After obtaining part of the knowledge that Su Wen passed on as agreed, the difficulty of this project was no longer a limitation for her.
With the snow still falling in New York State.
Jiangnan.
Binhai City also ushered in the afternoon.
The treat Su Wen mentioned was when he and Iceberg Girl went to the supermarket to buy hot pot ingredients.
Then have a warm hot pot on this winter day that is getting colder due to the increasingly serious La Nina cold wave.
Now.
He was humming a song leisurely while placing pieces of meat into the steaming pot.
Although this picture is somewhat inconsistent with Jiang Menghan's usual cold and beautiful temperament.
But it was hard for the girl to deny that it would really feel great to eat such steaming food with Su Wen.
One hour later.Lan
The leisurely lunch time passed quietly.
The two began to get down to business.
That is: preparations for the exploration of the Lost Sea.
Jiang Menghan borrowed the super-high authority granted by her father in the [Great Wall of Despair] forum, and she and Su Wen also browsed most of the information about the Lost Sea.
its contents.
It even exceeds the information Dolores obtained from the Dragonborn Research Society database.
Seeing that there are even many places on the other side of the sea of stars hidden in the mist of the Lost Sea.
Su Wen said calmly:
“No wonder it was just revealed that [Dragon Skeleton] appeared in the [White Christmas] incident in New York State.
But even if we borrow Dr. Jiang’s authority, there are not many ‘lighthouse’ anchor points that we can identify.
only.
It's a pity.
I did not find the destination of this journey, the ‘Land of Eternal Night’.”
"Did you also learn that name secretly?" Lan
Jiang Menghan said softly.
She had no intention of getting to the bottom of the secret that Su Wen didn't tell her.
"Since it's exploration.
I think there should be other ways."
"In addition to the astronomical societies that govern star maps and the great libraries that store knowledge, we have
It seems.
This is one of the purposes of our next trip." Lan
That's right.
One of his goals is to find:
[Branlit's Lantern Existence Point - Lost Sea - Violet Tower in the Kingdom of Eternal Night], and then promoted to the second level.
Of course, Su Wen never panics because of lack of information.
On the contrary, as the only lead player in the world, completing unknown challenges may also be fun for him.
There was a more rational smile on his face:
"Now that Detroit has been determined as the starting point, we will temporarily use the first route of the Lost Sea in the [Great Wall of Despair] information database as the starting route.
Then we probably need to discuss the choice and modification of transportation.
First of all, the Lost Sea is in a windless zone because it is covered in fog most of the time.
The old wind-driven sailboats can be abandoned."
Hear him say that.
Jiang Menghan's delicate and beautiful face also had a more thoughtful look:
“The Lost Sea consumes a huge amount of energy.
Like this.
We can only choose to recruit sailors."
Hear her say that.
Su Wen shrugged:
"I do have the ability to build large machinery.
But at the beginning of the journey, our need for transportation was actually not that urgent."
He opened the computer screen to the message issued by the American Federal Night Watch:
[Announcement on convening the Lost Sea Exploration Fleet] Lan
"After a white Christmas.
Information retained in Inhurst Group's database.
The United States Federation has decided to conduct a very large-scale exploration operation. To support an exploration operation facing a large abyss, the Night Watch alone is not enough.
so.
Censorship of the Bounty Hunters Association has been relaxed.
It also means that we may not need to be so obvious."
Hearing Su Wen’s rational and gentle words.
Jiang Menghan reacted in just a moment:
"In other words, the vast majority of people on an exploration ship won't actually know each other.
Then we really don’t need to prepare too much.
But leave when it's time to leave.
It should only be possible in certain locations."
"Kirishima and the Lighthouse."
Su Wen calmly circled two temporarily known contents on the chart of Detroit Route No. 1: Lan
"Having mastered the high-density data of [The Great Wall], we at least know more about the first route than those bounty hunters."
And at the two locations he booked.
One of the.
It is on the first route of the Lost Sea, the Kirishima Lighthouse: the border gate of the Leonard-Coinber belt beyond the orbit of Neptune.
"I will buy supplies when I get to Detroit.
"
Su Wen said gently,
"I have two friends I can trust there."
Be prepared here in Binhai, it's easy to be spotted.
As for the tools needed for sailing, Phyllis will help prepare them.
As a Storm Warden and currently a senior researcher studying on exchange in Lorenzril.
She masters the [Samoa Storm Route—Large Spectrum Monitoring Station] previously designed by Mr. Anthony.
Therefore, many sailors will make contract transactions in order to apply for help in monitoring storm routes."
Jiang Menghan nodded lightly.
She had no objection to the two points raised by Su Wen.
then.
The iceberg girl put the matching list she was responsible for on the display screen:
"Because the energy consumption is huge.
So we need at least a set of steam engines specifically designed for propulsion in the Lost Sea.
There is also the [Kuroshio] timing pendulum clock and the [Arc Scanning Module] for finding lighthouses.
If Phyllis can help us provide this, it will indeed be of great help."
In the display screen.
A dark blue structure at the core of the cabin is suspended above in the form of a three-dimensional model.
In fact, it would be difficult to achieve industrial-grade progress based on the graphics card configuration of Su Wen's previous host, without any lag in the structural display.
But after the 4080 given to him by the Christmas girl was officially put into use.
This kind of three-dimensional surround construction of high-precision model drawings has become possible.
that's all.
After the two of them determined the exploration strategy for the early and middle stages of the Lost Sea, the next step was to wait for news from Phyllis.
Late at night three days later.
In a freezing bar on the west coast of North America.
A middle-aged man with a beard wearing a trench coat and a bronze anchor pendant sat at the bar.
He asked for a beer in a hoarse voice:
"White Hound, since the last time we came to Detroit, the Swanton Building has been overthrown by many forces involved in underground racing.
I've always wanted to visit here.
But in order to prepare for the opening of a route to the Lost Sea, we didn’t have the opportunity until now.”
Hear him say that.
The bar owner with gray hair and a scar said calmly while wiping the wine glass in his hand:
"I am no longer the white retriever I once was.
Just call me Vern O'Neill, or Vern the store manager."