The sun was shining, the sea was breezy, and after the torture of the middle of the night last night, until seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the Harmony finally got rid of the storm.

Ice, Alice, and Hurrington lay on the deck feeling powerless, letting the Harmony drift slowly.

"It was like having a nightmare, and after three or four hours in that storm, I thought I couldn't escape. Hurrington looked limp at the sky as several seabirds fluttered their wings and landed beside him.

"My arms are all sore now, and I don't have any strength at all. Alice yawned, "I really want to sleep, just sleep here." He closed his eyes as he spoke.

Bingzhi said: "It's also the first time I've seen such a terrifying storm. He added: "Since ancient times, the ocean has been a forbidden area for exploration, and legend has it that once you reach a certain range of the ocean, you will encounter very terrible disasters. I used to think these were just rumours made up by seafarers, but now it seems ......"

"This is not a rumor. "No one has ever reached the end of the ocean, and those explorers have almost trodden the first inch of the continent, but the vast ocean has always been only explored inshore, and anyone who has gone to the depths of the sea has never returned." ”

Bing Zhiye put his hands on his head and said, "You know a lot. ”

Hurrington smiled: "Anyway, I'm a few years older than you, and I always know something you don't know." After a while, he added: "These are all things I have heard from other people, I have been to several coastal cities before, I like the atmosphere of the coastal city, I always see a lot of sexy beauties at the beach party, hehe." ”

"Huh. Bing Zhiye chuckled, "But I always feel that last night's storm was not so simple. ”

Herrington was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Bing Zhiye shook his head: "I don't know, it's just a feeling." He suddenly rolled over and stood up, and the birds that were grooming their feathers on the deck were frightened away by him. He said: "Hey, I think we should find a place to stop for a while, the airship should be quite damaged, and we can repair as much as we can." ”

"Okay, okay. It took a lot of effort for Hurrington to get up, and when he saw that Alice was still lying on the ground, he went to her, only to find that she was really asleep: "Hey, get up, go to sleep in your room, you will get cold if you sleep here." ”

"Hmm......" Alice woke up quietly, but her mind was still spinning, and she stumbled under her feet and almost fell. She staggered to her feet and threw herself at Bingzhixie: "I'm so dizzy, master, take me back to my room to sleep." But her head was so dizzy that she didn't pounce on the ice childish evil this time, but pounced on Hurington.

Hughington's warm nephrite hugging, but also felt comfortable, and smiled at Alice hugged back to the room.

Ice Evil flew for a while in the Harmony airship, and found an island in the middle of the sea to stop. Hurrington tidied up the mess in the room.

The reef is actually only more than 300 meters in size, and there is a flat area on the surface of the island that allows the Harmony to land. Ice Evil slowly piloted the airship down, and the bottom of the Harmony had a cushion bracket for a special landing to avoid damage caused by a direct collision between the bilge and the ground.

Once the Harmony was parked, Hurington untied the iron anchor cable from the cabin and secured it to the reef. The two of them jumped onto the reef to take a closer look, and sure enough, the Harmony was damaged a lot, and the outer outline was bent and deformed in many places, especially on the left side, which was pulled by the strongest wind last night, and the guardrail on the side of the boat was almost completely bent. However, the airbag of the Harmony has not been damaged much, the material of this airbag is very tough, and it can not be torn apart easily, and the airbag of the Harmony Airship uses a more advanced soft airbag, and there is no skeleton technical support inside the airbag, but a number of auxiliary airbags are used to fill the inside, even if the main airbag breaks a few holes, it will not affect the normal flight of the airship.

Bing Zhixiao checked it and found that the damage to the Harmony was not as bad as he expected, and he must get what he paid for, and the airship of more than 200,000 yuan was much stronger than those low-grade hard airships of 80,000 or 90,000. However, the Harmony was also badly damaged, six of the winds were damaged to varying degrees, three were completely broken, and the rest of the ship was damaged in many places, but it was still possible to continue sailing. ,

After checking the interior of the airship, Hurington came out and said to Bingzhi: "There are a lot of damaged things, but it doesn't matter much, it's just that the compass seems to be out of order." ”

"What!" Ice Evil flew back into the cockpit, and sure enough, he saw that the compass embedded in the bridge was not pointing in the north and south directions, but pointing to other degrees, and no matter how much he patted it, he didn't see it turn back.

Bingzhi said evilly: "Oh no. ”

"What's wrong. Hulingerton was stunned and said, "You don't have a spare compass." ”

Bing Zhiye asked rhetorically, "Did you buy it?"

The two looked at each other, apparently ignoring the verse.

"Damn, this is terrible, how can we fly to the next station without the navigation of the compass?" He knew that losing the compass to find direction on the sea was a terrible thing. It's not like walking on the mainland, you can always get to the end, but on the endless sea, there is a scene everywhere, and the Harmony can really only become a headless fly, flying around, and if you don't make it fly in the wrong direction, you will be in trouble if you get farther and farther away from the mainland.

Ice Evil and Hurrington are both people who have traveled alone on the mainland, and when they were in the Linhai Snow Field, he and Alice walked to the Danluer Plain without a compass to observe the stars in the sky. However, the sea is not as good as the Linhai Snow Field, and the Linhai Snow Field must be smaller, as long as the direction is good, no matter how you go, it will not be bad. But on the sea, the slightest difference is a thousand miles, and you may not know where it will fly.

Bingzhi said: "It may be that when passing through the storm, the magnetic needle was affected by lightning and failed, so we still have to find a way to take care of it and see if we can fix it." ”

The Harmony had some simple repair tools on board, and although neither of them had any experience in repairing airships, some simple things could barely be repaired, but the compass could not be repaired.

It didn't take until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, when Hurington was hungry and Bing Zhixiao gave up, so the two of them gave up. Hurrington made some food to wake Alice, and the three of them, along with General Shock, ate sullenly on the reef.

Hulingerton, who cooked, said: "We don't have much food, we have been out to sea for almost twenty days, and the food and materials that we bought in the harbor before have been consumed, and there are still some first- and second-level wind spars, which are enough to provide power, but we just need to figure out the course." ”

Bingzhi said evilly: "If you don't find the right direction and return to the mainland quickly, food is still secondary, in case you get sick and injured at sea, it will be easy to do." ”

Hurrington picked up the sea chart beside him and rolled it up, pointed to the sea chart and said, "We should have been in this place before the storm, but after the storm, we only thought about running for our lives, and we didn't know where to fly." Judging from the previous location, there are still more than ten days to go to our scheduled destination, and the closest route to the mainland is also five or six days. If there is a star alive tonight, the best way to do it is to find the direction and fly back to the mainland first. ”

Bing Zhixiao nodded: "I have to do it." ”

[[[CP|W:266|H:258|A:L]]] Alice was not as worried as they were, and after eating in three or two bites, she looked east and west on the reef, and one moment she found a large sea crab under the reef, and then found a small starfish. It was her first time on the island, and she thought it was very new. While she was playing with General Shock, she suddenly noticed a bottle floating between the reefs: "Hey, strange, how can there be wine bottles here." ”

She picked up the bottle and looked at it, it was a green glass bottle, covered with blue-brown seaweed, moss and other microorganisms, slippery and slippery in her hand, and a cork was stuffed in the mouth of the bottle, and the cork was so rotten that it looked like it had been soaked in the sea for a long time.

"I guess some sailor crew threw it down. Alice held it in her hand, it was indeed an empty bottle, and she was about to throw it away. But suddenly I found that the algae mud had been wiped off where I had been touched by my hand, revealing a small paper roll inside the bottle......

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