Chapter 732: Unexpected Talented Player (Additional chapter for the leader 'Dreamy Helplessness')
During the test, a small emergency allowed the two testers to take a crucial step and accumulate experience in judging wind direction and controlling the hot air balloon to move up and down and adjust its position in advance.
Later, when the two of them officially carried out this test, their whole state was obviously much calmer, and even their operations became much more steady.
However, during the testing in the next few days, many unexpected situations still occurred.
Not only is the wind direction different in each air layer in the sky, in fact, even in the same air layer, it is possible that the wind is blowing eastward one moment and starting to blow northward the next.
Under this premise, the test on the first day was mainly to let them adapt to the feeling of flying with the wind on a hot air balloon, so it didn't matter even if they flew around with the wind or the take-off or landing location was completely offset.
But later on, it definitely won’t work, and it has to be controlled within a certain area.
This requires the two hot air balloon operators to constantly check the wind direction and then adjust the altitude of the hot air balloon.
You know, wind is the most unpredictable thing. Before, they were just flying with the wind, and they didn't feel the difficulty involved. But once they were required to perform relatively precise control, they immediately felt overwhelmed.
"Keep calm. What you need to do is not to fight against the wind, but to feel the wind..."
In this day and age, trying to control the wind is undoubtedly a foolish idea.
After a few days of training, although the two operators were able to take off and land skillfully, they still flew in a mess in the sky.
Occasionally, they would successfully fly to the designated location one or twice, but that was because the wind direction was good that day. To put it bluntly, it was just good luck and had nothing to do with their skills.
It was almost noon now. In addition to these two operators, Zhou Xu arranged four new operators, a total of six people, divided into three groups for rotation.
After all, when the hot air balloon is officially put into use, only two operators may not be enough. It is better to arrange several more groups and let them take turns training. This will not only give each group of operators time to rest and adjust, but also improve the efficiency of training and testing.
At this moment, Zhou Xu was pointing out the problems of two operators, and the other two groups of operators also gathered around to listen.
In addition to the lack of experience, the two people have problems with their mentality.
The wind direction in the air kept changing, and the frequent situation made the two men impatient. They kept trying to control the wind and fight against it, but the situation became worse and worse and became a complete mess.
In this state, if we let them continue to practice, there probably won't be any good results. It would be better to let them rest for a while and then let another group of people practice.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Silk, who was the captain of the personal guards and had always been following Zhou Xu, raised his hand thoughtfully after listening to the story.
"My king, it seems we can do what you said."
“…”
The situation before him was really beyond Zhou Xu's expectations. He never thought that Silk would speak at this time.
Feeling the slightly puzzled look in their king's eyes, Silk immediately added another sentence.
"We grassland elves are naturally very sensitive to the wind element in nature. According to what you just said, it is no problem for us to judge the wind direction."
"That's fine too, go up and try it."
Zhou Xu changed his mind and thought that if his personal soldiers could control the hot air balloon, it would save him a lot of trouble.
After all, at that time, he would definitely need to take a hot air balloon to travel between the two places from time to time. However, a hot air balloon could not carry many people, which meant that he could not bring his own soldiers with him. But if his own soldiers operated the hot air balloon, then this problem could be easily solved.
“Do I need to teach you how to operate it?”
"No, we all know."
The operation of a hot air balloon itself is not complicated. As personal soldiers, Silk and his companions followed Zhou Xu every day. They had no idea how many times they had to listen and watch it a day. After a period of time, they had all memorized it.
Now with Zhou Xu's permission, Silk took action personally, randomly selected one of his subordinates and boarded the hot air balloon.
Don’t mention it, it really gave Zhou Xu a big surprise.
Although they still lacked experience in operating hot air balloons, the grassland elves had an accurate perception of wind direction. On the first day, their performance was clearly superior to the three groups below, causing the six people below to look embarrassed, and they felt like they were sitting on pins and needles.
But in fact, Zhou Xu didn't mean to blame them. In his opinion, this was the normal behavior of ordinary human beings.
As for Silk and the others, all we can say is that the grassland elves are truly gifted.
[It would be better if the elf population was larger. 】
According to the talents of the elves, if the population increases dozens of times, they will be able to easily handle many special jobs.
Unfortunately, Silk and his people have too small a population base. In a short period of time, it is basically impossible to expect them to increase the population size through reproduction.
Considering that the growth cycle of the elves is calculated in hundreds of years, it is estimated that there will not be much change in his lifetime. It would be better to see if he can find other elf groups in the future, recruit them and expand the population.
"Speaking of which, why are you interested in this matter?"
Looking at Silk getting down from the hot air balloon, Zhou Xu felt a little curious.
After all, in his impression, Silk had no interest in most things.
Hearing this, Silk's ears turned red and he felt a little embarrassed.
He really didn't have much interest in other things, but this was Feitian! Who wouldn't be interested in this? ! He had been holding it in for so many days, and finally found the opportunity to speak out, so he mustered up enough courage.
In the next few days, Silk's and his team's main task became practicing the control of the hot air balloon.
Because they have a very keen sense of the wind element, after they have mastered the operating procedures, their control over the hot air balloon is constantly improving every day.
The overall improvement in efficiency caused the three groups of human operators who were practicing together to begin to doubt themselves.
Fortunately, Zhou Xu had made it clear to them at the beginning.
This hot air balloon will definitely be put into use in large numbers in the future, and the corresponding hot air balloon operators will also need a lot of training. They are the first batch, but they will definitely not be the last batch.
As for Silk and his companions, although they are extremely talented, the grassland elves with a limited population would not be able to engage in the business of hot air balloon operators.
Compared with this industry, the enchantment department and the population registration department undoubtedly need them more at this stage, especially the population registration department.
(End of this chapter)
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