Dragon Entering the Sea, a Complete Success

The most reliable method is to scientifically calculate the buoyancy of the water using a formula, and then slowly launch the Hope into the water by reversing after reaching the required buoyancy point.

As for the idea of using a dock to elevate the Hope and waiting for the water level to reach a point where it could support the Hope's buoyancy before dropping it vertically into the water, Su Mo rejected it immediately.

Currently, securing vessels mainly relies on scaffolding provided by modular shipyards.

These scaffolding structures are of high quality and structurally stable. Combined with the power of modular design, they were not completely washed away even by Waterfall Rainstorm, as long as the stress points were not impacted.

It is thanks to this Black Technology that the Hope was able to sit upright half a meter off the ground, waiting for the ocean to arrive.

But setting aside all that scaffolding, the idea of using the dock to raise the Hope to a height of four meters, where it could float using buoyancy, is simply wishful thinking.

First, there are not enough materials and conditions to build such a dock. Second, vertical entry into the water is not much more convenient than reverse entry; it only has an advantage when building large ships.

Given the current tonnage of the Hope, it is far from needing such an advanced water entry method.

Since arriving in the Talisman Paper World, a little over an hour has passed amidst a flurry of activity.

After Su Mo ran back and forth between the guardrails and the driver's cab more than a dozen times, the water level was about to reach the designated point for Gonggong to be released.

Currently, the water level on both sides of the ship has dropped to 0.4 meters due to the later pursuit, but standing on the ship, Su Mo can still clearly feel the Hope tilting to the right.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.

The good thing is that the buoyancy of the water is getting stronger and stronger, and the Hope will soon set sail on the sea with the help of this buoyancy.

The bad thing is that if there is a problem with the water entry without precise system control, the boat may capsize seriously due to the difference in buoyancy!

"Now we just hope that the seawater seeping out from below won't be too different from that on Earth."

"Otherwise, if the buoyancy model also fails, this time it will be even more dangerous!"

Seeing the sea for the first time in the wasteland, but unable to go into the sea to test it himself, Su Mo could only hope that the sea here wouldn't be too different from the one on Earth.

Otherwise, the buoyancy data obtained from Earth would be completely invalidated, and everything would have to start all over again.

Fortunately, as the water release speed increased, relying on the data returned by the Obstacle Avoidance Radar and his own visual estimation, and as the number of times Su Mo ran became more and more frequent, the initial value of 4.15m was finally reached! Boom! The track that was placed behind the Hope earlier began to make a teeth-grinding creaking sound when Gonggong took over and chose to lift it.

Although the bow of the Hope was no longer as heavy as it was on land due to the buoyancy of the water.

But the process of lifting it up was still so slow it was unsettling.

"The problem is quite significant. In the initial design, only the water level height was considered. The model only addressed the water level at which the water should be lowered, completely neglecting the rise of the water level, which would result in an increasingly shaky straight line."

"If we include this model reconstruction..."

"Forget it, let's try anything, even if it's a dead end. Since we've already decided to go all in, we might as well go all the way!"

After realizing that importing new data and modifying the model would take tens of minutes at a time, Su Mo simply stood up and took back all of Gonggong's permissions.

Currently, the orbit is already rising, but the speed is clearly not enough!

Lowering the shield before the ship is fully raised, causing the entire ship to lurch backward, is an operation that violates the underlying safety logic of the system.

Even if the attempt to launch into the water failed, Gonggong would not have tried such an extreme method; it would have required Su Mo to manually take over in order to make it work.

He stared intently at the screen, observing the buoyancy data from both sides of the ship that kept returning.

Unbeknownst to him, despite the chilly weather after a recent downpour, Su Mo was sweating profusely.

The buoyant force on an object in a liquid is equal to the weight of the liquid it displaces. According to F_buoyancy = G_displaced = m_displaced g, based on the Hope's displacement of 3000 tons, it requires 3 * 10^7 Newtons of buoyancy.

Every second, the buoyancy data changes to four values.

The bow and stern, the left and right hulls—they must reach a balance for there to be even a sliver of a chance of success!

Otherwise, rushing into the water would leave everything to chance.

At first, Su Mo didn't want to gamble, so after seeing that the right side and the bow of the boat were fully in line with the requirements, he waited patiently.

"The left side is still two percentage points short."

"That's enough at the stern!"

"No more waiting, let's charge!"

Seeing that the data at the stern had completely met the requirements, and that waiting any longer could lead to a capsizing, Su Mo roared and pulled the gear lever next to him.

Whoosh! Thump! The rising track is moving very slowly, so slowly that it hasn't even fully risen yet, but the descending barrier behind it is descending very quickly! The moment Su Mo pulled down the lever, the barrier had finished descending in just a few breaths.

At the same time, after lifting the steel cover on the right and carefully pressing the red button inside, a rumbling sound rang out again from outside the driver's compartment.

These are small amounts of remote-controlled explosives installed at the stress points of the scaffolding. They are not very powerful, but just enough to cause the scaffolding holding the Hope to begin to collapse slowly, preventing it from falling apart all at once.

Now, without the double anchors, the Hope was no longer maintaining its balanced rightward tilt, but instead began to lean backward.

Without video analysis or Fire Control Radar data, only a little data from Obstacle Avoidance Radar can simulate the current attitude of the Hope in the sea.

On the screen, Hope is currently in a very awkward situation.

The tilt angle when entering the sea should not exceed 25 degrees, but now the Hope is tilted at a full 35 degrees. If this continues, it will most likely capsize.

Meanwhile, because the track was not fully raised and the speed of entering the sea was too fast, a delay was necessary.

Staring intently at the data being returned in real time on the screen, Su Mo's heart calmed down at this moment, and more and more of the operational techniques he had learned in the Destroyer Blueprint training session came to mind.

Whether it's a modern warship equipped with Automatic Driving System and various technological aids, or an ancient keel ship that relies solely on human power.

The measure of a captain's ability is never the stability of the ship when it is sailing normally on the sea, but whether he can step forward in times of crisis!

Of course, in the real world, Su Mo might still be a little timid, but in this Talisman Paper World, "Engine, maximum power, maximum kinetic energy output, push me forward!"

As the data continued to deteriorate, a smile appeared on Su Mo's lips. At the same time, he unhesitatingly pulled the engine power output lever all the way up with his right hand.

Adjusting the entire boat's attitude using power during launch is undoubtedly a crazy thing to do.

But Su Mo did it anyway!

As the gear lever was pulled down, the Material Conversion Engine instantly received the command, and the entire machine burst forth with unimaginable light and heat.

Streams of energy were transmitted through thick cluster wires to the bottom of the Hope, causing the blades of the entire outer frame to churn wildly in the seawater.

Whoosh! Whoosh! The enlarged blades of the outer endplate were over 3 meters long. At this moment, as it turned in the sea just over 4.5 meters deep, it instantly formed a large whirlpool, causing the entire Hope to suddenly stop in its descent.

"Good! Give it your all and keep pushing!"

Seeing this powerful force bring the Hope's tilt angle back from 37 degrees to 28 degrees, and add 18 crucial seconds for the Hope to enter the sea, Su Mo was overjoyed. He immediately handed over the authority back to Gong Gong, turned around and strode out of the cockpit.

At this moment, the bow of the ship was already raised high above the water, but the stern, due to its rapid entry into the sea and the angle, was already submerged for about five or six meters.

For the Hope to successfully launch, a powerful force must be applied to the bow and push backward, causing the entire ship to plunge into the water and float up using buoyancy.

This kind of power is something that other ships certainly cannot achieve.

But after glancing at the skills that were already lit up on the Hope's attribute panel, Su Mo was excited. He crossed the holes one by one, successfully reached the bow of the ship, and grabbed the flag in his hand.

The engine and the outer chords of the inner engine gave Hope an eighteen-second life-saving window, but now only three seconds remain.

The stern section has already sunk seventeen meters into the sea.

Standing at the bow, gazing at the flag that radiated golden-red light from bow to stern, Su Mo didn't hesitate and shouted, "Hope, charge!"

"Activate!"

Boom! Never before had he witnessed such a special energy appear in any form. After the words fell, Su Mo was stunned as he watched the golden-red color on the flag spread across the entire ship at an alarming speed! At that moment, the 80-meter-long Hope Ship completely unleashed all its light, illuminating the entire world!

At this moment, without any power or oars, the force seemed to come from the sky, pressing down heavily from the bow of the ship under Su Mo's guidance.

The seawater, which was originally less than seventeen meters below the stern, suddenly rose to forty meters due to the force of the current! But due to the influence of buoyancy, the moment the forty-meter stern touched the seabed, the entire Hope ship seemed to leap onto a trampoline and soared high into the air.

Boom! Splat! The stern, which had already sunk to the bottom of the sea, returned to the surface and slammed into the water with thunderous force, splashing water dozens of feet high.

Then, the force at the bow did not diminish, directly pushing the entire ship at a terrifying speed, instantly leaving the scaffolding that was securing it, and hurtling fiercely into the distance.

As the stern plunged into the sea, Su Mo, who was clinging to the bow railing, was thrown overboard.

In the instant the stern bounced back onto the water, it made another 180-degree turn, and Su Mo was thrown back into the Hope.

But just like riding a roller coaster, before Su Mo could even properly savor the power and the ship's changing posture, the entire ship suddenly floated up!

Moreover, the entire Hope was still radiating a golden-red light, rushing westward at a speed of up to 55 knots!

Holy crap!

"It really worked!"

Despite the body being swung twice, the right leg had fractured at a zigzag angle due to the impact.

But amidst the excruciating pain, Su Mo was able to more clearly appreciate just how powerful the Hope was once it entered the sea.

An 80-meter boat, just a minute ago struggling to get into the sea, was on the verge of capsizing.

But in the next minute, it suddenly began to speed across the sea at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

Carrying the already crippled Su Mo, and with its hull riddled with holes and in terrible condition, the Hope Dragon Entering the Sea, giving Su Mo a real taste of what a "Sub-Legendary" ship truly meant! In five minutes, the Hope charged along the flat terrain to the west of the depression for a full 9 kilometers before finally coming to a slow stop in Su Mo's relieved gaze.

As the charge subsided, the golden-red light emanating from the entire ship gradually faded, returning to the flag held in its hand.

"Good"

"Good heavens, only after it actually goes to sea can it truly be called the Hope!"

Shocked by the vanished Underground Shelter and Iron Stone Mountain, Su Mo quickly assessed the terrain and realized that he had arrived at the place where he had driven to the Carp Pond in just five minutes.

This speed is simply unbeatable! But looking down at his paralyzed half of his body, Su Mo could only smile helplessly as he looked outside.

In the first test, to be honest, it really achieved all its objectives.

Whether it was the sea test, the extreme driving test, or the damage response test, all were successfully completed.

But at this point, the difficulty of getting the boat to the Great Canyon with the "blind" Gonggong is too great, so great that just thinking about it is terrifying.

"Not bad, this time it only took two hours. I still have seven hours left."

"With this experience, I will be able to clear the game without taking any damage next time I enter!"

"As for now."

Looking at his body, which only allowed him to move his left hand, Su Mo laughed and silently chanted "Exit!" in his mind.