Chapter 139: Rigid Airships and Shrimp Catchers
They rested in Linwai Village for a night, and then set off again the next morning, they wanted to rush back to Black Rock City as soon as possible to prepare for the unification of the underground forces in Black Rock City.
At night, in fact, Xi and Green have been asked to go back with a few elites, although it is a little dangerous to rush at night, but the two team leaders and a few elites should be no problem to travel together.
They now need to gather everyone as soon as possible, and then uproot the strongholds of the other underground forces one by one.
Originally, the Truth Society was going to take the elite route, and there were not enough people, so the sooner this matter was prepared, the better, and the plan should be made carefully, otherwise even if it won the ruling power, maybe the truth Society itself would not have a good time.
Along the way, Dong Chen found that he could already see some bicycles sporadically on the road, but it seemed that they should be some low-level officials of the City Lord's Mansion, and I don't know if they were distributed by the City Lord's Mansion or bought by themselves.
After all, some low-level officials walk between villages all year round, and the demand for transportation tools is very large, and it is obviously unrealistic to equip them with beasts or animal carts, which are too expensive, and the buses are not used in this way.
It's just that if you don't come to the village often to inspect the situation, then the city lord's grasp of the territory is not enough, but the previous situation really can't be helped, and now with bicycles, this kind of problem is solved.
This situation reminded Dong Chen of the situation in Huaguo decades ago, when the cadres at the bottom were running back and forth on bicycles.
And now, Feimont is constantly sitting on the riding beast and drooling over the occasional passing bicycle, and he is even thinking about how to modify his bicycle.
also drew a design drawing for Dong Chen to see, add a pocket here, add a basket there, add a stand in another place, etc., anyway, there are a lot of things to go up.
Dong Chen has read his notebook, he travels abroad all the year round, his drawing skills are still quite good, and many things will be drawn after recording the text, so the design of the touring bicycle is still quite interesting.
However, Dong Chen pondered in his heart, this product doesn't want to travel in a short period of time, and paying back and saving money is enough for him to be busy for a while.
At first, it was only Fei Meng who was surprised, and when he approached Black Rock City, Dong Chen was surprised, because he saw two steam paddle steamers in the river outside the city.
There are no sails in sight, but real steam-powered paddle steamers.
When he first became a reserve, he saw the news of science and technology that was a hybrid of sails and steam on paddle steamers to explore the New World, and now it has only been a long time since they have completely used steam engines without sails.
This shows that steam-powered ships have fully matured.
But then he reacted and explored the unknown New World, not knowing how far he would go or what kind of danger he would encounter, and in fact it was the right thing to use a full-sail ship.
If the steam equipment is dismantled and not so much coal is carried, the space saved can be used to carry more supplies.
The reason why they brought the steam engine is probably also to test the performance of the steam engine at sea, how much wind and waves it can withstand, how harsh the environment it can face, and so on.
After that, there was no news of them on the science and technology news, and I don't know if they found the New World, or they were on the way to find them, or they were hanging on the sea, and they may even have sneaked back a long time ago.
Now these two paddle steamers, the most likely departure place should be the imperial capital, all the way along the coastline, to face a much better situation than in the open sea.
I just don't know what kind of ship these two ships are, whether they are passenger ships or cargo ships, or what kind of private ships they are.
Now that he figured it out, his initial surprise was only because all he had seen before were sailboats or paddle boats in close proximity, and the sudden appearance of these two steam paddle steamers was a bit too abrupt.
Now that you think about it, maybe propeller boats are already being developed.
Not only did he feel abrupt, but he also knew from looking at the crowd of people on the riverbank that no one else had ever seen this kind of boat.
It's just that he didn't expect that after he entered the city, he found that there were even bigger surprises waiting for him.
Also a ship, a spaceship.
Or an airship, a huge airship.
The airship was perched on top of the airship docking tower next to the train station, its massive body obscuring a large part of the sky, as it was 150 meters long, larger than any passenger airship he had seen before in the skies over Blackstone.
Its shape is no longer spindle-shaped, but a roughly cylindrical shape, with obvious traces of a skeletal grid, a bulging hemisphere at the front, and a typical tail rudder at the rear.
The propellers are no longer mounted at the back, but on the sides of the cabin.
Judging from its size and appearance, Dong Chen knew that it was definitely a hard airship without scanning it in the Heavenly Book.
I didn't expect the people here to develop quite quickly, according to the records of the Cult of Science and Technology, it didn't take long for the invention of the airship to come here.
Looking at the shape of the blades of the new propeller and this new arrangement, it is obvious that the steam engine has been improved and upgraded, but the shape of this airship, it is obvious that their understanding of aerodynamics is still limited.
However, in such a short period of time, it is not easy to develop into the current situation.
Seeing that the current hard airship, which is more than 100 meters in commercial use, he feels that the "sky battleship" used in military affairs that Vincent and Jin said before should be larger, maybe more than 200 meters or even larger.
It's just that after he became an official titler, he also saw the report, and after reading it, he found that the two goods were all speculations, and there was no writing on them at all, just some ambiguous data, and it was true to use a hard structure.
Of course, after that, he also combined some things to guess, but when he saw that there was no physical or real information, there was a gap in how to guess and estimate.
As for the bicycles and tricycles that could be seen on the street, there was nothing to say, Dong Chen had thought of it before entering the Horror Forest.
After entering the city, Dong Chen didn't go far before he separated from the team, in order to avoid suspicion, they would not go directly to the True Taste Restaurant, but would go to another place.
Dong Chen asked them to take Fei Meng away, and asked them to find him a place to live, and Dong Chen would find him a job to do later.
Fei Meng, who left with the Iron Head Mercenary Expedition, how did he feel that the relationship between the Iron Head and Dong Chen was not like an employment relationship, but like a ...... Uh, long-term employment relationships.
Otherwise, they all returned to the city, and it stands to reason that the employment relationship should be over, why did the people on the Tietou side still listen to Dong Chen like this?
He couldn't have imagined that in fact, the people on the iron head's side were all Dong Chen's subordinates.
After all, Dong Chen said before that in addition to being a senior technician, he also works in the school's library, how can he still be a big man.
Dong Chen, who was standing on the side of the street, happened to see a person riding a tricycle with a shed coming, and he stretched out his hand to stop him.
"Is your tricycle a passenger carry?"
"Of course, guest," said the dark-skinned three-wheeled man with a smile, "where are you going?" ”
"Go to the Advanced Mechanics Academy, do you know where it is?" Dong Chen also asked with a smile.
"Of course you know, guest, you get in the car, the shrimp household three wheels will serve you, and ensure that you will be sent to your destination quickly and safely."
The young man said with a mouthful of white teeth bared.
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