After meeting Leslie, Xu Yi just rested for a while on the boat with Evita and others, and then left again on the magic airship early the next morning. "The top story"
However, they did not fly back to the Principality of Standing, but after flying, they turned directly to the sea to the east.
Looking at the boundless sea to the east, Leslie took a deep breath and thought that Xu Yi was really ambitious.
While others were still thinking about how the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce should ensure the good situation in the Lampali Kingdom, the Luersun Kingdom and several surrounding countries, he had already set his sights on behemoths like the Candela Empire.
And now, he has even set his sights further afield, actually wanting to promote the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's products to the easternmost part of the continent.
It's just that the endless sea in front of him is boundless, and the destination of Xu Yi's trip is also extremely far away.
Let’s not talk about whether we can achieve our goal after arriving at the destination. Just whether we can reach our destination smoothly is a very worrying issue.
In fact, Xu Yi was also a little worried.
This is the first time that the magic airship designed by Evita has conducted an ultra-long-distance cruise experiment. It flew from the Principality of Standing to the southern waters of the Candela Empire and met Leslie, covering a distance of more than 3,000 kilometers.
And if you want to reach the destination of this trip—the United Commercial Kingdom of Nozdormu—it will take more than two thousand kilometers just from a rough judgment based on the map.
In other words, if the entire journey is counted, it will exceed 5,000 kilometers one way.
In the previous Sainz continent, such a journey exceeded 5,000 kilometers. It's almost an impossible thing to accomplish.
However, now Xu Yi and others are riding the magic airship Hua. But because of this magic airship's speed of over one hundred kilometers per hour and its super endurance. Such a journey became possible.
"Evita, how far have you flown?"
Evita was observing the sea below the magic airship through the cabin mirror, as well as the faintly visible land in the distance. When she heard Xu Yi's voice, she turned back and chuckled: "It has flown more than six hundred kilometers. President, according to estimates, we should be able to fly out of the territory of the Candela Empire today."
"Oh? That's pretty fast." Xu Yi smiled, but he actually didn't quite agree with his own evaluation.
The speed of airplanes on Earth can reach an astonishing speed of nearly one thousand kilometers per hour. The distance of 5,000 kilometers only takes half a day at most.
The current flying speed of the magic airship can barely exceed one hundred kilometers per hour. To complete a long-distance journey of more than five thousand kilometers, even if it does not stop for a moment, it will take more than fifty hours and more than two full days.
Of course, compared to the magic motorcycle that can only run on the ground and is restricted by terrain, the magic airship is already much more convenient.
Not to mention that compared with the old-fashioned carriages on Sainz's continent, the magic airship is simply a means of transportation on another level.
Compared to speed, Xu Yi actually cared more about confirming the flight direction.
The Sainz Continent is not like the planes on Earth. Ability to use satellite positioning to ensure that you are flying on the correct route. To avoid straying and flying to another place, the pilot can only rely on his own judgment to determine the direction.
Although the team led by Evita already has sufficient experience in cruise experiments, because this is the first ultra-long-distance cruise experiment, it is also a huge challenge for them.
However, they were able to fly more than 2,000 kilometers from the Principality of Standing before and accurately find Xu Yi in the Principality of Norton, which proved that they were quite capable in this regard, so Xu Yi was only concerned but not too worried.
"Mr. President, I plan to enter the cruise control mode after dark. According to the current season, it should take about eight hours. If nothing happens, we should be able to enter Nozdormu early tomorrow morning. The location near the United Kingdom of Commerce." Evita explained her plan to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi glanced at the eastern sea, which was gradually shrouded in darkness because the sunset was approaching, and shook his head.
"No, Evita, the time we stay in the dark should be shorter than the eight hours you estimated. You must be prepared for this error."
"Less than eight hours? Is this possible?" Evita frowned slightly, looking confused.
Xu Yi thought for a while and decided to explain to Evita a little about the so-called relationship between the sun rising in the east and setting in the west and the rotation of the planet.
It has been more than eight years since he came to this world. Xu Yi has long discovered that this world is actually very close to the earth in many places. The most obvious one is that it has almost identical planetary rotation and revolution times.
Even when looking up at the stars at night, Xu Yi can still find many familiar constellations in the night sky that are almost at the same position on the earth.
In this way, Xu Yi often suspects that he is actually still on the earth now, but has just traveled to another parallel time and space.
Evita seemed to understand some of the basic astronomical knowledge Xu Yi explained.
However, this did not prevent her from listening carefully and thinking according to what Xu Yi explained.
"President, if it is really like what you said, then if we return from the Commercial United Kingdom of Nozdormu to the Principality of Standing, wouldn't the night be even longer? Or if we set out during the day, the entire day will be longer. longer?"
"That's right." Xu Yi nodded. "But the speed of our flight is much slower than the rotation speed of the planet under our feet, so we can only delay the passage of time for some time, and eventually we will be swallowed by the night."
"So... if this magic airship is fast enough, wouldn't we be able to live under the sun all the time?" Evita's eyes revealed a twinkling light.
Xu Yi laughed: "Theoretically, this is not wrong, but the planet under our feet rotates very fast, and it is difficult to catch up. Of course, if you really want to live under the sun all the time. There is another The easier way is to go to the far north and south and you will find a place where the sun never sets for a period of time.”
Evita frowned deeply and thought hard.
After a while, she even couldn't help but pick up a pen and paper and start drawing on a piece of paper.
Seeing Evita's focused look, Xu Yi smiled slightly and left the front cabin.
Teaching Evita these basic astronomical facts was not a spur-of-the-moment idea.
Since starting to develop the magic airship, Xu Yi has begun to consciously instill this knowledge in Evita, with the purpose of allowing her to form a complete world view as soon as possible.
The magic airship is an important part of Xu Yi's future plans. Xu Yi has high expectations for Evita, and naturally hopes that she can avoid some detours.
When he returned to the middle cabin of the magic airship, which was also the lounge, Xu Yi found that except for the two researchers who were on duty at night, everyone else was already asleep.
The ultra-long-range cruise experiment made them excited at first, but after a long time, everyone will feel physically and mentally exhausted. After finally entering the cruise control mode at night, everyone took advantage of this good opportunity to seize the time to rest.
Xu Yi's eyes swept across the middle cabin and found that a faint light of light cyan or light red flashed from time to time in the end corner, reflecting Akali's round face with a focused expression.
"Hey. Akali, you're still up so late. What are you doing?"
Hearing Xu Yi's voice, Akali raised her head, her expression blank for a moment, and then turned into an excited smile.
Just as he was about to speak, he seemed to remember something, suppressed his voice, and waved to Xu Yi.
"President, come and see."
"Huh?" Xu Yi came over curiously and found a disk placed on the table in front of Akali, with little bits of light green and light red light shining on it.
"What is this?" Xu Yi took a closer look and found that this disk had a little bit of imaginary effect on the center console of the remote magic positioning system that Akali had been studying during this period, but they were very different in appearance and display mode. big.
"President, do you see the light spots on this?" Akali asked.
"Well, I saw it, what? What do these light spots represent?" Xu Yi asked.
Akali chuckled: "President, haven't you been worried about how we can return safely? Let me tell you, with this thing, we will never get lost when we go back."
"Oh? What is this? So magical?"
"These light spots represent the small magic resonance sensors I dropped along the way. You see, this light spot is the closest to us, and it is the one I dropped before. Judging from the situation shown above, it should be at this time It is about 4,300 meters southwest of us. In other words, since I dropped it, we have flown 4,300 meters northeast. You see, this light spot may disappear soon. , because it will soon exceed the sensing range.”
Xu Yi looked at the flashing light spots on the disk and couldn't help but ask: "Then how do you distinguish them? How do you know which light spot represents which small magic resonance sensor you threw down? Woolen cloth?"
"It's very simple. As long as you make slight changes to the magic arrays on different small magic resonance sensors, this console can sense them and distinguish them at the same time."
Seeing the excited and proud expression on Akali's face, Xu Yi couldn't help but take a breath.
Unexpectedly, he had just explained to Evita how the magic airship could use basic astronomical and geographical knowledge to fly to unknown areas without getting lost, and Akali had already made another major breakthrough in her research field.
Although the thing Akali currently envisions is still very crude, as long as it is carefully arranged, the final combination effect will be extremely amazing.
In Xu Yi's view, this magic positioning system, researched by Akali, has even achieved an astonishing effect that is initially close to the navigation system on Earth!
Thinking of this, Xu Yiteng stood up, walked into the front cabin again, and said sternly to Evita, who raised her head and looked at him in surprise.
"Change direction and fly towards land." (To be continued...)