The sea is vast, and the future of the White Tulip is bleak, and the rest of the wind direction and strait voyage become unpredictable due to various unfavorable factors.

However, even if the gloom is bleak, there is still a positive side.

For example, the White Tulip has passed the test of the previous sailing race, and the run-in of the whole ship is getting better and better, and the cooperation between the three major sections of sail cable, rudder position and route measurement necessary for sailing is becoming more and more tacit, Lao Wang, as the captain and admiral, not only can the orders be more effectively executed, but sometimes, the sailors will spontaneously make corresponding adjustments to the ship according to the sea conditions, which makes the members of the Invincible Uncle team wonder if these interactive characters also have proficiency.

In addition, as the Dutch sailors brought other surprises to the king, their sailing prowesses were gradually revealed.

Hesitating, they sailed with Lao Wang, destined to always fight for most of the time, and fight for a long time, so that even these sailors themselves forgot that their advantage itself was in sailing rather than in naval battles.

The more complicated the sea conditions encountered, the more difficult the navigation is, the more beneficial it is for them, because in this way, they can leave their competitors behind through superb boat skills, which is like the top students in the class, the difficulty of the problem is a little more difficult, but it is conducive to them and ordinary students to open up the gap.

As a surveyor, because of the improvement of his navigation skills, he got the extended function of automatic navigation.

In the long straight line navigation just now, the automatic navigation function has been tested and is recognized as effective, so Lao Wang is relieved to boldly hand over the preliminary formulation of the route to the automatic navigation to do, thus saving a lot of time.

It's a pity that even if you save time, people can't be idle, and all kinds of situations that need to be dealt with are always coming one after another in a random space, maybe these pickers are the lives of sharks, and when they stop, they are eliminated by death.

As soon as the White Tulip entered the Windward Strait, the weather conditions became as described, and there was only a waterline away from the Strait, but the sea conditions and wind direction were very different.

First of all, the strong wind made a boatload of people suffer.

Because of the high winds, the king did not dare to spread the sails too wide, although the canvas was very strong, but in strong winds, they were still the most dangerous parts of the ship.

If you are not careful, as long as the sail is torn open a small opening, the entire sail surface will face the situation of being poured into the wind and then completely torn.

And once this happens, it is necessary to change the sails, as anyone who has lived at sea knows that changing the sails in a strong wind is the most fatal thing, and the time lost will also put them in a disadvantageous position in the sailing ranking.

The wind is blowing, and the torrential rain seems to be coming to help the fun.

The rain and strong winds soon formed a slight stormy weather, and even more disturbingly, news came from Mary at the lookout post.

It doesn't seem like this storm is going to be a simple face-to-face with the contestants, and it has a tendency to continue to get stronger.

That is to say, if this kind of storm really brews an irresistible hurricane, with tens of thousands of tons of steel in the real world can not survive its power, these poor little pieces of wood of the contestants, it is even more impossible, this is the sorrow of human beings in the face of nature, just like bacteria look at people, there is no room to fight back, all can be done is to do their best to survive, but, to create this random space of nature, what kind of existence?

This is a question worth pondering if you have time, but unfortunately this is not the time to consider these questions of natural philosophy.

The storm continued to intensify, and the formation of the hurricane was a foregone conclusion, and at the same time, Mary also observed a worse situation - the hurricane was likely to form behind the butt of the White Tulip, in other words, if they didn't run, they might have to fight the hurricane for a while, but the White Tulip was not Mr. Gorky's petrel, and as for the brave fight against the wind and waves, it was better to forget it.

I said that the wind can't open the sail surface, how can I not help it, the random space is now forcing the contestants to open the sail and sail, people will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, in the sail may tear and be caught up by the hurricane to die even the scum is not left to make a choice, I believe that the individual will have a reasonable answer, within, the fight against the sail tearing is not completely impossible.

Lao Wang immediately dispatched two sets of sail sailors to guard the joints of the sail formation, and once they found that the connecting stitches were open, they immediately fixed them with small round hook loops.

In addition, the Dutch sailors are best at eating the wind and noodles, although it is a strong wind day, it does not mean that the sails can only be stupidly against the wind to see if they can carry it down and pull it down.

By effectively switching the slope of the draft, the wind power will be maximized, and at the same time, the sail will not be too strong, and ensure its safety, which is very smooth for the Dutch sailors, who have long been accustomed to playing with sails.

The White Tulip fluctuated with the wind and waves, and Lao Wang corrected the route three times in a row, which is not to say that there was any problem with the given route of automatic navigation, but during the voyage, the White Tulip will be unconsciously deflected by the wind and waves, even under the control of the Dutch sailors who are skilled in controlling the ship, various deviations are still inevitable, which also shows from the side that the climate this time is how bad it is.

All the contestants lost the mood to fight each other, and Wang clearly saw the shadows of ships constantly appearing around the White Tulip, some of them were surpassed by Wang, some of them were surpassed by Wang, but everyone had the same attitude, that is, to leave this ghost place as soon as possible before the hurricane formed and swept everything.

Fifteen hours later, the voyage in the Windward Strait had finally passed without danger.

Lao Wang led the White Tulip and successfully left the Windward Strait with the loss of 5 sail runners.

It was almost three points, and at the moment they left the strait, Lao Wang heard the lightning and thunder behind him and the wail of the ship's wreck, and looked up at the sea area outside the wind strait in front of him, since it was a clear blue sky, and even a decent cloud could not be seen, Wang Mancang felt that his mouth was astringent, and he didn't know if it was because there was more seawater just poured in, or the helplessness of the strong contrast in front of him.

The big waves washed the sand again, or this time even a small amount of gold was sifted out.

Takenaka let go of the hand that didn't dare to leave the rudder just now, and wiped the beads of sweat from his head, and now, the little guy had time to take stock of the picker beacons on the route again.

After calculating, his little face tightened, and the report in a heavy voice gave the team members a message.

After just two straight courses and two curves of the strait, the original selection was officially cut down to double digits.

At present, counting Lao Wang and the 4 of them, there are 93 people left in all the selections who participated in this trial world, and this 1500-person big exam has not yet ended, and the candidates are already only one-fifteenth, this kind of elimination rate, no matter what kind of exam is chilling.

"That's all there is to it?" Lao Wang felt that his eyelids were beating a little uncontrollably, and his liver trembled: "At the beginning, there were 182 of them, and now I saw that half of them were lost?

"According to the formula I made, now all our contestants, there are about less than 200 people left, because the selectors may have their own uniqueness in combat, but in terms of sailing strength, their strength is still generally lower than that of interactive characters, look at Hines, he is also strong and smart, isn't he also a heel in sailing. Takenaka said about the examples in front of him, and concluded: "In other words, in the first stage of the current air race, most of the eliminated ones should be our selectors. ”

"I'm too lazy to describe space in words now, but we don't have the time to care about these things now, and the great battlefield is just around the corner!" Lao Wang said calmly, raising his hand and pointing in the direction of the bow, his voice full of seriousness.

Everyone followed his pointing, and they all felt in their hearts that what Lao Wang said was right - the great blue battlefield was waiting for the start of the fight.

"Alright, we've already taken the meeting place with Ferdinand, and I'll cut a long story short, let's all take a look at the charts first. ”

Lao Wang said in the team channel as he pulled up the charts and stared at the vast sea from the north side of the island of Jamaica to the west side of the island of Cuba.

"See it all, if this sea area is land, it is also the most suitable battlefield for the large army to fight, the sea conditions, wind speed, light, everything is good, there is nothing to say, who we want to beat here, or who wants to beat us here, that can maximize the armament of the ship. Lao Wang tried his best to use a relaxed tone to ease everyone's hearts, but the content of his words made people unable to be as optimistic as him.

"My thoughts are basically the same as my uncle's, the depression of the sailing race, the long-cherished grievances of the seafarers, should be settled in this sea. Takenaka echoed.

"Didn't you say that the sea is too wide to fight, and we can't hide from it?" asked Mary.

"No, family, our situation now is different from when the air race began.

At that time, we were on the junction, far away from the route, basically there was no problem, but now we are in the middle of the team, just now the bamboo looked, how many comes, oh, there can be more than a hundred, everyone is watching, there is no way to dodge. Lao Wang's tone was stupid, and then he explained: "In addition, at the beginning of the race, we had a one-sided coastal waterway, only one side of the coastline of Hispaniola Island, and the other side was the boundless sea, so there is no problem in driving farther, but now we are on the island of Jamaica to the south and Cuba Island to the north, so we are stuck in the middle." ”

"So, when the people are gathered, they will definitely fight?" asked Boss Tan succinctly.

"That's not easy to say, maybe the shit is here, and the people you meet on the route don't want to fight, it's not impossible!" Lao Wang joked, he didn't believe it very much.

"Forget it, I think I'd better prepare for the worst. Mary said directly: "I don't dare to say anything else, anyway, there is a group of people who must have the intention of killing us." ”

"Miss Mary is talking about Duke Drake's righteous son, Admiral Sheffield, No. 8?" Takenaka immediately reacted.

"That's him, this guy has been through the previous air race, and I don't know where he is now, but if he can be adopted by Drake as a adopted son, you don't think he'll be trapped in a place where we can all get through, right?" Mary's voice sounded a little annoyed.

"What I said is, I can't help but guard against it, their gang has tracking methods, and now that I have free up my hands from the air race, I will do it at this time. Lao Wang agreed, and then asked: "Can you beat it, do we have information about the other party's ships?"

"The current information is as follows. Takenaka was never ambiguous on this kind of question, and when he heard Lao Wang ask, he immediately replied: "According to the information gathered by Miss Mary and me, Sheffield led all the members of his Drake Eighth Fleet to participate in the Seven Seas Power Challenge.

There were about six ships at his command, five of which were large and medium-sized four-masted armed Galen ships like the White Tulip, but they were said to be more suited to combat, and I think there must have been something to be desired in terms of firepower. ”

The little guy posted a few pictures to the team channel and continued, "The focus is on his ship, but it would be more appropriate to call it a ship than a ship." ”

"What's that?" said Lao Wang in surprise, "Has it reached the level of using the word 'ship'?"

"I'm a little sorry to tell you, I'm afraid it's really the word ship. The little guy sounded helpless, and continued to throw out a photo: "'Gunpowder', Sheffield's ship, four masts, five decks, nearly 32 guns on one side, almost equal to our entire ship, 210 feet long, standard three-class sail-powered battleship, the standard of British Navy battleships, but unfortunately because I usually have too little contact, I don't know what level of her modification is, but it won't be too bad, this is the enemy we have to face." ”

"Well, he's a real master, we're all tricks. Boss Tan was in a hurry, and brought out the pear orchard dialect, and after saying that, he couldn't help but smash his mouth.

"Bamboo, I know you're careful with your homework, so there's no flaw in this thing?" asked Wang.

"There is no such thing as a perfect ship, uncle, and this immutable truth still exists. Takenaka continued: "This thing is a sea fortress, in other aspects, there are really not many weaknesses, but in terms of speed, heavy tonnage guys generally run slowly, and the basic physics knowledge has not changed." ”

"In other words, if we can't beat us, we can still run a way out?" Boss Tan replied.

"I said Big Horn, you're too unambitious, can't we use the tactics of fighting and running to kill him alive at sea?"

"Wait a while, Boss Wang, you have said everything so aggressively, this is not like you!" Tan Liang couldn't accept Lao Wang's words for a while, and said a little stunned.

"Well, let's bury a little bit of a secret chess hand first, anyway, it's good that Sheffield doesn't come, it's really here, the mountain man still has a trick waiting for him." Lao Wang smiled mysteriously, showing a rare expression of self-satisfaction. I want to talk about "Malignant Supermarket" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~