However, when Yi Lin approached for a closer look, he discovered that the ten imposing warships didn't align with the technological level he had initially imagined.
These ten Navy ships weren't like real modern warships that are entirely made of specialized marine steel.
It seemed the era's metal smelting technology hadn't reached such an exaggerated extent.
The core of the ten warships was still made of high-quality timber used to construct sailing ships.
Yi Lin could tell this from the masts on the warships, where the sails were folded up and stowed away.
At the rear of the warships, indeed, there were several exaggerated smokestacks used to vent the billowing black smoke from the burning coal turbines.
Within the waterproof iron plating, the texture of fine wood faintly showed through, and even a few fresh mussels clung in the gaps, opening and closing like petals, tempting one with the urge to pluck them off and eat them.
