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Chapter 14 Takeoff

"Hmm." Lina pushed her eyes on the bridge of her nose and let out a low cry of unknown significance.

Pushing open the door, what appeared in front of me was a short corridor connecting the cloakroom and the locker room on the side. The end of the corridor was covered by a screen. Bypassing the screen, there was a large living room of fifty square meters. The decoration style of the living room was in the style of Gamma Empire seven hundred years ago. There was a circle of long soft chairs in the middle, which was enough for a person to lie comfortably on it to rest. In the middle of the soft chair were several tea tables put together, with various fruit snacks and entertainment game tools on it. The walls on both sides of the living room were famous paintings and artworks from all ages. Although the items were complicated, they were never messy, and it seemed that it took a lot of thought.

.One side of the living room is separated by a low wall, and on the other side is a dining room and a small bar. There are many specialty wines and juices from all over the world for guests to drink. The bar is surrounded by several doors in the living room, leading to six bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, where guests can enjoy the fun of bathing in their own room and at a high altitude. There are two secret doors near the entrance of the living room, which lead to the servant room and storage room, which can be lived by the servants who are following the guests. The room is actually not too big, but as long as you think about it being on a floating boat, you can feel the rare thing about this room.

What is even more rare is that the living room and several bedrooms have a half-meter-long crystal window, which can clearly see the outside view through the window. It is conceivable how beautiful it will be when the aerobatic boat takes off and the entire ship flies to a height of 500 meters.

"These windows can be opened." Maggie followed behind the five people and whispered shyly: "A few guests want to try it?"

"Ah?" The few people showed a look of surprise and stared at Maggie straight at her, frightening her back and forth with a half-step: "It's not a joke. Fly into the air hundreds of meters to open the window? Everything in the room will be blown out by the wind."

"You misunderstood." Maggie's lips curled slightly, as if a small conspiracy had succeeded, and said with her head down: "There are seven layers in each window. Each window is calculated by the designer to leave a gap in a clever position, so that the wind outside can penetrate inward layer by layer. When the innermost window is closed, it is isolated from the outside world. Once the window is opened, the reduced wind will blow in through the window. It is very comfortable in summer. Well... It is a little too cold in winter, and it is usually opened."

"Ding bell~~~" A series of pleasant ringtones rang. Maggie's face turned right and bowed to the five people in the adventure group and said, "The airboat is about to take off. Please sit firmly on the chair and don't move around casually for the time being, so as not to fall when shaking. It is expected that it will take ten minutes to take off. After ten minutes, it will reach the estimated maximum height of 500 meters. After ten minutes, you can move freely when the ringtone rings again."

"Interesting experience." Catherine put her backpack aside, took the lead in sitting down on the bench, and waved to Maggie: "I guess you have to go to the servant room to wait alone when you take off, but forget it, you can come and sit there too, ten minutes. You can talk more about this floating boat."

"Thank you, then." In theory, waiters like Maggie are not servants, but ordinary service staff. They are closer to the waiters in taverns or hotels, and there are not many rules to restrain them. So when they heard Catherine's invitation, they naturally sat down: "I wonder what you guys want to know?"

"How is the safety performance of this floating boat?" Catherine asked, "If something flying into the sky fails, it will not escape even if it is afraid of escaping."

"It's safe here." Maggie said affirmatively: "Before each takeoff, a hundred skilled technicians will be divided into two batches. Carefully check the 127,000 magic arrays on the entire ship, and any safety hazards will be reported in time. Please ask a special mage to adjust and maintain the magic array, and there will be no negligence."

"Well, don't worry about this." Vivian lay down on the chair and said as relaxed as possible: "They are very serious in debugging the magic circle. I was invited to participate in the magic circle maintenance of another floating boat a year and a half ago. Hey, sister, I remember telling you."

"Ah? Is it? Hahaha." Catherine was looking for an opportunity to change the topic, but suddenly felt a shock under her feet. With a slight shaking around, the floating boat had left the ground.

"Well, the floating array is running well." Vivian closed her eyes and felt it for a while, nodded and said, "Sister, you can rest assured. The activated arrays are in normal operation and have sufficient energy reserves, so there will be no risk of falling."

"What if it happens?" Catherine was naturally a little uneasy when she rode a floating boat for the first time.

"No matter what the reason is, once the floating boat falls, the emergency measures at the bottom will be activated." Vivian explained: "Attacking three thousand slowdown and slow-falling arrays will reduce the falling speed of the floating boat to a bearable level, and will not lead to a tragedy of ship destruction and death. In the 150 years since the use of the floating boat has occurred, there have been three crashes in total, but the three times combined have only 33 deaths, and the cause of five of them is that they are too nervous when they fall and forcefully go from the side of the ship.

He jumped out. The other two died of sudden illness due to mental stimulation, and six others died directly because of the accident. However, the cause of the death was that they were killed by the broken facility rather than falling to death. Only the remaining twenty people were the ones you imagined, who fell to death because of the falling speed too fast. These twenty people died in the same incident. The floating boat was attacked and disintegrated in the air. However, even so, the dead were ordinary people and there were no professionals, so please don’t worry, sister.”

"Wow, you're so awesome." Maggie looked at Vivian admiringly and said, "You know better than me, the staff member."

"Because you don't need to know this, you just need to know the general situation." Vivian said: "We are different. We need to know the principles and some key issues to facilitate debugging the magic array."

"It sounds safer." Catherine nodded and said, "But you said you were attacked once? Will the floating craft have such a large target, so will it be vulnerable to attack?"

"The floating boat has 11,000 magic circles responsible for creating shields when needed." Vivian said: "It can withstand all attacks under the Golden Level, and the legendary level attack can also withstand several times. To put it more vividly, the most powerful crystal energy cannon now. This floating boat can withstand up to three times. However, even if a legendary level person has a bad brain to attack the floating boat, it doesn't matter. Each airboat that takes off will be equipped with a legendary level long-range professional to be responsible for safety, and there is no need to worry at all."

"Okay." Although Catherine was still a little nervous, she was no longer exposed and asked relaxedly: "Maggie. I'm very curious. Although the ticket price of your floating craft service is very expensive, can it really make money?"

"It's basically impossible to make money," Maggie replied. "It's not even at its best, and it's a serious loss most of the time."

"Then you still maintain this kind of business?" Catherine asked in confusion: "According to my understanding, this ship sails once, the cost of consuming millions. If you lose hundreds of thousands of gold coins every time you sail, why keep going?"

"I don't understand this." Maggie smiled shyly and lowered her head and said, "It's all decided by the big guys in the association. I'm just a waiter. It's impossible to understand."

"They weren't for money either." Lina, who was sitting by the side reading, suddenly raised her head from the book, pushed her glasses, and added: "Yes, I don't understand either, but someone told me just now."

"It's really convenient for you, and anyone can answer any questions." Catherine asked, "If they weren't for money, then that would be... well, I understand. It's so boring."

"Is it true to erecting signs to show economic strength?" Freya grew up in the city lord's house when she was born. She had a more sensitive sense of touch on some issues and quickly reacted: "It can also win over potential allies. The profits outside the books are much greater than those on the books."

"It's probably the reason." Catherine nodded and said, "No wonder they would die in the airboat service and never let go. But this is also a good thing. If they don't run this service, no one can continue to do it. After all, the cost is too high. But why not miniaturize the airboat? If it becomes smaller, the cost will naturally be reduced."

"Impossible." Vivian denied: "I have read the information. Over the past few hundred years, countless scholars have studied floating boats and conducted hundreds of thousands of experiments, but only floating boats of this scale can fly normally. No matter how small the space is, the space is not enough to portray so many magic arrays, and adding the density of the array will cause interference, which is an unsolvable problem. If it is large, the weight will increase and may cause the hull to collapse itself, so it will not work whether it is reduced or enlarged."

"That's a pity." Catherine shook her head and sighed: "It seems that most people are destined to not be able to feel the feeling of flying in the air."

"Who knows?" said Vivian. "Maybe it will change with the development of magic technology in hundreds or thousands of years."

Just as Catherine was about to speak, she suddenly shook again, and the upward trend stopped quickly, followed by another pleasant ringtone echoing in the hull.

"Okay, the takeoff process is over, and now the airboat is in a stable driving state." Maggie jumped up from the chair and said happily: "Now everyone can move freely. If you have anything to do, please give me instructions. Maggie, I will serve you at any time."

"You know the Marquis Snape's room." Catherine hesitated and said, "You go and ask, we are going to visit the Marquis, I wonder if the Marquis has time."

"Okay, leave it to me." Maggie nodded vigorously and pushed the door open and left with full vitality.

"Out of courtesy, I always have to visit you once," said Catherine. "Pennis, you'll accompany me this time, it won't take too long."

"I won't go, that guy always looks weird when he looks at me... Okay okay, I'll go, I'll go." Panis soon surrendered under Catherine's gaze, stood up with a bitter face and said, "Then prepare to leave."

Soon, Maggie came back, but said with a confused look on her face: "Marquis, he... left a message saying that he had something to do and could not come. Then he told him that everyone would enjoy this trip well, so that he would not disturb the young people's interest."
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