Xu Yi crouched down, bringing his eyes level with those of the little girl in front of him.
"Hey, Lumi, are you getting impatient?"
Lumi, a gnome girl who looked just like a little human girl, pursed her lips in an adorable pout.
"Of course I am! I wish I could find my people right now!"
Xu Yi smiled, thinking that even if she really did undertake a deep-sea voyage and discover a new continent, she might not find her people. Navigation on the Sains Continent had been so primitive back then that all the gnomes who fled it might well have perished on the boundless Endless Sea.
Of course, Xu Yi could not say any of that aloud.
"Don't be impatient. This isn't something we can rush." Xu Yi shook his head. "Just considering a deep-sea voyage, do you think our guild's current shipbuilding technology could keep an entire fleet sailing thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers across the boundless ocean without any problems?"
Lumi immediately fell silent. She lowered her head and thought for a while, then shook it dejectedly.
Ever since joining the Xinfei Merchant Guild, she had worked as an engineer at the shipyard. She understood the guild's shipbuilding technology even better than Xu Yi did.
Naturally, she knew that although the Xinfei Merchant Guild's current shipbuilding technology could support a fleet on a deep-sea voyage, or even an extremely long exploratory voyage to the Malo Empire thousands of kilometers away, it could hardly support a fleet venturing deep into the Endless Sea to explore.
The difference was that their current long-distance voyages still stayed near the coast, whereas searching for a new continent would take them far into the Endless Sea, truly exploring that boundless ocean.
If an accident occurred, a fleet sailing