Release that Witch

470. Chapter 470 New Ship

    Until the way to the backyard of Northern Slope Mountain, Roland’s ear still echoed this sentence.

    He felt bottom of heart have a trace of gap was a little uncovered, yes, he thought, he is no longer the original day and mechanical drawings dealing with ordinary people, here is not familiar with the world, he is now gradually become a leader of the big feudal lord, Even later may become ruler of the kingdom, when the situation changes, then take the former concept to bind themselves no doubt no longer applicable.

    It’s good to follow the innermost thoughts. He tells himself that if you force each other for some false “regulations”, there will be no benefit other than continuing to hurt Anna and Nightingale.

    Thinking of this, Roland’s mood suddenly opened up a lot, he took a deep breath of cold air, slowly pushed open the backyard door.

    The open iron gate is like the gap of the bottom of heart, and a new world is opened in an instant.

    “Ahhhh……It is Your Highness,” Hummingbird and Lucia ran up to the ceremony.

    Hey.Anna showed a sweet smile and saw a shallow red seal on her white neck. Roland couldn’t help but think of the other party’s enthusiasm last night, but since he made the decision, he didn’t care about the last point. Waiting for time.

    “How, is the model made?”

    “Of course,” Anna made a gesture with me. The two walked out of the back door of the yard and saw an iron ship floating in the middle of a pool surrounded by snow. The iron ship is about one meter long and twenty centimeters wide. It looks much longer than the stupid cement ships. The bow has a distinct fusiform shape, and the rear end is a flat tail. The most special is that the bottom of the ship is covered with criss-crossing support strips, which look like a myriad of squares.

    “That’s what I want,” Roland sighs. Compared to stone boats cast from reinforced concrete, pure steel ships have a unique sense of sophistication, especially with the intertwined beams that are like a piece of art. general. He knows that each module of this ship model is completely scaled down and cut by black fire. A connection point is not omitted. If it is placed in later generations, it is also a boutique worth tens of thousands.

    “Is it a new ship you want to build?”

    “Well,” he nodded. “It’s also the first standard warship of small town.”

    Originally Roland intended to use a cement ship as a shallow water heavy gunship hull, but he found that steam engine under the power of situation, the speed of the cement ship became the most significant disadvantage-only with fuel and personnel situation, the expedition longs Ong stronghold The fleet’s average speed is only eight to nine kilometers, if it is also equipped with a rotatable 152 mm stronghold cannon, plus the necessary ammunition and other combat weapon, the speed is likely to fall below the five km mark. If converted into a section, even three speeds are not guaranteed. The reason is that the weight of concrete is too heavy. If you use it for transportation, you don’t care about speed. If you are a warship, you will naturally be lighter.

    If the steel production capacity was seriously insufficient two months ago, he could only hold his nose and recognize it, but with the Iron Star put into production, today’s steel reserves have been able to support him to build a real armored warship. In terms of structure, Roland chose the simplest modular assembly type—that is, welding a piece of steel plate with transverse longitudinal beams to form a larger hollow box structure, and then splicing together many flat boxes to form the hull floor. This kind of building block type shipbuilding method does not need to set the keel, but also has nothing to do with the classical method, and the enemy does not threaten the cannon at all, so he does not need to care about the defense problem. The side is almost surrounded by thin iron sheets. , to minimize costs and weight.

    As for the power section, Roland decided to put propeller technology on the new ship instead of the paddle wheel drive of the cement ship…The power unit is still a Steam engine that drives the two propellers with a rotating gear. However, in the design drawings handed to Anna, he reserved the modification space of the three-up Steam engine, and planned to wait until later for mass construction, and then re-converted into a new Steam engine that is more suitable for ship use.

    Back in the yard, Anna began cutting the first steel plate.

    The black fire is like the most accurate ruler in her hands. The thick steel block of one meter square is like a potato. It is instantly turned into seven or eight thin plates. The thickness of each steel plate is five millimeters, not more than one minute. A lot of it.

    Next is the welding, the hummingbird will reduce the weight of the steel beam and placed between the two pieces of steel, and Anna’s black cremation into the naked eye of the light into the bottom of the beam, like a suture line to tie the three together, while raising the temperature-and the initial open flame welding is completely different, The inward heating allows the flow of molten steel to completely fill the gap between the plates, and when the three are completely combined, the longitudinal beam has been slightly sunk by a millimeter or so, which is the proof that the bottom is melted and filled with two steel plates in the gap.

    A staggered cross-shaped cross member can connect four steel plates, and more cross beams form a hollow box unit that will be weight-reduced by Hummingbird and transported to the side of Scarlet Water River for final assembly in the dock.

    Roland’s gaze stayed on the busy Anna, and the girl’s long-haired linen fluttered back and forth with the cutting action, in a pure white snow scene, like a dancing elf.

……

    In the afternoon, Roland saw the newly awakened witch, Asia.

    She can appear in the office, indicating that it has passed the review of Nightingale. Regarding her peculiar ability, Wendy has recorded very clearly, Roland did not do more tests, but placed the contract directly in front of her.

    Asia took the pen for a while and then said it, “I…Can’t write. ”

    “It’s okay,” Roland smiled. “It’s fine to press your handprint.”

    She carefully pressed the inked thumb to the end of the parchment. “So then it will be alright?”

    “Well,” Roland collected the contract. “Your situation I have learned from Wendy, so even if you sign the contract, you don’t have to live in the castle. Just come over and practice the lessons and lectures every day. Regarding the characteristics of magic power, Wendy should have told you these days? ”

    “Yes, Your Highness,” I heard that I didn’t have to stay in the castle, and Asia’s look relaxed a lot. “Lady Wendy said that if you don’t release the daily magic power, you will be in danger when you wait for awakening day.”

    “Yes, so you have to practice well. Regarding the precise control of magic power and the corresponding ability, I think she will pass it on to you slowly.” Roland did not correct the honor in the other party, staying awed for beginners. It’s not a bad thing to say, “If you don’t understand anything, you can ask any member of Witch Union.”

    “I understand, Your Highness,” she lowered her head. “But…Does this ability have no effect? I once asked Lady Wendy about this question, but she said that only His Highness knows the answer. ”

    “Of course not,” Roland laughed. “You are the Detective who has the ability to fight crime.”

    NameDetectiveAsia is confused.

    “It doesn’t matter, you won’t know how long it will take,” he called Nightingale in the fog. “From today on, this witch is your top boss.”