"Are you really going to sea with the village chief?"

"Well, I've made a 'gentleman's agreement' with him. People gave me all the land for free, can I still break the contract? ”

"Will there be fraud?"

"Probably not......

Early this morning, the village chief Wang Shou sent a little ghost to inform me that they were going out to sea to fish at the end of the morning, and asked me to get ready and get on their boat. Liu Han didn't know about the agreement between me and Wang Shou, so he complained that I didn't tell her about it in advance.

"What is it about him who is so enthusiastic about us? What the hell are we trying to do? Liu Han frowned.

I had to comfort her: "Don't think too much. Maybe it's because the population in this village is small, and seeing that we have a boat and strength, he wants to deliberately woo him! Besides, you go to his house every day to find Xiaocai to play, can't you still find out a little bit about it? ”

Xiaocai didn't know much about her godfather's origin, so she heard that he was a master of shipbuilding and ship repair before his death. As for the experience after going to the underworld, Wang Shou never told Xiaocai. ”

"Shipbuilder?" I nodded, "That makes sense." Otherwise, he wouldn't have come here to build such a small fishing village, after all, this place is close to the sea. ”

"But I still think he might be plotting against him!" Liu Han still insisted on his opinion, "Or, I'll follow you on the boat too?" ”

I laughed and said, "Do you want to go with me and be my bodyguard?" Don't worry, with their few ghost cultivators, I can still handle it alone! ”

"Then you bring all your weapons and equipment, be careful yourself!"

"Got it."

As a result, when I got on Wang Shou's ship, I found that from the captain to the sailors, there was not a single ghost on the ship with a guy, not even a piece of armor.

Wang Shou smiled and said to me: "The waves on the sea are big, you are so neatly dressed, how can you float up if you fall into the water?" Even if we want to save you, we won't be able to pull it! ”

I thought about it, so I was a little embarrassed to take off all the armor on my body and temporarily handed it over to Wang Shou to be placed under the cabin.

There are only two fishing boats in the village, and the larger one we went to sea today, but it was smaller than my noodle boat, and it felt a little weird to step on the deck of this boat, which was actually soft. I leaned against the boat gang, quietly pinched it with my hand, and hey, I actually left a few finger prints!

Could it be that the ship is made of cork? But this wood is too soft!

But I'm not an expert at this, so I don't see anything wrong with it, so maybe a boat made of cork is light, which is good for increasing the load and speed.

Wang Shou checked back and forth, and saw that all the crew and supplies had been loaded, and then gave an order: "Set sail!" ”

"Hey! Hey! Hey! ”

The sailors grabbed their long oars, shouted a rhythmic trumpet, and rowed the boat out of the dock and into the Stygian Sea.

I've never been out on a boat before, neither in the ocean of the sun nor in the sea of the underworld, so I'm always looking forward to it. Unfortunately, the Stygian Sea is foggy and there is no light source to illuminate, so you can't see the whole picture of the Stygian Sea, and you can't appreciate the vastness and magnificent scenery of the sea.

Ships sailing on the Stygian Sea are generally only inlaid with a few open-flame windproof lamps on the outside of the boat, which are used to illuminate the sea around the ship, and if they are a little farther away, they will not be able to see anything from a few feet away. This also brings a lot of trouble to the ship's navigation, and once you enter unfamiliar waters, the situation under the water is no different from a black eye. As a result, nearby fishing villages generally only dare to fish in the inshore waters, and do not easily go deep into the open sea.

Leaving the harbor where the fishing village is located, the direction of the wind began to change, as if a big monster was constantly sucking the boat into the depths of the Stygian Sea. At this time, Wang Shou simply withdrew the sailors who were rowing, asked them to unwind the sails, and then let the boat sail with the help of the wind, which was both labor-saving and trouble-free.

Half a day after sailing, a ghost sailor suddenly ran up from under the cabin to report to Wang Shou: "Captain, a school of fish has been found at the bottom of the boat!" ”

Wang Shouxi said: "Good luck today, let everyone hurry up and get in place and prepare to fish!" ”

"Yes!"

The sailor straightened up and said yes with a loud voice, and hurried down the cabin again.

I looked at it and thought it was very strange. It stands to reason that sailors in charge of lookouts usually climb high masts and look around, judging whether there are fish under the water by the ripples and sparkles on the water. But the ship's lookout has been staying under the cabin, and still being able to spot schools of fish, how did they do it?

Wang Shou saw my doubts, so he smiled and offered to invite me to the bottom of the cabin to have a look. I hesitated for a moment, but I couldn't resist my curiosity, so I happily went.

The interior of this fishing boat below the deck is completely different from my noodle shop boat. Speaking of which, my noodle shop ship is a typical ocean-going ship structure, with two floors below the deck, the lower deck is the cabin and storage room for the crew, and the bottom floor is the cargo hold. Moreover, the cargo compartment is divided into several compartments, each of which can be sealed separately, which is called a "watertight compartment".

As the sarcasm explained to me, the purpose of the watertight compartment is to ensure that only one compartment is flooded and the other compartments remain sealed in the event that the ship's floor is damaged by a reef or collision with other vessels. In this way, as long as several compartments do not leak at the same time, the ship will not sink. This is also the most important secret of the noodle restaurant ship that can continue to sail long distances even after it is so worn.

But when I arrived at Wang Shou's fishing boat, which was really used for sea operations, I found that the deck was empty, with only one cabin. That's too dangerous, isn't it? If you accidentally bump into it, there is only one damage to the bottom of the ship, and the sea water may flood the entire cabin, and the ship will sink!

However, the bottom bilge of the fishing boat is not nothing, but it is equipped with a few strange contraptions that I have never seen before. One of them was something similar to a periscope, and the lookout who had just run up to report was sitting on the camera and peeking inside. It was responsible for a periscope in front of the ship, and there was another one in the stern of the ship, which was the responsibility of another lookout.

Other than that, there were several installations that resembled batteries, except that instead of shells, the sailors loaded them with fishing nets and harpoons. Could it be that the boat actually fished by launching nets and harpoons from the bottom of the boat? But even if you catch a fish, how do you drag it onto the boat?

Wang Shou asked me to stand in the middle of the cabin, but I ran to look at the periscope. The other sailors also consciously began to get busy. Then I discovered something very surprising to me, one of the sailors actually turned into a puff of green smoke and got into the fishnet launcher, while the other two sailors got into the harpoon launcher!

What are they doing here? Is it to operate the transmitter in this way?

I have so many questions in my head. But Wang Shou was engrossed in looking at the periscope, and the other sailors didn't seem to have time to pay attention to me. Since you can't find a ghost to ask, let's honestly wait and see!

Wang Shou watched for a while, and then began to give verbal instructions to constantly adjust the direction and speed of the ship. The helmsman on the other side and the oarsmen on the deck acted according to his orders. In the end, Wang Shou shouted: "Forty-five degrees above the left, the fishing net is launched!" ”

"Launch!"

"Whoosh!"

The nets in the Fishnet Launcher are launched in an instant, leaving only the ends of the two strands.

"Collect the net!" Wang Shou shouted again.

"Collect the net!" A buzzing sound came from the fishnet launcher, repeating Wang Shou's command. This should have been sent by the ghost who just got into it, and sure enough, the fishnet launcher was directly controlled by it.

"Pull the net!" Wang Shou shouted again.

"The net is closed! The net is closed! This time, it was the same as several sailors who had been standing next to the fishnet launcher, shouting in unison.

They ran up and grabbed the end of the net and pulled it back hard. I didn't need to be taught, and I knew what they were up to, so I ran over to help pull the nets.

"Whoa! Whoa! ”

Suddenly, a large hole opened in the bottom of the boat under the fishnet launcher, and the sea water rushed up, and at the same time, a large net caught the piles of fish and shrimp squeezing into the cabin.

I was shocked, and said secretly: "Sure enough, it is going to enter the water, but how can so much water be discharged for a while?" ”

But the other sailors, apparently accustomed to it, did not panic at all, and dragged the nets into the hold with all the more force. When the nets were fully in the cabin, the bottom of the boat, which had cracked a large opening, closed on its own and began to drain water outward.

The way the water is drained is also weird, and the cork floor seems to be like a big mouth, spitting water out of the boat!

After spitting for a long time, the seawater in the cabin was finally spit clean. The bottom of the boat was also restored to its original state, leaving only the fish and shrimp caught in the large fishing net. I was dumbfounded, this way of fishing is too unbelievable!

Ever since the ghost sailors got into the hull, the ship has come to life, and even the floor changes shape on its own, opening and closing. Such a cabin really doesn't need any watertight compartments, and as much water as it can come in, it can be drained out.

Wang Shou left the periscope and walked over to me again. Today's first net is a bumper harvest, enough for his sailors to work for a while. He smiled at me and said, "How's it going?" Can you let Boss Feng have a long insight today? ”

"What an eye-opener!" I exclaimed, "What the hell is this ship?" How was it made? ”

Wang Shou replied: "I figured out this ship, and I personally built it with a group of sailors. I didn't know what to call such a ship, so I kept calling it a 'ghost ship'! ”

"Ghost ship?" I couldn't help but laugh. Although the name is not expressive, it is also true. After all, if a ghost can be integrated into the hull of a ship and make the ship conscious, isn't it a ghost-like ship?