Chapter 121: Floating Shell

Just as the New World was changing, Moria was also having a headache.

Last time, Moria's Terror, the three-masted sailing ship, was actually an island, relying on floating objects to sail on the sea.

This time, in order to better transform the Terror three-masted sailing ship, Moria conducted a thorough investigation of the entire Terror three-masted sailing ship to prepare for the transformation plan of the Terror three-masted sailing ship.

But the problem lies precisely here.

At the beginning, when the ancients built this ship, the bottom of the Terror three-masted sailing ship was a complete and hard rock layer to ensure the firmness of the ship, but the solid rock could not withstand the erosion of the years.

After investigation, it was found that over the years, under the action of the ocean current, the rock at the bottom of the Terror three-masted sailing ship has been eroded into many irregular caves, and some caves have penetrated into the rock layer. Although these caves are still relatively small and have no impact now, as time goes by, they will sooner or later penetrate the entire rock layer. At that time, the Terror three-masted sailing ship will not escape the fate of sinking.

Moreover, the different degrees of erosion of the various parts of the bottom rock layer will lead to some weak areas, and these weak rock layers can no longer support the weight of the horror three-masted sailboat, and cracks begin to appear. These cracks can be large or small. The most serious one has formed a huge gap after years of seawater erosion. Although this huge gap has no effect on the even larger horror three-masted sailboat for the time being, it has already shown that the rock layer under the horror three-masted sailboat is already in danger, and the horror three-masted sailboat is in danger of sinking at any time.

According to the plot, Moria's horror three-masted sailboat was safe and sound when Luffy went to sea, and it was very solid even after the war. But even so, Moria thinks it is better to solve this problem first, and Moria does not want to bury any hidden dangers.

Ordinary pirate ships can be towed to the dock for repair if the bottom of the ship leaks, but this is a horror three-masted sailboat. Where in the world is there such a large dock? I am afraid that the entire Seven Waters City is not as big as Moria's horror three-masted sailboat!

And if you want to repair it, you have to replace the entire horror three-masted sailing ship with a super huge and complete rock foundation, which is simply impossible. Moria can lift a big ship, but he can't lift such an island. Therefore, there is only one plan left, which is to gradually transform this horror three-masted sailing ship into a real ship, not an island floating on the sea.

The difficulty of transforming the horror three-masted sailing ship is more difficult than rebuilding such a super giant.

After all, when you start designing and building such a giant again, many things can be done on land, and the difficulty of the subsequent work is greatly reduced. However, the horror three-masted sailing ship is not good. Not only can it not go ashore, but there is not even a port to dock, because such a ship is too huge and too close to the island. It will run aground due to the depth of the sea water, not to mention going ashore.

All the work must be done on the sea, which undoubtedly brings great difficulties.

Until now, the design drawings of the transformation of the horror three-masted sailing ship have only been roughly, and many details need to be continuously improved in the future.

Among them, the renovation of the bottom of the ship is the top priority and the most difficult part. After this is done, the rest will be much easier.

After many consultations, reasoning and argumentation, Tielun and his team finally proposed a feasible bottom renovation plan.

This bottom renovation plan is completely different from ordinary ships. Once a general ship leaks, it will begin to sink. If no measures are taken in time, the ship will eventually sink into the sea. And this plan is to deliberately put seawater into the cabin. In this way, it can ensure that the horror three-masted sailing ship will not sink.

What is going on?

The answer is the small shell in Moria's hand.

This is a very magical shell with a very light weight. If it does not hold on to rocks or other solid objects, its own buoyancy will allow it to float out of the sea and float on the sea surface.

The reason why Moria's horror three-masted sailing ship can float on the sea is because of the extraordinary buoyancy of this shell.

Before, the various floating objects that Tielun saw were actually just auxiliary to better steer the ship, and the real main force was this shell named by Moria as a floating shell.

This shell, in terms of appearance, is actually no different from ordinary shells, and even the inside is no different, but after careful analysis, Moria's scientific research department found that the reason why this floating shell is so buoyant is that there is a special substance in its shell, and it is this special substance that makes the floating shell so buoyant.

Therefore, the plan proposed by Tielun and others to transform the horror three-masted sailboat is to deliberately put seawater into the cabin, fill the cabin with seawater, and be able to raise this floating shell, using its powerful buoyancy to make the horror three-masted sailboat a giant ship that will never sink.

However, it is easier said than done.

The horror three-masted sailboat, such a huge ship, has a huge amount of materials to prepare, not to mention the complex construction stage.

In order to improve efficiency, Tielun adopted two construction methods, internal and external, to proceed simultaneously. On land, the cabin was built from top to bottom, gradually advancing to the bottom rock layer. In the sea, it was from bottom to top, first starting to clean up the rotten wood and remove obstacles.

However, Moria still underestimated the aging of the horror three-masted sailboat. When digging into the rock layer, there was a very small crack on the rock layer, which no one found. As a result, on the second day, seawater began to rush in along the cracks in the rock layer, causing a large-scale collapse of the tunnel, and at the same time, many people were drowned.

This incident ruined the original plan. Now, due to the influx of seawater, the horror three-masted sailboat has sunk 3 meters. Fortunately, the project on the hospital side was not affected, but the plan to transform the hull had to be delayed indefinitely.

After all, no one can work in the water for a long time, even if Moria has equipped them with diving tools such as diving suits and submarines.

The renovation project is still going on, but the progress is too slow. If it goes on like this, it may not be completed in ten years.

It seems that we must go to Fishman Island once, otherwise, this project will not be able to continue.

However, it is not easy to recruit those fishmen!

Due to Fisher's incident and the death of Otohime, the contradiction between Fishman Island and humans is unprecedentedly sharp. The World Government invited Jinbei to become a Seven Warlords of the Sea, which is also out of consideration to ease racial conflicts, but even so, the contradiction between Fishman Island and humans is still very large. Moria wants to recruit a large number of fishmen to help him transform the Terror Bark, but it is probably difficult!

However, there is no way. No matter how difficult it is, Moria has to bite the bullet. He can't really wait for ten years to complete it because of this matter!

Moreover, he has released his goodwill through Jinbei before, and I believe that Jinbei will not object to this matter.