Chapter 531 Accidents

Until the end, Gawain still couldn't figure out Veronica's true intentions.

But he at least made sure of one thing - the Virgin Princess, who is extremely pious in everyone's eyes, may not be as pious as she shows, or the object of her piousness is not the saint created by the Northern Church. Light Faith.

The visitors of the capital have left, and a huge source of wealth has been opened. The port leading to the Holy Spirit Plain will bring a lot of money and materials to the newly-born Principality of Cecil. Leaving here, before the arrival of the cold month, a series of trade routes established by Cod in the eastern border can be on the right track.

In the study room of the lord's mansion, Gawain handed a document to the Minister of Commerce Patrick: "You are responsible for the establishment of the 'White Sand Mining Company', you can move the latest mining machines and blasting consumables at will, I only have one request : Mining the most mines in the shortest time and shipping them back.”

"Yes."

After Patrick left, Gawain lowered his head again, quickly signed the second document, and placed it on a metal plate below the magic web terminal. With a slight buzzing sound, the document was transferred. and copying.

The projection of Wald Perich's half body appeared on the top of the magic net terminal, and Gawain nodded to the old knight: "Prepare a special trestle in the port area of ​​Rock City for the merchant ships from the Holy Spirit Plain to dock. Just bring back the materials and all the gold coins mentioned in the list attached to the document, and send the rest of the materials directly to the Rock City Arsenal to be processed into swords and armor for them to pull back."

The old knight on the holographic projection gave a knightly salute: "Yes!"

The magic net terminal was closed, Gao Wen rubbed his brows and breathed a sigh of relief, while Amber's voice came from behind him: "You really spare no effort to bully people - it's almost the same as Ming robbed."

Gao Wen didn't turn his head back: "I didn't let Walder process in front of them, and what is a clear grab? The cost of technology is not the cost?"

"Then the cost of your technology is high enough."

"I can't let the Holy Spirit Plain infiltrate too many spies to the south through the opportunity of trade, I've shown them enough things," Gawain waved his hand, and then directly skipped the topic, "Compared to this, You should focus more on the establishment of the Eastern Border Intelligence Network, Cod has opened up the business route there, and it is time for the Military Intelligence Bureau to show its skills."

Amber immediately waved his hand proudly: "Don't worry, the first batch of operators has long since set off with Cod's caravan."

Gawain nodded, stood up and moved his hands and feet.

He eased his slightly stiff joints, but just as he was about to sit down again, a faint sound of explosion suddenly came from afar - "Boom!!!"

Amber's figure disappeared into the air almost instantly, and Gawain suddenly looked in the direction of the explosion sound—it was the Magic Technology Research Institute.

problem occurs?

"Come and see with me." "Mom?!"

Gawain scooped up the side, picked up the invisible amber, and left the study. At the same time, through the crystal glass window of the study, the building complex in the direction of the Magic Technology Research Institute had already risen. smog...

When Gawain arrived with a sprint and a charge all the way, a large number of people had gathered around the Institute of Magic Technology - the soldiers maintaining order were blocking irrelevant people from the blockade. The security personnel are cooperating with the soldiers who came to help to transfer the wounded to the square in front of the institute. The medical staff in short doctor's gowns have arrived and are giving emergency treatment to those who are burnt and blown up. Several heavily armed white knights also arrived at the scene and cooperated with the doctors to treat the wounded.

A building flanking the Magical Technology Research Institute was blasted with a large hole, and thick smoke was rising from the large hole.

It looks like an experimental accident? Or did Rebecca finally rub a big fireball in the lab?

The order at the scene seemed to be under control - the safety drill system that had been in place for a long time finally had an effect at this moment. Gawain passed through the busy soldiers and medical staff, and shouted: "Where is the person in charge? Report the situation!"

Amber, who was caught all the way, didn't care to protest after realizing that there was an accident here, but followed behind Gawain. At this time, she saw a figure standing in the open space with sharp eyes, so she immediately followed. He poked Gawain's arm: "Over there—Rebecca is over there!"

Gawain followed the direction of Amber's finger and finally saw Rebecca, who was standing at the edge of the crowd, still looking a little frightened.

He ran over immediately.

Rebecca's face was blackened by smoke, and her clothes were tattered by the explosion, but apart from a few obvious scratches, she didn't seem to be seriously injured. After that, the girl immediately shouted: "Master Ancestor!! The laboratory exploded!!"

"Are you all right?" Gawain looked at Rebecca's whole body for the first time, and continued after confirming that the girl was not seriously injured, "What's going on? How are the casualties? How did the laboratory explode? of?"

Rebecca turned her ears sideways and continued to shout loudly: "Ah? The wind is so strong that I can't hear!!"

"She was shaken," Pittman also arrived at the scene at some unknown time. The little old man held a cane made of oak and shook it beside Rebecca's head. A pale green halo descended, and he quickly healed Looking at the injuries all over Rebecca's body, "This should be fine."

"Ah, the wind has stopped." Rebecca shook her head with a look of surprise on her face.

Pittman bowed slightly to Gawain: "I was testing the newly completed artificial nerve cord in a nearby laboratory. When I heard the explosion, I immediately rushed over with the apprentices."

Gawain nodded. He realized that Rebecca had been bombed at the scene, so he turned to Pittman to learn about the accident: "How are the casualties? How much damage?"

"Three people were seriously injured, and a dozen were slightly injured. The good news is that no one died," Pittman didn't continue to smile, but reported seriously and quickly, "Just leave the lightly wounded to the doctor, and the seriously wounded. I have already dealt with it myself, don't worry, I won't die, but I'm afraid it will take some days to fully recover. As for the damage... It seems that one laboratory has been completely destroyed, and another laboratory and a small laboratory have been affected next to it. Warehouse. As for the cause of the explosion, I don't know."

Hearing that no one died, Gawain was slightly relieved.

Fortunately, this is a world with extraordinary powers, and healing spells are far more effective than Earth's medical technology. As long as they don't die on the spot, they can basically be rescued.

As more white knights rushed to the scene, the order around the Magic Technology Research Institute was completely stabilized, and the seriously wounded were quickly moved to places more suitable for treatment.

Rebecca was completely harmless after receiving Pittman's treatment. She stood in front of Gawain with her head drooping, looking like she was ready to be beaten at any time - looking at her experienced gesture, she was afraid that Heidi The first time I came, I couldn't let go.

Of course Gawain didn't intend to beat her - at least he couldn't beat her without knowing the situation. He cleared his throat and asked Rebecca to raise his head: "What's going on?"

"We were testing the engine," Rebecca shrugged, "The engine of the magic train...then it blew up."

"The engine of the magic train?" Gawain was taken aback, "You built the engine of the magic train so quickly?!"

"No," Rebecca shook her head, "if it's built, it won't blow up - we just made a large amplifier and a set of high-power magic net, and we want to try it out to see how big it is. It takes a lot of power to push such a big engine, and it blows up."

While talking, Rebecca couldn't help shrinking her neck again: "I know you said that the train project can be done in a hurry, but I just want to do the pre-test first... And I didn't delay other projects. But the laboratory really exploded..."

Looking at Rebecca who looked like a frightened rabbit in front of him, Gawain couldn't help laughing and crying - of course he wouldn't punish Rebecca for doing these tests, but at the same time it was necessary for him to investigate the whole ins and outs of this accident. , and immediately began a series of aftermath work.

The explosion of the Magic Technology Research Institute is not a trivial matter, and it can be passed without joking. Although people often say that "there is no such thing as an explosion in the Mage's laboratory", the Magic Technology Research Institute has completely surpassed this era. There are too many ordinary people involved in the concept of "room", and the operation of the research institute itself is closely related to the lives of the citizens. The follow-up effects that can be produced by an explosion here will be much more.

In addition, the test project described by Rebecca also made Gawain vaguely aware of one thing: the manufacture of the magic energy train may not be so smooth.

This kind of accident happened just to test the amplification and power supply modules of the high-power magic engine...

In the next dozens of minutes, he learned from Rebecca many details before the explosion, the environment of the laboratory at that time, the data tested, and the various technical measures adopted. He also confirmed his own thoughts more and more.

Compared with other magic technology developed by Cecil so far, the magic energy train has many special features.

Gawain knew that the early trains on Earth were vehicles with relatively simple structures and low technical requirements, but in this world, steam engines with low technical requirements could not be built, and magic energy trains could only start from the rotary engine at the same time. In the beginning, this led to the technological starting point of the "train" of this world even higher than the "car".

The large-scale magic power engine with immature technology, the amplification device with complex structure, and the magic net structure whose output efficiency is affected by the scale of the runes and can only be rigidly connected, these factors have greatly increased the difficulty of research and development of magic power trains - and There is a bigger problem in the middle, that is, the magic energy train technology is a complete product of the "magic industry", and its foundation is completely new, so that many old magic technologies are not suitable for this field. use.

So far, Cecil has developed many "advanced things" that are inconceivable to outsiders, such as the magic web terminal that integrates instant messaging, holographic images, and file transfer functions, such as the rainbow light that uses energy beams as a means of killing. Cannons, such as heat ray guns, such as the White Knight’s inverter holy light device, these things seem to be trans-era, even super-era, but Gawain himself knows that the truth behind these things is just that the world has changed. There are only extensions and reorganizations of technology - ignorant people will marvel at how fast they have developed, but those who know the truth will realize the high level of technology in the world itself, and it is precisely because of those existing magical technologies that With a solid foundation, Cecil's magic industry has always been able to develop so smoothly.

But the magic energy train... it has gone too far on the road of the magic industry, so that it is difficult for the old magic technology to promote it so much.

There is no existing magic that can continue to optimize the magic net and the magic engine. The progress in this area must rely on the breakthrough of Jenny's Rune Research Institute and other materials science and engineering departments. Now it seems that Rebecca There must be a problem with this.

Fortunately, when he first proposed the concept of magic energy train, Gawain felt that the difficulty of this project might be very high, and he was fully prepared for it.

"Lord Ancestor..." Seeing Gawain pondering, Rebecca couldn't help rubbing her head. She guessed that she might not be beaten today, so she asked cautiously, "Then...this project needs to be stopped first. For a moment?"

Gawain woke up from contemplation, he saw the hope in Rebecca's dark face, and he had already made up his mind.

"It can continue, and I will find a way to deal with the follow-up impact of this incident. But in view of the lessons learned this time, all the testing links of the magic energy train project must be placed far away from the urban area. In addition, the experimental process is re-planned and safety protection is carried out. The measures should also be redesigned to ensure the safety of the experimental personnel, and to isolate people and experimental devices..."

Rebecca listened carefully one by one, and Gawain spoke one by one seriously.

In the process of technology development, accidents are always unavoidable. As early as the beginning of the construction of the territory, Hetty's laboratory was blown up by Rebecca crystals, but in the end the Rebecca crystals were not sealed, and is to shine in today's military and engineering fields.

As magic technology continues to develop, the scale of energy that people can master will inevitably become larger and larger. Today's explosion will not be the last, nor will it be the most powerful one, but even Rebecca has already done a good job In order to prepare to continue walking, Gawain naturally did the same.

All they can do in order to keep going is to be careful and careful, cautious and careful, doing everything possible to be safe—and then, again.