As someone of modest wealth and considerable status in the Middle East, Abdullah had somewhat unusual hobbies.
Unlike young people who liked sports cars and yachts, Abdullah himself was more passionate about collecting antiques, especially large ones.
For example, gigantic airships from a century ago.
For example, tanks from World War I.
For example, bronze chariots from Huaguo's Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
For example, German submarines from World War II.
For example, colossal sailing battleships from the late Age of Exploration.
The Duke of Wellington-class sailing battleship before him was one of his favorite collectibles. He had purchased it from an old aristocratic family in France through various complicated channels, spending several hundred million dollars.
After buying it, he had carried out extensive modifications, replacing many rusted hull structures with metal and wrapping the exterior in a titanium alloy shell, turning the old antique into an ironclad sailing battleship.
The warship had originally been fitted with a steam engine, and while preserving its original appearance, Abdullah had also made some modifications to the engine.
As a Middle Easterner, he had always harbored a certain longing for the Age of Exploration.
After all, like a certain great power in the East, the people of the Middle East had spectacularly missed that era.
Back then, the people of the Middle East could only watch those imposing Western battleships ride the wind and waves across the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and even the Persian Gulf, dumping their opium and cheap industrial goods everywhere.
So when Abdullah had bought this sailing battleship, it had not been solely for collecting. He had also wanted to sail it through the Persian Gulf himself, fulfilling an old dream.
When the full moon hung high, Abdullah had once stood at the bow and slowly