Since the crossing, Wang Xijia has conquered the vast continent, but the exploration of the ocean is still blank. On this planet, the ocean is much larger than the land, and it would be a waste to leave such a vast world unexplored.

In later generations, Wang Xika has always longed for the "Age of Discovery" that discovered the New World. Now that the four seas are leveling and the universe is stable, why don't you build a ship and sail away?

Just do it, and two days later, a dock appeared on Zecheng Beach. Shipbuilding is much more difficult than building a car, and the key difficulty is that Wang Xijia only drove a car before the crossing, but did not drive a boat.

Fortunately, the people of Zecheng have lived by the sea for a long time, and they have some traditional ways of shipbuilding - of course, they are all primitive wooden dhows, and they can only fish inshore or something.

In later generations, the power systems of large ships capable of long-distance voyages were generally nuclear-powered, fuel-powered and steam-powered. The ship designed by Wang Xijia chose steam power, mainly because nuclear power could not be obtained by itself, and the explosive power of gasoline and diesel was not enough for fuel power, and heavy fuel oil was generally used, and it was more troublesome to replenish fuel. With steam power, it is relatively simple, and the fuel is relatively easy to replenish.

Wang Xijia gathered the old shipbuilders with shipbuilding experience in Zecheng and asked them to use their years of shipbuilding experience to build several large ships that could sail far. It's just a matter of changing the material from a wooden structure to a metal structure. In addition, the mast became a multi-mast so that the ship could sail without fuel.

Shipbuilding is not completed in a day or two, and it takes a year from the selection of materials to the construction of wooden ships. Metal boats are faster, because the metal is ready-made, and there is no need to put it on the beach and wait for the wood to dry before it can be used. In order to speed up the construction period, Wang Xijia transferred Liu Carpenter and all the workers of the Shanghekou Automobile Factory to help build a ship together, and strive to build a dual-purpose ship with sails and steam that can sail for long voyages within half a year.

Of course, you don't need a big boat to go to the underwater world of Ah Snake, you just need to get a set of diving equipment. In later generations, Wang Xika also dived in ordinary swimming pools and lakes, and could dive to a place of 4 or 5 meters without any equipment. I also participated in snorkeling at the beach. If you want to dive on the beach, it's not a big problem.

Wang Xika decided to try snorkeling first. The equipment needed for this snorkeling is also quite simple, generally a three-piece set: mask, fins, snorkel, and it took a day to get the equipment ready.

Ah Snake saw Wang Xijia's equipment and smiled: "You look like a cheek man now." ”

Wang Xika said: "Yes, I said that I would go to your house as a guest, so naturally I should dress up like you." ”

Of course, this set of snorkeling equipment is not a guest at Ah Snake's house. Because the depth of snorkeling cannot exceed the length of the snorkel, no matter how long it is, you can't breathe, you can only hold your breath, just like without a diving tube. And a snake, their underwater home is very deep.

This is the first time Wang Xijia has dived in this pristine ocean, and the visibility of the unpolluted ocean is very high, and you can clearly see the beautiful small fish swimming on the bottom of the sea, and see beautiful coral reefs and starfish and shells. After playing for a while, Wang Xika decided to make an oxygen cylinder, so that he could dive a little deeper, about 10 meters underwater, and he could also stay in the water for a while.

In the ocean, the scenery is different at different depths, and when you snorkel on the surface, you can see some small fish, and at a depth of 10 meters, you can see larger fish, such as tuna and winged flying fish. Some shells can also be seen, and there should be pearls inside. In later generations, pearl shells at this depth have long been harvested, and if you want to get pearl oysters, you have to dive deeper.

Ah Snake accompanied Wang Xijia to play at the bottom of the sea for a while, and the two picked up five large lobsters, each as long as an adult's calf. I picked up a shell more than one meter and went ashore for dinner.

"Do you know how we cheeks eat lobster?" Snake asked.

"I don't know. Wang Xika replied honestly. As a domineering president, he often ate lobster in later generations, and he tried many Western-style and Chinese-style cooking methods, but he really didn't know how to eat lobster.

"Look, I'll only demonstrate it once. After saying that, Ah Snake picked up a lobster, started to eat it from the tail, and chewed it like a baguette, without even spitting out the shell.

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"I'll teach you how to eat it. Wang Xika said. He didn't want to try the way to eat the cheeks, for lobster, he could only accept sashimi at most, and he would never eat lobster shells and lobster heads.

Wang Xijia took the remaining lobsters to Boss Du's coffee shop for processing, and the first lobster opened its back and picked a shrimp line as sashimi to dip in wasabi root to eat. The second one is grilled over charcoal, sprinkled with garlic and green onions, and eaten as a charcoal-grilled oyster. The third lobster was boiled in water and eaten boiled shrimp, and the fourth was made in the same way as spicy crayfish, and fried with chili, soy sauce, peppercorn oil, and potato strips.

It can be said that each cooking method has its own characteristics, and Boss Du took another jar of self-brewed beer and drank it. The three of them were eating seafood and drinking beer, and they must have ingested a lot of purines, and if they ate like this every day, they would get gout.

"I think sashimi is the best way to eat it. Snake said. It seems that cheeks also prefer to eat raw food. Although seafood has fewer parasites than freshwater products, Wang Xijia still feels that this diet is not very healthy.

"Where is your underwater home?" asked Wang Xika.

"You can't go down, it's still deep. "A snake eats shells. The big shell king Xika is still grilled and eaten over a charcoal fire.

"How deep is it, how many meters?" Wang Xika asked.

"What is rice?" Snake was obviously not so familiar with Wang Xijia's unit of measurement.

Wang Xijia used his arm to compare how long "one meter" is.

Ah Snake thought for a while and said, "Our shallowest home is about 100 meters, then there is one at 300 meters, and there is one at 1000 meters. ”

Wang Xijia thought to himself that if the flowers in the pressurized diving suit could reach more than 500 meters, it would be possible to visit the first two places of Ah Snake. No matter how deep it is, people will not be able to stand the pressure.

"How deep you can dive. Wang Xijia was very curious about where the limit of the cheek man was.

"Well, you can dive to the end. Snake said as he gnawed on the lobster shell.

Dive to the end...... Wang Xijia knows that the depth of the continental shelf is generally not more than 200 meters, and the deeper place is the continental slope, the water depth is between 200 meters and 1,005 meters, and then there is the deep seabed, the deepest Mariana Trench is more than 10,000 meters, can a snake actually dive to a place of 10,000 meters?

The blue whales that the gills usually use to milk cows generally only move at a depth of 2,300 meters, and this generation is also the sea with the most marine life, and the well-known sharks and shells are basically active at this depth.

The depth of about 1000-2000 meters is the activity depth of sperm whales, squid. 1,000 meters is also the deepest part of the sun's reach, and the bottom of the sea is dark, and most of the deep-sea animals living below 1,000 meters have degraded eyesight and look strange. As for the existence of creatures in the 10,000-meter-level Mariana Trench, it is basically a mystery - by the time Wang Xijia crossed, humans had only explored less than 5% of the ocean, and the remaining 95% was a mystery. If the snake can really dive to a distance of 10,000 meters, it can solve a lot of riddles about the ocean.

"Have you ever been to a place below 5,000 meters under the sea?" Wang Xika asked.

"Haven't been...... The black hole underneath, where nothing can be seen, is the territory of the sea people. Snake said.

"Sea people?" This is the first time I have heard of it, it turns out that there are different races living on the bottom of the sea, and Wang Xijia only knew about the existence of gills in the past.

"Well, the sea people are different from us, they have no eyes and noses, only gills, and they can't live on land. Snake said. From his tone, it seems that he can tell that the sea people are not "good".

This is also understandable, gills such as snakes can live in the water or on land, belonging to amphibians, amphibians do not need to live in such deep places. If there were humans in the deep sea, then they would never have to come to the surface of the sea like other deep-sea animals. The deep sea is really a mystery, but it's a pity that I can't build such a deep submersible now, and it is estimated that one or two scientific geniuses will have to wait for the country to achieve this technological breakthrough.

"Next week, next week I can get some equipment and go to your house 100 meters deep. Wang Xika said. He's going to get a pressurized wetsuit and a big oxygen tank, so that he won't have a problem diving at a depth of 100 meters for an hour or two.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you next week. Snake said.

The pressurized wetsuit is somewhat similar to the protective suit worn in the P4 laboratory in later generations, with a tube inside the suit to ventilate, so that the air pressure inside and outside the wetsuit is balanced and can resist sea pressure.

Wang Xijia experimented for a long time before making the first set of pressurized diving suits. The suit weighs 4.50 kilograms, which is like a spacesuit, and it is very bulky to wear on shore. But when you go to the bottom of the sea, because of the buoyancy of the seawater, you can move freely in this suit.

A snake and a few gills helped Wang Xika to walk slowly down to the sea, and when he reached a depth of about 20 meters, Wang Xika could move more freely, but the speed was naturally incomparable with A snake.

30 meters, 50 meters, the depth gradually increases, and the fish you see gradually become larger. When he reached about 80 meters, Wang Xijia suddenly saw a great white shark swimming towards him, and couldn't help but be surprised!

Unexpectedly, the great white shark was even more frightened when he saw the Cypriots, and fled as if flying.

"This Tom is really naughty, and he wants to come to the house to steal things!" said Snake. It turns out that this shark has another name, Tom.

Tom Yoye's waters have a canopy of seaweed, and when the seagrass is removed, it is a coral hole.

The cheeks helped Wang Xika through the hole, and his eyes suddenly opened up, just like the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea in "Journey to the West".

"Here we are, this is our home," Snake said.