Release that Witch - Chapter 477

[Chapter 470 New Ship]

On the way to the backyard of the North Slope Mountain, these words kept ringing in Roland’s ears.

He felt a gap in his heart being opened little by little. Yes, he thought, he was no longer the original draftsman who dealt with mechanical drawings all day long, and this was not the world he was familiar with in the past. He has gradually become a draftsman. The great lord who leads one side may even become the ruler of the kingdom in the future. When the situation changes, it is undoubtedly no longer applicable to use the previous concept to restrain oneself.

Just act according to the thoughts deep in his heart, he told himself, if you force each other for some non-existent “rules”, there will be no benefit other than hurting both parties.

Thinking of this, Roland’s mood suddenly brightened a lot. He took a deep breath of cold air, and slowly pushed open the backyard gate.

The opened iron door was like a gap in the bottom of my heart, opening up a new world in an instant.

“Ah…it’s Your Highness,” Hummingbird and Lucia ran up to salute.

“Are you here?” Anna smiled sweetly, and seeing a light red mark on her fair neck, Roland couldn’t help but think of the fiery enthusiasm of the other party last night, but since he had made a decision, he I don’t care about waiting for the last time.

“How is it? Has the model been made yet?”

“Of course,” Anna gestured to follow me. The two of them walked out the back door of the yard and saw an iron boat floating in the middle of a pool surrounded by snow.

The iron boat is about one meter long and twenty centimeters wide, which is much slender compared to those crude cement boats.

The bow of the ship is obviously shuttle-shaped, and the rear end is a flat tail. The most special thing is that the bottom of the ship is covered with criss-cross support bars, which looks like countless squares spliced together.

“This is what I want,” Roland sighed. Compared with the stone boat made of reinforced concrete, the pure steel boat has a unique sense of refinement, especially when paired with densely interlaced beams, it is simply like a work of art generally.

He knew that each module of this ship model was completely scaled down and cut by black fire, and not a single connection point was omitted. If it were placed in later generations, it would also be a masterpiece worth tens of thousands.

“Is it the new ship you want to build?”

“Well,” he nodded, “it’s also the town’s first regular warship.”

Originally, Roland planned to still use the cement ship as the hull of the shallow-water heavy artillery ship, but he found that , in the case of insufficient power of the steam engine, the speed of the cement ship has become the most obvious shortcoming – under the condition of only carrying fuel and personnel, the average speed of the entire fleet of the Long Song Fortress this time is only eight to nine kilometers, if There is also a 152mm fortress gun that can be rotated on it, plus the necessary ammunition and other combat weapons, the speed is likely to fall below the five-kilometer mark.

If converted into knots, even a speed of three knots cannot be guaranteed.

The reason is that the weight of concrete is too heavy. If you use it for transportation, you don’t care about the speed, but if it is used as a warship, it is naturally better to be lighter.

If the steel production capacity was seriously insufficient two months ago, no matter how slow he was, he could only pinch his nose and recognize it. However, with the launch of Iron Star, the current steel reserves can already support him to build a real iron-clad warship.

In terms of structure, Roland chose the simplest modular assembly method—that is, welding together steel plates with transverse and longitudinal beams to form a larger hollow box structure, and then splicing many flat boxes together to form the bottom plate of the hull.

This building block-based shipbuilding method does not require a keel, and has nothing to do with the classical method. In addition, the enemy has no artillery that threatens his own side, so he does not need to care about defense issues. The side is almost surrounded by thin iron sheets. , to minimize cost and weight.

As for the power part, Roland decided to invest in propeller technology on the new ship instead of the paddle wheel drive of the cement ship… The power unit is still a steam engine, which rotates gears to drive two propellers.

However, in the design drawings handed over to Anna, he reserved space for the modification of the three-expansion steam engine, and planned to wait for the batch construction in the future, and then uniformly modify it into a new type of steam engine that is more suitable for ships.

Back in the yard, Anna started cutting the first steel plate.

The black fire is like the most accurate ruler in her hands. As it flies up and down, a thick steel block of one meter square is instantly transformed into seven or eight thin plates like peeling potatoes. The thickness of each steel plate is five millimeters. Not less.

The next step is welding. Hummingbird placed the lightened steel beam between the two steel plates, while Anna’s black fire turned into thin wires invisible to the naked eye and penetrated into the bottom of the beam, binding the three together like sutures. Together, the temperature is raised at the same time – completely different from the original open flame welding, this kind of heating from the inside to the outside allows the flowing molten steel to completely fill the gaps between the plates. When the three are fully combined, the longitudinal beams have sunk slightly It is about a millimeter, which is the proof that the bottom melted and filled the gap between the two steel plates.

A staggered cross-shaped cross-girder can connect four steel plates, and more cross-beams form a hollow box unit. These units will be transported to the Chishui River after being lightened by hummingbirds, and the final assembly process will be completed in the dock.

But Roland’s gaze stayed on the busy figure of Anna. The girl’s long flaxen hair swayed back and forth with the cutting action, like a dancing elf in a pure white snow scene.

…

In the afternoon, Roland met the newly awakened witch, Asha.

Her presence in the office meant that she had passed Nightingale’s review.

Regarding her strange ability, Wendy had already recorded it very clearly, so Roland did not do any more tests, but directly placed the contract in front of her.

A Xia picked up the pen and froze for a while, then said blushingly, “I…can’t write.”

“It’s okay,” Roland smiled, “It’s fine to press your fingerprint.”

She carefully moved her ink-stained thumb Put it at the end of the parchment, “That’s all right?”

“Well,” Roland put away the contract, “I’ve already learned about your situation from Wendy, so even if you sign the contract, you don’t have to live in the castle. As long as Just come here every day to practice ability and attend lectures, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com About the characteristics of magic power, Wendy should have told you in the past few days, right?”

“Yes, Your Highness,” I heard that there is no need to stay in the castle, Axia His expression suddenly relaxed a lot, “Master Wendy said that if you don’t release the magic power accumulated every day, your life will be in danger when you wake up.”

“That’s right, so you have to practice hard. I think she will teach you the relationship between the precise manipulation of magic power and the corresponding ability.” Roland didn’t correct the honorific words in the other party’s mouth, and remained in awe. For beginners It’s not a bad thing, “If you don’t understand anything, you can ask any member of the Witch Union for advice.”

“I understand, Your Highness,” she said with her head lowered, “but…is this ability useless? I once asked Lord Wendy this question, but she said that only His Highness knows the answer.”

“Of course not,” Roland said with a smile, “You have the ability that only a detective possesses, and you are invincible in fighting crime.”

“Name… …Detective?” A Xia looked puzzled.

“It doesn’t matter, you will know soon enough,” he called out the nightingale in the mist, “From today on, this witch is your immediate boss.” (To be continued.)

[End of this Chapter]