Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 228 The airship is made!
Neither of them had ever come into contact with supernatural powers, at least not used them themselves. Although they had seen the Banshees and people from the Church of Poseidon, they had never experienced them personally.

At this moment, both of them were like children who walked out of the house for the first time, testing the waters cautiously.

Xiu Si was naturally listening in from behind, and soon he heard an interesting piece of information:

"Mr. Jeremiah, do you think this has anything to do with the drying up of the sea?"

The sea is drying up?

Is this a metaphor?

Xius quickly pricked up his ears, but the two men didn't talk much about this.

"I don't know. Perhaps it has something to do with our location? We're a little too close to the deep sea."

"Really? By the way, should we find a few other crew members to see if they can hear our communication?"

"Okay, but I'll do the experiment. You don't have to go. This is very strange, so it's best to keep it secret for now."

Xiu Si thought about it and felt that the two were probably in the same boat. They knew each other about the situation they encountered, so even if it was mentioned, there was no need for additional explanation.

This makes it difficult for him to collect information.
Well, he'd better find someone who has nothing to do with the two of them to join in, so that when they chat, they will inevitably talk about a lot of relevant information, such as the drying up of the sea.

Who to add specifically still needs to be considered. After listening for a while, Xiu Si decisively disconnected the connection between the two and chose to return directly.

He planned to go back to the island to look for the list of people who had been sent out before, and perhaps choose one to add.

Coming to the throne room, he chose Lord Xiusi and descended.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the office. At that moment, there was a knock on the door. Hughes walked forward and opened the door. Standing at the door was Connor: "Master, Ms. Chloe is looking for you."

"Did she just arrive?"

"Yes, you were not there when I knocked on the door, so I asked her to go back first."

"understood."

Xius nodded and walked straight out of the house.

He had a lot of things to do, and people often came to see him every once in a while, which caused a lot of trouble for his return.

After all, once his consciousness leaves this body, he has no way of knowing what's happening here. It's okay once or twice, and Connor can handle it. But if it goes on for a long time, he will probably become suspicious, right?

Especially Chloe, as a superhuman, she can use her nymph ability to see directly into the house. If she ever becomes interested and decides to take a look, it will be a big trouble.

We still have to find a way to solve it.

After walking in the church for a while, Hughes arrived at Chloe's house.

After knocking on the door, Chloe soon came over and opened the door. Hughes saw her glowing orange-red eyes and raised his eyebrows: "What are you so happy about?"

Chloe's eyes light up when she's excited. Hughes later asked others about this, only to find out that no one could see it except him.

Maybe she has some connection with me?
Wait, she is the chief of the Fire Moths, and she has the body of the Moth Lord
I must try to look here next time. Zeus has a hunch that there will be great discoveries from the perspective of that body. If that body could see nothing on Castel Island, he would really have the urge to come down and take a look right now.

"How do you know? Forget it, I'll tell you straight, the airship trial was a success!" Chloe's face was also full of excitement. Without waiting for Hughes' response, she pulled him downstairs.

There are several testing sites, the largest of which is the Eastern Testing Site, which has more space and is where relatively dangerous experiments are carried out.

Airships are of course dangerous experiments. Once there is a leak, they can easily explode.

So Zeus followed Chloe all the way down to the basement of the church, entered the webway, and took a carriage to the test site.

At present, the subway project is still at a standstill. Hughes tried to pull the train underground, but the effect was not very good. The huge noise and heat accumulation in the enclosed space caused considerable trouble.

This problem is very simple to solve - replace the locomotive with an electric motor. However, it is easier said than done. Not to mention, power supply is a big problem.

To achieve full power supply in the dense underground network of tunnels is indeed a huge project. It is unclear whether it can be completed, not to mention reliability.

Moreover, Castel did not have rubber, so they had to find new materials to make cables.

Soon the two arrived at the eastern test site. Zeus was somewhat surprised to find that not only were there many Fire Moths, but there were also many Banshees.

They gathered together and chattered, and a few of them were watching the engineer adjusting the propeller of the airship with curiosity.

These banshees were clearly sea creatures, yet they were so interested in flying. Zeus remembered that they also loved the starry sky. Perhaps things that were out of reach were more attractive.

"Lord Lord."

The crowd parted to the sides, and Hughes saw the entire airship.

This airship is not big, and you can clearly see that it was rushed. Originally, according to his design, it was to be driven by steam power, but now... it has been switched to manual power?

Hughes looked at the hand-cranked propeller with a frown on his face, but Chloe didn't mind it much. "Hey, don't worry about these details. If you want to bring a steam engine, it will be very large. I want to make a smaller one first. Once it can fly, we can think about other things later."

"Are you sure this is okay? I mean, if it's powered manually, it would take several people taking turns cranking it, right?"

Aircraft powered by hand cranking (or pedaling) do exist. There are special aircraft competitions for this type of aircraft on the Blue Planet. However, they are generally limited by the physical strength of the pilots and there is a high possibility that they will never return. Therefore, they are usually tested at sea with a ship following behind.

It is indeed possible to test fly the aircraft over the sea now, but if it falls, there is no way to get it back.

Most areas of Castel have now fallen, except for the fortified eastern test site, and only the main cathedral and a small area near it. The shooting holes in the cathedral are guarded and fired day and night - yes, the defenders of the fortress need to work in three shifts to deal with the endless attacks of the fishmen.

"This is not a big problem."

It was Nini who spoke. She raised her hand and summoned two sea snakes. These sea snakes were different from the ones she had summoned before. They were short and thick.

They quickly climbed onto the airship's crank, passed through two specially designed protrusions, and then bit their own tails, turning into a circle.

Then they twisted their bodies left and right, and the crank started moving.

".Okay, then who's going to fly?"

"There's no need for anyone to go up there. I can use [Self-binding] to open up my vision and direct Nini's sea snake." Chloe chuckled. "As for the passengers—I recommend this 200-kilogram iron bomb."

(End of this chapter)