Moving forward, there is always a destination or direction. Unlike horse-drawn carriages on land, ships can only anchor in harbors, and cannot sail to the middle of a desert somewhere. Although the airship is relatively free compared to the earth's flying machines, it is not welcome to dock everywhere. In particular, the next place to sail was the territory within the Gwana Empire.

For the convenience of administration, including collecting taxes and managing the entry and exit of people, the local lords only allowed airships to dock in specific cities within their territory. In addition, when there is a non-state of emergency, such as a force majeure crash, the goods will be considered smuggling, and the personnel will be considered to have entered the country without permission. The former will be confiscated, and the latter will be directly executed.

And in addition to those cities designated by the nobility, the other options for airships are magic towers with anchor positioning. Of course, these places are chosen not only because of the various restrictions, but also because of their convenience.

Of the supplies needed by the airship, food and water are the best to deal with, and they are basically available everywhere. However, some airships need to use the energy pool of the magic tower to replenish the small energy pool on the airship, which is not something that can be done anywhere.

Just like the Great Sage Tower in the past, with the assistance of the magicians of the Leon District Council, a facility for anchoring the airship was added. In addition to being used to moether airships, it can also be used to transmit magical powers.

Sometimes some airships will also need to be maintained, in addition to the owner and the technician accompanying the boat, it is best to have a special dock to operate. Even some of the larger cities will develop workshops for making airships. To put it simply, it is a kind of city that resembles the concept of an earthly airport.

In other words, although the land does not have the concept of air supremacy, flight lanes, etc., it does not fly wherever it wants. In particular, he piloted an unarmed airship.

I learned all of the above from a previous casual conversation with Tokani, a goblin; Some of it is someone's own speculation. But I was too busy before, so I didn't think about that issue. Now that we are about to set off, that question is in front of us and we have to think about it. Where to fly? There is a limited amount of fuel and magic stones that can be used to replenish powers, and no one is allowed to fly around like a headless fly.

Because someone's question is so shallow, so shallow that no one can answer it. So Lin took the goblin out again and asked, "How did you navigate the airship before?" ”

"Navigation? What does this mean, Sir? ”

The goblin's rhetorical question made someone feel a little confused, could it be that they flew based on their intuition and mood. Lin had no choice but to ask in a different way: "When you controlled the airship before, how did you plan to go to Estari?" ”

"Oh, this one. Originally, after crossing the Jura Mountains, I would take the Cecilia Line, stopping at the cities of Abadan, Khairis, Minab, and Savey along the way, and I would arrive at the holy city of Estali in about xx (20) days. ”

As the goblin spoke, Lin pulled out the Sid's built-in navigation map. With Totokani announcing a name, a city was marked on the map.

Totokani's eyes lit up on the spot as there was such a map on the airship. For him, who often sails from place to place in the lost land, he knows more than anyone else the importance of the plan. And the picture in front of him is more detailed than he has ever seen.

But just having a map and knowing the destination is useless, because there is no direction. Lost ground is not like the earth has GPS navigation, knows where you have run and where your position is, so as to correct your direction. Relying on the appearance of the terrain and features to determine the direction is one way, but Lin still asks the goblins: "In the past, how did you determine which city you were flying to?" ”

The goblin looked embarrassed by this question. Totokani let his daughter go into the warehouse to find something, while he himself went to the driver's seat and pored over the map.

After a while, Polly came with a small wooden box. Totokani opened the wooden box and showed everyone that it was full of similar shapes of tatters. Lin Buyi asked, "What is this?" ”

Totokani picked up one of the intact and probably the only intact objects. It was slightly smaller than a goblin's fist; The base looks like it has lettering, but Lin hasn't looked at it carefully; The upper part is a glass-like spherical cover, and the inside is a half-colored hand. Goblin says:

"In the past, when we wanted to fly to any city, we had to rely on the guidance of that city. These guides are not only to indicate the direction in which we are flying, but also to allow us to stop in that city. With this guide, the tax to enter the city would have been cheaper, but now all the guides I have are gone. Although it can also be used as a permit to enter the city, the broken ones can also be replaced in the city for a small fee; But there is still a guide function, and this is the only one left to guide to Azuri. And Yasuj is too far away from here for us to reach the city without a stopover for supplies. ”

Lin took a look at the location of the city of Yasuj, which was about a third to a quarter of the distance from the Jura Mountains to the holy city of Estali in a straight line. In other words, it's very close to the terminal. If the airship before the goblin had to sail for more than twenty days and dock at nearly ten cities to reach it, then it was indeed impossible to reach Yasuj directly.

Taking the guide needle from the goblin's hand and holding it in his hand, Lin changed several directions, and the guide needle was indeed fixed pointing in the same direction, and it was not the north and south poles of the geomagnetic field, and the effect looked similar to the prop in a certain comic book - the recording pointer. It's just that in that manga, the recording pointer is based on magnetism, so what about in the maze? There's always going to be a principle for it.

Have Kaya remove the coffin and related analysis equipment, and begin to parse the guiding needle as a magic prop. Soon, he found the magic circle carved on it, and studied its effect, such as a guiding magic circle that could track specific powers from a distance.

The reason for this inference is that the magic array with the same effect is also one of the topics that Lin has been studying recently. One of the results is a magic array that can be used on the top of the box cut, which can be used for remote positioning and as a reference coordinate for the flash technique.

The difference is that the pilot pin is more like a receiver that receives a signal from a specific band. And this signal source is a certain arrangement of powerful messages emitted from some kind of magic transmitter, such as a combination of a radio station and a radio.

Since it was something he had explored, Lin quickly wrote a program that could search for these bands, and had Fen integrate it into Sid's control system. The multi-functional reconnaissance device on the airship quickly finds the special signal sources scattered throughout the space, and searches the location and distance of the source in reverse and displays them on the airship's map.

However, it seems that the search is too good, and the locations that are lit up on the navigation map far exceed the known places that Totokani has visited. There are even some maps of someone with information that does not exist in the city or magic tower. The number of locations that can be used as navigation guides is also far more than Hayashihara estimated. Lin even used this information to correct the location of some cities on the map.

The most surprising of this is, of course, the goblin Tokani. He has spent most of his life on airships. Every time you have to open a shipping route to a new location, it is a very troublesome task. In addition to the cost of purchasing a local guide, there are also trials of the airship, confirmation of supply points on the way, and contact with local administrators to obtain permission.

Sometimes, to be on the safe side, they will choose to travel overland to a new location, and only after getting a guide will they fly to the airship. And the cost of this, in addition to the cost of the journey, is also a lot of time. In short, it is not easy to light up a certain city or a certain magic tower on the map, just like someone.

The goblin's original expectation was that if the guide pins in the collection were almost completely destroyed, they would only be able to fly slowly in a certain direction, and in addition to observing the terrain features, they would also have to gamble some luck. If you're unlucky, you may not be able to find a city that you can use to replenish supplies other than airship food before you run out of supplies. But unexpectedly, the problem seemed to be solved in one go.

Lin Yuan was also surprised by such an achievement. But when I think about it, I take it for granted. The Magic Tower is like a computer on Earth that is connected to the Internet but has no firewall. In the eyes of top hackers, it is a broiler that can be slaughtered.

Of course, the magic tower is still quite primitive to the computer, and it may not be able to really play with hackers. But as long as it is an external broadcasting type function, it is like being unguarded for him.

The deeper this layer is felt, the more honestly someone regrets releasing the science of p. If someone really delves into some evil doorways, the harm is no less than that of the undead natural disaster.

But the thing is done, and the focus is on getting out of the situation. To be on the safe side, the first destination Lin chose was Totokani's planned first stop, the city of the Gwana Empire, Abadan, on the grounds that it was the closest.

Because at this stage, there is only one estimate of the various consumption of airships, and the actual situation has yet to be verified. Arrive in the city early, and if there is a problem with the airship, at least you can buy resources to repair it. Instead of just staring in the snow, as is the case now.

All of the Sid's function switches are already warmed up. As soon as Lin's hands grasped the rudder, various instruments and data were immediately presented in front of the driver's seat with the unfolded water mirror screen. I thought about using a mechanical meter, but it was a reading from magic detection, and it had to be converted to drive the action of the mechanical watch, which consumed more power, so I gave up.

The cockpit layout of an Earth-like airliner is being piloted on the left, and Fen is sitting in the passenger seat on the right. She and Kaya in the rear are monitoring the various records fed back by the program, so that if there is an error message, it can be repaired as soon as possible.

Totokani and Polly, who sat in the third driver's seat, both had a magic stone book of operation manuals in one hand, while stealing from Lin's driving movements. If they want to control this brand-new airship, they can't do it without hard work.

Lin pushed the first throttle valve to control the power, and the magic side energy that was different from the earth began to flow into every corner of the magic array, and those mysterious and difficult to explain the wonderful effects of science gradually increased, and began to affect reality. At the same time, all the functions are online one by one.

Sid, officially launched!

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