Chapter 252 Pray for the World
The brilliant sun shines on the Island of the Rising Sun after the disaster. The collapsed and cracked city will probably take a long time to repair. As for the giant engine that has been completely scrapped, it is unknown when it will be repaired. Last night's thrilling tumbling caused the island to spend an unprecedentedly short night and hasty dawn. All the city's agencies were forced to operate at high power to treat the injured and repair the damaged key equipment. The only good news now is that the casualties are not as serious as imagined. Most of the places where collapses and cracks occur are on the fringes or in too old urban areas. There are limited residents in those places, and the city's own earthquake-resistant design makes it shake. It lasted a long time at the beginning, and citizens had ample opportunities to take refuge in the central area of the floating island, which was relatively stable.
Looking down at the earth from a high altitude in the city, you can see the dust mist and smoke pillars that have not yet dispersed everywhere. Traffic control has been entered in the dome, and those flying in the sky are engineering airships or flying cars performing the most urgent tasks, while on the streets below you can see To the orderly citizens: they spontaneously rescued all those in need around them, spontaneously lined up to receive supplies just rescued from the collapsed warehouse, and spontaneously declared whether they had been injured in previous disasters, and this The injury will affect how much they can work. There was no chaos, no complaints, and rarely even a sad look on the face of the elves. They organized themselves in a surprising order. This disaster came suddenly, but everyone in the city seemed to have practiced it many times.
Some huge shadows were cast on the dome, which were large transport ships sent from other floating islands. These bulky ships had been quickly prepared when the Island of the Rising Sun exploded, and now they brought precious medicines and additional supplies. air filtration device, the latter is essential: the air circulation in the dome relies on purification equipment buried underground and on the surrounding hoops, but this explosion caused some damage to them, and now the thick smoke and dust in the city It must be removed as soon as possible and can only be connected to external devices.
Hao Ren and Hilda stood on an open terrace on top of the spire in the Royal District. Hilda was meditating, while Hao Ren used his extraordinary eyesight to see everything in the city. He had a deep understanding of these elves in the disaster. The reaction expressed admiration.
Wim stood quietly behind the two of them without making a sound.
"My people are used to this kind of thing. When the Island of Tranquility disintegrated seventy years ago, they used great calmness to preserve the most important material warehouse on the island. About one-tenth of the citizens in this city are "The survivors of the Island of Tranquility," Hilda said softly, "More and more floating islands are approaching the limit of use. The Technical Elders Council is trying to find ways to repair some of the dead floating islands that have been extinguished, but there has been little progress."
Hilda's face was full of fatigue. She had been under the greatest pressure in the past few hours. After hurriedly finishing the elders' meeting, she began to direct evacuation and rescue operations. When the floating island rolled over, various urban areas began to collapse. She immediately assigned the evacuation plan for each urban area and the evacuation plan to the Royal District. After the propulsion unit was completely destroyed, she also coordinated and directed the work of re-stabilizing the floating island: this queen is not an authority who can only give orders. , she is also an expert who knows all the technical parameters of floating islands. Now that everything was settled, she did not follow the guard's advice and go back to rest. Instead, she took Hao Ren to the terrace of the minaret to overlook the entire city.
"This is where we are."
Hao Ren is still thinking about the best solution for the Irem elves. He already has several ideas, but he still needs to wait for the data terminal to come over to confirm which one is the most feasible. Before that, he very carefully asked Hilda a question: "If I have the ability to get you out of trouble, what price are you willing to pay?"
Hilda turned her back to the edge of the terrace and spread her hands, as if her whole body was melting into the skylight under the dome: "You can see what we have left, and just take what you think you need. As long as you can make my people live a better life and have a real sky like other races, you can take everything in your sight."
Hao Ren quickly waved his hand: "Don't be like this, don't be like this, it's easy to misunderstand - I'm not blackmailing you or asking the lion to open his mouth or anything. I want to help out of a friend's mentality, but to be honest, I am not strong enough on my own. , my boat is only five or six hundred meters long - so I may need to hire helpers, and those helpers are not free."
Hilda thought for a while: "Those are the same words. Anyway, we don't have anything else. There are no resources in this place. The things we have are no different from stones in the eyes of those advanced civilizations. The only thing we have left should be ourselves." Labor force, but it doesn’t seem to be a valuable thing.”
"Forget it, let's not mention these things for now," Hao Ren scratched his hair, feeling that these problems were getting bigger and bigger, "Let's first..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw an elf running out from the small door at the back and kneeling on one knee in front of Hilda: "Your Majesty, the results of the rough scan of the world have come out and Kadilan was not found. Message from your lordship.”
With that said, the elf handed a rolled-up document to Hilda with both hands. The latter took the document and browsed it quickly, frowning tightly: "The main memory has been tampered with... They actually penetrated it. So thorough. Notify Ekarom to temporarily close the three auxiliary memories of the wishing world, and strictly review every citizen who applies to upload...Citizens born on the Light Prism Island are temporarily prohibited from entering the wishing world, and they consume additional Rations were paid out of the royal treasury.”
The elf herald obeyed the order and retreated. Hao Ren asked curiously: "What exactly is this world of prayer?"
Hilda sighed: "Actually, this is our own trouble... But it doesn't matter if I tell you. The wishing world is a virtual world established by my superiors. It has been running for more than two thousand years. Currently, It’s the place where we place the souls of the dead, and it’s also a special testing ground.”
Hao Ren suddenly thought of a lot of things, and he knew that his guesses were accurate.
"That world was first established for scientific research tasks," Hilda slowly explained, "You know, we are short of supplies and cannot afford to consume many things, and every failure of some large-scale experiments has a negative impact on the entire Irem society. A cold winter, so another queen more than two thousand years ago established a virtual environment called 'Prayer World' with the support of the Technical Elders. It runs on a giant server and is run by the best Designed and built by magicians and astrologers, it is our last large-scale technological achievement. The world of prayer simulates the Irem star system: a sun and a planet, 100% simulation of the home we live in, and input of everything we have Every known law of the world. We even made the reality of this world accurate to every grain of sand, and later added a lot of restrictions on the microscopic world to it. This world imitates reality as much as possible, so that it can be used in different situations. Conducting various large-scale experiments while consuming material resources - the Technical Elders at that time hoped to find a feasible way to travel to other star systems in the wishing world within the resource constraints of the Irem star system, and they did get it in the early stages. Some results have been achieved: some of the spacecraft we are using now were simulated and verified in this way.”
"But it will definitely not be so smooth in the later stage." Hao Ren could easily imagine that there must be a twist in the second half of this story.
Hilda nodded: "That's right: the world of prayer imagines everything to be too wonderful, but the technology required to truly travel tens of millions of light years to other stars is more rigorous and precise than we imagined. Only by fully grasping the truth can we create a virtual world that is exactly the same as reality. Otherwise, no matter how close the imitation is, it is just imitation. The shadow that is infinitely closer to reality is just a shadow after all. There are still many unknown secrets in this universe. It is impossible to guess out of thin air in this small cradle. Some scholars even speculate that the mathematical structure of this universe is not necessarily continuous. The rules that are in effect in the Irem star system may not be applicable in other places - or at least a few A deviation of a few decimal points. In addition, many technologies will be affected by the microscopic world when they develop to a certain extent, and no matter how precise we make the wishing world, it is impossible to describe its microscopic parts in detail, and we can only continue to add patches one by one. ——This is simply not enough. In any case, after hundreds of years of hard work, the hyperlight engine manufactured in the Praying World caused a big explosion in reality, and two floating islands were wiped out in the explosion. The Praying World Project The enthusiasm faded, and the brilliant and talented queen died in depression."
Hao Ren knew that there would be a continuation of this story.