Volume 19 Chapter 246 Factory?

Looking down from the air, the jungle is no longer a factor blocking the view. On the contrary, the small open space that appeared in a large green jungle became extremely obvious because of the huge color contrast. It would be fine if nothing could fly here under normal circumstances, but the scythe just happened to bring me to the top of the cave, so the lice on the bald man's head were clearly visible here.

"It's over there, hurry up." While using telepathic contact to notify Emmenis and them to come quickly, I directed the sickle to 'swing' towards that location.

In American comics, Spider-Man moves very fast, and facts have proven that using spider silk to swing forward is indeed very fast. It only took us a few dozen seconds to fly to the vicinity of the clearing, and then the sickle decisively bit off the spider silk just as we were about to reach the sky above the clearing. After losing the traction of the spider silk, we did not land immediately. Instead, we continued to fly forward along with the inertia we had swung before. At this time, when we started to fall, we happened to reach the sky above the open space. .

The timing of the scythe cutting the web was perfect, so we hit almost directly in the center of the clearing. With the help of eight long jointed limbs, the sickle made a perfect landing. Not only did it not slide forward, but the impact of the fall was completely absorbed by his long legs. I only felt a slight fall while riding on his back. It feels like there are no obvious impact marks at all.

After the scythe landed firmly on the ground, I immediately turned over and jumped off the back of the scythe. Then I ran directly to the strange device in the center of the open space and observed it.

The device standing in the center of this open space is quite strange in shape. Its main body is a round pillar, about four meters high. Three metal bars stretched out from the top of the pillar like helicopter blades. However, these metal bars did not expand horizontally, but bent downward and then connected to the upper part of the pillar about three meters above the ground. position, and these three blades are not bent vertically, but have moving rotation angles. For example, the bottom end of the blade with the top facing me is connected to the back and right side of the column before being connected to the column body, while the bottom end of the blade with the top located behind the right side of the column is connected to the left rear side of the column.

This strange blade structure is quite rare to be honest, but it is just rare, not completely unseen. At least I've seen this kind of thing before, but not in a game, but in reality. I remember that it was on a ship, and the device at that time was very small, with a total height of only about one meter, but the structure was exactly the same as this thing. I remember that I asked about the function of this thing. The people on the boat told me that it was an anemometer, which was used to measure wind speed.

It's normal to have an anemometer on a boat, no matter how outlandish it may be. But, what can I do with this thing in this underground cave? From the time we came in until now, I haven't felt any wind here at all. There is rarely any wind in the underground cave, not to mention a large tropical rain forest growing here. Not to mention that this is a cave deep underground, there is no wind even deep in the tropical rainforest of South America. After all, the ability of trees to block airflow is too strong. Maybe it's windy if it's higher than the treetops, but the thing in front of us is only a little over four meters tall, while the shortest trees around it are all over six meters tall. Surrounded by a circle of such tall trees, even if this thing was an anemometer, I guess it wouldn't be able to measure the true wind speed. Moreover, now that there is no wind at all, this thing is spinning by itself, and the speed is quite fast. Although it is not to the point where you can't even see the blades clearly, it is still spinning at a speed of two seconds.

"Brigis, help me see what this is." Everett is helping me dig out the electromagnetic railgun outside, so for the time being, I can only ask Brigitte, who is also a construct, to help. In any case, the bodies of constructed creatures are also made of machinery, so they inherently understand mechanical systems better than we do.

After being summoned, Brigitte immediately cast two green lights from her eyes and scanned the thing up and down several times, and then said: "There is a heat source reaction inside the cylindrical cavity. It is suspected that the bottom of the cylinder There are geothermal resources connected to it, and the pieces around the column are simple energy collectors that work with rising hot airflow, and there is a transmission device connected to the bottom."

"You mean this is a windmill?"

"From a structural point of view, yes." Brigitte replied affirmatively.

"So where is the power sent?"

"The power generated by the operation of the windmill is transmitted underground. I can see through perspective that there are a large number of cavities below the surface. There should be a group of underground buildings under our feet."

"It seems we have found the target." I looked around, and then asked Brigitte: "Can you see where the entrance is?"

When Brigitte heard my question, she didn't answer immediately. Instead, she scanned all directions with her eyes. In the end, she didn't even miss the ground. However, she finally found the entrance.

"You said we were standing above the entrance?"

"Yes." Brigitte replied affirmatively: "The signal returned by the electromagnetic radiation scan can confirm that the power of this windmill is connected to a simple lifting device."

"It's actually an elevator that uses geothermal energy." I sighed and started looking for a way to open the elevator together with Brigitte. However, we couldn't find the switch even though we searched in circles. In the end, Brigitte used her clairvoyance ability. After scanning the underground structure, we confirmed that the switch is inside the elevator, and now the elevator is closed, which means we are standing on the top of the elevator.

Although the elevator switch was not found, Brigitte's discovery made me sure of one thing, that is, the owner here may live here alone.

This inference is actually easy to understand. If there is more than one person living here, then designing such an elevator will face a problem, that is, once one person comes out, the person inside will be trapped to death, because when the elevator goes up, the person below will The people there couldn't lower it at all, so they had to wait for people outside to come back and lower the elevator back down so that others could use the elevator again. In the same way, if several people come out together, if they do not come back together, then the person who comes back first will drive down the elevator, and the person who comes back later can only find a way to call the people below to drive up the elevator to pick him up, otherwise he himself The elevator cannot be operated at all. Obviously, such a setup is quite inconvenient. Anyone who has the ability to design such an elevator would definitely not do such a stupid thing, so the only reasonable explanation is that there is only one owner here, and he does not need to consider the issue of the second person entering and exiting.

Although we roughly guessed that there was only one owner here, we still couldn't open the elevator. In the end, I had no choice but to get the pepper back through Ling, who was still directing the excavation work on the other side of the passage. Chili's mental force field can move objects with her thoughts, and it can be used even if there are things across her. However, the thicker the partition, the more her power will be weakened. Fortunately, I just need her to flip the switch on the elevator. Besides, the thickness of the ground is less than half a meter, so this distance will have little impact on Pepper's mental force field.

After Chili controlled the electric guillotine-like switch and pushed it upward, we immediately heard a sound of metal friction. The windmill above slowed down significantly, and the ground under our feet began to rise slowly.

Since the power of the windmill driven by the updraft is very small, the only way to drive the elevator is to rely on the gear set to amplify the power. However, when the power increases, the output power of the windmill will not change. Therefore, although the elevator is moving, the speed is extremely slow. Fortunately, this is a dedicated elevator, and the distance up and down is only a few meters. If an ordinary building was equipped with such an elevator, I think most people would rather climb the stairs. With the speed of this thing, if you go to the tenth or eighth floor, you still have to wait for hours?

I couldn't bear to watch that thing take a long time to rise to less than a foot high like a snail, so I simply asked Brigitte to hold on to the windmill to help speed it up. Because she is a construct, Brigitte's joints can rotate infinitely, so she can grab the windmill and spin it at high speed to help it accelerate.

Sure enough, once the speed on the windmill increased, the speed of the elevator here was also significantly faster. However, due to the problem of gear ratio, it still took several minutes to lift the whole thing to the ground.

The elevator that was lifted up was not very big as I expected, and this thing was not square, but a circular space. Based on the size of the space here, it is estimated that only four to five people can stand at the same time, and they would have to squeeze together.

I was about to go down to take a look when I suddenly heard someone shouting. When I looked up, I found that it was Su Lun and Amynis coming over. Now that they have arrived, I simply put away Emmenis and the familiars. Anyway, I won't need Emmenis to dispel the illusion for the time being.

After putting away the magic pet, Su Lun and I stood on the elevator together, pulled down the guillotine-like switch, and the elevator immediately began to descend. Fortunately, the designers here are not too stupid. They know that there is no need for wind power when descending, as long as there is a deceleration device, so our descending speed is obviously much faster than when we came up.

Since this elevator only has half a wall with no doors, we saw the situation below before the elevator even landed. Contrary to our expectations, this place is not a place like an ancient tomb or a magic tower. Of course, what I mean is that the style is different. As for whether this place is the above two types of things, we have to wait until the investigation is completed to know. But from what we could see, it looked more like a factory than a ruin.

The back of the elevator is against the wall, and there is a corridor in front of it, but it is not a dedicated corridor connecting the elevator, but a passage. This corridor is horizontal. The elevator descends right in the middle of the corridor, with roads on both sides. But what we are paying attention to now is not the roads on both sides, but the pipes on the walls of the passage. The walls of the entire corridor are almost invisible. The rocks behind them are almost invisible. The walls are densely lined with countless pipes of varying thicknesses. Some pipes protrude from the ceiling. Walk horizontally in the passage for a while. 'Insert' into the ground, some pipes lead out from one side of the wall, go around the ceiling for a while, and then suddenly turn into the opposite wall. Of course, there are more pipes arranged along the passage with no ends on both sides. pipeline. At that moment, I felt like I was in Essinger's main power zone. The magic pipes there were similar to this one, but not as dense as here. Fortunately, these pipes are just arranged there quietly, without a little steam spraying from the east or a few drops of water leaking from the west. Otherwise, I would definitely think that this is the production workshop of a chemical factory.

"Which way are we going?" Su Lun asked after looking around.

"Please, you are a guide and you ask me?"

"But I've never been here before!"

"That's fine." I turned to the left and said, "Go this way first. If you don't find anything, go to the other side."

Su Lun nodded and quickly followed my footsteps, but I took two steps and stopped again. After thinking about it, I summoned a large group of death guards to guard the elevator, so that if something comes over there, they can at least give me an early warning.

After arranging the death guards, we moved forward along the passage. Fortunately, this passage is not long and there are no side roads. Not far away we heard a buzzing sound, which became louder and louder as we continued forward. Soon when we reached the end of the passage, we saw a curtain door that looked like a strip curtain hanging at the entrance of a shopping mall. However, the door in front of us was not made of plastic rubber, but cotton. It looked like cotton. The quilt is the same, surprisingly thick.

We were surprised to see this curtain at first, but when we opened it we understood why there is such a thick cotton curtain here. We could hear the clear roar of machinery from the side of the curtain, but the sound was just like a starting truck. However, after we opened the curtain, the starting truck immediately turned into A plane, and it's taking off.

"Is this a factory?"

"What did you say?" Su Lun shouted at me with a blank look on his face after I finished speaking. He only heard what I said, but couldn't hear what I said specifically, because the noise here was so loud that you had to shout loudly to make others hear what you said.

I waved my hand without shouting to Su Lun, directly motioning for him to follow, and then continued forward. There is a door one meter away behind the curtain door, but this door is covered with a thick layer of animal skin, probably for sound insulation. The sound here is already noisy enough, but I didn't expect that it was the sound coming from another door. If there was no door in front of me, the sound would probably deafen people's ears.

After looking at Su Lun, I turned around and shouted to him: "The sound inside must be very loud. Plug your ears before going in. If something happens, just signal. If not, just use this." I said and handed it over directly. Give him a crystal the size of a mobile phone. "Hold this thing and think out what you want to say. This crystal will translate your words into words and display them. If you have anything to say, use this thing to communicate with me."

Su Lun curiously took the crystal and tried it, and found that it could indeed display the words he wanted, so he nodded to express his understanding and found something to plug his ears.

After confirming that Su Lun was ready, I also put down the helmet visor and activated the sound isolation function. I adjusted the already quite noisy sound around me until it was almost inaudible before I dared to open the door. Almost the moment I pushed the door open, the noise that I had reduced to the humming of a mosquito suddenly turned into the noise level of a civilian car. Although it didn't sound very noisy, it was my adjustment after all. After removing the sound insulation effect of the helmet, I estimate that if I took off the helmet now, Lima would have a ruptured eardrum.

Su Lun's earplugs obviously didn't have as good a sound isolation capability as my helmet, so he quickly covered his ears as soon as he came in, but it looked like he was having a hard time doing this. I looked at the second curtain that appeared behind the door, and simply took out the crystal and asked Su Lun to go out and wait for me. When Su Lun saw the curtain in front, he knew that it would be noisier behind there than here, so he didn't hesitate, said to wait outside, turned around and ran out.

After seeing Su Lun go out, I turned around and closed the soundproof door, then turned down the volume of the helmet again before I dared to open the door curtain in front. This curtain is also like the first one. After opening this curtain, the noise increased again. However, I have adjusted the sound insulation effect, so the sound is still acceptable now.

After passing through this curtain, the passage ended, and what appeared in front of me was a huge horizontal room. What I stood at my feet was a metal hanging ladder, which was at least ten meters high from the floor of the room in front of me. The whole room is shaped into a very regular rectangular parallelepiped. The length in the left and right directions is about 800 meters. The width from my place to the opposite wall is about 100 meters. In other words, this room is at least 80,000 square meters. In addition, the height of this room is about fifty meters. The escalator I am standing on is located in the middle and lower part of the wall. Although it is still more than ten meters from the ground, it is actually less than half the height of the room.

This huge room is quite clean. The surrounding walls and ceiling are all made of smooth stone slabs, and there are no traces of protrusions or gaps on the surface. There is nothing complicated or messy inside the room, there are only six identical giant machines neatly arranged in the room.

The appearance of this machine can basically be divided into three parts. The first is a base. This part is circular, about seventy meters directly. The height of the base is about fifteen meters, and the lower ten meters are basically vertical to the ground. The top five meters begin to evenly narrow inward to form a top platform with a diameter of about sixty meters. In the center of this platform stands the second part of the machine. This part is also cylindrical, with a diameter of about fifty-five meters and a height of more than twenty meters. However, its edges are not flat, but are composed of concave and convex structures. These concave and convex structures look like the edges of gears.

Since the upper part is much thinner than the lower part, there is a circle of platforms around the top of the lower structure that people can walk on, and there are railings outside. Apparently people often walk on it, and I also found that the lower layer There is a metal ladder connecting the edge to the ground, which is obviously convenient for getting up and down.

In addition to these two main parts, the third main part is the pipes connected to the bottom of the machine. There are about fifty or so pipes, with three of the thickest pipes and others thicker and thinner, but they seem to be arranged neatly and do not look messy. These pipes will bend immediately after extending out of the machine base and then vertically 'inserted' into the ground. I don't know where they are connected below.

Looking at the row of giant machines in front of me, I immediately thought of one thing - generators.