow, but instead has an invisible health bar. The only way for the opponent to kill Su Ming is to empty his health bar.
Su Ming used this to transfer the crew member's injuries to himself, and then recovered from the serious injuries by drinking his own blood. He then transferred part of the ischemic symptoms to the injured man. He communicated with other crew members, and everyone shared the consumption of ischemia. After the entire treatment process was completed, no one felt anything unusual in their body.
“Incredible!”
"What kind of power is this? Is your power a recovery power? I always thought you were a combat power!" a young man said in surprise.
The middle-aged man next to him poked him hard on the shoulder and warned him in a low voice: "Why are you so happy?"
The young man shut up and said nothing. Although he felt that Su Ming was not a bad guy, it was a fact that Su Ming had been hunted by the alliance before, and his companions were indeed injured by Flora, who even threatened them with death.
"Can you lend me your cell phone?" Su Ming asked.
Everyone looked at each other, seeming a little hesitant. There was nothing wrong with borrowing a mobile phone, but the act of borrowing a mobile phone contained more symbolic meaning.
The crew members hesitated for a while, and finally someone took out a cell phone and gave it to Su Ming.
"You...you should be faster." He reminded softly.
Su Ming nodded and dialed Xia Xiaoyu's number based on his memory. After a few busy tones, the other party answered the call.
"Su Ming?"
"It's me. How are you doing there?"
"Flora pretended to faint. The workers at the Lingyan Mine are willing to help her keep the secret. I think she should be fine." Xia Xiaoyu replied.
It can be heard that she is also worried about Flora.
"Protect her. If it were you, you would definitely be able to do it." Su Ming said.
"Well, I will protect her. I will protect her even if you don't tell me!" Xia Xiaoyu said, "What about you? ... How is your side?"
"What else can I do? I'm just floating in the air. The crew of this smuggling ship are not bad people." Su Ming said.
"That's good, that's good..." Xia Xiaoyu murmured. She and Su Ming were silent for more than ten seconds, and then she spoke again, "Once you arrive at your destination safely, you must email me as soon as possible, understand?"
"I got it. By the way, you have to kill the man with the Mysterious Eye. You can't let him live." Su Ming reminded. If that man was allowed to live, he would definitely report Xia Xiaoyu's whereabouts to the organization when he woke up. Although they seemed unable to harm Xia Xiaoyu, it would be better not to let the Mysterious Eye know about Xia Xiaoyu.
"I have already dealt with them." Xia Xiaoyu said as a matter of course, "These people are the culprits who caused you to become what you are now, right?"
"Well done, I'll be in touch later."
"Um."
Su Ming hung up the phone, returned the phone to the crew member, and sat back in his seat quietly.
Others began to get busy. This airship was much smaller than an ordinary airship, but its size was still comparable to that of a large cruise ship. It was divided into four floors. The top floor was where Su Ming was. Towards the bow was the cockpit, where Captain Holland controlled the flight of the entire airship.
The cockpit is very large, and working inside with Holland is the deputy captain Xu Wenxin. His main job is to receive signals around the sky. If there are other airships within range sending signals on public channels, he will be able to receive them.
This smuggling airship took an irregular route, so it was not within the range of the signal buoy. Therefore, once it left the island a certain distance, all electronic equipment would lose signal. Su Ming was not sure how the airship's signal was transmitted, but according to the crew's description, because their airship was not registered and was a black ship, it could not borrow public resources for alliance construction.
There's no need to think about things like cell phone signals, but it is possible to locate the current position of the airship. The guy couldn't explain the specific principle clearly, and when Su Ming asked him, he pretended to know and was vague. Sometimes he said it was a problem with the function of the signal buoy, and sometimes he said it was an aerial network jointly established by the smuggling groups. It was impossible to understand what he was saying.
The only thing Su Ming was sure of was that they were now heading towards the Molten Iron City, an island that was not under the control of the Alliance. From the establishment of the Alliance to the present, the Alliance has controlled 150 of the more than 350 islands in the world. Although this number is less than half, there are only a few island forces that have united together except for the Alliance. Therefore, on Earth, the Alliance has absolute control in most places.
Except for the islands controlled by the Alliance , the rest of the islands belong to either neutral cooperative forces or forces hostile to the Alliance. Among them, Molten Iron City is one of the hostile islands.
The Iron Smelting City is also a forbidden island. A special metal is abundant in the local area. Almost all local people are engaged in iron-related work. The ruler of the island lives in a city that is completely made of special materials. Therefore, the island is directly called the Iron Smelting City.
This island has a very good relationship with another island called "Mechanical City", and they are both hostile forces of the alliance.
Of course, although they are hostile to each other, they have no contact with each other openly, but resources are flowing in private.
When it comes to dealing with demons, cold weapons are more effective than hot weapons, so the Alliance needs the special metals of the Iron City to make powerful cold weapons.
However, Smelting Iron City was short of many daily resources and needed to exchange them with other islands. As a result, a prosperous smuggling industry developed in Smelting Iron City. Holland's smuggling team specialized in transporting spiritual salt from Dongyang Island to Smelting Iron City in exchange for generous rewards.
The formalization of the smuggling industry on Dongyang Island is entirely due to Flora's contribution. Without Flora, the market prices of the smuggling industry on Dongyang Island would not be transparent, various information asymmetries would exist, there would be no trust between customers and captains of smuggling ships, efficiency would be low, and incidents of black-on-black would occur frequently.
Holland and Flora didn't interact much, but he admired her very much. He thought she was a rational, realistic and mature woman. But what happened today changed Holland's opinion of Flora.
"Captain, when will we arrive at Ironforge?"
Su Ming's voice sounded behind Holander, and Holander replied unhappily: "This is the cockpit, who let you in? Do you know that this will affect my driving? If I make the slightest mistake, I might deviate from the route and encounter air pirates. Then we will all die."
"Boss, he helped me heal my wounds."
Another man's voice sounded behind him, and Holland was stunned.
