Magus Tech Chapter 429: Race in the dark
Night sailing, referred to as...Night sailing.
Night flight, this is not a simple word.
In the current world similar to the Middle Ages, where navigation is extremely backward, not to mention the lack of GPS positioning and radio communication on the modern earth, even the sextant for calculating latitude and longitude, and more accurate charts do not exist.
You must know that in the history of the earth, navigation did not advance by leaps and bounds until the age of great navigation after the Middle Ages. Under the temptation of the huge wealth brought by the great geographical discovery, the fields of shipbuilding, astronomy, hydrology, navigation, and trade were able to develop by leaps and bounds.
In the current world, there is no great geographical discovery, and nature has nothing, and navigation is in an absolute dark age. Perhaps wizards have some special means of navigation, such as using prophecy spells to detect the specific location of a place and guide the ship to it. Ordinary merchant ships do not have such means, and most of them can only rely on experience and sailing logs obtained from unknown sources.
And most of the navigation logs will not tell the user when they sailed to the specific location, because the writer himself does not know. The most common navigation log is generally like this: leave from the port of Sam, sail toward the northeast, and in about three days, you will encounter a white seabed.
Pass through this area, turn to the northwest, go straight for two days, and you will encounter a submerged reef area. It takes half a day to bypass the hidden reef and go straight to the north. It takes about four days with the wind and five days with the wind, and you can see the shadow of Dax Port.
If you don't find it, you may have missed it. It is recommended to turn left and look for it along the land. If I still can't find it... Well, I hope the gods I believe in can bless me, because I don't know where I am.
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Under such backward circumstances, choosing to sail at night can indeed speed up the sailing speed, but the consequences are often unacceptable, ranging from hitting rocks, running aground, damaging ships, and getting lost.
Imagine being on the boundless sea, suddenly unable to determine where you are, let alone which side the continent is on. There is less and less food, fresh water is slowly bottoming out, and an atmosphere of despair will envelope everyone.
Therefore, the word night flight represents absolute danger.
But for the current captain Morgan, there has been a ghost ship chasing him without knowing the details, so he had to choose to use night navigation to try to get rid of the opponent.
Because he had a hunch that once he was overtaken by the ghost ship, it would definitely not end well. In addition, it is his confidence in his ability. He believes that if he takes full control of the helm and command, even if it is a night flight, there will be no major problems.
And if the night voyage is really successful, not only is it very possible to completely get rid of the ghost ship, but it can also greatly speed up the voyage.
For this voyage, he has heard a lot of bad news, all about the Black Sacred Mountain Kingdom and another country fighting against each other, and a war may break out at any time to block the sea area. Once this happened, all his cargo would have to be backlogged, and he would suffer heavy losses. He couldn't bear this situation. Therefore, if you can be faster, you can reduce the risk a little bit.
Having made a decision in his mind, Captain Morgan quickly thought about how to deal with many situations during the night voyage. While instructing the first mate Williams and the others to prepare, he slowly waited for the night to fall.
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In a blink of an eye, it was dark.
Many torches were lit on the deck. After a short rest, the captain Morgan returned to the rudder position and cheered up to steer the ship forward. At the same time, he constantly sensed the wind direction and issued commands to adjust the sails.
"When the port side receives wind, the mainsail deflects eight degrees to the right under strong winds, the auxiliary sail deflects ten degrees to the right, and the tailsail deflects seven degrees to the right."
"Yes." The sailors responded quickly and moved their hands quickly.
After some busy work, the sailors breathed a sigh of relief after the sails were adjusted. A sailor was walking around on the deck, and suddenly saw Li Cha standing at a corner of the deck, looking up towards the back of the ship, not knowing what he was looking at.
"Huh?" The sailor approached curiously, glanced at Li Cha, and asked, "Sir, what are you looking at?"
"Ghost ship." Li Cha replied.
"Ghost ship? Can you see it?" The sailor didn't believe it. How could he see another ship on the sea far away in this dark night?
Naturally, Li Cha could see it. After all, his eyesight was far superior to that of ordinary people, but he didn't explain anything. He stretched out his hand and said: "Look in that direction, look carefully, and you will find it."
"Really?" The sailor was skeptical, looked over for a long time, and when he almost lost his patience, he suddenly opened his eyes and found something.
"That's..." The sailor changed his face, turned around, ran to Captain Morgan, and shouted, "Captain, Captain, look!"
"What?" Captain Morgan raised his eyebrows, and after hearing what the sailor said, he turned his head and narrowed his eyes.
I saw in the sea area behind the "Naru Rongguang Fisherman", in the darkness, a faint blue light appeared. At first, it was only the size of a bean, like a will-o'-the-wisp in a cemetery, which may go out at any time. But after a while, the light became a little bigger, indicating that it was getting closer to the "Naru Glory Fisherman".
"Captain, that is the ghost ship chasing us. How can it be faster than us? How is this possible! It is not as good as ours during the day. Could it be that at night, there are demons to help it pull the ship?" The timid The sailor asked in a little panic.
Captain Morgan gave the sailor a hard look, and said calmly, "It's not that some devil is pulling the boat for it, and it's not that it's fast, but we're slow. Sailing at night, after all, has influence, and we can't change direction at will. , the speed cannot be compared to the daytime.
I didn't expect that the other party could maintain the speed during the day... And, I didn't expect that the other party was so persistent-we fled at night flight, and they continued to chase at night flight ~IndoMTL.com~ This is simply more than the most greedy pirate, Don't die! Are you really not afraid of hitting the rocks? snort! "
"Captain, what should we do?"
"Well——" Captain Morgan pondered for a moment and made a decision, "Since he wants to chase, let's continue to chase. I don't believe that he can still go against the sky during this night? Now that we can see Seeing the blue fire on his boat, he must also be able to see the torches on our boat. Then... put out all the torches at the back of the boat, and also extinguish the torches on both sides of the ship, leaving only the torch for lighting the bow.
In this way, with the cover of the sail, he will not see any beam of light and will lose our goal. I'll make another detour to ensure that he chases further and further. "
"Yes."
The sailors did it quickly, and Captain Morgan began to turn to port, giving the order.
"The main sail is three marks to the left, the auxiliary sail is five marks to the left, and the tail sail is eight marks to the left..."
"Understood!"
Not long after, the "Naru Glory Fisherman" was almost completely wrapped in darkness, making a "twisting" sound, turned to the left, and continued on its way.
Witnessing Captain Morgan's operations on the deck, Li Cha couldn't help thinking: According to normal logic, after Captain Morgan's hard work, he can indeed successfully get rid of the ghost ship, so he doesn't have to worry about trouble. up.
But...
Thinking of this, Li Cha stood on the deck in the darkness, looked to the rear, watched for a while, and frowned.
"Illusion?" Li Cha said, then shook his head, "It's not an illusion, the ghost ship is indeed closer."
Well, closer.
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