Summer Night looked up at the ship in front of her, as if she had seen the "distant ship charter" a few years ago.

Curran still doesn't know that her goals and Chriss's goals weren't exactly opposite, and that they were only one step away from success.

Summer Night believes that the "Christo" must have crossed the Western Islands at that time, and it was not able to return to the sea, most likely not because of mechanical problems.

It is likely to encounter beluga whales, that is, adult whales, perhaps not just one, but a whole pod.

Summer Night had just experienced the battle with the Moby Dick and knew how dangerous they were, and if it weren't for Yaha's good preparation this time, the "Moby Dick" would have become another missing ship.

The "Kris Curren" didn't even know about the existence of the beluga whale, and could not do anything about it, and the summer night could even imagine the shock and despair of the witches on the ship when they saw those huge whales that were more than 300 meters long.

They were too far away to even get the news back to Debussota, and eventually, everything about Moby Dick was buried with the ship in the depths of the Aether Sea.

If......

Summer nights can't help but start imagining.

If the beluga whale group had escaped and returned to Debussota, it would have been more than just "sailing to a sea no one had ever reached", it would also bring back the news that would change the whaling industry – an even larger white whale life west of the Western Islands.

Bigger means more dangerous, but it also means more whale oil. Driven by profit, whalers must have tried to hunt them, and hunting them required boats capable of sailing to the west of the archipelago, which at the time only Curran and Chriss' company could build.

"Ocean-going vessels" will once again be at the forefront of industry change, they will sweep away the decline, orders and investments will flock to them, and the ideals of Curran and Chrissy will once again find an intersection: deeper in the etheric sea, there is a greater interest, and a greater interest can support the company's development of ships that can sail farther.

If this had happened, perhaps the "ocean-going vessel" would have become a behemoth comparable to the Bafalia manufactory.

But there is no "if", what really happens in reality is far more cruel than the beautiful imagination. In the end, the "Chris Curren" failed to return to Debsota, and the "ocean-going ship" collapsed, and the conflict between Curran and Chris finally broke out.

Since then, few people have penetrated the Aetheric Sea, west of the archipelago, and no one has brought information about the beluga whale back to Debussota.

It wasn't until Yaha escaped Moby Dick and went bankrupt that she met Summer Night, who and she happened to meet Chriss, that the interrupted exploration process was finally reborn.

For a moment, Summer Night even had an urge to tell Curran about the Moby Dick at once, telling her that the "voyage ship" more than a year ago had fallen on the eve of its imminent success.

But the caution of her past experience stopped her, and although she intuitively judged that Curran was telling her the truth, she knew that she should at least meet with Chriss, verify everything with her, and then consider how much information to reveal to Curran.

"You're a very persuasive person." Summer Night finally spoke, "You've almost convinced me. ”

"Miss Summer Night, it's not me who convinces you, it's the fact, the fact that the 'Voyage Ship' was cast with blood and Mor." Curran said, pointing to the wrecked ship.

"Facts need to be verified, and I need a little bit of time to verify what you're saying before I make a decision."

"Of course, this is a very reasonable request, in these days, I will withdraw the commission to hunt and kill Chriss, I believe we can solve this matter with reason, not violence."

Curran's tone was very sincere, even though it was she who used the violence in the first place.

However, Xia Ye didn't feel anything wrong, in her understanding, the negotiation needed to be based on the balance of violence, and the party that would be crushed by violence was not qualified to go to the negotiating table.

"Actually, I still have a small question." Xia Ye smiled and said, "If Chairman Curran can answer for me, maybe it can further deepen the trust between us." ”

"Please."

"I'm curious, how did you know in advance that the Moby Dick had successfully returned home and gained a lot of money?"

Curran was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Didn't Chrissy mention it to you?" She should know. ”

Even though this sentence sounded provocative, Summer Night just said quietly, "I haven't seen her yet." ”

The reason was not convincing, but Curran didn't ask any more, and she began to answer Summer Night's question:

"We had a similar problem back in the days when 'long-distance charters' and 'long-distance vessels' – once the technical demonstrators were sailing more than 500 nautical miles, they were too far away to be contacted, but we still needed to monitor the condition of the vessels. Eventually, someone came up with an ancient means to solve this problem.

"—that's divination."

"Divination?" Summer Night was surprised.

"Yes. Although the divination conditions are harsh, the conclusions are vague, and it is easy to be misled by opponents, so it is rarely used anymore. But in view of the situation we were facing at the time, all the flaws of divination happened to be not a problem:

"The first is the condition of divination. Generally speaking, divination requires obtaining an item related to the object of divination, and the higher the relevance, the better. But for us, the object of divination is the ship that we built ourselves, so for us this kind of object is completely ready-made. ”

"You're going to take something from the ship in advance and use it for divination after the sea?" Summer Night asked.

"Of course, that's okay, but it's not relevant enough, so in practice, we're going to do it more ...... Be sufficient. ”

"What the hell is ...... that?"

"We'll hold a divination ceremony in the dock where the ship was built, and we'll pile them up in a pile, put them in the middle of the dock, and draw a circle of divination around them—we've found that this method of divination works best."

“……”

After listening to Curran's answer, Summer Night was a little speechless for a while, and she imagined that kind of scene...... It can only be said that there is a strange beauty that combines heavy industry and the occult.

Curran continued:

"Then there is the problem of vague conclusions. For us, it's perfectly acceptable. After all, we only need to know roughly whether there is a problem with the ship, and since it is the same problem every time in divination, we are increasingly able to grasp the true meaning of the various seemingly ambiguous statements obtained by divination.

"Later, we simply built a model that scored the sentences obtained from the divination, and the higher the score, the better the outcome. In this way, you don't have to interpret the results at all, you just feed those statements into the model as they are, and you can get the most accurate answer. ”

The "......" summer night was once again shocked.

"As for the issue of being easily misled by opponents...... We certainly don't mislead ourselves, so it's not a problem at all. ”

"All in all, this method allows us to monitor the condition of ships that are thousands of nautical miles away."

Curran looked at the summer night with a smile.

"Miss Summer Night, I'm sure you know the answer to that question by now, right? After all, the Moby Dick was also converted from our shipyard. ”

(End of chapter)