Chapter 37: The Big Dumbbell
While Xue Qiong and Anzu Seifer began to talk, John Smith, the black reincarnation who had been walking alone since the beginning, was standing on the side of a three-masted wooden battleship, looking into the distance with a monocular.
In the endless blue waters, four railroad tracks loom in the waves. And it seems that this strange design is still in use a lot, because the metal has been soaked in the sea for I don't know how many years, but it is still polished to a shiny color.
Sea trains. It happened to be downwind, so now start to let the boat accelerate, and in half an hour, you should be able to meet it.
What Xue Qiong couldn't have known was that this guy's last world was Pirates of the Caribbean, and he left with twice the point of detachment without the worldview being corrupted.
Even before he escaped, he had already used some means to seal the entire ship and the crew on it in the name of "summoned creatures". And after getting out, because he left the story world with double exit points, he drew a very special one-time item at the transit station: a world view correction coupon.
On this blank note, as long as he writes down a key word and uses it, the next plot world he experiences will be forcibly added with this one element, and then some changes will occur.
And for him, there is no doubt that the words he wrote were...
Battleship.
He chose to act separately from all the other reincarnators in the first place, just to reach his home sea as soon as possible. In his eyes, the change in time of the Screaming Cave incident was just a "small problem" that occurred due to the butterfly effect.
And the oceans of Arad haven't changed much either... So what he changed was the sea he was setting sail on now: the sea of the sky.
Now, let's take a look at the relationship between these changes from God's perspective.
Around the sea of the sky, then the two sides of the "naval battle" must be the regular army of the Heavenly Imperial Capital, and the group of gangsters who started out, then developed into a terrorist organization, then became a rebel army, and finally turned back into a terrorist guy, Kalert.
It is worth mentioning that because John Smith actually had "pirates" in mind when he wrote the word "naval battle", but after some deliberation and consideration of some reasons, he chose this word... Because the scale of the battle in the "naval battle" will always be larger than that of the "pirate", and he just wants to do a big job in this world.
But even so, the will of "space" is still a little biased towards the pirate side of the setting of "naval warfare" without John himself being aware of it.
In this case, the force that will become on the side of the pirates must be Kahlert's gang... So Angler's leader, Anzu Selfer, became the core protagonist of this world, and several other giants including Commando Captain Landilus, Sand Shadow Belite and Dr. Giselle became the secondary protagonists, and even the elite monster that originally only appeared in the dungeon, with only one name, a standing drawing, and a few lines, became an important plot character.
At this point, the "space" completes the construction of the required background. But there is still a time lag between the beginning of this plot world and the beginning of the reincarnation of the reincarnators to enter these two points. Because some elements that are forcibly added must go through a period of natural development before they can have their "rationality".
Thereupon... With the strength of Kahlert in the early and middle periods, even if he began to turn his focus to the sea, because of the premature head-on conflict with the Imperial Capital Army and the large gap in strength with the Imperial Capital Navy, after several years of tug-of-war and raiding tactics, he finally fell into an absolute disadvantage.
And most of the Celestials who began to appear in small numbers on the Arad continent more than ten years ago were sailors who survived the shipwreck.
At this time, Dr. Giselle, who defected from Ghent's highest scientific research organization, the Elytra of the Seven Gods, to Caller, inadvertently saved the severely crooked tech tree in the Celestial Realm... He designed the submarine as a revolutionary underwater device, and it was equipped with some special radio wave generators, so that all kinds of powerful creatures living in the sky and sea would ignore these submarines.
Combined with Caller's fighting style of changing places with one shot, this new weapon quickly saved them a lot of decline on the frontal battlefield. But the good times didn't last long, after suffering several losses, the Imperial Capital Army relied on their scientific and technological foundation and productivity level that were several times stronger than Callert, and built submarines at a faster speed, and they were even stronger, faster, and more concealed than Callert's, and even carried the work of another ace scientist in the "Elytra of the Seven Gods", Pera Vehn's work, the floating cannon G series.
For a while, there was almost no battle taking place on the surface of the Sky Sea... Because the battle has shifted below the surface of the sea, it is only from time to time that the wreckage of machinery and the broken corpses of humans will come to the surface.
And the situation faced by Kahlert is slowly becoming more and more unoptimistic... Just when they had almost given up hope, a somewhat strange news came.
A submarine under test, of the latest model, with a breakthrough depth of dive, with dozens of soldiers with many years of experience on board the entire boat, including the captain, while reporting ...
The sea of the sky, especially the area of the deep sea... There is no seabed.
Unlike some near-Earth continental shelf areas, there are no craggy coral reefs, not even solid... The only thing you can see is the light coming up from "below".
The first feedback Gisele received was:
"It feels like... We've risen to the surface of the sea. But gravity was still at our feet, and the manometer showed that we were more than 100 meters underwater..."
At first, several leaders of Kahlert thought they were crazy, and even called several "psychologists" who were halfway out of the house to diagnose them, but the final result was that these dozens of people were really not crazy.
So Giselle personally organized a group of people, and also specially modified a submarine that also had a periscope at the bottom of the boat, and went into the water to see the situation. And when he returned, he said four words to the other three leaders of Calet:
"A new world..."
After the core figures believed the news, it only took them a few days to reach an important decision:
Shift your focus to the new world below in exchange for a respite in front of the Imperial Army. And then accumulate strength during this period, and one day... Stage a comeback!
Immediately afterward, Calett began to squeeze what little industrial power they had in the lawless zone where birds don't, and began to build something that would look like a psychotic in the eyes of the uninformed.
A huge hollow metal ball with a diameter of tens of meters and a shell of hundreds of millimeters thick, a slightly smaller solid metal ball, a thick pipe of unknown significance, and some pipes with a diameter of five meters and a spiral, like a water park slide.
A few months later, the huge parts that had been finished had been assembled into something even bigger and stranger. A few ordinary ships that were about to rust in the harbor, escorted by several submarine formations, dragged it overnight to a sea area where there was no route to pass through and no point of contention.
It was like an asymmetrical dumbbell, with hollow and solid metal balls at each end, and in the middle was the thick metal pipe and the spiral pipe that surrounded it. After securing it to the nearby shallow seabed with a few cables, the salvage boats that were holding the solid metal balls to the surface of the water at the same time released their traction with a few cables, and then it sank to the surface...
But the huge hollow float still floats on the surface of the sea of sky.
After the whole thing stopped shaking, a bizarre passage was born.
Two metal balls, one floating on the surface of the Sea of Heaven, and the other hanging on the "sky" of the Arad Continent. The solid metal ball is to adjust the center of gravity so that the entire channel is not affected by buoyancy and becomes a horizontal drift on the sea... That would be meaningless.
Once it's in place, the celestials, as long as they enter the spiral tube next to it, can easily go to the "world below" like a slide, and then after leaving the spiral tube, they just need to open the parachute... As for the way to come back, they plan to use the resources below to build a helicopter and fly back after gaining a foothold below.
In just a few days, most of the members of Kahlert went to the continent of Arad through this strange "slide". And the headquarters that could not be brought down was only the small force maintained by Commando Captain Landilus, who was ready to use the perennial guerrilla warfare to contain the imperial army.
Time goes back to the present more than a year later.
John Smith, the black reincarnation, actually went to the heavenly realm in a special way, and he didn't know the existence of that big dumbbell. But at this time, he was still very happy, because with the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the main force of Kahlert, the Imperial Capital Army also withdrew most of the navy during this time, and at the same time relaxed its vigilance... This means that for a period of time, he can rob unscrupulously and accumulate strength.
And when the Imperial Capital Army comes to his senses, he will probably have built his own fleet, and then he will be able to grab the high-tech warships produced by the Celestial Realm... The current situation is several times better than he expected.
In the Moonlight Tavern, Xiao Yun, Bald Head, and Minette had already gone home first, leaving only Xue Qiong still talking to the three leaders of Caller. Because it seems that they want to develop some members in Arad, they still said a lot of information, but their real plans, and the specific location of the big dumbbell, of course, will not say, only talk about how they came here, and some of their ideals, beliefs, etc... Xue Qiong was not interested in other people's ideals or anything, so after he thought that he had gathered enough information, he left his address and baron identity and left decisively.