"Enough." The chief engineer said only one word.
If you want to sum up the characteristics of a chief engineer in one sentence, it should be——
Her hair is the same as her socks.
To be more specific, one side of her hip-length hair was highlighted black, one side was highlighted white, and then the two sides merged into gray on the top of her head.
Just like the black and white stockings that the chief engineer must wear.
"..." Everyone waited quietly for the chief engineer to continue explaining.
However, there was no follow-up. The chief engineer nodded to everyone naturally, indicating that he had finished speaking.
"..." Everyone fell silent again.
Only Yaha had expected it and asked helplessly: "How much margin is there?"
"One day." This time it was two words.
This means that if we follow Yaha's route and circle the islands before returning to Debsota, we will only have two days of fuel left.
Although the ether ramjet thruster mainly consumes ether, maintaining the contract circle in the engine requires magic power, and magic power comes from whale oil. Therefore, precious whale oil is the fuel for whaling ships.
"Only two days," Yaha said to himself thoughtfully.
According to industry practice, all chief engineers will not take into account the fuel consumed by chasing whales when estimating fuel surplus, because this is beyond her responsibilities and capabilities.
When a whaling ship finds a whale, it may successfully kill it immediately, or it may go through a long chase and finally harvest the prey, or it may return empty-handed.
Therefore, whether the remaining fuel on the ship can hunt whales is something that the captain needs to judge based on his own experience and intuition. It is also one of the important criteria for evaluating whether a captain is excellent.
But the margin of two days... Even if you let a rookie captain make a judgment, you know that this is a very small margin, not to mention that what Moby Dick wants to hunt is an unusual white whale.
However, if you think optimistically, if they successfully hunt the beluga whale, even if they consume more than two days of fuel, they can cut unrefined whale oil from the beluga whale as an alternative fuel, and use it as alternative fuel. The boat sailed back to Debsota.
"We... will sail along this route!" Yaha finally finished calculating in his mind and said with finality.
After the short meeting, everyone returned to their respective posts. Xia Ye, the only one with nothing to do, stood next to Yaha and watched her direct the crew to do this and that.
After a while, Yaha suddenly bent down, put his head close to Xia Ye, and asked in a low voice: "Why did the second officer's speech suddenly become normal?"
"...You are quite gossipy." Xia Ye looked at her in surprise.
"I am trying to understand the status of my men." Yaha explained.
"Well, it doesn't hurt to tell you...I told her I believed what she said."
"What?!" Yaha's voice couldn't help but get a little louder.
"Shh... I haven't finished speaking yet. I told her again: Her world may have sent a killer to hunt her down. If you want to avoid being discovered by the killer, you can't be too conspicuous. At least your speaking style must imitate the people around you. .”
"..." Yaha was dumbfounded after hearing this. After a while, he sighed: "This is fighting fire with fire..."
"What's 'fighting fire with fire'?" Xia Ye retorted dissatisfiedly: "It was the incomparable beauty and wisdom of this witch that cured Miss Tang Li who longed to be understood!"
Yaha: "..."
"Speaking of which, I also have a question to ask you." Xia Ye continued.
"What?"
"Why are the second mates, chief engineers, etc. you are looking for so weird? The first mate seems to be more normal." Xia Ye asked
Yaha: "Then I'll tell you in advance, the first mate is the same, but it hasn't been revealed yet."
Xia Ye: "..."
Yaha: "As for the reason, as I told you before, if I were normal and powerful, I would have been recruited long ago, and it would be my turn to be a bankrupt captain? Only among these abnormal people, it is possible to choose Meet some great ones.”
Xia Ye: "I suddenly discovered..."
Yaha: "What did you find?"
The crew's report suddenly interrupted their conversation.
"Captain, the chief engineer reports that the thruster has been thermally inspected and can enter ramjet propulsion status at any time."
Yaha immediately stopped chatting with Xia Ye and immediately issued an order: "The crew of the ship should evacuate from the propeller compartment immediately."
"After 1 minute, change the barrier configuration and no longer cover the aether ram thruster."
"Stow the airbags and prepare to enter ram cruise mode."
"Right rudder five, return to normal in 10 seconds and enter the latest planned route."
…
In the blink of an eye, Yaha had issued a series of orders, and the crew members who received the orders repeated and executed them one after another.
The shuttle-shaped air bag began to discharge the filling gas and quickly deflated. Through the window of the cab, Xia Ye saw several crew members dexterously jumping onto the air bag holder. The slender girls effortlessly pushed the huge air bag. The metal components quickly folded the frame of the airbag and firmly fixed it to both sides of the ship.
Structural reinforcement.
Seeing this scene, Xia Ye made a judgment in her heart.
This is one of the most commonly used witch contracts among whalers, and it is also a very interesting contract. It can strengthen the body structure of the contracted person, and it can also strengthen any physical structure, or even a conceptual structure; and if the distance between the contracted person and the mechanical structure is close enough, both can be strengthened at the same time, and the strength of the strengthening can be significantly improved. amplitude.
The crew members who just folded the air bags with their bare hands were able to easily stow away metal components weighing several tons based on this effect.
Because of the existence of this contract, most functions on the whaling ship are realized through "manpower", including raising and retracting the air bag, lifting and lowering the anchor... Even the rudder controlled by the helmsman only has a simple transmission device. And there is no power assist device.
The benefits of this are of course obvious - the cost is greatly reduced.
More than 80% of the manufacturing cost of the whaling ship is concentrated on the aether ramjet thruster and the whaling cannon. As for the rest, it is just a pile of strong and cheap metal components that have neither technical content nor magic content.
After the airbags were deployed, the bow of the Debsota began to gradually tilt downward. According to Yaha, ether can provide a certain buoyancy to objects. The higher the speed relative to the ether, the greater the buoyancy; the greater the space it occupies in the ether, the greater the buoyancy. After retracting the air bag, the whale ship reduces its own volume, and the buoyancy it obtains also decreases, so , the speed needs to be increased to make up for this loss of buoyancy.
"Advance four," Yahab ordered, "report pitch angle."
"The current depression angle is 10." The helmsman shouted, and at the same time pushed the handle on the console to the bottom, "It has entered the forward four! It is expected to start ram afterburning in 10 seconds.
"5 seconds!"
"4, 3, 2, 1——"
The roar at the stern suddenly became louder, and the whole ship began to tremble. The ether ram thruster finally "ignited", the blades of the turbofan were locked, and there was no barrier to prevent the ether wind from blowing into the air in the thruster. The cavity exploded under the constraints of the magic field, producing unparalleled thrust.
At the tail of the Debsota, two golden flames lit up. They were more dazzling than any golden cloud in the etheric sea, just like two golden meteors streaking across the sky.
A strong sense of acceleration hit, and Xia Ye had to grab the pillar beside her to stabilize her body. Amid the violent shaking, the sea of clouds in front of them quickly retreated, and the whale ship's speed became faster and faster.
"Report the current speed." Yaha spoke again.
"Current speed - 180 knots...190 knots...200."
"Scale rudder, five degrees of elevation."
"Horizontal rudder, elevation angle five degrees!" the helmsman repeated, pulling the lever next to the wheel rudder hard.
The buoyancy provided by the speed gradually showed its effect, and the Debsota no longer dived downward. Under the control of the horizontal rudder, the bow of the ship was raised again, and the whaler quickly returned to the height before the air bag was deployed.
"Smooth rudder, forward two, enter ram cruise mode." Yaha ordered.
"Flat rudder, forward two, ram cruise mode."
The roar of the propeller finally subsided, turning into a low hum, and the ship returned to a level state.
"When you say 1 knot, do you mean 1.9 kilometers per hour?" Xia Ye suddenly asked.
"To be precise, it's 1.852 kilometers per hour." Yaha replied. After entering the cruising state, she finally had some time to relax.
"Oh..." Xia Ye nodded and said nothing more.
She calculated silently in her mind.
The cruising speed is 200 knots, which is about 370 kilometers per hour. This world has the same 24 hours every day. In other words, a whaling ship can sail 370*24*5=44,400 kilometers in five days, which is 44,400 kilometers.
In the world before the time travel, the circumference of the earth was only 40,000 kilometers. In other words, in these five days, they will sail a distance enough to circle the earth, and this distance can only reach the nearest archipelago to Debsota.
so--
If she is currently on the same planet, then how big should this planet be? !
