A few minutes later, Hermione, Hannah, and Luna had roughly finished reading the introduction of the Hyperion displayed by Aileen in mid-air.

The Hyperion was a large ship manufactured in the former Soviet Union. After being purchased by Hogwarts at a low price, it underwent some rudimentary magical modifications similar to the Hogwarts Express. Its main purpose was to transport students from remote areas and fishing, just like Durmstrang.

After all, most of the teachers and students at Hogwarts prefer to eat fish, and the school has always had a large consumption of seafood and aquatic products.

In the long run, the Black Lake alone would certainly be unable to continuously supply the normal needs of thousands of teachers and students. Instead of frequently purchasing ingredients in Muggle markets, buying a deep-sea fishing boat to be self-sufficient would obviously be more in line with the actual situation of the magical world and Hogwarts.

As for why the ship could fly, it was mainly because some fish could fly, and it was also more convenient for docking.

Anyway, overall, this was a very easy thing to understand, and there was nothing to doubt...

Yeah, right!

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Hermione and Luna stared intently at Aileen, looking angry as if they had been teased.

Among the people present, probably only that easily fooled simpleton would be silly enough to believe it.

"Oh, oh, so are we going to go fishing in the outer sea?! Are we?!"

Hannah said excitedly, leaning against the transparent wall next to the bridge and looking at the coastline below.

She had never experienced going out to sea to fish before.

"Okay," Hermione said impatiently, raising her eyebrows high, "First of all, this is obviously not a fishing boat, boats don't fly; second, the vast majority of what we eat at Hogwarts are freshwater fish and a small amount of shellfish, the amount of seafood is pitifully small—"

"Activate energy-saving mode, turbines at full power, short-range jump to the waters ahead!"

Aileen lightly tapped the instruction panel in front of her with her finger and said with a smile.

Accompanied by Aileen's voice, about one-third of the bridge personnel turned their attention back to the consoles.

The Hyperion's power system was divided into two parts, one part was the original aircraft carrier propulsion, and the other part was the magical enhancement.

However, overall, apart from "space warp" and "flight mode," most of the time the Hyperion relied on its original massive turbine set to move forward and turn. This was another reason why the Hyperion moved away from the Hogwarts area.

If it were to maintain hovering mode all the time, at least twenty wizards would have to participate in maintenance every day.

In a non-war state, this was too wasteful of manpower.

Boom!

A few seconds later, the hull shook violently.

The clouds originally surrounding the bridge instantly disappeared, replaced by an endless sea.

The waves stirred up by the Hyperion entering the water rose at least tens of meters high, but as they followed inertia to the top of the Hyperion, preparing to smash onto the empty steel deck, a layer of invisible force field flashed quickly, silently separating the waves and sliding down from both sides.

"By the way, I admit that the Hyperion cannot really be considered a ship—"

Aileen blinked, moving her finger in the air to bring up a delicate three-dimensional hull model.

Next to the azure three-dimensional light screen pattern, dense detailed parameters were marked.

Different from the version Hermione and the others saw registered on the Ministry of Magic side just now, on this introduction panel, the Hyperion's classification was no longer a large flat-top deep-sea fishing boat, but a phrase composed of several unfamiliar words...

"Cruiservolernuclearmana?"

Hermione frowned and whispered, looking at Aileen with a puzzled expression.

"What do these words mean respectively? So, what exactly are we on right now?"

"Nuclear-magic hybrid powered aviation cruiser, abbreviated as Cvnm, this is a special transport vehicle... well, in the non-magical world, it is a military-grade transport vehicle, mainly carrying carrier-based aircraft, torpedoes, small submarines, and other war weapons, but now it belongs to Hogwarts..."

"Eh, eh?! Are there still those carrier-based aircraft or something on it now?" Hannah said, looking around with shining eyes.

For her, who grew up in the magical world, those "Muggle war weapons" sounded interesting just by hearing about them.

"A small part has been dismantled. And more of those are not yet implemented."

Aileen shrugged helplessly. If possible, she would also like to get a few Su-27Ks to try out.

However, at this current juncture, the difficulty of smuggling advanced military equipment from the former Soviet Union was too great—Dumbledore and Grindelwald were not senile and stupid guys. Importing fourth-generation fighter jets from the non-magical world could not be registered as civilian use at the Ministry of Magic.

Moreover, even if they got those precious carrier-based aircraft, with the technology tree and personnel on the magical world's side, they would not be able to exert any effect.

Since launching an operation in the former Soviet Union, Aileen had clearly realized this.

With the addition of the variable "magic," the original non-magical world and magical world war models could no longer be copied as cases.

She was standing on a path that had never been conceived before.

Obviously, in addition to the strategic deterrence-level top wizards, wizards also had to update their conventional "alchemy tools."

Of course, although most of the core attack methods on the Hyperion had not been implemented, as a magically modified version of the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the former Soviet era, it still had some things that conformed to the characteristics of the fighting nation, at least more luxurious than the Nimitz-class.

She glanced at the information on the captain's command screen and pointed towards the exit of the bridge.

"We still have a while before we get to the base, would you like to go and take a look? There just arrived a batch of interesting little gadgets."

"Little... gadgets?"

Hermione repeated the phrase doubtfully, looking around at the surroundings.

If she remembered correctly, this white-haired ball had always lacked normal conceptual standards in terms of values and quantities.

Whether it was money, size, strength, or scale of conflict... any quantifier that came out of Aileen's mouth was never very reliable.

In more than a year of getting along, Hermione's worldview, which had been built up for twelve years, had completely cracked and was beginning to change towards Aileen's shape.

"Well, don't worry, it's not some boring weapons like naval guns, carrier-based missiles, or torpedo launchers..."

Aileen waved her hand with a smile, gesturing slightly in front of her chest.

"The final product may be smaller than Luna's broom, but it shouldn't have been simplified yet, but it won't be particularly big. As for those other things, if you want to see them... well, First Mate, find an uninhabited area this weekend and do a weapons test firing exercise."

As she spoke, she turned her head to look at the goblin First Mate who was hesitating to speak and added with a light smile.

"The budget comes from Hogwarts, after all, this is considered a teaching experiment. You understand what I mean?"

"Your will! Respected Empress."

The goblin First Mate stood up straight excitedly and replied with incomparable enthusiasm.

Accompanied by Aileen's words, its dark face even showed a hint of dark red excitement.

Hogwarts' current assets were no less than Gringotts. As one of the issuers and guarantors of the new 【Hogging】, this ancient magic school was too important in the current magic world's financial circle. The most important thing was that Hogwarts was too strict and cautious in terms of the financial closed-loop.

You know, opportunities like this to use Hogwarts' funds to carry out activities were not many.

If understood according to the financial industry in the non-magical world, then Aileen's words were almost equivalent to the issuance of floating currency.

"Well, I'm looking forward to it—I'll write to Douglas and Dumbledore later..."

Aileen nodded nonchalantly, glanced at the estimated travel time on the bridge, and turned to leave.

Speaking of which, since buying this big ship in the former Soviet Union, she didn't seem to have completely completed the inspection process.

Taking this opportunity, she could see how much conventional carrier-based firepower there was in this era, and how much room for growth the Hyperion had.

And by the way...

Aileen's gaze swept over the three wings behind her, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly.

As reserves of the o5 council, they should also see what it means that the yield is justice.

The small-scale fights in Hogwarts Castle were too low-level. If too much energy was invested in those small-scale brawls and quarrels, it might turn into a local underworld group like Voldemort, and it would be better to expand their horizons as early as possible.

"Mysterious, you're not going to lead us to see guns or something, are you?"

Hermione glanced reluctantly at the bridge mixed with high-tech and magical aura, seeming not wanting to leave.

"Of course not," Aileen said, "Well, strictly speaking, it's somewhat related to carrier-based aircraft... Going?"

"Aircraft? Those iron birds that Muggles fly around in the sky?"

Hannah and Luna were obviously very interested.

As for Hermione, she would naturally not object at this time.

Anyway, they had a weekend, and she wasn't in a hurry to understand everything on the bridge right now.

So, without hesitating for too long, they quickly left the Hyperion's bridge.

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The petal-like door at the exit of the bridge opened and closed.

However, as they stepped out of the bridge again, Hermione noticed that they had not returned to the starting point.

This was not the elevator that Aileen had led them to the bridge before. In her opinion, this was more like a strange altar. In the semi-elliptical small space, dozens of unfamiliar magical runes flickered on the walls, and in the center was a cylindrical metal platform.

Several deep grooves and some strange circular holes were carved in the center of the metal platform.

Before Hermione could ask, Aileen suddenly pulled out her wand and inserted it into one of the holes.

The next moment, all the flickering magical runes lit up.

On that bare metal wall, a panel drawn by blue light paths appeared, with hundreds of different room and area names written densely on it, and in the center were several large light circles, surrounded by names that flickered on and off.

"This is the Hyperion's internal navigation method... We're going to the hangar first."

Aileen explained casually, quickly selecting one of the names on the wall.

"The areas that can be accessed are linked to each person's identity. Your wand information has not been entered yet, but you can use the metal ID card I gave you before as a temporary basis for passage. Of course, you can also think of that as your room card—"

"—Room card?"

"Well, didn't I say that before? These days, we're all staying on the ship."

"But I thought we were going to that base..."

"Base? Of course, we'll go. But..." Aileen smiled inscrutably, "That's not for living in."

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Yay!