Extraordinary Sailing

"Extraordinary Great Navigation (

"Squeak..."

Amid the frantic screams, two long, uplifting sand lines in the desert flew up, and two poisonous tails with shiny barbed thorns rose high among the flying gravel.

I don’t know if the toxins in it will be fatal. Even the half-meter-long barb in the previous one is absolutely uncomfortable.

call out! call out!

Two orange-red flame bombs the size of a human head, carrying the high temperature that almost scorched the desert, cut an arc and landed exactly in front of the sand line.

Boom

It is as if the shelling of two heavy artillery blasted two hot pits in the sand sea, and the 3000-degree scorching stream easily melted the sand into shiny crystals.

Simultaneously.

Under the yellow sand, two giant sand scorpions covered in a transparent topaz-like shell were exploded into the air.

Stabbed...

A sharp blue thunder light swept across the bodies of the two sand scorpions, and easily cut their topaz shells, splitting them in half from head to tail.

The scream stopped abruptly.

Cang!

Aiwen returned the sword to its sheath, and the ruby ​​ring on Miss Moonstone's right index finger beside him slowly dimmed.

After a dozen nights of joint action, one hour corresponds to a day and a half.

The two people actually spent more than 20 days in the spirit world, and their cooperation has been very tacit.

Moreover, this strange creature, which is almost impossible to exist in the material world, obviously has the common characteristics of both the "living chemistry school" and the "gem school".

It was also the normal state of spirit world monsters when the two were acting together during this period, which originated from the additional benefits of the mysterious binding of the two.

Although they can't see each other's expressions, both of them are more satisfied with the mysterious knowledge that comes with spiritual feedback.

"A way of cultivating organic gems? Great!"

There is a third-order physical transcendent who can enter the spirit world to escort, Miss Moonstone's time to explore the spirit world during this time is really relaxed and happy.

Leaving aside the knowledge gains related to one's own path, even after killing these spirit world monsters, the growth rate of spirituality is at least ten times faster than when he explored alone the other day.

‘It’s not bad to have such a neighbor, but... it seems that I am too inexistent. ’

She is always proud and strong, although she feels a little depressed, but she also knows that her situation is almost impossible for others to meet.

Even if there are powerful high-level physical transcendents who are willing not to gain, and at the same time take huge risks to act as bodyguards, those great knights whose spirit (will) is as hard as iron and stone cannot enter the spirit world at all.

It is as if a piece of sea surface can absorb a lot of water, but as long as you poke a needle, it will poke a hole in the sponge. Compared with the priests, the great knights are the needles!

After that, no words are needed.

The two looked at each other and turned together to come to a dark seam not far away.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Jumping into the seam in the ground, after turning around the caves and underground rivers, he has returned to the beacon anchorage of the two.

Before bidding farewell, Moonstone, who looked very petite in the contrast of body shape, looked up at Aiwen and spoke slightly:

"Mr. Red Hemlock, after several days of discussion, I think your design proposal is already perfect.

Regarding the question of whether to use different kinds of gemstones or the same kind of gemstones you raised today, I will consider answering you tomorrow. "

Although the tone remained as cool as ever, the arrogance had almost disappeared.

"Thank you for your help, Miss Moonstone."

"It's nothing, it's a hyacinth for you."

Olivia silently added a sentence in her heart:

The stronger the'horn of storm', the safer I will be. Yes, that's it! ’

Aiwen felt that she didn't know if it was because of a familiar relationship, Miss Moonstone was much stronger than her arrogant appearance at the beginning, and she was actually not difficult to get along with.

"Then, see you tomorrow!"

"Goodbye!"

After waving goodbye, Aiwen watched the girl disappear from the back of the forest, and said to himself slightly:

"Although it's pretty good to get along with each other, I always feel that the relationship with Miss Moonstone is weird now.

For this hour every night, I spend a day and a half alone with each other.

The time in the spiritual world is like another period of life, and it is longer than the time in the material world. Is this...a strange soul mate? "

...

After dawn, work will continue.

After completing the refitting of eight privateers and the last five-tier ship, the Shake, Irvine and Milan did not rest long.

Enough steel was delivered in place, and they immediately launched the transformation plan for the Horn of Storm.

The seawater in Dock Room No. 1 has been drained again, and all outfitting of "Storm Horn" has been removed and it is fully prepared.

He motioned to the craftsmen and engineers who were watching.

Aiwen slowly raised his hands.

sta——!

next moment.

It has been portrayed long ago. On the five horns representing fire, water, earth, wind and soul, there are placed a small cannon, a golden cup, a golden lion, a sword stick and a Milan rune array respectively.

The transparent emerald green brilliance burst out like jade.

Huh!

Aiwen has re-launched the previously used 【Extra-Limit Ceremony·Activation Skill】when transforming the "Venus Star"

The ability of Aiwen has been greatly enhanced, this time "Activating Skill" easily covered the entire battleship.

With his current soul strength enough to cope with multi-threaded operations, it seems that countless skilled craftsmen work together under the same brain, and the wooden ribs that were originally firmly fixed in the battleship are loosened and peeled off a little.

During this period, no damage was caused to the hull itself.

Click... click...

In fact, the keel of the battleship could have been replaced normally.

Even the current shipbuilding habit in the entire Tulip Alliance is to use inferior materials as the keel when building. Finally, the keel was knocked out and replaced with a real keel made of good materials, so that the keel that was launched was as "new" as possible, and it was inconvenient to bear the hardships of construction.

This method can also prevent the keel from deforming to the greatest extent.

It can be said that most of the battleships currently in service in Tulip have changed their keels at least once.

Compared with the keel of wooden structure.

Steel is a crystalline state at the micro level, and its interior is completely coherent at the macro level, which determines that steel has good macro mechanical properties and mechanical conductivity.

The wood is completely different, because the naked eye can see the texture through the material-"annual rings".

It is made up of many xylem fibers arranged in parallel, and the strength of the connection between these fibers is far less than that of the inside of a whole fiber. Therefore, it is said that "chopping wood without illuminating the pattern is exhausted."

The material revolution is an inevitable trend to build larger, stronger and more robust warships.

However, the appearance of wooden sail battleships is only a few decades, and no iron rib wooden hull ship has been launched.

In Aiwen’s memory, even the earliest iron-ribbed wooden shell warships generally needed wrought iron box keels and riveted ribs, which required extremely high craftsmanship and materials.

One of the technologies in this world that is stronger than that of the contemporary Blue Star is that it is necessary to equip powerful knights with suitable weapons, so materials science, especially steel production and processing technology, is relatively mature.

With ideas, the technology tree can almost meet the requirements of small-scale manufacturing.

The material Ivan chooses is low-carbon steel that is relatively easy to shape.

To put it plainly, steel is a carbon-iron alloy, but only because of the different carbon content will it have different properties. Wrought iron (wrought iron): C% 0.0218%; steel: C% 0.0218% to 2.06%; pig iron: C% 2.06-4.3%.

Iron components (fixing rods, etc.) on normal warships generally use wrought iron with better plasticity.

Aiwen knows the difference in strength and hardness between wrought iron and steel. For him, the increase in material hardness is nothing more than a matter of effort. Of course, it must be done in one step.

Jingle bell...

Wooden keels, ribs, iron nails for fixing, cleaning rods, etc. are easily hollowed out by "activated hands."

After he had processed a whole section in advance, the long steel had already raised its head on its own and crawled into the lower cabin like a snake.

From beginning to end, he inserted himself into the void left by the original keel and side ribs.

Regardless of whether it is a box structure with a hollow keel or a connection problem between steel components, it is a piece of cake for Aiwen.

簌簌...

After this whole piece of steel arrives at the predetermined position, it grows naturally like a tree. The keel, ribs, and steel beams are integrally formed. This technique is more than a hundred times better than welding and riveting?

Subsequently, the steel and wood of "Storm Horn" grew at the same time, just like two acacia trees with life growing together firmly.

Then in the inevitable gaps, tar and linen cloth have been automatically filled in, providing an excellent buffer zone, and the entire battleship has been transformed into a perfect whole.

After the transformation was completed, Aiwen also cleaned the bottom of the ship covered with copper skin by the way to activate the aura, and the copper skin immediately gleamed just like the new one.

That's it!

Alvin’s old friend, Walkley, a senior ship engineer who once helped him transform the Venus, rushed to the Stormhorn. After using his professional knowledge to check carefully, he couldn’t help but exclaimed:

"Your Excellency, this iron ribbed wooden hull ship...is the future of the Kingdom Warship!"

Of course it can be seen from Walkley's experience.

The advantages of the iron rib structure are very obvious. Without greatly increasing the weight of the ship, the ship can be made longer, can better withstand the recoil of the artillery, and increase the number of artillery.

At the moment when the precision and power of artillery are limited, more is strong!

Moreover, when building a new ship, the rib drying time can be greatly shortened, and the production cycle of a battleship can be shortened from several years to several months with the steam drying of the shipboard.

Aiwen smiled, neither agree nor disagree.

In fact, steam armored ships are the future of warships.

However, with the gradual shortage of large-scale high-quality timber throughout the colony, the use of relatively low-cost steel ribbed ships should become an excessive choice and supplement.

Of course, the prerequisite is that with the progress of industrialization, the production capacity of steel can keep up. Now that the strength of the navy is measured by the number of cast iron guns, this desire is difficult to realize in a short time.

However, Ivan doesn't care much about the future development of warships, but "Storm Horn" has everything ready, and only the final finishing touch can usher in a gorgeous rebirth!

"Miss Moonstone, I hope you can bring good news for the Horn of Storm tonight."