Halfway through his story, Curran stopped abruptly. Her gaze passed beyond the summer night and landed on the square behind her.

Summer Night turned her head and found that five witches appeared at the edge of the square, and the outfit should be a debt collection team.

"Looks like another guest is coming." Curran said to Summer Night, "Wait for me for a moment, I'll go and go back." ”

With that, she left her seat and walked towards the other party......

The battle ended in less than five minutes.

The debt collection team that was resurrected by insurance left in a hurry, and Curran was not injured at all except for a few broken dresses, and he didn't even mess up his hairstyle.

Previously, Curran said that the prosthetic leg given to him by "Heinekan's creation" was not too strong, and Summer Night thought she was too modest.

It's obviously a super individual equipment that combines a shield, an arm blade, an automatic rifle, and a small missile launcher, and it has almost everything except that it can't improve the user's mobility.

However, based on this alone, it is impossible for Curran to insure all the members of the debt collection team in 5 minutes. Summer Night discovers that the real strength of the other party lies in combat experience and combat skills.

These experiences and skills can only come from life-and-death struggles again and again, and Curran said before that the downtown was much more chaotic back then than it is now, and it seems to be true.

Xia Ye secretly assessed that he would definitely not be able to beat the other party, even if he added Xiu Ji, I am afraid that he would only be able to open five or five at most.

After watching the debt collection team leave, Curran returned to the table, but did not sit down again.

"It's someone sent by Mars Forging." She said to Summer Night.

"In the past few days, the debt collection team sent by the supplier has come again, and it is estimated that they will not come to disturb it for the time being. I have something I would like you to visit, I wonder if you are interested? ”

Xia Ye thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

"Seventy-four, I'll take Miss Summer Night to walk around, I'll trouble you here, in case another guest comes, you use the crystal ball to tell me, I'll come over immediately." Curran said to the Masked Witch.

"No problem, Chairman Curran."

"Let's go."

Curran got on his broom and flew into the sky first. Summer Night notices that she is also using the BRM series from Bafaria.

Summer Night followed her and flew to the factory area behind the headquarters of the "Far Ship Rental", and two minutes later, Curran landed next to a shipyard, there was no one around the dock, and the doors for people to enter and exit were locked, and it seemed that it had been unused for a long time.

"That masked witch just now is called 'Seven Zero Four'?" After landing, Xia Ye said the question that had just been left in his heart.

"That's just her code name." Curran laughed, "I don't know her real name either." The people in their venture capital department are all like this, with special masks on their faces, even with their 'real eyes', they can't see the faces behind them, they don't have names, they only have a number. She belongs to the 'Venture Capital Department Seven', so the number starts with seven. ”

After listening to the other party's explanation, Xia Ye suddenly remembered the task publisher in a certain game, and blurted out: "Aren't they puppets?" The kind driven by the power of contract? ”

"That's a good idea, but I know they're real people." Curran said with certainty.

"Why?"

"Because I've seen people kill them, and they have flesh and cups in them, not machines."

"Oh......" Xia Ye thought to herself, it seems that venture capital is also a high-risk industry in this world.

On the other side, Curran pressed his palm on the magic circle and opened the door to the dock.

"Come in, what you want to see is inside."

The gray-haired girl stood inside the door, her body and face hidden in the darkness, only her eyes still glowing with teal.

Summer Night walked in with little hesitation - she felt that Curran was just trying to scare her.

As soon as he walked into the dock, the other party slammed the door shut.

Darkness reigned in front of him.

“……”

Summer Night hurriedly grabbed the Xiu Ji on the top of his head and blocked it on his chest.

"Click......"

Suddenly there was a bright light in front of me.

Curran flipped the switch, and the incandescent light illuminated the hallway.

She glanced at the cat that was blocked by the summer night, and said with a smile, "What? You think I'm going to sneak up on you? ”

"yes, yes." Summer Night nodded frankly, "I'm a very timid person, and I like to hold cats in my arms when I'm afraid." ”

“…… Come with me. Curran walked inside.

Walking through the corridor and opening a door again, the two finally came to the inside of the dock, Curran turned on the light, and the summer night saw a huge ship.

"Half" of the ship, to be precise.

The ship's equipment above deck has been largely removed, leaving only a lone bridge, with a huge hole in the stern that looks like it was formed by an explosion, through which the keel and cabins inside can be seen to be largely intact.

The ship was about the same length as the "Moby Dick", but wider than the "Moby Dick", and the tonnage of the "Moby Dick" should be about 1.3 times that of the "Moby Dick" in a rough estimate of the summer night.

As she surveyed the ship, Curran looked up at it, and after a while she spoke:

"Remember when I told you that we built nineteen technical verification ships and sank eighteen? This is the only one that remains. ”

"It's so big!"

Although Xia Ye had vaguely guessed, she couldn't help but be surprised when the other party really said it.

"yes, it's bigger tonnage than your 'Moby-Dick.'" Curran said.

"Of course, the performance is certainly not as good as the current boats. At that time, the aether ramjet thruster was still very immature, large and heavy, but the thrust was smaller than today's. At that time, in order to achieve the highest possible speed, Chrissy installed six full thrusters, two on the stern sides, two on the stern deck, and one on the port winglets, and finally brought it to a cruising speed of 180 knots.

"However, the more thrusters, the more likely it is that something will go wrong. The ship successfully completed its first sea trial, but blew up a thruster during the second sea trial, and the hole in the stern came out like this. Fortunately, it barely made it back to Debussota with the help of its propellers on both sides. Later, the cause of the explosion was investigated, and it was found that when the four thrusters were running at maximum power, there was a resonance, and the resonance would cause the load-bearing parts to accelerate metal fatigue, and the thruster that had the problem was caused by a sudden breakage of a key part, causing the aether to deflagrate out of control, and finally caused the explosion. ”

Summer Night looked at Curran with some surprise.

"What's wrong?" Curran asked.

"I didn't expect you to know a lot about this." Summer Night said.

Curran was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "What? Do you think I'm a chairman who doesn't know anything about technology? At that time, I was at Bafalia College, but I was a well-known top student, and I ranked either first or second in every exam. ”

"Either the first or the second?"

"Yes, Chriss's guy is the same, in short, every time I am on the ranking list, sometimes I am above, sometimes she is above, at the beginning I was more than when I was above, and then I was gradually overwhelmed by her, no way, Chriss's talent in this area is indeed very high."

When she said this, the girl's gaze revealed a soft look, but this look only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing without a trace.

Curran pointed to the ship in front of him and said:

"Miss Summer Night, what kind of person do you think I am?

"A greedy and short-sighted chairman? A businessman who doesn't know how to do it? Or a brutal and ruthless killer?

"I have brought you here so that you may see for yourself the fact that Chriss's grand and beautiful ideals have not been tried to fulfill. Your 'Moby Dick' is nothing, we have built a full nineteen of larger technical demonstrators, and an even larger 'Chrisscuren', the company has invested a huge amount of money in Mor for Chriss's ideals, and all we get in the end is this wreckage.

"Yes, this time, Chris has succeeded in rebuilding the 'Moby Dick' with the help of advances in thruster technology and the experience gained from past failures, and, if I am not mistaken, you must have sailed to the west of the Western Isles and made your way back.

"But so what? Think of Chris's goal - to sail to the end of the Aether Sea. How much more investment and failure is needed for this illusory goal? You may have earned a lot of moles from whaling this time, enough to buy a lot of shares in Far Ship Leasing. But then, if you make Chrissy the head of this company, do you think 'Far Ship Leasing' will still be able to continue its normal business? ”

(End of chapter)