Starry Sky of the Magic Tower

Go forward, there is always a destination or direction. Unlike land carriages, the ship can only choose to anchor in the port and cannot navigate to the middle of the desert. Although airships are relatively freer than Earth’s aircraft, airships are not welcome everywhere. Especially the place to sail next is the territory of the Gwana Empire.

For the convenience of management, including tax collection and management of personnel, the lords only allow airships to dock in specific cities within their territories. Apart from this, when it is not an emergency, such as a force majeure crash, the goods will be regarded as smuggled and the personnel will be regarded as entering the country without permission. The former will be confiscated, and the latter will be executed directly.

Except for the cities designated by the nobles, the other option for the airship is a magic tower with anchors. Of course, these places are chosen to stop, not only because of various restrictions, but also because of its convenience.

Among the supplies needed by airships, food and water are the best to deal with, and they are basically available everywhere. But some airships need to use the energy pool of the magic tower to supplement the small energy pool on the airship, which is not something that can be done anywhere.

Just like the Great Sage Tower in the past, with the assistance of the magician of the Leon District, an airship anchor pile was added. In addition to being used to anchor the airship, it can also be used to transmit magical powers.

Sometimes some airships also need equipment maintenance. In addition to the owner and the technicians on board, it is best to have a dedicated dock for operations. Even some larger cities will develop workshops for making airships. Simply put, it has formed a city similar to the concept of Earth Airport.

In other words, although Midi doesn’t have concepts such as air dominance and flight path, it also doesn’t fly where you want to go. Especially driving an unarmed airship.

The above were learned from previous chats with Goblin Totokani; part of it was derived from someone’s own deliberation. But because I was too busy before, I didn’t consider that issue. Now that we are about to set off, that question is right before our eyes, and we have to consider it. Where to fly? Fuel and magic stones that can replenish power are limited, and someone is not allowed to fly around like headless flies.

Because the question someone asked is too shallow, no one can answer it. So Lin took the goblin out again and asked: “How did you navigate the airship before?”

“Navigation? Your Excellency, what does this mean?”

The goblin asked back, making someone feel a little embarrassed, is it possible that they fly based on their intuition and mood. Lin had to ask another way: “When you controlled the airship before, how did you plan to get to Estali?”

“Oh, this. My original flight path was passing you After pulling the mountain range, take the Abaizhi line, and depending on the situation along the way, you will stop at Abadan, Hayes, Minab, Save and other cities. It takes about XX (20) days to arrive at Holy City Estali. “

As the goblin said, Lin also pulled out the built-in navigation map of the Sid. As Totocani reported a name, a city was marked on the map.

For such a map on the airship, Totocani’s eyes lit up on the spot. To him, who often sails around the maze, he knows the importance of the map better than anyone else. The picture in front of him was more detailed than all he had seen.

But it’s useless to have a picture and know the destination because there is no direction. Unlike Earth, which has GPS navigation, I know where I am and where I am, so I can correct my direction. Relying on the terrain and features to determine the direction is one way, but Lin still asked the goblin: “In the past, how did you determine which city you were flying to?”

For this question, The goblin looked embarrassed. Totocani let his daughter go into the warehouse area to find something, while he himself came to the driver’s seat and looked at the map carefully.

After a while, Polly walked over with a small wooden box. Totocani opened the wooden box and let everyone see that it was full of tattered things of similar shape. Lin puzzled and asked: “What’s this?”

Totocani picked up one of the artifacts intact, perhaps the only one intact. It was slightly smaller than the goblin’s fist; the base looked like it had lettering, but Lin hadn’t looked at it carefully; the upper part was a glass-like spherical cover, and the inside was a pointer with half of it painted in color. The goblin said:

“Which city we used to fly to, we had to rely on the guidance needles of that city. These guidance needles can not only indicate the direction of our flight, but also the permission to stop in that city. There is this Guiding needles, the tax for entering the city will be cheaper, but now the guidance needles I have are all broken. Although it can still serve as a permit for entering the city, the broken ones can also be replaced in the city for a small amount of money; but There is also a guiding function, and only this one is left to guide Yasuj. Yasuj is too far away. If we don’t stop for supplies halfway, we won’t be able to reach that city.”

Lin Take a look at the location of Yasuj City. In terms of straight-line distance, it is probably from the third to 1/4 position before the Jura mountain range to Holy City Estali. In other words, there is already very close to the terminal. If the airship before the goblin had to sail for more than 20 days and docked in nearly ten cities to reach it, it was indeed impossible to reach Yasuj directly.

Receiving the pointer from the goblin and holding it in his hand, Lin changed several directions. The pointer really pointed to the same direction, and it was not the north and south poles of the geomagnetic field. It seemed that the effect was similar to a certain The props in this comic-record pointer. It’s just that in that comic, the recording pointer relies on magnetism, so what about it? It will always have a principle.

Let Kaya take out the first coffin and related analysis equipment, and begin to analyze the guide pin as a magic prop. Soon, I found the magic array engraved on it, and studied its utility, like a guide magic array that can track specific powers from a distance.

The reason for this inference is that the magic array with the same function is also one of the topics that Lin has studied recently. One of the achievements is to be used on the box cutting head, which can be used for remote positioning, as a magic array of flashing reference coordinates.

The difference is that the pointer is more like a receiver, receiving a signal source from a certain band. And this signal source is a specific permutation and combination of power messages sent from a certain magical signaling device, such as a combination of a radio station and a radio.

Since it was something that I had explored, Lin quickly wrote a program that could search for these bands, and integrated Fen into the control system of the Sid. The multifunctional detection device external to the airship quickly found the special signal sources scattered throughout the space, and searched backward to find the source location and distance, and displayed it on the airship’s map.

But it seems that the search effect is too good, and the lighted location on the navigation map far exceeds the known locations that Totocani has visited. There are even some cities or magic towers that do not exist in someone’s map information. The number of locations that can be used as navigation guidance far exceeds Lin Yuan’s estimate. Even Lin used this information to correct the location of cities on some maps.

The most surprising thing about this, of course, is the goblin Totokarni. He spent most of his life in an airship. It is very troublesome to open a channel to reach a new location every time. In addition to the cost of purchasing a local guide pointer, there is also a trial flight of the airship, confirming the replenishment point on the way, and contacting the local manager to obtain permission.

Sometimes to be on the safe side, I will choose to go to a new location by land, and then drive the airship to go there only after getting the guidance pin. In addition to the cost of the journey, there is a lot of time for the cost. In short, it is not easy to light up a certain city or a certain magic tower on the map like someone.

In the original expectation of the goblin, when the collection of pointers are almost completely wiped out, they can only move towards a certain direction and fly slowly. Apart from observing the terrain and features, they must also bet on luck. . If you are unlucky, you may not be able to find a city that can be used to replenish airship food for foreign objects before the supplies are exhausted. But didn’t expect, the problem seemed to be solved in one go.

Lin Yuan was surprised by such results. But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that as it should be by rights. The magic tower is lost in the ground, just like Earth’s computer connected to the Internet but without a firewall. In the eyes of Peak’s hackers, that is a broiler that can be slaughtered.

Of course, the Magic Tower is quite primordial to the computer, and it is not necessarily true that it can be played by hackers. But as long as it is a function of the external broadcast type, it is like undefended to him.

The deeper the feeling at this level, the more honest someone regrets the release of the knowledge of P language. If someone really discovered some evil ways, the harm would be no less than the natural disasters of the undead.

But just do it when you do it, and the main point is to get out of the predicament. To be on the safe side, the first destination Lin chose was the first stop planned by Totokani, the city of the Gwana Empire, Abadan, because of the shortest distance.

Because at this stage, there is only one estimate for the various consumption of airships, and the actual situation has yet to be verified. Arrive in the city early, if there is a problem with the airship, at least you can buy resources to repair it. Instead of staring in the snow as it is now.

All the function switches of the Sid number are already in the preheating state. Lin held the rudder with both hands, and various instruments and data immediately appeared up ahead in the driver’s seat along with the unfolded water mirror screen. I have thought of using a mechanical meter, but it is the reading from the magic detection. It needs to be converted to drive the mechanical watch, which consumes more power, so I gave up.

Imitate the layout of the cockpit of an Earth airliner, driving on the left, and Fern is sitting in the passenger seat on the right. She and Kaya at the rear are monitoring the various records of the program feedback so that when an error message appears, it can be repaired immediately.

Totocani sitting in the third driver’s seat and Polly further behind, both of whom are the magic stone book of the operating manual, are stealing from Lin’s driving actions. To control this brand new airship, the father and daughter can’t work hard.

Lin promotes the first throttle of control power. The magical side energy that is different from Earth begins to flow into every corner of the magical array. The magical effects that are mysterious and difficult to explain with science are gradually increasing, and Start to affect reality. At the same time, all functions are launched one by one.

Sid, officially launched!