I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 521: Submerged in the Sea of ​​Clouds
The clouds became thicker and thicker, and the layers of white completely obscured the team members' vision, and they gradually came out of the complicated emotions.

As the aircraft sank into thick fog, regular and pure cloud lines appeared outside the pod, extending into the distance.

"This is the trajectory of the turbulent flow. We need to find a stable flow area so that the airship can continue to move forward."

There is a row of precision instruments at one end of the pod. A team member came to the instruments and observed them carefully.

After looking for a while, he decisively pressed the operation button next to the instrument.

After pressing the button, the movement trajectory of the entire airship changed. The airship, which was originally rising, suddenly began to float along those regular cloud lines, as if a gentle current of water was pushing the airship.

Li Luo looked around for a while but still couldn't find the power source.

"Do you feel it?" Zhou Chao asked from the side.

"What do you feel?"

“A gentle push, like going with the flow.”

"I feel it." Li Luo nodded.

"This is the power of the airship... or rather, the airship does not need power, it just needs to go with the flow."

Zhou Chao looked at the clouds outside the pod and began to tell Li Luo...

Just like the atmospheric circulation on Earth, the sea of ​​clouds in the fourth layer of the abyss also has certain regularities, and different regions have different circulation patterns.

At first, humans only discovered that the sky island located by the beacon returned to its original position after a period of time. Although the trajectory was messy, it was repetitive, just like the orbit of a planet.

The routes of these sky islands were recorded, and humans used this to discover the patterns of circulation.

“That’s why beacons are so important.”

The beacon can not only record the location of the sky island, but also draw circulation trajectories at different locations.

"The Hadley cell on Earth is a circulation where the air in the equatorial region heats up and rises. At high levels, it moves northward and gradually turns into westerly winds. At about 30 degrees north latitude, there is an air current that sinks and splits into two branches at low levels. One branch moves southward back to the equator, and the other moves northward."

"It's the same in the abyss. The center of the upper cloud sea where the sun shines directly will spread out due to the heat, driving the air below to rise upwards. The thick cloud bands on the outer layer will sink downwards due to the drop in temperature, forming a sky island vortex like a fountain."

"This circulation is called the Great Eruption. It is the most influential circulation in the four layers. Other small circulations formed due to factors such as the Sky Island and Relic Phenomenon will only affect parts of the Great Eruption and cause regional turbulence."

The beacons on the sky islands reveal the movement trajectories of these sky islands, and their movement routes basically conform to the circulation direction of the large eruption.

All the airship has to do is go with the flow, follow the big gust, and fly in the direction of the airflow, and it will soon reach a nearby monitoring station.

"Won't it fly to some other place and miss the monitoring station?" Li Luo asked puzzledly.

"No, most of the monitoring stations on the fourth floor of the abyss will not move. They are fixed in the same position, and these locations are basically the nodes of the circulation. The monitoring stations also have a certain monitoring range. Once the people on the monitoring stations find the floating airship, they will capture the airship."

"Before we reach the monitoring station, the beacon signal should have reached the monitoring station. The people there will calculate the time of our arrival based on the position of the beacon. They just need to sit back and wait."

With the support of huge amounts of data, it is not difficult to calculate the specific arrival time of a drifting object.

After hearing all this, Li Luo nodded with emotion.

Only then did she realize that humans had been exploring the abyss using the means they were best at.

"Looks familiar, doesn't it? This is how you calculate the movement of weather balloons. You must have learned this in third grade."

Li Luo nodded: "Yes, it's a very simple calculation." She remembered that when she was in elementary school, her teacher spoke very loudly to all the students.

"This lesson is very important! If you don't study hard, you might get lost in the abyss in the future!"

It turns out that what the teacher said was not groundless, and that knowledge will really be used one day.

The seemingly chaotic air-sea circulation is nothing more than air currents surging under the action of heat. As long as we summarize the rules and understand the various conditions, even the most complex circulation can be predicted.

The clouds outside the window were surging faster and faster. Before we knew it, the airship had been flying in the sea of ​​clouds for a long time, and the cabin was becoming quieter and quieter.

Zhou Chao looked around and said to Li Luo, "Take a rest first. You must be very tired on the Sky Island..."

Li Luo nodded, walked to the edge of the cabin and sat down against the wall.

Seeing this, Zhou Chao also found a place and began to rest.

Although their consciousness was stimulated by the starlight and was extremely excited, their bodies were extremely tired. Not long after they sat down, they fell into a deep sleep.

The airship swayed like a cradle, and the gentle airflow lifted the airship into a more stable circulation route.

Mo Ling curiously controlled the cube to fly around in this simple pod, observing the returning survey team members from time to time, and looking at the huge object flying in the sea of ​​clouds from time to time.

One of the investigation team members was staring at the flying cubes in a daze until his companion patted him on the shoulder, and he came to his senses.

"What are you looking at?"

"Nothing, I remember when I was Bottle Cap, I took that Cube as my apprentice." The team member scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

"You accept a relic as your apprentice?" His companion looked at Fangkuai in surprise.

"Well, my consciousness was a little fuzzy at that time, haha." He smiled awkwardly.

Mo Ling listened to their conversation and understood why that person was always looking at him.

"It turned out to be Master Bottle Cap."

Thinking of this, Mo Ling controlled the cube to fly over and gave a bottle of Coke to the team member.

The team member looked at the Coke on the ground and was stunned again.

However, he did not hesitate and directly picked up the Coke and drank it.

"Thank you." He said to Cube while taking a big gulp of the drink, then patted Cube again, his eyes revealing nostalgia.

……

The speed of the airship in the sea of ​​clouds was getting faster and faster, but it still remained stable.

This airship made of special materials seemed to have a special stability. The people inside it could not feel any bumps at all. Before long, many team members had leaned against the edge and fell into a deep sleep.

From time to time, a few blurry huge objects passed by the window.

Mo Ling's vision could observe the edges of these objects, most of which were sky islands, and there were some floating stones that had not yet formed sky islands, but there were also some objects that looked very strange.

(End of this chapter)