Chapter 285: First Encounter with an Airship
"I didn't expect this place to be directly connected to Furnace Island!" Gu Dongshu exclaimed, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Don't worry, we're just passing by. We'll leave from here by airship and then go directly to the mission location. We won't stay here." Liu Lingshan said lightly, like comforting but not like comforting, and looking at her appearance, she didn't seem to feel hot at all.
So everyone continued on their journey. On the way, Su Ming used his mobile phone to investigate the so-called Furnace Island, and then learned about the characteristics of this island.
This island is like a hot pot. The closer you are to the edge, the cooler it is. The temperature at the very edge is the same as other places. It is very cold in winter and very hot in summer. But the closer you are to the center of the island, the higher the temperature. It is said that the temperature in the center of the island reaches hundreds of degrees Celsius.
Walking on the hot street, the warm boots designed for winter turned into torture instruments at this moment. Su Ming felt like the soles of his feet were about to burn.
On the way to the dock, they encountered several small incidents. Several local young women came up to Liu Lingshan and wanted to get Liu Lingshan's contact information. After finding out that Liu Lingshan was a woman, they were disappointed, but they still tried hard to get Liu Lingshan's phone number.
This proved that Su Ming's first impression of the deputy director's appearance was correct. The deputy director looked more like a feminine handsome guy than a handsome androgynous beauty.
Su Ming estimated that they walked on the scorching streets for half an hour before they met the first taxi.
As the taxi moved away from the center of the island and gradually approached the pier, the temperature began to drop from 38 degrees. Except for Liu Lingshan who did not sweat, everyone in the car experienced the process of sweat cooling.
As the temperature dropped sharply, Su Ming's clothes were soaked with sweat, and finally it felt like a thin layer of ice stuck to his body. He felt chilly all over, as if he had just come out of a winter swim.
Gu Dongshu and Cass were also very hot and were teased by the driver on the way, but amid Cass's weird laughter, the driver finally shut up and remained silent for twenty minutes.
Of course, Su Ming later secretly used his supernatural powers to dry his clothes , and then hid the fact that he had this special method of staying warm, allowing Gu Dongshu to wear clothes soaked with sweat in the freezing cold.
After an unknown amount of time, they arrived at their temporary destination, the dock of Furnace Island.
"Damn! It's so cold!" Gu Dongshu cursed with a stern face. His curiosity about the Furnace Island turned into disgust in just one hour.
Cas was still laughing, but his laughter was a little weak, and it was obvious that he was uncomfortable being trapped in that mirrored windbreaker.
The three followed Liu Lingshan to the pier. There were many people waiting for the airship at the pier. The locals had opened many guesthouses and hotels around the pier to attract tourist funds from outsiders. The streets were bustling with people coming and going.
Everyone followed Liu Lingshan and walked to the real airship dock, which was a huge flat steel bridge extending outside the island. The steel bridge was extremely huge, with a width of over 100 meters and a length of 500 meters, and looked quite spectacular.
Su Ming walked onto the steel bridge, stood at the very edge, and looked at the sky in the distance.
Looking at the vast sky in front of him, Su Ming's mood suddenly became clear.
This place is a space even wider than the ocean. There is a line between the sea and the sky at the seaside, but standing here, there is only the vast sky and clouds. If you don't look at the ground under your feet, but just look into the distance, you will feel like you are flying and standing above the sky.
This world is really special. The altitude of Sky Island is so high, but the air and temperature have not changed much. This should be a rare benign anomaly in this world, Su Ming thought.
"The islands are so far apart that they can't even see each other." Su Ming said with emotion.
Gu Dongshu beside him glanced at Su Ming with a strange look, as if he thought he was talking nonsense.
They waited for the airship to arrive on the steel bridge at the dock.
After an unknown amount of time, a red dot appeared in the azure sky, and then an extremely huge red oval object flew towards this side quickly.
Su Ming stared at the rapidly approaching airship with wide eyes and took a deep breath.
At this moment, he was very shocked and his inner feelings were indescribable.
This was the first time he saw an airship. Before seeing it, Su Ming had always been curious about why people in this world chose airships as flying props instead of airplanes.
As we all know, the reason why airplanes can fly in the air is due to the lift of the airflow with different speeds above and below the wings, while the reason why airships can fly in the air is due to buoyancy. Since the specific gravity of air is relatively small, only 1.293 kg/m3, the buoyancy is also small. For an airship with a load capacity of 10 tons, the airbag volume needs to be at least 10,000 cubic meters. Such a large volume makes the airship neither fast nor difficult to control, and it is easily affected by airflow. Therefore, airships are not as easy to use as airplanes.
In Su Ming's imagination, an airship should be a ship with a huge balloon hanging on it, or a formation of airships connected by countless balloon ships.
But now, what appeared in front of Su Ming was an oval-shaped, huge monster that was integrated from top to bottom!
The outer surface of this huge monster is densely covered with windows. It is made entirely of metal, like a means of transportation that only exists in fantasy!
Su Ming swallowed his saliva to calm his excitement. He looked at the huge monster in front of him that was thirty meters high and over a hundred meters long, and pretended to be indifferent.
Although he really wanted to know how this huge thing flew, he couldn't just ask now, because this principle must be common sense in this world, and asking casually would make people feel very strange.
If someone had the same intuition as Xia Xiaoyu, they might be able to see through his identity as a time traveler.
“Beep, beep, beep—!”
The huge steel made a deafening roar. Right in front of the behemoth, a piece of iron plate detached from the outer surface and slowly tilted down.
A large number of people got off the airship and walked onto the dock, and the people on the dock rushed towards the airship like fish swimming upstream.
Su Ming followed Liu Lingshan in line, showed his Seventh Bureau ID to the ticket inspector, and boarded the airship directly without buying a ticket.
"Is this airship from our alliance?" Su Ming asked curiously.
Su Ming's logic was simple. This world was ruled by an alliance, so all public facilities belonged to the alliance. And since they could board the airship without checking their tickets or paying, it meant that the airship should be theirs.
"No, it's from the Luhe Alliance." Liu Lingshan replied, "Our alliance doesn't engage in this kind of business. Although we have airships, they are very few. However, due to some special reasons, we have many small privileges in other alliances."
