The Great Age of Voyage of the Elves

Chapter 71 The Black Pearl
If you want to ask what is the first impression of the new ship, it must be slender!

This ship feels like a skinny beauty, slender and slender, with a very long hull, counting the front ram angle, the whole ship is at least 70 meters by visual inspection, but in contrast, the hull is very narrow, with a width of only a dozen meters.

The aspect ratio close to six to one is relatively rare among sailing warships. Such an aspect ratio is destined to be a fast boat, and the slender hull is very suitable for sailing with the wind.

However, the disadvantages are also obvious. If the hull is too narrow, the hull will be unstable when the gun is fired. Such a ship cannot carry too many artillery, otherwise the recoil of a side salvo in bad weather may directly overturn the ship.

At the same time, the ship's ability to resist wind and waves is destined not to be too strong.

In fact, large warships rarely use such a large aspect ratio, and generally four to one to five to one would be a more reasonable choice.

As sea veterans, everyone can actually see the advantages and disadvantages of this ship, but since this is their own ship, then she must be a good ship!
"She'll be fast!"

"Yes, for sure!"

After Orr reminded them, everyone stopped talking about firepower and began to praise the speed of the new ship endlessly.

At this time Siegfried suddenly issued a soul torture.

"What's her name?"

Now there is no logo on the ship, which means that she probably doesn't have a name yet.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, they all looked blind.

I checked the eyes, they are all uneducated people...

At this moment, Mu suddenly said, "Why don't we call it the Black Pearl?"

When it comes to the Clippers, the first thing he thinks of is the name.

A group of illiterates pretended to reminisce, and then said in unison: "Good name!"

In this way, their new car was named Black Pearl!

After seeing the new ship, everyone went home with joy.

Even if it is necessary to set sail, it is impossible to go immediately. The Navy always has a holiday when it returns to Hong Kong after a mission. After all, the top executives of the fleet are not devils.

Afterwards, everyone on board first went to collect their sea subsidies and military pay according to the usual practice, and then went to find a place to have fun.

Mu also went to collect the money together, but when he took the money, he suddenly found that the amount seemed to be much more than he originally calculated.

It can't be that my math teacher died early, right?

With doubts, he went directly to the seaman in the logistics department and asked, and only then did he learn.

"According to Lieutenant General Samas's acceptance, you are now a lieutenant, Your Excellency."

It turned out to be because of his promotion.

It dawned on him.

After Chenglong stepped into the main battle level, his promotion to lieutenant can be said to be a matter of course. If it is not for the short time of enlistment, it is no problem for him to become captain with his current strength.

The only thing holding him back is that his own martial arts still needs to be improved, otherwise he would at least be the vice-captain of the Boarding Warriors now.

So you can't let go of your swordsmanship training, you have to keep practicing.

After that, he found the lookout Conings who also got off the boat, and took him home with him.

Upon entering the door, Vanessa, who was wearing a plain maid outfit, was instructing her Dream Demon to clean the roof.

Obviously Mu is not at the villa most of the time, but every time he comes home, he can always see Vanessa working hard and never being lazy.

The diligence of the maid is reassuring.

Looking back for a moment, Mu noticed that the scar on her face had faded a lot, and it was almost invisible.

This made him inexplicably feel relieved and calm.

Perhaps this is the kind of home feeling that a wanderer needs.

"Master, you're back, I'm going to buy ingredients right now."

"Let Connings go, you just rest for a while."

With a very decisive backhand, Mu sold Conings who had just entered the house.

Young people should exercise more, what?You said you just got off the boat?Does it matter?

Apparently, students in the small subjects dare not say that there is...

At dinner time later, Mu and Vanessa said that they were about to embark on a long voyage after their rest period.

Since the generals said before that they were going to travel far away, according to the common sense of this era, it would be at least an ocean voyage lasting several months.

He and Vanessa explained some things, and left some money again.

The kind maid suggested: "If you want to go to sea for a long time, master, why don't you return the house here first?"

Mu smiled and flicked her forehead.

"Fool, where do you live after the house is returned?"

"I……"

Vanessa originally wanted to say that she could go back to live in the lower city, but Mu directly interrupted her, "Don't worry, this little money doesn't matter."

This time he is not pretending to be rich, but really has money in his pocket.

In this era, there is no real estate speculation or real estate bubble, and renting a house is not a big expense. Even for the luxurious single-person villa that Mu lives in now, the monthly rent is only more than 400 silver dollars.

And this time, the amount of wool he got from his elder brother Schifer was enough. Except for the expensive elf supplements left for Chenglong and Lalu Lasi, he still has more than 3 silver dollars in disposable assets, and renting for a few more years will not be a problem.

It's natural to speak hard when you have money in your hand, so he made a decision on this matter directly, and didn't give Vanessa any chance to object.

The days that followed were uneventful.

Mu still supervises the training of the two elves every day, and occasionally guides Conings by the way.

Two days later, the swordsmanship instructor that Siegfried had found for him came back again, and Mu started to practice swords under the opponent's hands again. His back and limbs were sore and swollen from the practice every day.

More than three weeks passed in a flash.

On this day, Bobo, Mu's carrier pigeon, flapped his wings and flew into the house, circled around to find Mu, and handed the letter to the owner.

After seeing Xinmu, he immediately greeted Cornings who was still exercising in the courtyard.

"Let's go, the captain told us to board the ship!"

They should go.

This time when they came to the port, Mu almost went wrong, because the location where they got on the boat changed, and because the boat also changed.

The pier has been unable to see the familiar Cleveland, replaced by their new ship - the Black Pearl.

Before boarding the ship, Mu inadvertently noticed a detail: their Black Pearl has not painted any logo on the ship so far.

After boarding the ship, the instructions of the captain Siegfried further confirmed this point.

"This time we are going down to the South China Sea, taking the Yanlin route, and our destination is the Cape Moon at the southern tip of the New World.

This voyage is very long, and it should be noted that after the second half of this voyage, we will no longer fly any faction flags. "

The route from the old continent to the landing point in the southwest of the New World is generally called the Yanlin route, because most of this route is located in the tropics, and there are many tropical rainforests on the land at the end of the route, so it got such a name.

The sea area passed by this road is often called the South China Sea.

In contrast, the sea area from the old continent to the northeast landing point of the new continent is generally called the East China Sea.

The sea area on the back of the New World that leads directly to the Arctic Circle is called the North Sea.

These are the three sea areas artificially delineated in this world.

Among them, the South China Sea is undoubtedly the most lively sea.

Because there is no native civilization as powerful as the Aloha Empire at the southern end of the New World, it has now become the back garden of the three kingdoms, there is no battlefield, only an endless stream of merchant ships.

But correspondingly, this sea area also has the largest number of pirates and smuggling ships in the world today.

In the depths of the ocean where the tentacles of order cannot reach, there are always dangers and murderous intentions simmering undercurrents.

In this case, Siegfried's order not to fly any camp flags during the second half of the voyage is very intriguing.

So much so that it made Mu fantasize for a while.

(End of this chapter)