Chapter 979 Room Card

A few minutes later, Hermione, Hannah and Luna roughly finished reading the profile of Hyperion displayed by Elena in mid-air.

The Hyperion is a large ship made in the former Soviet Union. After being purchased at a low price by Hogwarts, it underwent some superficial magical modifications similar to the Hogwarts Express. Its main purpose is to pick up and drop off the ship like Durmstrang. students in remote areas, and fishing.

After all, most teachers and students at Hogwarts prefer to eat fish, and the school has always consumed a lot of seafood and aquatic products.

In the long run, the Black Lake alone will not be able to continuously supply the normal needs of thousands of teachers and students. Instead of frequently purchasing ingredients from Muggle markets, purchasing an ocean-going fishing boat to be self-sufficient will obviously be more in line with the magical world and the Hogwarts in action.

As for why this boat can fly, it is mainly because some fish can fly, and it is easier to park in this way.

Anyway, overall, this is a very easy thing to understand, and there is nothing to doubt...

That’s weird!

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Hermione and Luna stared at Elena closely, looking angry as if they were being teased.

Among everyone present, probably only the easy-to-fool Tie Hanhan would foolishly believe it.

"Oh, so we are going to go fishing in the open sea?! Really!"

Hannah said excitedly, lying on the transparent wall next to the bridge and looking at the coastline below. .

She has never gone fishing before.

"Okay," Hermione raised her brows impatiently, "First of all, this is obviously not a fishing boat, and the boat can't fly; secondly, most of what we eat in Hogwarts It’s freshwater fish and a small amount of shellfish, and the amount of seafood is pitiful——”

"Start the energy-saving mode, turn on the steam turbine at full power, and make a short jump to the water ahead!"

Elena tapped her fingers lightly on the command board in front of her and said with a smile.

Following Elena's voice, about a third of the bridge personnel returned their gaze to the operating console.

The Hyperion's power system is divided into two parts, one part is the original aircraft carrier propulsion, and the other part is the blessing of the magic side.

But generally speaking, except for "space jump" and "flight mode", most of the time the Hyperion still relies on its original huge steam turbine unit to move forward and turn. This is also the reason why the Hyperion changed from Huo Another reason for the Gwarts area to move.

If the suspension mode is to be maintained, at least twenty wizards must participate in maintenance every day.

In a non-war situation, this is really a waste of manpower.

boom!

A few seconds later, the ship's hull shook violently.

The clouds that originally lingered around the bridge disappeared in an instant, and were replaced by an endless sea.

The waves stirred up when the Hyperion entered the water rose at least tens of meters high. However, when they followed the inertia to the top of the Hyperion and were about to hit the empty steel deck, an invisible layer of ground flashed past quickly, silently. Spreading the waves apart, they slid down from both sides.

"By the way, I admit that the Hyperion is indeed not a ship -"

Elena blinked, moved her fingers in mid-air, and brought up an exquisite three-dimensional hull model.

Next to the blue three-dimensional light curtain pattern, densely detailed parameters are marked.

Different from the version registered on the side of the Ministry of Magic that Hermione and the others saw just now, on this introduction panel, the classification of the Hyperion is no longer a large flat-top ocean fishing boat, but several other ones that they have some Phrases made of unfamiliar words...

"Cruiser Voler Nuclear/Mana?"

Hermione frowned and muttered softly, looking at Elena with confusion on her face.

"What do these words mean? So, what kind of ship are we on now?"

"The nuclear/magic hybrid aviation cruiser, referred to as CVN/M, is a special transportation vehicle... Well, in the non-magical world, it is considered a military-grade transportation vehicle. It is mainly used to carry carrier-based aircraft, torpedoes, small submarines and other warfare The weapon, but now it belongs to Hogwarts..."

"Eh?! Are there any carrier-based aircraft or something up here now?" Hannah said, looking around with shining eyes.

For her, who grew up in the wizarding world, those "Muggle war weapons" just sounded interesting.

"A small part has been dismantled. And more of them have not been installed yet."

Elena shrugged helplessly. If possible, she would also like to get a few Su-27Ks to try.

However, at this point, it is too difficult to smuggle cutting-edge arms from the former Soviet Union - Dumbledore and Grindelwald are not stupid people with dementia. There is no such thing as importing fourth-generation fighter jets from the non-magical world. The method is registered with the Ministry of Magic for civilian use.

Moreover, even if those precious carrier-based aircraft are obtained, the technology trees and personnel in the magic world will not be able to exert any effect.

Elena realized this very clearly after launching an operation in the former Soviet Union.

With the addition of the variable "magic", the original non-magical and magical war models can no longer be copied as cases.

She was on a path she had never imagined.

Obviously, in addition to the top wizards at the strategic deterrence level, wizards also have to update their conventional "alchemy props".

Of course, although most of the core attack methods on the Hyperion have not been implemented, as a modified version of the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the former Soviet Union, it still has something in line with the characteristics of a fighting nation, at least Binimi. This level is much more luxurious.

She glanced at the information on the captain's command screen and pointed in the direction of the bridge exit.

"We won't arrive at the base for a while, do you want to take a look? There just happened to be a new batch of interesting gadgets."

"Little...thing?"

Hermione repeated doubtfully, looking around her surroundings.

If she remembered correctly, this white-haired dumpling had always lacked normal conceptual standards in terms of value and quantity.

Whether it's money, size, strength, scale of conflict...the quantifiers that come out of Elena's mouth are never very reliable.

In more than a year of getting along, the worldview that Hermione spent twelve years building had completely cracked, and began to change into Elena's shape.

"Well, don't worry, it's not some boring weapons like naval guns, ship-based missiles, and fish launchers..."

Elena smiled and waved her hands, making slight gestures with her hands in front of her chest.

"The final product may be smaller than Luna's broom, but it shouldn't be simplified yet, but it won't be particularly big. As for the other things you want to see... Well, first mate, find an unmanned space this weekend. District, let’s conduct a weapons test firing exercise.”

As she spoke, she turned her head and glanced at the goblin first mate beside her who was hesitant to speak, and added with a slight smile.

"The budget comes from Hogwarts. After all, this is a teaching experiment. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Your wishes! Your Majesty the Queen."

The first goblin mate stood up straight excitedly and answered with great enthusiasm.

Along with Elena's words, its dark face even showed a hint of dark red excitement.

Hogwarts' current assets are no less than those of Gringotts. As one of the issuers and guarantors of the new [Hawking], this ancient magic school is too important in the financial circle of today's wizarding world. The most important thing is, Hogwarts is too strict and cautious in its closed financial loop.

You know, there are not many opportunities to use Hogwarts' funds to carry out activities like this.

If understood by the non-magical financial industry, Elena's words are almost equivalent to the issuance of floating currency.

"Well, I'm looking forward to it - I'll write to Douglas and Dumbledore later..."

Elena nodded lightly, glanced at the voyage time estimate on the bridge, and turned to leave.

Speaking of which, since purchasing this large ship from the former Soviet Union, it seems that she has not completely completed the inspection process.

Just take this opportunity to see how much conventional shipboard firepower there is in this era, and how much room the Hyperion has for growth.

By the way...

Elena's eyes swept over the three wings behind her, and the corners of her mouth were raised slightly.

As reserve members of the O5 Council, they should also see what it means to be equal to justice.

The petty fights in Hogwarts Castle are too low-level. If too much energy is invested in those small-scale fights and quarrels, they may become a local evil group like Voldemort. It is better to do everything possible. Expand their horizons as early as possible.

"Mysterious, you're not leading us to see firearms or anything like that, are you?"

Hermione glanced reluctantly at the high-tech and magical bridge, as if she didn't want to leave.

"Of course not," Elena said, "Well, strictly speaking, it has something to do with the carrier-based aircraft... Do you want to go?"

"Planes? Those iron birds that Muggles fly around in the sky?"

Hannah and Luna were clearly interested.

As for Hermione, she would naturally not object at this time.

Anyway, they had a weekend, and she was not in a hurry to figure everything out on the bridge now.

So, without hesitating for too long, they quickly left the Hyperion bridge.

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The petal-like hatch at the bridge exit opens and closes.

However, as they stepped out of the bridge again, Hermione noticed that they were not back to where they started.

This was not the elevator that Elena had led them to the bridge before. To her, it looked more like a strange altar. In the small semi-elliptical space, dozens of unfamiliar magic runes were on the walls. Flashing, there is a cylindrical metal stand in the center.

There are several deep grooves carved into the center of the metal platform, as well as some strange circular holes.

Before Hermione could ask, Elena suddenly pulled out her wand and inserted it into one of the holes.

The next moment, all the flickering magic runes lit up.

On the bare metal wall, a panel drawn with blue light paths appeared, with the names of hundreds of different rooms and areas densely written on it. In the center, there were several large apertures. , surrounded by flickering names.

"This is the navigation method inside the Hyperion... Let's go to the hangar now."

Elena explained casually, quickly selecting one of the names on the wall.

"The area you can go to is bound to everyone's identity. Your wand information has not been entered yet, but you can use the metal identity card I gave you before as a temporary basis for passage. Of course, you can also regard it as Your room card——"

"--room card?"

"Well, didn't I tell you before? We are living on the boat these days."

"But I thought we weren't going to that base..."

"The base? Of course we will go. But..." Elena smiled enigmatically, "It's not for people to live there."

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