Chapter 906: A World Full of Unknowns

"There are so many mysterious and unknown things in this world..."

Sitting in the office of the Port Military Administration, Byron couldn't help but sigh.

Outside the window, the sound of the tidal waves from the distant sea rises and falls, and there are occasional chirping of seabirds passing by the port area. The sloping sunlight pours into the large building complex of Beigang from the vast sea all the way, in those brand-new slopes. , houses, towers, and fences cast a well-defined light and shadow, and a group of soldiers strutted in a neat line to the observation deck of the changing of the guard. On the cement road, merchants who responded to the recruitment were lined up at the checkpoint waiting to pass, and the roar of construction machinery came from farther away—that was the direction of the No. 2 port connecting bridge.

There is a soft warm wind blowing in the office of the management office. Two visitor representatives are sitting on the back chairs by the desk. There is a golden pendant in front, and he is seriously studying several crystal utensils placed on the table. The other is a woman who is almost covered with scales and tough leather, as if a human and some kind of deep sea creature fused together—— The latter is particularly striking. Her lower limbs, which are similar to the fusion of sea snakes and fish, "sit" on the chair in a very awkward posture. The extra tail half doesn't seem to know how to place it, and it has been shaking awkwardly. Although the upper body is clearly visible The female form, but with the characteristics of deep-sea creatures everywhere.

Byron's eyes couldn't help falling on the "Naga" again, and he explained: "Sorry, Ms. Helen, I don't mean to offend - but it is indeed the first time I have seen Naga with my own eyes."

"Everyone should see 'Naga' for the first time," the female Naga who was sitting awkwardly in the chair smiled and didn't seem to care, "After all, we were just... reborn not long ago. "

"Your crystal processing technology is not the same as before," the blue-haired woman sitting beside seemed to be completely ignorant of the conversation between Byron and Helen, she picked up the cup on the table curiously and shook it, "I remember The last time I saw the artificial white crystal on land, there were still a lot of impurities and bubbles in it, which can only be used as the base material for the rune after being broken..."

"Uh... Crafts and utensil-level white crystals have been around for many years..." Byron didn't care about the interruption of the lady siren, but just showed a hint of doubt, "Ms. Viola, can I ask you When was the 'last time'?"

"...I can't remember clearly, I don't care much about things outside the technical field, but I vaguely remember that at that time you humans were still trying to break through the offshore blockade..." Lan, known as Ms. Viola The siren thought for a while, and nodded seriously, "Well, now you are also trying to break through the offshore blockade, so it shouldn't be long."

Byron was stunned for a moment before he realized how the other party's timeline jumped, and he was immediately stunned: "You may not be talking about the era of sailing seven hundred years ago... It's been seven centuries now,

Ms Viola! "

The blue-haired siren spread his hands: "Look, I said it won't be long."

Rao is that Byron, who has always been eloquent and responsive, doesn't know how to answer such a topic at the moment, but Naga Helen on the side helped break the embarrassment: "The sea-monster's concept of time is very different from that of humans, and Ms. Viola's concept of time is very... powerful even in the Kraken. Please understand that."

"Oh, oh... Of course, of course, in fact, I also know some immortal races, but I can understand the difference between you and humans in terms of time concept," Byron was stunned for a while, then nodded and said, and then he took He stood up with a smile and opened his hands to welcome the two visitors who came from afar, "Anyway, I am very grateful for the technical assistance Io provided to Cecil. The technical team you brought is very important to Beigang. Crucial. We're at a critical point in the whole project right now - would you be interested in visiting the shipyard with me? The rest of the technical team should already be there."

Naga Helen immediately jumped off the chair, and a smile appeared on the heterogenized face: "Of course, we are here for this."

...

On the east side of Beigang, in the newly built shipyard near the sheltered bay, the roar of machinery is constantly being heard, and the tense and busy construction work is gradually coming to an end.

A new ship with steel as the main body is lying quietly in the dry dock. The large number of support structures on both sides of the hull make it stable. On the scaffolding distributed along the hull and skeleton, skilled workers are checking the ship. key structures of the new vessel and confirm that the vital power ridges are in place. In several openings in the hull that have not been closed, the flashes of welding light up one after another, where the builders responsible for the construction are closing the mechanical structure and key cabin sections everywhere.

On the ground at the end of the dock, there is a platform several meters above the ground, on which the technicians responsible for shipbuilding and some special "guests" are gathered.

Some of them were humans in Cecil Navy or Technician uniforms, while the rest were beautiful women and "Naga" with distinct deep-sea creature features. These people are watching the construction progress on the slipway not far away. Some people reach out and point at various parts of the ship. Some people hold drawings in their hands and interpret the contents of the drawings to the people next to them.

Obviously, the "cooperation" of these people has just begun, and they are still very unfamiliar with each other. Human technicians can't help but put their curious eyes on those Krakens and Naga, and the latter always It was because they were curious about the other magical machines in this shipbuilding facility. They discussed and chatted from time to time, but in general, the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

A magic car stopped near the platform, and Byron, Viola, and Helen got off the car. Helen was still curiously looking at the "weird car" she had just ridden in, but Viola had already Put your eyes on the berth. Byron looked at the platform not far away, his eyes swept over the Kraken and Naga who had been mixed with his technicians, and couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Looking at the atmosphere, good……"

In fact, the technicians only arrived in North Harbor yesterday - they suddenly emerged from the nearby sea, and they surprised the patrolmen on the beach at the time. After a hurried welcome ceremony, these "technical experts" from afar went directly to work.

They came earlier than everyone expected. Fortunately, the relevant news reached Byron's ears as early as a few weeks ago. A lot of information about the Naga and the Kraken has been conveyed through the audio-visual materials at the meeting in the past few weeks. Given to the main staff of the port facilities, these "deep-sea visitors" did not cause any confusion in Beigang.

This special "deep sea expert group" is led by the Kraken "Viola", a beautiful lady with blue hair who claims to be a "deep sea witch" - which seems to be a technical position according to the Kraken name. In addition, Viola has two main Naga assistants, one of them is Helen, and the other is a male Naga nicknamed "The Philosopher" - that Naga did not show up in the management office, Instead, he followed the other Krakens and Naga to the shipyard early in the morning. Now he is standing on the platform not far away, but Byron can't really distinguish the appearance of Naga, and he can't see where. One is him.

"This is the ship you built..." Viola's eyes moved slowly on the slipway, the big ship with a metal shell was reflected in her beautiful eyes, she looked at the streamlined bottom of the ship, placed on the two sides of the hull. The magical energy wings on the side and some structures on the deck nodded slightly, "The artificial ship on land is very different from our means of transportation, but at least it looks reasonable."

"There's nothing wrong with the external structure," Naga Helen on the side also nodded, "but... we didn't expect you to have come this far. I thought you would wait until we arrive before actually starting to build a new ship."

"When the North Harbor started construction, no one could say when you would come, and we couldn't just stop everything and wait for someone else's technical team," Byron said with a smile, "and we have experience in inland shipbuilding. , although these experiences may not be useful at sea, at least it is more than enough to build an experimental offshore sample ship. For us, this will not only allow the various facilities in Beigang to get on track as soon as possible, but also accumulate valuable experience of."

Byron was very candid, but there were still some things he didn't say. In fact, before the technical team of the Krakens set off, Gawain had discussed with him about building a sea ship. There is a rule that two people It is very recognized that no matter when the third-party technical experts come or not, Cecil's own R&D and construction projects should be carried out according to the plan, even if this will cause some loss of resources, from laying a solid foundation And from the point of view of mastering technology and accumulating experience, everything is worth it.

After all, foreigners are foreigners after all, and no matter how good the technical experts are, they are not their own. It is good to have good relations with more allies, but it is very different to base your major projects on the help of other technical experts. Not wise.

Byron didn't know if the "Deep Sea Witch" beside him and the "Naga" who used to be the son of the storm on the other side could think of this, he didn't care much about it, he just looked at the boat on the slipway with some proud eyes. A beautiful steel ship with a smile on his face: "It's a beautiful ship, isn't it?"

"Does it have a name?" Helen looked at Byron with curiosity in her yellow-brown vertical pupils.

"...Actually, I wanted to call it 'The Pea' at first, but His Majesty didn't agree, and my daughter kept talking about me for half an hour," Byron shrugged, "now its official name is 'Curiosity' ', I think this is also in line with its positioning - it will be a symbol of human beings exploring the sea again after the end of the classical navigation era, we will use it to reopen the offshore route of the northwest ring of the continent, and try to explore the distinction between the far sea and the near sea. boundaries."

"Curiosity... is indeed a good name," Helen blinked, and the long tail covered with scales swept across the ground, bringing a rustling sound, "Curiosity..."

This Naga's tone seems to be a bit complicated. She may be thinking of the courage and exploration of human beings when they first marched into the sea, or the short-term glory of the Church of Storms in the era of classical sailing, or the priests of the storm. Falling into the darkness, the regrettable situation of human beings staying away from the sea for hundreds of years... However, the scales on her cheeks and the body that she has not yet fully grasped prevent her from making the rich expression changes as when she was a human, so in the end she All sighs can only be attributed to a sigh.

...

On the platform at the end of the dry dock, a tall, sunken-eyed male Naga with pale blue scales covered his skin withdrew his gaze towards the sea at the end of the dock.

A Naga companion was joking next to him: "Philosopher, don't you want to write poetry again? You have been showing such a sigh today."

"I'm just thinking about what else needs to be improved and modified in Curiosity," the tall male Naga with deep-set eyes glanced at his companion, "The technology adopted by this ship is very important to us. Unfamiliar, the ships built by the Church of the Storms were all powered by magic, manpower and sails, but Curiosity mainly relied on magic machinery to propel... The power system is different, and the hull structure and various characteristics of sailing will be completely different. , these are things that have to be considered.”

"Indeed," a sea monster deep-water technician nodded, "although we are here to provide technical support, we also need to study human magic technology to figure out how to support it..."

"Human..." The Naga technician nicknamed "The Philosopher" couldn't help muttering softly when he heard the word, but then he shook his head, "But no matter how it changes, the laws of nature will never change, The fundamentals of how ships sail will not change much.”

His speech was quickly recognized by the technicians present. These technicians from different races and forces, and even different ways of understanding the world, got together again and began to study the drawings of Curiosity.

Standing not far from the platform, Byron paid attention to the movements of the technicians on the platform. As an extraordinary person, he could hear their discussions - purely technical matters, this "Marshal" did not know, But things other than technology, he wants to understand.

When it comes to exploring the sea, the people of Typhon have indeed taken a step earlier. They started earlier and have a richer heritage. They have better coastlines and natural ports. There are also unique natural resources between the near sea and the far sea that can be used for construction progress. The natural island chain of the base is too great to ignore.

But the Cecils will still play catch-up with confidence.

The Cecils know magic techniques, the Naga who were once the children of the storm know how to build ships, and the sirens know the sea.

Now, these three things have come together.

That's the Cecil's advantage in this field.

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