"There are twenty ironclad warships in the Majapahit dockyards," the prisoner's pupils unfocused in the magnetic storm. "The Armory Directorate's Heavenly Fire Glaze... is fitted into the eye sockets of the Qilin statues..."
Shen Xitang suddenly plunged a silver needle into an old scar. The searing pain cleared the images in the prisoner's mind—the structure of those Qilin statues was unmistakably an enlarged version of the Xuanji Lock!
As torrential rain lashed the portholes, Shen Xitang dismantled the Magnetic Pith Compass deep in the hold.
When the seventh gear was removed, half of a charred Coastal Topographical Survey Map slid out from the compass lining.
She moistened the damaged sections with niter water, and the adsorbed magnetic iron powder brought her father's handwriting into relief: "When the Magnetic Pith crosses the equator, it turns violent, and must be..."
Chapter 64