This chapter is "My horse feeds the sheep".
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With the accurate positioning of the sextant, A Qi easily drew a simple topographic map of the Flame Archipelago on the notebook.
The Flame Archipelago was not the kind of archipelago where the islands were very scattered and did not cover a large area of the sea. It looked like the fragmented oracle bone inscriptions preserved in museums. A complete tortoise shell was broken into many pieces and then pieced together. Of course, Liszt preferred to call it a fragmented shell.
The grade of the tortoise shell was too low, but the grade of the shell was immediately raised.
This shell was also like an oval leaf, pointed at both ends and round in the middle, with a northeast-southwest orientation. There were three large islands in the northeast corner. According to A Qi's description, each of them was close to the area of the Iron Hoof Island. In the middle was the huge Flame Island, and the Whirlpool Mountain was in the eastern center of the Flame Island.
In the southwest corner, there were four large islands forming the edge of the shell, and together with the Flame Island, they formed an inland sea.
Of course, this was only a rough map. Many areas were inferred by A Qi and had not been carefully positioned. The area of the islands and the area of the sea had also not been calculated. To complete the smoke mission of mapping the map, it would take a long time to find the lost invisible dragon.
In short.
The archipelago was called the Flame Archipelago, and the surrounding sea could not continue to be called the Azure Waves Sea, so Liszt simply gave it the name Shell Sea.
All the offshore sea areas ruled by the future Flame Country were called Shell Sea.
"Brother, the Whirlpool Mountain is located in the depths of the inland of the Flame Island. Whether it is to the north, south, or east, it is more than 500 kilometers away." A Qi was very good at mathematics. She had mastered the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division that Liszt taught her, as well as elementary knowledge such as square root.
However, Liszt had completely forgotten the higher mathematical knowledge. He might not even be able to solve a quadratic equation, let alone functions such as cos, sin, and power.
However, he remembered a lot of formulas to find the area — a rectangle was "length" multiplied by "width", a parallelogram was "height" multiplied by "base", a triangle was "height" multiplied by "base" and then reduced by half, a trapezoid area was "height" multiplied by "upper and lower sides" and then reduced by half, and a circle area was π multiplied by "radius" squared.
Besides.
There were also some abstract image areas that needed to be cut to make them approximate rectangles, triangles, and so on. Or, he could draw grid lines, calculate the area that the image occupied on the grid, and then add them together.
When he gave these formulas to A Qi, she immediately carried them forward and developed them into an important tool for studying magic circles, astronomy, and geography. Therefore, it was easy for A Qi to calculate the distance from the Whirlpool Mountain to the seaside, and concluded that each route would not be less than 500 kilometers.
"Five hundred kilometers is still acceptable. If Leo flies at full speed, he can reach the seaside in about three to four hours," Liszt calculated with his fingers and said.
However, it was rare for Liszt to come to the Flame Archipelago, so he didn't plan to go back just like that. He wanted to map out the area of the Flame Archipelago first.
Completing the smoke mission was more important.
This matter was related to the whereabouts of his old friend, the invisible dragon. He always carried the smoke grass feast with him, waiting for the invisible dragon to attend the feast and eat the Enchanting Dragon Soul Fruit in passing.
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Leo landed on the ground and chewed the magic potion and auxiliary medicine that Liszt stuffed into his mouth, feeling contented.
Liszt outlined his idea of building Inferno City to A Qi: "The city must be built, and the Great Maelstrom Magic Transmission Formation must be developed. The current problem is that it is very dangerous to enter and exit the Great Maelstrom, and many fragile materials cannot be kept intact."
"We can set up a water curtain magic formation at the entrance of the Great Maelstrom and use the water curtain to slow down the ships passing through the Great Maelstrom."
"But even if the ships slow down, they will still fall down the mountain."
A Qi pondered seriously: "I heard my brother tell me the story of opening a canal between two seas. The height of the sea is different, and water can be released and injected through different valves to realize navigation." The canal story she was talking about was actually the Panama Canal that Liszt had casually mentioned in his spare time.
However, Liszt obviously remembered wrong. The sea surface of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean were the same.
However, the Panama Canal could not be excavated directly due to the geological influence. That was why the Panama Canal relied on the drop of the river to first raise and then lower, allowing ships to pass through smoothly. The Three Gorges Dam in China also used this type of sluice canal, and the earliest sluice canal in the world was the Spirit Canal in ancient China.
Liszt, who still did not know that he was talking nonsense, nodded and said, "Yes, that canal uses sluices to release and inject water to complete the staircase navigation. So, you are saying that we should build this kind of canal in the Great Maelstrom Mountain? I'm afraid not. It is impossible to build a canal with a drop of three thousand meters. "
"But magic can. A Qi can design a water column magic formation that can raise and lower the water column. Starting from the entrance of the Great Maelstrom Mountain, we can use about thirty water columns that have a vertical drop of one hundred meters to complete navigation."
"Even so, I'm afraid the resources will be astronomical."
"When A Qi has mastered the ice element, we can study the changes of the earth element. By then, we can use earth magic to completely transform the mountain and reduce the resource consumption!" A Qi said ambitiously.
She had read the magic books that Kenley Truth brought from the Steel Ridge Kingdom, which recorded a few magic masterpieces from the era of the Moon Empire.
It was said that there was a "Sky Canal" that went from the capital of the Moon Empire to the western border. It was supported by a magic formation. However, the Sky Canal had long been lost in the long river of history. Many Magicians had tried to find the remains of the Sky Canal, but they had not found it yet.
Therefore, A Qi hoped to design a small inferior version of the Sky Canal for the Great Maelstrom Mountain.
She was also a Magic Shooter. If the ancient Magic Shooters could do it, why couldn't the modern Magic Shooters? The magic books that she had read about the ancient Moon Empire were all wild and unconstrained, which made her feel very emotional. For a Magician, there were only things that could not be imagined, and nothing that could not be done.
Unfortunately, the golden age of the magic civilization was long gone.
Liszt, however, was not so optimistic. With the decline of the magic net, it was difficult for the magic formation to absorb magic power from the net. It needed all kinds of precious magic materials to set it up.
The resources needed were definitely astronomical. Now that he was struggling to raise two dragons, he wished that he could get several development orders a year.
It was a little unrealistic to spend resources to build a canal.
However, he was not in the mood to ignore A Qi. "Then wait for you to complete the earth element Elemental Incarnation switch as soon as possible, then we can develop the magic portal of the Great Maelstrom … Now think of a way to use the Great Maelstrom to transport resources and develop this huge archipelago as soon as possible."
A Qi was not a person who was too ambitious. "Brother, can we build many ships like the Flame, carefully reinforce them, accumulate resources and population, and then send them to the Great Maelstrom? A Qi would cross first, use magic to catch the ship at the entrance of the Great Maelstrom, and then put it aside to unload? "
"You mean to use the Flame as a disposable transportation tool?"
"Yes."
"It's still a bit extravagant, but compared to transporting resources across the sea, it's really convenient, but it will often trouble you and me."
"Hehe, it's good that you don't feel tired. A Qi is looking forward to crossing the Great Maelstrom again and studying the magic transmission array. Maybe it won't be long before A Qi can lay a new magic array herself and set up a transmission array from Black Horse Island to Flame Island! "
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