Chapter 229: The End of the World
It took twenty days to build three whalebone ships, and during this period, Tianming's novel could not be coded in one word, even if there was a little time, I had to hurry up to replenish the blood of the drip bottle of the Lidong.
The 1,000 IV bottles were originally concentrated in one area, and after the infusion of one area, they were transferred to another. However, the Lidong was relatively large, and Tianming was really troublesome, so the 1,000 drip bottles were scattered in various parts of the Lidong, so that the planks in each area could grow and 'resurrect'.
The standard volume of the drip bottle is only 500 ml, and it only takes two hours to hang a bottle, and if you want to maintain the state of continuous infusion, you need to replenish mangrove blood 20 times a day, and 1,000 drip bottles, that is, 20,000 operations.
In order to save work, Tianming expanded the volume of all drip bottles to 5000ml, so that only one or two mangrove blood needs to be replenished once or twice a day.
Even so, in 20 days, less than 150 barrels of 400 barrels of mangrove blood were hoisted, and the work of transfusing blood to Lidong will continue for a long time.
After filling all the dripping bottles with mangrove blood, Tianming went back to the rest room of the ship island to rest for a while, took out the computer, and just wanted to know how to code, Elder Maijia walked in, he was carrying something hard.
Seeing that he was struggling, Tianming got up from his chair and helped him put a round stone on the table.
"Chief, we should go south." Elder Maiga spoke.
"Why is it the South again? It's dangerous to go south, but now this sea is very good. ”
Tianming was a little incomprehensible, recently Elder Maijia didn't know what was going on, three times a day persuaded himself to go to the south, Tianming understood what he meant, but he didn't know why he wanted to go to the south, the sea area where the fleet is now is calm, the daylight is comfortable, although it is in the polar day. It's daytime all day long, but it's much better than going to the dangerous south.
"We're going to the South right now! Come and see. ”
Maiga first fixed the stone ball on the table, then took out a map from his bosom, spread it flat on the table, pressed the stone ball against the map, and took out a fish tooth bone from his pocket.
Elder Maijia placed the fish tooth bone somewhere on the map and said to Tianming, "This is where we are. ”
Tianming understood what he meant and nodded.
Elder Maijia put the fish tooth bone, which symbolized the fleet, on top of the stone ball, pointed to a certain place in the stone ball and said to Tianming, "Our ship." Right here in this ball. ”
"Did you know that the planet is round?" Tianming was a little surprised, the Blue Star people actually knew that the planet they were on was round.
The stone ball that Elder Maiga brought should be a planetar.
He felt a little interesting, and said to Elder Maiga, "Old Mai, you go on. ”
I saw that Elder Maijia put the fish tooth bone on the stone ball, slowly moved from the top of the ball to the bottom of the ball, and said to Tianming: "Our world is on top of a ball. We have to go from this side of the world, to the other side of the world, to find a safe place to stay. ”
"The other side of the world? From the North Pole. To Antarctica?! ”
Tianming was shocked, originally Elder Maijia did not let himself go to the south, but to the distant South Pole! How is this possible? The diameter of the planet is 11,000 kilometers, from the North Pole to the South Pole. That's more than 34,000 kilometers, if you go to Antarctica, how long will it take? At least half a year will be gone. Moreover, the waves in the south are strong, and non-large ships cannot pass through guò, and the only big ships in his fleet are the Lidong and the two big gourd ships of Elder Maijia.
"Old man, it's too far away, it's impossible to go, or don't go." Tianming waved his hand and shook his head.
"I have to go!"
Elder Maijia grabbed Tianming, took out something similar to chalk from his pocket, and drew a ring that spread outward on the upper part of the planetar, like a white ring target, and then rotated the planetar, and under the constant rotation, this ring actually had a bit of an effect very similar to a whirlpool, after the planetarium stopped rotating, Elder Maijia put the fish tooth bone on it for demonstration, so that the fish tooth bone slowly approached the whirlpool, during which he also made several struggles, but after reaching the center of the whirlpool, he never moved again, he said: " The whirlpool is about to form, and if we don't leave the whirlpool, sooner or later we will be sucked into the whirlpool! ”
"Vortex, whirlpool? You say that the Arctic creates a whirlpool? Tianming understood and asked in disbelief.
"We must go south!" Elder Maiga repeated.
"Let me fly up there first!"
Tianming hurriedly took out the aerospace plane, and soon rose to an altitude of 10,000 meters, at this altitude, he saw a scene that frightened him: the entire Arctic ice cap has all melted, at the North Pole, a large vortex is forming, he flew over to take a closer look, the diameter of the vortex is more than 100 kilometers, is constantly slowly spreading outward, the center of the vortex, is a rapidly rotating black hole.
When you fly to a higher altitude, the entire Arctic seems to have a tendency to turn into a super whirlpool.
"I understand, no wonder Lao Mai said all day long that he was going to the south, it turned out that this Arctic whirlpool would get bigger and bigger, and sooner or later, it would suck everything on the sea around here into it! This threat is far more than the tall waves! Only by going to the other side of the world can we avoid this crisis! ”
Looking at the big whirlpool that wanted to devour a qiē, the center was bottomless, and Tianming had a feeling that it was difficult to fight against.
Like, you have to go to the south!
……
"Stop going north!"
At the sound of an order, the whole fleet stopped, because of the presence of the whirlpool, the sea was slowly flowing towards the center of the whirlpool, and Tianming had to keep the fleet at a certain speed and slowly move south.
Before the whirlpool expanded to an exaggerated distance, Tianming flew the plane straight south for nearly 8,000 kilometers, observing the sea conditions for this distance.
The location of their own fleet, near 85 ° north latitude, the sea surface conditions are relatively calm, the maximum waves are about 2-3 meters, but further south, the waves will get bigger and bigger, from 5, 6 meters, to 9, 10 meters, to 10 meters, 20 meters...... When you reach 45 degrees north latitude, there will be a huge whirlpool sea zone, where the sea conditions are extremely complicated, there are both 50-meter-high waves and huge whirlpools, if the fleet is caught in this sea area, it is difficult to guarantee that it will be able to come out, even the Lidong, and it is difficult to guarantee that the ship will not capsize here.
This makes Tianming a little difficult, 45 degrees north latitude is still a higher latitude, if you go further south, you have to encounter more terrifying waves, and the probability of being able to pass guò is lower, so what should I do?
Why don't you put the ships and all the Blue Star people into the ability space and send them to the south?
However, the bigger problem is that Tianming's ability space is now only a little more than 43,000 cubic meters, and the Lidong can't fit it at all, at least a quarter of the Lidong must be cut off, but this is impossible, he wants a complete ship.
Tianming wanted to have a splitting headache, so he simply didn't want to.
……
Ten days later, at 67 degrees north latitude, the whole fleet has sailed more than 3,000 kilometers to the south, the waves are getting bigger and bigger, 7,8 meters, in order to prevent the Blue Star people on the ship from falling into the sea, Tianming specially asked Lan Luo to help him purchase more than 30,000 sets of life jackets to put on all the Blue Star people, but Tianming didn't want the fleet to move on, at this latitude, Tianming didn't believe that the Arctic whirlpool could suck the ship 3,000 kilometers away.
"Chief, why don't you leave?" Elder Maiga walked into the command room.
"Old man, I don't think there is any need to continue south, that big whirlpool can't suck a ship so far away!"
Tianming observed in the sky that the diameter of the whirlpool had expanded to 500 kilometers, and the radius had expanded by 15 kilometers a day, and if it had to expand to 3,000 kilometers, how could it be done in 1,200 days, maybe the whirlpool would be gone after a while.
Elder Maiga shook his head, "It's not just the whirlpool, it's the storm, the boundless storm, the never-ending storm!" In this kind of storm, no ship can last long, we have to go south, to the other side of the world. ”
"Storm?"
God knows what the word means.
Elder Maijia pulled Tianming and walked to the platform of the ship, facing the strong sea breeze, pointing to the sea in the distance, and said, "Driven by that whirlpool, the boundless storm will come from that side for a whole year, and besides, it has already come. ”
Following the direction pointed by Elder Maiga, to the east, Tianming saw a dark rain cloud with extremely low pressure and clinging to the sea, with lightning flashing, like a black-armored sergeant attacking the city, accompanied by a muffled thunder, slowly approaching the fleet.
The whining sea breeze blew the flag hunting, and when it reached the widest point of view of the platform, Tianming was silent for a while.
Is this sea really scary?
Do I lack the courage to conquer it?
No! My journey will not be easy, but my goal is as bright as the stars, and what I lack is a brave heart.
A new storm has emerged, how can it be stagnant?
Pulling out the silver steel sword hanging from his waist, the sword pointed due south, and towards the distant line of sky, Tianming shouted angrily: "Super Battleship Lidong, towards the end of the world, set off!" ”
…… (To be continued......)