Volume 6 Chapter 81 - Elven battleship blueprint (1/2)

Xu Yi squatted down until he was at eye level with the little girl in front of him.

“Hey, Lumi, are you in a rush?”

The halfling girl Lumi who was like a little human girl pouted her cheeks a bit, looking very cute.

“Of course I am! I want to find my clansmen as soon as possible!”

Xu Yi revealed a smile. He thought that even if they undertook this trip and found the new continent, it wouldn’t mean that she would find them because the sailing technology in the past was too crude. The entire halfling race that escaped the Sines Continent might already be buried in the bottom of the endless seas.

Of course, it was impossible for Xu Yi to say this.

“Don’t rush because this thing can’t be rushed.” Xu Yi shook his head, “In terms of sea voyages, I think that with our company’s current technology, we can support a trip of several thousand up to ten thousand kilometers without problem, right?”

Lumi fell silent and lowered her head before shaking her head in a dejected manner.

Since she joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she had always been working in the shipyard, so her knowledge of the shipping technology was better than Xu Yi’s.

Of course she knew that with the current technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although they could support a fleet for transport, even traveling large distances of several thousand kilometers to the Marlow Empire, it was very hard for them to support an exploration journey into the deep seas.

The difference was that their current voyages were only offshore voyages, but exploring for a new continent meant entering the deep seas and truly exploring the depths of the deep seas.

If something happened, the offshore voyage ships could return to the continent for help and the deep sea exploration couldn’t return to the shore. Once something happened, everyone might just die.

This was why Xu Yi dared to let Narvil’s group open a new route, but he wasn’t willing to let Lumi conduct a deep sea exploration.

Seeing the disappointed look on Lumi’s face, Xu Yi said with a smile, “Lumi, actually, if it’s just exploring for the new continent, there is no need for the Magic Ships to explore the open seas. There’s still another method to achieve this goal.”

“There is?” Lumi looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

“Of course.” Xu Yi pointed at the sky, “Compared to sailing the unpredictable seas, don’t you think that it’s more reliable to fly in the sky?”

Lumi was surprised, “Sir chairman, could it be that you want to use the Magic Airships to explore? But can’t the Magic Airships only fly for at most a thousand kilometers? How could it fly to a new continent?”

“That is only now.” Xu Yi said with a smile, “The Magic Airships could only fly for at most three hundred kilometers when they were first developed and they couldn’t fly faster than fifty kilometers an hour, but now they can fly for over a thousand kilometers and surpass a speed of one hundred and twenty kilometers an hour. With this development speed, I think that it’ll reach a level that you’ll find hard to imagine soon.”

“But it’s impossible for it to fly over ten thousand kilometers……” Lumi still didn’t believe it.

Xu Yi revealed a smile. He thought of those commercial jumbo jets on earth that could fly over ten thousand kilometers.

If they were refueled in the air, they could fly even further.

Of course, this required them having a base where they could resupply.

Xu Yi looked at the sea. He thought that if this place was like earth and they could build countless bases for refueling on the endless seas, not to mention flying ten thousand kilometers, they could theoretically reach every part of this planet.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already starting to work on this.

Because the Sack Kingdom blocked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s main base by the sea before, Xu Yi had strengthened their defenses and began deploying troops on each island in the sea area of the Stantine Duchy.

After several years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had control of the sea up to five hundred kilometers away from the Stantine Duchy.

If the Magic Airship took off from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s main base, they could find any of these islands in this five hundred kilometers range and resupply, allowing it to set off with a full tank.

And if they spread their area of control on the endless seas, it would mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could control over a thousand kilometers into the endless seas, controlling the small and large islands that Evita had found on the Magic Airships before.

There were even traces of humans on these larger islands.

As long as they controlled these islands, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would naturally be able to penetrate into the deep seas.

If they extended out a bit further, it wouldn’t be impossible for them to control the entire seas.