Chapter 1459: Two Plans
Another breeze blew across the courtyard, and the cool air was refreshing.
The first snow of this winter has not yet come, but the mages who observed the sky predicted that there would be a light snow this morning; the evergreen trees not far away shook their branches slightly in the wind, and the slight rustling sound could be heard from time to time. Come; on the balcony on the second floor opposite the garden, His Royal Highness the Grand Consul and His Royal Highness are standing by the window with their heads bowed; in the sunlit courtyard, Betty in winter clothes stands quietly beside the trolley, in the breeze A faint smile appeared.
Everything here falls into Enya's "eyes", and the quiet and everyday scene seems to have quietly aroused some very, very old, yellowed and faded impressions in her memory, which may be from Tarrond millions of years ago. A certain courtyard may be an afternoon when the dragon civilization was still ignorantly developing in the mountains, or it may be just a fragment she saw in a believer's dream. She laughed, with a gentle and calm voice: "You Do you like this day?"
"I like it," Betty replied without hesitation. "There's never been a better day."
"Yeah... There is no better day than this, and today's sunshine is the best in this period of time," Enya said softly, the sun shone on her shimmering golden shell, the two kinds of light merge It rippled gently like water ripples, "But it will snow soon, and today's sunshine may be very short."
In the distant sky, some leaden gray clouds quietly emerged at some point, and they are gathering towards the city little by little at this moment. It seems that, as calculated by the mages in charge of predicting celestial phenomena, the first snowfall of this winter Coming soon.
Betty blinked and looked at Enya in confusion: "Are you saying something very philosophical?"
Enya was curious: "Oh? Why do you say that?"
"Miss Amber told me that if a big person suddenly turns to something else when he is talking about something normal, and seems to have a little sigh, then he is speaking very philosophical words," Betty replied seriously , "Although I didn't quite understand it at the time, I think you seemed to be speaking very philosophical words just now."
"...I'm just lamenting the weather," Enya laughed, and the laughter sounded particularly pleasant, "It's nice to be in the sun, but it's also nice to have a cold wind in the snow every once in a while—just be careful not to I have a cold."
"Don't worry!" Betty patted her chest immediately, and said proudly, "I'm in good health, and I haven't been sick for two years in a row. Your Majesty said that my nutrition has kept up..."
Enya just chuckled, her "eyes" turned to the sky, and then she seemed to feel something, her attention fell on a certain position on the horizon - that was pointing to the direction of Frost Sky constellation, she thoughtfully "Looking" at the sky, as if hearing a distant voice, and in the long silence that followed, finally a snowflake quietly fell from the sky.
This was Cecil's first snow in four years, and it came a little earlier than usual.
An invitation to an urgent meeting was sent from Cecil to the countries of the Alliance.
In the wasteland war not long ago, modern communication technology and the astonishing role played by the "Alliance One" proved to everyone the power of the "Magic Age" brought by Gawain Cecil, even before The most isolated and backward small countries also realized the changes of the times and the necessity of catching up with the changes of the times during that war. After the war ended, the most important step in the post-war reconstruction of countries was to prioritize the establishment of The communication system of modern magic technology - of course, considering the limitations of realistic conditions, it is impossible for every country to achieve magic network coverage in a short period of time, but at the very least, all countries should try their best to achieve In order to allow the country's highest authority to "communicate online" with other countries in the alliance.
Compared with the national communication network that requires a lot of infrastructure support, it is not impossible to connect a dedicated line from the capitals of various countries to Cecil's magic net backbone network.
But now, it is time for these "special lines" that can connect the heads of the member states of the alliance to play a role-
On the eve of nightfall, Gao Wen came to the large conference room on the top floor of the highest government affairs hall. This conference room was quite spacious, and there was a huge circular conference table in the center. At this moment, most of the seats are empty, but a magic net terminal in standby state is placed on each seat.
Gawain stepped to his own place, and he glanced at the document on the table—it was the plan of the magic tide observation device, and then he glanced at the time displayed by the mechanical clock on the opposite wall—— Thirty seconds before the appointed time.
He sat down on the chair, and after a while, the low buzzing sound and the slight click of the rune trigger automatically closing sounded everywhere, and flickering projections appeared one after another around the empty circular conference table, those The magic phantom was a bit blurry at first, but soon with the help of the extra computing power provided by the Empire Computing Center, these distant signals were strengthened and filtered, and clear figures emerged from the magic phantom.
Those were dozens of alliance leaders including Rosetta, Belsetia, Wenna Baizhi and others.
The entire empty meeting room was "full" of people, some of them were heads of state who participated in this kind of meeting for the first time. They looked around in surprise. Obviously, there was a similar hologram at the scene "on their side" Formed an immersive meeting place-although such things as magic illusions are not unusual for anyone in this world, it is still a novelty for them to rely on large-scale equipment to achieve this kind of "remote conference" experience.
As for those participants who have used magic net terminals for remote conferences and have a better understanding of magic technology, their performance is quite indifferent. Several eyes fell on the leaders of the three empires one after another. After paying his respects, Gawain first glanced at the giant dragon ambassador Melita Purnia sitting on his left, and stood up to break the silence: "First of all, since the communication line in Tarrond has not been completed yet, this giant dragon The representative of Dragon Kingdom is still Ms. Melita Purnia, Ambassador Plenipotentiary.
"Secondly, thank you for responding to this convening. We have limited time now, so let's go straight to the topic - what we are going to discuss today is the plan to establish a magic tide observation device."
Some of the holographic projections at the conference table exchanged glances with each other—in fact, the information in this regard had already been sent to everyone’s desks, so the participants were not surprised by what was going to be discussed today, but Due to the urgency of time, this did not allow everyone to have the opportunity to communicate privately, exchange ideas before the meeting as they are used to, and even do not have enough time to discuss with their own advisory group. They are quite dissatisfied with this. Habit.
But no matter whether they are used to it or not, Demon Tide will not slow down the pace of action of mortals. In the face of that cold and ruthless countdown, all the old red tape and table rules must give way to efficiency.
"We have read the information you sent," said Rosetta Augustus, "From the information, if we want to rely entirely on existing technology to build an observation device from scratch, it will be successful." The rate will be very low, and it will take a long time and a huge cost of manpower and resources?"
"Yes, and considering the scale of the magic tide observation device and the existence of the 'countdown', we may not have the chance of trial and error," Gao Wen nodded, "so at this meeting, we must discuss a feasible It is a draft that has been recognized and supported by all countries—even if supplementary revisions are made to this draft later, at least the direction must be given this time, and material preparations must be started immediately.”
Speaking of this, Gao Wen couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional—he should be glad that the Alliance had just ended the Battle of the Wasteland as the victor. Although that war caused huge damage to the Gondor border area, from a In this sense, it was also an exercise that was difficult to replicate. During the war, the countries of the alliance knew how to operate as a whole and how to deal with a world-scale crisis, and the project of building the "blocking wall" itself was even more important. It is the accumulation of valuable experience - the experience of engaging in world wonders.
The magic tide observation device is essentially a "world wonder" with a scale no less than that of the blocking wall, and the technical difficulty is even higher. If there is no "compulsory training" for the Battle of the Wasteland, a loose and immature To face this crisis, the outcome of the alliance will be quite pessimistic.
"There are two plans now," Gao Wencai continued after leaving some time for the on-site participants to think and discuss, "The first one is the traditional conservative plan - we will build step by step according to the existing technical information, first build Observing the outer ring of the device, and relying on our current energy technology to 'stack' a starting point of vibration in the process, based on the experience we accumulated when opening the gate of the Kingdom of God in the Contracting Fort, relying on the magic net energy station and the magic power extraction tower A huge array is formed, just enough to meet the ignition threshold of the starting focus.
"The implementation process of this scheme is relatively controllable, and the required technologies are all based on existing experience, but the shortcomings are also obvious-these technologies almost barely meet the basic conditions for the operation of the magic tide observation device, and even dare to It is guaranteed that the finalized system can be turned on for a short time, and what we need is an observation system that can run stably for a long time. Whether the things we create can be used will depend on luck at that time.
"The second plan...you must have seen it, it is very radical, but it is theoretically feasible.
"Based on the Deep Blue Well, use the huge ready-made magic power source on this planet to drive the 'vibration focus'. Its advantages are obvious. The power of the Deep Blue Well is more than enough to drive the vibration focus. Once this plan is realized, At least from the perspective of energy supply, the entire system is very stable, and the "construction period" of the entire observation device will also be greatly shortened, because we have saved most of the time for building the entire energy system...
"Of course, the shortcomings of this plan are also obvious-although the results are expected, the risk of its implementation is huge and difficult to control. The current scale of the Deep Blue Well is not enough to meet expectations. We need more networkway rifts to Extracting magic power, and even the former Gondor Empire only built extraction stations on the basis of existing magic power rifts. It is an unprecedented risky move to 'manually open webway rifts'...
"Theoretically and from the historical records left in the Gondor era, there are indeed more exploitable webway fissures around the Deep Blue Well. If the most advanced 'supercritical accelerator' of the Cecil Empire is used to bombard these fissures and At the 'weak point' at the junction of the material world, we can artificially open new wells, which is equivalent to building a series of 'sub-wells' around the Deep Blue Well, theoretically... this process is controllable."
Having said that, Gao Wen breathed out lightly, solemnly put the document in his hand on the table, and propped his hands on the table to look around the entire venue: "I'm done."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a low voice of discussion in the entire venue, and the figures of some participants suddenly turned to the direction that seemed to be empty, and whispered to an invisible object—obviously, they There are people like consultants and scholars standing beside them at the moment. When it comes to professional fields, they need the opinions of these experts.
Gao Wen knew that both of these plans had a little... "exciting", and it would be difficult for even someone with a second idea to make a decision at this time, so he didn't interrupt aloud.
A few minutes later, a voice came from the opposite side of the round table, and King Odris of Gaoling said: "I want to know, is the essence of the second plan just... bombing the Deep Blue Well? Although the document says 'Precise directional blasting'..."
"...This is a controllable bombing," Gao Wen said with a straight face. He had long expected that someone would react like this. After all, he himself had the same expression when he first saw the plan proposed by Rebecca, "It's like Controlled, precise supercritical bombardment can be used to 'build' things as well as explosive magic to dig rocks and mines, even though it sounds dangerous."
"But I think it's not just that it sounds a little dangerous." King Odris's expression was serious, his one eye was staring at the document in his hand, and then he raised his head again, "I'm familiar with the method of using explosive magic to dig out rocks." Therefore, it is more clear that even the rock-opening with lower technical difficulty will inevitably lead to the accident of cliff collapse, not to mention that we have to bombard the Deep Blue Well with the most powerful weapon in history at a very dangerous distance... ...From the description of the plan, once the 'widening' of the Deep Blue Well gets out of control, we have no way to remedy it."
Speaking of this, he shook his head: "I am more inclined to the first one, at least the controllability of the implementation process is higher."
"But the final result of the first plan is too unsatisfactory." Odris just finished speaking, and Wenna Baizhi's voice came from the side, "If we exhaust all our efforts and time to create a completely unusable observation device, it would be better to do nothing or take some risks on the Deep Blue Well..."
As soon as Wen Na finished speaking, different voices came from around the round table: "The risk of Plan 2 is still too great..."
"We need a more careful and comprehensive assessment process, preferably with a deeper investigation into the Deep Blue Well..."
"Will building this observation device really work? Are we too hasty in making a decision now?"
"I'm afraid we don't have that much time..."
Discussions at the venue were instantly ignited, and kings, leaders, federal rulers, and emperors who were good at weighing things began to express their views and opinions. As the center of this place, Gao Wen did not say a word at this moment.
He looked at Ophelia Norton who was sitting near him.
Although "Veronica" is in the city of Cecil, in such a formal occasion, Ophelia Matrix will still choose to attend the meeting with the posture of "Ophelia Norton".
At this moment, the true controller of the Deep Blue Well remained silent from beginning to end.
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