Their current location is on the sea 300 kilometers south of Liyue Harbor, the specific coordinates are XX, XX."

"Immediately arrange for the navy and air force to rush to the scene for rescue work and save all the people first." Ningguang struggled for a while. "No, we can't abandon that shipload of goods and materials. They are worth billions of goods."

On Yujing Terrace, Lin Zixuan received a call from Ningguang and learned that the ocean freighter was about to capsize. Then he saw five planes take off from the new city in the distance and rush south, and one of them was very special.

I recalled the situation of the ship in my mind.

The ocean-going freighter that Chongzuo is in charge of now is the first ocean-going freighter manufactured that year. It can be said that it is a product completely made by the people of Liyue, and it has almost no advanced equipment and technology.

Although many strange new devices were added in the later period, there is still a big difference between the damage to the internal structure of the hull caused by the original design and the addition of new devices. There was no tower crane on the port shore at that time, so two new cranes could only be installed on the deck for unloading.

For Liyue's shipbuilding industry, ocean-going freighters are a new attempt. Without their creation, Liyue's shipping development would not have made any new progress and would still be using wooden fishing boats.

As the first ocean-going freighter and an experiment in ocean-going cargo transportation, it carries the new hope of the entire Liyue and has made an indelible contribution to Liyue's shipping industry.

Has it been in service for almost ten years? It is not easy for it to last until now. Ningguang wants me to keep this batch of goods. Morally speaking, this is something I should do and I am capable of doing it.

But it will become very troublesome later. Since you rescued it the first time, if the next ocean-going cargo ship is about to sink in Nata, do you have to rescue it? If the ship of ordinary fishermen is sunk, do you also have to rescue them? If you don't rescue them, it will be your fault.

After some thought, I decided not to show up and let this ocean-going freighter hold on until the rescue fleet arrives.

Wait, I seem to be missing something.

Lin Zixuan suddenly realized that a problem had been missed, that is, the weather forecast at sea had not yet been established.

Ocean-going freighters have a deep draft and cannot change their course easily. If they run aground or enter the territory of some powerful monsters, problems will become more troublesome. In the end, they can only choose to dive into the storm.

The huge waves and strong winds hit the ocean-going freighter mercilessly, wave after wave. Coupled with the ship's own problems, the service life of the ocean-going freighter was far less than its originally designed life.

If we can have a weather warning system at sea, the safety of shipping can be greatly improved. It seems that the next step is to establish a stable weather warning system.

Lin Zixuan spread out his perception, wanting to take a look at the situation of the ocean-going freighter first.

The ship was tilted too much, and many containers were scattered on the sea. Captain Shigeko was asking passengers to put on life jackets, arranging for people to lower lifeboats, and constantly trying to use the floating stone device to right the ship.

Unfortunately, only one side of the floating stone array on both sides had an effect, and the other side had no reaction at all, and the final result was that the ship tilted even more. Captain Shigeko quickly weakened the lifting force of the floating stone to keep it in a balanced state.

"Uh... Is this... a ship spirit?"

A small, blurry figure was floating in the air, closing the watertight doors in the cabin one by one to prevent more seawater from invading. The current state of balance was the result of the captain and it working together on both sides.

"The high hopes placed by tens of thousands of people when they built the ship, coupled with the millions of people spreading the word and the many emotions they generated towards it, eventually gave rise to something like a ship spirit on this ship? Or should we say it's more like a ground-bound spirit." Lin Zixuan muttered to himself.

Suddenly, Lin Zixuan's eyes lit up. Isn't this a ready-made "ship girl"? Keeping it and placing it on the Hyperion aircraft carrier should be a good idea, right?

An hour later, Captain Shigezo looked at the prompt on the instrument and found that the energy of the floating stone array, which was only effective on one side, was less than 20%, and the ship would soon sink into the deep sea.

"Captain Shigeto, it's time to evacuate. I see the plane!" a crew member said excitedly.

"No! You guys evacuate first! I want to accompany it until the last moment." Shigeko wanted to refute when he saw the crew. "Don't worry, I won't die. Aren't the diving suit and the air tank on my seat?"

"If the captain doesn't leave, we won't leave either."

"Bang!" A loud slap hit him.

"This is the rule at sea, and it is also the captain's responsibility. As the captain, you must be the last one to leave your ship. Go and help those passengers, many of them can't swim."

"Ah! Liyue's plane seems to be falling!" another crew member exclaimed.

"What?" Everyone followed his gaze and looked up into the sky.

A strange-looking plane was slowly descending from the sky. When the other four ordinary planes saw that the plane had found the target, they turned around and flew back to Liyue Harbor. After all, their mission was just to assist in the search for the target, and they could not help with the subsequent rescue work.

"Am I seeing things? The plane landed on the water!" Everyone stared at the scene in front of them in amazement.

The hatch on the nose of the plane opened, and a Qianyan soldier waved to the people. The plane slowly moved towards the nearest lifeboat. The passengers on the ten lifeboats near the ocean freighter saw this and rowed their boats desperately.

"Can planes fly over water?" a passenger asked while rowing.

"Is it possible? Isn't it written on the plane that it's an 'emergency seaplane'?"

"Strange, why don't I see any propellers?"

"There are two large barrels on top of the wings. I don't know what they are used for."

"Liyue has come up with something new, why hasn't any news been released yet?"

"Those are the uniforms of the Qianyan Army. It's not easy for you to know military stuff."

Soon, the nearly 60 people had all sat in the cabin. The boat tickets were upgraded to plane tickets, and the fact that they had survived a disaster made these people chatter and discuss.

"Report! I'm airsick and want to vomit. There doesn't seem to be any vomit bags here. I chose to take the boat because I'm airsick." A passenger raised his hand and said.

"Is anyone else suffering from airsickness and vomiting?" Qian Yanjun asked.

Eight pairs of hands were raised at once. Seeing this, Qianyanjun waved out nine rays of light, and small talismans were attached to the foreheads of these nine people.

"ZZZzzz..."

"You won't feel dizzy if you fall asleep. Okay, let's go back to Liyue Harbor first. The General Affairs Department will arrange for you to pick up your belongings in a while."

"Wait! Captain Shigeto is still on the ship!" said a crew member.

"Did he die on the ship? Don't worry, the rescue ship is on the way. The matter has been reported to the emperor. He will be fine."

"God has heard it!!!" The crew members all breathed a sigh of relief.

A seaplane slowly took off from the water amid everyone's anxiety and flew towards Liyue Harbor.

Chapter 416: Named by the Ship Spirit

The news of the capsizing of Liyue's first ocean-going freighter spread on the Teyvat forum, and countless people were waiting for the latest news.

The TV station was also busy, providing detailed pictures and text reports on the incident to guide people to view the incident correctly.

At this time, the ocean freighter had begun to sink, and the rescue fleet would take at least 4 hours to arrive. After all, the speed of a ship in the water is not as fast as that of an airplane. A distance of 300 kilometers is neither far nor near.

Inside the cabin, the illusory shadow had already closed all the watertight doors that could be closed. But it was unable to stop the ocean freighter from sinking, so it could only shrink into the corner and wait quietly for the ocean freighter to sink into the water.

The water in the cabin has already flooded more than half, and the captain is facing a question in his heart. It is a choice between life and death. Either accompany the ship to sink, or live in shame. As time goes by, the belief of dying on the ship is gradually shaken.

An hour later, only less than one-tenth of the side of the entire ship was still floating on the sea. Captain Shigeko climbed out of the side window of the cab, lay on the hull, and looked at the blue sky. Next to him were diving suits and oxygen cylinders.

"At least let me stay with you until the last moment! Leap Forward." Captain Shigeko said very sadly.

Another ten minutes passed, and half of the side of the ocean-going freighter had already entered the water.

Another half an hour passed, and a question mark appeared over the captain's head, who was still full of emotion.

Another half hour passed, and the question mark on Captain Shigeo's head turned into an exclamation mark. "Why hasn't the ship sunk yet?" This thought filled his mind.

He quickly put on his diving suit and oxygen tank and jumped into the water. Then he found three protruding rock pillars on the seabed that supported the ocean freighter and prevented it from sinking completely.

At this time, his face was already filled with tears. As long as it didn't sink completely, Liyue would have a way to transport it back for repairs.

Three hours later, Colonel Shige, who had already returned to the side of the ocean-going freighter, saw three large rescue ships and two ocean-going freighters slowly approaching, and kept waving at them.

Next came the most troublesome rescue work of the ocean-going freighter. Two ocean-going freighters arranged divers to assist in lifting the remaining containers on the Yuejin back into their own cargo holds. A small part of the containers drifted away with the ocean currents and disappeared.

The ship spirit waiting to die in the cabin heard the continuous ping-pong sounds coming from outside the ship, and showed a strange look. He quickly floated out, and then saw five ships surrounding it, and hundreds of people were busy unloading cargo to reduce the weight of the hull.

Although I knew they wanted to save the ocean freighter, I knew my own situation and knew that the ship could no longer sail on the sea.

The loading and unloading work lasted for two days and one night. People from TV stations and newspapers also rented boats to arrive here to take photos and interview.

Two large rescue ships used thick chains to pass through the bottom of the Leap Forward, and then used a crane to slowly pull it back to the surface of the sea.

Then people saw the truth behind the capsizing. The huge hole on the right side of the hull revealed the broken keel inside. It should have been broken in two, but it was miraculously held together by a few steel plates. The huge hole also caused the floating stone device on the right side to completely fail.

The personnel on the large rescue ship temporarily welded dozens of new floating stone array devices on both sides of the ship, and then connected a large wind element solution tank to replenish the energy in the floating stone. Then they used the computer to adjust the parameters so that it could float on the water in a balanced manner.

One of the large rescue ships then towed the weathered Leap Forward ocean-going freighter to the shipyard in Liyue for repairs.

Qunyu Pavilion.

Ningguang looked at the report in her hand as if she saw her own small amount of money flying away. Nearly a quarter of the container had drifted away to who knows where.

The remaining two quarters were soaked in sea water, making the goods inside almost scrapped. Although some clothes can be washed and dried and still worn, they can only be sold at half the price.

All of a sudden, all the employees in Ningguang's shop were transferred out and became laundry workers or temporary workers to wash various goods.

The remaining quarter was sealed well, which made Ningguang feel a little better.

"Evaluation result: It is not recommended to carry out any further repair work on this ship?" Ningguang put down the report in her hand and looked at Lin Zixuan who was drinking tea.

"Corrosion and weld loss, broken keels, and metal fatigue in many parts of the hull caused by the impact of huge waves have left this ocean-going freighter scarred. It has also fulfilled its mission very well. Even if a huge amount of money is spent on repairing it, it may not last more than two years and will capsize again."

"We spent so much money to build this ship, but we didn't expect it to be scrapped so soon."

"The profits and benefits of this ocean-going freighter far outweigh its cost.

The most important thing is the accumulation of technology, which is the most important thing for Liyue. The accumulation of technology will lead to the iteration of products, and even our ocean-going freighter technology has been iterated to the fourth generation.

Many performance parameters and durability are almost ten times higher than that of the first ocean-going freighter. Even if others want to copy it, one-to-one, the first problem they will encounter is the hull material problem.

This kind of high-strength steel for ships is not sold publicly. Imagine what would happen if other countries wanted to build their own ocean-going cargo ships and used ordinary steel?"

"Consequences? If we just use ordinary steel, there will probably be a lot of problems. It will need frequent repairs, and its service life will be very short, right? Maybe even shorter than the service life of this first ocean-going freighter."

"The second point is that if you want to copy it, you have to dismantle the ship. Think about it, if you spend 10 billion glass yuan to buy a ship, will you dismantle it if it is not profitable? If you want to dismantle the ship, you have to wait at least 10 years. And how many times will the ocean-going cargo ships be iterated in years?"

"If it were me in the past, I would have bought the boat from Fontaine, right? I certainly wouldn't have chosen to dismantle it and build my own. In the past, information was transmitted very slowly, and I didn't know much about the situation in Fontaine.

Now it seems that Fontaine originally had the ability to become the center of Teyvat, but was killed by the judge Navilette and others. "If scientific research fails, you will die." This law is really helpful and gives us a chance to overtake." Ningguang said.

“It is particularly important to seize the initiative. We need to establish a complete navigation system, with Liyue as the leading navigation big data system. Others can only choose to join. It will be very difficult to open up another track.

Aviation, navigation, land transportation, finance, mineral resources, and communications, these six major systems are all in the hands of Liyue. In the end, there will only be one result... that is:

The rules are made by us in Liyue!

Although there are always people who say: rules are meant to be broken. But that is something that only powerful people can say, because people who break the rules often don't end up well. "Lin Zixuan took a sip of tea.

“You broke the rules of Liyue and were assassinated countless times. I was also affected many times. If you didn’t have the strength to suppress everyone, the grass on your grave would be ten feet high by now, right?” Ningguang complained.

"This can only be changed with the tacit approval of the Rock King. Otherwise, the iron ingot bubble incident alone would have been enough to kill me several times. I really don't believe that you, the Seven Stars, can't find the culprit.

Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore.” Lin Zixuan clapped his hands, and a little black-haired girl suddenly appeared beside him. She looked very similar to Ningguang, or it could be said that she was Ningguang at about 10 years old.

"Who is she?" Ningguang asked alertly.

"All things have spirituality, and that ocean-going freighter, the Yue Jin, also has spirituality. I reshaped her form and transferred her spiritual origin here." Lin Zixuan took out a very exquisite box, which contained a model of the Yue Jin.

“Can a ship give birth to spirits? I’ve only heard that divine weapons can have spirits.” Ningguang asked doubtfully.

"It requires certain conditions to be met, such as an immortal injecting emotions into an item, which can then become spiritual after a period of time. She should be a ship spirit born with the blessings of the people of Liyue."

"This is really eye-opening. Beidou should be very interested in her, right? Hmm? She looks like this... Are you experimenting with my blood again? No! You have to change her appearance for me."

“It’s very troublesome.”

"Must! Immediately! Right now!"

At Ningguang's strong request, the boat spirit turned into a little girl with baby fat and a teardrop mole under her left eye.

"Is this okay? The public name is Leap Forward. As for the real name... Ningguang, why don't you give her a real name?"

"Real name? Is that necessary?"

"Yes! The real name represents power, and giving a name will complete the last step of transformation. You have also seen the report, right? The iron plate that should not have existed locked the keel and prevented the ship from breaking in two.

After being given a name, her control over the ship will only become stronger. Any situation on the ship will be under her management, and she can also exert extraordinary strength. "

"The otherworldly boat spirit looks very fairy-like, so let's call her 'Yixian'." Ningguang officially gave the boat spirit a name.

"Yixian...what a nice name." Lin Zixuan rubbed the little girl's head.

"Thank you Lord Ningguang for the name!" Yixian said.

“So it can talk.” Ningguang looked at Yixian in surprise.

"She is a little timid. She can speak but not write. We still need to arrange some basic training for her. It will take at least two or three years to complete the production of the new Leap Forward. During this period, we need to help her cram in the basics."

"A new Jumper? Are you planning to use that?"

"Yes, it is a more advanced warship than the floating warship that Fontaine is secretly building."

"Shouldn't it be called the Hyperion?"

"The two represent different meanings. The Leap Forward represents a major technological leap, and all subsequent products were modified based on the Leap Forward. The Hyperion represents the strongest model of the contemporary era. According to the atlas, she is the ancestor."

"Alright. Baixiao, take her down to go through the admission procedures and change her fearful personality first. Oh, don't tell Beidou about this, she will definitely come to snatch it away."

"Uh...it's late."

'Snapped! '

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