Chapter 196, high in the sky

Above the vast ocean, thousands of zhang in the air, Chen Tianye Duan Wutian and Xiang An were half lying comfortably in the pod. Thousands of feet away, the wind swept up clouds and lightning, covering the entire sea.

The sea surface that occasionally emerges from the cloud gap is still raging with huge waves and torrential rain; Ten feet above the head, the huge air bag that puffed up slightly looked white and beautiful in the sunlight, like a white cloud.

The airship is in the upper stratosphere with gentle air currents, still slowly rising. The air in the sky was cold and thin, and there was no trace of aura at all, of course, this was not a problem for Qingshi and the others.

Except for Qingshi, the other three all ran out of physical strength, and at this time, they all ate the Rejuvenation Qi Pill and held the spirit stone in their hands to replenish their true qi, and they also drank a little wine while replenishing their true qi, which looked extremely comfortable.

Seeing that Qingshi was still busy at the tail of the pod, Duan Wutian said, "What are you still tinkering with stones?" Come and drink! ”

Qingshi said: "You guys drink first, I still have to be busy for a while." After speaking, he continued to keep his head down and busy.

"Haven't we already flown above the clouds, what are we busy with?" Duan Wutian said with a smile, "Shi, you are really a genius, this magic weapon that can fly without aura can only be drummed up by you, cow!" ”

"Is everything all right when you fly up?" Xiang An sneered and said, "Look in which direction are we flying now?" ”

Duan Wutian was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Sun Ying and said, "It seems to be flying north, right?" ”

"Shh Chen Tianye glanced at Duan Wutian: "Is this going north?" Is it good to go south! ”

"Shh Xiang An rolled his eyes even wider: "What is the south and the north?" We're flying west, and the wind is blowing west, understand? ”

"Oh!" Duan Chen and the others understood. Duan Wutian said: "Shouldn't we fly east, why did we go in the opposite direction?" ”

"So!" Xiang An said, "Is this flying into the sky the end of the matter?" We have to find a way to get the airship to fly in the direction we want to go! Drifting in the wind like this, you will never reach your destination. ”

"Well, that's right." Chen Tianye said, "Qingshi is installing a magic weapon to control the direction, right? ”

"Yes!" Xiang An said, "In addition to the rudder, there is also a magic weapon for propulsion. ”

"Oh!" Duan Wutian nodded, but asked again, "Then why don't you pretend it on the ground?" ”

"Ignorance!" Xiang An said disdainfully, "These magic weapons have been refined a long time ago, but they are too heavy to install in advance, and they will rise too slowly, so can we still avoid the storm?" Now the installation is just right to increase the weight, so that the airship will not be stable and no longer rise, and the airbag will explode if it goes up. Do you understand? ”

The contents of the storage are in another dimension, so the contents of the storage do not incur any weight and are available once they are taken out.

"Xiang Bai'er, can you talk well? Looking for a draw, isn't it? Duan Wutian really couldn't stand Xiang An's ridicule, white eyes and contempt, "By the way, why are you still hanging outside?" Get back to Chubby! ”

"Don't!" Xiang An hurriedly put away a stinky face and smiled, "Let me stay outside for a while." By the way, I'm going to help Qingshi fight, you guys talk. After speaking, he walked to the back of the pod and watched the bluestone manipulate the machinery and the magic circle.

The cabin is three feet long and one foot wide, the side of the cabin is more than three feet high, and there is nothing in the cabin, but at this time there are a lot of mechanical connecting rods and toothed chain flywheels and other things piled up at the tail of the cabin.

After Xiang An helped Qingshi tinker for a while, Qingshi clapped his hands and straightened up and smiled: "Well, the power device is ready, Seventh Brother Amano will come and try it." ”

Duan Chen and the others got up and walked to the stern of the cabin to see the strangeness. There was a huge four-bladed propeller outside the cabin, each blade was more than three feet long but very thin, and it was obviously made of metal, and the propeller was connected to a metal shaft, which stretched through the bulkhead into the pod, and was connected to two grotesque mechanical devices with two large flywheels and several pinions and toothed chains. This is something that even Xiang An has never seen.

Qingshi pulled Duan Wutian over, let him sit on the seat supported by a wooden pole on the left side of the round axis, pointed to the two stepping boards under the seat and said with a smile: "Brother Qi put two feet on it...... Yes, that's it, step hard, push hard...... It's better to hold this crossbar with your hand, and you can see if this flywheel is spinning...... Look outside, look outside, do you see if that propeller is also spinning...... What's the use? So you can move forward ahaha...... Amano, you go to the right seat, yes, the two of you step on it together, isn't it faster hahaha......"

Bluestone's power plant is completely mechanical, simply put, two bicycle-like human drives connected to a propeller, and when the human propeller rotates rapidly, the blades fan the air to propel the airship forward.

Duan Chen and the others stepped on the flywheel, feeling that their movement drove the propeller to fly, giving the airship a forward momentum, and the two felt both fresh and a sense of accomplishment, and happily pedaled and talked and laughed.

Qingshi walked to the front of the pod, waved his hand and let out a large single sofa to sit down, then took out a bottle of mountain peach brew and took a sip, humming a small tune with satisfaction. Xiang An frowned slightly, touched everywhere and looked puzzled.

After a while, Xiang An finally couldn't help but ask: "I said Qingshi, this forward momentum is there, but the flight speed is too slow, not to mention, how to control the direction?" Why didn't you have a rudder installed? ”

Qingshi glanced at Xiang An dissatisfiedly and said, "What are you anxious about?" Can't you let me rest a little longer? After finishing speaking, he put away the wine bottle, stood up and walked to the stern of the cabin, stretched out his hands and lifted it upward, only to see a log more than five feet long and thigh-thick appeared out of thin air and held it in his hand.

A smaller propeller is mounted horizontally at each end of the log. Qingshi asked Duan Wutian Chen Tianye to stop first, and then put the log horizontally on the pre-laid card slots on the two sides of the stern, and the two ends of the five-zhang long log stretched out about two zhang from the left and right sides of the cabin, and the propeller was facing the rear. The bluestone then pulled out two thick leather ropes from the two round holes in the center of the crossbar and hung them on the left and right flywheels. Then Chong Duan Chen and the others said, "You step on it again." ”

As the two of them pedaled on the flywheel, they saw that the propellers mounted horizontally on both ends of the log outside the cabin also rotated, and it was obvious that the propeller shaft was hidden in the log.

With the addition of two propellers, Duan Chen and the others stepped on it with more effort, but for a monk like them, it was not a problem to step on it for several days without eating, drinking, or sleeping. And with the two new propellers flying, the speed of the airship is naturally much faster.

"Hmmm! Excellent! Xiang An praised, and then asked suspiciously, "The speed is a lot faster, but I still can't control the direction?" ”

Bluestone smiled and pulled a mechanism on the log, only to see the propeller at the left end of the log stop, so the pod began to turn to the left with a huge airbag in tow. Bluestone fiddled with the mechanism again, and the propeller on the right stopped and the one on the left began to spin again, so the airship began to turn to the right again.

"Wonderful!" Xiang An's eyes lit up and praised, "It's wonderful!" ”

Duan Wutian and Chen Tianye also laughed and applauded.

Duan Wutian asked: "You can control the front and back, left and right, how can you control the top and bottom?" ”

Xiang An said disdainfully: "If it's low, blow and deflate when it's high, isn't it simple?" What IQ! ”

Duan Wutian glared at Xiang An and said, "Do you want to know if I have a better way?" ”

"What's the solution?" Chen Tianye asked.

"If you fly too high, take something out of the storage," Duan Wutian said with a smile, "If you fly too low, throw Xiang An's guy out of the cabin!" ”

Qingshi Chen Tianye laughed together, and Xiang An scolded with a smile: "It's right to throw you Duan Bald, your head is bigger and heavier......"

After laughing for a while, Chen Tianye's novelty disappeared, and he lost interest in pedaling the flywheel, because he asked, "Qingshi, if we want to keep flying forward, do we have to keep pedaling like this?" ”

"Or else?" Qingshi spread his hands.

"Well, this one!" Chen Tianye was obviously unwilling to keep stepping on it, "Can't you use a puppet?" ”

"These puppets I have now use spirit stones as power sources," Qingshi said, "In order for spirit stones to generate kinetic energy, they need to react with the aura in the air, just like a spaceship. There is no aura above this sea at all, and even above the land, the aura is extremely thin at such a high altitude, so it will not work with a puppet. ”

Xiang An said, "Can we draw out the spiritual energy in the spirit stone and then let it react with the spirit stone in the puppet device?" ”

"No way!" Qingshi said, "Without such technology, at present, only by relying on manpower to use exercises can the aura in the spirit stone be channeled, and it is not as efficient as directly pedaling the flywheel." ”

"Okay, then keep pedaling!" Although Duan Wutian didn't understand, he understood that there was no other way, and said, "But you can always take a break when the wind is down!" Also, you can't be idle! The four of us work in two shifts! ”

Qingshi said: "I'm working on a magic weapon that doesn't require human power, I can transform the puppets so that they only use the spiritual source they carry, and they don't need to react with the spiritual energy in the air, but it will take time." I'm not involved in this human-driven thing. ”

Xiang An said: "No problem, no problem, if you want to refine a new magic weapon, bluestone naturally doesn't need to be rotated." I could have done more! ”

Everyone knew that he wanted to spend more time outside the egg house, but he didn't say anything, Chen Tianye immediately said yes, and immediately gave up his seat to him.

Xiang An stepped onto the seat and stepped on the flywheel and said, "Why do I feel that the airship is descending?" I'm afraid these mechanisms are too heavy. ”

Aoshi sensed it and said, "Yes, Amano, let's go blow some air." "As a monk of their level, they don't need to look at the reference, they only need to perceive the changes in the external environment, such as subtle changes in pressure and wind direction, to determine whether they are rising or falling.

Chen Tianye just wanted to relax, but he was sent to be a more tired errand, and he couldn't help but get angry, Duan Wutian and Xiang An couldn't help but snicker, but this was what Qingshi ordered, Chen Tianye had no choice but to do it, but fortunately, it only blew for a while to keep the airship stable, so he made a pimple in the pipe, tied it to a rope and went to rest.

Duan Wutian and Xiang An stepped on the flywheel at a fast speed, but they didn't take much effort, and they enjoyed the blue sea and white clouds outside the cabin while stepping on it. Qingshi and Chen Tianye each sat on a sofa and drank a little wine, which was even more comfortable.

The four of them had a ride to drink and chat, and before they knew it, the sun fell behind them and fell under the airship, which bathed in the sunset and flew smoothly towards the east.