Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 203
Xiu looked up and found that Xia Ye and his party were walking towards her.

"Long time no see..." she said, "And thank you..."

Before she finished speaking, Xia Ye had already guessed what she wanted to say: "You're welcome, I want to use your tail, so I bought the wing bone...how much did it eat?"

"I've finished eating...a pair meow~"

"Then it should grow up a bit?"

"En." Xiu nodded, and the dangling black tail behind her suddenly swelled, becoming taller than her person, but the shape did not become the shape of tentacles, but looked fluffy, a bit oversized fox tail.

"Oh!" Xia Ye couldn't help but exclaim, "Have you lifted the mimicry yet?"

"Well... this is... its original form..."

"It seems that the clone has completely merged with your witch's body!" Xiuji said, "Even the original shape has changed."

Xia Ye stepped forward, stretched out his hand cautiously, and touched the surface of the tail.Fluffy, a little warm, but smooth, like a down pillow if you want to describe it.

"Hmm..." Xiu hummed softly.

"what happened?"

"It's a little itchy..."

"So the tail is so sensitive?" Xia Ye asked in surprise.

Xiu nodded, and the two triangular cat ears on his head shook slightly.

"Then..." Xia Ye suddenly showed a smirk, then opened his hands, hugged the fluffy tail, and let his face rub against it.

"Hey~ wait a minute... don't do this..."

"What's the matter, let me rub it for a while, it's so comfortable, it's like a pillow, suck~" Xia Ye suddenly stuck out her tongue and licked it lightly on the tail.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Xiu screamed, Xia Ye's arms were suddenly empty, and when she realized it, the tail had become a thin one, shrinking behind Xiu.

Xiu's cheeks were red. Since we met, Xia Ye saw this expression on her for the first time. She smiled and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Yaha: "Stop playing, you Didn't you come to test the thrusters?"

"But the tail is really cute..." Xia Ye muttered, and finally got back to the topic: "Why did Xiu come here too? Are you going to test the interface of the cat machine today?"

The so-called "cat machine interface" is a term coined by Xia Yesheng. It refers to the interface where the cat witch connects to the propeller through its tail and controls the operation of the propeller.

"If the test run goes well, the interface can be tested today." Chris said, "However, it was repaired mainly for another thing. We need her 'synchronization reinforcement'."

"what?"

"Because the propeller may explode during the test run." Chris explained, "So we need 'synchronized reinforcement' to strengthen the hull. We only have this test ship now. If the ship blows up, we will be in big trouble. !"

……

After a while, a group of people came to the bridge, where they could clearly see the test run of the thrusters through the windows.As Chris gave the order to start the test, the test ship retracted the airbags and began to accelerate, reaching a cruising speed of 180 knots in a short while.

Then the ship's barriers began to shrink, exposing the quarterdeck and the small thrusters attached to it to the etheric wind.

"Check the fuel circuit." Chris ordered.

The engineer around him started to operate on the crystal board, and responded after a while: "The fuel circuit is normal!"

"Start contract chain self-test."

"The contract chain is normal."

"Enter 'synchronous reinforcement', count down to five seconds to ignite, and start the first test run."

A series of semi-transparent curves suddenly appeared around the test ship, and Xiu entered the "synchronized strengthening" state.Almost at the same time, the engineer also started counting down.

"Five, four, three, two, one, light the fire!"

There was a roaring sound, and accompanied by a slight tremor, the thrusters on the bracket started to run smoothly.

Chris and the engineers were temporarily relieved—at least there was no explosion.However, it is still too early to say that it is successful. Now it is only in the fan intake mode. It must enter the stamping mode and run stably for a period of time before the test run can be considered successful.

"Report ether compression ratio."

"Compression ratio...1.09."

"Too low..." Chris whispered.

Ether is a very incompressible substance, but it is also because of this that the compressed ether can be ignited by magic, resulting in deflagration.The compression ratio is related to various factors such as intake speed, intake cone shape, compression ignition length, etc., and the minimum compression ratio required for deflagration is 1.22, and 1.09 is obviously unable to achieve ether deflagration, and it is also impossible to enter the stamping process. advance mode.

"The air intake efficiency of the fan is too low, and the compression combustion chamber is too short...Now only by increasing the speed of the ether wind blowing into the propeller, can it reach the critical value." Chris quickly made a decision: "Increase the speed of the ship." To the highest, fly as fast as you can.”

A louder roar than the test propeller sounded from the stern, and the test ship began to accelerate. The pointer of the speedometer slowly climbed to the right from the position of 180 knots, 190 knots, 200 knots, 220 knots... to 235 knots Finally, the pointer could no longer move an inch, and the ship shook as if it would fall apart at any moment.

"Report the compression ratio!" Because the roar was too loud, Chris had to roar to make the people around her hear clearly.

"1.21! No... it's down to 1.20 again! The compression ratio bounces back and forth between 1.19 and 1.21!" shouted the engineer.

"Activate the compression ignition contract! Try to enter the stamping mode!"

"Yes!"

The engineer clicked a few times on the crystal panel, and soon there was a louder roar, the thruster on the bracket shook violently, and a golden flame spewed out from the tail, but it went out after less than a second , the high-pitched voice also fell back, drowned in the noise of the ship itself.

"Failed! The compression ratio is too low!" shouted the engineer.

"..." Chris didn't respond, as if hesitating whether to try again.

"Please make a decision quickly! The test ship can't last long at this speed!"

"Abort the test!" Chris shouted, she only had this one thruster, and she didn't dare to take risks.

The speed of the ship began to drop rapidly, and soon returned to 180 knots, and the test ship was circling in the ether sea at cruising speed.The thrusters used for testing on the bracket stopped completely, and even the fans stopped turning.

"The compression ratio is not enough, it didn't work..." Chris said to Xia Ye a little disappointed.

"But it seems to be a little bit close? As long as the speed of the ship is faster, maybe it will be successful?"

"The relationship between them is not linear. If you want to enter the ram mode stably, the ship's speed should be..." Chris calculated quickly in her mind, "...290 knots."

"Even 'Moby Dick' can't drive so fast." Xia Ye remembered that the top speed of "Moby Dick" was 280 knots.

"Yeah." Chris said helplessly.

This means that even if you find the fastest ship from the "out-of-the-way charter", there is no guarantee that the propeller will enter the ram mode.

"It seems that the fan, intake cone and compression combustion chamber all need to be improved, and today's test ends here..."

"Wait." Xia Ye interrupted, "I have a solution."

"Huh?" Chris looked at Xia Ye in surprise.

"The ship can't reach such a high speed, but other methods can." Xia Ye said, "I can use the 'Thunder Knight' contract..."

……

After a few minutes, she finally convinced Chris and Yaha.Everyone came to the stern again, and removed all the various pipes and wires connected to the propeller.

"Here is the insertion port of the integrated interface, which is what you call the 'cat interface'."

Chris pointed to a 6 cm long and 2 cm wide rectangular socket on the thruster and said, "The input of magic power and control commands is done through it."

This was originally an interface designed for Xiu's tail, but this time, Xia Ye planned to let Xiu Ji provide magic power and control the thrusters - after all, Xiu Ji's proficiency in mimicry was far inferior to Xiu Ji's.

The black cat showed its original shape, and the front end of the tentacles mimicked the shape of a plug, which was connected to the thruster.It was not difficult for the Shoggoth to figure out how to control the thruster, and after about 10 minutes, the Shoggoth was able to control it without hindrance.

"BrClr"

As the witch text of "Thunder Knight" was read out, the armor condensed by lightning appeared on Xia Ye's body. In addition, there was a huge cat beside her.

"This, is this the 'Thunder Knight' contract you mentioned?" Chris asked in surprise.

"Ah."

Xia Ye flipped onto the cat, Xiu Ji also rolled up the thrusters, and "sat" behind Xia Ye.

"If this Thundercat runs at full speed, it should be able to exceed 290 knots. At that time, Xiuji will activate the thrusters on the cat's back. If it goes well, it should be able to enter the stamping mode."

"You have to be careful. Although the fan mode works normally, the ram mode may still explode." Chris reminded again.

"It doesn't matter, the Thunder Knight is quite resistant to beating." Xia Ye tapped the Thunder Light armor on his body with his fingers, "As long as I don't remove them, even if it explodes, it won't hurt me."

After speaking, she patted the back of the cat's neck lightly.Thundercat took a strong leap and left the test ship with her, Shuji and the thrusters.

(End of this chapter)