Chapter 684 The Charge Coffin Begins its Charge
"It's been a while since I've been back to Castel, so I'd like to go back and take a look."
Xius muttered to himself, but there was a hint of resistance in his expression.
To be honest, he didn't really want to go back to the island.
Gaia, the head of the R&D department, was sent to the Rhine. According to the system, the R&D on the island is managed by technical personnel with relevant management experience.
Unfortunately, that person is Tata.
Tata, a senior researcher at Fire Moth, has extremely rich relevant experience, so Xius is not worried that he will not be able to do the job.
On the contrary, Hughes worries that he's overqualified.
To be honest, the stellar furnace and cargo ship designed by Tata were both quite successful works, but they took some detours along the way.
The key is that this detour is a bit too winding.
Apart from anything else, Big Gwen could summon an iron ark from the sea, and God knows how many ships have sunk in the sea.
Tata still doesn't dare to get close to the big ship, for fear that the machine spirit on it will explode with him.
Now that he has to go back to the island, Zeus feels a headache when he thinks about going to see what magical invention Tata has made.
"Forget it, let's go take a look. It hasn't been long since Tata took over R&D, so nothing should go wrong."
After contemplating it for a long time, Xius finally decided to go back - he was a little afraid that if he didn't go back for too long, Tata would make him suffer a big blow.
After speaking to Ash in the Banshee duty room, he came to the dock area, where a uniquely shaped ship was waiting for him.
This ship was also designed by Tata. Hughes called it the Charge Coffin, also known as the Nine Snakes Pulling Coffin. Unlike high-energy-consuming power such as steam engines that burn and pollute, it uses new energy.
——Human resources.
Zeus just mentioned in the link that he was going back to Castel, and a group of banshees immediately rushed over howling.
"Is the coffin ready? Is the coffin ready?"
"Pull, you can pull!"
"Hurry up, when are we leaving? This time it's my turn, no one can snatch it from me!"
"Don't worry, no one's going to take it from you. Just stay on my left. Together with Ash, the three of us will form the head!"
"Oh, that's fine. I heard pulling it from the side is pretty fun too. You can control the speed."
"That's right, control the direction of the coffin from the front, the roll from the sides, and the pitch from the back. If you all work together, we can take off!"
Hughes took a deep breath and tried to control his emotions.
There is no way, this charge coffin is really the fastest way to move in the sea.
Castel's freighter had a speed of a little over ten knots, and the ironclad was a little faster, reaching twenty knots at full speed.
The fastest steam clippers, such as Jeremiah's Black Pearl, could even reach nearly thirty knots when their machine spirit was in high gear, which was as fast as the wind in that era.
The Banshee can move at speeds of hundreds of knots in the sea.
This speed far exceeds the limit of steamships, and even modern ships on the Blue Planet cannot match it.
This is because when a ship's speed exceeds 60 knots (111km/h) in conventional fluids, it will encounter the fluid cavitation barrier - vacuum bubbles are generated behind the propeller, causing thrust collapse, which is still a death line that is difficult to cross.
The banshees swim in the sea not by swinging their tails to push the water, but by relying on extraordinary strength, which is their innate ability.
Zeus can also share this ability through the symbiotic contract. It can be said that the speed of the Banshees in the sea basically exceeds that of all ships, so the Charge Coffin, a new energy ship, also has its reason for existence.
But that doesn't stop it from being weird.
Zeus had to bring a lot of paper materials this time, especially the batch he got from the Mechanical Temple, so he finally chose to pull out the charge coffin.
Zeus was lying flat in the coffin cabin, wrapped in thick soft material all around him.
There was no way around it. As coffin-pullers, the banshees didn't really care about ride comfort. They'd previously experimented with a coyote before taking people aboard, and when it was dumped out of the cabin, it had over 400 broken bones.
By the way, coyotes only have a little over 300 bones in total.
Even the designer Tata could not cope with this result, and eventually filled the cabin with thick cushions.
Plus, since Zeus has a symbiotic contract, he wouldn't die even if he had over 400 fractures.
The banshees surrounded Hughes and stuffed all the paper materials he needed to carry with him at his side. Hughes lay in the charge coffin, his hands folded on his chest, looking at the surrounding banshees.
Why does it feel more and more wrong?
Forget it, forget it, we can’t think about this matter too much. Hughes quickly signaled Ash to close the hatch.
Yes, this "charge coffin" is not something Zeus made up. It really doesn't look like a boat. After all, whose boat has a lid?
Of course, due to Hughes' strong opposition, this charge coffin is not so square and the lid does not look like a coffin lid.
Well, I made a sliding cover.
So the whole thing looks like a .
A more fashionable coffin.
Lying in the cabin, staring at the banshees around him, Zeus could no longer hold back.
"Speak up! Weren't you always quite talkative? Why aren't you saying a word now? It's as solemn as a funeral!"
The banshees looked at each other, and Monica scratched her head:
"Boss, it's not that we're deliberately keeping quiet. We've simply gotten used to being quiet in front of the Temple of Silence. Well, let me just say a few words."
Monica took a step forward and was about to say something when Hughes raised his hand, grabbed the sliding cover, and closed it with a bang.
Monica: “.”
"Forget it, let's go."
Then the fifty-four hands of the nine banshees grabbed the four sides of the charging coffin, carried it on their shoulders, and walked towards the seaside.
——Because the size of the assault coffin is relatively small, in order to prevent it from being overturned by the waves, the boat was covered before it was launched into the water.
When the banshees stood up straight, they were two stories tall, but Monica was much shorter - she was about the same height as Hughes.
It would be fine at other times, but her height disadvantage came into play when she was carrying the coffin.
Other banshees carry the charging coffin on their shoulders, but Monica holds the charging coffin with six hands and hangs on it.
Eight banshees carried a charging coffin with Monica hanging on it. This line of abstract banshees, which was close to performance art, successfully attracted the attention of people on the dock.
This time, Nini did not apply to pull the coffin, but said she wanted to join a coffin-guarding team. Now she is hiding aside, holding a camera in both hands, a drawing board and a paintbrush in both hands, and a notebook in both hands to write a report. She is so busy that she is about to erase sparks.
It seems we can look forward to tomorrow’s front page headlines, maybe there will be another world famous painting.
But Zeus, who was lying in the coffin, was already prepared - he returned directly.
You guys just go and deal with this body. Zeus will go straight to the destination as soon as he opens his eyes.
This is true end-to-end.
(End of this chapter)
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