Xia Ye looked up at the ship in front of her, as if she had seen the "ship rental" from a few years ago.
Curran still doesn't know that her goals and Chris's goals are not completely opposite. They were only one step away from success at that time.
Xia Ye believed that the "Chris Curran" must have passed the Western Islands at that time, and its failure to return was most likely not due to mechanical failure.
It is likely that it encountered a beluga, an adult whale, perhaps not just one, but an entire pod.
Xia Ye had just experienced a battle with a white whale and knew how dangerous they were. If Yaha hadn't been well prepared this time, the "Mobydick" would have become another missing ship.
The "Chris Curran" back then didn't even know about the existence of beluga whales and couldn't make any preparations for it. Xia Ye could even imagine the shock of the witches on the ship when they saw those huge whales that were more than 300 meters long. and despair.
Due to the distance, they could not even send the news back to Debsotta. In the end, everything about the white whale was buried in the depths of the etheric sea along with the ship.
if……
Xia Ye couldn't help but start to imagine.
If "Chris Curran", who encountered a pod of beluga whales, escapes by chance and returns to Debsota, then its achievement will not only be "sailing to waters where no one has ever reached"; Bring back a piece of news that is enough to change the whaling industry-to the west of the Western Islands, there are even larger white whales.
Bigger means more danger, but it also means more whale oil. Driven by profit, there must be whalers trying to hunt them. Hunting these whales requires ships that can sail to the west of the islands. At that time, only Curran and Chris's company could build such ships.
"Ocean-going ships" will once again stand at the forefront of industry changes. They will sweep away the decline. Orders and investments will flood in. The ideals of Curran and Chris will once again find intersection: in the ether sea Deeper, there are greater interests, and greater interests can support the company's development of ships that can sail farther.
If this really happens, perhaps the "ocean-going ship" has now become a behemoth that can rival the Bavlia Manufacturing Factory.
But there is no "if", what really happens in reality is far more cruel than beautiful imagination. The "Chris Curran" failed to return to Debsota in the end, and the "ocean-going ship" failed to recover. The conflict between Curran and Chris finally broke out.
Since then, few people have gone deep into the etheric sea west of the archipelago, and no one has brought information about the white whale back to Debsota.
Until Yaha escaped from the execution of the white whale and met Xia Ye when he was bankrupt, and Xia Ye and she happened to meet Chris, the interrupted exploration process finally regained its life.
For a moment, Xia Ye even had an impulse to tell Curran the information about the beluga immediately, telling her that the "voyage ship" more than a year ago had collapsed on the eve of its imminent success.
But the caution formed by past experiences stopped her. Although she intuitively judged that what Curran told her was the truth, she knew that she should at least meet with Chris first and verify everything with her before proceeding. Consider how much information to reveal to Curran.
"You are a very persuasive person." Xia Ye finally spoke, "You have almost convinced me."
"Miss Xia Ye, it's not me that convinces you, it's the fact that the 'voyage ship' was cast with blood and magic." Curran pointed at the broken ship.
"Facts need to be verified, and I need some time to verify what you said before making a decision."
"Of course. This is a very reasonable request. In the next few days, I will withdraw the commission to kill Chris. I believe we can resolve this matter with reason rather than violence."
Curran's tone was very sincere, even though she was the one who used the violence in the first place.
However, Xia Ye didn't think anything was wrong. In her understanding, negotiations need to be based on a balance of violence. The party that will be defeated by violence is not qualified to be on the negotiating table.
"Actually, I still have a little question." Xia Ye said with a smile, "If Chairman Kelun can answer it for me, it may be able to further deepen the trust between us."
"Speaking."
"I'm curious, how did you know in advance that the 'Moby-Dick' had successfully returned and gained a lot?"
Curran was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Didn't Chris mention it to you? She should know."
Although this sentence sounded like provocation, Xia Ye just said calmly: "I haven't seen her yet."
This reason was not convincing, but Kelun did not ask any more questions. She began to answer Xia Ye's question:
"As early as when 'sea voyage charter' was still a 'sea voyage ship', we encountered a similar problem - once those technical verification ships sailed beyond 500 nautical miles, they were too far away to contact us, but we still needed to Monitoring the condition of the ship. Eventually, someone came up with an ancient trick to solve the problem.
"——That's divination."
"Divination?" Xia Ye asked in surprise.
"Yes. Although the conditions for divination are harsh, the conclusions are vague, and it is easy to be misled by opponents, so few people use it anymore. But for the situation we faced at that time, all the flaws of divination happened to be not a problem:
"The first is the conditions for divination. Generally speaking, divination requires obtaining an item related to the object of divination, and the higher the correlation, the better. But for us, the object of divination is the ship we built ourselves, so this For us, these items are completely ready-made.”
"Will you take something from the ship in advance and use it for divination after going to sea?" Xia Ye asked.
"Of course this is possible, but the correlation is not strong enough. Therefore, in actual operation, our approach will be more... sufficient."
"What on earth is that..."
"We will hold a divination ceremony in the dock where the first ship was built. The relevant items are all the leftover scraps and parts when building the ship. We will pile them into a pile and place them in the center of the dock, and then draw divination signs around them. The magic contract circle - after many experiments, we found that this method has the best divination effect."
"..."
After listening to Ke Lun's answer, Xia Ye was speechless for a moment. She imagined the scene... It can only be said that there is a strange beauty that combines heavy industry and mysticism.
Curran continued:
"The second is the problem of vague conclusions. For us, it is completely acceptable. After all, we only need to roughly know whether there is something wrong with the ship. Moreover, since it is the same problem in divination every time, it is difficult for divination to get We are increasingly able to grasp the true meaning of various seemingly ambiguous sentences.
"Later, we simply built a model that can score the sentences obtained by divination. The higher the score, the better the result. In this way, everyone does not need to interpret the results at all, as long as the sentences are read intact Enter the model and you’ll get the most accurate answer.”
"..." Xia Ye was shocked again.
"As for the problem of being easily misled by our opponents...of course we will not mislead ourselves, so it is not a problem at all."
"All in all, this way we can monitor the conditions of ships thousands of nautical miles away."
Curran looked at Xia Ye with a smile.
"Miss Xia Ye, I believe you already know the answer to that question now, right? After all, the 'Moby-Dick' was also renovated in our shipyard."
(End of chapter)
