Chapter 68: The Chaser
Qin Shouclum's pilot, Caterina Seaplane, carefully hid under the branch air duct, avoided the crowded airship in the air duct, crossed a graceful arc over the imperial capital, and surpassed a fast airship in succession, leaving a deep impression in the hearts of the people of the imperial capital again, and the politicians who were already prepared to ignore Qin Shouchuang's life and death were no longer able to care about talking about it and shirking their responsibilities at this time.
If the airship transportation system is the cornerstone of the Holy See's rule, then this new strange-looking "airship" will surely lead the next social revolution.
It's hard to imagine how much stakes there are here!! it's not limited to the economic aspect!
At this time, the Lawrence high-level couldn't regret it, and hurriedly gave an additional order to the mercenary group under his control, and he must bring Qin Shouzhuo back alive, and he could even ignore the life and death of the two princesses!
Whoever gets this new airship technology will decide that his family will be rich for at least 50 years.
On the riverbank, in the chaotic crowd of onlookers, the spies who were originally quite calm were boiling in an instant, and they could no longer care about hiding, and they rushed to the city.
"XX Duke's Mansion is passing by, please make it convenient!"
"XX Wangfu passes, all dodge!"
"Dongchang is doing things, if you don't want to die, fuck me out!!"
In the calm meadow two meters deep on the shore, countless horses suddenly rushed out, carrying their owners and galloping down the road. With Qin Shouchuang's arrogant move of forcibly passing through the no-fly zone over the imperial capital, I believe that the city has roughly guessed what happened, but it must wait for the first-line intelligence by the river to make a final judgment. The spies by the river have gone crazy!
The change in the situation by the river had nothing to do with Qin Shouzhuo, at this time he had already reduced the throttle to return the engine to normal operation, and the shrill whistling sound was much quieter.
In addition to piloting the plane, Qin Shouzhuo's main job at this time was actually to appease the passengers. There were a total of 14 people on the plane, and 13 people except him were stunned by this novel way of flying, especially flying directly over the inner city of the imperial capital, which was a thing that could not be imagined for any natives of Elis who had grown up normally, and they couldn't sit still curiously.
"Well, over there, that's the palace. ”
"Where, where~~"
Hula, a group of people all rubbed to the left, and the plane was unbalanced at once, Qin Shouzhuo hurriedly controlled the ailerons to level up, and scolded angrily: "Go back to your seats and sit down, TM is going to fall!!"
Hearing Qin Shouchou's angry shout, a group of people reluctantly sat down quietly, and it didn't take long:
"Alas!~ It's a fortified fortress, and grass grows on the roof. ”
"Where, Where, ......"
"meow, go back and sit down!!!!"
It was really lively, and it seemed that the lucky ones who were lucky enough to fly the first plane on the continent of Elis had a great time.
"That meow eye of yours is very happy to see me!!" Qin Shouzhuo was about to be completely collapsed by these bear children......
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For Qin Shouzhuo, flying such an old-fashioned seaplane is not a difficult task, the real difficulty lies in navigation.
In the Middle Ages, the process of human conquest of the sea was the process of the continuous development of its navigation technology, and the most important part of this was navigation. Trek is a very terrible thing for both the wooden galleons of the Middle Ages and the interstellar age of more than ten kilometers of interstellar spaceships.
The navigation technology of Elis World is basically based on the technology of the air duct, and Qin Shouzhuo naturally cannot use the air duct to navigate because he does not need to rely on the air duct to advance. Then, how to find the right direction in the air becomes very crucial.
At first, Qin Shouzhuo was ready to use terrain to navigate, so he asked Sophia to get a map of the imperial army, and the result was:
...... Hehe......
There is no scale, and the directions are all chaotic, full of the characteristics of the 13th century nautical charts of the Blue Star......
Looking at this map, Qin Shouzhuo was also dumbfounded. It's rotten, don't dislike it, it's the best map of this era, and the Lawrence Empire spent a lot of money to draw it.
There was no way, Qin Shouzhuo had no choice but to adopt the most important navigation method before the opening of the global positioning system, the segmented inertial navigation system. Qin Shouzhuo used the assistance of the Victoria 404 to act as the inertial navigation system itself, and then divided the entire route into countless short routes, and determined his coordinates through fixed markers during the flight, and finally found the destination.
Qin Shouzhuo's first marker now is Lawrence City, and the second marker is ...... The main peak of the Lawrence Mountains, this leg of the voyage takes about 20 minutes.
No way...... The quality of the maps that could provide reference was so poor that in order to be able to find the county of Feibudach, Qin Shouzhuo had to divide the entire route into as many segments as possible, each section being shorter and the route more tortuous.
Thanks to it, the distance of this route has increased by at least 1,000 km, so Qin Shouzhuo had to choose a supply point that stops halfway to replenish the magic crystal. The good news is that the prepared magic crystal powder has been stored in Qin Shouzhuo's space wrist chakra, as long as you choose a suitable piece of water to stop and take out the magic crystal powder storage tank to replenish it.
On the way out of the imperial capital, except for the occasional parade, it has been quite smooth, mainly because Qin Shou is too fast. In a world where the fastest airship has to resort to wind ducts to barely reach 30 knots, it is impossible to understand what a 100 knot speed is, while Caterina has a cruising speed of 150 knots.
On the other hand, it involves the structure of the world.
The flying ship of the Ilis world has a very low ability to control the air, and the floating magic circle supports the flying ship to fly to an altitude of 3000m at most, not because of insufficient power, but because of the thin elements. The altitude of the atmosphere of the elements in this world is 5000m, but near the altitude of 3000~3100m, there is an invisible partition, beyond which the concentration of the elements quickly thins out, and when it reaches about 4000m, it is already at the height of the elements and their thinness.
There was once a high-ranking magister who specialized in the wind system and flew up to 4,000 meters, and according to the information he obtained, it was almost impossible to condense the elements above 4,000 meters. The flying ship with high requirements for elemental concentration can only sail at an altitude of no more than 3000 meters at a maximum, while the original Caterina can fly at an altitude of more than 5000m, and this copycat version in Qin Shouchuang's hand is no problem to fly to 3500m, and the lightning converted into the magic disk will be shut down due to the lack of elements.
Qin Shouzhuo didn't anticipate this problem before building the plane, and prepared it according to the standard of 5000m, but found that it was actually very difficult to fly to 3600m, not only would there be an extremely serious drop in power, but also the magic disk would surge, and it almost stopped in the air.
As a result, Qin Shouzhuo found that his plane could not fly over the main peak of the Lawrence Mountains, so he had to make a detour to the side.
However, the height of 3500m is already unattainable, and most of the mercenary groups who came to intercept it didn't even find such a strange-looking flying ship overhead, and they didn't know anything after the order from the imperial capital came. However, even if they were lucky enough to discover Qin Shouchou's traces, they had no good way but to watch Caterina disappear from sight above the clouds.
Well, the world is fair, although the mercenary group that came to intercept Qin Shouzhuo was a fool, and the mercenary group that was ordered to help was also blind, but because most people didn't know that Qin Shouzhuo had already broken through here and flew out a long way, the mercenary group that was ordered to intercept and help break through was made into a pot of porridge at the southern foot of the Lawrence Mountains for their own purposes when Qin Shouzhuo had already left the airspace of the Lawrence Mountains and went to the next coordinate point.
The next morning, when the sun rose, the news circle of the imperial capital knew the news that Qin Shouzhuo had forcibly broken through the Lawrence Mountains from the sky.
The words were divided into two ends, due to Qin Shou's unexpected way of acting, a series of interception traps arranged by the Holy See faction and some imperial factions did not work at all. Qin Shouzhuo was running wildly on the road that was getting smoother and smoother-the curiosity of the bear children in the cabin finally faded, and they all dozed off in their seats boredly, their center of gravity stabilized, and Katarina's flight attitude finally stabilized.
Passing through the canyon next to the main peak of the Lawrence Mountains, the erratic air currents in the canyon hit Katerina's fuselage from all directions, and the plane continued to vibrate violently in the air. For the humans of the Illis Continent, looking down on the valley from the air is definitely the first time to see the beauty, due to the complex wind direction in most of the valleys, it has always been a forbidden area for flying ships, and the wind tunnel has never crossed this side, but this is not much of a difficulty for Katarina.
Flying along the valley, Caterina's two huge propellers stirred the air, making a deafening sound, and spread far along the valley, and the non-stop merchant in the valley looked curiously at the direction where the sound came from, and thought it was the roar of some kind of demonic beast, but this kind of demonic beast that never breathes, no one can imagine what it looks like.
After a while, a special-shaped "flying ship" like a big steel bird followed the direction of the canyon and quickly headed north, causing people to talk about it one after another.
After a while, Qin Shouzhuo had already driven Caterina to the next navigation point, the Bach Terraces. On the north side of the Lawrence Mountains to the west, there is an extinct volcano, known as the Tomb of the Fire Element, from the mountain flows a pool of mineral-rich springs, accumulating puddles on the slopes of the mountain, flowing down one by one, until it joins the stream at the foot of the mountain, which is quite a beautiful scenery, and it is also a popular "tourist attraction" for the Imperial University training team.
Many of the people on the plane had been to this place, but it was the first time to see it from the air, and they were pleasantly surprised, and they all stretched their necks to look to the side, which provoked Qin Shouzhuo to scold angrily: "meow for me, go back and sit down!!"
Arrived at the second navigation point, while the time was still early, Qin Shouzhuo turned the rudder and went straight to the next navigation point.
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