"It does sound very powerful." After listening to Lawrence translate the contents related to airships in the book, Saifei showed a surprised look on his face. "But hearing the name of this airship, I always thought it was this
It's an airship from the Federation or some other country."
"The name does have a strong Western style, but it is really the airship of the Republic of New Zealand." Lawrence smiled and pointed to a promotional display board belonging to the airship company standing at the entrance of the lounge. "But its designer
He was a citizen of the Republic of French origin. After he designed this airship, he could not find anyone willing to invest in the country. In the end, he almost traveled around the entire world before completing his project in the westernmost part of the New World.
dream."
"That means the Republic of Xinzhou has a keen eye for talents and has made a very good investment?" Saifei said with wide eyes, while also using a Cathay proverb he just learned.
"Then you have to look at which aspect." Lawrence said after looking at the briefings related to this airship posted on the exhibition board hanging on the wall, "If it is indeed fruitful from a technical point of view, you have to
Knowing that building such a large vehicle that combines industry and extraordinary will definitely promote the development of a lot of technologies."
"For example, when we just got off the bus, we saw so many airships, many of which used the technology on this airship. According to what was written in the manual just now, these new technologies have made the use of airships much more expensive.
The level of safety has been greatly improved. Taken together, airship travel has gradually changed from a luxury product to a popular one."
"Popular? You call an airship trip that costs 120 yuan a ticket popular?" Saifei couldn't help complaining after hearing what Lawrence said, "The annual salary of a store attendant is about this amount. This is just a lot of money."
For a long time, you stopped taking so much money seriously?"
"Of course not. The popular travel mentioned here refers to other routes operated by ordinary airships that do not require dangerous places such as large mountains. I just took a look and found that the price for the same distance from north to south is the same as before.
The train tickets we bought are about the same price." Lawrence quickly shook his hand to show that he was not drifting at all, "and the airship we are about to take should actually be regarded as an extraordinary means of transportation, so naturally the ticket price cannot be cheap."
"Understood." Saphiel nodded. After all, it is a means of transportation that needs to directly cross the sky over a large mountain range. Naturally, an airship that can do this cannot have as low an operating cost as an ordinary airship.
"But from an economic point of view, this thing is completely losing money, because it uses too much high-precision technology that is basically impossible to mass-produce now. The money earned from carrying passengers and part of the cargo can only keep it running.
.This is the reason why it only built one." After watching Saifei figure out the price of the airship ticket, Lawrence continued the topic just now.
"If that's the case, then why is this airship still in operation?" Saifei said with some confusion, because in her impression, the constant loss of money should be stopped early, instead of making this matter like a
It's like a bottomless pit that keeps devouring money.
"You have to know that many things cannot just be calculated by economic accounts." Lawrence raised the index finger of his right hand and shook it lightly before saying. "I guess they keep this airship operating through
Operations find problems in previous designs to make continuous improvements, and on the other hand, they use it as a display of national strength."
Speaking of this, Lawrence thought of the blue ribbon awards prepared for fast cruise ships across the Atlantic in his previous life. In fact, the time saved by adding a few knots or even a few tenths of a knot to those large passenger ships was completely compared to the huge cost.
It's not worth it.
But at that time, various countries were still eager for this award and built one after another faster high-speed cruise ships: the King, the Mauretania, the United States, the Deutschland, and the Normandy. In peacetime, this speed competition was regarded as a competition among various countries.
The best stage for a country to show its strength.
The airship now called the Pridwin should be a means for the Republic of New Zealand to demonstrate its national power. Lawrence feels that this is an important reason why this ship is running international routes.
After talking for a while, Lawrence stood up and went to the telegraph station in the airship station and told his adoptive father the flight and departure time of the airship he was going to take. Then he returned to the terminal and tasted the food just served by the waiter with Saifei.
The fruit platter was brought in.
A few hours later, the time came to 12:30 midnight. By this time, Saphiel had fallen asleep holding the suitcase containing Nora. Lawrence, on the other hand, sat next to her with his eyes closed and began to think about the knowledge he had gained this time.
.
"——If this basic rune technology is applied to paper man magic, then the next time you make a spare paper man, you don't have to limit the image of the paper man to a human image, and the space for manipulation will be much larger—
—" Just when Lawrence started to think about a certain problem, he suddenly heard a ringing sound outside the window.
"Look, our airship is coming." After hearing the bell, Lawrence turned his head and looked out the window, and then gently woke up Saphire, who was sleeping dazedly next to him.
"Ah? What?" Saphire, who had just been woken up from her sleep, looked a little confused and rubbed her eyes, then subconsciously looked in the direction of Lawrence's finger. In just a few seconds, she suddenly opened her eyes.
opened his big blue eyes.
"Is this the airship we are going to take? It looks like a whale made of metal." Saifei said in a surprised tone, because what appeared in the sky now was a huge thing more than 300 meters long. And it was as big as
Compared to the several airships I had seen before, the metal armor covering the airbags of this airship looked particularly strong under the light of the magic array patterns drawn on the armor.
"Yes, if everything goes well, we will be home in three days." Lawrence nodded. He was actually very upset because his adoptive father sent him such a letter that had no beginning and no end but asked him to go back as quickly as possible.
He was anxious, but it was useless to be anxious at this time. He could only keep calm and find a way to return as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, there are too few space teleportation array points across the border, and the teleportation array here in the New Island Republic is not something that Lawrence is qualified to use now, otherwise he would rather spend more to use the teleportation array back.
Twenty minutes after the airship arrived, the Pridwin airship landed and was fixed at a height of about ten meters above the ground. Then an attendant walked into the terminal and took them through the departure and departure procedures.
After the boarding procedure, another staff member on the airship took them to the airship through the three-story ramp.
While standing on the gangway, Lawrence looked curiously at the magic lift engine closest to them. But it was different from the fast-rotating propeller engine or more complex jet engine he had thought of before. This one was different.
The engine looks like a simple silver-white ring, without any noise or high-speed airflow.
"Is it some variant of the repulsion ring?" Lawrence suddenly thought of a certain technology needed to build a floating magic tower. "This is simply too exaggerated. No wonder only one such airship has been built."
You must know that the technical status of the repulsion ring in this world is equivalent to Lawrence's heavy-duty rocket engine technology in his previous life. You can imagine the technical complexity and high cost. And how can this technology be used on an airship?
It also made Lawrence express his extreme admiration for the designer's imagination and the Xinzhou Republic's generous investment.