There was always a destination or direction to travel in. Unlike the carriages on land, the airship could only choose to dock at a port and could not sail to the center of a desert. Although the Airship was relatively freer than the aircraft on Earth, not every place welcomed the Airship to dock. Especially the place they were going to was the territory of the Guevana Empire.
For the convenience of management, including collecting taxes and managing personnel, the lords only allowed airships to dock at certain cities in their territories. In addition, when there was no emergency, such as an unavoidable crash, goods would be regarded as smuggling, and personnel would be regarded as entering the country without permission. The former would be confiscated, while the latter would result in death.
Apart from the cities designated by the nobles, the other options for airships were Magic Towers with anchors. Of course, these places were chosen not only because of the various restrictions, but also because of their convenience.
Among the supplies required by airships, food and water were the easiest to deal with. They were basically everywhere. However, some airships needed to rely on the Magic Tower's energy pool to replenish the small energy pool on the airship. This was not something that could be done anywhere.
Just like the Tower of the Great Sage in the past, with the help of the Mages of the Leon branch, they had added anchoring facilities for airships. In addition to anchoring airships, they could also be used to transmit magical power.
Sometimes, airships would also require equipment maintenance. Apart from the ship's owner and technicians, it was best to have a specialized dock for operations. Some of the larger cities would even develop factories for the production of airships. Simply put, it formed a city similar to the concept of an airport on Earth.
In other words, although there was no concept of air control or flight path in the mysterious land, one could not fly wherever one wanted to. Especially when one was flying an unarmed airship.
This was what Lin Sheng had learned from chatting with the goblin Totokani. Some of it was Lin Sheng's own speculation. However, he had been too busy to consider this problem before. Now that he was about to set off, the problem was right in front of him. He had to consider it. Where should he fly to? There was a limited amount of fuel and magic stones that could be used to replenish magical power. He could not allow Lin Sheng to fly around like a headless fly.
This was because Lin Sheng's question was so simple that no one could answer it. Lin Sheng pulled the goblin out and asked, "How did you navigate the airship before?"
"Navigate? Your Excellency, what is the meaning of this? "
The goblin's question made me feel a little confused. Could it be that the goblins relied on their intuition and mood to fly? Lin asked in a different way, "How did you plan to get to Estali when you were controlling the airship?"
"Oh, about that. My original flight path was to take the Abadan Line after crossing the Jura Mountains. Depending on the situation, I would stop at Abadan, Hais, Minab, Sawe, and other cities. It would take about xx (20) days to reach the Holy City of Estali. "
As the Gnome spoke, Lin Li pulled out Sid's navigation map. As Totokani reported a name, a city was marked on the map.
Totokani's eyes lit up at the sight of such a map on the airship. As someone who had often sailed around the Lost Land, he knew the importance of maps better than anyone else. The picture in front of him was even more detailed than the one he had seen before.
However, just having a map and knowing the destination was useless because there was no direction. The Lost Land didn't have GPS navigation like on Earth. They didn't know where they were and where they were and could adjust their direction. Relying on the appearance of the terrain to determine the direction was one way, but Lin still asked the Gnome, "In the past, how did you determine which city you were flying to?"
The Gnome showed a troubled expression at this question. Totokani had his daughter go into the warehouse to find something while he went to the pilot's seat and carefully studied the map.
Not long after, Polly walked over with a small wooden box. Totokani opened the wooden box for everyone to see. It was full of junk of similar shapes. Lin was puzzled and asked, "What is this?"
Totokani picked up one of the intact objects, and it was probably the only one that was intact. It was slightly smaller than the Gnome's fist. There seemed to be words engraved on the base, but Lin hadn't seen it carefully. The top half was a glass-like spherical cover, and inside was a pointer with half of its side painted with color. The Gnome said,
"In the past, we had to rely on the city's pointer to fly to whichever city we were flying to. These pointers not only showed us the direction we were flying, but they were also permission to stop at that city. With this pointer, the tax to enter the city would be cheaper, but now all the pointers I have are broken. Although they can still be used as permission to enter the city, and the broken ones can be replaced in the city for a small sum of money. But the only one left that still has a guiding function is to guide us to Asuji. And Asuji is too far from here. If we don't stop to resupply midway, we won't be able to reach that city. "
Lin looked at the location of Asuji. In a straight line, it was about a third to a quarter of the distance from the Jura Mountains to the Holy City of Estali. In other words, it was very close to the terminal. If the Gnome's airship had to travel for more than twenty days and stop at nearly ten cities before reaching, then it was indeed impossible to reach Asuji directly.
Lin took the pointer from the Gnome and held it in his hand. He changed the direction a few times. The pointer was fixed in the same direction, and it wasn't the north and south poles of geomagnetism. It looked like a prop in a certain comic — the Log Pointer. But in that comic, the Log Pointer relied on magnetism. What about in the Lost Land? There would always be a principle behind it.
He asked Kaya to bring out the coffin and the related analysis equipment, and began to analyze the pointer as a magical prop. Soon, he found the magic array engraved on it and studied its function. It seemed to be a guiding magic array that could track a specific authority from a long distance.
The reason for this inference was that the magic array with the same function was one of Lin's recent research topics. One of the results was the magic array used in Cassette Cutting that could be used for long-distance positioning and as a reference coordinate for the Blink spell.
The only difference was that the pointer was more like a receiver that received a signal source from a specific band. And this signal source was a signal from a certain magic transmitter that sent out a specific arrangement of authority information. It was like a combination of a radio station and a radio.
Since it was something he had explored, Lin quickly wrote a program that could search for these bands and had Fen integrate it into the Sid's control system. The multifunctional detection equipment on the outside of the airship quickly found the special signal source scattered throughout the space and reversed the search to find the location and distance of the source, displaying it on the airship's map.
But it seemed that the search was very effective. The locations that were lit up on the navigation map far exceeded the known locations that Totokani had been to. There were even some cities or Magic Towers that did not exist in the information on the map. But the number of locations that were used for navigation had also far exceeded Lin's original estimation. Lin even used this information to correct the location of some cities on the map.
The goblin Totokani was, of course, the most surprised by this. He had spent most of his life on airships. Every time he had to open up a route to a new location, it was a very troublesome matter. In addition to the cost of purchasing the local pointer, there was also the trial of the airship, confirming the supply points on the way, and contacting the local managers to obtain permission.
Sometimes, for safety reasons, he would choose to advance to a new location by land and only drive the airship there after he had obtained the pointer. And in addition to the cost of the journey, there was also a lot of time. In short, it was not easy to light up a city or a Magic Tower on the map like a certain person.
In the goblin's original expectation, in a situation where his collection of pointers was almost completely destroyed, he could only fly slowly in a certain direction. In addition to observing the terrain, he also had to gamble on some luck. If he was unlucky, he might not be able to find a city that could be used to replenish the airship's supplies before the supplies ran out. But unexpectedly, the problem seemed to have been solved in one go.
Lin was originally surprised by this result. But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was natural. The Magic Towers were like the computers on Earth that were connected to the Internet but did not have a firewall. In the eyes of the top hackers, they were chickens that could be slaughtered.
Of course, the Magic Towers were still a rather primitive existence for computers. It was not possible to use hacking methods to play tricks. But as long as it was a function that was broadcast to the outside world, it was as if there were no defenses against it.
The deeper he felt this, the more he regretted releasing the knowledge of P Language. If someone had really researched and found some way to use it for evil purposes, it would be no less harmful than the Undead Catastrophe.
But what was done was done. The important thing now was to get out of this predicament. To be on the safe side, the first destination Lin chose was the first stop planned by Totokani, the city of the Guevana Empire — Abadan. The reason was that it was the closest.
Because at this stage, the various consumption of the airship was only estimated, and the actual situation had yet to be verified. The sooner they arrived at the city, if there was a problem with the airship, at least they could buy resources to repair it. And not like now, where they could only stare in the snow.
All the function switches of the Sid had already been preheated. Lin held the rudder with both hands, and all kinds of instruments and data were immediately displayed in front of the pilot's seat along with the water mirror screen that unfolded. He had thought of using mechanical instruments, but the readings themselves came from the magic detection, and they had to be converted to drive the mechanical instruments, which consumed more power, so he gave up on the idea.
The cockpit layout was modeled after that of an Earth passenger plane. Lin was on the left, and Fen was on the right. She and Kaya, who was behind her, were monitoring the various records of the program's feedback so that they could fix it immediately when there was an error message.
Totokani and Polly, who were further behind, sat in the third pilot's seat. Both of them had magic stone books in one hand and secretly learned from Lin's driving movements. If they wanted to control this brand-new airship, the father and daughter had to work hard.
Lin pushed the first throttle valve that controlled the power, and the magical energy, which was different from that of Earth, began to flow into every corner of the magic array. The mysterious and magical effects that were difficult to explain with science gradually increased and began to affect reality. At the same time, all the functions were online one by one.
The Sid was officially activated!
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