Hector's weathered old face was filled with genuine bewilderment.
He pointed to the steel behemoth deep in the ship's hold, which was emitting a low rumble, crisscrossed with pipes, and hissing with white steam.
He felt his knowledge of sailing was being dimensionally crushed.
"Captain, this thing... it has no sails."
"I've steered for a lifetime, relying on wind and currents. Yours... it runs on boiling water?"
Not just him, all the pirates on deck, including Jack Sparrow, who had just been roused from unconsciousness by Billy with a rib, were looking at the brand new steam engine as if it were an alien creation.
"Nonsense."
Roger rolled his eyes at him.
"This is called the Industrial Revolution, understand?"
"Knowledge is power, and steam is speed!"
He cleared his throat and adopted the posture of "I'm here to educate you illiterates."
"See that black furnace? That's a boiler."
"See those black stones next to it? Those are coals."
"Throw the coal into the boiler, boil the water, the water turns into steam, the steam pushes the piston, the piston drives the propeller, the propeller churns the seawater, and the ship runs!"
Roger gave a vivid and engaging science popularization lecture using his meager middle school physics knowledge.
The pirates listened in a fog, half-understanding.
"Did you understand?"
"Understood!"
The pirates roared in unison.
Although they had no idea what they had actually understood.
"Very good!"
Roger was very satisfied with this blind obedience.
"Buck! Hanson! You two, take ten men, and be stokers! Burn it for all you're worth!"
"The rest of you, figure out what those valves and instrument panels are for!"
"Remember, the explorer's corporate culture is 'bold experimentation, small steps, fast pace'!"
"The first one to get the ship moving gets a hundred copper coins!"
Under a heavy reward, there must be reckless men.
The pirates howled and rushed into the engine room deep in the ship's hold.
Jack Sparrow looked at the hyped-up pirates, then at the steaming steel monster, and wisely chose to climb the tallest mast.
He felt it was safer there.
Soon, the clanging of metal and the curses of the pirates came from the engine room.
"Damn it! Why is this thing so hot!"
"Billy! You shoveled coal on my head, you bastard!"
"Water! Add water quickly! That red pointer on the dashboard is going to explode!"
"Where do I add it? There are pipes everywhere!"
"Just find a hole and shove it in!"
"Bang!"
With a muffled thud, a steam pipe burst directly due to excessive pressure.
Scalding steam gushed out, sending two unlucky pirates flying to the ceiling.
"Ah! So good! Even better than a hot bath!"
At the same time, Roger on the deck felt the ship's hull shake violently!
"It's moving! Captain! It's moving!" Gibbs shouted excitedly.
the explorer did indeed move.
It began to spin wildly in place in a strange posture.
The huge propeller at the stern churned the seawater, raising monstrous waves that left the two sea monsters, who had just been strengthened and were still questioning their existence, dizzy and disoriented.
"Stop! Stop it quickly!"
Hector clung to the helm, feeling like he wasn't sailing a ship, but taming a drunk bull.
"How do I stop? Which one is stop?!"
Buck's desperate roar came from the engine room.
"Boom!"
the explorer's bow, with its flashing "Spear of Poseidon," slammed squarely into the reef in Crescent Bay.
With a terrifying crash that made everyone's hearts jump, the reef, larger than a house, was instantly shattered into pieces.
But the explorer's bow didn't even lose a chip of paint.
Roger's face darkened.
He wasn't worried about the ship.
He was worried about the coal.
This On the spot spinning wasn't burning coal; it was burning his money!
"A bunch of useless idiots!"
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