Chapter Forty-Eight: The Wound of the Burning Sky
It's night, the moon hangs at the top, and there is a blackbird standing at the top of the lighthouse, making a lonely sound, the voice is sad, and it makes people break their souls!
In the lighthouse below, a special black iron tripod contains the best whale oil that can not be burned for 80 years, and the thick wick is burning, transmitting the fire light to the four-foot mirror above the zenith, shining out in the four directions of east, west, north and south, guiding the eternal direction for the ship travelers sailing in the vast sea. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At this time, the sea breeze was slight, the waves gradually subsided, and the stars of Baixue Bay were extinguished one by one.
After all, it is already the third watch weather, and every household has fallen asleep.
In the light of the lighthouse, there was a dock, from which from time to time there was an earth-shattering sound, which echoed in the dock and drifted through the air.
At this moment, Yuan Ke held a huge iron and wood hammer like a bucket, standing on a high tripod, facing the broken bow of the Burning Sky, standing against the wind, staring at it for a long time.
After a while, he waved his sleeve and wiped the beads of sweat off his forehead. He took out the construction drawings of the Burning Sky from his bosom and studied them carefully.
Although the part of the bow that was cut off was less than a tenth of the entire hull of the Burning Sky, the degree of damage was very staggering, from the top of the keel at the bottom of the ship to the deck of the bow, including the middle cabin, the rotating gun emplacement, the sailor's room, etc., all of which were cut off with one knife, and the cut was neat and smooth, and it was difficult to recover.
It's like a person who has been cut in half can no longer join all his parts in place.
In the way an ordinary ship is cast, there is no other way for such a Burning Sky than to build another one.
In addition to all the damage to the parts, the most critical thing was that the keel of the ship was also severed.
The keel, which is the spine of a ship, carries the huge hull and is the soul of the ship.
It is like a man who stands up to the sky and the earth, his head can be broken, blood can flow, but his backbone cannot be bent.
If the keel of a ship is broken, no matter how you take it back from the new, it will not be restored to its original state, as long as it encounters the slightest wind and waves, it will be exposed and vulnerable.
If it were someone else, or another ship, then at this moment, this Burning Sky could be sentenced to death.
However, he is no one else, he is Yuan Ke, the successor of Hailian; The ship is not another ship, it is the Burning Sky, an ultra-complex structure connected by mortise and tenon joints.
No one else can fix it, but he can!
Yuan Ke was silent for a long time, and his heart was clear little by little.
The part of the keel is very easy to solve, because it is originally nine sections into one, and the parts where the two sections meet are one zhang square, but there are as many as 1,280 dovetail tenons connected, compared with the original keel of the whole log, the impact strength can be increased several times, and the life is greatly extended.
The reason is that the wood used in the Burning Sky is a treasure tree in the deep sea - Disang. There is also an extremely important key, because the exquisite casting art of Tianzihao has brought the greatest advantages of the Disang Treasure Tree into full play.
Attach the keel back with the same casting technique without any problems.
The same is true for other parts of the hull, which can be joined in a mortise and tenon joint by removing excess parts from the structure, and this joint does not compromise the original strength of the hull.
But the key point is that the part inside the hull is more complicated to splic, because there are too many parts involved, and the degree of difficulty is greatly increased.
Yuan Ke's worry lies in this, he has not tried this casting method, as if to connect the severed limbs of a person back so that it is intact, not simply connected by skin and flesh, but to restore all the meridians, blood, and bones.
Yuan Ke, standing on the bow of the Burning Sky, was like an ant at the foot of an ancient giant beast, and he was pitifully small. He took advantage of the light of the fires on the towers on both sides of the dock, observed carefully, and pondered for a long time.
There is no better way, then there is only risk, in a short time, he sorted out two methods, one is to first connect the keel and hull back, and then enter the cabin to repair other parts; The other is to make the hull of the ship, cast other parts on it, and then integrate them all and connect with the Burning Sky.
Neither method is simple, and the second method is particularly difficult, requiring an unusually high level of precision in measuring cuts, but the advantage of this method is that it has a higher degree of bonding, stronger toughness, and is the same as the original when completed, or even stronger.
Without much thought, Yuan Ke decided to repair the Burning Sky in a second way.
He smiled slightly, as if he had found a goal worth challenging, which is the way every craftsman with a dream will choose.
In fact, there is another reason, he has been stuck at the spirit craftsman level for a long time, and he wants to break through the spirit craftsman with the help of the repair of the Burning Sky.
The classification of casters is relatively simple, but anyone who can cast magic weapons or swords and blades corresponding to this level, and even agricultural tools, can be recognized as a caster of this level.
In other words, the Burning Sky, a Yuan Qi ship, can be called a spiritual weapon, and such a huge spiritual weapon is probably rare in the world.
After making up his mind, Yuan Ke began the first step of work, holding an ironwood sledgehammer aloft and separating the extra corners one by one in a gentle and delicate way.
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Rumble!
Rumble!
Rumble!
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By the time he dismantled the last plank, it was already the morning of the next day.
Throwing the hammer aside, he collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, and the night's struggle seemed more tiring than a big battle.
Lying on the ground like this, running the Qingyang Divine Skill that he had just learned in a supine position, the vitality was like a trickle, slowly converging to the heart sea, when the heart sea was filled, the gap at the bottom seemed to be a little smaller, but the cultivation could only reach the ninth layer of qi induction, and there was no more progress, but the operation of this Qingyang Divine Skill seemed to be a little faster than before.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and what he saw was not the scorching sun in the sky, but a heroic face, a young man.
"Hey, you thought you were dead?" The young man spoke fluently in the official language of the Divine Court and looked at Yuan Ke suspiciously.
Sitting up suddenly, Yuan Ke was shocked in his heart, just immersed in his heart, when there was more of this big living person around him, I don't know, if it was a killer, he was afraid that he would already be in a different place at this time.
Looking at this young man carefully, he looked like sixteen or seventeen, with a dark golden robe on his body that was very luxurious, a jade view on his head, a cloak tied on his shoulders, and a sword carved with dragons on his waist.
What a heroic young general!
Yuan Ke saw him looking at himself suspiciously, his eyes were clear, there was no hostility, he smiled and nodded, "This brother, who are you looking for?" ā
"Is there anyone else here? I'm looking for you, of course. The boy laughed, as if the question made him feel idiot.
"Oh, looking for me? Then who are you, and what are you looking for me? ā
"My name is Jilong, but it's not me looking for you, it's my father looking for you, he can't come, so let me come, so your name is Yuan Ke?" The boy scratched his head, apparently he couldn't get around the question, and he wasn't good at answering it.