Master of Thermodynamics

When Lanster cut off the three dog heads as he wished, the seawater poured in from the hole in the bottom of the boat had already covered his knees, and the water level was still rising at a speed visible to the naked eye. The strong water flow surging in the cabin, rushing the team members. It's difficult for us to even walk, and we can't get close to the hole at all.

In the sound of the huge water waves, Evans wiped the sea water off his face and roared loudly:

"Captain, what should I do? The current is too rushing, and things with insufficient weight can't block the hole at all, and they will definitely be washed away, unless a very heavy guy is used..."

Lanster looked around and found no large enough object in the cabin. He gritted his teeth and shouted:

"Who said there are no big guys, aren't we?"

Evans listened blankly and looked at Lanster a little dazedly.

Lanster shouted in a deep voice:

"Now there is no time to find a big guy. Let's use our bodies to plug the loopholes and buy time for the sailors who repair the loopholes. Otherwise, the longer the delay, the more water will enter..."

"Don't stand stupidly, Evans, Marek, Gwillim, the three of you hurry up, the combined weight of the four of us is absolutely enough and will not be washed away by the current..."

"Everyone else came to help the leaders and withstand our bodies..."

All the island guards gathered immediately, supporting each other's bodies and moving forward with all their strength against the fierce water current. When the seawater flooded their waists, the players finally approached the edge of the hole.

Lanster put his hands on his companion's shoulders and yelled:

"Everyone hug each other tightly, listen to my command, and move forward together... one..."

A group of people took a step forward, Lanster only felt his right foot stepped on the empty space.

No, it's not an empty space.

His right foot was directly on top of a violent current, and his body was instantly swept up and down. If it hadn't been for several arms to pull him at the same time, I'm afraid he would have been washed away.

If so, he also felt his body float up. This kind of experience was so peculiar, it was like driving a water current.

Uh... and it hurts a little bit.

That's right, the egg hurts.

Because of the bottom-up water, he was constantly washing his balls. Despite the protection of thick military pants, he still felt a strong sense of oppression, which made him want to clamp his legs and take care of his squeezed. Pressed double yellow.

However, the sense of responsibility urged him to give up protecting the egg, and shouted a second time:

"two……"

A bunch of tin cans hugged together took the second step with difficulty.

On the deck of the Odin, another group of people are also working hard to plug the loophole.

First officer Lutherford stood on the edge of the ship, yelling anxiously, and desperately urged to proceed.

"Priest, your team quickly dived to the bottom of the boat and blocked the holes with wooden boards. Remember, you must press the wooden boards hard..."

"Dicky, once Prester and the others hold down the board, you immediately use the magic drill to punch holes, insert the fixing pins into it, and fix the board..."

"Meneca, your team brings a magic glue sprayer, one on one's back, and after the board is fixed, you immediately start applying glue to block every gap..."

"Kieran, you are a reserve team. If you are physically weak, go over and support immediately, and don't let anyone accident..."

"For this kind of plugging operation, we have organized a drill every week. I hope everyone will be successful this time. In addition, before everyone goes into the water, remember to check the air bottle..."

"Everyone, speed up, don't rush, if anyone is dragging their feet, not only will the bonus be gone, I will kick his **** fiercely..."

In the roar of Lutherford, a team of sailors carrying air bottles and various equipment, rushed to the side of the ship in groups, and jumped directly off the Odin.

A series of "thumping" sounds followed, and the sailors fell into the sea like dumplings, splashing large waves, and then they quickly waved their arms and swam to the pirate ship not far away.

Ten seconds later, several sailors holding large wooden boards dived to the bottom of the pirate ship. What surprised them was that through the goggles, they saw a few human legs protruding from the bottom of the ship.

This...what is the situation?

These doglegs are here, how can we plug the loopholes?

The sailors have participated in many leak-stopping drills, and this is the first time they have seen this weird situation, which makes them wonder what to do.

At this time, the sailor Priest who led the team suddenly released the plank, drew a sharp short knife from his belt, and quickly swam to the dogleg.

The other sailors were taken aback and everyone looked at each other.

Is this... planning to chop off a dog leg?

Look at the style of armor on the dog's legs. This is clearly the dog's leg of the island guard. How can you cut it casually?

After Pleister swam near the dog's leg, he turned his head and made a gesture to his companions, and pointed his finger at the area directly below the dog's leg, motioning them to drag the board here.

The sailors nodded and took the plank to the designated position according to Prester's instructions.

As soon as the plank was in place, Prestor was holding a knife against the turbulent water flow, and hitting the leg armor on the dog's leg with the back of the knife vigorously. The back of the knife hit the leg armor with a dull crash sound.

"When... when... when..."

In the cabin, Lanster immediately felt the vibration from the leg armor, and his face showed joy:

"The sailor who plugged the leak is here, let's get out of here quickly..."

A group of island guards breathed a sigh of relief, and left the cave entrance by the current.

At the bottom of the ship, the sailors saw these dog legs retract into the hole, revealing a hole close to 1 meter in diameter, and they were also greatly relieved.

The water flow near the entrance of the cave also became more turbulent, and the sailors holding the wooden planks felt a pressure from under the wooden planks and rose up against the wooden planks. They stepped on the water with their feet and headed upstream toward the entrance of the cave.

"boom……"

With a soft sound, the plank hit the bottom of the boat and completely covered the hole, and the surrounding turbulence disappeared instantly.

Blocked!

Pleister swam several feet and hands, swam a few meters away, and made a gesture to another group of sailors waiting aside. The group of sailors immediately moved closer to the plank with tools and accepted the follow-up work.

The next work is meticulous and time-consuming.

The sailors spent nearly ten minutes using the magic drill to drill more than ten small holes in the edge of the plank. They even drilled through the bottom of the boat. They took the metal hammer and knocked the metal pin with the thickness of the thumb into the small hole. .

At this point, the plank is considered to be fixed and complete, without the sailors continuing to use manpower to press the plank.

The next step is to apply glue.

This work was carried out by the third group of sailors. The tools they carried were strange. Everyone was carrying a boxy metal can behind his back, and his right hand was holding a long Nima hose. The other end of the hose was connected to the metal can. .

It is worth noting that there is also a small rune sleeve on the hose, which is just close to the palms of the sailors, and a magic silver wire is connected to the sleeve and the metal tank respectively.

This is what the first officer Lutherford called the "magic sprayer".

After the sailors approached the plank, they quickly aligned the hose to the edge of the plank and activated the rune sleeve. A faint blue light spilled from the sailors’ fingers, smudging the flowing sea water into blue, which looked quite dreamlike. Feeling like an illusion.

A large amount of red and black jelly came out of the rubber tube and smeared between the board and the bottom of the boat. While swimming slowly, the sailors moved the rubber tube along the edge of the board, continuously spraying the jelly.

There were also two sailors wearing gloves made of Nima glue, pressing on the surface of the glue, and spreading the glue evenly to prevent uneven thickness.

After 5 minutes, a circle of red and black jelly appeared on the edge of the whole board, like a box drawn on the bottom of a ship.

Meneca, the captain of the glue application team, quickly swam under the board and carefully checked the glue application. Then he nodded with satisfaction and gave the sailor who was in charge of glue application a thumbs up.

Then he took a leather belt from his belt, unbuttoned the bag, and shook it a few times. A large number of white particles spilled out and quickly melted into the sea.

At this time, something strange happened.

The red and black jelly on the wooden board gradually turned into pure black at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just 10 seconds, the entire red and black box completely turned into a black box.

Meneca vigorously inhaled an air tube that was biting in his mouth, and there were many bubbles in his nose, and then he took out a small knife and slashed **** the surface of the black jelly.

The jelly didn't move, and only a few extremely slight scratches were left on the surface, which would not be visible at all without close observation.

Meneca laughed happily now, treading on the water continuously with both feet, swimming towards the sea, and other sailors followed.

Their task is complete!

After Meneca's head came out of the water, he spit out the rubber tube he was biting in his mouth and shouted excitedly:

"Boss, the 10502 glue has taken effect, and the loophole is plugged..."

First Mate Lutherford's voice was heard immediately:

"Good job! I will apply to the captain, your bonus this month will be increased by 20%..."

There was a warm cheer on the sea.

In this world, the ocean is full of powerful monsters, and ocean-going sailboats are often eaten by some curious sea monsters to taste the taste. With the sharp teeth of these guys, almost one mouthful is one. Big hole.

Someone may want to ask, can't we use very strong wood to make a sailboat that the sea monster can't bite?

This question is very well asked, and business people want to do it.

It is a pity that the higher the strength of the wood, the more difficult it is to process, and the manufacturing cost will be several times higher than that of other sailboats. It is not that the merchants do not want to use good wood, but can't afford it.

So, since you can't afford a good sailboat, you can only patch it.

Anyway, the sea monsters can only gnaw a few bites at most, and if they find that the wood does not match the taste, they will consciously leave. Only the ship wall is damaged, and the keel will not be damaged. It is enough to plug the loophole in time.

The new three years, the old three years, and the sewing and mending three years, these words are almost the most appropriate description of the alien sailing ship.

Many sailing boats that have been used for a long time, if you look from underwater, you must see that the bottom of the boat is covered with large patches, which are more uglier than a dog.

Therefore, in the alien world, repairing loopholes is almost one of the necessary skills for every sailor. From this perspective, the sailors in the alien world are more hard-pressed than the sailors in the Middle Ages on earth.

MMP, what plane of sailors would be so unlucky like us, if there is nothing to do, you have to plug a leak and seal a hole...

There are many ways to repair loopholes by the people of different worlds. Some merchant ships use resin bonding, some use iron plates to repair, and some use heavy ballast, some repair from the inside, and some play external plugging.

The sailors of the sea tide collar also summed up a set of their own repair methods, which is to use wooden hard planks to repair the holes from the outside.

Because external repair is significantly better than internal repair.

If repaired from the inside, the "patch" will continue to be subjected to seawater pressure, and the durability of the patch will not be high. It will not take long for a second leak, and it will only be repaired again.

External repairing is different. The water pressure will press the "patch" firmly on the bottom of the ship, and it will not leak for a long time. The only drawback is that sometimes the sea monster will linger and the sailors will not dare to go into the water. A temporary patch can be applied internally first, and a permanent patch can be applied externally afterwards.

The pirate ship was broken because of the internal patch on the bottom of the ship. Seeing that these guys couldn't escape, they simply pried open an internal patch with the mentality of dying together.

Otherwise, a good sailing boat, clearly covered with thick planks, could have been easily made a big hole by a few ordinary pirates who were not even awakened in just a few minutes?

Thanks to the unparalleled organizational power of Haichao Leader, the Department of Navigation often organizes relevant training and rehearses the skills of plugging loopholes over and over again. In this skill, the skill level of sailors is really outrageous, far surpassing their peers.

Not only that, with the help of the Rune Research Institute, the Navigation Department also obtained a large number of magic machines, which greatly improved work efficiency.

For the same loophole, the sailors of other chambers of commerce need 10 minutes, but the sailors of the sea tide can fix it in only 2 minutes. The gap between the two sides is so big that it is very different.

"10502 Glue" is a glue used by sailors to seal loopholes. Of course, its name comes from the guy Renault. This glue is one of the many achievements of Hai Chao Ling in material science.

The main raw material of this glue is the resin secreted by a tree called the "death tree", also known as the "death resin". Both humans and wild animals shun the dead man resin.

If this resin is accidentally adhered to the skin and it is not cleaned in time, it will definitely take off a layer of skin, which shows that its stickiness is great.

The Rune Magician studied for a period of time, added several other resins and mineral powder to the dead man resin, and formulated a strong glue, which is 10502 glue.

After testing, Renault found that this glue is at least 10 times more viscous than 502 glue on the earth, so this nasty guy decisively named it 10502 glue, which means 10 times the 502 glue.

In addition, 10502 glue has many interesting characteristics.

Because the raw material is resin, the combination of 10502 glue and wood material is very good. After fully hardened, the two are almost a whole, and they are constantly cut with a knife.

And its durability is very high, it will not fall off within 3 or 4 years. If the use environment is relatively good and there is no wind or rain, it will be no problem for 7 or 8 years.

On the other hand, the bonding force of 10502 glue to metal is not very good. After 2 or 3 months, it will fall off the metal surface.

Nowadays, it is widely used in the furniture manufacturing industry in Haichaoling. In many occasions, it has completely replaced tools such as nails.

Under normal circumstances, it takes at least 15 minutes for 10502 glue to harden completely when exposed to the air, but after it is exposed to salt water, the hardness speed is 5 times faster than normal. The higher the salt water concentration, the faster the hardening speed.

When plugging the loophole just now, Meneca took advantage of this feature and sprinkled a bag of salt in the seawater, which greatly increased the hardening speed of the glue. It took only 10 seconds to complete the hardening.

The capture of the other three pirate ships went very smoothly, and there was no incident of prying the bottom of the ship.

After successfully boarding another larger pirate ship, more than 20 team members led by Bald John completed the cleaning of the entire ship and occupied the pirate ship in less than 20 minutes.

On the other side, Haichao, commanded by Grumm, quickly caught up with an escaped pirate ship. After a few rounds of air gun volleys, the pirates on the deck immediately suffered heavy casualties, and then a team of island guards forcibly boarded the ship.

Seeing that the enemy was so ferocious and cruel, the other pirates didn't even let go of the corpses. They took a few shots at each corpse with that powerful strange weapon. They were all frightened and rushed to surrender.

As for the last pirate ship, it was also the smallest of the four pirate ships. When the Hai Chao at full speed approached within 1 kilometer, it neatly hung the white flag.

If you can't beat it and you can't run away, how can you drop if you don't surrender?

It's a bit ironic that because the pirates are the weakest and they see opportunities quickly, after the battle, this pirate ship with the least crew became the sailboat with the most survivors.

At this point, this short encounter was completely over, and Renault got the result he wanted.

According to his agreement with the Duke of Castro, as soon as half a month later, the first batch of civilians near the Nassau Wetlands will begin to relocate. The Duke will speak to the local nobles, and the two sides will jointly transport the civilians to Allen. Special port, waiting for Renault to receive.

Every time a civilian is accepted, Renault will pay the Duke a certain amount of remuneration according to his age. Regarding the specific distribution method of the remuneration, the Duke and the nobles themselves will negotiate internally, and Renault will not participate.

There is no doubt that Castro, the old dog, will definitely get the biggest piece of cake in this deal, but Renault is also willing to give up part of the benefits for his own promotion of this matter.

Without certain benefits, who wants to work hard?

It is precisely because there are a large number of civilians waiting to receive that Renault eagerly wanted to collect a batch of sailing boats to prepare for the upcoming wave of immigration, so when he saw the 4 pirate ships coming home, he ordered his men to be complete. Capture them.

At this time, the three merchant ships that had been watching from a distance saw the end of the battle before they began to slowly move closer to the fleet.

After the leading merchant ship approached the Haichao, the two parties shouted for a while in the air, and then a small boat was placed on the merchant ship. Several figures moved from under the deck to the boat, shaking the oars towards the Odin.

Before long, a bearded businessman with two entourages climbed onto the deck of the Odin, panting.

"Dear Reynolds, I am the director of the Maxwell Chamber of Commerce, Gary. On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, I am extremely grateful for your assistance. For this, we are willing to pay a certain amount of compensation in accordance with the tradition..."

After seeing Renault, this guy named "Gairich" offered to give money straightforwardly. It seemed that he was worried that Renault, who was holding a powerful force in his hand, had a bad intention. He also specially added:

"The Maxwell Chamber of Commerce is one of the industries under the Maxwell family. The patriarch, Mr. Krupp Maxwell, has the title of earl of the Silver Lion Kingdom in the Xinghai Continent, and he is also a powerful and extraordinary lord."

"If you know something about the Silver Lion Kingdom, you will probably know that the Earl of Maxwell is one of the richest territories in the kingdom. Please believe that with the strength of the Maxwell Chamber of Commerce, you can definitely pay your satisfaction..."

Renault couldn't help laughing when he heard the warning, half showing off.

He glanced faintly at Gerich, then dropped a word lightly:

"I want all your boats!"

Gerich was shocked:

"Your Excellency Renault, we have very important things to go to Thousand Lake Kingdom. We can't do without these three sailing boats. Can you change the terms?"