Invincible Chapter 279

There are traces to be observed and accounts to be settled.

Kane's Haoshen belief in Deness Bay is considered to be the latter.

Operating at a loss and getting into trouble. Because too much faith borrows.

He had expected this, but he still chose to let go of the hole.

What if we don't? Those people desperately need a miracle to save them.

If there is no miracle, one third will die, the disabled will eventually account for more than half of the total survivors, and the medicines will be exhausted in a very short time.

Relying on the tens of thousands of people who survived and so many burdens, even if there is a mountain of supplies in Deness Bay, they cannot be effectively used in a short period of time.

The result is that they all die.

It is precisely because people vaguely understand this point that they are extraordinarily pious, because they have no other choice but to pray to gods and Buddhas.

Kane doesn't want to give people a false hope, and he doesn't want to give it but kill it with his own hands.

As a result, no one knows that Kane will take on the shoulders all at once, similar to the risk of breaking the capital chain, which has appeared since the release of the rule allowing faith lending.

Of course, it is a good thing for believers to have a high level of devotion, but this loan test is to test the reserve of divine power.

Does Kane have it?

No. He is still waiting for the power of faith to be collected and transformed into divine power before he can bestow divine spells.

But believers can't afford to wait.

His life was in danger and he was in urgent need of medical treatment. Disasters happen frequently, and time is precious.

what to do?

There is no good way, and Kane can only gamble.

The purpose of gamblers' belief in borrowing money is mainly to treat the wounded and strengthen their bodies.

Because if this is the case, the soul energy he harvested before, especially life energy, can be distributed instead of healing magic, and the divine power converted from the power of faith harvested can be used to meet a small amount of other types of magic needs.

If he loses the bet, Haoshen Faith may not go bankrupt directly, but from the perspective of income and expenditure, he is more likely to lose money.

Because that meant that the rescue could not be completed as he expected, and it was still a situation of insufficient labor and a lot of burden. People are expected to die within the next two months. His investment behavior is tantamount to failure.

Fortunately, judging from the current trend, he won the bet.

However, the reserve of extraordinary power is still tight, and he doesn't know if he can withstand the next consumption.

There are more than 100,000 survivors in Deness. Haoshen Faith has expanded rapidly because of its great power at critical moments. Driven by the human instinct of chasing ups and downs, more and more people have completed self-brainwashing and sincerely Believe in God.

Every day, a large number of believers cross the loan line of piety level 3.

Of course, it is not a matter of a trustworthy citizen who chooses to borrow money as soon as he has enough credit. The wave of frostbite healing has basically passed. But the dangerous period has not passed.

He learned through the belief system that the people there have established a self-rescue organization headed by pastors, and the remaining power of officials and dignitaries has been completely wiped out there.

They have already started to build shelters, and the first part is to restore the energy towers and use them intensively.

Using energy towers in such a way that the thermal radiation range overlaps is indeed a good way to deal with climate disasters. But natural disasters don't wait until people are ready to arrive.

Therefore, luck is really important until people have established a minimum self-preservation system.

Kane knew that once the natural disaster came again, there would be a large wave of loans and many bad accounts. Therefore, his faith management is quite difficult. You have to keep some deposits to prevent sudden expenses.

Under such a background, he is also afraid to go surfing in Iceland.

If the purse is not bulging, the waist is not straight, this principle is suitable for most men.

Instead of entering Iceland, Kane chose to transform a dreadnought ship, the Renown, which was frozen in the sea more than 100 nautical miles south of Iceland.

The dreadnought of the original world was launched in 1906. Because of the black technology of steam, this dreadnought appeared earlier in this world.

Seriously speaking, some indicators and designs of this dreadnought ship are actually only equivalent to the level of the former dreadnought class, which is commonly known as the ironclad ship, but others are sharper than the super dreadnought, so Kane made a compromise. Call them dreadnoughts.

Dreadnoughts are Britain's current main battleships. Like the Renown, which has a displacement of 22,000 tons, it is a big guy. Kane also took a fancy to this, and it will be no problem to remodel it to accommodate the Heavenly Train.

The Renown was hit by a bomb cyclone, and the antenna, chimney, bridge, and even the turret were all damaged to varying degrees. The ultra-low temperature also completely stuck it, making it trapped on the ice, as if it had been welded to death.

In this sea area, there are quite a few ships in a situation similar to the Renown, and the members of the ship naturally got off the ship and escaped on foot.

Given the climate here, breaking the ice would be an extremely strenuous choice. Kane decided to let it sink first, and then go to the unfrozen seabed.

In order to convert the Renown dreadnought into the Renown submarine, Kane had to create more Soulsteel.

This time, he was using his wealth. Fortunately, there were enough high-quality metals on the Renown, and the soul power he had harvested was also extremely sufficient.

During the transformation day and night, Tie Zhu showed his talents, and the brain-implanted puppets played the role of senior technicians. After four days and five nights, the transformation was completed.

The original Renown was left intact in the end, just the hull, excluding the top.

In fact, even the hull has undergone considerable changes, such as the bow, the keel, and even the inside of the ship's walls are etched with magic circles. After all, Kane's request is to dive 1,000 meters deep. It’s not enough to see, mainly because the material is not good enough.

The remodeled Renown is not like the early submarines, and it is also different from the loaf-shaped submarines of later generations. It seems that the whole body of the splint of the battleship has been changed into a curved fusiform top cover.

It has fins, dorsal fins, and tail fins, but there is no command tower or pilothouse. After all, it is half magic and half science, and periscope does not need conventional means to complete.

In addition, the miniature nuclear reactor that Kane carried with him was enough to drive the iron pillar, but it was not enough to meet the needs of the Renown.

In addition, the equipment of the science and technology department is too complicated, especially the high-precision parts, which cannot be manufactured by deformation of the current iron pillars. Moreover, the components of a submarine are not all steel, and the properties of some components cannot be hardened by steel. of.

In Kane's view, this is actually a manifestation of backward technology.

Why is the complex and high-precision one lagging behind? Because the real brilliance is to simplify the complex and return to the basics.

Mass-energy conversion machines, atomic-level deconstruction and holographic printing spray guns, super quantum computers. In the world of Supreme Commander, you only need to carry an engineering vehicle that combines these three technologies to travel around the universe.

The reason why magic is magical is because it achieves a similar effect in another way.

Therefore, as long as you are willing to pay for resources, the magic furnace will replace the nuclear reactor, and the magic circle will replace the engine. The Renown will not only have propeller propulsion, but also jet boost and cavitation-like technology, which will allow the submarine to cruise at an astonishing 45 knots.

Under the action of magic, the solid ice on the hull of the Trapped Renown turned into an ice-blue flame and burned. Science explained that magic broke down the solid ice into hydrogen and oxygen, so what was actually burning was hydrogen.

The Renown slowly sank in the flames, and when it surfaced again, it was already an unnamed bay in the northeast of Greenland.

The bay is unknown, but the port is famous, Port Hope, one of the two large deep-water ports built by the British in northern Greenland.

To say that Britain in this era is worthy of being an empire on which the sun never sets, even without the wealth from East Asia and South Asia, it still has strong national strength. Especially when the dignitaries who possessed real wealth invested regardless of the cost, many miraculous projects were realized in a short period of time, including this Port of Hope.

only……

Kane rubbed his chin, and looked through the magic window suspiciously at the scene of the port captured by the drone.

The port turned out to be abandoned.

The port town, streets, docks, and ships docked in an orderly manner were all buried in ice and snow, no one cleaned it up, and no pedestrians could be seen. It seemed that it had been abandoned for a while.

What happened?

Kane thought for a moment and decided to deal with his own affairs first.

It's easy to say, just choose a suitable anchor point for Renown.

Kane chose the icy cliffs on the harbor side.

On the coastline of Greenland, the most indispensable thing is this kind of cliffs made of solid ice.

The bow of the Renown, made of soul steel, undergoes an unconventional deformation to form a huge flat drill.

Kane manipulated the brain-implanted puppet and etched the magic circle on the drill.

When the magic circle is activated, twelve beams of light shoot out from the side of the drill bit, and six beams of light converge toward the center. Together, they form a power drill that extends far beyond the hull.

The effect of this drill bit cutting solid ice is like a red-hot soldering iron piercing a solidified butter block. There is no such sluggish feeling at all. That wall of ice is melting.

The giant ice tunnel more than 300 meters deep was dug in less than a quarter of an hour.

The Renown backed out, then backed up and drove in.

Then use magic to generate solid ice to seal the hole below sea level.

The next step is to inject water into the tunnel, and use the buoyancy of sea water to raise the reputation as a whole.

This was followed by the construction of an ice base between the bottom of the ship and the bottom of the tunnel. This work is not difficult. You only need to draw a magic circle at a designated location, and then quickly generate icicles through the strong heat absorption in the area.

In this way, when the ice gate at the entrance of the tunnel was reopened, the water level would recede, and the Renown was supported by icicles, and it also had a 7-degree inclination angle, which was naturally designed for the convenience of launching.

In addition, on the right side of the Renown, a pier was built.

The reason why it is so complicated is mainly because once the iron pillar is out of the joint state, it is equivalent to taking away the middle and upper third of the front and rear of the Renown.

Without this unique trailer, the Renown would have sunk if it were in the water.

Kane thought it might be used in the future, so he didn't let it be destroyed.

In addition, the resources that Kane searched for were also carried in the ship, which were all extracted by using magic. They were originally pulled by the train of heaven, but the deformed front of the iron pillars alone could not pull them away. It would be a pity to discard them. , so there is this investment.

The entrance to the tunnel was re-frozen, and a tunnel was cut diagonally from the pier to the top of the iceberg.

After the iron pillar came out along with the tunnel, Kane made an ice door at the entrance, so that a large hidden berth was completely created.

When transforming Renown, the steel pillars increased in value and became larger, transformed into heavy-duty trucks, and while loading part of the essence resources, Kane came down from the top of the glacier and visited Lower Hawke’s Harbour.

The topographic features of the entire port are like the mouth of a glacier river.

A long ditch with cliffs on both sides, from a dozen meters to tens of meters to more than a hundred meters, the heights increase sequentially. The closer to the port, the higher the cliffs and the lower the ground in the ditch.

When we get to the pier, it looks like a bell mouth that suddenly opens, with icebergs and cliffs on both sides, forming a natural high-quality deep-water port that is almost surrounded.

It's not too big, with a span of only 2.4 kilometers, and at the root of the bell mouth, there is about 1.7 square kilometers of frozen soil. Many functional buildings in Hope Town are concentrated in this area.

After some exploration, Kane found that there was not even a grain of grain left here, and there was not even a little bit of coal and other materials left. The room was empty, and the furniture and everything had been emptied.

"This is too cruel!" Kane said in his heart: "Even the coal on the boat has been transported away, so I really don't plan to use these boats anymore? You know, there is still some time before the curtain of the sky comes over, why don't you take the opportunity to go to sea and get more from the ocean?" How about some food?"

Food, this is what Kane can't figure out the most.

5 million people fled north, even if the Faroe Islands, Iceland and other places can write off 3 million people, there are still 2 million people.

The cold weather consumes a lot, and the average daily consumption per person is based on 1 catty of flour and half a catty of vegetables, which is 1,000 tons of flour and 500 tons of vegetables per day.

Britain has the world's largest shipping capacity in this era, but so what? Anyway, he didn't believe that enough grain could be shipped in two years.

After all, the British still have to build a shelter here, and there are too many supplies to be transported.

Then, why spend a lot of money to open up this port on the east coast where the natural conditions are already bad, but close the port early?

In particular, the literal translation of the name of this port is 'hope'. Does the closure of the port mean the severance of hope? This is a bit too ironic.