The sea breeze came so strong and sudden, blowing away all the fog on the sea.

This leads to the city of the ocean, hidden in the very center, revealing its entirety. The entire "big ship" can also be seen at a glance.

A large ship is made up of boats.

But it's not a ship.

Xu Liang looked at the dense thick cables around him, looked at the countless ordinary ships that seemed to be very messy but faintly distributed in regular order, and looked at the mega-ton super ships near the center...... And the farthest and largest city of the sea. A picture of a bird's-eye view gradually formed in his mind—

If you look down from the sky, this so-called "big ship" should probably be called the "big ship system".

To put it a little more vividly, it is a cobweb.

This is probably the largest spider web in the world.

In the distance, the vast maritime city was at the very center, surrounded by countless ships of all classes, ranging from hundreds of tons to thousands of tons of displacement...... All the way up to tens of millions of tons.

They are all connected with extremely thick cables and make a complete system.

It's as if a spider controls the entire web.

The area covered by this cobweb...... Xu Liang conservatively estimated that it was as large as the area within the Fifth Ring Road of the imperial capital!!

"The big ship system is a super-large disc." "It covers an area of 1,267 square kilometers. The area enclosed by the Sixth Ring Road in the imperial capital is comparable! ”

"It's about 20 kilometres in radius, and we've now reached more than 3 nautical miles, which is less than 6 kilometres traveled, which is the outermost ring area; The middle ring, the middle ring where the never-known superships are located, is also about 6 kilometers wide; The most central circle, that is, the location where the maritime city is entrenched, has a radius of 6 kilometers. ”

"That's the overall structure and size of the big ship system." Duan Qing said, "It's very different from what you envisioned, right?" ”

An officer next to him nodded and said, "I always thought that the 'big ship' you were talking about was a super big and super big ship, especially long and large, with a displacement of hundreds of millions of tons, or even billions of tons. It's like a real sea fortress...... But now this structure ......"

Duan Qing said: "Yes." The whole sea fortress was originally the first plan I designed. ”

"But I later reversed the plan."

"Two reasons:"

"The first is because the level of science and technology is not up to the mark. The ship is not an infinitely large thing, it is different from the pyramid that only needs to be constantly stacked with stones, the ship needs to be whole. It must float on the surface of the water, discharging a sufficient volume of water according to the principle of buoyancy and keeping the parts combined. ”

"But just in terms of materials, the level of human technology can't do it!"

"You can imagine that there are so many reinforced concrete buildings in the imperial capital, but it is possible to connect these reinforced concrete buildings together and still maintain stability."

"It's simply not an option for technology."

"Maybe on the order of tens or hundreds of meters, steel is an extremely strong material. But when it is expanded to the order of 'tens of kilometers', steel is as crisp as noodles. ”

"What's more, the ultimate purpose of building a super ship is to fight the super tsunami, and we must have a very strong adaptability."

"The adaptability of a monolithic sea fortress...... Range! ”

"At least for the current state of human technology, it is extremely poor. Maybe another hundred years of development may be before the kind of Ocean Fortress technology you think emerges. ”

"That's why I didn't take the Bastion plan."

"In the end, the 'spider web plan' was used because the spider web plan has unparalleled advantages in terms of coverage area, stability, compression resistance, etc."

"As you probably know, spider silk is seven times stronger than steel of the same thickness! Comparable to the strongest carbon fiber known to man, I used the principles of biomimicry, which I then processed and synthesized to create these cables. Those cables are inconspicuous on the outside, but in fact they have a special structure with a hollow interior, which can generate great stress in the axial direction! ”

"And the axial stress is exactly what I need the most right now."

The officer interjected: "What is axial stress?" ”

Duan Qing explained: "A chopstick, you hold it with two hands, and then easily break it, you can break it." ”

The officer: "But I can't break ten chopsticks?" ”

Duanqing shook her head: "No, I don't want to say that idiom, what I want to say is, you try to break the chopsticks with two hands?" ”

"Pull off? It's like pulling a spring? How can chopsticks be pulled off? ”

"Can't do it. Right? Duan Qing said, "This is the axial stress." ”

"In a large ship system, the most important thing is to keep the ship from capsizing. But a single ship, no matter how big and stable it is, will still capsize in the face of waves at the kilometer level. ”

"So my solution was to connect all the boats together. form a giant system. ”

"Cables with extremely strong axial stress can play an important role here."

"The cables connect all the ships together, ensuring the stability of the overall system and sufficient redundancy."

"I'll give you an analogy. You throw an empty Coke bottle on the surface of the water, and if the water shakes violently or even rolls, then the Coke bottle will keep tumbling. It can't stay on the same side forever with the label facing up. ”

"But what if you connect 10,000 Coke bottles with wires?"

"If one of the bottles wants to be turned over, all the other bottles can be restrained by cables."

"It's the same with big ships."

"No matter how big the ship is, as long as it can't be bigger than a tsunami on the kilometer scale, it will capsize. But by connecting all the boats, the stability of the entire system is guaranteed! ”

"In fact, in order to ensure that the system is large enough. I called on almost every ship in the world to complete this system! ”

"Otherwise, do you think that such a project can be completed just by relying on the steel production of the past ten years?"

"With every increase in the ship, you can increase stability."

"It also increases the certainty of success in the fight against the tsunami."

"That's a 13-magnitude tsunami! This is a super disaster that has never been seen in the world! No matter how cautious you prepare, it's not too much! ”

"I had to design it that way. Instead of designing a flashy, fancy fortress that was shattered by a tsunami for the sake of looking good. ”

"With this way of designing, I have some confidence that I will survive the tsunami safely."

"Now, I can also tell you the specific information of the entire big ship system."