Chapter 610 Island Reef
The sun was shining brightly and the sea breeze was blowing. After the torture in the middle of the night last night, until seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the Harmony finally got rid of the storm.
Bing Zhixie, Alice, and Hullington lay weakly on the deck, letting the Harmony float slowly.
“It was really like a nightmare. After flying in that storm for three or four hours, I thought I couldn’t escape.” Hullington looked at the sky with his whole body paralyzed. Several birds Seabirds fluttered and landed beside him.
"My arms are sore now, and I have no strength at all." Alice yawned: "I really want to sleep, so just sleep here." She really closed her mouth after saying that. eyes.
Bingzhixie said: "This is also the first time I have seen such a terrifying storm." He added: "The ocean has been a restricted area for exploration since ancient times. Legend has it that once you go deep into the ocean to a certain extent, you will encounter very terrible disasters. . Before, I thought these were just rumors made up by sailors, but now it seems..."
“This is not a rumor.” Hullington said: “No one has ever reached the end of the ocean. Those explorers have covered almost every inch of the continent, but for the vast The ocean has always been explored offshore, and those who explore the depths of the ocean have never come back."< br>
Bing Zhixie rested his head on his hands and said, "You know a lot."
Hughington smiled: "After all, I am several years older than you, so I always know a lot. Things you don’t know.” After a while, he added: “These are things I heard from others. I went there before. I have been to several coastal cities, and I like the atmosphere of the seaside city. I can always see many sexy beauties at beach parties, hehe. "
" Ha" Bing Zhixie chuckled. For a moment: "But I always feel that the storm last night was not that simple."
Hurlington was confused: "Huh? What do you mean?"
Bing Zhixie shook his head: "I don't know, it's just a feeling." He suddenly turned over and stood up, looking at the bird that was preening its feathers on the deck. The children were all frightened away by him. He said: "Hey, I think we should find a place to stop first. The airship must be seriously damaged. We can repair as much as we can."
"Okay, okay." Hugh It took a lot of effort for Linton to get up and saw Alice still lying on the ground. I went up to her, but found that she was really asleep: "Hey, get up, go to the room to sleep, you will catch a cold if you sleep here."
"Well..." Alice faintly When I woke up, my mind was still spinning, and I stumbled and almost fell. She stood up unsteadily and threw herself at Bing Zhixie: "I'm so dizzy. Master, please carry me back to the room to sleep." But her head was too dizzy, and she didn't throw herself at Bing Zhixie, but she did. On Hurlington.
Hughington's warm and nephrite hug made him feel comfortable. He smiled as he saw Alice carrying him back to the room.
Bing Zhixie flew the Harmony airship for a while and found an island reef in the sea to stop. Hullington tidied up the scattered things in the room.
This island reef is actually only more than 300 meters in size. There is a flat place on the island where the Harmony can land. Bing Zhixie slowly drove the airship down. The bottom of the Harmony had a special buffer bracket for landing to avoid direct collision between the bottom cabin and the ground and cause damage.
After the Harmony was parked, Hullington untied the anchor cable from the cabin and fixed it to the reef. The two jumped on the reef to take a closer look. Sure enough, the Harmony was damaged a lot, and the outer outline was bent and deformed in many places. Especially the left side, which was the strongest pulled by the wind last night, the guardrail on the side of the boat was almost completely damaged. It was blown and bent. However, the airbag of the Harmony airship did not suffer much damage. The material of the airbag is very tough and cannot be easily torn. Moreover, the airbag of the Harmony airship uses a more advanced soft airbag. There is no skeleton support inside the airbag. Multiple auxiliary airbags are used to fill the interior. Even if the main airbag breaks several holes, it will not affect the normal flight of the airship.
Bing Zhixie checked it over and found that the damage to the Harmony was not as severe as he expected. After all, you get what you pay for. An airship worth more than 200,000 yuan is worth less than those worth 80,000 or 90,000 yuan. The low-end rigid airship is much stronger. However, the Harmony was indeed seriously damaged. Six of the wind-driven devices were damaged to varying degrees, and three were completely broken. There were also many other parts damaged, but it was still possible to continue sailing.
After Hughington checked the inside of the airship, he came out and said to Bingzhixie: "A lot of things were damaged, but it doesn't matter much. It's just that the compass seems to have malfunctioned."
"What!" Bing Zhixie flew back to the flying cockpit, and sure enough she saw that the compass embedded in the cockpit was not pointing north and south, but pointing to other degrees. No matter how hard she patted it, she couldn't see it turning back. Bing Zhixie said: "It's too bad."
"How bad." Hullington was startled and said, "You didn't buy a spare compass, right?"
< br>Bing Zhixie asked back: "Did you buy it?"
The two looked at each other, obviously ignoring this section.
Hurlington cursed: "Damn, this is really bad. Without the compass navigation, how can we fly to the next station?" Did he know that losing the compass to identify the direction on the sea is a fatal thing? things. This is not like walking on the mainland, you can always reach the end, but on the vast sea, there is a scene everywhere, the Harmony can really only become a headless fly, flying around, maybe If you fly in the wrong direction and get further and further away from the mainland, you will be in trouble.
Both Bing Zhixie and Hullington have traveled alone on the mainland. When they were in the forest and snow fields, he and Alice observed the stars in the sky and walked to Danlu without a compass. Er plain. However, the sea is no better than the Forest Sea Snowfield. The Forest Sea Snowfield must be smaller after all. As long as the direction is good, no matter how you walk, it won't be any worse. But on the sea, a slight difference can lead to a loss of thousands of miles, and you may not know where you will fly.
Bingzhixie said: "Maybe the magnetic needle malfunctioned due to the impact of lightning when traveling through the storm. We should try to take a break and see if it can be repaired."
Harmony There were some simple repair tools on board. Although neither of them had any experience in repairing airships, they could still repair some simple things, but the compass could not be repaired.
They worked on it until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, when Hurlington became hungry and Bing Zhixie gave up, so the two of them stopped. Hurlington made some food and woke up Alice. The three of them and General Shock ate dully on the reef.
Hullington, who was cooking, said: "We don't have much food. We have been at sea for almost twenty days. The food supplies we bought in the harbor have been exhausted. The first and second level wind crystals are still available. Some of them are enough to provide power, we just need to figure out the direction."
Bing Zhixie. Said: "If we don't quickly find the right direction to return to the mainland, food will come second. What if we get sick or injured at sea?"
Hughington picked up the Haishi map next to him. Unrolled the book, pointed at the chart and said: "We should have been here before the storm, but after the storm we In the end, we were just thinking about escaping, and we didn’t know where we were flying to. Judging from the previous location, we were still more than ten days away from our intended destination, and the closest route to the mainland was also five or six days away. If there are stars tonight, the best way is to find the direction and fly back to the mainland first. "
Bing Zhixie nodded: "That's what we have to do."
Alice didn't have as many worries as they did. After eating in a few bites, she took a look around the island. Looking to the west, I found a big crab under the reef, and then I found a small starfish. It was her first time on the island and she found it very novel. While she was playing with General Xiao Ke, she suddenly found a bottle floating among the rocks: "Hey, it's strange, why is there a wine bottle here."
She picked up the wine bottle and took a look. It was a green glass wine bottle, covered with green-brown seaweed, moss and other microorganisms. It was slippery in her hands. There was a cork stuck on the bottle mouth. The stuffing was badly rotted, and it looked like it had been soaked in sea water for a long time.
"Some sailor must have thrown it away." Alice held it in her hand, it was indeed an empty bottle, and was about to throw it away. But suddenly I found that where the hand had touched, the algae mud had been wiped away, revealing a small paper roll inside the bottle...
(End of this chapter)