Chapter 192: The Beginning of the Great Voyage Age
Chapter 192 The Beginning of the Age of Discovery
After seeing off the Queen and his wife, Wang Wei took his father-in-law to the underground city and showed him something.
To be precise, it's a bug.
"This is the underworld locust, a creature from the underworld. Its greatest characteristic is its strong regeneration ability, and its other characteristic is its large number."
Wang Wei said to his father-in-law.
"What do you want to do? Use it to replace our army?"
Duke Fernando asked strangely.
"of course not."
Wang Wei shook his head.
"This kind of underworld locust is a creature from the underworld. They have an ability that I like very much. When they make a contract with humans, they do not occupy any contract space. To be precise, they should be regarded as parasitic on the host. When summoned
When the time comes, they will combine with the host's body to form a complex."
Wang Wei nodded to Master Floyd beside him, and layers of light appeared all over the master's body. His clothes were suddenly torn by some tissues that appeared out of thin air. Those tissues wrapped Master Floyd's thin body.
It formed a tall and strong four-armed giant with a height of two meters and four powerful arms. It was covered in hard armor and had a pair of hard elytra like cloaks on its back. From the outside,
It’s simply an enlarged version of Locust!
Ming Locust's face automatically opened, revealing Master Freud's face.
"To be honest, this thing is really good and really exciting!"
The master waved his four arms and explained to Fernando.
"The hard armor is almost as defensive as metal plate armor of the same level. It has huge power. Soldiers can't defeat this effect even if they train for a lifetime. To be honest, four arms, although it feels awkward at first, but I get used to it.
Once you know it, you will know that holding a shield with two arms and slashing with a sword with two arms is definitely a perfect combination!"
The master was full of praise for this thing.
In fact, when Wang Wei first learned about the ability of the underworld locust, Master Freud immediately strongly requested to try it, because he was the only human being there except Wang Wei, and Wang Wei also wanted to know about this underworld power.
How far could the complex of locusts and humans be achieved, so he agreed to the master's request.
Anyway, contracts are beneficial and harmless.
The result was astonishing. The originally thin Master Freud immediately turned into an extremely strong strongman. This made the master who always despised physical strength with his brain power feel the addiction of being a strongman. This
It also made Wang Wei think of something. If these locusts were really organized into troops, the effect would be extremely amazing. However, he was still a little worried about how these soldiers would react after turning into monsters, and whether they would accept it or not.
But now, he no longer needs to worry, just looking at his father's shining eyes is enough to prove the attraction of this thing to him.
"With this thing, we can save most of the metal and make heavier swords and bigger shields."
Wang Wei is good at teaching.
"How many of these are there?"
The father-in-law finally couldn't resist the temptation and asked.
"a lot of."
Wang Wei said with a smile.
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How many days does it take to build a cargo ship? Wang Wei tells you, it only takes one month. In one month, the ocean-going cargo ship provided by Wang Wei was finally launched in his own town. When the first batch of businessmen saw the search in front of them,
When the huge cargo ship arrived, some of them even thought that the warships of the gods were falling from the sky.
First of all, this is a big ship. There is almost nothing on the whole ship except the flat deck. The bridge is at the last part of the whole ship. Obviously, the huge space in the front can be stacked with cargo. On the shore, I don’t know when
The huge container terminal that was built is helping merchants sort their goods and sort them into different containers. These containers are all marked with Isaac Ocean's logo. Whenever a container is filled, a dedicated person will pass through a conveyor.
The device is passed to the distant pier that is almost deep into the sea, and a huge lifting device will lower the heavy container and lift it onto the ship. Next to it, on a special middle-level channel, some workers are loading a large number of containers onto the ship.
A lot of bulk cargo.
Businessmen are generally curious about this new way of transporting goods. At the same time, they are also incredulous that their country has such a huge ocean-going freighter. Some people even look at it with evil eyes at the extremely huge size.
The giant ship.
On the first day the freighter went to sea, Wang Wei, as the actual owner of the freighter, led Her Majesty the Queen's special envoy, Luna, and some of the personal guards to go to sea in person. Due to the uncooperative attitude of some coastal countries, the giant ship cannot be in their territorial waters.
It was traveling, so the ocean-going ship took a slight detour and took three full days to arrive at Wellington City, the seaport of Tolkien's Empire. As a typical coastal city, Wellington City has the unique cultural heritage and developed economy of a coastal city.
Economically, as a long-established commercial and financial center, merchants from almost all countries in the world gather here, and you can buy specialties from almost any country in the world.
This time, the captain of the ocean-going freighter was an old captain in his sixties. Before that, he was a captain of the Isaac Navy. Although he is no longer driving a warship, he still feels extremely honored.
, because he knew that this ocean-going freighter not only represented Isaac's merchants, but also represented Isaac's military strength!
Because the man who built this ship, Kane, once said this: If you encounter pirates, you don’t need to stop the ship, just hit it, because our ship is made of steel!
As a navy man, he naturally knew that what this man said was true. He still remembered that terrifying battleship, so he could hardly find any other adjective to describe it other than excitement for him to be able to pilot the ship today.
Excluding the escorts, the entire ship only has a total of thirty crew members, including five elemental technicians who were urgently trained from the Royal Academy, and ten dwarf blacksmith maintenance workers provided by the old dwarf. The remaining skills are
Responsible for some chores. The driving of the entire giant ship is extremely simple. You only need to simply turn the steering wheel. The precise scale on it allows you to easily control this big thing.
In order to prepare for the arrival of this ship, Wellington Harbor specially widened the port, dug the seabed deeper, and installed three forwarding machines sent from Isaac. However, when this big ship actually docked at the shore of Wellington Harbor,
At the same time, the whole of Wellington was still boiling.
No country has ever seen such a huge ocean-going cargo ship. Look at the densely packed containers on it. Everyone knows the difference between transporting it in such boxes and transporting it directly in thick hemp bags.
Even though they had made complete preparations, the person in charge of Wellington Port was still in a cold sweat by this big ship. Because there were so many goods transported, only three transporters could not effectively organize the transportation of goods, and
Those containers were quite heavy, and other than the dispatching machine, ordinary workers would definitely not be able to move them. So in the end, they could only hoist a container, and the workers quickly transported the goods away, and then returned the container to the ship for transportation.
Next.
Wang Wei and Luna left secretly after getting off the boat. The captain of the remaining ship can be said to be the proudest person among all the people. After the crew members followed the captain off the ship, they immediately felt that the captains of other ships around them were looking at each other.
Hot. This is what captains compete with. Who doesn’t want his boat to be the kind of big guy that can attract attention as soon as he takes it out?
Especially when they got into a pub together, they caused a sensation.
The old captain said proudly to everyone around him.
"We are from Isaac Ocean Shipping Services."
Although he was unfamiliar with the term company, the old captain was still very proud.
After getting off the boat, Wang Veluna and Ilidan went straight to the bustling city center, where they were inspecting the future. Wellington is indeed known as the hub of the mainland. The business transportation industry here is very developed, and professional transportation teams go to various places around the world every day.
The country helps merchants who do not have their own caravans send goods to all parts of the world. This is already a very rudimentary logistics industry.
"I have to say that Tolkien was indeed a smart man. He knew that some people and things would change the world, and they could stand at the forefront of the trend."
This is how Luna commented on Tolkien’s stance on this incident.
"This continent is not big, but a large proportion of the countries are coastal countries, and some large island countries are real water countries. However, the gap between land life and marine life has always made ocean development difficult.
process. But now the situation is different. Marine life has found a way to coexist peacefully. Regardless of whether this way can really establish mutual trust between land and ocean in the future, anyone with a brain should know how to move forward.
The ocean is the opportunity for national development. Hugo is a landlocked country. He is not close to the ocean and has never dealt with it. Neither is Verne. To be precise, both of them are typical mountain peoples. They are arrogant.
, but they can’t really keep up with the times. They think they can trap us just from land, but they don’t know that it just plays a role in promoting our development of the ocean.”
Luna looked at the various specialty high-quality products sold by the vendors around her and said to Wang Wei with emotion.