Chapter 133 Luxiang
Investing in the Sea Train is not actually profitable. Because the world government has very strict control over the Sea Train's routes, it is very laborious to roll out the Sea Train's railways.
In the more than ten years since Tom's death, the Sea Train has only been opened to traffic on five or six islands. Because it can only be implemented in a small area, the income is not high. Carrera Company operates the Sea Train After a year, in fact, I can only make a small profit.
Aoun looked down on the small money, and investing in the sea train was actually more of a reason. What he really wanted was to use this railway line to drive similar logistics. Sea transportation was obviously very promising, but few people in the pirate world took advantage of it. field of.
Another is to use the thinking and technology of French and Carrera companies to promote some slightly advanced small inventions.
For example, small steam engines, sewing machines, and even relatively primitive internal combustion engines. With Frankie's mind and Carrera's technical capabilities, it is not easy to make such things.
If these things can be promoted through this railway, there will definitely be a steady flow of Bailey into his pocket.
With this wealth, Aoun can try to continue to expand his power secretly, or contact the revolutionary army, or find Zefa, who is destined to defect from the navy in the future, to form a neo-new navy, etc...
In short, there is really too much room for maneuver. As long as he has enough money, he can make great efforts in the future and gradually move himself to the center of the world stage.
Franky was obviously shocked by the large amount of gold, but he remained rational after all, and after thinking for a moment, he still chose to contact Bingshan.
After receiving a positive answer, he accepted the large sum of money with peace of mind and promised that he would fully meet all of Aoun's requirements.
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Franky and Carrera Company were working very efficiently. Only about ten days had passed before Aoun received a call from Franky saying "all the commissions have been completed."
"That's it for today's sparring. Next, we should all go out to see our new ship, or our own ship."
After Ornn stopped training with Yamato, he smiled and called everyone in the Ornn Pirates and Bellamy, a "little tail" who looked reluctant but was very honest.
"Our own ship? Isn't the Gospel our ship?" Robin didn't know about Aoun and Yamato's previous experiences in the Western Sea, so he had such a question.
"The previous Gospel was a ship that the captain snatched from pirates in the Western Sea, so it wasn't actually the captain's own ship?" Rhea said on the sidelines.
Peyton rarely jumped out to apply for interaction with Rhea. At this time, he was taking deep breaths and looking forward to what kind of experience it would be like to use his mechanical right hand.
The group of people arrived at the Carrera Shipyard chatting and laughing.
Almost as soon as they entered the shipyard, everyone's attention was unconsciously attracted by the large sheep-headed ship parked in the center.
The size of the ship is similar to the previous Gospel, a few times larger than the Thousand Miles Sunshine of the Straw Hat crew in the original work, but smaller than Whitebeard's Moby Dick.
The length of the hull is about one hundred meters, and the height is about fifty meters.
The bow of the ship is a huge sheep's head carved based on the human-animal form of Ornn, which looks mighty and domineering. The overall color of the ship's hull is mainly black and red, and it is also dotted with various irregular golden lines. It's like slightly solidified magma.
"Cool~"
Almost the moment he saw the ship, Rhea couldn't help but praise it.
"Oh~ Miss, your taste is really amazing!"
Franky appeared out of nowhere carrying a black suitcase. He looked like a standard "super" when he met:
"How about it, Mr. Aoun, are you satisfied with this ship, which has condensed all the hard work of Bingshan and I?"
"Of course I'm satisfied." Ornn jumped onto the deck of the ship in a swish, and while carefully stroking the mast, he smiled and said to Franky:
"Franky, why don't you hurry up and introduce to us what functions this ship has."
"Then let me introduce to you the various functions of this ship. The first is of course the most important attack system!"
Franky said, pointing to the sixteen cannons arranged on both sides of the sheep-headed boat:
"There are a total of sixteen traditional artillery pieces on both sides of this ship, and at the stern is a stern propulsion system that combines the wind blaster and my most proud wind cannon. However, these are not the strongest, the most powerful. It still belongs here..."
After speaking, Franky also jumped onto the deck and pressed a switch under the statue on the bow of the ship.
With his press, two grooves immediately appeared in front of everyone. Correspondingly, the mouth of the sheep-head statue on the bow of the ship opened, revealing a small barrel.
"How powerful can such a small barrel be?"
Rhea looked at the barrel with a look of disgust.
"Don't underestimate this barrel, madam!" Franky solemnly warned Rhea, then turned to Ornn and said:
"Mr. Aoun, this cannon is an electromagnetic gun I developed by combining your ability with that magical platoon shell!"
As he spoke, he took out large steel balls with a diameter of seven or eight centimeters from somewhere.
"Load these special steel bullets from here, and then use your hammer to charge here. Under the dual acceleration of electromagnetic force and repelling shells, this steel ball will have extremely terrifying speed and destructive power. According to my estimation, its power will be even several times greater than my wind cannon!"
Electromagnetic cannon? !
Owen's eyes lit up obviously. He had been coveting the electromagnetic cannon made by Kidd with his magnetic fruit in the original comics for a long time.
I don't know if the power of this electromagnetic cannon can be comparable to Kidd's electromagnetic cannon...
It's not easy to test the power of the electromagnetic cannon now that we are still in the Seven Waters City. It seems that we can only test it after leaving the Seven Waters City.
Restraining the idea of having sex right now, Orn continued to listen to Franky's introduction:
"Next are the conventional functional areas. The forecastle at the stern is designed to be three-story. The first floor can be used as a kitchen and warehouse, the second floor is the men's living room and training room, and the top floor is the study and women's living room..."
"What about the bilge? Generally speaking, can't the bilge be used as a warehouse?" Ulki asked with some curiosity.
"I designed the bilge as a sub-ship dock system, so it is not suitable for use as a warehouse."
Franky introduced the dock system he designed to Orn and others. The dock system of the Sheep Head Ship is similar to that of the Thousand Miles Sunshine. A total of six small docks were designed.
One of the docks is an auxiliary propulsion propeller, used for sailing in windless or extreme weather. Considering Orn's ability, this propeller also chose the electric system.
Dock No. 2 is a small steam-powered lifeboat, used to deal with emergencies and advance investigations.
Dock No. 3 is a small submarine that also uses electricity as its energy source and is equipped with weapon systems such as chain blades, harpoons, and whaling nets. It can be used to explore underwater environments or resolve some underwater battles.
The remaining three docks are temporarily vacant because of time constraints and Franky's lack of good ideas, leaving it for Orn to find someone to develop and upgrade later.
After briefly introducing the many functions on the ship, Franky said to Orn:
"In addition, the mobile castle has been upgraded and is placed at Franky's House. Because I can't move it away, you need Mr. Orn to bring it back later."
"No need to wait, come with me to Franky's House now, I can just operate it myself and see how the upgraded power system feels."
Orn said as he took out Mjolnir, and under the action of electromagnetic force, his figure began to gradually rise into the air.
"What a convenient ability."
Franky muttered, grabbing his thigh without Orn's reminder.
With the help of Mjolnir, the two quickly took off, and under the shocked gaze of the people of the Seven Waters, they flew back to Franky's House at a very fast speed.
Just after arriving at the back of Franky's House, the renovated mobile castle came into view.
Because only the power system was renovated, the appearance of the mobile castle did not change much, and there were only some wires and white protective shells inside.
"I didn't make too many adjustments to the interior decoration of the castle, just added some more lights and renovated the electric propeller..."
Franky said, and took Orn into the main control room.
Compared with other rooms outside, the main control room has obviously changed a lot.
Franky obviously put a lot of effort and directly made a whole electronic display screen that can be connected to the video phone bug, so that Orn can see the scene in front of the mobile castle while taking into account the movements in all directions.
In addition, the original forge and large boiler were moved to the corner of the main control room as a backup.
In the center, a metal operating table was replaced. Through the glass around the metal table, you can see that there is a very large lithium battery inside.
"According to your needs, the options of real-time control and charging are designed respectively. If it is only used for flight and internal lighting of the castle, this battery should be able to maintain about three days of flight. In addition, be careful when charging, and don't charge too much voltage at one time..."
After briefly introducing some precautions, Franky gestured to Orn to try to control it himself.
Orn placed Mjolnir, who was flashing with lightning, in the depression on the main console according to Franky's instructions. As the power was continuously infused, all the electronic display screens lit up in a short time.
Orn could see the whole process of the propellers on the top of the castle slowly opening from a corner of the screen.
As the power continued to be input, the panel showing the power on the main console changed from the original 0% to 2%. At the same time, the propellers began to rotate rapidly.
Unlike the slow speed when using steam power, after replacing it with electricity, the speed of the propeller has obviously become much faster, and the speed of the mobile castle taking off is also completely beyond Ornn's expectations.
He secretly estimated in his mind that although the speed of this propeller taking off is far less than that of the helicopter in the previous life, it is estimated that it can be not much different from the flying speed of the drone, which can be about 100km/h.
This speed is about five times that of the Gospel under smooth sailing conditions. That is to say, with the guidance of the permanent pointer and suitable weather conditions, Orn only needs about three or four days to fly from Shampoo Land to Twin Gorges, and it only takes about seven days to reach Rhea's hometown for her to reunite with her mother!
Moreover, the energy consumption required for flight is not as exaggerated as imagined. Perhaps because the energy utilization rate has increased several times compared to steam power, Orn hardly felt much physical consumption in the process of operating the mobile castle to take off.
According to his estimation, with his current physical strength, consuming his own physical strength during the day and consuming battery power at night, it is not a problem to let the mobile castle fly for ten days and half a month at a time.
Fragrant! It's really too fragrant!
At a certain moment, Orn even had the idea of "taking one is taking two, taking two is also taking two, just take Frankie with you".
However, after calming down, he finally gave up this idea. After all, Frankie is better at cola technology, and forcing him to study electrical appliances every day is indeed a bit of a delay for him.
Let's wait until later to think about how to cause trouble for Judge...
When taking Franky back to the Carrera Shipyard on the moving castle, Rhea and others were still visiting the rooms on the ship, and exclaimed from time to time.
"Owen, you're back!" Yamato was the first to notice Owen's arrival, and subconsciously jumped over and took his arm:
"We were just discussing what name this new ship should be named! Do you have any good ideas?"
Because there has been no sailing in the past ten days, and they have been together almost every day for training or shopping, Yamato has now completely adapted to it and even relies on such physical contact.
Robin is actually similar to her, but she still remains very restrained in front of outsiders. Only when she is alone with Owen will she show her clingy characteristics of liking to rely on Owen and resting her head on Owen's chest.
"What's the name of the ship..."
Owen blurted out without hesitation:
"How about calling it the Hearth? "
"Heat? It's so strange, why is it called this name?" Rhea asked curiously.
"Well, my destroyed hometown is called Luxiang. For me now, this ship is my home, so I want to name it Luxiang as a memorial."
Hearing Orn say that this ship is his home, the people in the Orn Pirates immediately felt that the name Luxiang was not strange at all, and even had a sense of belonging in their hearts.
This ship is the captain's home, so they are naturally the captain's family!
What words in this world can give people a greater sense of security than "You are my family"?