Chapter 1617 Murloc Tribute, Shutdown for Maintenance

After checking the physical condition of the main body of the floating city, Xia Duo speculated that it would take no more than ten days at most to build the flight control system without worrying about the main body being affected.

"This is really good news, but why am I not so happy?"

How could Xia Duo be happy when he thought about the Demon Restriction Treaty? No matter how reluctant he was, it was difficult for him to resist this fact at this stage.

"It's better to take one step at a time!"

For the longer-term future, Xia Duo is very confident, but for the nearer future, all he can do is to concentrate, be pragmatic, work hard to accumulate strength, and wait for the day when he can really exert his power.

…

After leaving the floating city, Xia Duo came to Fishman Island again. Now Fishman Island has become his territory, and the two fishman tribes on the island have naturally become his subjects.

Nowadays, the two murloc tribes no longer fight daily. Although there has not been much communication, they have begun to recuperate.

After a while, Xia Duo found that the water and grass fields of the two tribes had expanded a lot, and the battlefield in the center of the island had also been divided up, leaving only an empty area in the middle near the altar he had left before.

When Xia Duo "landed" above the altar, two fishmen quickly "flyed" out of the nearby water plants. One had green skin, with a dark back and a light belly, while the other had silver skin, and as he moved closer, The color becomes darker and finally turns into silvery blue.

As soon as the two murlocs flew out, they shook their big heads and shouted "ah ah ah ah". Xia Duo still couldn't understand the language of the murlocs. After using the spiritual link, he realized that these two guys were the island. Altar guards sent by the last two tribes.

——Tribute, tribute!

"Heh, is there a tribute?"

At this time, it was difficult for Xia Duo not to notice the two small piles of snow-white pearls facing each other on the altar. The crushed powder of these pearls has a certain healing effect.

After he showed interest in pearls last time, he didn't expect these fishmen to be so sensible. He didn't even come to collect them, but took the initiative to pay so much tribute.

However, Xia Duo thought that perhaps it was because the members of the Tower of Time came to the blue crystal plane to build the field generation base supporting the [Mythra] device before, and were seen by the murlocs, so this happened.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo still put away these two small piles of pearls, not that he was very interested in these pearls, but just wanted to establish such a vassal relationship.

Seeing him accept the pearl, the two fishmen guards shook their heads even more, and joy came from the spiritual link.

——Steamed buns, steamed buns!

Xia Duo understood that these fishmen were not only interested in steamed buns, but were actually interested in all the surface foods he had brought out before.

So, he took out a pile of steamed buns, bacon, and two barrels of low-alcohol ale that were originally used to store dry food from his personal space, then divided them into two parts and pushed them in front of the two fishman guards.

Although he didn't know whether fishmen could drink in the water, it didn't hurt to try. The gift from the gods must be a little special.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo took out two iron swords from his personal space, pushed them to the two fishmen respectively, and told them through the spiritual link:

——Bring the food back and give you the iron sword!

The message transmitted by the spiritual link was accurate. The two fishmen immediately let go of the food and grabbed the iron sword and turned around in circles several times.

——Thank God!

After that, Xia Duo said nothing more, disconnected the spiritual link, and teleported away directly.

…

The back of Fishman Island.

Seeing the [Mithra] device running well, Sha Duo couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't been here for more than ten days, and he was really worried that the device would explode.

Of course, from the moment he saw Fish-Man Island, he knew that the [Mythra] device had not exploded, but after all, it was more reassuring to see it with his own eyes.

After such a long absence, Xia Duo was not in a hurry to shut down the machine for maintenance. Instead, he went to the edge of the floating field to check the positioning beads used for detection.

Rays of bright light hit him one after another, and he quickly discovered the deformation trajectory of the field. After a little calculation, Xia Duo felt more at ease.

More than ten days have passed, and the positioning beads have shifted very little in the suspended field. Maybe it is caused by the air flow here.

If you want to reach the level of affecting the normal operation of the [Mythra] device, at the current cheap speed, you will have to wait at least another month or two.

In other words, for the suspended field alone, the maintenance cycle of the [Mythra] device can be extended to once a month.

It may actually take longer, but to be on the safe side, once a month is just right.

Next, Shado checked the stability of the David components of the [Mythra] device. After confirming that there were no major problems, he began to gradually remove the locking settings everywhere and prepare to shut down and restart.

Compared with startup, shutdown is relatively more complicated. In the future, the [Mythra] device will be the main energy source of the floating city. Even if there is a backup device, it should be possible to shut down instantly.

As the strong magical aura and the real light emitted during operation gradually dimmed, the [Mythra] device returned to the glimmering state of the original David String.

Like a spherical luminous jellyfish, its body is filled with various luminous lines.

Then, Xia Duo took this large jellyfish, which was nearly a hundred meters tall, into his portable space together with the cube adapter surrounding it that looked like its breeding box.

If it is in the floating city, there will be multiple floating field generation bases around the [Mythra] device.

During maintenance, you only need to switch to other bases to ensure that [Mythra] is in a gravity-free state at all times.

The so-called maintenance is actually to maintain the supporting facilities of the [Mithra] device. The device itself does not require much maintenance. It is more about shutting down to release the internal pressure accumulated by continuous work.

This pressure is mainly aimed at David's string. If the material improves in the future, or it is replaced with a real magic network string, there will be no need to shut down the machine.

There is also a very small chance that unstable David strings may need to be replaced.

Of course, excluding design problems, if some of the Davy strings become unstable and need to be replaced, I am afraid that the entire device will reach the end of its life.

…

There is a field generating base on the Fish-Man Island, so Shado naturally wants to check it carefully. It would be a big loss if the only [Mythra] device at present is destroyed on the field generating base.

This time, he did not simply check like when he checked the physical condition of the floating city just now, but carefully checked almost every mithril line inside and out.

The energy buffer core of the field generation base was also specially replaced, which is the arcane crystal.

This thing is completely worthless to Xia Duo now. In the past ten days or so, the blue crystal plane has accumulated arcane crystals equivalent to hundreds of thousands of standard arcane crystals.

It’s all like this now, and there will only be more in the future. At least until we find a way to consume it on a large scale, it’s just like water.

Then Xia Duo looked at the [Mythra] device on the vacuum side.