Chapter 359 Red Tomato Sky Pirates
In the vast empty sky, a huge airship was floating slowly. Inside the cabin, a rough man with a beard on his face was hugging a woman and drinking Erguotou. Sitting opposite him was a young man sitting upright. The young man stared at the rough man in front of him with a frown and an unhappy look on his face.
"Dad, can't you just hold yourself back a little?" the young boy said.
"Xiao Hao, we are sky pirates! All pirates are like this!" Sun Shaotao said, putting down the Erguotou in his hand.
Although he said this, he loved his well-dressed son from the bottom of his heart when he looked at him.
The thing Sun Shaotao was most proud of in his life was that he had robbed the noble lady on that ship twenty years ago. Damn it, nobles are worthy of being nobles. Any son they give birth to will have a different temperament. The brutality that Sun Shaotao had accumulated from a lifetime of fighting and killing could not cover up the nobility in that woman's bones.
He had never carefully trained his son since he was born. Although he took a lot of time to play with him, the game they played was a role-playing game about pirates looting and plundering. At that time, Sun Shaotao wanted Sun Yihao to become the pirate king of sky pirates when he grew up, but he didn't expect that he would turn out to be such an elegant young man.
Although Sun Yihao's growth deviated from his curve, Sun Shaotao did not dislike it, but liked it very much.
To be honest, what he envied most in his life were those nobles who looked like decent human beings. Although he always talked about how great it was to be a pirate, he had always dreamed of being a decent human being. Now it seemed... his son was here to fulfill his dream.
Among all his sons, he liked Sun Yihao the most, and Sun Yihao lived up to everyone's expectations. He had the strongest superpowers among all his children and was also the smartest.
"Dad, you should think about how to use the resources at hand to change your career, right?" Sun Yihao said.
Sun Shaotao frowned and mumbled incoherently: "Change career? Why change career? Isn't it good to be a pirate? Xiaohao, don't you want to inherit my airship? Or do you not want to be a bad guy?"
"That's not the case. There is no difference between bad guys and good guys. I just think that the risks and benefits of being a pirate are not proportional. Especially after accumulating enough resources, you should use leverage to increase the rate of profit. Although you can make a lot of money by continuing to be a pirate, it is actually no different from those ordinary people who work."
"Okay, okay, I'll think about it." Sun Shaotao took another sip of Erguotou.
There were three quick knocks on the door. After the door was opened, a bald strong man walked in and said, "Boss, there's a new prey!"
"Oh? Really? Let me go and take a look to see if the sheep are fat this time."
Sun Shaotao stood up and walked to the window. He took a telescope and looked at a small airship in the distance. It was a small airship that was only one twentieth the size of the pirate airship and was sailing quickly in the direction away from the pirate ship.
"Oh? It looks like a smuggling ship, haha, but the only thing that can appear here is a smuggling ship." Sun Shaotao muttered to himself, "Send a ship out to intercept it."
"yes!"
"Wait a minute, let the ship that's going out add more pumice. This airship looks a little familiar."
"clear."
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The airship that Su Ming was on was sailing very fast. After accelerating in a straight line, the speed of the airship had reached an extremely fast level.
Through the window, they could see that several small airships suddenly rushed out from the huge airship outside and rushed towards their airship.
"We're about to be caught up." Su Ming said casually.
"It's not that simple. The captain's driving skills are first-class." said Long Haisheng next to him.
"But they are obviously much faster than us." Su Ming replied. He could tell that the other party was serious, but judging from the current situation, it would only take a few minutes for them to be caught up.
"Their brains are not as good as the captain's and they will be thrown off soon," said Long Haisheng.
As we all know, the reason why can fly in the sky is because they are filled with pumice, which perfectly provides infinite sustainable buoyancy. However, along with the sustainable infinite buoyancy, a problem also arises: without changing the amount and proportion of pumice inside, the airship cannot rise or fall significantly.
If the airship wants to float up, it must drop the pumice at a fixed height. If the airship wants to sink, it must drop the pumice at a higher height.
The normal suspension situation is because the upward buoyancy and the downward pulling force are equal, creating a delicate balance, and discarding pumice is a means of destroying this balance.
If the pumice that is currently generating buoyancy is discarded, the airship will generate a downward acceleration and slowly sink. After it descends to the ideal height, by discarding another part of the pumice that is generating pulling force, it can decelerate in the opposite direction and eventually reach balance.
During this operation, many changing parameters are involved, which directly leads to the fact that driving an airship is much more difficult than driving a ship. It is also destined that airships will not chase each other like ships simply relying on horsepower. In front of an expert who is proficient in lifting and lowering, no matter how high the horsepower of your airship is, it is impossible to touch him, because the change in altitude cannot be calculated simply by equipment. Although the equipment can assist in calculations, macro-control still requires humans to use their brains.
In the distance, the pirates ' small pursuit boat was approaching rapidly. At this moment, Su Ming felt a sense of weightlessness. The whole airship sank suddenly. The sounds of cargo collision and crew members cursing came from downstairs. As the airship's altitude dropped instantly, the airship once again distanced itself from the pursuit boat outside. This time, they did not catch up immediately.
This sudden change made Su Ming instantly understand the key to the airship chase, and also made him aware of the most noteworthy issue in this chase.
"If we consume the pumice so quickly, will there not be enough pumice in the end?" Su Ming asked.
"It doesn't matter. The sky is full of rocks being thrown around. As long as they don't crash right away, we can collect them as we fly and fill up the warehouse quickly." said an old crew member with gray beard.
After saying this, he looked worried, looked outside through the lattice window, and muttered to himself: "Look at the sign, it's the Red Tomato Sky Pirates! Did they bring a lot of pumice?"
"Do you need me to help you shoot down these airships?" Su Ming asked.
The old man turned his head, stared at Su Ming with wide eyes, and asked in surprise: "Can you shoot down those airships?"
"I don't know if it's possible, but I can try it." Su Ming said.
The wind-related ability that Su Ming obtained from the executed prisoner could possibly be used in this environment, but because he had only recently acquired the ability, Su Ming had not tested the specific usage restrictions of the ability in detail, so he did not know whether he could control the external airflow in the airship.
All I can say is that he can give it a try.
