Capítulo 1251: Chapter 38: You Dare Call This Snow Wind?
Won are not allowed on the ship; it’s an old rule.
It’s not a matter of superstition; one reason is hygiene concerns.
Just like pirates in the past carried rum on their ships, not because they didn’t love water, but because water spoiled too easily.
Another reason is human nature.
A bunch of n stuck in a confined space for years, with nowhere to vent their energy.
Not just won, even if you threw a sow on board, the pig wouldn’t stand it.
So when Wang Yunxiao heard a woman’s voice on the Snow Wind, his first reaction wasn’t to question its authenticity.
But rather, was this woman human or ghost?
When he landed on the deck of the Snow Wind, there wasn’t even anyone to greet him.
The whole ship was deathly silent.
There definitely were people using semaphore a mont ago, but now those people had vanished, leaving the deck empty.
Haunted, is it? A ghost ship, is it?
Wang Yunxiao glanced at his own appearance…
Surely it’s not my nacing presence scaring the ghosts into hiding?
If you’re this timid, why are you even at sea, you might as well join the army.
“Is anyone there!”
“Yes, yes, yes, this way, this way!”
He shouted, and surprisingly, soone responded.
Wang Yunxiao disard himself and followed the voice, eventually finding a living person in the command room.
To be precise, it was a navigator.
British warships have this characteristic—they are equipped with an intelligent chanical puppet that navigates the ship through complex hydrological environnts and occasionally provides psychological counseling for the captain.
No other country has such advanced intelligent chanics.
Part of the Northern Fleet is purchased from the British, but the British only sell ships, not navigators.
In other words, it’s like having a gun without bullets.
If the Snow Wind truly belonged to the Northern Fleet, having a navigator installed would make sense, though the installation of a navigator itself is less reasonable.
Moreover, it was of the humanoid model.
Wang Yunxiao had seen two types of navigators.
One has no legs, only an upper body, purely chanical with a human face.
This is a standard configuration for the Royal Navy, not attractive, but durable and highly professional.
The other is a chanical maid discarded by the chanical God Sect on their arrival in Tiann, picked up from the trash heap, with the technological priests using their ingenuity to repair and install her on a ship as a navigator.
That’s the kind now inseparable from Sect Hierarch Shen, Lady Mogred.
This is more of an informal civilian approach.
The navigator on the Snow Wind was closer to the latter.
She was a girl with very healthy skin.
At least the human part had healthy skin, a sun-kissed wheat color from constant exposure to the sun.
The remaining part was also very… high-tech.
In short, she looked like a ship maiden.
Anyway, Wang Yunxiao couldn’t tell how much of her was chanical and how much was flesh.
She was trying hard to free herself from a ss of cables connected to her body.
Maybe because she was too hurried or trying too hard, the cables tangled together, and she dared not pull too hard, her face flushed with frustration.
“Wait… please wait a mont, almost there!”
Under Wang Yunxiao’s gaze, the girl’s embarrassnt increased.
“No need to rush, first answer my questions.”
Wang Yunxiao hadn’t forgotten his purpose.
“Tell your identity and background, combat sequence, and all information that can prove your identity.”
“I am the Snow Wind! Uh… The navigator of the Snow Wind, is it alright to call Snow Wind?”
There is certainly a problem, but now is not the ti to delve into that.
Wang Yunxiao motioned for her to continue.
“This ship belongs to the sixth squad of the Fusang detachnt of the Northern Fleet, officially entering the combat sequence in the 30th year of the Ming Country.”
As expected.
This was just as Wei Liuyun had suspected, not an active warship.
“Continue.”
“In the sumr of the 33rd year of the Ming Country, the ship, along with the main force, set off from Yokosuka Port, encountered temporal tides while on a routine patrol of the Outer Islands Chain, beca separated from the fleet, and has been lost ever since.”
“Are there any other survivors on the ship besides you?”
“Yes, yes, including the captain, there are 124 crew mbers in the lower hold in suspended animation, and by regulations, I cannot wake them up prematurely unless we return to the ho port. After all…”
At this point, Snow Wind looked a bit embarrassed: “The ship’s supplies are almost depleted.”
“Didn’t you resupply on Yizhou Island?”
“Yes, yes, the folks at the port are good people; they provided lots of fruits and snacks…but just food isn’t enough; the ship’s hibernation devices can’t be used repeatedly. Waking them now only provides a few warm als and nothing more.”
“Do you know the current year is the third year of the Ming Country?”
“I know!”
“Is there anything else that can verify your identity, like a key, docunt, or token?”
“Yes, yes! Hold on one second…”
Snow Wind finally struggled free from the cables, shuffled barefoot to the helm, picked up a mysterious instrunt like an hourglass filled with so liquid, and cautiously handed it to Wang Yunxiao.
“…”
“…”
“What’s this?”
Snow Wind blinked: “It’s a Void Bubble Detector, don’t you have one in this era?”
Who knows what the tech tree evolved into thirty years later?
Clearing his throat, Wang Yunxiao asked: “What’s it used for?”
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