Chapter 425: 'Requirements'
With the captain's order, the bottom layer of the iron ship, stamped into a standard one-foot square with a hydraulic machine tool, glued together with grease, stacked neatly in dry wooden blocks, was re-divided by the handyman with a special long knife, and then sent into the steam turbine to ignite one by one, and instantly emitted a scorching fire.
The heat emitted when the wood in the Hell Islands burns is far higher than the coke on Earth, and the liquid in the turbine is not ordinary pure water, but a special liquid made from the distillation of animal fat and plasma mixed with underground river water, and the temperature required to turn it into steam is about 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the kinetic energy generated by this steam is much greater than that of simple water vapor.
The steamboats created by Wu Li were slightly different from those of the earthlings, and the steaming chimneys did not rise on the deck but led underwater.
There are more than a dozen heavy iron covers in the chimney that can only be opened outward, and these covers will automatically close when the iron ship is berthed to avoid seawater backflow, and when the ship sets sail and the engine needs to dissipate heat, the huge impulse of the special steam will naturally break open the heavy iron cover and dissipate it into the ocean.
This special design makes the Wuli steamship sail on the sea with very little noise, and can silently follow the wooden boat driven by the fugitive by relying on the telescope.
And the lander, who didn't know that he had been firmly followed, finally relaxed his nerves after sailing for a few hours with a worried downwind and seeing that the sun had risen overhead, and that there were no pursuers arriving behind the ship.
"Hano, it seems that we have escaped the clutches of the Hellburners. The only thing left to do is to return to Venis. In the cab, Anduchi sat tiredly on the ground, gobbling up the seawater fish stew offered by the sailor, and whispered to Hano, who was sitting next to him and feasting.
"Captain, the most important thing besides returning to Venis City is that you make enough clean water first," said Hano, without raising his head, "my throat is smoking, and I believe everyone is thirsty." ”
"I only cared about running for my life, and I forgot about it," Anduqi was stunned for a moment, and then he felt that his mouth was also dry, and said with a wry smile. He beckoned to a diminutive middle-aged man who temporarily took the helm of him. "Federley is optimistic about the rudder, and I'll be back soon. He stood up and walked out of the cab with his body bent.
The sun was shining on the deck. The sailors did not dare to go away except for the one who was in charge of adjusting the sails, sitting under the mast. Everyone else is shaving their catch. The internal organs are dug up and dried on the deck to dry into dried fish.
"Everybody's working hard," Anduci said, seeing everyone busy with their work. Satisfied shouted loudly: "Okay, first harvest the fish, use a wooden barrel to beat some seawater, I use the 'water purification technique' to purify everyone, and then scrub it well, and rest in the division of labor." ”
Although all the captains of the Catamane city-states have mastered the magical 'water purification technique', which can theoretically make pure water when sailing in the sea, the actual human energy is limited, and it is still a luxury for the sailors to bathe in water freely during the voyage, so everyone can't help but cheer when they hear the captain's words.
After that, the jubilant sailors put away the half-dried fish that had been dried, dragged the barrels with cables, and began to stir up the sea water one by one, and for a long time the deck was densely packed with all kinds of containers filled with bitter and salty water.
"Well, with so much seawater, it seems that you are planning to exhaust me to death in order to be able to clean up and sleep well. When the sailors were done and looked at their eager eyes, Anducci made a rare joke, closed his eyes, and silently muttered the incantation.
At the same time, he gently raised his hands and drew various mystical patterns on his chest, and in a short time all ten fingers lit up with a faint milky white light.
After the spell was cast, Anduchi opened his eyes and flicked the white light from his fingertips into the container containing the sea water one by one, while the sailors on the side bowed their heads and prayed loudly with simple prayers: "The gods bless me with the sweet water on the sea, and I thank the gods of heaven for their gifts..."
In this way, ten containers were purified at once, and Anduci cast a dozen spells in a row under the constant prayers of the sailors, and his face turned pale at the worst, and finally insisted on purifying all the seawater on the deck.
After a long sigh of relief, he smiled with satisfaction and said loudly exhausted: "Okay, everyone, drink as much as you want, under such a big sun, the water is sweeter and clearer than the wine." ”
As soon as the captain finished speaking, suddenly a tall sailor who was limping shouted, "Slow. He staggered and dug a glass of clean water in the bucket with a half-broken wooden cup, staggered to Anducci, stared at him and said, "Whether this is wine or water, this cup must be given to you first, honorable captain."
You were the one who kept us from giving up hope in the face of desperation, and finally escaped from that hellish island, and you are now giving us hope to return home alive..."
"It's not that I'm letting everyone keep hope, it's that we don't give up hope with each other..."Anducci was silent for a while, then took the tattered wooden cup and raised it high and said loudly: "All the first cups, let us toast ourselves and all the companions around us, drink victory!", and then drank the full glass of water.
"Let us salute ourselves and all our companions around us!" the sailors cheered in unison and began to drink the luscious water.
After they had their fill, they began to soak their hair and beards with water, then smeared them with sea fish fat, took turns shaving off their hair with several black iron knives that they had found in the rummag, then stripped naked, applied fish oil to wooden blocks, dipped them in water and scraped off the mud and dirt on their bodies, and finally washed their clothes vigorously with fish oil.
Not far away, Zhang Lisheng, who was standing at the stern of the ship leaning on the side of the ship, looked down at the sewage on the deck, wet hair and beard, and then looked up at the bald and bald sailors on the ship laughing excitedly, and couldn't help muttering: "It's also very creative to use fish oil as shaving water, shower gel, and dish soap."
Speaking of which, the nerves of these landers are really tough, and it has been less than a day since they escaped with their lives, as if they had forgotten the tragic scene of their companions being eaten, and they magically washed their bodies happily with a little water..."
"Mr. Li Sheng has some water, don't you go and wash up?", when the young man was surprised, he suddenly saw a young man wearing a freshly wrung silver dress walking towards him, and asked loudly:
"No, I don't live in a stone circle these days, my body is still clean, and as a warrior monk, what I care about is not whether the appearance is clean, but whether the heart is pure. Seeing that the person who came was Anita, the young master of the White Philippe Trading House with a very high status among the fugitives, Zhang Lisheng smiled and said pretending to be profound.
"Mr. Li Sheng, the amount of power you emitted called 'Qi' is really amazing, I think your profession 'Warrior Monk' is also a very powerful spell-casting profession in another continent.
Can you tell me what 'purity of heart' is, and whether you should be kind and trustworthy and do more good deeds?" Anita asked in a tone that a boy of his age would inevitably say when he heard the strange talk about the profession of spellcasting.
"Not exactly, 'purity of heart' is relative and different for everyone.
Well, in the simplest terms, if you are a person with a good nature, then the purity of your heart is to do more good deeds and help others;
If you're a freewheeling person, then your inner purity is to do what you want, no matter how weird it may be;
If you are a person of evil nature, then your heart is pure and evil, and you are doing evil everywhere..."
"Are you saying that the Warrior Monk is an evil spellcasting class?" exclaimed Anita.
"Young Master Anita, you can use the word out of context to describe it in our country," Zhang Lisheng pouted and said mysteriously: "I first said that the purity of the heart of a kind person is to do more good deeds and help others, don't you hear."
Warrior monk is a profession that can discover the true self in the depths of the human soul, a religion that worships oneself, a practice, and a philosophy...
Forget it, you're too young to understand this, and when you're as knowledgeable as your teacher, Mr. Hanino, you'll be able to understand me. ”
"I'll have to wait until I'm as old as a teacher to understand you, but you don't look much older than me. ”
"But I'm a warrior monk, and you're not. Zhang Lisheng clasped his hands together, pretended to be a ghost, and asked casually: "By the way, your teacher, Young Master Anita, why is he not by your side." ”
"The teacher has gone to rest, and he is so tired after tossing all night yesterday," Anita replied, "Speaking of which, I still haven't thanked you for saving our lives last night, Mr. Lisheng."
Thank you so much, and I'll be sure to ask my father to thank you when I get back to Venis. ”
"Thank you for not needing, just like if you really want to thank me, it would be good if you could help me buy a merchant ship, I am a freewheeling person, and now I suddenly like this life of wandering on the sea, if you can make a living from it, it will be better. Zhang Lisheng said according to one of the plans that he had already thought of.
As soon as the young man's voice fell, a crisp female voice suddenly came from afar: "The smallest of a merchant ship costs 3,000 gold coins, plus the start-up capital of the first business and the cost of hiring sailors, it is 3,500 gold coins, so is it also called 'thanks'?"
Anita looked in the direction from which the voice came, and sure enough, when she saw her twin sister walking towards her wet, she couldn't help but say loudly: "Helena, if it weren't for Mr. Li Sheng, we might have been eaten by the Hellburners today, aren't the more than 100 lives on the ship worth three thousand five hundred gold coins?"
What's more, Mr. Li Sheng is still a spellcaster, even if he is hired to risk his life to save us, it will take at least a few hundred or thousands of gold coins, right?" (To be continued......)
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