The sun was shining brightly and the sea breeze was blowing. After the torture in the middle of the night last night, until seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the Harmony finally got rid of the storm.
Bing Zhixie, Alice, and Hullington lay on the deck feeling powerless, letting the Harmony float slowly.
"It was like a nightmare. After flying in that storm for three or four hours, I thought I couldn't escape." Hullington looked limply at the sky, with several seabirds flapping their wings.
fell beside him.
"My arms are sore now, and I have no strength at all." Alice yawned: "I really want to sleep, let's sleep here." She really closed her eyes as she said that.
Bingzhixie said: "This is also the first time I have seen such a terrifying storm." He added: "Since ancient times, the ocean has been a restricted area for exploration. Legend has it that once you go deep into the ocean to a certain extent, you will encounter very terrible disasters.
.I used to think these were just rumors made up by sailors, but now it seems..."
"This is not a rumor." Hullington said: "No one has ever reached the end of the ocean. Those explorers have covered almost every inch of the continent, but they have only known about the vast ocean just offshore.
Exploration, anyone who explores the depths of the sea never comes back.”
Bing Zhixie put his head on his hands and said, "You know a lot."
Hullington smiled: "After all, I am several years older than you, and I always know some things that you don't know." After a while, he added: "I heard these from others. I used to
I have been to several coastal cities, and I like the atmosphere of that kind of coastal city. I can always see a lot of sexy beauties at beach parties, hehe."
"Ha." Bing Zhixie chuckled: "But I always feel that the storm last night was not that simple."
Hurlington was puzzled: "Huh? What do you mean?"
Bing Zhixie shook his head: "I don't know, it's just a feeling." He suddenly turned over and stood up, and the birds that were preening their feathers on the deck were scared away by him. He said: "Hey, I think we can still
Let's find a place to stop first. The airship must be seriously damaged. Repair as much as you can."
"Okay, okay." Hullington spent a lot of effort to get up. Seeing Alice still lying on the ground, he went to her, but found that she was really asleep: "Hey, get up, come to the room.
Go to sleep, you will catch a cold if you sleep here."
"Well..." Alice woke up faintly, but her mind was still spinning. She stumbled and almost fell. She stood up unsteadily and rushed towards Bing Zhixie: "I feel so dizzy, Master.
Carry me back to the room to sleep." But her head was too dizzy, so she didn't pounce on Bing Zhixie, but instead pounced on Hughington.
Hullington's warm and soft jade hug made him feel comfortable, and he smiled as he saw Alice carrying him back to the room.
Bing Zhixie flew the Harmony airship for a while, and found an island reef in the sea to stop. Hullington packed up the scattered things in the room.
This island reef is actually only more than 300 meters long. There is a flat place on the island, which can allow the Harmony to land. Bing Zhixie slowly drove the airship down, and the bottom of the Harmony was specially used for landing.
Buffer brackets are provided to avoid damage caused by direct collision between the bottom tank and the ground.
After the Harmony was parked, Hullington untied the anchor cable from the side of the cabin and fixed it on the reef. The two jumped on the reef to take a closer look. Sure enough, the Harmony was damaged a lot, and the external outline was different.
There were few places that were bent and deformed, especially the left side, which was the strongest pull from the wind last night. The guardrail on the side of the boat was almost completely bent. However, the airbag of the Harmony was not greatly damaged. The material of this airbag is very tough and cannot be easily broken.
Tear it apart, and the airbag of the Harmony airship uses a more advanced soft airbag. There is no skeleton support inside the airbag, but multiple auxiliary airbags are used to fill it inside. Even if the main airbag has several holes, it will still be damaged.
It will not affect the normal flight of the airship.
Bing Zhixie checked it over and found that the damage to the Harmony was not as severe as he expected. After all, you get what you pay for. An airship costing more than 200,000 yuan is better than those low-end rigid airships costing 80,000 to 90,000 yuan.
A lot of damage was done. However, the Harmony was indeed seriously damaged. Six of the wind-driven devices were damaged to varying degrees, and three were completely broken. Other parts were also damaged in many places, but it was still possible to continue sailing.
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After Hughington checked the inside of the airship, he came out and said to Bingzhixie: "A lot of things were damaged, but it doesn't matter much. It's just that the compass seems to have malfunctioned."
"What!" Bing Zhixie flew back to the flying cockpit, and sure enough she saw that the compass embedded in the cockpit was not pointing north and south, but pointing to other degrees. No matter how hard she patted it, she couldn't see it turning back.
Bingzhixie said: "Oh no."
"What's wrong?" Hullington was startled and said, "You didn't buy a spare compass?"
Bing Zhixie asked, "Did you buy it?"
The two looked at each other, obviously ignoring this section.
Hurlington cursed: "Damn, this is really bad. Without the compass navigation, how are we going to fly to the next station?" Did he know that losing the compass to identify the direction on the sea is a fatal thing?
It's not like walking on the mainland, you can always reach the end, but in the boundless sea, there is a scene everywhere, the Harmony can really only become a headless fly, flying around.
If you accidentally fly in the wrong direction and get further and further away from the mainland, you will be in trouble.
Both Bing Zhixie and Hullington had traveled alone on the mainland. When they were in the forest and snow fields, he and Alice observed the stars in the sky and walked to the Danluer Plain without a compass. But on the sea
Unlike the Forest Sea Snowfield, the Forest Sea Snowfield is definitely smaller in area. As long as the direction is good, no matter how far you go, you won't be far behind. But on the sea, if you make a slight difference, you will lose a thousand miles, and you may not know where you will fly.
Bing Zhixie said: "Maybe the magnetic needle malfunctioned due to the impact of lightning when traveling through the storm. We'd better try to take a break and see if it can be repaired."
The Harmony was equipped with some simple repair tools. Although neither of them had any experience in repairing airships, they could still repair some simple things, but the compass could not be repaired.
They worked on it until three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Hughington got hungry and Bing Zhixie gave up, so the two of them stopped. Hughington made some food and woke up Alice, the three of them and General Xiao Ke.
Eating dully on the reef.
Hullington, who was cooking, said: "We don't have much food. We have been at sea for almost twenty days. The food supplies we bought in the harbor have been used up. The first and second level wind crystals are still there.
Some of them are enough to provide power, you just need to figure out the heading."
Bing Zhixie said: "If we don't quickly find the right direction to return to the mainland, food will be the next best thing. What if we get sick or injured at sea?"
Hullington picked up the sea map next to him and rolled it out, pointing at the sea map and saying: "We should have been here before the storm, but after the storm, we just wanted to escape, and we didn't know where we flew to.
Judging from the previous location, we are still more than ten days away from our scheduled destination, and the closest route to the mainland is also five or six days away. If there are stars tonight, the best way is to find the direction and fly first.
Let’s talk about it after we return to the mainland.”
Bing Zhixie nodded: "That's what we have to do."
Alice didn't have as many worries as they did. After finishing her food in a few mouthfuls, she looked around on the island and reef. Sometimes she found a big crab under the reef, and then she found a small starfish. She was
It was the first time she went to the island and she felt it was very novel. While she was playing with General Xiao Ke, she suddenly found a bottle floating among the rocks: "Hey, it's strange, why is there a wine bottle here?"
She picked up the wine bottle and took a look. It was a green glass wine bottle, covered with green-brown seaweed, moss and other microorganisms. It was slippery in her hands. There was a cork stuck on the bottle mouth.
The stuffing was badly rotted, and it looked like it had been soaked in seawater for a long time.
"It must have been thrown away by some sailor." Alice held it in her hand. It was indeed an empty bottle and was about to throw it away. But suddenly she found that the algae mud had been wiped away where her hand had touched it, revealing
I picked up a small paper roll inside the bottle...