Chapter 1211 Adventurous Spirit

The latest website: Sending the last ancient druid sage to Amorn is one of the purposes of Belsetia's visit to Cecil this time, but she has another reason for coming here.

On the third day after the elven mission arrived in Cecil City, in the depths of the confidential facility "Engineering Bunker No. 115" located at the foot of the Dark Mountain in the southwest of the imperial capital, a magical vehicle without any signs drove into the area surrounded by thick walls and energy barriers. In the base surrounded by shields, the magic guided vehicle passed directly through the connecting passage and the mechanical gate behind the administrative area, and drove into the huge cave at the main test site.

Standing on a high platform overlooking half of the test site, Belsetia cast her eyes on the vast assembly space below—the countless criss-crossing steel structures and the stone support platform quickly shaped by magic power constituted the A test area larger than several football fields, the high-power magic spar lights fixed on the steel beam above make those platforms bright as day, and you can see a large number of engineering vehicles and technicians walking between those platforms , Big and small lights are like swimming dragons.

This is the testing ground for assembling the sky fortress, and it is one of the important secret projects of the empire. Under normal circumstances, such a place cannot be opened to foreign envoys—however, this is an exception for the Queen of the Silver Elf. The reason is simple: the entire 115 Although the No. 1 project is a project of the Cecil Empire, many of the technologies such as the anti-gravity engine group used behind it come from the silver elves, and a lot of its own energy is used in the elves' temples of stars.

On Cecil's side, there is the construction of the Sky Fortress, and on the side of the Silver Empire, there is also a restoration project for the Temple of the Stars-these two projects are carried out in parallel, and are essentially one of the technical cooperation between the two empires.

"As you can see, our current project is still at the stage of assembling the keel and testing the anti-gravity engine group," Gao Wen said to the Silver Queen beside him, "Of course, this is the most complicated and time-consuming part of the whole project." part - once the basic structure here is completed, then the follow-up assembly progress will be very fast."

"This progress has surprised me, Uncle Gawain—I never thought that you have already entered the stage of actual testing of the anti-gravity engine set," Belsetia sighed from the bottom of her heart, "This is the origin laboratory. The impetus to large-scale projects ... I am very impressed."

Gao Wen showed a slight smile: "The Origin Lab is indeed very useful. We put the testing work that may take several months or even a year or two to complete in the real world in a virtual environment. With the assistance of the thinking acceleration system, these The tedious and time-consuming work can be completed in a month or less. Of course, the large-scale acceleration of the neural network consumes staggeringly, and it also needs to occupy precious wetware host resources, but it is better than blowing up half of the real world. The base... the cost is quite cost-effective."

"...It seems that after I go back, I should seriously consider the issue of renting the computing power of the neural network. Is that what you mean, Uncle Gawain?" Belsetia looked at Gawain with a smile in the corner of her eyes, "It's expensive. reason.

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"We have established a large-scale communication and forwarding channel between Cecil and the Silver Empire, so naturally we should make the most effective use of them," Gawain said calmly, "Speaking of which, the recent situation of the Temple of Stars how?"

"If you're asking about the temple itself, it hasn't changed much - the restoration of the infrastructure doesn't happen overnight, although scholars and artisans say that restoration work is being done every day, supported by new technologies. Great progress, but this kind of progress cannot be seen directly with the eyes," Belsetia smiled, "If you are asking about our restoration project... we have new discoveries almost every day."

The Silver Queen smiled, overlooking the large-scale assembly field from the high platform, watching those complex mechanical structures being installed on the steel skeleton little by little, as if watching a giant being born little by little in a deep sleep.

"We finally opened the ancient doors leading to the power core, the engine isolation dome that has not been opened for tens of thousands of years and the compartment leading to the logic array of the central axis, and we saw the alloys that stretched vertically and horizontally in the dark Skeletons, those ancient devices that run silently, and those decaying cables and sensors that have been disconnected from the Dominion Seat for hundreds of thousands of years...

"Most of the technologies in the deep area are no longer understood—even if scholars can identify one or two of them, they cannot be repaired under current conditions, but at least our determination is not too late, and we can still identify them. The function and positioning of most equipment groups, at the same time, we now have new solutions...

"Master Verania led her astrologers to determine the energy logic at the bottom of the Temple of the Stars. We replaced some of the severely damaged power cores with the magic grid array from Cecil. Next, we will directly dismantle them. Those anti-gravity and propulsion devices that were completely scrapped were replaced with modern industrial products, and the cabins and functional partitions around the keel of the temple were rebuilt at the same time.

"Currently the biggest challenge we face is to rebuild the sensing and operating devices that have been offline from the control center, so that the Seat of Dominion can smoothly recognize the newly installed things in the Temple of Stars... The progress in this aspect is the slowest, but fortunately, the Since the autumn, scholars have finally achieved some results. The fusion between the artificial nerve cord and the signal connector has been achieved. With the assistance of the biological nerve center, the problem of controlling the temple will hopefully be solved—hope all goes well, Otherwise we would have to replace the lack of effectiveness of the Throne with hundreds or thousands of operators."

Listening to Belsetia's narration of these technical fields, Gawain nodded slightly: "Is it our 'smart factory' that inspired you?"

"Use synthetic brains to give machines the ability to think... Human creativity is always amazing," Belsetia laughed, "To be honest, after seeing the information sent by Rebecca, Master Verania She didn't eat for a whole day - but the next day she still read all the materials with great perseverance and expressed her respect for your technology."

"..." Gao Wen was a little speechless for a while, but he imagined in his mind what kind of painting style the elves would have after accepting the technical route of wetware host + heavy machinery, and suddenly felt that he had sinned deeply.

Belsetia didn't know what Gao Wen was lamenting in his mind, "things that only wanderers outside the territory can understand". Her gaze was always on the assembly platforms below. The things obviously gave her a real sense of shock. After watching for some time, she finally broke the silence softly: "Looking at these things, I can't help but think...in very, very old times, In the years that even the silver elves can hardly imagine, how did our ancestors, the original elves, build a great creation like the Temple of the Stars? Did the keel, beam and basic power unit start to be assembled little by little?"

"Of course, otherwise it could have grown directly from the ground?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "Why do you suddenly think of these things?"

"After finally opening the gate to the deepest part of the Temple of Stars, we found many ancient traces from the cabins that have been dusty for tens of thousands of years," Belsetia said slowly, "During the long years, The various areas of the Temple of Stars have undergone countless renovations and baptisms, and even its outer areas were completely destroyed by wars, but in those sealed cabins, everything remained. Not long after the air fortress set sail. state.

"Today's silver elves can no longer recognize the objects that belonged to the original elves, but we can clearly feel that they come from an ancient and great civilization, which is our plausible 'distant relatives', from a long-forgotten" Something brought out of Homeland'...

"Unfortunately, due to the passage of time and water leakage in some cabins, all files and drawings have been completely destroyed, and the precision instruments used to record data have also been completely destroyed. We can only bring out some corrosion-resistant , daily necessities or furnishings made of unknown alloys, as well as signs and notches rubbed from the walls, but even these things have caused a great repercussions among the silver elves."

Gao Wen blinked curiously: "A very big response?"

"Among the silver elves, there is now a voice of 'looking for the homeland'," Belsetia said, "This stems from the original elf relics that we are constantly looking for in the depths of the Temple of Stars.

"In fact, these voices have existed before, and similar ideas have even accompanied the entire history of the Silver Empire since its founding, but all along, this voice has never formed a climate, because deadly ocean storms are also extremely dangerous to elves, and the Silver Empire The 'powerful' is as embarrassing as Gondor back then, and can only be maintained within the cruising range of the Temple of Stars, but what happened in recent years..."

"The establishment of the alliance, the technical support from Kraken and Naga, the resumption of the route around the continent, the Dragon Race—and the successful navigation between Loren Continent and Tarrond," Gawain quickly responded, "These achievements have encouraged the The various races trapped on land, including your elves?"

"It should be 'extremely encouraging' to us," Belsetia looked at Gawain with a smile, "the elves all know the ancient legend about the 'Great Split', we know that we come from another continent, when General Byron successfully arrived The feat of Tarrond spread across the country, our scholars rejoiced, and the voices of the 'homelanders' grew even higher. In addition, we recently discovered in the sealed compartment of the Temple of Stars... It seems that many elves They all believe that we can already consider forming a fleet like humans to find the holy land of origin of the original elves."

"...Exploring a strange continent in the ocean is a good thing in itself, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it," Gawain looked into Belsetia's eyes, carefully choosing his words, "but you should know, go to Tarlon Dehe's search for the origin continent of the original elves is not the same concept - the former is the hometown of giant dragons, we have guides, escorts, ready-made routes and astronomical and hydrological data recorded by giant dragons, and Talrond and himself The distance between Loren is not too far, and the hometown of the elves..."

The foundation of the giant tower he saw from the perspective of the sky station and the little information he had learned from Enya emerged in his mind.

"Well, one thing is certain. There is indeed another continent to the west of the Loren continent. It may be the hometown of the original elves. But it is far away, the environment is harsh, and the inland situation is unknown——During the heyday of Tarrond, The Dragon Clan occasionally sent a few expedition teams to look at the situation on that continent from a distance, but now the Dragon Clan’s strength has been greatly reduced, and they have lost implants and boosters, as well as the global communication and navigation provided by the Omega system. Support, now even the Dragon Clan can't cross the ocean to find that piece of land."

Belsetia's eyes widened — the fact that the original elves might have originated from a strange continent in the west of Loren did not surprise her, because the scholars of the Silver Empire had already made conjectures in this regard in the past, she was surprised The most striking thing was Gao Wen's tone when talking about these matters. He obviously knew this matter very well, and he hadn't been paying attention to this matter for a day or two.

"Are you surprised?" Of course Gao Wen noticed the change in the expression of the Silver Queen, he just smiled lightly, "I have a pretty good relationship with that Dragon God, I heard many things from her, and besides that , I also have some... special information channels. I know that there is another continent on the west side of the Loren continent, which should be the origin of the original elves. how to get to.

"I have always been very interested in the New World. Exploring the unknown world is very attractive to me. From a certain point of view, one of the main reasons for me to study navigation technology and build a powerful fleet is to explore those places in the deep ocean. As for the restart of the circumcontinent route and the establishment of ocean trade... it is actually just a subsidiary result of this purpose.”

Belsetia stared fixedly at Gao Wen who was smiling happily. After a long time, she also laughed: "Your adventurous spirit...is really as the information says."

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When Gawain and the Silver Queen were talking about new sea routes, ancient continents, and the spirit of adventure, another human with an exceptionally strong spirit of adventure in this world was lying in his "adventurer's hut", accompanied by him from time to time outside the town. The howling wind sounded, and fell asleep soundly in the warmth brought by the heating rune.

A strange environmental change suddenly surged from his heart, and the adventurous intuition accumulated over the years stimulated his nerves. Modil suddenly woke up in his deep sleep, and rolled from the bed to the ground in less than one tenth of a second. While in a defensive posture, one hand of the old mage had already grasped the short staff leaning against the bed, and the other hand drew out the enchanted short sword used for body protection from under the pillow.

Layer upon layer of body protection spells and blessing spells used to enhance vitality, recovery, and magic affinity are also activated instantly, covering the whole body.

It's all an instinctive reaction like muscle memory.

Mordir had already broken free from the sleepiness, and was paying attention to the surrounding environment vigilantly. He first quickly looked around and confirmed that he was still in his single "dormitory"—everything in sight Everything was where it was before falling asleep, there was no sign of doors and windows being opened, and there was no smell of strangers nearby.

But it wasn't his room, at least not his "normal" room.

Everything in his sight lost its color, and monotonous colors of black, white and gray covered everything he could see.