The Cursed Ship

After completing the second modification of the spirit ship, Zheng Yang lowered the anchor, walked from the bow to the stern, and took a hard look at his new ship.

Look at the information of the spirit ship:

"Basic Information:

Hull: first class spirit ship

Status: complete

Feng Ling: Scaled Demon Insect (Larva)

Psionic Core: Moonlight Shell

Psionic Reserve: 3/100

Base speed: 10 knots

Attack Bonus: 5%

Defense Bonus: 5%

Power bonus: 5%

...

Equipment information:

Primary Drives: Spinnaker, Sloop

Auxiliary Drive: Manual

Figurehead: Scaled Demonic Worm

Head skills: none

Remarks: Omit"

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After completing the second transformation, it was only eight o'clock, and I hadn't eaten dinner yet, so I just tried to cook on the boat.

In terms of lighting, there is only one flashlight, which needs to save electricity, and it happens that the night of the full moon is as bright as day. Zheng Yang took out a small firewood stove and various utensils from below deck, and started cooking at the stern——stewed corn kernels with dried fish and Chinese cabbage .

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

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

"The last heavy rainstorm was very thorough. The weather has been good these few days. The wind is sunny and sunny, suitable for going to sea!"

After Zheng Yang stood on the bow deck and watched for a while, he set sail decisively. Little Zheng Yang grew up on a small island, and with his memory integrated, Zheng Yang naturally knows how to predict the weather at sea. As long as he doesn't encounter that kind of small air pressure mass that can change at any time, the accuracy rate is almost inseparable.

It's a pity that there is a headwind, and Zheng Yang needs to change direction every time he walks, and move forward in a zigzag at a 45-degree angle away from the positive direction. But regardless of the headwind, in terms of speed alone, even with the presence of the spinnaker, this kind of triangular sailboat can run faster against the wind than with the tailwind.

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

A simple explanation is that when the wind blows from the front and becomes headwind, turn the sailboat to a forty-five-degree angle and obliquely forward. , the wind force is decomposed into two forces of lateral movement and longitudinal advancement. And because the longitudinal section of the sailboat in the sea (from the bow to the stern plus the stabilizer plate) is much larger than the maximum cross section (take Zheng Yang’s spirit boat as an example, the maximum width is only 2.5 meters), this causes the sailboat to move laterally When being subjected to the resistance of seawater, it is also far greater than the resistance of longitudinal advancement. Therefore, under the action of the two forces decomposed by the sea wind, the sailboat will not be pushed horizontally and obliquely to the rear, but will slide forward instead.

And because the speed of a sailboat is related to the pressure of the sail, that is, to the size of the wind-eating area, so even if the wind speed is less than 3 meters per second when the oblique wind advances, the speed of the dhow with a huge sail surface is very low. It can exceed the wind speed and can run faster than the wind. But when the wind is down, even raising the spinnaker is not fast enough for the wind...

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

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

Zheng Yang didn't expect to reach Yingjili Harbor accurately on the first voyage, but set a small goal first, and it would be considered a success if he lived to see the coastline.

Not long after leaving the sunken ship, I saw the figure of a small fishing boat on the sea in the distance. Zheng Yang picked up the binoculars on his chest and looked at it, ignored it, set the course and let the boat glide with the wind, and went back to wash and cook.

Except for the sound of the sea wind beating the sails,

The sailboat runs very quietly, without the roar of diesel engines and engines, and glides quietly and elegantly on the sea.

Zheng Yang liked this feeling very much, and he didn't have such a strong desire to install the engine. After eating, he even climbed up to the roof of the cabin and lay on the roof to enjoy the sea view—although in his memory, he was tired of looking at the vast sea, but lying on his own boat and looking at the sea felt different.

The huge sails cast a large shadow area, and Zheng Yang was lying in the shadow area, listening to the sound of the bow of the ship breaking through the waves, and feeling the fish swimming within a radius of 6 meters underwater through the spirit boat. .

After two major renovations, the sailboat's rudder and several sail control cables are on the bow deck. When it is necessary to adjust the direction, Zheng Yang does not go down to turn the rudder, and directly consumes 1 point of spiritual energy to control the spirit boat to automatically Done, anyway, the spiritual energy reserve at this time is full of 100 points.

"It would be great if there were no so-called curses and evils!"

"When we arrive in the harbor city, we still need to find a way to collect knowledge about occultism and find some ways to deal with evil. It is best to get a few holy objects, and look for information about the upgrade of the spirit ship—evolution."

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

In fact, this box of books has already been thoroughly read by Zheng Yang. It contains astronomy, geography, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biomedicine, but these are only basic books for teaching. It was Xiao Zhengyang's father who went to the seaport to buy them for him over the years. To broaden the knowledge, there are three or five books for each subject.

Apart from these, some travel novels collected by his father 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 book that recorded the information of the spirit ship was useless. In order to prevent people from seeing his ship and the spirit ship, Zheng Yang had already burned it as firewood when making breakfast.

The sailboat took a zigzag route all the way to the east, the wind was weak, and the speed could not increase. Zheng Yang estimated that it would be about 4 knots. Because of the zigzag, the straight-line speed was less than 3 knots.

The whole journey was very quiet. After sailing like this for eight hours, at two o'clock at noon, the wind direction quietly changed, and the wind increased significantly. If Zheng Yang hadn't been aware of the mental state of "the unity of man and boat", he would probably go astray soon.

The sea wind changed from blowing from the left rear side, Zheng Yang quickly adjusted the direction according to the chart and compass, raised the spinnaker and sailed in a straight line, the forward speed of the spirit ship was twice as fast, and shot forward like an arrow off the string.

Basically maintained a speed of more than 8 knots and moved forward for another two hours, and the total journey has exceeded half. Zheng Yang looked at the electronic watch, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

Zheng Yang observed the sky for a while, and predicted that the sea breeze would be stronger 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 feels that the skills of using the compass and charts to grasp the navigation direction that he learned from Old Hans have been combined with theory and practice. The subtle control of the spirit boat became as proficient as cheating.

After continuing to move forward for half an hour, Zheng Yang was observing the sea ahead with a telescope. He accidentally saw a small double-decker yacht standing still about two nautical miles away.

"It seems that we are really close to the destination. Are these people planning to go fishing in the deep sea at night? They will stay here after this point."

On the yacht ahead, several young people were anxiously waiting for rescue, and someone was still making satellite calls. Someone with sharp eyes also spotted the approaching sailboat, shouted excitedly, and kept waving to the sailboat.

"They seem to be very happy, and they are greeting me. It is indeed very happy to meet another ship in the vast sea!"

Zheng Yang thought so, because he was also very happy, so he adjusted the direction slightly, and drove the sailboat to approach the yacht, silently approaching like a big fish.

Without mechanical power, this kind of deceleration and parking when approaching the target is a test of driving skills. It is necessary to fully grasp the inertia and make accurate predictions. Ten minutes later, Zheng Yang retracted the spinnaker and slowed down; fifteen minutes later, the distance from the yacht was already within 100 meters, Zheng Yang also lowered the jib sail, and continued to slide by inertia.

He finally heard the shouts from the yacht, and Zheng Yang was surprised that they were asking for help.

This is a double-decker small yacht, the kind that can accommodate less than ten people, and the second floor has only awnings.

Zheng Yang's prediction was not very accurate. The sailboat slid four meters away from the side of the yacht, and stopped moving nearly ten meters in front of it, causing another burst of yelling on the yacht.

Awkward.

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

There were seven people on the yacht, three men and four women, all in their twenties, all dressed casually and coolly. Men's beach shorts and short-sleeved shirts or T-shirts, women's long skirts, short skirts, hot pants and even a bikini.

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

What kind of young model in a club is more desirable than owning a big boat of your own and taking a few beauties to go out to sea!

Wild waves, wild waves, wild waves...

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

"Hey, bro, please don't tell me you're the only one driving this sailing boat!"

It was so unexpected. I saw Zheng Yang busy operating at the bow of the ship just now, and thought he was cooperating with the captain; now they saw Zheng Yang running from the front to the back to respond, and it was clear at a glance that there was no one else in the cabin, so they realized Zheng Yang seemed to be the only one on this sailing boat.

This is obviously just an immature boy, how many years younger than them, sailing alone in a sailing boat?

God you are kidding me!

Others also looked into the cabin of the sailboat, really unable to believe such a fact.

"Don't worry about it, I'm the only one!" Zheng Yang said, holding on to a pillar supporting the awning on the side of the stern.

"Oh my God, that's amazing!"

The girl in hot pants is petite and the youngest in the group, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and she looks very delicate and beautiful. At this time, she held her head in both hands, and stared at Zheng Yang desperately with her big sea blue eyes, she was shocked.

The tall and beautiful girl in a gorgeous beach dress clapped her hands to attract everyone's attention, and said, "I said, everyone, we should discuss how to go back now instead of marveling here... Oh my God, we are drifting, think of a way, um Tess?"