"Remember, this is the second time that the loss has been extremely heavy. Hilariel didn't do what Nonosca had to say, and she picked up and continued with the memory. Nonorska said that she didn't want to remember, but that didn't stop Hilarily from continuing to lead the conversation. He knew that the decades of life on the ship had already become an important part of his life, and it was impossible to get rid of it.

Speaking of the situation at that time, the mood and attitude of the two have completely changed. It is as if he is simply retelling the contents of a textbook in words that are calm and free of emotional fluctuations, and he is no longer what he has personally experienced, but completely from the perspective of a bystander.

"Think about it, it's been forty 、、、 since boarding the ocean-going giant ship Venitez and starting to explore the uncharted waters."

"Forty-four years. As Hillariel pondered, Nonosca picked up and said the exact time, "Forty-four years, seven months, and thirteen days. Of course, if you finish today, it will be 14 days. ”

"You remember it well. With a wry smile, Hillarelli didn't know whether to praise or pity Nonorsca, who could clearly remember the time, "At that time, you, and I, as well as Chilman, were attracted by a notice that was issued to various departments and institutions of the Church, and even to the dark world. It was very much in line with the characteristics of our age at that time, and the so-called good salary, the possibility of joining some state institutions in the church after returning, and the promotion of positions were not important. The important thing is that this notice has indeed aroused the curiosity of too many people, and it is not an impulse in everyone's heart to become an adventurer when he is young and to see all kinds of unknown things. ”

"I'm a researcher at the Institute of History, and Sheila Riley, you're a teacher at the School of Surgery in the First and Second Stages. And Chilman, in front of the Venitez, roams the dark world of the cities of the Church all year round. Middlemen, arms dealers, bounty hunters, assassins who can assassinate everyone within their reach, as long as they are paid enough, etc. Speaking of which, of the three of us, Chilman's experience is legendary, the most abundant, as if he had done everything for his own life. The words of exclamation were accompanied by a kind of gratitude that was unconsciously revealed. Nonoska knew that she was still alive to sit in the room and talk to Hilarily about her past, and for the reason that Chilman could occupy 90 percent. The same is true for Hilarily.

Hilariel laughed with a sigh, "This is the difference between everyone, because of our respective positions and experiences, different people will achieve different results before dealing with things and facing various situations. ”

Nonosca nodded in agreement. For Chilman, during the time that the USS Venitez was exploring uncharted waters, to be exact, the first nineteen years of exploration, neither he nor Hillariel knew that there was a man named Chilman among the members of the entire fleet. Similarly, the entire fleet of more than 400,000 members, and the people he and Hillarily knew were limited to a tiny, tiny fraction. And for the first nineteen years, the first fifteen years, Nonosca and Hilarily were also strangers to each other. Including Chilman, the three were part of different functions of the fleet and were assigned to work on different retinue ships.

When the ocean-going giant Venitez set out, it took with it more than 130 ships of all types. Among them, there are five supply ships that are larger and longer than the Venitez itself. The length of the ocean-going giant ship Venitez itself is about 3,000 meters, and the length of the five supply ships is close to 7,000 meters, which is like an artificially built steel island on the sea. In order to keep up with the fleet, nearly half of the space on each supply ship is used to build the power system and its auxiliary equipment.

But fortunately, all the equipment and ships are powered by steam, and the seawater purification system has no problem with the scientific and technological power of the church.

In the first three years, the entire huge fleet has not stopped since the beginning of its departure. The speed of the fleet was very impressive, as the counter-current formed by the impact of the central current belt on the Houxiang continent. Three years later, the fleet, which had no time to stop, went to the edge of the previous fleet exploration.

The exploratory activities are very expensive, but they have not stopped for a long time. Because the purpose of each exploration is different, for the unknown area, the shape composed of the places that have been explored is not an arc, but a variety of barbed protrusions.

For the first time in three years, the ocean-going fleet changed course. They are ready to go to the deepest points they have ever explored, and from there they will serve as another starting point to reach their target waters. And so another two years of non-stop sailing began.

Five years is not a long time for the more than 400,000 people in the entire fleet, because the whole process is in the sea area that has been explored, and the relevant follow-up research and exploration are also carried out simultaneously, and the curiosity and adventure psychology have indeed satisfied everyone during that period of time.

During that time, Nonosca also realized that far from the mainland, there was a group of people known as "Lonely Observers". In some of the explored seas, the scrapped material ships of the previous fleets are used as floating islands in the sea, and the situation in that area is constantly observed.

Having almost lost contact with the mainland, if it weren't for the fact that there was a special department in the Church for these people, Nonosca would have thought that these people were the lost ones who had been lost in the endless seas after major incidents in previous fleets.

Whenever they pass by the "lone observers", the fleet will supply them with a portion of supplies. In fact, this is also one of the tasks and tasks of the ocean-going fleet.

Five years of calm passed, and the sixth year of sailing began. At that time, Nonosca, Hilarily, and Chilman were still in their respective positions and doing their own things. When they have time, not only them, but many other people, choose to walk around the entire fleet of ships that can be boarded, while looking at all kinds of different ships, and at the same time applying for a rare opportunity to get away from the fleet and go to the mission of exploring the sea area to follow up on previous research and collect further data.

The sixth year passed like this. By the seventh year, the entire fleet was still absolutely vigorous, and there were not a single death or case during this period. Although the more than 400,000 people will certainly not all be surgeons, but when it comes to medical and disease prevention, the preparation of the fleet before the start of each ocean-going exploration mission is the most important thing alongside the power system and the defense system.

Then, the seventh year came. By the middle of the seventh year, the ocean-going fleet will reach the deepest point of the sea that has been explored before, and from there, the places it will go to will be completely unknown. And at that time, Nonosca they also encountered the last "lone observer" of the supply ship.

However, there were no survivors on it, only an empty steel hull floating on the sea, and the bones of hundreds of crew members who had been infected by some deadly germ on the ship. And the change in the ocean-going fleet as a whole also began at that time.