The Cursed Ship

　　 After completing the second transformation of the spirit ship, Zheng Yang put down the anchor, walked from the bow to the stern, and looked hard at his new ship.

　　 Look at the spirit ship information again:

"Basic Information:

　　 Hull: first-class spirit ship

　　Status: Complete

　　Spirit: Scaled Devil (larva)

　　 Psionic Core: Moonlight Shell

　　 Psionic reserve: 3/100

　　 Basic speed: 10 knots

　　 Attack bonus: 5%

　　 Defense bonus: 5%

　　 Power bonus: 5%

　　……

　　 Equipment information:

　　Main drive: spinnaker, sloop

　　 Auxiliary drive: manual

　　 Bow portrait: Scaled Devil

　　 Bow Skill: None

　　Remarks: Slightly"

　　………………

　　 After finishing the second renovation, it was only eight o'clock. I haven't eaten dinner yet, so I happened to try cooking on the boat.

There is only one flashlight for lighting, which saves electricity. It also happens that the night of the full moon is bright as day. Zheng Yang took out a small wood stove and various utensils from under the deck, and started cooking at the stern-dried fish, Chinese cabbage and corn kernels. .

　　 This night, Zheng Yang slept comfortably on the ground floor and did not enter the ghost ship dream. The hull shook gently, as if lying in a cradle.

　　 After waking up in the morning, Zheng Yang found that he, who had slept next to the front door, had already slept at the door of the back door bathroom.

　　 "The last heavy rainstorm was very thorough. The weather has been good these days, and the wind is sunny, so it's good to go to sea!"

　　 Zheng Yang stood on the bow deck and waited for a while, then set sail decisively. Xiao Zheng Yang grew up on a small island and incorporated his memories. Zheng Yang naturally knows how to predict the weather on the sea. As long as he doesn't encounter that kind of small air pressure group that changes, his accuracy is close to ten.

　　 It is a pity that there is a headwind, Zheng Yang needs to change direction every time he walks, deviating from the positive direction forty-five degrees and advancing in a zigzag pattern. But don't look at the headwind. In terms of speed alone, even with the presence of the front spinnaker, this dhow will run faster than downwind when headwind.

　　 Zheng Yang is fortunate to have seen the principle of a dhow in his life, which uses the "Bernoulli effect".

The simple explanation is that when the wind is blowing from the front to the headwind, turn the sailboat to an angle of forty-five degrees and obliquely forward. When the sea breeze blows on the surface of the spinnaker, it will have the same effect as the wing of an airplane due to the angle. , The wind is decomposed into two forces of horizontal movement and longitudinal advance. And because the longitudinal section of the sailboat in the sea (from the bow to the stern plus the stabilizing plate) is much larger than the maximum cross section (taking Zheng Yang’s spirit ship as an example, the maximum width is only 2.5 meters), which causes the sailboat to move laterally The resistance of seawater at time is much greater than the resistance of longitudinal advance. Therefore, under the action of the two forces resolved by the sea breeze, the sailboat will not be pushed sideways and diagonally to the rear, but will move forward slippery.

And because the speed of a sailboat is related to the pressure of the sail, that is, it is related to the area of ​​the wind, so even if the wind speed is less than 3 meters per second when the slanting wind moves forward, the speed of a dhow with a huge sail surface is It can exceed the wind speed, and can run faster than the wind. But when the wind is downwind, even raising the spinner is not fast enough...

　　Speaking of Zheng Yang crossing the sea, he does not have satellite positioning, and the compass plus an old chart is his navigation method.

　　 This chart was also requested from Old Hans, and I carefully asked how to use it. Even today’s fishing boats are generally equipped with satellite positioning systems, what if the equipment breaks down? Therefore, fishermen generally still keep a copy of the chart and compass for future use.

　　 Zheng Yang did not expect to reach the English Harbour accurately on the first voyage. He set a small goal first, and he would succeed if he saw the coastline alive.

　　 Soon after leaving the shipwreck, I saw a small fishing boat on the sea far away. Zheng Yang picked up the telescope on his chest and looked at it. He ignored him, set the course so that the boat could glide with the wind, and went back to wash and cook.

　　 Except for the sound of the sea breeze stirring the sails, the sailing boat was very quiet, without the roar of diesel engines and engines, and glide quietly and elegantly on the sea.

　　 Zheng Yang likes this feeling very much, and doesn't have such a strong desire to install an engine. After eating, he even climbed onto the roof of the cabin and lay on the roof to enjoy the sea view-although in memory, the vast sea surface was tired of seeing it, but lying on his own boat to watch the sea feels different.

The huge sail casts a large shadow area. Zheng Yang is lying in the shadow area, listening to the sound of the waves breaking through the bow of the ship, and feeling the fish swimming in a 6-meter radius underwater through the spirit ship. It is extremely pleasant .

After two major renovations, the rudder disc and several sail-control reels of this sailing ship are on the bow deck. When the direction needs to be adjusted, Zheng Yang does not go down to turn the rudder, and directly consumes 1 point of psionic energy to control the spirit ship automatically. Complete, anyway, the psionic reserve at this time is full 100 points.

　　 "If there are no so-called curses and evils, it would be great!"

　　 "When you arrive in the seaport city, you have to find a way to collect knowledge about mysticism and find some ways to deal with evil. It's best to get a few holy relics and look for information on the upgrade of the spirit ship-evolution."

　　 Thinking of this, Zheng Yang got up, went back to the cabin to open one of the decks, and took out a box of books from below, looking for information about occultism one by one.

This box of books has actually been turned over by Zheng Yang. It contains astronomy, geography, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biomedicine, but these are basic reading materials only for teaching. It was Xiao Zheng Yang’s father who bought it in the harbor for him over the years. To broaden the scope of knowledge, each subject is so small.

　　 In addition to these, some travel novels and the like that his father himself has collected over the years have also been read by Zheng Yang.

　　 So it didn't take long for Zheng Yang to give up the idea of ​​finding occult information from these books. The only ancient travel note that records the information of the spirit ship is no longer useful. In order to prevent people from seeing his ship and the spirit ship, Zheng Yang has burned it as firewood when making breakfast.

　　 The sailing boat took a zigzag route all the way east. The wind was low and the speed could not go up. Zheng Yang estimated that it could have about 4 knots. Because of the zigzag, the speed was less than 3 knots when converted into a straight line.

　　 The whole journey was very quiet. After eight hours of sailing in this way, at 2 noon, the wind direction quietly changed and the wind increased significantly. Had it not been for the mental state of "the unity of man and ship" that Zheng Yang noticed for the first time, he estimated that he would soon go wrong.

　　 The sea breeze turned to blow from the left and back. Zheng Yang quickly adjusted the direction according to the chart and compass, raised the spinner and sailed straight, the spirit ship's forward speed was twice as fast as the arrow from the string shot forward.

　　 basically maintained a speed of more than 8 knots and moved forward for two hours, and the total stroke was over half. Zheng Yang looked at the electronic watch. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

　　 Zheng Yang observed the sky for a while, predicting that the sea breeze would be even greater at night. But by then, he was not far from the coastline.

Thanks to the normal weather, the first cross-sea voyage has been smooth so far. Zheng Yang felt that the skills he learned from Old Hans to use the compass and chart to grasp the navigation direction have been integrated with theory and practice, and the sailing skills are also correct. The subtle control of the spirit ship makes it adept as cheating.

　　 Continued to advance for half an hour. Zheng Yang was using a telescope to observe the sea in front of him. He accidentally saw a small double-decker yacht stand still about two nautical miles away with people moving on the deck. Comparing the dimensions, the length of the yacht is about ten meters.

　　 "It seems that it is close to the destination. Are these people planning to fish in the deep sea? Stay here at this point."

　　 On the yacht ahead, a few young people are waiting for rescue in a devastated state. Some people are still making satellite calls. Someone also spotted the approaching sailboat with sharp eyes, shouted excitedly, and kept waving to the sailboat.

　　 "They seem to be very happy, saying hello to me. Encountering another ship on the vast ocean is indeed very happy!"

　　 Zheng Yang thought so, because he was also very happy, so he fine-tuned his direction, and drove the sailing boat closer to the yacht, silently approaching like a big fish.

　　 There is no mechanical power. This type of deceleration and parking when approaching the target is a test of driving skills. Inertia must be fully grasped and accurate predictions must be made. Ten minutes later, Zheng Yang retracted the spinnaker and slowed down; fifteen minutes later, the distance to the yacht was within 100 meters, Zheng Yang also lowered the spinnaker and continued to slide by inertia.

　　 Finally heard the shouts on the yacht, to Zheng Yang's surprise, they were asking for help.

　　 This is a double-deck small yacht, which can take less than ten people, of which there is only an awning on the second floor.

　　 Zheng Yang's prediction was not very accurate. The sailboat glided four meters away from the yacht, and stopped moving nearly ten meters ahead, which caused another yelling on the yacht.

Awkward.

　　 Zheng Yang ran to the stern and waved his hand first as a response. Seeing the other side calm down, he said, "What's your situation?"

　　 There are seven people on the yacht, three men and four women from UU Reading www.uukanshu.com. They are all young and in their twenties, all dressed casually and coolly. Men’s beach pants and short-sleeved shirts or T-shirts, women’s long skirts, short skirts and hot pants even have a bikini.

　　 Looking at the four young and beautiful girls, Zheng Yang felt hot.

　　 What kind of clubhouse young model is more desirable than owning a big boat of your own and taking a few beautiful women out to sea!

　　 mad waves mad waves mad waves...

　　 There, everyone on the yacht looked at each other, and one of the black guys exaggeratedly exclaimed:

　　 "Hey, brother, please don't tell me you are driving this sailing boat alone!"

It was too unexpected. Just now they saw Zheng Yang busy operating at the bow of the ship, thinking that he was cooperating with the captain; now they saw Zheng Yang running from the front to the back to respond. It was clear that there was no one else in the cabin, so they were shocked. Zheng Yang seems to be the only person on this sailing boat.

　　 This is obviously just an immature boy, a few years younger than them, just sailing on a sailboat alone?

　　God, are you kidding me!

　　 Other people also probe their heads into the cabin of the sailing boat. They really can't believe this fact.

　　 "Don't look at it, I'm alone!" Zheng Yang said while supporting a pillar supporting the awning on the side of the stern.

　　 "Oh, my god, it's amazing!"

　　 The hot pants girl is petite and the youngest in this group. She is about sixteen or seventeen years old. She is very delicate and beautiful. She held her head in her hands at this moment, and her big sea-blue eyes looked at Zheng Yang desperately, shocked.

The tall and beautiful girl in a gorgeous beach dress clapped her hands and caught everyone’s attention, saying: "I said everyone, we should discuss how to go back now, instead of marveling here... Oh my god, we are drifting, think about a way, um Tes?"