Sailing Battleship, a New Class in the Wasteland

On the evening of February 18th, and in the early morning of February 19th.

This point in time coincides with the heavy snow warning issued seven days before the previous Snow Disaster.

After Su Mo fell into a deep sleep, a thunderstorm immediately followed.

Boom! Boom!

Like the roar of Thunder God, or the arrival of a natural disaster, every bolt of lightning that streaks across the sky illuminates all the darkness below.

No one wanted to die! And no one gave up their yearning for the New Continent! At this tense moment, more than 90% of the large Gathering Place were making their final push before the disaster struck.

Even the lone wolf was trying every possible way to prepare supplies for his voyage.

On Iron Stone Mountain, temporary rain shelters have been erected, blocking the torrential rain and providing a safe working environment for the busy villagers.

Pots of warm soup, prepared by the cooks, were brought over to ward off the chill from the villagers.

At this stage, more than 80% of the grain resources held by the villagers of Hope Village were exchanged for various tools.

Thirty people are responsible for manufacturing, forty people for compression, forty people for packaging, and finally another twenty people are responsible for sealing, counting, and putting them into the warehouse.

With efficient staff allocation, no need for shipbuilding, and simple work, the villagers' nightlife is simple yet fulfilling.

The villagers sitting under the awning were clearly aware that they were making such a high-risk investment.

But what reassured all the villagers was that this major investment had been approved by Su Mo! Management might make mistakes, errors, or misjudgments, but Su God of all, would never!

Listening to the patter of rain, they were filled with anticipation about how much they could get in return for this batch of Energy Absorption Gel.

Similarly, on this wasteland about to be transformed, it's not just the villagers of Hope Village who are filled with anticipation.

The gaze shifts to a moss-covered plain where a village several times larger than Hope Village is brightly lit amidst the thunderstorm.

Unlike the hurried construction elsewhere, in this shelter, as lightning flashed across the dark night sky, the excitement on the faces of the busy people was palpable!

They wore raincoats, carried umbrellas, walked lightly, and seemed to have a fire burning in their hearts!

Despite the torrential rain falling from the sky, it couldn't stop them from coming out of the houses in groups. After finding their way and forming large groups, they moved like ants carrying food.

One hundred meters.

Two hundred meters.

Five hundred meters! More and more people left the village and joined the team, making each lightning strike that illuminated the earth a "world-famous painting".

Gradually, after half an hour, even though the ground was muddy and slippery, they reached the end of the road leading straight out of the village.

Turn right at the end and walk about 300 meters, and a small hill will appear in front of everyone.

The hill was quite large, even larger than the Underground Shelter.

It is over two hundred meters long, but only about twenty meters high. And because it is so long, it doesn't look nearly as majestic as the Underground Shelter.

And you can see from a distance that this hill has no top from the left to the middle, just like a volcano crater, with rainwater pouring in.

But it is precisely this hill that brings a great deal of surprise to everyone who comes here.

"Everyone, please line up. Don't rush, the experiment hasn't started yet."

"Hey, Lu Xin, I'm talking to you! Scrape the mud off your shoes. Everyone else, if you have a lot of mud on your shoes, scrape it off before you go in. If possible, put plastic bags over your feet before you go in."

On the side of the small hill, there is a small door that can allow three people to enter and exit.

At this moment, four guards carrying rifles stood at the door, shouting loudly at the approaching crowd, who responded very well.

Those with less mud on their feet scraped and washed them at the same time, while those with more mud simply took off their shoes and put them in the Storage Space, then walked in barefoot.

Everyone was brimming with excitement, just like when a supermarket on Earth is having a 50% off sale when it just opened. In the blink of an eye, the entrance was packed with people.

They took out Wooden Tag engraved with their identities, and after the guards verified them and put them in, more and more people went in through the passage.

Surprisingly, despite so many people entering the hill, there was not a single sound, as if the microphone had been muted.

What silenced them wasn't the rules or the threats, but the boat nestled among the hills as they walked through the deep passage! Everyone who entered and saw the boat seemed bewitched, numbly walking to an open space and sitting down quietly.

In their eyes, at this moment, there was only this ship! This was the ship they would be embarking on to reach the other Other Shore of hope, their only support in surviving on this wasteland ocean.

This is a huge item that everyone has accumulated through their resources, and it's the treasure they've been longing for countless nights.

If Su Mo were to arrive at this place now, he would surely exclaim in amazement, "Tundra Shelter, awesome!"

Twenty days ago, in Su Chan's video, it was clear that the Tundra Shelter had suffered a terrifying decline in strength after being separated from Ying Tianlong.

Not only are there only a little over twenty houses left, but the population has also been reduced by more than half, with less than three hundred people remaining.

Given this downward trend, even though the Tundra Shelter is Official Shelter, it is destined to gradually decline.

In the face of Ocean Disaster, no miracle occurs, and the only options are to either join a larger shelter or, like other small shelters, divide up the belongings and go their separate ways. But now, the situation has changed!

In just over half a month, not only did the village have forty or fifty more rooms, but the population also grew to a terrifying number of seven hundred and eighty! Although most of these people were women and children with low combat power, the Tundra Shelter was definitely a medium to large shelter in terms of size!

Furthermore, the ship placed in the hillside also fully demonstrates their strength.

Unlike the Hope, the ship used by the Tundra Shelter for migration was a wooden sailboat.

Of course, it's not that the people of the tundra didn't want to use steel to build ships, nor that they lacked the relevant technology, but rather that they lacked the materials and the speed of manufacturing!

Without the steel plates provided by furnaces working 24/7, without the simplified construction process of modular shipyards, and without the tireless work efficiency of mechanics.

It is impossible to achieve a miracle like the "Hope".

Therefore, in the beginning, basically 99% of the shelters set their sights on wooden sailboats.

Looking back at history, China's shipbuilding industry only began to lag behind the world in modern times.

In ancient times, China's shipbuilding industry was always at the forefront of the world.

Not to mention the massive fleet of warships during Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean, even the "Great Dragon Boat" that cruised on the Grand Canal during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui had four floors and a total of 160 rooms.

Even today, some countries might not be able to build such massive ships.

With the experience passed down from their ancestors, the strengths and weaknesses of each country became apparent in this survival competition.

Based on the number of people, shelters with fewer than 300 people are classified as small shelters.

A shelter with 300-500 people would be considered a quasi-medium-sized shelter.

500-700 is medium-sized, and 700 and above is large-scale shelter.

In the face of natural disaster, the situation in the first round of the shipbuilding competition was very clear at this point in time, with only three days left before the disaster.

Small shelters without accumulated resources will form the lowest level in the entire competition hierarchy.

In these shelters, there is no strong enough leader to create cohesion, and the villagers who make up the shelters are unwilling to trust the management and contribute supplies to form a collective Resource Warehouse for the village.

Naturally, all the villagers could only format their own Shelter Core and form rafts for migration.

There are quite a few of these people in the wasteland, making up about 20%, and they are jokingly referred to by busybodies as the "resigned to fate" type.

They could only rely on luck, and they could only entrust their lives to the raft beneath them, which could capsize at any moment! And above the "Leave-it-to-Fate Class, they would reach the most popular Dauntless Sandboat Class! The Sand Ship is also called " Square Stern ". It has a square bow and stern, a wide deck, a deep and small hull, a low freeboard, and a stern that extends beyond the bow.

Its shallow draft compensates for the disadvantage of its square bow and high water resistance. In addition, its large hull allows for more masts and sails, enabling it to sail against the current.

In addition, the ship's cabins are watertight and have good anti-sinking performance, so any small or medium-sized shelter with some resources has set its sights on this type of ship.

Thanks to the sand ship type used by Zheng He during his voyages to the Western Ocean in the Ming Dynasty, this type of ship was very well-known in China, and its craftsmanship was widely disseminated.

Currently, apart from the 20% Leave-it-to-Fate Class, the remaining 65% of people have chosen this type of ship, the only difference being the materials and size of the ship!

Ships that could be built to a length of 30 meters or more were called Golden Sandboat, those that were 20 meters long were called Silver Sandboat, and those shorter were collectively called Bronze Sandboat.

Once such a ship can be built, we will be free from the fate of others, fully qualified to fight on the ocean, and have a good chance of reaching the New Continent.

Above the Dauntless Sandboat Class, we reach the Sailing Battleship- class ships, which are only revealed when flexing their muscles in medium to large-sized shelters!

From 1637 to 1850, during this chaotic Age of Exploration, before the advent of the Steam Engine, the oceans were dominated by Sailing Battleship.

The elegant and slow movement of Sailing Battleship equipped with hundreds of cannons, with the two sides of the war forming neat formations and pairing up to engage in battle, is a timeless and classic scene.

Despite its many shortcomings, the fact that Sailing Battleship were the mainstay of navies from the 17th to the 19th centuries and dominated the seas for more than two centuries fully demonstrates their power.

This is the true crystallization of human maritime civilization, and one of the reasons why this large-scale human refuge dared to intervene in this war between alien races.

Thirty years for the army, fifty years for the air force, and a hundred years for the navy—this classic saying originated in the age of sailing warships! A hundred years for the navy is not an exaggeration; it takes at least a hundred years for a tree to grow into a usable plank for a ship's berth.

A 74-gun battleship requires the felling of more than 2,000 oak trees planted a hundred years ago in the United States, and these trees cannot be trees that grow in remote, abandoned forests or have rotten heartwood.

It must be high-quality timber that was previously specially planted on private estates, riverbanks, and roadsides.

Oak trees should not be planted too densely. Overly dense environments will cause oak trees to grow in a way that competes for sunlight, resulting in uneven timber.

At that time, it was truly a case of: whoever owned the forest owned the fleet.

Similarly, in the wasteland, there may be nothing else available or scarce.

However, the excellent trees used to build Sailing Battleship are not rare; in fact, they are abundant! Therefore, this provides the perfect prerequisite for building Sailing Battleship.

As long as you have enough resources, as long as you are willing to use Disaster Points to dry wood and prepare materials, and as long as you have enough people in your shelter to open it up!

Then just choose it without hesitation or reservation!

Because this is currently the strongest ship openly displayed in the wasteland! Without a doubt!

The ship that the Tundra Shelter has chosen for its voyage is a super Sailing Battleship built of wood.

This ship has a total deck length of 61 meters, a keel length of 49 meters, a width of 14.7 meters, a depth of 23.17 meters, a draft of 6.8 meters, and a displacement of up to 1,500 tons.

With ample wood and the help of the game, Tundra Shelter used almost all of its resources to build this monster!

Of course, the fact that the Tundra Shelter is Official Shelter and ranked in the top ten of the disaster relief rankings means that it can create such a monster.

It wasn't that the Tundra Shelter got lucky and found something good in the treasure chest; it was the man standing behind the Tundra Shelter! It was him!

They're making their move!