Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 32 Exploring the Sky
The more complete a system is, the more complex and multifaceted it becomes.

Su Ming actually wanted a stratospheric airship, something that was so far out of reach that even caressing each other would be incredibly exciting in this other world.

In short, the system debugging is complete, and the corydalis cable is finished.

"Liquid?" Su Ming was full of questions when he saw the large jar of viscous substance being carried over by the skeleton servants.

He had considered all sorts of things, and was even prepared for the violet to lead out a large spider—but what was a pot of soup compared to that?
"Isn't this the rope you wanted?" Violet asked. "Don't ropes look like this in your world?"

Absolutely not!

So you mean I have to teach you how to use it?

"necessary!"

Violet pointed to the three control runes in the first row on the jar, "Activate the first to release the rope, the second to stop, and the third to retract the rope." Then she pointed to the second row, "This is for adjusting the rope thickness, left to increase and right to decrease." The third row, "This is for adjusting the toughness, also left to increase and right to decrease. Don't set this too high, it will increase magic consumption." The fourth row, "This is for displaying the length in meters. I've already converted the multiplier to your world's units. Remember to reset the length to zero before releasing the rope, press the bottom one."

"..." Why are the things different, but the work logic is the same? Su Ming thought to himself, "A herd of horses galloped through my mind."

Constructing bone claws on the deck, securing the soup pot to the deck, Su Ming tied the balloon with a rope and began filling it with helium.

It was nighttime, a choice Su Ming had deliberately made. Although the balloons were painted in low-visibility mode, the other world had numerous long-range observation methods. While you could see others, they were also staring at you. Any reconnaissance activity would become a foolish act of actively exposing yourself.

This is why Su Ming insisted on carrying out the procedure now, even though he was feeling very unwell; otherwise, he would have to wait another twenty-six hours.

Once inflated, Su Ming released the balloon, and the white balloon, carrying the equipment, quickly disappeared into the night sky.

Although the otherworldly cable looked like a pot of soup, its quality and strength were excellent. Even with high winds at sea, and the balloon being blown diagonally northwest, the cable showed no signs of breaking down.

Soon the indicator lights on the balloon were completely out of sight, and there was still a lot of soup in the pot.

Su Ming triggered the rune to stop releasing the cable, then went to the control room to connect to the equipment on the balloon via a terminal.

"Violet, can I control the cable from the control room?" Su Ming asked.

“Okay.” The scholar put down the documents she was studying and ran to Su Ming’s control room, where she set up a new set of control runes on the control panel.

The terminal started up and the signal was good. Su Ming activated the camera on the remote sensing device, and the infrared image was quickly transmitted back.

The weather is great tonight, with excellent visibility, and large areas of the sea are visible in the images.

Su Ming manipulated the aerial camera to rotate once, and the gimbal functioned normally.

The view is mostly flat. I checked the cable height: 800 meters. According to Zijin's data, the radius of the alien planet is about 8000 kilometers. Based on this, the current field of view radius of the weather balloon is—

"Violet!" Su Ming suddenly stopped and said to the girl standing behind him, bent over and focused on the screen, "Don't get so close, you're interfering with my operation."

Zi Jin turned her head and looked into Su Ming's eyes at very close range, her hair brushing against his face. "What's wrong—are you blushing? Is your illness getting worse? Do you need me to examine you again?"

"No, just step back a little!"

Zijin stepped back, looking at Su Ming, and it took her a while to realize, "Because I'm a girl?"

"..."

"Sorry, it's been too long since I've been human, I've forgotten a lot of things." "You've given me so many hints, your mystery will be solved soon," Su Ming said irritably.

"Wait and see."

He calmed himself down and continued calculating; the balloon's current field of vision was approximately 110 kilometers.

“This device is amazing,” Violet said. “Even if a mage flies up there, they can’t see as clearly as this camera. It can also automatically identify markers and zoom in and out.”

"The image quality can be improved," Su Ming said, "but the shooting and transmission speed will be very slow. I need to continue the ascent of the balloon. Is your cable okay?"

“There’s plenty of room for maneuver,” Violet replied.

Su Ming continued releasing the cable without stopping, continuing until the cable reached 2532 meters. There was still some "broth" left in the cable pot, but the securing and control system had reached its limit.

The telemetry equipment was successfully woken up, and the signal strength was reduced to two bars.

"We need to get a high-gain antenna," Su Ming lamented.

"We need to inscribe a stronger set of cable runes," Violet thought to herself.

The camera started successfully and transmitted images, showing land visible in the southeast direction!
"Yes!" Su Ming clenched his fists.

Zijin looked at the picture carefully. "The distortion is very serious. I'll try to trace the coastline with a pen and then compare it with the nautical chart to see where it is. It looks like a small island or peninsula."

Su Ming also completed the calculations, finding the theoretical line-of-sight distance at sea level to be 201 kilometers. Of course, the target itself has an altitude, and with the refraction effect of the atmosphere, the actual line-of-sight distance is much greater.

This is also the reason for the severe distortion of the distant image.

“No need, I’ll do a radar scan,” Su Ming said. “That will give you a clearer picture.”

The remote sensing equipment was equipped with radar, although it was only a standard S-band radar with a conventional detection range of only 120 kilometers. However, this was in an alien world with an exceptionally clean electromagnetic environment and far fewer dust particles in the air, so Su Ming felt it necessary to test its actual effectiveness.

He turned on the radar, and sure enough, the battery started draining rapidly. After the first scan, 50% of the battery was gone.

However, since the data had already been downloaded, Su Ming put the remote sensing device on standby and began studying the received data.

The maximum scanning distance reached 250 kilometers. Although the resolution was not high and the accuracy was limited, it was still quite impressive. On the radar image, they could clearly see a fairly large island in the southeast, with a diameter of about 20 kilometers.

In addition, there are more than a dozen small islands around the main island, but they are all very small, with the smallest being only a few hundred square meters.

Zijin was very surprised by the detailed topography on the radar chart. "If you scan more areas, we could sell nautical charts."

"Is there money to be made?"

“Quite a lot. Your level of detail far surpasses that of a hand-drawn map,” Zijin said. She walked to the hanging paper nautical chart, thought for a moment, and pointed to one of the places.

“We should be here, northwest of the Agate Islands, about 600 kilometers from the Tsui An Cliffs—we’ve come a long way.”

There were also more than twenty other points on the radar, suspected to be ships. Su Ming conducted several directional scans and confirmed that it was indeed a ship-shaped object, with the closest distance to the Zhiyuan being about 120 kilometers.

"The signal is bad. We need to retrieve the balloon and download more detailed data." Su Ming shut down the remote sensing device and began pulling in the cable.

(End of this chapter)