"Have you heard?" In a dark bar in Bunas, a man approached his friend mysteriously and asked in a low voice. His expression was very exaggerated, as if he wanted to reveal something shocking.
The secret is the same.
His friend held the wine glass and looked at him with a frown, not knowing what scary secret he was planning to tell: "What did you hear?"
We are all old friends. When we go out to drink, we are just bragging and chatting. Who doesn’t know who else’s background?
One of them is the foreman of the dock handling team, with dozens of porters under his command. They have a little money, and they are considered middle class. Although their life is very comfortable, they are not rich.
One person is a small clerk in the Bunas City Construction Department, responsible for managing the transportation of urban construction materials. He has a little bit of power, but he has no courage to take kickbacks and cheat. He is just a small clerk.
How could just two people know such a shocking secret? Isn’t it all just gossip?
However, drinking, national affairs and shocking secrets must be an enduring topic. It must be a normal thing for two men to point out the country while eating and drinking.
The porter leader on the pier seriously told a funny secret: "Dragon Island... there really is a dragon on it..."
Mr. Clerk, who usually goes to work and returns home, is on the line between two o'clock and one line. Of course, it is impossible to believe this kind of thing: "How is this possible? Who did you listen to? How can this kind of thing be true?"
Although there are still many islands in the world that have not been discovered or have just been discovered, to say that dragons still exist is something that no one believes.
Dragons have long been extinct. This is something that everyone is sure of. There can be no living dragons on Dragon Island, otherwise everyone would have known about it.
These days, if someone finds a living dragon, captures it and sells tickets, he can probably make a lot of money. This thing is not a secret, so there is no need to keep it secret.
Seeing that his old friend didn't believe it, the little boss on the dock immediately swore out the familiar prelude: "My brother's friend, the one you know, is a sailor... Isn't he always here?"
Are you following the sailing ship Big Turtle on a transportation mission?"
Well, for this kind of thing, it is naturally a friend of a friend, a friend of a friend's brother, a friend's second uncle's son-in-law, a friend's brother's brother-in-law's next-door neighbor...
In short, I have a friend, I have a relative, I have a friend of a relative... This is the convention for opening a story.
Probably, it's like a disclaimer. Anyway, I didn't say it myself. If you want to pursue it, then you can find someone else. I just heard the gossip.
Sure enough, Mr. Clerk knew this person and knew him very well: "That drunkard? I know. Did he make up a story to tell you again?"
"Well... I'm not making up the story. Didn't the Big Turtle transport fabrics to Dragon Island this time?" The man on the dock spoke confidently and told the story from the beginning.
"Then what? He saw the dragon?" The clerk took a sip of wine and suddenly felt very happy. He made a sound of satisfaction and continued to ask according to his friend's words.
Chatting, or talking about a lot of things, gossiping at dinner parties, only by complimenting and teasing can the topic continue.
If we don't follow the teasing words and start chatting, the topic will end, the situation will be awkward, and the drinking party will have to end on bad terms, right?
Since we have been friends for many years, we can definitely chat together, so we are not afraid of being left alone.
The man on the dock immediately nodded and replied affirmatively: "Well, he saw something flying in the sky on Long Island!"
"Is there something flying in the sky?" The clerk raised his eyebrows. He felt that the other person might have mistaken something else for the so-called dragon.
There are so many things that can fly in the sky these days, including large kites, and hot air balloons are nothing new in Bunas.
"Yes, there is something flying in the sky!" The foreman on the dock nodded and took a sip of wine.
Bunas' beer uses updated brewing equipment, and after adding hops, it tastes better and is more popular.
This new processed drink became more and more popular and soon became popular in bars. Compared with the expensive Bunas 3-year-old or the top-notch Bunas 4-year-old, the cheaper beer became
Become the main force of mass consumption.
Meeting up with friends to have a drink at a bar after get off work has become a pastime for many men, and it has also become a new source of income for Silver Fox.
The clerk complained disdainfully: "What's so strange about this? There are things flying in the sky in Bunas, like hot air balloons."
Obviously, he was a bit exaggerated.
Sailors who can go to Dragon Island have naturally stayed in Bunas. Wouldn't they be a fool if they can't recognize the hot air balloons that can be seen almost every day?
The hot-air balloon industry in Bunas is quite developed. It has developed to the extent that wealthy nobles will hire hot-air balloons to hang advertisements in the sky when they get married.
Every day, when various shopping malls open, companies recruit, and new products are advertised, there will be hot air balloons hanging in the sky with slogans.
Sure enough, in response to his friend's criticism, the man on the dock immediately explained: "No, it's not the kind that stays still! It's in the sky, flying!"
"Well, the airship? Isn't it big?" The clerk said with a well-informed look on his face.
As an aircraft that is more advanced than hot air balloons and has not yet become completely popular, airships are still relatively rare.
However, the people who hang out in Bunas are all the proud ones at the feet of God. Who has not seen a little bit of the world?
Now Bunas has opened an airship passenger and freight line to Ice Crystal City. The fare is extremely expensive, but many nobles flock to it.
This is like a trip, or simply an experience. You only need to spend dozens of gold coins to fly once, and the nobles still think it is worth the money.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! What's more, it is so stable, and you can sit by the porthole and drink a glass of wine overlooking the earth. The speed is not slow, which is very consistent with their noble status, isn't it?
The man on the dock nodded, and then continued: "I asked him the same thing, and he said it was not an airship, but... how should I put it, much smaller than an airship, and much faster... He said, Huh
It flew far away in a blink of an eye!"
As there are more and more airplanes, gliders, and primitive passenger planes on Long Island, it is almost impossible to keep it completely secret and not be seen.
Some airports are built next to Dragon City. When planes take off and land, they will naturally be seen by some residents of Dragon City.
The airport built in the middle of the island has more and more aircraft - dozens of Camel fighter jets have been built.
This thing is not like a battleship, which takes a year or even several years to build. Its structure is very simple and its size is small. If mass production is really crazy, dozens of them can be produced in a day.
The real restriction on the number of aircraft of Datang Group is actually that there are too few pilots. It is too difficult to cultivate this profession, and it completely depends on the accumulation of time.
Training pilots from scratch is definitely a very troublesome task. If you want them to fly alone, it will take at least dozens of hours of training flight time.
The first batch of pilots could only cross the river by feeling their own way, and many bold flying maneuvers had to be figured out through experiments.
If Tang Mo had not provided supporting teaching materials and personally explained flight theory knowledge to these pilots, Datang Group's pilot training might have been much slower.
But despite this, Datang Group now has hundreds of reserve talents who can fly airplanes or gliders.
In order to meet the flying needs of these people, Datang Group arranges sufficient flight training every day - it is inevitable that some people will fly beyond the prescribed boundaries and be seen by people in Weigang or Longcheng.
Moreover, more and more people are seeing it.
Especially the locals of Long Island, they have seen such flying things more than once, soaring far in the sky.
It's just that what they saw was not necessarily a specific type of aircraft, but many strange and weird things.
Therefore, almost all the people who spread the gossip had different opinions. Some people said that the flying monsters they saw were very small, while others described them as very big.
Because some people see just a small glider for training, while others may see a large biplane with three engines.
Datang Group only has three types of gliders used for training. If you include two-seat trainer aircraft and real fighter jets, there are even more types of aircraft.
While the rumors about Long were in the air, more well-informed people also heard that in a secret factory on Long Island, the Datang Group was building many very large airships.
I heard that these airships are larger than cargo airships, equipped with more engines, and can carry weapons and fly to attack the enemy...
Of course, such news only circulates among some high-level officials, and ordinary people cannot hear it. At most, they can chat a few words and talk about the secret of a certain inert gas produced by their factory being sent to the middle of Long Island.
base.
"How much did the drunkard drink..." The comrade, who thought he was well-informed, raised his eyebrows and his expression was spot on.
He felt that this kind of thing was simply nonsense. Except for things like hot air balloons and airships, only birds could fly in the sky!
"You don't believe it?" The porter leader on the dock didn't dare to say that what he heard must be true, so he asked with a guilty conscience.
The clerk, under the influence of alcohol, slapped the table in front of him hard, shouting arrogantly: "How could I believe it... If what he said is true, I will eat this table!"
