"Good, good," I nodded. "Even if the Mohe don't return, we must be careful. I think this place is good. The sea is nearby. Besides land routes, can we also travel by water?"
Chu Qi snapped his fingers. "Lin Xi also thought of that. He's specially approved a new mode of transport for you: a boat." httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
"...Boats aren't that expensive, we can afford one," I said with a smile.
"The civilian boats you can buy are too slow," Chu Qi slid open his phone and showed me a picture of a yacht. It was pure white, with no markings, a streamlined design, and small windows. It looked like a sharpened bullet. "This is the latest speedboat developed by Sabia Group. It can carry twenty people and has a top speed of 70 knots."
"What does 70 knots mean?" I asked, not quite understanding the conversion of maritime units.
"One knot is 1.852 kilometers per hour."
I counted on my fingers. 70 knots is 130 kilometers per hour, which is about the average speed we travel on the highway when we don't care about fines (we usually drive at 140 km/h). For a watercraft, that's quite fast.
"Where is it?" I was very curious. With something this fast, if you dragged a net behind it, wouldn't you catch a lot of fish!
Chu Qi pointed outside. "It's in the secret port by the sea. I'll teach you how to operate it later."
"No need for later, how about now?" I checked my watch. It was only 11 AM. "You guys, want to try it too?"
The humans all wanted to go, but the Eight Demons said no. I asked why, and the Fox Demon whispered, "We all get seasick. Last time, we threw up all over Diana when we came back from her mouth..."
Diana's ears were sharp. She heard this, blinked, and suddenly ran out, covering her mouth.
It was indeed a bit nauseating!
The Eight Demons were all land species (except for Yanan). The Whale God was a marine species, so she certainly wouldn't get seasick. After she finished throwing up and returned, we left the ancient castle. We didn't take the road we came by, but instead walked from a semi-open underground tunnel outside the castle towards the sea. After about three hundred meters, we reached the secret port Chu Qi had mentioned.
It was called a secret port because it was a water cave-like indentation in the coastline, encompassing a portion of the sea. It wasn't large, only about half the size of a football field. However, it was invisible from the air, shielded by the coastal rocks above. From the sea surface, it was also difficult to find, as the entrance to the secret port had a bend. From within the port, you couldn't see the vast expanse of the ocean outside, only a protrusion at the other end of the harbor.
"Is this naturally formed?" I asked in surprise. It was more magical than a hidden military cave.
"No," Chen Ke said. "When I came here for tourism before, the tour guide mentioned it. It was originally a mountain cave. Later, the Ogu people thought it could be transformed into a port, so they excavated the bottom of the cave and introduced seawater from outside, thus forming a bay to conceal their strength. However, after it was built, they discovered that the port area was too small. Although large warships could enter and turn around, if more than three warships were there simultaneously, they would interfere with each other, making it difficult for any of them to leave. At that time, during a naval battle between Sakura Country and the Ogu people, three of the Ogu people's excellent warships were trapped in the port. They were blocked at the entrance by one Sakura Country warship. Both sides engaged in a fierce bombardment, and all of them sank. Sakura Country gained a huge advantage by losing one ship and sinking three."
The seawater was relatively clear. I climbed onto a rusty iron frame that looked like a control tower and peered into the water. Indeed, I could see the wreckage of three warships lying neatly underwater.
"Why hasn't anyone salvaged them? They could sell the iron for a lot of money," I sighed.
"There's no space," Chu Qi picked up a stone and tossed it into the water. "The port is already shallow. After the warships sank, the top of the warships were only three to five meters from the water surface at high tide. That means, even now, salvage ships can't enter. When the tide goes out, you can even reach down and touch them."