Chapter 586 One of Them (Part 2)

Territory, new urban area on the 9th.

In the center of the city, a large number of fan-shaped urban areas spread out in a ring, with one layer of urban divisions and another layer of divisions overlapping them.

The biggest difference between the outer ring new city and the inner ring old city is that the architectural style of the new city is biased toward adjusted oriental-style buildings, while the old city still maintains the original simple architectural style...full of whiteboard simplicity provided by the system The smell of the building.

There is a sixteen-lane lane reserved in the middle of each district to accommodate a large number of vehicles. However, due to the excessive development of air shipping, these extra-wide lanes reserved in the plan appear extremely deserted.

Before the first rays of dawn fall, the city wakes up.

The first to wake up were the airports throughout the city. A large number of passenger aerostats set sail from the central large-scale aviation logistics station. Trained aviation pilots controlled the aerostats to leave their steel lairs.

This city hosts half a million people. Thanks to the sophisticated urban planning work and the efficient logistics system brought by aerospace ships, it has not developed into the slum-hive form that was most likely to appear in cities during the Industrial Revolution of the same period. .

Logistics, under the operation of the administrative system, sends everyone and every material to where they should be.

There are no traffic jams and no delays with Sky Shipping.

Fill in the batteries, press the button, and start running.

Fortunately, the difficulty of driving an aerial ship is not high. Driving this slow-moving iron-hulled ship is similar to driving a speedboat. Even if the power is suddenly lost, the aerial stone can ensure that the ship and the crew on it land smoothly.

The aerostat is not a hydrogen airship, and it will not turn into a beautiful fireball in the sky along with its crew.

At this time, the mechanical clock in the city had just crossed the half circle representing six o'clock.

The first ray of morning light fell on the head of the girl holding her head in the room.

Aya Mo climbed up from the bed, relaxed her shoulders that were a little sore from overexertion, and fumbled to find the glasses on the side.

The mechanical wall clock on the wall has gone through half a circle, and the longest hour hand stopped next to the number seven.

Seven o'clock.

"Ah... I seem to have woken up late..."

Ling Mo stared at the constantly rotating mechanical clock. After thinking for two seconds, she immediately realized that if she didn't get up quickly, she would miss the seven-twenty floating boat.

Get dressed, tie your hair, wash your face.

It takes five minutes to get out of the hotel building.

"Good morning, Miss Ayamo." The owner of the breakfast shop downstairs greeted her warmly.

"A cup of soy milk, two drawers of xiaolongbao, thank you!" Lingmo took out fifteen yuan and slapped two banknotes on the table: "I'm in a hurry!"

"Okay, Miss Ayamo, but you have to change this problem... maybe one day your flight comes late or comes early, you will be really late." The shopkeeper nagged and took out two drawers from the steaming steamer. A total of twelve xiaolongbao came out and were packed in cardboard bags.

This kind of oil-paper bag was not invented in the territory, but brought by immigrants who moved in.

Immigrants arriving from the outside world occasionally arrived bringing their skills with them, and then incorporated livelihood technologies into the territory.

"There won't be such a problem. The floating ship is always on time." Ling Mo shook her head, took a bag of steamed dumplings and hot soy milk from the store, turned around and walked quickly towards the nearest airport.

So you won't be late.

Have breakfast on the way.

The small transportation airport in the city is similar to a modern overpass, but there is only one section at one end of the overpass. Passengers only need to walk up two floors along the stairs to reach the 'bus' station built on the elevated platform.

Part of the design of the small transportation airport refers to overpasses, which will not affect the normal movement of ground vehicles, and is also conveniently located on the main road without taking up too much space.

Ji Lin originally wanted to build an airport that was much higher than the ground, at least seven or eight stories high, like in some games, so that aerospace ships could pick up passengers without lowering their altitude and travel quickly between different areas.

This is convenient for the float boat, but it is inconvenient for residents to board the boat, and it is not economical enough for public transportation facilities.

If high-rise buildings are really to be built, aerostats as bus stops will inevitably occupy space in residential areas, and due to land occupation and construction costs, the coverage of the public transportation system will be even lower.

Now the aerospace ship only needs to lower its height slightly to dock in front of the two-story "bus station" platform, floating on a steel platform extending from the transportation port to prevent passengers from falling when they step on the air. superior.

The small airport designed in this way is like a flyover with only half left. It can be placed directly on the road without hindering normal traffic... Although there are not as many cars running on the ground in the entire city as there are flying in the sky.

After all, most of the city's resource transportation now relies on the rail transit system outside the city instead of roads, and personnel transportation relies more on punctual aircraft.

Every day, several steam trains haul hundreds of tons of resources to and from the tracks outside the city. The more flexible aerospace ships will transport the resources to the target buildings after the steam train resources arrive.

Let’s get back to the topic.

Holding six steamed buns in her arms, Ling Mo finally boarded the Skytrain from No. 9 New Town to the Engineering Institute before the steward rang the bell to close the door. She had already used the cup of soy milk without a lid to finish six steamed buns on the way.

A thirty-meter-long aerostat converted into an 'air train', or 'bus boat', has a 25-meter-long cabin, enough to accommodate 300 passengers.

(On Earth, buses are usually 12 meters long, and subways are 18-20 meters long.)

Ji Lin felt that calling them buses or bus boats sounded bad, so he simply named the floating transport ship used for public transportation the SkyRail based on the subway on Earth.

SkyRail.

"Huh... I caught up, otherwise I would be scolded by Miss Forna again." Ling Mo patted his chest, found his seat in the relatively empty cabin, and looked at the mechanical wall clock hanging in the cabin to make sure that he would not miss the punctual SkyRail.

"Ding~Ding~Ding~"

The attendant rang the bell, then grabbed the handle of the cabin door and closed the door of the SkyRail with force. The iron and wood cabin door hit the wall with a dull sound, and pulled down the latch to lock the cabin door.

Based on the principle of using a design that works and has no problems...

That's right, even if it is changed into a civilian ship, the Seagull airship still uses the hand-pull to close the cabin door when it served in the army.

And the attendant needs to manually open and close the cabin door (physical) every time he arrives at a station.

This also led to the fact that the flight attendants are all strong men with big arms and waists. They can close the cabin door and deal with people who make trouble on the air train with their fists.

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