Chapter 1496 Two Plans for the Dragon

The Silver Empire and the Typhon Empire each proposed a refuge plan that could be realized with the current level of technology and production capacity. Regardless of whether it is a refuge city group or a Gondor refuge, these two proposals have their own obvious characteristics and differences. A flaw that cannot be ignored.

The refuge cities of the Typhon people have a higher safety factor, higher disaster tolerance capabilities, and lower implementation costs. The refuge cities scattered across the continent and isolated from each other are equivalent to "civilization backups" scattered around the world Even if accidents happen to some of the shelters, as long as the neural network behind the urban agglomeration does not completely collapse, as long as a few shelters survive, the civilization as a whole will continue.

However, this plan needs to give up more than half of the world's population from the very beginning, and to be honest... It is still unknown whether the smaller refuge cities can have sufficient protection against the evil tide.

The Silver Empire's plan is likely to preserve the world's population, and at the same time, the size of Gondor's shelter also ensures that the "output power" of the entire barrier system is strong and reliable. However, the disaster recovery capability of this plan itself is a fatal flaw. The sentinel tower running at the critical point is the biggest weakness of the shelter—frankly speaking, it may be helpless to put all eggs in one basket in the face of a world natural disaster like the magic tide, but the biggest problem with this plan is " The "basket" itself might not be very strong...

What's more, even if there is no problem in the Gondor refuge from the beginning to the end, how to persist the huge population who migrated to the refuge until the refuge reopens is a difficult problem of the century.

Many people think that the duration of the demon tide is short, and people only need to endure in the refuge for half a year to a year before they can be liberated safely. Therefore, it is not a problem at all to live in the refuge, and it will pass after patience, but Gao Wen is very happy. It is clear that there is a limit to this "difficulty", especially when the management functions of countries have declined sharply after entering the refuge, and the ability of a large crowd to maintain rationality and order is not worth looking forward to.

In a year and a half, the barrier system used to build the shelter and the relocation project are enough to drain the production capacity and mobilization capacity of each country. If a sufficient number of settlements are built to meet the standard, food, medicine, clean water, and protective equipment that are enough for all people in the world to consume for a year will not be prepared, and the survival resources in the shelter will be far less than the population it accommodates , which is almost inevitable.

Therefore, in Gao Wen's view, although the Silver Empire's shelter plan protects all mortals in the world in name, in the shelter, about half of the population may still passively lose the basic conditions for survival. This is no different from the Typhon Empire's "abandoning more than half of the population to meet the size limit of the refuge city group".

No, it's even worse—because half the population that was abandoned in disguise is also inside the barrier.

There is only hunger in this world that cannot be eliminated through any compromise and patience.

Gao Wen believed that he was not the only one who could think of these things,

Belsetia and her courtiers and advisors must have gone through repeated consideration and discussions. They are well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the Gondor refuge plan, but no matter how many adjustments they make to the plan, the hard shortcomings It is doomed to be impossible to eliminate, and these shortcomings are the "price" to be paid for the survival of civilization.

After a brief discussion and weighing of the Silver Empire's plan, Gawain finally turned his attention to the two giant dragon leaders: "I want to hear the opinions of Tarrond and the Holy Dragon Principality."

Balogar and Heragor exchanged glances, and the latter stood up. This golden dragon who was once the chief scientific leader of Tarrond and served the gods as a priest for 1.87 million years With a steady voice: "We have two plans, which can be carried out at the same time, and they both have obvious flaws."

"Two plans?" Belsetia's tone was full of surprise. She didn't expect that the dragon not only discussed the plans in such a short preparation time before the meeting, but even prepared two plans at a time. Subconsciously lamenting that the other party deserves to be the strongest civilization in the world in the past, at the same time, an uncontrollable curiosity arose, "What's the specifics?"

"The first plan is similar to the Gondor Sanctuary of the Silver Empire," Heragor nodded, and said unhurriedly, "We are planning to restart the great shield of Tarrond."

"The Great Shield of Tarrond?!" Gawain was astonished. "Hasn't it been destroyed on the day of the coming-of-age ceremony? You have the ability to rebuild it so soon?"

"...it wasn't completely destroyed," Heragor was silent for two seconds, shaking his head lightly, "it just went out...we completed our circumnavigation of the continent of Tarrond not long ago, surprised It was found that 90% of the shield devices around the entire continental border were in an intact state, and only the southeast coast was completely destroyed. The torn part, and this small section can be tried to repair with our current ability.

"As for the shield generators in the rest of the continent, they are actually temporarily shut down because the energy system is overloaded and offline... All of them will be restarted in a short time."

Gawain's eyes widened, and he didn't know what to say for several seconds. This was a situation that everyone, even the Dragon Clan, had never thought of. Everyone thought that the great shield of Tarrond had been completely destroyed by the Dragon God. But in fact, that thing was miraculously preserved, but due to the difficult situation in a short period of time after the war, the dragons themselves had no spare time to patrol the whole territory, and they didn't even think of checking the condition of the shield. Only now discovered...

But then again, on a battlefield as terrifying as the coming-of-age ceremony, how did the big shield survive?

Gawain was full of confusion, but his eyes suddenly froze again. Looking at Heragor and Baloger sitting opposite the round table, he couldn't help but come up with an idea—maybe, He was afraid that they would be cold...

He shook his head, threw some irrelevant thoughts out of his mind, and stared at Heragor with scorching eyes: "After restarting the great shield of Tarrond? This should not be the whole plan, after all, according to what I know You know, just relying on a large shield does not have the function of resisting the magic tide."

"Yes," Heragor nodded lightly, "Restarting the large shield is only the first step. Since the hardware foundation is still there, the part that needs to be repaired is only a short section, so this step can be completed soon. After this, we will start trying to link the 'mind unity field' to the large shield - this is theoretically possible.

"During the Eternal Cradle Era, the great shield of Tarrond had sheltered the giant dragon from several demon tides, and what it relied on was actually the dragon god linked to the great shield. According to the information sent by the Noi people According to the technical documents and recent research results of the alliance, the position of this "god" actually corresponds to the unified field of mind. If the theory is correct, then the connection technology we used to use on the large shield should be directly applicable to the unified field of mind The above... just need some compatibility adjustments at most.

"The three of us, Andal and Baloger, have already studied the blueprints sent by the Noi. Although there are still many technical details that need to be confirmed, overall, I think my judgment is correct. Lord Tarrond The shield can be the vehicle for the neural network and the unified field of mind—as good as the Sentinel Tower, if not better."

Gawain nodded slightly as he listened. From the perspective of the reliability of the entire system, the Great Shield of Tarrond might be a better solution than the Sentinel Tower barrier—that thing has a higher technical level and a better hardware condition. Well, and there are many redundant nodes in the Tarrond shield itself, and more importantly... this thing has been tested in practice.

After all, the Dragon Clan has survived the demonic tide more than once with this thing. In a sense, their big shield was originally designed to fight against the demonic tide. Even now, this big shield is only missing a It is just a "signal source" used by Chao Chao. This signal source used to be the dragon god Enya, but now it is very likely that it can be directly and seamlessly switched to the mind unification field, a more advanced and more harmless solution.

But it's not enough for a shelter to have just one barrier - the asylum seekers need to survive inside.

Gawain posed his own question, and Heragor's answer seemed to be well prepared: "It is true that most of Tarrond's area has been turned into wasteland after the battle of coming of age, but after the battle, it has spared no effort to clean up and rebuild. The whole territory has not yet been recovered, but great progress has been made. At present, one-fifth of our land belongs to the "green zone" free of pollution and dangerous organisms, and about two-fifths of the area belong to risk controllable areas. Residents The 'yellow zone' where you can live in a group for a short period of time, and the remaining dangerous areas also have clear borders and perfect protection and early warning methods, and more importantly...we have already established a certain scale of infrastructure, and at the same time restored some The operation of the production center may not be enough, but at least it is not as wasteland as the wasteland of Gondor."

Having said that, he paused, organized his language, and continued: "Another point is that many infrastructures and material reserves in Tarrond are set up according to the standards of giant dragons, and a giant living in the form of a dragon If a dragon keeps itself in human form for a long time, it can save a lot of resource consumption and living space. Even in more extreme cases, as long as we don't switch forms, we can endure hunger for several months... This is almost enough to last until the end of the demon tide, The saved rations could keep millions of people alive.”

Gao Wen frowned: "This..."

"We have already discussed this point within the clan, and no one has any opinions," Heragor said without waiting for Gawain to continue, his eyes swept over Typhon and the two leaders of the Silver Empire at the same time, slightly Nodding, "After the coming-of-age ceremony, dozens of countries in the Alliance have collected food and medicine and sent them to Tarrond. These things have allowed most survivors to survive the initial difficult days after the war. Regarding this, The dragon is one who knows how to repay his kindness."

The round table was quiet for a while, until Rosetta frowned slightly and broke the silence in thought: "Perhaps what I want to say is a bit disruptive to the atmosphere, but it should still not be enough... The living space of Tarrond is much smaller than just now. Duo shelter, and it is located in the Arctic Ocean, it is inconvenient to transport people and goods, no matter how many people are stuffed inside, no matter how much materials are saved, I am afraid that many people will still be left outside the barrier, right?"

"So we have a plan No. 2 that can be carried out at the same time to accommodate other people," Heragor nodded, "The restart cost and time required for the large shield of Tarrond are not much, and the dragons can independently Once this is done, the Alliance can save enough resources and energy to open up a 'Second Sanctuary'."

"Second Shelter?" Gawain frowned.

"We actually have a natural shelter, which can be directly 'moved in' without any 'handling'. It is absolutely safe and reliable, and the magic tide will not affect it in the slightest. Its scale is not too small. Maybe it's not enough to accommodate everyone, but at least it's enough to accommodate those outside the large shield of Tarrond," Heragor smiled slightly, "Did you forget...the Alliance also controls a 'Kingdom of God'? "

"You mean God of War God Kingdom?!" Gao Wen was taken aback, this was completely beyond his expectation, it was a proper blind spot, but soon he realized that this was an excellent idea, "Yes , the realm of the Kingdom of God is a natural barrier against the tide of magic..."

"The Kingdom of God was born based on the thoughts of mortals, and it belongs to the standard model of the 'observer effect closed loop'. Even if the god itself falls, as long as the Kingdom of God has not completely dissipated, it will still not be affected by the magic tide inside," Helago said. Er nodded, "Although the Kingdom of God of War is currently in a state of accelerated 'disintegration', this disintegration process is also calculated in decades or even hundreds of years. For a year and a half, it will start, two to two As far as the demon tide that will end within three years, it will be an extremely stable and safe refuge.

"We don't have to worry about any 'hardware failure' in the Kingdom of God Sanctuary, we don't have to worry about it being broken down, and we don't even need an additional neural network and mental unity field to keep it running. There is no need to worry about mental pollution in the national refuge, and at the same time, there are no waste soil poisons and dangerous creatures, and the environment is stable and safe... It is said that Cecil's agronomists even tried to grow vegetables in the God of War Temple and achieved success ?”

Noticing Heragor's gaze, Gawain nodded: "Indeed, we brought in some equipment and supplies from outside, and built a small-scale hydroponic farm in the Temple of the God of War. The harvest was good, and we I also tested a circulating water purification facility that does not rely on magic power, and it was also successful..."

Belsetia next to her was stunned. She stared at Gawain, "How could you think of doing this kind of experiment in God of War's kingdom?"

"Why not?" Gawain spread out his hands, "When you find a place with a mild environment and a stable climate that happens to have never grown vegetables, don't you want to grow something?"

Belsetia thought for a while, but was speechless.

Heragor, on the other hand, understood the fact that "the Cecils tried to grow vegetables in the Kingdom of the God of War and succeeded", and he was not even at all surprised when he first learned about it, because he knew very well that this was exactly what happened. It is an important part of the many technologies of Alien Exploration—and it is a rare part that can be lit without triggering the "final disobedience".

For this leader of the dragon clan who once personally led the giant dragon aerospace project, he actually noticed this from Gawain's many actions a long time ago... The eyes of the Cecilians have already turned to him at some point. The sea of ​​stars.