"Well, my brain hurts so much. I can't think about anything like this."
With dark circles under her eyes, Ella dragged her exhausted body out of the cabin. After the fake map incident, she had been alone in the room for several days, and she finally walked out of the cabin today.
She wanted to blow in the sea breeze to clear her head, but unfortunately, it was just as dull on the deck as inside the cabin. There was nothing but sea water around her, and only the black mountains of clouds on the horizon were particularly eye-catching.
"Is it going to rain? No, where am I now? What am I doing?"
Even in Gotland, Ella spent half of her time sleeping on the Flying Zealander. It was normal to wake up and find herself on the ship. Ella's mind was now blank, just like those days.
People with irregular sleep habits sometimes cannot tell whether it is day or night when they wake up.
She shook her head to clear her head. The memories buried by complex academic questions gradually revived, answering the questions in her mind one by one - she was exploring a new route to Vinland, and was catching up with Lübeck.
Merchant ship.
"Well, how many days have you been at sea? How many days have you been since you rescued the sailor in Lübeck? Surveyor? Surveyor!"
As soon as Ella shouted, the pirate who was the surveyor hurried over from the side of the deck. He spread out in front of Ella a rough and crude chart. There were extremely serious problems in the North Sea area on the map.
Transformation - But there is no way, the slightly more accurate chart has been torn up by Ella angrily a few days ago.
"King of Sweden, we should be here now, it may be here, of course it may be here... I can't mark it accurately. Look at this damn map, Ireland and England were supposed to be two islands. On the map
They are even connected by land!"
The person in charge of the survey was a student who had not yet graduated from Gotland's school. He was also considered a junior officer among the pirates. Because of his excellent performance, he was selected by Ella as the surveyor of this voyage and was responsible for operating the sextant.
.
At the moment, he seemed a little worried.
"The islands marked by the Aztlan people were just random drawings, and there is no way to locate them using longitude and latitude. King of Sweden, if we continue sailing like this, I'm worried that we will miss Atlantis and Vinland and go all the way to India!"
However, before Ella could speak, a pirate burst out laughing:
"Return to India. What have you learned in vain? The circumference of the earth is fifty times the distance from Seini to Alexandria, a total of 39,360 kilometers. Do you think so, where are we running to now?"
The surveyor listened and drew on the known map with his hand for a while, then smiled a little apologetically:
"Indeed, no matter how you calculate it, it's still very far away."
Ella nodded with satisfaction: "It was Eratosthenes, a scholar of the Seven Hills Empire, who measured the circumference of the earth through the shadow of the summer solstice eleven hundred years ago. He was also the founder of latitude and longitude coordinates, and he gave me the sextant.
The use of it provides a theoretical basis. You learned your lessons quite well."
While talking, Amy hurried over with a pirate officer.
"Your Majesty, you finally came out, we were just preparing to come find you!"
"Looking for me?"
Ella became serious. The officer's cabin behind Amy was the first one on the right side of the first floor below the deck, two cabins closer to the bow than Ella's room. In other words, he was actually commanding the flight.
The captain of the Sealander. Things that neither he nor Amy can solve must be of great importance.
"Your Majesty, we have just discovered Lübeck's fleet ahead." Amy said first, "Originally, I was planning to let the flying Sealander speed up to catch up."
"Really? That's great! Then what are you waiting for? Let the paddler prepare first..."
"But King of Sweden, look at the weather, a storm is coming soon." The pirate officer said, "For the safety of the ship, we must take down the sails."
For a ship as huge as the Flying Sealander, the power that the oars can provide is actually very limited. Its main role is to make the ship more flexible in close naval battles. When sailing on the ocean, most of the speed is still there.
On the sails with nine masts. The sea is not as good as the land. Although I saw the merchant ship of Lübeck, there is actually a very long distance between them. To close the sails means to let go of what I have worked so hard to catch up with.
Lübeck merchant ship.
Therefore, the officer's suggestion made Ella frown: "Retract the sail? Now? If the wind gets stronger, wouldn't it be better to speed up and catch up?"
"If you don't close the sail, the mast will be broken." The pirate officer patted the mast next to him, "Although the mast looks strong, ordinary wind can already propel the flying Sealander.
When the wind gets stronger, a long pole erected so high will be very fragile."
Ella was in a bit of a dilemma. Her experience in sailing was not as good as those of these pirates, so she should let the officer handle it. But it would be a pity to let Lubeck's merchant ship go like this.
While hesitating, she cast her sights on the sea - the sea was extremely calm, without wind or waves. Except for the dark cumulus clouds in the distance, there was nothing unusual.
"There doesn't seem to be any wind now." She asked, "I think we can wait a little longer. There's no need to trim the sails so early, right?"
"King of Sweden, the storm is coming very quickly! By then it will be too late!"
"...Did Lübeck's merchant ship also trim its sails?"
"One hundred percent." The pirate officer said, "Since they were sent to perform ocean missions, they must be experienced sailors. They know the dangers of storms!"
So Ella walked to the bow of the ship in a few steps and shouted to the soldiers on the observation deck:
"Take a look, have the sails of those merchant ships in Lübeck been furled?"
"No!" shouted the soldiers on the observation deck, "the sail is still hanging! It has your coat of arms, the King of Sweden, painted on it!"
"This is impossible! Can you tell me clearly?" the pirate officer scolded from below, "Does the merchant ship in Lübeck not know that the storm is coming?"
"Don't worry, Amy, go to my cabin to get the Eye of Hermes." Ella said, "Make sure there is no sail hung up?"
The soldiers on the observation deck climbed down, took the simple Eye of Hermes taken from Ella's cabin from Amy, and then climbed back to the observation deck:
"Still hanging!" the soldier shouted. "The deck is very busy, but they are not busy reefing the sail. They are sailing at full speed!"
"We have been discovered. If we lose them today, they will deliberately avoid them, and it will be difficult to find them again in the future." Ella said, "Since they have not taken down the sail, we will not take it down and will catch up!"
"
"King of Sweden, you are so considerate." The pirate officer nodded in admiration, "Indeed, the people of Lübeck are not timid. If I hadn't noticed and had taken in the sail early, I would have become their grandson! I will
Let the crew catch up with full sail!"
"You still have to be careful and let the sailors stand by on the mast. Once the sails are furled on the other side, we will furl the sails immediately." Ella warned, "Also, pull out our military band to play music. See if we can
Let the other side surrender before the storm comes!"
