Release that Witch

393. Chapter 393 New Ship Launching

    The temporary shipyard next to Scarlet Water River is full of people.

    Everyone knows that a strange ship is being built in this wooden shed. Its outer shell is like a huge bath made of gray cement – ​​and once it has solidified, it is no different from the stone. In addition to the sound of the water, even a shadow will not be seen.

    The craftsmen who came here to work for it gave a proper name: a bath boat.

    Today is the day when the first two sample ships are launched.

    The crowds on the crowd are roughly divided into two categories. One is the new joining Border Town’s residents. They are curious about this news, or they are unbelievable. Look at the fresh before the skeptical attitude, many of them from the east, southern region. Fishermen and sailors. The first class is local residents. They have long been accustomed to the miracles created by His Royal Highness. The former “HMS Little Town” has also heard about it. It is a small snow gathering here, but it is to see the prince they worship. Your Highness.

    Qassim is the former.

    When His Highness posted this news and a new recruitment order on the square bulletin board, he said that he would come here to see it anyway. Vader had no choice but to ask Carter for a vacation and accompany him to come here – here is not familiar with life, and the snow is serious, he really does not trust the other person to go to the place where the crowd gathers, if careless If you are pushed and injured, it is almost unhealable for the elderly.

    “You are too young to look at me, child,” the old man waved his hand and motioned that he would not have to be with him. “I have also experienced great winds and waves. Although I am older, my body is not much worse than you.”

    “Yes,” Vader didn’t take it for granted. “I have already asked for it anyway. You said that you are late.” I just don’t quite understand why you must come to see this stuff? Isn’t that a ship? ”

    “But you said it was made of gray stone,” Qassim shook his head. “Will the stone as big as the bath in this year float on the water?”

    They all blame themselves for their mouths, Vader thought, and when he chatted with him, I didn’t know how to talk about the announcement of the square. “Perhaps His Highness is just an exaggeration. Is there a part of a wooden boat made of cement?”

    “That would be morepossible,” the old man insisted. “Do you think about when this wooden shed was built?”

    “it seems that……More than a month ago. ”

    “Yes, it’s earlier than when you were recruited as a policeman. When we moved into the inner city of small town, it was still empty!”His beard was shaking. “It took a month to build a shed. Doesn’t it mean that it took only half a month for His Royal Highness to make the first ship?”

    “Hey, what’s wrong?”Vader didn’t understand.

    “Of course not right!”Qassim picked it up, “in the name of Poseidon! I have never seen a ship that can be built in half a month. It has nothing to do with the size. As long as it is a sailboat, it takes more than a month to process the ribs. It needs to wait until the wood is completely air-dried before using steam. Drying, this process is extremely troublesome and impossible to complete in a short time. ”

    Vader said differently, “How do you make a ship…So familiar? ”

    “I used to be a captain, child,” the old man spit out. “When I was young, I used to carry a lot of goods, walking through the Sea Wind Region and Port of Clear Water, and I went to the Kingdom of Dawn and the Fjord. Islands. Later because of some things…Only then fell to this point. ”

    “You never told me about this before.”He widened his eyes.

    “You never asked, child.”Qassim shrugged.

    “Well,” Vader moved his gaze to the shipyard. “So what you really curious about is the skill of a sailboat in the next half a month.”

    “No captain will not be curious,” he said with a beard. “If your Highness does not lie, do you know what it means?” In just a year or two, he will be able to run his fleet in the rivers of Greycastle. ”

    Vader moved, “Don’t you plan…”

    The old man smiled. “I can’t always eat your wheat porridge.”

    “Of course the Prince will not lie,” someone said suddenly. “And it is not a sailboat.”

    Vader turned around and the speaker was a young man. The accent was like a local resident of the Western Region. “Not a sailboat?”

    “Yes, it doesn’t require sails to sail, and it’s faster than any sailboat.”The other party proudly said, “I have seen the Steam engine in the mine with white fog? It’s easy to pull a basket of ore out of the mine. These cement boats are powered by it. According to His Royal Highness, they are all steamboats! ”

    “You can sail without a sail?”Qassim questioned, “Boy, what are you talking about? If a ship does not have a sail, it can only be swung by the paddlers. This speed is comparable to other sailboats. Besides, they haven’t gotten into the water yet. You haven’t even seen it before, how do you know that they can move? ”

    “Of course I have seen it,” the young man snorted. “You are a newcomer to the new world. I don’t know if it is normal.” In the summer, I once converted a steamship for the caravan across the strait. But the ship is still made of wood, not as durable as these stone boats. ”

    Vader still wants to say something, the other person’s eyes suddenly light up, pointing to the direction of the shipyard. “Look there, the prince is coming out!”

    There was a cheer in the crowd, and everyone raised the both hands and greeted their feudal lord.

    Prince Roland boarded the wooden platform temporarily built by the shipyard. After a few words of congratulations, he announced that the new ship was launched.

    In the slogan of the slogan, the workers dismantled the side of the wooden shed facing the Scarlet Water River. A gray hull with a length of forty meters was slid down the riverbank and covered in the cold river.

    Vader raised his heart. He almost thought that this thing would sink directly into the bottom of the water, but I didn’t expect the remaining part of the water to rise, the bow of the ship was tilted up again, and even a large number of splashes were picked up.

    Enthusiastic applause broke out again in the crowd.

    “Scorpio, it really floated up,” Qassim stunned for a moment. “But, is that really made of stone?”

    Vader also has the same question – the surface of the bathing boat looks so smooth, like a finely polished granite stone slab, but it can’t find the patchwork of the body and the whole hull. The cabin without the deck is very shallow, it is impossible to sleep, and the bottom is very flat. It is impossible to fix the mast. As everyone said, this is a bathtub.

    But no matter what, His Royal Highness really made the ship in half a month.

    He looked at Qassim and found the brilliance of the other party’s eyes.

    “I want to apply for the position of the captain,” the old man said.

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