Release that Witch Chapter 393: New boat launching

The temporary shipyard next to Scarlet Water River is full of people.

Everyone knows that a strange ship is being built in this wooden shed. Its shell is like a huge bathtub made of gray cement. Once that kind of thing solidifies, it is no different from a stone. Except for a bang in the water, not even a shadow could be seen.

The craftsmen who came to work here gave it a proper name: bathtub boat.

Today is the day when the first two sample ships were launched.

The crowd of onlookers is roughly divided into two categories. One is the residents of the new joining Border Town's. They are quite curious about the news, or they are unbelievable. Come and look at it with a skeptical attitude. Some of them are from Dong, southern region Fishermen and sailors. The first category is local residents, who have long been accustomed to the various miracles created by His Royal Highness. The former "H.M.S. Little Town" has also been heard, and gathered under the snow, just to see the His Highness the Prince they worship.

Kassim is the former.

After His Royal Highness posted this message and a new recruitment order on the notice board in the square, he said that he would come here anyway. Vader had no choice but to ask the adult Carter to take a vacation and accompany him to come here to be unfamiliar with life, coupled with severe snow, he is really not assured that the other person ran to the crowd gathering place, if accidentally pushed A crush injury is almost an unhealable injury to the elderly.

"You look down on me, my child," the old man waved his hand to signal that he didn't have to follow him. "I have also experienced strong winds and waves. Although I am older, my body is no worse than you."

"Yes," Vader disapproved. "Anyway, I have already asked for my leave, and you are late. I just don't quite understand why you must watch this stuff launch? Isn't it a ship?"

"But you said it was made of gray stone," Kassim shook his head, "Can a stone as large as a bathtub float on the water this year?"

I blame myself for talking, Vader thought, and somehow talked about the announcement on the square when I chatted with him, "Perhaps His Royal Highness just exaggerated the words, about a part of a wooden ship made of concrete Right? "

"That's even more impossible," the old man insisted, "when do you think, when was this wooden shed set up?"

"It seems ... more than a month ago."

"Yes, it was earlier than you were recruited as a police officer. When we moved into the inner city of small town, it was still a clearing!" His beard was shaking, "It took me a month to set up a shed, wouldn't it? Said His Royal Highness built the first ship in only half a month? "

"Uh, is there anything wrong?" Vader was puzzled.

"Of course not!" Kassim shouted, "In the name of Poseidon! I have never seen a boat that can be built in only half a month. It has nothing to do with size. As long as it is a sailboat, it is just processing ribs. It takes more than a month, it needs to wait until the wood is completely air-dried before steaming and bending. This process is extremely troublesome. impossible is completed in a short time.

Vader wondered, "How are you so familiar with shipbuilding ...?"

"I used to be a captain, a child," the old man exhaled. "When I was young, I often carried a large number of goods, traveled around Sea Wind Region and Port of Clear Water, and also went to Kingdom of Dawn and the fjords. Later This is because of something ... "

"You never told me this before." He widened his eyes.

"You never asked, boy." Kassim shrugged.

"Okay," Vader turned his eyes to the shipyard, "So what you are really curious about is His Highness' ability to build a sailing boat in half a month."

"No captain would not be curious," he said with a beard. "If your highness did not lie, do you know what it means? As long as one or two years, he can make all the rivers in Greycastle run His fleet. "

Vader moved, "Don't you plan to ..."

The old man smiled, "I can't always eat your wheat porridge in vain."

"Of course His Highness the Prince doesn't lie," someone said suddenly, "and it's not a sailing boat."

Vader turned back. The speaker was a young man. He heard an accent like a Western Region local resident. "Not a sailboat?"

"Yes, it can sail without sails, and it is faster than any sailing boat." The other side proudly said, "Have you seen steam engine with white mist in the mine? You can easily turn one The kind of basket ore towed out of the mine. These cement ships are powered by it. According to His Highness, they are all steam ships! "

"Can sail without sails?" Kassim questioned, "boy, what are you talking about, if a boat has no sails, it can only be paddled by a paddler. This speed is comparable to other sailing boats. impossible , They haven't launched yet, and you haven't even seen them before, how do you know they can move? "

"Of course I've seen it," the boy grinned. "You are new foreigners. It's normal if you don't know. In the summer, I transformed a steamer for the caravan across the strait. .But the boat is still made of wood, which is not as durable as these stone ships. "

What else does Vader want to say? The other person's eyes suddenly lighted, pointing towards the shipyard, "Look there, His Highness the Prince is out!"

There was a cheer in the crowd, and everyone raised both hands to pay tribute to their feudal lord.

Roland Prince boarded the temporary wooden platform beside the shipyard, briefly said a few words of congratulations, and then announced the launch of the new ship.

In the slogan of frustration, the workers dismantled the side of the wooden shed facing Scarlet Water River. A forty-meter-long gray hull slid down the embankment along the snow and planted it in the cold water.

Vader lifted his heart, he almost thought that this thing would sink directly into the water, but did not expect that after the rest of the water, the bow rose again, and even brought a lot of water.

The enthusiastic applause erupted again in the crowd.

"Oh my god, it really floated," Kassim took a moment, "but, is it really made of stone?"

Vader also has the same doubt. The surface of the bathtub boat looks too smooth, like the finely polished granite stone slab, but it can't find traces of patchwork all over the body, and the whole body is completely integrated. The deck without deck is very shallow and cannot sleep at all, and the bottom is very flat, and the mast cannot be fixed at all. As everyone said, this is completely a bathtub.

But no matter what, His Royal Highness did build the boat within half a month.

He looked at Kassim and found that the other party's eyes were glowing with interest.

"I want to apply for a captainship," said the old man.

(To be continued.)