Chapter 10 Mysterious Device

After handing me the instructions for the energy extraction spell, Suzaku-chan started her explanation again. "The piece of material you see now is black, so you can all see it clearly, right?"

Everyone nodded.

Suzaku continued: "Okay. Now I have dragged up a fire spell. The magic balls are floating here. As long as I let go of the control, they will be decomposed and absorbed." As she said that, she loosened the control of the spell, and the stars were scattered. The red highlights began to float towards the material below. Suzaku said: "Now it is starting to absorb energy, but this guy is very big. This small fireball is not enough to make it completely invisible, so I am now starting to continuously replenish energy." As Suzaku continued Output, although the fireball was continuously absorbed, it did not disappear.

The piece of material was constantly absorbing energy, and it began to gradually become invisible. When it became completely invisible, Little Suzaku crushed the fireball. "Okay, what you see now is the material that has entered an invisible state. It is now placed on the ground, and underneath it is soil. Do you see the ground through it?"

Everyone shook their heads at this time. This thing is actually not completely invisible now. Its color has turned into a light white color, and there seems to be some blue mixed in. No matter how I look at it, I think it looks like the color of the sky. color'. I finally understood that this thing was not transparent but turned into the color of the sky. The Ruins of Essinger are on the seaside. There is no contrasting object near us. When it is connected to the sky and sea in the background, it is completely invisible. In fact, it is not transparent. As long as there is a contrasting object, it is easily visible. Discover.

Woma suddenly asked Suzaku: "What is this material called?"

"Empress Nuwa didn't give these things a name at the beginning. They were just trash."

Woma immediately said: "Is it okay for us to come up with a name?"

"Of course." Suzaku said very politely: "It's for you anyway. I don't care what you call me."

Woma looked at me: "President. The properties of this material are so suitable for Essinger's future flight plan. Can we just call it Sky Stone?"

"The name doesn't matter. The key is the purpose. What do you mean by suitable for flying technology?"

Woma immediately explained excitedly: "Esinger can lift into the sky, and this material can easily become one with the sky. If there is a city with the same color as the sky flying across the sky, who can see it? ? If there is a way to extract energy, we can even drain its energy at night and turn it black. Unless Essinger lands in the future, absolutely no one can discover it. "

"Yes, this property is really good." An invisible moving castle, I think it must be very interesting.

Little Suzaku said: "In addition to being invisible in the sky, the sky stone you named is also a good anti-magic barrier. I have just explained to you the way it absorbs magic power. As long as it exceeds the range of meters or continues to The magic under control will not be affected. Therefore, your defensive operations also need some adjustments. The first is that the mages must slow down their magic use speed."

"Didn't that affect our combat effectiveness?" a mage asked.

Little Suzaku shook his head: "This will indeed affect your combat effectiveness, but you have to consider that the enemy is worse than you. The power of slowing down your spell release requires you to control your spells. No matter what, wait until it leaves Mi's 'shoot' range and then release the control to let it fly by itself, otherwise all the spells fired will be sucked back. Your spell control distance should be able to exceed meters, after all, this distance is not very long. I know that most people are used to flying spells Release the control after being 5 meters away. But if you want to use spells in the city built in Sky City, you must learn to control the spell release distance. You must know that your enemies are more difficult than you. You only need to throw the spells meters away. The problem is, unless they can always control the spell to hit the target, they can't expect the spell to be effective. In fact, except for us god-level beings, it is impossible for ordinary mages to control the spell to a distance of 100 meters. That is It is said that almost no one has the ability to put spells on your city walls. Besides, as long as you pay attention to avoid it, there will be no problem. Even if the spell is launched onto the city wall, once it comes into contact with the Sky Stone, it will be like water. It will be sucked up immediately like a sponge without causing any damage at all.”

A warrior player asked: "How hard is this thing? It's a good thing not to be afraid of magic, but what about physical defense?"

"I can only say that it is harder than ordinary materials. But I have not tested how strong it is."

A German female player shouted: "Just take a few pieces and experiment."

Suzaku said quickly: "Anyway, the things are given to you. I don't care how you use them, but I will make it clear to you in advance that there are only so many things. It is not enough to build your city. It can only be mixed with other materials. You If you consume too much in other areas, I won’t be able to replenish it for you.”

"Then we'd better not do the experiment." Another player said distressedly.

Suzaku said: "Actually, it's not impossible to experiment, but you must be careful not to damage it too seriously. This material has the ability to self-repair. If it is cracked or a piece is missing, as long as energy flows in, it will automatically Repair the damage. But only if the damaged part does not exceed 75% of the total volume.”

"Then don't worry." I smiled and said, "We are not that violent yet."

There are many parts to testing the sturdiness of a material. The first is to test the ability to withstand impact. For comparison, we made some solid steel embryos, the shape of which is exactly the same as that of the Sky Stone, which is more convenient for comparison.

First, we erected the sky stone and steel embryo, and then the demon used a heavy hammer to smash them. The golem is very powerful, and its power is even more powerful after using a large war hammer. First, it hit the steel embryo. The devil picked up the sledgehammer and turned sideways like throwing a hammer, hitting the steel embryo.

There was a loud bang, and our ears were all shaken for a long time. The knocking situation is a little surprising. Originally we thought it would just sink a little. Little did he know that the devil actually broke the hammer. The huge war hammer head was embedded in the steel embryo. But there was only a bare stick left in the devil's hand.

Erlang Shen 'touched' the hammer head in the steel embryo and said: "Zi Ri! Is your demon puppet much stronger than mine?"

I smiled bitterly and said: "They have lost their strength!"

Because the hammer is damaged. The second time we had to replace it with an identical hammer. The demon was ordered to use the same power to knock on the Sky Stone, and then everyone blocked their ears and waited for the loud noise to happen. The golem still rotated in the same posture and hit the surface of the Sky Stone with a hammer.

boom! "oops!"

I don’t know if it’s because the golem is too powerful or if there’s something wrong with the quality of our hammer, but this time the hammer head was knocked off again. The metal handle in the demon's hand has been bent into the shape of the letter Z, but the Sky Stone is not damaged at all, but we discovered a strange change. The Sky Stone we used for experiments has been drained of energy and is now black, but the area near where it was hit turned into the color of the sky and the ground. The Sky Stone will only change color if it absorbs energy. Could it be that it can even absorb the mechanical energy when struck?

I was thinking, and suddenly a player said: "That's strange, where is the hammer head?"

When he said this, everyone started looking for the hammer head, but everyone found two unlucky guys at the same time. The unlucky first guy was seven or eight meters behind us. He fell to the ground and rolled around, and his left leg was missing from the knee joint down. Another person was lying on his back about forty meters behind us, with two people pressed under him.

The golem just broke the handle of the hammer when it hit the Sky Stone, because the hardness of the Sky Stone is quite exaggerated. Therefore, the hammer head did not sink in like it did when hitting the steel blank but bounced out. The flying hammer first broke the leg of the first guy, then hit the ground and bounced up again, hitting the stomach of the guy behind. The guy was sent flying and knocked down two people.

I saw how miserably those people 'touched' the Sky Stone again. "It's really hard enough! I just don't know if it will have the same effect after freezing!" Generally speaking, many hard objects will become quite fragile after freezing, such as steel. Once the temperature drops to a certain level, they will become like Glass is just as fragile.

With the help of the Ice and Snow Queen I summoned, we cooled the Sky Stone and a new steel embryo to a very low temperature. Because we couldn't use Freeze directly on the Sky Stone, we were slightly delayed. When the cooling was complete we tried the impact experiment again. Steel is as brittle as glass at this temperature. The devil hammered down and knocked off a large piece of the steel embryo, but the Sky Stone still showed no reaction.

Low temperature was ineffective and we tried high temperature again. But the experiment failed to proceed. When the temperature exceeds 1 degree, the Sky Stone no longer heats up, but directly converts the temperature into energy and absorbs it. Continuing to heat up is equivalent to replenishing energy to the Sky Stone, which is meaningless.

For the next wear resistance experiment, we used a large grinder, but the wear effect was very poor. After using up the entire grinding stone, we only left a one-foot-deep pit on the surface of the Sky Stone. Normally, a grinding stone should be able to make a two-meter-deep hole in the steel plate, but now it actually It was only ground to a depth of one foot. Although this experiment proved that the Sky Stone is not indestructible and can at least be polished and cut, there is no need to question its hardness.

Originally we planned to do pull experiments and torsion experiments. Considering the size of Sky Stone, forget it. We don’t have such a big machine. All experiments show that the Sky Stone has extraordinary earth properties and is fully capable of building cities.

After examining the hardness, we began to calculate how materials are used. Suzaku has clearly said that materials are not enough. Of course, we cannot start building a city directly. The first task is to count and measure the actual material usage so that we can make reasonable arrangements.

The calculation results are just as little Suzaku said, there is not enough material. In order to use it rationally, I had to plan again where to use the Sky Stone and where to use substitutes. First of all, the outermost layer of the city must use Sky Stone. After deducting this amount, calculate the remaining portion.

We worked on it until the afternoon and roughly planned out the usage plan. Erlangshen, who had been impatient for a long time, began to direct the puppet to work. The first thing we need to build is the city's underground armor layer. When it was originally designed, it was planned that the city would use a modular design. Of course, the armor would all use detachable structures in accordance with modular standards. According to the design plan. The base of the city is a square with a side length of 32 kilometers, which will be protected by 1024 armor plates.

Each armor plate is actually a cube 1,000 meters long, 1,000 meters wide, and 100 meters thick. The bottom 30 meters of the cube are entirely composed of Sky Stone. They have magic resistance and invisibility effects on the outside. The smooth sky stones will not stick to anything, and even if they take off from the ground, they will not lose their invisibility effect due to a large amount of soil. An approximately 70-meter-thick colorful sacred stone will be placed on top of the Sky Stone. Although the Colorful Divine Stone is not as good as the Sky Stone in terms of structural strength and magic resistance, this thing is open to supply, so there is no need to worry about quantity issues!

In fact, I originally wanted to place steel plates on the armor layer. Although it is not as good as the Sky Stone, it is at least stronger than the Colorful God Stone. But in the end, considering the weight issue, we gave up this idea. The density of Sky Stone is very small. I feel that it is almost as dense as foam plastic. It will not sink at all when thrown into water. Even winds above level 6 can blow it up. The density of the colorful sacred stone is also smaller than that of sea water, and it can float like wood in the water. Both materials are not very dense and are very suitable for the construction of Essinger. Although our gravity resistance device is very powerful, who doesn't want to save a little bit? At least the magic crystal consumption can be saved a little. If Essinger loses power at sea in the future, a city built with such light materials may not sink. When the time comes, it can at least be used as a ship if it crash lands on the sea.

Armor plate floor production is carried out separately. Anyway, it's time for the final 'one-time' assembly, so now we're going to mass-produce them according to standards. In addition to the bottom armor, the city wall also needs protection, so the actual construction requires not only 1024 blocks, but also a lot of land for the city wall. Fortunately, there are a lot of Erlang Shen dolls. It's faster to do.

The puppets first moved the sky stones and spread them into a square with an area of ​​one square kilometer, and then piled them up to a thickness of 30 meters. After completing this layer, use the same method to pile up the colorful sacred stones. After all is completed, Xiao Suzaku and Erlang Shen will personally hold the fusion charm and stick it on, and then the structure of these stone bricks will become a whole. Not only are the Sky Stones connected, but there are no gaps where the Sky Stone and the Five Colored Divine Stone join, as if they have grown together completely. If our guild had such a talisman, we wouldn't have to bother using a welding machine to weld the hull. Unfortunately, Erlangshen refused to give me such a talisman no matter what.

While making the armor, other players were directing the golems of their guild to carry the sky stones. They asked the golems to pile the sky stones into pre-made metal shells. These metal shells are all steel pillars with different lengths. The longest one is 30 kilometers long. Judging from the terrifying welding marks, a lot of work was spent to make these things. Steel columns vary in diameter. But they are all empty inside. After the Sky Stone was put in, it formed the shape of a stone pillar. With the fusion talisman, the stacked Sky Stone turned into a real stone pillar. After pouring the stone pillars out of the metal shell, players began to refill the sky stones inside. These steel pillars were actually just molds, which were used to quickly and accurately manufacture the girders.

Huge cities need support. Once such a large city flies, the force its base will bear is unimaginable. In the past, the bottom of the city was a single piece of rock, which was strong enough to support the weight. But today’s cities are modular. The armor part not only does not bear the support force but also consumes the power of the support system. For this reason, we need to build a strong enough support structure.

Our guild has internal support technology from the Turtle Clan. Coupled with the excellent performance of the super material Sky Stone, we can easily complete this support system. In fact, we have already calculated that after completion, although the new Essinger will be completely larger than the original one, its total weight will not even be one-sixth of the original one. Of course, this is all due to the excellent new materials. 'Sex' can be given.

The largest support beam is 30 kilometers long, and its base is a square with a side of 300 meters. Even though such a large beam has a density similar to that of foam plastic, it still weighs hundreds of tons. If our industry didn't have a large number of lifting equipment, it would be really troublesome!

Because there are more people and the design is reasonable. Our construction progress was surprisingly fast. Late at night, Essinger's bottom frame has been completed, but it is still just a keel, and nothing has been installed except the support frame. However, as long as this is completed, the speed of attaching various equipment will be much faster.

Taking advantage of the night, some huge secret equipment was transported to Essinger, all of which came from Steel City. These days we are building Essinger, and the repairs in Steel City have been completed. The new steel city has not only expanded but also added equipment. In the past, because we were mining and building at the same time, the city was in a mess. This time it happened that everything was planned through reconstruction. Now Steel City basically looks like a factory, not like a garbage dump before. These new equipment are the first set of products after the completion of Steel City.

After the equipment was transported to Steel City, another pile of supplies came from the sea, this time the supplies came from Atlantis. After the merger of the White Shark Tribe and the Mermaid Tribe, they used the technology of the two tribes to work together to complete the new equipment we secretly ordered. The ideas for these things came from a member of the guild's design bureau, but I have to admire his intelligence. In fact, Essinger's design has been adjusted so much this time because of his novel design. Because his design will allow Essinger to have mobility, that's why we put so much effort into converting the city into a mobile fortress. Of course, another reason is that someone pays for us. We don't have to worry about the renovation costs at all.

The construction of the city is still continuing, but the technical staff of our guild have gathered together to start assembling the super equipment transported from Atlantis and Steel City. The technicians first erected some huge roulette wheels. These things are made of a mixture of graphite steel and Atlantis' special alloy. Their strength is probably the highest among the equipment we currently manufacture, even with the Sky Stone. It's not much worse than I believe. These huge disks alone cost us almost 50 million crystal coins.

The disc was erected and then assembled with other types of discs. When they are assembled into a complete unit everyone can see that it is actually a huge wheel. This super metal wheel has a diameter of 70 meters and is almost as tall as a twenty-story building. What is more prominent about these wheels than their height is their width. The width of the huge wheels reaches 500 meters. It's like a roller.

These huge wheels make most of our members very strange, because they don't know what these things are for. What's even scarier is that there is more than one of them. After the first one is completed, the technicians start to instruct the puppets to assemble the second and third ones. It seems that there are many more of them.

At dawn, 30 such wheels were piled on the ground, which shocked those who were unaware. What on earth were so many giant metal wheels used for? Almost everyone is speculating on this question.

After these wheels were completed, our technicians started playing with new gadgets. The things this time are huge machines. Everyone in our guild knows this thing. This is an ordinary gravity resistance device. But this time the equipment is a little different. This time the gravity resistance devices are much smaller than the normal size, and each device seems to have a few extra parts, but no one knows what these new parts are used for.

The technicians asked the golem to use the Sky Stone to make some strips. The dimensions of these strips are exactly the same. The length is about 500 meters, slightly wider than those wheels, the width is about 50 meters, and the thickness is 8 meters. These strip plates were wrapped by technicians with some metal items shipped this time. It seems that these sizes were planned at the beginning, because the sizes of these metal wrapping layers are just enough to fix the long plates of the Sky Stone. The wrapped stone slabs were spread apart, and then the researchers placed gravity resistance devices on these special slabs, which were also well designed in terms of size. The protrusions on the metal retainers just fit into the holes in the gravity-defying devices. After placing the gravity resistance device on the board and fixing it, the researchers used another board to fix it on top of the device. In this way, the gravity resistance device is sandwiched between the two layers of boards.

The slate is relatively long. But the resistance device is very short, and there is just one resistance device placed on one side of the board. The gap in the middle was filled with some sky stones. After the structure was completed, it was wrapped with a pre-made metal shell, and this time there were some strange devices on the shell that looked like extended probes.

When those metal parts were connected to the stone slabs of the Sky Stone, they turned into long, strange-shaped objects, but no one could figure out what they were for. By afternoon the technicians finally began to utilize the strips. It was only then that everyone suddenly understood what it was, and they even understood the function of those wheels.

These strips are placed horizontally together one by one, and then the connections on the metal casings can just lock each other. After the designers were busy all afternoon, 400 tracks were completed. These things are exactly the same as the tracks of a tank. There is almost no difference except that they are larger in size. Everyone can recognize them as tracks at a glance. But everyone is still curious, why are gravity resistance devices installed in these tracks?

Another sleepless night, the construction of Essinger is still in full swing. The fleet at sea brought new goods, and the technicians directed the golems to carry a large amount of equipment ashore. These devices are huge. It looks scary. Some parts are like the gantry crane at the dock, but the size is much larger. The supplies unloaded overnight were quickly used.

First, technicians laid a track flat on the ground, and then they put eight large wheels on it. I directed Lucky and Plague to help connect some strange devices. When completed, the equipment looks like the kind of large diesel engines found on luxury yachts, only extremely large. These devices that look like engines are actually engines, but instead of burning diesel, they are powered by magic crystals.

The researchers directed the golem to connect eight metal supports that looked like the letter y upside down, and then we connected the power equipment. These eight inverted Y-shaped brackets just rest on the eight wheel bearings. The drive shaft on the power plant is then connected to the support frame. This inverted Y-shaped support is not only a support, it is also a transmission device. When these were completed, the researchers passed the tracks through the wheels and buckled them shut.

Now if anyone can't figure out what this is, it's unreasonable. This thing is completely a crawler propulsion device. The only special thing is that there is a gravity resistance device in the crawler splint.

The researchers assembled the remaining parts according to this pattern. When all 400 crawler propulsion devices were completed, it was very spectacular. The huge crawlers and those supports are simply mobile buildings.

These are still not over. The third Phi device finally arrived. The quantity of the things shipped this time was small, but the volume was larger. What we see is a jack-like device, but of course, much larger. There are 401 of these jack-like devices in total. 400 of them are exactly the same, only one is particularly large.

The researchers commanded the totem dragons in the guild to turn over these hundred-meter-high super jacks one by one. Thanks to the totem dragons, like the guardian beasts, they were the guardians of the guild and did not disappear due to the destruction of Aixinger. Otherwise we really don’t know how to assemble these super huge parts!

These large equipment like jacks were connected upside down to the crawler propellers, and the thick metal support pillars protruding from the "jacks" could just be 'inserted' into the holders on the support frames. The function of these jack devices is very simple. They can extend or shorten the metal support column. In addition, they can also rotate. These are the only two functions.

After the equipment was installed, everyone understood their purpose better. With everyone's excited eyes, the researchers finally came back and started installing the equipment. But they did not move the crawler propellers but brought the largest jack over first.

The shape of the largest "jack" is very strange. It looks like two jacks connecting the central support column, which means it looks like two jacks facing each other.

The researchers let the dragon take it to the center of the city. Originally, those who directed the construction did not understand why the sky stones were first used to erect the frame when building the city frame, but now they finally understand the reason. This super jack is 800 meters high. It would be impossible to get in unless the frame was set up in advance.

The jack was placed in the center of the city, and then some people climbed up and manually operated the jack to extend it. It did not stop until the upper jack hit the beam. The construction crew began to fix the jack above. Using the parts that came with the jack, we quickly connected it to the city frame.

The researchers first experimented with shrinkage jacks. Because the top is connected to the frame, the bottom is naturally off the ground. After confirming that it would not loosen, the researchers stretched it out to jack up the city frame. Then ordered the removal of those temporary supports. When all temporary supports were removed the city was completely supported by jacks.

We experimented with extending and contracting the jack again, and the city frame started to move up and down. After confirming that there is no problem with expansion and contraction, we start to rotate the jack. This jack can rotate left and right, but the speed will not be too fast. The lower half of the jack supports the ground. When the upper half rotates, the city's frame also rotates with the jack. This is the steering equipment we designed, how convenient it is!