How to become a mermaid

Chapter 42 Take Off
The location of Crystal Stone Island is not too far from Settra Island.

If you don't consider passing through any islands and take the fastest route, you will need to travel more than 300 nautical miles.

This distance is out of reach for fishing boats. The maximum speed of most fishing boats is 8-12km/h, and the faster fishing boats do not exceed 30km/h.

In other words, if you set off from Setra Island by driving a fishing boat, you will have to walk for several months to reach Spar Island.

However, for merchant ships with advanced power systems, this distance is nothing at all.

The maximum speed of the Moni at sea can reach 180km/h, and it can reach 300km/h even faster if it flies.

However, the fuel consumed by flight is more than ten times that of sea travel. Under normal circumstances, Moni will not take off.

But... right now happens to be a special case.

Money wants to rush to Spar Island, the sooner the better.

Shortly after the ship left the Settra, Mooney called the crew together and gave them orders.

"Check the mast..." Money said.

"Yes, Captain!"

More than a dozen sailors standing in the front row agreed.

They probably went in groups of five, and each went under a mast.

The Moni has three main masts, each of which is very strong, and it takes about three people to hold them together.

The length of the mast is about 150 meters. It is pulled by elastic threads and hangs huge sails.

These elastic threads are not ordinary materials, they are mixed with the fascia tissue of [Flying Fish], which has amazing toughness and extensibility.

[Flying Fish] can be said to be an advanced version of [Jumping Fish]. Their most special feature is that they can compress their bodies like a spring, and then shoot out tens of meters.

Combining the fish's fascial tissue with other materials, the elastic thread can be stretched to ten times its original length and rebound.

And it takes a lot of strength to pull these threads, and even Moni has to use all his strength to break them.

The reason why the Moni used this kind of line to hang the sails was because the sails were needed to control the direction when flying.

The mast needs to be moved frequently. If it is an ordinary rope, it will be broken when the mast is moving. Only the elastic rope can support these swinging masts.

The sailors groped around the deck around the mast, and soon found the hidden buckle, and lifted the wooden boards covering the mast, revealing the mechanism inside.

There are four manual control valves under each mast. Pulling down the leftmost control valve will deflect the mast to the left, pulling down the right control valve will deflect the mast to the right, and the same is true for the other two.

Moreover, these control valves are not pulled down to the bottom at once, they are moved one by one, and every time they go down, the deflection of the mast will be more, and the force required will also be greater.

It can be said that this is a hard job, and only a strong sailor can do this job.

The sailors around the mast operated for a while, controlled the mast to shake for a while, and after confirming that it could move forward, backward, left, and right, they all reported to Moni.

"Captain, the first mast is in good shape."

"The second mast is fine."

"The third mast is fine too!"

"Very good." Hearing the reports from the sailors, Moni nodded, and then he ordered the other sailors on the deck: "Go and check the situation of the vent!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The sailors were ordered to disperse to inspect the fumaroles located on the hull.

There are a total of sixteen fumaroles on the Moni, which are evenly distributed on the hull.

These jets are usually covered when sailing, and will only be exposed when flying.

When the crew went to check the jet port, Mooney was not idle. He carefully took out a box from his pocket and walked to the main control room.

He is now going to refuel the boat.

The "fuel" mentioned here is not ordinary energy such as coal or oil, but a high-polymer energy body - flint.

The shape of this kind of flint is a regular dodecahedron, the main body is red, with black rhombus pattern, it is a kind of natural energy produced near the nest of dragon creatures.

It is said that they were originally ordinary stones, because dragons like to lie on these stones to sleep, and they have been infected by energy for a long time and turned into flint.

There is no way to verify this legend, and so far no one has been able to ascertain the cause of the formation of flints. They only know that they were produced near the dragon's cave.

Many dragons would exchange flints and humans for gold coins, and the price was very high, almost one gold coin per gram.

But even if it is so expensive, it has attracted countless human beings to scramble for it.

Because this thing is expensive, but it really works.

Mooney opened the box and selected a pea-sized flint from dozens of flints.

Just such a flint the size of a pea can support the Moni to fly about [-] nautical miles, and it is completely enough to reach the spar island.

Regardless of its small size, flint is very dense, and a pea-sized flint weighs about [-] grams.

Mooney carefully checked the status of the flint, and after confirming that it was not damp, he put it into the fuel tank.

In addition to being expensive, flint has another disadvantage, that is, it cannot be affected by moisture, as long as there is a little water vapor, it will not be usable, and the place with water must be scraped off before it can continue to be used.

And these scraped parts are considered completely abolished.

After seeing that the flint had successfully entered the energy tank, Moni poked his head out from the main control room and asked the crew, "Have you checked all the jets?"

"No problem Captain! All jets in good condition!"

The crew headed by Hawke replied.

Good, Money nods.

"Let's take off, Moni!" Following the words, Moni pulled down the lever in the main control room.

The energy tank lit up, and the flint, which was originally placed in it, burst into a strong red light.

"Teng..."

Soon, the jets on the Moni sprayed out the first ray of fluorescent blue streamer.

"Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng..."

Within a few seconds, blue airflow columns were ejected from all the air jets.

There was a wave of waves on the sea, and under Moni's control, the Moni began to slide forward.

The crew under the mast adjusted the position of the sails cooperatively, and the Moni gradually floated up.

Sixteen fumaroles spewed thick blue air currents, pushing Moni upwards.

After floating and gliding on the sea surface for about a nautical mile, the Moni... took off!

The big ship rises from the sea and slowly rises into the sky.

On the huge sail of the [-]-meter-high ship, the symbol of a smiling gold coin shines brightly.

The "skylight" of Moni's room had already been opened, and Shamanlell watched the Moni take off with his hand on the ceiling.

Seeing the sky getting closer and closer to him, Samantel felt a sense of confusion deep in his heart.

People in this world... What kind of strange technology tree did they order?

How can a good ship fly as soon as it says it can fly!
　I almost forgot to say, happy National Day everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)