Chapter 45: Start Again
The bottom of the ship was cleaned, some of the damaged wood was replaced, and new sails were put on, and by the time Ethan retrieved the Aurora, he had the scent of a new ship again.
The maintenance of the ship itself is a very troublesome and time-consuming matter, and Ethan deliberately handled the urgent process to complete the maintenance of his ship so quickly.
The shipyard suggested that he add some magic stone equipment to make the ship better, but Ethan didn't agree, because he hadn't personally experienced the situation of the route, and now he could only say what the shipyard said and what it was, and he couldn't tell if it was really useful to him - it wasn't clear if something really had that much effect or if the shipyard was exaggerating?
In order to better determine how to rebuild the Aurora, he must also go on a field trip to the route dubbed the Suicide Route.
Back at the dock, the living materials on the Dawning Goddess have been replenished, unlike the Sea of Calm Guild, which takes care of everything, the trading of this kind of material replenishment is operated by the dock alone, which makes things a lot more troublesome, obviously the ship has returned to the dock, but it is necessary to wait for the dock to sort out the materials and then recruit workers to carry them and load them on the ship, and wait for a lot of time.
"The most valuable thing in this place is time, and the least valuable thing is time. ”
There is no way, Ethan is just a nobody in this sea area at present, and people will not take special care of him. According to the normal process of dealing with his affairs, Ethan can't find anything wrong, look at so many ships waiting to be loaded on the dock, and the other party didn't mean to make things difficult for him, so just wait.
Fortunately, it didn't take too long, and three days later it was the turn of the Goddess of Dawn. The workers on the docks worked very hard, and it only took a small time to load all the supplies, and Ethan, who was no longer willing to stay, didn't care that it was already dusk, and set sail and left the central island.
According to the way Ethan was divided into directions in his previous life, after leaving the central island, he could choose to sail in two directions, north and south, and then at the end of his journey, he turned eastward, and continued in the direction of the rising sun, until he reached the stormy sea that seemed to connect the sky and the sea.
He chose to sail south this time, not very thoughtfully, but after coming out of the dock, it happened to be such a wind direction, so he naturally chose this direction.
The key factor in determining which direction adventurers in this area of the sea to go is the direction of the wind, because to save as much as possible, it is nothing more than faster speed and shorter sailing time, the two complement each other, and for sailing ships, both wind direction and currents have a decisive impact on speed.
With full speed downwind, Ethan set sail this time to the corner earlier than he had planned.
"It's a magical sight. ”
After keeping enough distance, the impact of the wind and waves caused by the storm sea on the Dawning Goddess was negligible, Ethan kept observing the distance with his telescope, and the area that looked like a wall made a right-angle bend so abruptly, from a distance, it really looked like a pitch-black wall turned in a different direction.
Once there, Ethan can adjust his course and sail eastward.
This route is very wide, the distance from west to east, just the distance between north and south, can not be completed in a short time, if you want to run from the storm sea in the north to the storm sea in the south, even if you sail in a straight line with the wind, it will waste several months.
So no one leaves the island and heads straight south, waiting until they see the storm to turn around, which is a lot more walking.
Although Ethan was heading south for this trip, he still took a diagonal line, and only after seeing the stormy sea he had crossed at the beginning sailed straight to the south, maintaining a parallel state with this stormy sea.
Along the way, he had met several ships that were traveling with him, and they were all adventurers on the way, and everyone did this, which was almost the default fixed course to that route.
There is also enough tacit understanding between adventurers, even if they are heading towards the same place, everyone rarely gets together, and they all keep enough distance from each other to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts.
Thankfully, Philip had told him about it at the beginning, so Ethan didn't approach any of the adventurer's ships at will, but just maintained his own course and kept enough distance from everyone.
Sailing all the way to the bend, Ethan saw the adventurers gradually disperse, and although they were heading east, they were not confined to a fixed course.
It's not that everyone has discovered something, or they have a clear goal. Everyone just dispersed in a tacit understanding and went on their own explorations, and no adventurer wanted to walk the same course with everyone else all the time, not even Ethan.
Returning to the state of 'one person', there were no more 'dark walls' on the vast sea, and there were no scattered adventurer ships, standing on the stern of the ship and looking in circles, all I could see was water.
Ethan took out the island pointer again, still wavering without any direction to refer to, but it was the space-time pointer that surprised him.
"Huh, space-time energy?"
The last trip to the Caribbean didn't drain the stored space-time energy in his hands, but there wasn't much left in the end, so little that he couldn't even activate a shuttle magic.
This is the first time that Ethan has mastered space-time energy in his hands but cannot use it, and it is also the first time that such a scarce space-time energy is stored in his hands, so all of it was used by him to analyze and practice the control of energy, and the results are reflected in this space-time pointer, which is more stable with the anchor point of Paradise Island, and at the same time has a stable anchor point of the Marvel Universe.
Ethan doesn't have to worry about decades having passed when he goes to Paradise Island, and he doesn't have to worry about missing out on all the 'big plays' when he goes to the Marvel Universe.
In addition to this, the hints for the location of space-time energy have also become clearer and more straightforward, and the specific distance is finally shown on the arrows, in addition to the number of arrows that change according to the distance.
"Thirty nautical miles?"
One nautical mile is equal to about 1,852 meters, and the speed of the Aurora can be close to ten knots at the fastest, that is, ten nautical miles per hour.
At present, it is impossible to reach the peak speed, and based on the average speed, it will take Ethan more than half a day to reach the position given by the pointer - if he encounters another storm or something, it may be.
The pointer gave the location of the space-time energy, and Ethan couldn't have missed it, and he hadn't found the island yet, at least giving him a target.
The 'short voyage' was very smooth, there were no troubles on the way, the wind direction and currents were also very suitable, Ethan successfully reached his destination, and harvested this cloud of space-time energy.
What embarrassed him was that just as he was about to use this energy to go to the Marvel Universe as planned, he found that this energy was not enough to get him there.
"What's going on?"
Something like this had never happened before, and this intrigued Ethan, who spent a long time on deck in a daze before finally figuring out the key.
"Using a space-time anchor costs more energy!"
The space-time anchor is precisely located, not only to lock a specific world but also to lock a specific point in time, and it takes more energy to activate the teleportation, and the space-time energy collected each time is not a fixed amount, and the amount collected this time is relatively small.
"So this time you can only do random shuttles?"
After Ethan obtained the space-time pointer, he only teleported to a specific world once, and that was to Paradise Island. The space-time anchor wasn't stable, and the cost wasn't as great as it is now. The second time I went to the Marvel world, I didn't deliberately choose a target, and most of the time I went to Arthur's world relied on Merlin's help, so I didn't find out about this situation until this time.
"I didn't expect that after the space-time anchor was stabilized, the consumption would become so large. ”
No matter how you think about it, this situation is not surprising, Ethan did not dwell on this, since he couldn't go this time, it would be better to go next time.
After the space-time anchor is stabilized, he is not afraid of running directly to a few decades later.
In addition, Ethan does want to explore some new worlds, and the last trip to the Caribbean was good, and maybe this time he can gain some good things.
Regrouped his emotions, checked the equipment on his body again, lifted his backpack and launched the shuttle magic array again.
This time, the magic array was successfully activated, and it was still a familiar feeling and a familiar brilliance, and by the time everything returned to normal, Ethan was already standing in a strange place.
"Where is this?"
Compared to the previous few shuttles, he could judge the world he was in almost immediately, and this time Ethan was a little clueless.
At this time, it happens to be night, look at the surrounding environment, it should be a modern city, there are no high-rise buildings, maybe it is a more remote area? The surrounding shop signs can see that this is an English-speaking country, I don't know if it's in North America or the United Kingdom?
Ethan guessed that North America was more likely to be larger, because there were too many worlds set in North America, especially the movie world, but other than that, it was impossible to make a more accurate judgment based on this clue, and Ethan was ready to act according to the preset plan.
Create an identity for yourself first, and then gather some information about the world to determine where you are.
However, he found that it might not be so troublesome, and just as he was about to look for a place with Internet access, he found a tall man stepping out of a stretch luxury car, limping from the trunk and walking into the public restroom not far away.
He knew the man, and the scene in front of him also corresponded to a certain image in his memory, letting Ethan know which world he had come into.