Vol 2 Chapter 429: Night racing

Sailing in the night, referred to as...night sailing.
　　Yehang, this is not a simple word.
　　 In the current medieval-like world where navigation is extremely backward, let alone the absence of GPS positioning and radio communications on modern earth, even the sextant that calculates latitude and longitude, and the relatively accurate charts do not exist.
　　You must know that in the history of the earth, nautical technology did not make rapid progress until the age of great navigation after the Middle Ages. All the fields of shipbuilding, astronomy, hydrology, navigation, and trade were able to develop tremendously under the temptation of great wealth brought by the great geographical discovery.
　　 In the current world, there is no geographical discovery, there is nothing in nature, and navigation is in an absolutely dark age. Perhaps the wizard has some special means of navigation, such as using prophetic spells to detect the specific location of a location and direct the ship to it. Ordinary merchant ships do not have this method, and most of them can only rely on experience and navigation logs that do not know where to get them.
　　 And most of the logbook will not tell the user when to navigate to a specific location, because the writer himself does not know. The most common logbook is generally like this: leaving from the port of Semm and sailing northeast, you will encounter a white seabed for about three days.
　　 Cross this area, fold to the northwest, go straight for two days, you will encounter a reef area. After spending half a day, bypassing the reef and heading north, about four days downwind and about five days headwind, you can see the shadow of Dax Port.
　　If it is not found, it may have been missed. It is recommended to turn left and look along the land. If you still can't find... well, I hope the gods you believe can bless, because I don't know where I am.
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　　 In this backward situation, choosing night sailing can indeed speed up the sailing, but the consequences are often unacceptable, ranging from hitting the reef, stranding, damaging the ship, and losing the ship.
　　Imagine that on the endless sea, you suddenly cannot determine where you are, let alone know which side of the continent. With less and less food and fresh water bottoming out slowly, the atmosphere of despair will cover everyone.
　　 Therefore, the word night flight represents absolute danger.
　　 But for the current captain Morgan, there has always been a ghost boat chasing behind him who does not know what the bottom is. He has to choose to use the night flight to try to throw away the other side.
　　Because of his hunch, once caught by the ghost ship, there is absolutely no good ending. In addition, it is self-confidence in his ability. He believes that he is in full control and command, and even the night flight will not have too many problems.
　　 And if the night flight is really successful, not only is it possible to completely get rid of the ghost ship, but also greatly speed up the voyage.
　　 For this voyage, he has heard a lot of bad news, all about the black sacred mountain kingdom and the other country, and the war will block the sea at any time. Once this is really the case, then all of his cargo has to be backlogged, and he will suffer heavy losses. He can't bear this to happen. So, being quicker can reduce a little risk.
　　 made a decision in his heart. Captain Morgan quickly thought about the response to the many conditions of the night flight. While commanding the first officer Williams and the rest to prepare, he slowly waited for the night to come.
　　……
　　 blinked, it was dark.
　　 There were a lot of torches lit on the deck. Captain Morgan, who had a short rest, returned to the rudder position, rallied to drive the ship forward, while constantly sensing the wind direction and issuing commands to adjust the sails.
　　 "The port is exposed to the wind, the main sail deflects eight scales to the right, the auxiliary sail deflects ten scales to the right, and the tail sail deflects seven scales to the right."
　　 "Yes." The sailors responded and quickly moved their hands.
　　 was busy, the sails were adjusted, and the sailors were relieved. A sailor was walking on the deck and suddenly saw Richard standing at the corner of the deck, looking up at the rear of the boat, not knowing what to look at.
　　 "Huh?" The sailor approached curiously, glanced at Richard, and asked, "This gentleman, what are you looking at?"
　　 "Ghost ship." Li Cha answered.
　　 "Ghost ship? Can you see?" The sailor did not believe, how could this dark night see another ship on the sea far away?
　　 Richard can naturally see that after all, his vision is far beyond ordinary people, but he did not explain anything. He reached out and pointed out: "You look in that direction, look carefully, you will find out."
　　 "Really?" The sailor questioned the letter and looked at it for a long time. When almost impatient, he suddenly glared and found something.
　　 "That's..." The sailor changed his face, turned around, ran to Captain Morgan, shouted, "Captain Captain, look!"
　　 "What?" Captain Morgan raised his eyebrows. After listening to the sailor's words, he turned his head and narrowed his eyes.
　　 saw the sea behind the "Naru Rongguang Fisherman", a dark blue light appeared in the darkness. At the beginning, it was only the size of a bean, and it seemed that the inexhaustible ghost fire in the cemetery could be extinguished at any time. But in a moment, this light became bigger, indicating that it was closer to the "Naru Rongguang Fisherman".
"Captain, that's the ghost ship chasing us. How can it be faster than us? How is this possible! It is not as good as ours during the day. Is there a demon helping him pull the boat at night?" Timid sailor, slightly Asked in panic.
Captain Morgan glared at the sailor, keeping calm and said: "It's not that the devil is helping him pull the boat, nor is it fast, but we are slow. Sailing at night, after all, has an effect, can't change direction at will, and the speed is not May be comparable to daytime.
Unexpectedly, the other party could maintain the speed of the day... And, even more unexpectedly, the other party was so persistent-we fled at night, they continued to chase after night flight ~EbookFREE.me~ This is more than the most greedy pirate, but also Fate! Really not afraid of hitting the rocks? Humph! "
　　 "Captain, what should we do?"
"Well--" Captain Morgan thought about it and made a decision, "Since he is going to chase, keep chasing it, I don't believe it, in this night, can he still survive? Since we can see him on board now He must be able to see the torches on our ship. Then... extinguish all the torches on the back of the ship and the torches on both sides of the ship, leaving only the torches illuminated by the bow.
　　 In this way, he will not see any light and will lose our goal if he is blocked by sails. I took another turn to ensure that he chased further and further away. "
"Yes."
　　The sailor did it quickly, and Captain Morgan began to turn to the left, and issued a command.
　　 "The main sail is offset by three scales to the left, the auxiliary sail is offset by five scales to the left, and the tail sail is offset by eight scales to the left..."
　　 "Understood!"
　　 Not long ago, the "Naru Rongguang Fisherman" was almost in a completely dark package, making a "squeaky" sound, turned to the left, and continued on.
　　Richard witnessed Captain Morgan's operation on the deck, and couldn't help thinking: According to normal logic, after such efforts of Captain Morgan, he can indeed successfully get rid of the ghost ship, then he does not need to worry about trouble.
but……
　　Thinking of this, Richard stood on the deck in the dark and looked towards the rear for a moment, frowning.
　　 "Illusion?" Li Cha said, then shook his head. "It's not an illusion, the ghost ship is indeed closer."
　　 Well, it's closer.
　　……