Chapter 1169 Big Plan

The latest website: To the southwest of Cecil City, a large facility is located in the connecting zone between the dark mountains and the forest. The thick high wall isolates the entire facility from the outside world. On every node of the high wall, you can see the towering obelisk of magic energy and the sentry posts and firepower platforms guarding the obelisk. There are soldiers walking back and forth on the high wall Patrol, all loaded with live ammunition, there is another road extending from the back of the base all the way into the dark mountain range, pointing in the direction of the disobedient fortress, and another road extending from the side of the base to the dense forest in the west, where is the No. 1 Dragoon training base. direction.

This large facility is one of the many testing and processing bases under the Department of Magic Energy Technology.

In the depths of the facility, an independent building in the office area stands in a huge cave ** processed by the natural mountain. The flag of the Cecil Empire hangs along the mountain wall from the high dome to the ground. A middle-aged male researcher passes through The mechanical connection bridge between the isolation inspection area and the office area, under the gaze of the imperial flag, walked into the building.

Compared with the relatively forbidding and depressing environment of the base, the interior of the building has bright lights and relaxing colors. A layer of soft light fell from the young researcher's shoulders, and a bright reflection appeared on the top of his head.

A young female researcher came from the opposite side, stopped in front of the middle-aged man and greeted politely: "Good day, Leslie Think Tank."

"Miss Fanny," Marin Leslie, who has been promoted from a senior researcher to a "think tank", nodded to the girl who just graduated from Imperial College and was transferred here, "I just received News, the large anti-gravity unit sent from the Pompeii area has passed the checkpoint of Panshi Port, and should arrive at the port of Baishuihe soon. You should go there tomorrow with the formalities for handover—you should be familiar with the relevant procedures, right? ?”

"Yes, Leslie Think Tank," the young assistant researcher nodded vigorously, with the unique vitality of young people and the sense of anticipation when performing important tasks, "Don't worry, I have handed over to my mentors several times , there will be no problem."

"Well," Marin Leslie replied, and asked casually, "Is the minister in the office here today?"

"Yes, the minister came early this morning and has to personally handle several technical procedures for engine linkage—he's in the office on the second floor now."

"Okay, I'll go over now—Miss Fanny, don't forget what I told you."

After this small episode, Marin Leslie bid farewell to the young assistant researcher, went straight to the second floor of the office area, and stopped at the end of the spacious and bright corridor - in front of him was the head of the magic technology department. People's office, and that is a respectable member of the royal family, although almost everyone in this era is consciously weakening many rules and habits of the old aristocratic era,

But Marin, who was born in the Leslie family, still retains certain "rules" that have been adhered to for decades. He stopped in front of this door, quickly sorted out every detail of his clothing, adjusted his expression in place, and then stepped forward to knock on the door.

But before his fingers were about to touch the door panel, a voice from the office stopped his movements. He heard two voices, one of which was obviously his immediate superior, and the other was the great ruler of the empire. Your Excellency—

"You have exceeded the budget for the third time! Rebecca! Although the priority of your project is very high now, you also have to consider our finances-why not do more simulation experiments in the origin laboratory? !"

"I have done it, aunt... But the origin laboratory is not omnipotent. Who knows that there will be an additional magic power tremor after the synchronous activation of multiple anti-gravity rings... But don't worry! We have found the magic power tremor The way to derive it in time! Just add a layer of mithril plating between the first-level power ridge and the second-level power ridge. Hey, let me tell you, aunt, Pompeii..."

"How many times have I told you, call me Grand Consul when communicating at work!"

"Hey, okay, Auntie Grand Consul—the newly built factory in Pompeii has been shipped! In these two days, we will know whether the anti-gravity units that come off the production line meet the standards. If they meet, the cost More than half of this piece can come down..."

"I hope the situation can be as you said, otherwise I will have to bring you to the ancestors as an explanation when the next financial settlement is made!"

"Hey, hey, don't worry, Aunt Grand Consul, I'm sure I didn't ask..."

"Stop—you should call me aunt. Damn it, I really should have found you an etiquette teacher with both civil and military skills..."

"Hey, Auntie, you are being too harsh. Mr. Boulber back then was actually good at martial arts. Although his boxing skills are not good, his body skills are quite good..."

Marin Leslie, a member of the Leslie family, a well-educated progressive scholar who has actively accepted the transformation of the new empire order, one of the oldest technicians in the magic technology department, and the "think tank" with the least hair this year , I encountered the biggest middle-aged workplace crisis in my life today at the door of my immediate boss.

I know that my boss is being held on the head by the boss's boss in the room, and I can tell from the conversation that my boss seems to be doing something stupid, and I am standing outside the office door at the moment. The room is not well soundproofed. Everyone knows this, and ask: If you push the door and go in at this time, how much of the next month's bonus will be left?

The voice in the room had quieted down, and Marin Leslie swallowed with a complicated expression. He knew that His Highness Rebecca was actually a person who didn't care much about details, and probably wouldn't break it because of himself. He was angry about the embarrassing situation, but at this time he still couldn't help hesitating - after all, even if the person involved wasn't embarrassed, it would be embarrassing for him to hear this outside.

He decided to stand at the door for another two minutes, and knock on the door after the embarrassment passed, pretending that he had just arrived and didn't hear anything...

As soon as his thoughts turned here, Marin suddenly heard footsteps behind him. When he looked back, he saw Miss Fanny walking towards a nearby office—she came up to pick up the documents.

"Leslie Think Tank?" Fanny also saw Marin standing at the door of the minister's office, and suddenly called out in surprise, "Have you not seen the minister yet? She is in the office..."

Marin choked his neck, and after holding back for a long time, he could only say: "...Thank you for reminding me."

"You're welcome~" The young assistant researcher smiled happily, turned around and walked into the room, leaving Marin Leslie standing at the door of the minister's office with an embarrassed face. After a while, Marin, who often felt the pressure of the workplace Mr. Sighed and scratched his head, the only remaining hair around his head seemed to loosen a bit—then he reached out and knocked on the door, and soon heard a familiar female voice from inside: "Come in, the door is unlocked .”

Marin opened the door and entered the office, and saw Rebecca sitting behind a large desk, seemingly in a daze, and a Magic Net terminal next to it seemed to have just been turned off, and the runes around the projection crystal were still emitting a slight afterglow.

"Uh...Minister," Marin greeted bravely, "I'll report the situation to you..."

"Marin," Rebecca said casually while maintaining a state of wandering, "I suddenly have a doubt..."

Marin Leslie straightened his expression immediately, and even put the report aside temporarily: "Ah, may I ask you."

"Will older women have a worse temper than when they were young?" Rebecca looked at the old subordinate in front of her seriously, "I always feel that my aunt has become more and more irritable in the past two years..."

Marin broke out in a cold sweat on the spot - this thing is a proposition!

Fortunately, Rebecca didn't expect this middle-aged bachelor who didn't even have a wife to answer such a highly professional question. Direction: "Oh, forget it, anyway, the next time I see Pittman, let him help to prepare some medicine for calming the nerves and recuperating, maybe my aunt doesn't care about the budget when she is happy..."

Marin's cold sweat hasn't stopped since just now, and at this time he watched his boss rushing all the way in a new direction of death. He wanted to remind him aloud, but he didn't know how to open the topic at all—— Before he figured out how to speak, Rebecca's voice came again: "Forget it, forget about it, Marin, what are you here to report?"

This sentence was like a sound of heaven, and fresh air suddenly poured into Marin's trachea again. He couldn't help but let out a breath, and quickly brought the topic back on track: "Yes, Minister. First of all, it's about the feedback from the Pompeii factory that just rolled off the assembly line." Gravity unit, just now there is a message from Panshi Port that the fast cargo ship has passed the checkpoint and should arrive at Baishuihe port tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and I have arranged for someone to hand it over."

"Oh? Have you passed Panshi Harbor? That's really fast," Rebecca suddenly showed a happy look, shaking on the chair with a smile, "That's good, we can quickly put the new anti-gravity The ring is mounted on the test frame, and a series of items in the test field do not have to stop and wait...Any other good news?"

"Ms. Selina, Bachelor of Nodes, sent a message that Glenn Heavy Industry's No. 1 experimental workshop has successfully started," Marin nodded, "According to her judgment, the performance of the neural network under the control of the wetware host in a practical environment is in line with expectations , all the parameters are in line with or close to the conclusions calculated in the laboratory environment - she described that "the whole factory has come to life, and the operation of each machine is as flexible as human beings controlling their own limbs, not at all like the old As blunt as those levers and buttons that are manually operated'."

"Such a high evaluation?" Rebecca raised her eyebrows immediately, and then felt a little regretful, "Hey, it's a pity I wasn't there, I really want to see how the first 'smart workshop' in human history works of……"

Immediately afterwards, she shook her head, allowing her thoughts to refocus on the business. She looked at the documents on the desk. Between those documents and the ruler, a large sketch was spread out on the desk. A thing that can be described as grotesque to those who don't know the truth--

It looks like a ship with an extremely strange shape, or some kind of "building" that can move like a vehicle. The tower next to it is used as a reference for scale, showing that this strange thing has a huge volume, and in this strange and The huge "ship" is everywhere, but you can't see any sails, paddles or other structures that a normal ship should have. Instead, there are large-scale magic devices distributed throughout its hull. The anti-gravity ring that reaches more than ten meters, the energy release grid with a length of nearly 100 meters, the continuous array of magic power capacitors, and more dazzling magical organs.

And at the bottom of this pair of blueprints, the printed characters with rigid and clear lines marked a certain top-secret code name: Project 115.

This is just a sketch, and the details contained are far from the real engineering blueprint. However, just such a sketch is so complicated that it can make young technicians who have just been exposed to magic technology dizzy.

Of course, this was not designed by Rebecca herself—although she is indeed a very talented magician expert, the truly cutting-edge magic technology has already developed to a level beyond personal talent. This sketch and the entire design plan related to it are the results of hundreds of experts from the Magic Energy Technology Department and several other research departments' cooperative scholars working day and night. This not only includes a lot of demonstrations and calculations in the real world, Also included are numerous derivations and simulations performed with time acceleration in the origin laboratory.

The engineering behind this blueprint is one of the Empire's most ambitious plans for this exciting new age.

"Anti-gravity device... The ancestors once said that this is one of the most convenient technologies in the world, even so convenient that it is almost cheating-and such an important technology should not be limited to making some things like dragoons or cloud bases. Such 'gadgets'," Rebecca said slowly, looking at the things on the sketch, "sometimes even I can't understand how the incredible ideas of my ancestors came out, to be honest Yes, when he came up with the plan of 'Magic Sky Fortress', I was taken aback..."

"Your Majesty once said that his source of inspiration was the Temple of the Stars of the elves," Marin Leslie said with admiration, and when he saw the blueprint on the table, his eyes were even more proud , "But I still want to say... the Temple of Stars has been operating in the sky of this world for so many years, everyone takes it for granted as an 'undoubted miracle', only our Majesty can think of using human power To replicate this kind of miracle—this kind of vision is unmatched by others."

"The ancestors said, don't despise the vision of the ancients because of our achievements today - the people in the past didn't want to, because the technology and the background of the times made it impossible to do it. The elves spent so many years trying to restore their Temple of Stars , if they have a way, don’t they want to make a new one?” Rebecca shook her head, and said something very reasonable, “And the thing we want to build can’t match the Temple of Stars For example, no matter in terms of scale or internal parameters, a sky fortress of the size of the Temple of Stars cannot be replicated by today's technology...but we can try to create a downgraded version."

Marin Leslie listened to the princess's words, and a smile gradually appeared on his face: "If you can make one, you can make ten."

"Yes," Rebecca also laughed, full of confidence in her smile, "If you can make one, you can make ten."