There is always a destination or direction when moving forward. Unlike land-based carriages, ships can choose to park at a port and cannot sail to the middle of a desert. Although airships are relatively free compared to earth's aircraft,
But not all places welcome airships to dock. Especially the place they sail to next is the internal territory of the Gwana Empire.
For the convenience of management, including collecting taxes and managing incoming and outgoing people, lords in various places only allow airships to dock in specific cities within their territories. In addition, in non-emergency situations, such as force majeure crashes, cargo
It will be regarded as smuggling, and the person will be regarded as entering the country without permission. The former will be confiscated, and the latter will be directly executed if serious cases occur.
In addition to those cities designated by nobles, the other option for airships is magic towers with anchors. Of course, these places are chosen to dock not only because of various restrictions, but also for their convenience.
Among the supplies that airships need, food and water are the best, and they are basically available everywhere. However, some airships need to use the energy pool of the magic tower to replenish the small energy pool on the airship. This is not
Something that can be done anywhere.
Just like the Tower of the Great Sage in the past, with the assistance of magicians from the Leon District Chapter, facilities for anchoring piles for airships were added. In addition to being used to anchor airships, they can also be used to transmit magic.
power.
Sometimes some airships will also need equipment maintenance and repair. In addition to the owner and the technicians accompanying the ship, it is best to have a dedicated dock for operation. Even some larger cities will develop workshops for manufacturing airships.
.Simply put, it forms a city similar to the concept of an airport on Earth.
In other words, although Midi does not have concepts such as air supremacy and flight routes, it cannot fly wherever it wants. Especially if it is flying an unarmed airship.
The above is what I learned from my previous chat with the goblin Totokani; some of it is someone's own reflection. But I was too busy before, so I didn't consider that issue. Now that I'm about to set off, that issue is right in front of me.
I have to think about it. Where to fly? The fuel and the magic stones that can replenish power are limited, and someone is not allowed to fly around like a headless fly.
Because someone asked a question that was so shallow that no one could answer it. So Lin took the goblin out again and asked, "How did you navigate the airship before?"
"Navigation? Sir, what does this mean?"
The goblin's rhetorical question made someone feel a little confused. Could it be that their flying depends on their intuition and mood. Lin had to ask in a different way: "When you controlled the airship before, how did you plan to get to Estali?"
"Oh, this. My original flight route was to take the Aberdeen Line after crossing the Jura Mountains. Depending on the situation, I would stop at cities such as Abadan, Hailis, Minab, and Savet, about XX (20
) day's flight, you can reach the holy city of Estali."
While the goblin was talking, Lin also pulled out the built-in navigation map of the Sid. As Totokani reported a name, a city was marked on the map.
Totokani's eyes lit up on the spot when he saw such a map on the airship. As he often sailed around the Lost Lands, he knew the importance of maps better than anyone else. And this picture in front of him
, more detailed than anything he had ever seen.
But just having a map and knowing the destination is useless, because there is no direction. Lost land is not like the GPS navigation on the earth. You know where you have gone and where you are, so you can correct your direction. You rely on the appearance of the terrain and features.
Maung Lai decided the direction was one way, but Lin still asked the goblins: "In the past, how did you determine which city you were flying to?"
The goblin looked troubled by this question. Totokani asked his daughter to 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 came over with a small wooden box in her arms. Totokani opened the wooden box and showed everyone that it was full of rags of similar shapes. Lin asked in confusion: "What is this?"
Totokani picked up one of the intact objects, and probably the only intact one. It was slightly smaller than the goblin's fist; the base seemed to have engravings, but Lin hadn't looked carefully yet; the upper part was a glass-like ball.
type cover, and inside is a pointer with half a color painted on it. The goblin said:
"In the past, when we wanted to fly to a city, we had to rely on that city's compass. These compasses could not only indicate the direction of our flight, but also the permission to stop in that city. With this compass, the tax into the city would be cheaper.
, but now all the compasses I have are broken. Although they can still serve as a permit to enter the city, the broken ones can be replaced in the city for a small fee; but the only ones that still have a guiding function are
This guide leads to Yasuj. And Yasuj is too far away from here. If we don’t stop for supplies along the way, we won’t be able to reach that city.”
Lin looked at the location of Yasuj City. In terms of straight-line distance, it was about one-third to one-quarter of the way from the Jura Mountains to the holy city of Estali. In other words, it was very close to the end.
Stopped. If the goblin's previous airship had to sail for more than twenty days and stop at nearly ten cities to reach it, then it is indeed impossible to reach Yasuj directly.
Lin took the compass from the goblin and held it in his hand. He changed directions several times. As expected, the compass pointed in the same direction, and it was not the magnetic north and south poles. The effect looked like a prop in a certain comic——
Recording pointer. In that comic, the recording pointer relies on magnetism, but what about in Lost Land? There is always a principle.
Asked Kaya to take out the coffin and related analysis equipment, and began to analyze the compass as a magic prop. Soon, he found the magic circle carved on it and studied its effectiveness. It seemed that it could track specific powers from a long distance.
Guidance magic circle.
This is inferred because the magic circle with the same function is one of the topics that Lin has been researching recently. One of the results is a magic circle used on the box cutter, which can be used for remote positioning and as a reference coordinate for the flash technique.
The difference is that the compass is more like a receiver, receiving a signal source from a specific band. And this signal source is a specific arrangement and combination of power messages sent from a certain magic sending device, like
It is a combination of radio station and radio.
Since it was something that had been explored, Lin quickly wrote a program that could search for these bands, and asked Fen to integrate it into the control system of the Sid. The multi-functional reconnaissance device external to the airship quickly found the scattered
Special signal sources in the entire space are searched in reverse to find their source location and distance, and displayed on the airship's map.
However, it seems that the search effect is too good. The locations highlighted on the navigation map far exceed the known places Totokani has been to. There are even some cities or magic that do not exist in someone's map information.
The number of towers that can be used as navigation guides far exceeded Lin's original estimate. Lin even used this information to correct the locations of some cities on the map.
The one who was most surprised by this was of course the goblin Totokani. He had spent most of his life on an airship. It was very troublesome to open a channel to a new location every time.
In addition to the cost of purchasing a local compass, there is also the trial flight of the airship, confirming supply points on the way, and contacting local managers to obtain permission.
Sometimes to be on the safe side, we will choose to travel overland to a new location, and only then fly the airship to get the compass. And the cost of this is not only the cost of the journey, but also a lot of time. In short, we have to be like someone
Similarly, it is not easy to light up a certain city or a certain magic tower on the map.
The goblin's original expectation was that when the collection of compass needles was almost completely destroyed, he could only fly slowly in a certain direction. In addition to observing the terrain and features, he also had to gamble on luck. If he was unlucky, he might
Before the supplies were exhausted, there was no city that could be used to replenish supplies other than airship food. But unexpectedly, the problem seemed to be solved in one fell swoop.
Lin was surprised by such a result at first. But when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was natural. The Magic Tower in the Lost Land is like the computers on Earth that are connected to the Internet but do not have firewalls. In the eyes of top hackers
, that is, a row of broilers ready to be slaughtered.
Of course, the Magic Tower is still quite primitive to computers, and it may not really be possible to use hacking methods to create tricks. But as long as it has external broadcasting functions, it seems to be undefended to him.
The deeper this level of feeling, honestly speaking, the more regret someone will feel for releasing the knowledge of P language. If someone really develops some evil ways, the harm will be no less than the natural disaster of the undead.
However, what was done was done, and the immediate focus was 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─Aba
Dan, the reason is that it is the closest.
Because at this stage, there is only an estimate of the various consumption of the airship, and the actual situation has yet to be verified. Arrive in the city early. If there is a problem with the airship, you can at least buy resources for repair. Not like now.
Same, just staring in the snow.
All the function switches of the Sid were already in a preheated state. As soon as Lin grasped the rudder with both hands, various instruments and data were immediately displayed directly in front of the driver's seat with the unfolded hydroscope screen. He had thought of using mechanical
The meter itself is a reading from magic detection. It needs to be converted to drive the movement of the mechanical watch, which consumes more power, so it was abandoned.
The cockpit layout of a passenger plane from Earth is simulated. The driver is on the left and Fen is sitting in the co-pilot seat on the right. She and Kaya in the back are monitoring various records fed back by the program so that they can detect errors when an error message occurs.
Repair as soon as possible.
Totokani, who is sitting in the third driver's seat, and Polly, who is further back, both of them are familiar with the magic stone book of the operation manual, imitating Lin's driving movements. They want to control this brand-new airship.
, it would be impossible for the father and daughter not to work hard.
Lin pushed the first throttle to control power, and the magic-side energy that was different from the earth began to flow into every corner of the magic circle. Those mysterious and wonderful effects that were difficult to explain scientifically gradually increased and began to affect reality. At the same time, all