"It sounds really amazing." After listening to Lawrence's translation of the airship-related content in the book, Syfiel showed a look of surprise on his face. "But listening to the name of this airship, I always thought it was an airship from the Federation or some other country."

"This name does have a strong western style, but it is really the airship of the Republic of New China." Lawrence smiled and pointed to a propaganda board belonging to the airship company standing at the entrance of the lounge. "But its designer was a citizen of the Republic of Frans. After he designed this airship that year, he couldn't find anyone willing to invest in the country. In the end, he almost traveled the entire world before arriving in the New World. The far west has fulfilled his dream."

"That is to say that Xinzhou Republic has made a very good investment by knowing talents and making a great investment?" Saifei opened his eyes wide, and at the same time used an Aurora proverb that he had just learned.

"Then you have to look at which aspect." Lawrence said after looking at the briefings about the airship posted on the exhibition board hanging on the wall, "If it's really rewarding from a technical point of view, you have to I know that building such a large piece of giant transportation that combines industry and extraordinary things can definitely promote the development of a lot of technology."

"For example, when we just got off the car, we saw so many airships, many of which used the technology on this airship. According to the content written in the manual just now, these new technologies make the use of the airship costly. Decrease, the safety is greatly improved. In this way, the airship travel has gradually changed from luxury to popular."

"Popularization? Do you call the airship travel for 120 yuan a ticket "Popularization?" Saifei couldn't help but complain after hearing Lawrence's words. "The annual salary of a store clerk is this number, right? It just made more money. For a long time, don't you put so much money in your eyes?"

"Of course not. The popular travel mentioned here refers to other routes that use ordinary airships that do not need to pass through dangerous places such as the Dashan Mountains. I just looked at and found that the price from north to south is the same as before. The fare of the train I bought is about the same." Lawrence shook his hand quickly and said that he was not at all floating, "and the airship we are going to take should actually be regarded as an extraordinary means of transportation. Naturally, the ticket price cannot be cheap.

"Understood." Saifei nodded. After all, it is a means of transportation that needs to directly traverse the sky over the mountains. Naturally, an airship that can do this can't have the low operating costs like ordinary airships.

"But from an economic point of view, this thing is completely losing money, because it uses too many high-tech technologies that are basically impossible to mass-produce, and the money obtained from carrying guests and some goods can only keep running. . This is why it only built one ship.” After seeing Syfier understand the price of the airship ticket, Lawrence continued on the topic just now.

"In that case, why does this airship still operate?" Saifei said somewhat puzzled, because the thing that has been losing money in her impression should be stopped early, instead of making this thing look like a thing. The bottomless pit is constantly eating up money.

"You have to know that many things are not just about calculating economic accounts." Lawrence raised the index finger of his right hand and shook it gently. "I guess they keep this airship operating on the one hand to find the problems in the previous design through operation to facilitate continuous improvement, on the other hand, to use it as a demonstration of national power."

Speaking of this, Lawrence thought of the Blue Ribbon Award prepared for the fast cruise ship across the Atlantic in the world in his previous life. In fact, the time saved by adding a few knots or even a few knots to those large passenger ships is totally unattainable compared with the large costs to be paid.

But at that time, various countries were still eager for this award, and they built one after another high-speed cruise ships that travel faster: Königsberg, Mauritania, Union, Deutsche, Normandy. In the peaceful age, this speed race was used as the best stage for each country to show its strength.

And now this airship called the Plydwin should be a means for the New Continent Republic to demonstrate its national power. Lawrence thinks this is an important reason why this ship is running international routes.

After talking for a while, Lawrence stood up and went to the telegraph station in the airship station, and told his adoptive father the schedule and take-off time of the airship he was going to take. Then he returned to the terminal and tasted with Safir. The fruit platter that was put in is gone.

A few hours later, the time came to midnight. At this time, Sefil was already asleep holding the suitcase that contained Nora. Lawrence sat beside her with his eyes closed and began to think about the knowledge gained this time.

"——If this basic rune technology is applied to the paper man magic, then the next time the backup paper man is made, there is no need to limit the image of the paper man to the image of a human being. That way, the operating space will be much larger— —" Just when Lawrence started to think about a certain problem, he suddenly heard a bell ringing outside the window.

"Look, our airship is here." Lawrence turned his head and looked out the window when he heard the bell, and then gently woken up Syfiel, who was asleep next to him.

"Ah? What?" Syfiel, who had just been awakened from sleep, rubbed his eyes in confusion, and then subconsciously looked in the direction of Lawrence's fingers. In just a few seconds, she suddenly opened her big blue eyes.

"Is this the airship we're going to ride? It looks like a whale made of metal." Saifeier said in a surprised tone, because what appeared in the air now was a behemoth more than 300 meters in length. Moreover, compared with the several airships I have seen before, the metal armor covered on the airbags of this airship looks particularly strong under the rays of the magic array drawn on the armor.

"Yes, if all goes well, we will be home in three days." Lawrence nodded. In fact, he was very heartfelt because his adoptive father sent him such a letter that had no beginnings and ends but made him go back as quickly as possible. Anxious, but it's useless to be anxious at this time, he can only keep calm and find a way to get him back as quickly as possible.

It is a pity that there are too few spatial teleportation arrays across borders, and the teleportation array on the New Continent Republic is not eligible for Lawrence now ~lightnovelpub.net~ otherwise he would rather spend more to use the teleportation array to go back.

Twenty minutes after the airship arrived, the Plydwin airship landed and was fixed at a height of about ten meters above the ground. Then an attendant walked into the terminal and took them to complete the exit and boarding procedures. Another staff member on the airship took them to the airship through the three-story gangway.

While standing on the gangway, Lawrence looked curiously at the magic lift engine closest to them. But it was different from the fast-rotating propeller engine or the more complex jet engine he had previously thought. The appearance of this engine looks like a simple silver-white ring, with neither noise nor high-speed airflow.

"Is it a variant of the repulsion ring?" Lawrence suddenly thought of the technology needed to build a floating magic tower. "This is simply too exaggerated. It's no wonder that only one such airship was built."

You know, the repulsion ring in this world is technically equivalent to the heavy rocket engine technology of Lawrence's last life, and the technical complexity and cost can be imagined. The ability to use this technology on an airship also made Lawrence express extreme admiration for the designer's mind-opening degree and the great investment of the New World Republic.