"Enough." The chief engineer said only one word.

If you want to summarize the characteristics of the chief engineer in one sentence, it should be-

Her hair is the same as her socks.

To be more specific, her hip-length hair is highlighted black on one side and white on the other, and then the sides merge into gray on the top of her head.

It's like the black and white stockings that the chief engineer must wear.

"......" Everyone waited quietly for the chief engineer to continue to explain.

However, there was no follow-up, and the chief engineer naturally nodded to everyone, indicating that he had finished speaking.

"......" everyone fell silent again.

Only Yaha had expected it, and asked helplessly, "How much is the margin?" ”

"One day." This time it's two words.

This means that if you follow Yaha's route, circle the archipelago and then return to Debussota, you will only have two days of fuel left.

While the Aether Ramjet consumes mostly Aether, maintaining the Covenant Circle inside the engine requires mana, which comes from whale oil, which is therefore the fuel for whaling ships.

"It's only two days." Jaha muttered to himself thoughtfully.

As is industry practice, all chief engineers do not take into account the fuel consumed in whale chase when estimating fuel balances, as this is beyond her responsibilities and capabilities.

When a whaling ship finds a whale, it can be killed right away, or it can go through a long chase and end up harvesting prey, or it can go home empty-handed.

Therefore, whether the remaining fuel on the ship can catch whales is a matter that the captain needs to judge based on his own experience and intuition, and it is also one of the important criteria for evaluating whether a captain is excellent.

But the margin for two days ...... Even a rookie captain would know that this was a very small margin, not to mention, Moby Dick was going to hunt an unusual beluga whale.

However, if they were optimistic that if they succeeded in hunting the beluga, they would be able to cut the unrefined whale oil from the beluga whale as an alternative fuel, even if they had consumed more than two days of fuel by then, and sail the ship back to Debussota.

"We ...... Just sail this route! Yaha finally finished thinking in his heart and said conclusively.

At the end of the short meeting, everyone returned to their respective posts. The only summer night with nothing to do stood next to Yahab and watched her direct the crew to do this and that.

After a while, Yaha suddenly half-bent down, leaned his head close to the summer night, and asked in a low voice, "Why did the second mate suddenly speak normally?" ”

“…… You're pretty gossipy. Summer Night looked at her with some surprise.

"I'm trying to find out the state of my men." Yaha explained.

"Well, it doesn't hurt to tell you...... I told her I believed what she said. ”

"What?!" Yaha's voice couldn't help but get a little louder.

"Shh......h I'm not done yet. I told her again that her world might have sent killers to hunt her down, and if she wanted not to be discovered by the killers, she should not be too conspicuous, at least she should speak in a way that imitates the people around her. ”

"......" Yaha was dumbfounded when she heard this, and after a while she sighed, "This is fighting poison with poison......

"What 'fighting poison with poison'?" Xia Ye retorted dissatisfiedly: "It was the incomparable beauty and wisdom of this witch that cured Miss Tang Li, who longed to be understood!" ”

Yaha: "......"

"Speaking of which, I have a question for you." Summer Night continued.

"What?"

"Why are you looking for these second officers and chief engineers...... Whatever, it's all weird? It seems to be a little more normal. Summer Night asked

Yaha: "Then I'll tell you in advance, the first mate is the same, but it hasn't been revealed yet. ”

Summer Night: "......"

Yaha: "As for the reason, as I told you before, if I was normal and powerful, I would have been recruited a long time ago, and it would have been my turn to be a bankrupt captain?" Only among these not very normal people, it is possible to pick a few powerful ones. ”

Summer Night: "I Suddenly Found ......"

Yaha: "What did you find?" ”

The conversation between the two was abruptly interrupted by the sound of a report from the crew.

"The captain and chief engineer report that the thruster has been hot-checked and can be put into ram propulsion at any time."

Yaha didn't care about chatting with Xia Ye anymore, and immediately gave the order: "The crew should evacuate from the thruster compartment immediately." ”

"After 1 minute, change the barrier configuration and no longer cover the Aether ram thruster."

"Put away the airbags and get ready to go into ramjet cruising mode."

"Five right-hand rudders, 10 seconds later, back to the right, into the latest planned route."

……

In the blink of an eye, Yaha had already issued a series of orders, which were repeated and carried out by the crew members who received them.

Through the wheelhouse window, Summer Night saw several crew members deftly jump onto the airbag holders, and the slender maidens effortlessly pushed the massive metal members, and soon folded the skeleton of the airbag and fastened it firmly to the sides of the ship.

Structural strengthening.

Seeing this scene on a summer night, make a judgment in your heart.

This is one of the most common witch contracts used by whalers, and it is also a very interesting one. It can strengthen the physical structure of the deed, as well as any physical or even conceptual structure; If the distance between the deed and the mechanical structure is close enough, both can be strengthened at the same time, and the amplitude of reinforcement can be significantly increased.

It is precisely on this basis that the crew, who have just folded the airbags with their bare hands, are able to easily retract metal components weighing several tons.

Because of this contract, most of the functions of the whaling ship are realized through "manpower", including the erection and retraction of airbags, anchoring and anchoring...... Even the helmsman-operated rudder has a simple transmission and no booster.

The benefits of this are of course obvious – the costs are dramatically reduced.

More than eighty percent of the whaling ship's manufacturing costs were concentrated in the aether ramjet thrusters and whaling guns, and the rest was nothing more than a pile of sturdy and cheap metal components with neither technical nor magical content.

With the airbags folded, the bow of the Debussota began to tilt downward. According to Yaha, the aether is capable of providing a certain buoyancy to objects. The higher the relative etheric velocity, the greater the buoyancy; The more space it occupies in the ether, the greater the buoyancy, and the whaling ship with the airbag folded reduces its size and the buoyancy it gains, so it needs to increase its speed to compensate for the loss of this buoyancy.

"Forward four." Ahab gave the order, "Report the pitch angle." ”

"Current depression angle 10." The helmsman shouted, pushing the grip on the console all the way down, "It's in the Forward Four!" It is expected that the ram afterburner propulsion will be turned on after 10 seconds.

"5 seconds!"

“4、3、2、1——”

The roar at the stern suddenly became high-pitched, and the whole ship began to tremble, and the aether ramjet was finally truly "ignited", the blades of the turbofan were locked, and the aetheric wind without barrier wind blew into the cavity in the thruster, and burst into flames under the constraints of the magic field, producing unparalleled thrust.

At the tail of the Debussota, two golden flames lit up, which were more dazzling than any golden cloud in the Aetheric Sea, like two golden meteors streaked across the sky.

A strong sense of acceleration hits, and Xia Ye has to hold on to the pillar next to him in order to stabilize his body. In the violent trembling, the sea of clouds in front of him quickly retreated, and the speed of the whaling ship became faster and faster.

"Report the current speed." Yahab spoke again.

"Current speed - 180 knots...... 190 knots...... 200。 ”

"Horizontal rudder, five degrees in elevation."

"Horizontal rudder, five degrees in elevation!" The helmsman repeated, pulling the lever next to the rudder.

The buoyancy provided by the speed gradually took effect, the Debussota stopped diving, the bow was raised again under the control of the horizontal rudders, and the whaling ship quickly returned to the height it had before the airbags were deployed.

"Flat rudder, forward two, enter ram cruise mode." Ahab commanded.

"Flat rudder, forward two, ram cruise mode."

The roar of the thrusters finally subsided, turning into a low hum, and the ship returned to its level state.

"When you say 1 knot, do you mean 1.9 kilometers per hour?" Summer Night asked suddenly.

"1.852 km/h, to be exact." Yahab replied. After entering the cruising mode, she finally got idle.

"Oh......" Summer Night nodded, not saying anything more.

She calculated silently in her mind.

The cruising speed is 200 knots, which is about 370 km/h. The world is also 24 hours a day. In other words, a whaling ship can sail 370 * 24 * 5 = 44,400 kilometers in five days, which is 44,400 kilometers.

In the world before the crossing, the circumference of the earth was only 40,000 kilometers. In other words, in five days, they would sail enough distance to circumnavigate the globe, a distance that would only reach the nearest archipelago to Debussota.

So—

If she is currently on the same planet, then how big should this planet be?!