Starting from Zero

The skill Chuangwang wants to demonstrate to me is actually very simple, because this skill is called dive.

Yes, it just dives into the sea like a submarine. Just after King Chuang’s order was issued, the super mothership Purple Moon, named after me, started to move slowly and sink while we were standing on the deck except for the navy. , Almost all looked dumbfounded. In fact, it's not just that I don't know that the new battleship has this ability, even Kristina doesn't know that our battleship has this ability. The navy’s technology has specialized personnel responsible. We would simply not know these things if it were not for the warships that landed in the navy, so we could say that we didn’t know anything about it before.

"Is there anything wrong?" Watching the Purple Moon sink slowly, Kristina, who was standing next to me, almost stared out her eyes. Such a big battleship is actually a submarine, this kind of thing can't be understood by normal people. You must know that the submarine is not that it is impossible to build a big thing, but it does not need to be too big. In addition to adding a small amount of combat capability, the huge submarine will also produce more side effects. Therefore, after the size of the submarine is enlarged, the practical value of the submarine is actually not increased, but decreased, except for a few special needs. For custom-made submarines, under normal circumstances, the tonnage of the submarine should be kept below one-half of the main battleship in active service. Because such submarines can give full play to their specialties.

We have never thought of the Purple Moon being able to dive before, but according to my previous words and Chuangwang’s intention to demonstrate this ability, it can be determined that it is definitely not only the Purple Moon that can dive. This ship. In other words. The entire First Cruiser Fleet here is a diving battleship that can dive.

When I recovered from the astonishing scene of the Purple Moon diving, the Purple Moon in front of me was basically completely underwater, and what we can see is the Purple Moon’s. The sighting equipment and some antennas are still above sea level, and the main part of the battleship has actually been completely underwater.

"How...How did you do this?" Seeing the Purple Moon was completely launched, I remembered to ask why King Chuang had such a design.

Chuang Wang probably knew that I would ask this a long time ago, so he replied very readily: "In fact, it is not difficult to do this. You should know what abilities the submarine needs, the president, right?"

I nodded and said: "It's pretty clear."

"Then what abilities do you need?"

I thought for a while and said:" First of all, a sealed solid shell is required to ensure that no water enters, and it must be able to resist the pressure of the deep sea. Secondly, a propulsion system that can work without oxygen is needed so that it can normally output power under the water. Also, it must be sound. Water detection system such as nano, otherwise it will become blind once you dive. Oh, yes, a set of pressure devices and water tanks are needed so that you can control your own buoyancy through drainage and water injection to float and dive. It looks like the main part. All these things are needed. In addition, some miscellaneous techniques are needed. Anyway, there are quite a lot of things."

After hearing my words, Chuang Wang immediately asked: "Okay, just follow what you said. First of all. A sealed and sturdy shell. Our new battleship is all made of high-quality steel to form a large area, and the connecting part is made of magic fusion agent, so that the steel plate can be perfectly integrated into a whole, just like a monolithic casting, strong and sealed, it can be said If we don’t want to leave any openings, we can make a large, fully sealed tank. Therefore, we just made some adjustments on all the hatches on the battleship to increase the sealing and ensure that these doors can resist the water of the deep sea. Pressure."

"So you came up with a completely sealed shell?"

Chuangwang nodded and said: "It's actually not that simple, but it's basically like this. In addition, let me tell you that our cutting-edge Battle Armor has movable reinforcements. These things are usually in a decomposed state to increase the space available in the ship. They can be locked and connected during war. On the one hand, the overall structural strength of the ship is strengthened, and the other is On the other hand, it can also close a specific area in an emergency to ensure that the hull can still be submerged even when the hull is damaged, and there will be no water seepage or loss of pressure resistance."

This is what Chuang Wang said. This ability can be said to be very rare, because a large part of the submarine’s compressive ability is actually derived from its shape. It's like an egg. An unopened intact egg has a very strong resistance to pressure. This is because its structure can disperse the pressure and ensure the integrity of the shell as a whole. It can even be said that pressure makes it strong. As long as the pressure at a unit point does not appear particularly high peak areas, and the pressure can be evenly distributed, the pressure resistance of eggs even exceeds that of many metal components. Because if you make a container the size of an egg with the same thickness of iron sheet, but don't make it into the shape of an egg but a square, the pressure resistance of this container is definitely not as good as that of an egg.

Submarines also have similar characteristics. In the case of a complete structure, the pressure generated by the seawater will be shared by the structure, and the hull can withstand a stronger pressure than expected. But once the structure of the submarine is damaged, for example, there is a big hole in the outer shell...it basically has to wait to die. A submarine that loses its structural strength can only rely on its own hardness to resist water pressure, and it is mostly the result of being directly squashed.

Different from the submarine, the Purple Moon uses a very special structure. First of all, it is a surface battleship, so it does not need to rely on the shell to resist water pressure, so it can be said that it has no water pressure resistance characteristics. However, because our designers added structural reinforcements to it, and also specially laid magic arrays, magic power was used to protect the hull, thus ensuring its resistance to water pressure. In this way, our cutting-edge battleship becomes a battleship that can not only dive, but also continue diving after being injured.

"I now believe that it is not difficult to let these boats dive."

Chuang Wang heard my words and immediately nodded and said: "I just said it. Our battleship uses In addition to the steel structure, due to the special steel technology and the assistance of the magic array, the hardness itself is already very exaggerated. The thickness of the armor of these large battleships is calculated in meters, which is absolutely beyond any submarine today. Therefore, our battleship has no problems in terms of pressure resistance. As for underwater power... Boss, have you forgotten what kind of power our battleship uses?"

The guild’s battleship All the propellers use water jets from Atlantis. This kind of equipment simply does not need to burn anything, but directly uses magic energy, that is, magic crystal as a power drive. Then, since there is no need for combustion, oxygen is not used to support combustion, and naturally there is no need for gas exchange. In addition to nuclear-powered submarines in reality, conventional submarines are equipped with two sets of power equipment, a set of diesel engines, which are usually used when sailing on the sea, or the snorkel is extended out of the sea for diesel power in semi-submersible mode. Sailing. Once it enters the real submarine mode, all submarines use electric motors. Not much of the battleship in the game uses fossil fuels. Although there is no such good performance as our guild, the guilds in various countries also have their own magic thrusters. These thrusters are basically powered by magic crystals. Of course, some impoverished guilds have invented the method of using magician instead of magic crystal as power, but that kind of propulsion mode can only be used as a kind of economy. When the mode is used, I must change back to the magic crystal when fighting. In other words, the battleship in the game, in addition to those with oars, the other battleships are either sailing ships, or they must be powered by magic. For these battleships, it doesn't matter whether there is air or not, and even the engine is not afraid of water, because the magic thruster is simply not a mechanical thruster, and those magic arrays are simply not afraid of water.

Because of this feature in the game, the oxygen problem that plagues submarines in reality is almost non-existent for submarines in the game.

What? You asked how the staff breathed? Don't you know that there is something called a Knight helmet?

Because players need to experience the fun of fighting in different environments in the game, many helmets are equipped with underwater breathing apparatus. In addition, because the game "Zero" is justified for everything, even the monsters in the wild are born from one generation to the next, rather than being refreshed directly. Therefore, it is necessary for this helmet to provide oxygen underwater. There must be an argument. So screaming, the almighty magic appeared.

The Knight helmet can breathe underwater because it contains a special magic array that can separate oxygen in the water. The prototype of this magic array is the water suction technique used by the wizards. Let's not discuss the principle of this water suction technique. Anyway, such a magic is defined in the game, and there is a re-engraved version of the magic array form directly, and then what we have to do in the guild is... Learn this magic array, and then engrave it in certain specific positions inside the battleship, and then you can provide oxygen to the entire submarine.

Because of the existence of magic, the oxygen problem, which is very troublesome in reality, is almost not a problem in the game. Of course, this is for ourselves, if it is another guild, it will take a little effort. After all, the sub-subject of ripping of magic array is not as simple as copying a piece of paper. The magic array actually has a very complicated design idea. Although we have a special magic array printing machine that can produce magic arrays in batches, that kind of thing is actually a super high-end existence, and the general guilds don’t talk about manufacturing. I haven't even heard of it. Only a few guilds have relevant technologies in this area, but it is only our guilds that can print magic arrays in batches.

If you reason according to this line of thought. The cutting-edge battleship of our guild itself has the ability to resist water pressure, coupled with the kind of water barrier we got from Atlantis, the sealing problem is also very simple. Now coupled with the simple oxygen acquisition capability and the magic thruster that can work for a long time without oxygen, in fact, most of the prerequisites for making a submarine have been met.

But..."How did you solve the water tank system?"

"Do we need to equip that kind of thing?" Chuangwang's rhetorical question directly stunned me.

On the surface, this question is idiotic. How can a submarine not have a water tank to solve the problem of diving and floating? It can be said that except for the power part of a submarine, most of the remaining space is actually occupied by the water tank and high-pressure air system used to change its own buoyancy. It can be said that this system is a very important component in the submarine. But...does our battleship need it?

The reason why this batch of cutting-edge battleships needs to be replaced is because they have all installed solar furnaces. What is a solar furnace? This is an anti-gravity system! When it outputs power downwards, the battleship can be used to offset the gravitational force and fly from the ground, and the battleship can be raised, lowered or hovered by changing the power output. This control method is very simple, and the response speed is very fast, it can be said that it is completely without delay. However, many people will fall into thinking misunderstandings, thinking that this is just a kind of power system that makes battleship fly, and they don't know that this thing system has no direction definition. In fact, although the flying battleships of our guild all have independent jet thrusters, they can actually sail before without starting these thrusters. Because the solar furnace itself is a sphere, the direction of its power output can be In this three-dimensional space, it can be changed at will in any direction, and this output can be reversed instantaneously. That is to say, if we do not output thrust downward, but want to go up, the battleship will not fly, but will Sink, because the huge pressure will force the battleship into the water like an invisible big hand.

Because of the abnormal equipment of the solar furnace, our battleship does not need the water tank and air pressure equipment in the submarine at all. When our battleship needs to dive, it directly outputs thrust to make the battleship sink. Just go down, but when you need to float up, you only need to gradually reduce the power, or simply flip the power, you can directly make the battleship jump out of the water.

Speaking of here, I have to mention a technical feature of the solar furnace. The power output method of the solar furnace is very characteristic. Although its thrust output is very strong, it cannot be adjusted quickly. That is to say, it cannot burst out all the power in an instant. It needs a slow Adjustment process. A solar furnace does not output power at all to reach the limit power. The entire adjustment time is about 70 seconds. This time does not change due to changes in the size and total power of the solar furnace, but a fixed value. In other words, no matter what type of solar furnace, it takes more than seventy seconds to accelerate to rapid speed, and it takes so long to reduce the power from the limit state to zero.

However, although it takes time to adjust the power, the power output direction of the solar furnace can be changed at will. It can even output the full power to up ahead in the previous second, and the reverse direction in the next second. All power is output directly behind.

This variability of the power direction is a good thing for the improvement of maneuverability, but because the output power cannot be controlled instantaneously, emergency stop is impossible. Therefore, the solar furnace faces the same problems as the real Stirling engine. Obviously it is very functional, but it can't be used in most equipment. For example, even if we are equipped with a solar furnace on the flying battleship, we need to install an additional jet thruster because the solar furnace itself cannot accelerate or shut down instantaneously, and can only rely on auxiliary power to achieve rapid acceleration or emergency stop. Of course, If you slow down, the solar furnace can do it by itself. After all, you only need to reverse the direction of the power, but this method is not suitable for general sailing needs. You can also consider avoiding shells on the battlefield. If the power suddenly reverses during actual sailing. , That would definitely make all unprepared crew members rush to the street collectively.

Based on the above situation, this thing about solar furnaces is only suitable for large equipment such as battleships, because these big guys have very large inertial momentum, so basically there is no such thing from the beginning of the design. It is expected that they can dance in the sky like a bird, so the problem of lagging response of the solar furnace's inability to output power can be avoided. Moreover, because the large equipment itself has a relatively large space, there is extra space for the second set of power equipment, which ensures that these big guys can also accelerate or decelerate quickly if necessary. As for small devices... don't think about it. On the one hand, it is difficult to miniaturize the solar furnace, and on the other hand, it is very unsafe. The working method of the solar furnace determines that once it explodes, the formidable power will be or equivalent to a super-large equivalent liquefied magic crystal vapor bomb. The self-destruct formidable power of this thing is basically similar to that of a small nuclear weapon. Large equipment has a low battle damage rate, so there is no problem installing these things, but if we even install this thing on small equipment like mobile angels... it will be lively. Of course, the main reason for not installing is that the power characteristics of solar furnaces are really not suitable for small equipment, especially things on land. After all, there are many obstacles on the ground, unlike the sea or the sky where there is such a large space to slow you down and you can’t do it. The power equipment that adjusts the power in an instant has no other probability besides crashing and crashing on the ground. Unless you are only active in the plains or deserts.

Anyway, our cutting-edge battleships are all equipped with solar furnaces. Although they have been ordered to ban flying due to confidentiality considerations, there is no problem with submerging. Even if the fleets of other countries see our battleship diving, they will only think that we are equipped with diving equipment, and will not think of flying functions at all. Therefore, this application method does not affect our confidentiality plan at all.

Looking at my expression, King Chuang probably knew that I already wanted to understand, so he directly introduced: "So, our battleship already has the basic conditions for diving, and because of the existence of exploration magic , So we can do underwater detection. And these battleships, because the diving function was originally thought of, so all the places that cannot enter the water are treated with Atlantis's kind of waterproof barrier, including the gun barrel. Kind of will not enter the water. Also, don’t you find that the appearance of this cutting-edge battleship is very round?"

If you don’t say Chuang Wang, I really didn’t pay attention. This time, the cutting-edge battleship is in The shape seems to have the characteristics of an aircraft, that is, taking into account the aerodynamic issues. In the previous battleship, because the speed was not fast, the part above the water surface basically did not consider the problem of fluid mechanics, as long as the resistance of the underwater part was not large. However, this cutting-edge battleship can not only fly, but also dive. Therefore, even the part above the waterline has to do as much as possible to compound the principles of fluid mechanics to ensure that the battleship has a good dynamic appearance in both the submerged mode and the flight mode.

"I have to say that this design makes me quite satisfied." I watched the Purple Moon, which was slowly floating after the demonstration of its dive capability, and said to the Chuangwang beside me: "Then, this mission will be Leave it to you. Give me a sneak peek outside the guild port and float again. I want to give them a big surprise."

When King Chuang heard my words, he knew that I had agreed to them. To perform the request for this mission, he immediately shouted excitedly: "Guaranteed to complete the mission."

"Don't be overwhelmed. Be careful with this mission. Revenge against the British guild is just to show. Our strength, I don’t want to go to war with the whole of Europe now. If you cause us international disputes, don’t blame me for throwing you into the inland river fleet."

"No, no , I must be cautious and never do things that shouldn't be done." King Chuang really knows that he is scared now. A place like the Inland River Fleet can suffocate people alive, and he will not go to kill him.