Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 76 Estimation
"Enough." The chief engineer only said one word.

If you want to sum up the characteristics of the chief engineer in one sentence, it should be——

Her hair is the same as her socks.

More specifically, her hip-length hair was highlighted black on one side and white on the other, before merging to gray at the top of her head.

Just like the black and white two-color stockings that the chief engineer must wear.

"..." Everyone quietly waited for the chief engineer to continue to explain.

However, there was no follow-up, and the chief engineer nodded to everyone naturally, indicating that he had finished speaking.

"..." Everyone fell into silence again.

Only Yaha had expected it long ago, and asked helplessly: "How much margin is there?"

"One day." Two words this time.

It means that if you follow Yaha's route, circle the archipelago and return to Debusota, you will only have two days of fuel left.

Although the ether ramjet thruster mainly consumes ether, maintaining the contract circle in the engine requires magic power, and the magic power comes from whale oil. Therefore, the precious whale oil is the fuel of the whaling ship.

"Only two days," Yaha said thoughtfully to himself.

According to industry practice, when estimating the fuel balance, the chief engineer will not count the fuel consumed by chasing whales, because it has exceeded her responsibilities and capabilities.

When a whaling ship finds a whale, it may succeed in killing it immediately, or it may go through a long chase and finally harvest the prey, or return empty-handed.

Therefore, whether the remaining fuel on board can hunt whales is a matter for the captain to judge based on his own experience and intuition, and it is also one of the important criteria for evaluating whether a captain is good or not.

But the margin of two days... Even if a rookie captain were to make a judgment, he would know that this was a very small margin, not to mention that what Moby Dick was going to hunt was an unusual white whale.

However, if you think optimistically, if they successfully hunt down the beluga whale, even if they consume more than two days of fuel, they can still cut unrefined whale oil from the beluga whale as an alternative fuel, which will The boat sailed back to Debsota.

"We... will sail along this route!" Yaha finally finished the calculation in his heart, and said with a final word.

The short meeting was over, and everyone returned to their respective posts.The only summer night who had nothing to do stood beside Yaha, watching her order the crew to do this and that.

After a while, Yaha suddenly half-bent down, put his head close to Xia Ye, and asked in a low voice: "Why did the second officer's speech suddenly become normal?"

"...You're quite gossip." Xia Ye looked at her in surprise.

"I'm trying to understand the status of my subordinates." Yaha explained.

"Well, it doesn't hurt to tell you... I told her I believed what she said."

"What?!" Yaha's voice couldn't help but get louder.

"Hush... I haven't finished yet. I said to her again: Her world may have sent a killer to hunt her down. If you want to avoid being discovered by the killer, you should not be too conspicuous. At least your speaking style must imitate the people around you." .”

"..." Yaha was stunned when he heard it, and it took a while before he sighed: "This is fighting poison with poison..."

"What's 'fighting poison with poison'?" Xia Ye retorted dissatisfiedly: "It was the incomparable beauty and wisdom of this witch who healed Miss Tang Li, who was eager to be understood!"

Yaha: "..."

"Speaking of which, I also have a question to ask you." Xia Ye continued.

"what?"

"Why do you find these second officers, chief engineers... etc. weird? It seems that the first officer is more normal." Xia Ye asked
Yaha: "Then let me tell you in advance, the first officer is also the same, but it hasn't been revealed yet."

Xia Ye: "..."

Yaha: "As for the reason, as I told you before, if he was normal and powerful, he would have been recruited away long ago, and it would be my turn to be the bankrupt captain? Only among these abnormal people can it be possible to choose to a few great ones."

Xia Ye: "I suddenly discovered..."

Yaha: "Find what?"

The crew's report suddenly interrupted their conversation.

"Captain, the chief engineer reports that the thermal inspection of the propeller has been completed, and it can enter the ram propulsion state at any time."

Yaha didn't care about chatting with Xia Ye any more, and immediately issued an order: "Engineer crew immediately evacuate from the thruster cabin."

"After 1 minute, change the configuration of the barrier and no longer cover the etheric ram thruster."

"Inflate the airbags and prepare to enter the ram cruise state."

"Right rudder five, return to center after 10 seconds, and enter the latest planned route."

……

In the blink of an eye, Yaha had issued a series of orders, and the crew members who received the orders repeated and executed them one after another.

The airbag in the shape of a shuttle began to discharge the filling gas, and quickly deflated. Through the window of the cab, Xia Ye saw several crew members dexterously jumping onto the airbag bracket, and the slender girls pushed the huge airbag effortlessly. The metal components quickly folded the skeleton of the airbag and fixed it firmly on both sides of the ship's side.

Structural strengthening.

Xia Ye, who saw this scene, made a judgment in her heart.

This is one of the most commonly used witch contracts by whalers, and it is also a very interesting contract.It can strengthen the body structure of the person who made the contract, and can also strengthen any physical structure, or even a conceptual structure; and if the distance between the person who made the contract and the mechanical structure is close enough, it can strengthen both at the same time, and significantly increase the strengthening effect. magnitude.

The crew members who folded the airbags with their bare hands just now were able to easily put away the metal components weighing several tons based on this effect.

Because of the existence of this contract, most of the functions on the whaling ship are realized by "manpower", including setting up and retracting the airbag, lifting and lowering the anchor...even the rudder controlled by the helmsman only has a simple transmission device, And no booster.

The benefits of doing so are of course obvious-the cost has been greatly reduced.

More than [-]% of the manufacturing cost of the whaling ship is concentrated on the ether ram thruster and the whaling cannon. As for the rest, it is just a bunch of strong and cheap metal components that have neither technical content nor magical content.

After the airbags were retracted, the bow of the Debusota began to gradually tilt downward.According to Yaha, the ether can provide a certain buoyancy to the object.The higher the velocity relative to the ether, the greater the buoyancy; the larger the space occupied in the ether, the greater the buoyancy, and the whaling ship after retracting the airbag reduces its own volume, and the buoyancy obtained also decreases accordingly. , it is necessary to increase the speed to make up for this part of the loss of buoyancy.

"Forward four." Yaha ordered. "Report the pitch angle."

"The current depression angle is 10." The helmsman shouted, and at the same time pushed the handle on the console to the bottom, "It has entered forward four! It is expected to start the ram afterburner propulsion in 10 seconds.

"5 seconds!"

"4, 3, 2, 1—"

The roaring sound at the stern suddenly became high-pitched, and the whole ship began to vibrate. The etheric ramjet thruster was finally "ignited", the blades of the turbofan were locked, and the etheric wind without barriers was blown into the space in the thruster. The cavity, detonated under the constraint of the magic field, produced unparalleled thrust.

At the tail of the Debusota, two golden flames lit up, the color of which was brighter than any golden cloud in the etheric sea, like two golden shooting stars across the sky.

With a strong sense of acceleration, Xia Ye had to grab the pillar beside him to stabilize his body.In the violent shaking, the sea of ​​clouds in front of him receded rapidly, and the speed of the whaler became faster and faster.

"Report the current speed." Yaha spoke again.

"Current speed - 180 knots... 190 knots... 200."

"Horizontal rudder, five degrees of elevation."

"Horizontal rudder, five degrees of elevation!" The helmsman repeated, and pulled the lever next to the rudder vigorously.

The buoyancy provided by the speed gradually showed its effect, and the Debsota no longer dived downwards. Under the control of the horizontal rudder, the bow was raised again, and the whaling ship quickly returned to the height before the airbags were retracted.

"Flat rudder, forward two, enter the ram cruise mode." Yaha ordered.

"Flat rudder, forward two, ram cruise mode."

The roar of the thrusters finally subsided into a low hum, and the ship returned to a level state.

"The 1 knot you mentioned means 1.9 kilometers per hour?" Xia Ye asked suddenly.

"To be precise, it is 1.852 km/h." Yaha replied.After entering the cruising state, she was finally free.

"Oh..." Xia Ye nodded and said nothing.

She calculated silently in her heart.

巡航速度200节，也就是大约370公里每小时。这个世界每天同样是24小时。也就是说，捕鲸船五天可以航行370*24*5=44400公里，也就是4.44万公里。

In the world before crossing, the circumference of the earth was only 4 kilometers.In other words, during these five days, they will sail a distance sufficient to circle the earth, and this distance can only reach the nearest island to Debusota.

so--

If what she is currently on is also a planet, then how big should this planet be? !

(End of this chapter)