"Captain Beidou, stop praising this guy. He acts humble in front of you, but who knows how pleased with himself he is inside!"
Lumine and Paimon both stood with their hands on their hips, looking at Li Qiuzhi with disdain.
"Ahem, we should hurry out of these waters before the smell of blood attracts more monsters."
Li Qiuzhi rubbed his nose awkwardly and changed the subject.
"Haha, fair point." Beidou chuckled, then turned her right eye, the one not covered by an eyepatch, toward the burly man at the helm. "Hailong, tell the crew to hold off on sleeping and speed us out of these waters."
The Alcor not only had a row of enormous oars on either side, but also two propellers at its stern that resembled wooden wheels.
With those, the Alcor could sail normally even when there was no wind and its sails were useless.
When there was wind, as there was now, using them alongside the sails could give the Alcor a little extra speed. If the ship ran into danger, they could prove immensely useful.
Their only drawback was that both the propellers and the two rows of large oars extending from the hull were powered by hand.
Even a single oar took several sailors to move, so if they wanted the Alcor to pick up speed, everyone would have to forgo sleep.
Watching Hailong head belowdecks to call the crew, Li Qiuzhi suddenly said to Lumine,
"Do you think we could build a steam engine?"
If the Alcor were fitted with a steam engine, it would not only save manpower but also greatly improve its performance!
He had never seen anything similar in Mondstadt or Liyue. Perhaps the relatively advanced Fontaine and Snezhnaya had them.
But whatever the situation in those countries, nothing like