Chapter 1302 tremor
The main construction of the aerospace fortress "Dawn of the World" has reached the last step. According to the initial process, the assembly site hidden between the mountains and the dense forest has finally reached the moment when it sees the light of day.
Hearing Gao Wen's instructions, Rebecca turned on a device next to the magic net terminal. A sudden buzzing sound echoed over the entire "cave". Her voice echoed over the assembly site: "All units should pay attention that the 'sky curtain' is about to be opened, and the work area personnel suspended construction and waited for the environment to adapt - the dome projection will be closed after ten seconds."
Rebecca's pleasant and vibrant voice echoed over the entire field, and as her words fell, a series of magic relay devices started and closed, and the sound of switching clicks came out from many hidden corners, and the sound of mechanical devices moving and running sounded in the distance. Gao Wen raised his head and saw that many steel structure support beams fixed near the gray dome directly above were slowly moving to the side, and a large number of lighting devices also changed their positions. With the changes in these mechanical structures, the "rock dome" that enveloped the entire assembly site suddenly flashed after a moment of delay.
White light flows appeared on the ceiling from dark to light. The originally integrated cave top was divided into hundreds of square grids of the same size by these light flows. Then these grids began to gradually become transparent in the flash. The next second, the "black rock layers" disappeared out of thin air, and the holographic projection forming the dome disappeared, and the brilliant and vast sky appeared above the assembly site!
Outside the dome, the sun was just right, and thin clouds were dotted with the clear winter sky. After the sky projection disappeared, the protective barrier above the assembly site was temporarily closed. Cold and fresh airflow from the outside blew into the valley, and snow that blew down from nearby peaks fell down. This bright sky light shone on the main body of Project 115 for the first time. After a while, Gao Wen heard the exclamation from the Dawn of the Earthly Controller's main brain from the magic net terminal next to him: "Oh! Sunshine-"
"Although I had imagined this moment before..." Rebecca looked up at the sky. Even though she was one of the main designers here, she couldn't help but sigh at this moment, "But when I saw it with my own eyes, I still felt really spectacular..."
Gao Wenze didn't speak for a moment. He just looked at the scene in front of him with satisfaction, with a long and admiring smile on his face.
Yes, there is actually no "rock dome" over the assembly site of the entire No. 115 Project. Although the engineers did "excavate" various explosives and large machinery here for a long time to prepare the site, they actually just widened the original valley here, and what has long been shrouded in the assembly site... is actually a holographic projection made of a large crystal matrix.
Rebecca and her technical team led by her used hundreds of projection devices to create a small extra section of the mountain outside the northwest ridge of the Dark Mountains, and maintained this scene to this day!
In this way, after the "Dawn of the World" is completely completed, just close the shield and projection over the valley and remove the high-altitude lighting mechanism, and the entire aerospace fortress can be directly lifted out!
In addition, even if the "Dawn of the World" is not considered as the core target of the project, the holographic projection array covering the valley is itself an experimental technology of great value. Although its basic unit is not complex, and the magical illusion has been used by mages for thousands of years in this world, it is unprecedented to combine hundreds of small illusion units to create such a large-scale joint projection and allow them to run stably for such a long time - this thing can be used today in the concealed project of Project 115, and can be expanded in the future and transformed into many equipment prototypes that are quite practical on the battlefield.
The vast deck of the Sky Fortress "Dawn of the World" is bathed in the brilliant sky light. The brilliance of the huge sun outlines the light and dark silhouettes between its armored belt with blue and white painted blue and white color and the superstructure. Its main control brain floats in the wet main container located in the core compartment of the fortress, and its countless nerve fibers are spread throughout this steel body. The sensing points distributed throughout the upper deck send back the touch of sunlight and wind to it - warm, bright, fresh and comfortable.
The only shame is that the deck made of steel cannot perform photosynthesis.
"Before the next system adjustment, the sky will be open for three days and three nights. We will test the environmental adaptation and visual functions of the aerospace fortress in this process," Rebecca said. "Dawn, you can experience the sunshine and starlight, as well as the wind in nature in the process - then we will close the dome here again, and wait until the next time it opens, it will be time for you to really take off."
The neutral synthesized voice of the fortress's main brain immediately came from the Magic Net terminal: "Yes, the creator, His Highness Rebecca, I am very much looking forward to that day..."
At this moment, a low buzzing sound suddenly came from the sky, interrupting the sound of Dawn and attracting Gao Wen's attention. The latter subconsciously looked up and looked in the direction where the sound came, and saw a large shadow roughly hexagonally rising from the dense forest on the side of the mountain wall, slowly moving towards the northeast in the sunlight. Several large and small anti-gravity rings floated at the bottom of the shadow, and the scattered shimmer particles formed a hazy trajectory in the sky.
The hexagonal flight device is obviously several times smaller in scale than the "Dawn of the World", but it is still much larger than any "Dragoon" aircraft currently in service. Moreover, its chassis structure is obviously simple, and there is no pre-installed weapon station or protective mechanism, but there are many large connectors like blank interfaces on the edge - the whole is like a kind of high-power universal chassis with simple structure but durable structure.
It flew over, as if it was just a short-range test. After a moment, it slowly landed somewhere north of Base 115, which was already out of sight of Gao Wen and others.
"That is our universal aerial platform, 'Gorgon I'," Rebecca laughed happily and said to Gao Wen with a hint of pride. "We completed the prototype test a while ago in the project that Marin Leslie is responsible for. Now we are testing whether the mass production framework produced in Factory 2 is qualified. It looks good. If the parameters meet the standards, we can first deliver it to the First Legion and the Holy Light Monks."
"So fast?" Gao Wen looked at Rebecca with some surprise. "I remember not long ago you were arguing with Herty about the budget of General Air Platform..."
"Of course it's fast. That thing is much simpler than the structure of the Aerospace Fortress," Rebecca waved his hand. "It's basically a solid enough basic frame with several high-power anti-gravity engines welded on it, and then lay a set of nervous systems in the chassis, and then a brain is fine. No need to consider engine interference as fatal as the Aerospace Fortress, the power ridge can also directly use the ready-made general model in the factory. Even the magic net array is directly used as a downgrade version of the Han Winter Energy Group. Anyway, the role it can play in a practical environment depends on the 'building' on it. As a carrier chassis, it can fly safely and provide enough energy output ports..."
Speaking of this, she paused and added: "In fact, its structure is so simple that the prototype machine is welded directly from parts purchased from spare parts warehouses in several factories. You can't say that, the thing really flew up that day - although it soon fell into the mountains... So later I asked my aunt to add a budget."
Gao Wen was stunned by the hearing, especially when he heard that they had pulled a bunch of spare parts from the factory's old goods pile and welded a "prototype machine". Although he had mentioned before when discussing the concept of "general air platform" with Rebecca, it was something inferior to that of aerospace fortresses, downgraded, cheaper, and quicker, he did not expect that Rebecca's technical supervisors were even more reckless than her, the Imperial Steel Ball...
At this moment, the sound of the Dawn controlling the main brain came from the Magic Net terminal next to it - several monitors on the upper level of this aerospace fortress were still staring at the direction where the "Gorgon Type I" just landed, and its voice was filled with envy: "It's so good, Your Highness Rebecca, is that the 'sister' you mentioned to me? It has already flown so well...I haven't taken off yet."
"Be patient," Rebecca glanced at the brain floating in the biomass solution in the holographic projection. "Your lift-off is not a trivial matter - once the air-space fortress is lifted off, unless a special situation occurs, it may not land again in the next ten or even decades. Your supply, maintenance and even reconstruction will be completed in the air. At that time, you may miss the feeling of being stuck on the ground."
The voice of the Dawn of Earth sounded for a few seconds: "...I don't know how to imagine that scene, but I will remain patient, creator."
Rebecca's mouth curled up, as if she wanted to say something else, but at this moment, a rushing buzz suddenly came from the terminal of the magic net, and an emergency call signal from Cecil City appeared in the center of the holographic projection.
The expression on Gao Wen's face instantly became serious, and Rebecca immediately stepped forward to connect the communication. The light and shadow on the holographic projection changed, and Hetty's face appeared at the front of the picture.
"Ancestor," her eyes quickly gathered on Gao Wen, and she said in a hurry, "Anomalies were reported in various places - several observatories and observation units at home and abroad observed unknown interference in the atmosphere. I have transmitted the relevant detailed information to the data communication room of Base 115. Please check it out as soon as possible!"
Gao Wen immediately looked at Rebecca, and the latter responded quickly this time: "You go and do it first, I'll just watch here."
Gao Wen nodded, turned around and left the platform without saying anything. A few seconds later, his figure turned into a stream of light and flew towards the office building of the experimental base in an instant.
In a moment, Gao Wen arrived at the office of Nerebeca, the 115 engineering base, and the base staff had sorted out the information transmitted from the data communication room and delivered it to the desk.
Looking through the content described in the materials and some pictures "taken" with magic techniques, his brows frowned little by little.
The magic net terminal next to it lit up, and Hedy's figure appeared in front of Gao Wen: "Ancestor, have you seen all these information?"
"I saw it," Gao Wen raised his head and said in a deep voice, "Where was the first to report?"
"The Paramel Observatory first observed anomalies and reported them as soon as possible. Then the Observatory in San Sunil, the Magic Monitoring Station in Winter Fort in the North and the Magic Hub of Shilin City successively reported and detected similar 'interference'," Heti said in a hurry, and her words corresponded to the information in Gao Wen's hand. "We launched an investigation into this immediately and issued relevant warnings to the outside world. Then we received feedback from Tifeng and the Silver Empire. Many qualified observation units in their country also discovered strange phenomena..."
Gao Wen nodded slightly while listening: In order to cope with the endless and mysterious threats in this world, the Community Alliance was established at the beginning of its establishment, many "joint agreements" involving astronomical observations, magic surveillance, and vision warnings. Once a member state discovers suspicious "vision warning signs", it will issue warnings to the countries of the alliance. Now it seems... this mechanism really plays a role.
"We are not only observing similar 'interference'. Its distribution range ranges from the northernmost northern border of the Loren continent to the southernmost Silver Empire, and it happens almost at the same time," Gao Wen frowned slightly, and whispered while thinking, "The first thing that found the problem was the observatory. When they observed the starry sky, they saw that the sky was full of interference noise, but the astronomical department was not the only one who reported the situation in the subsequent report..."
"Yes, multiple magic monitoring stations and magic network hub stations have discovered interference in the atmosphere," Hetty nodded. "At present, we can basically rule out the possibility that the problem occurs in outer space - interference occurs in our atmosphere, and it is likely not exceeding the steady-state boundary layer."
Gao Wen thought: "Is there more detailed data in the steady-state boundary layer?"
Hurtie shook his head: "Unfortunately, the interference lasts very short. Almost all departments that detected interference only had time to leave the regular data recorded by the normally open equipment. Before they had time to start special equipment or send high-level extraordinary people to conduct targeted records, the energy that permeated the atmosphere disappeared. At present, the most valuable information is only from the report from the Silver Empire Star Artists Association - the great star Artist Vilanya happened to collect high-altitude magic data in the clouds near the steady-state realm layer. After detecting the changes in magic power in the atmosphere, she quickly conducted an ultra-long-distance perception-finally confirmed that the interference was not only limited to the continent, but even spread infinitely towards the ocean, and continued to spread beyond her perception limit as a legendary power."
“…so it’s very likely to be a global phenomenon.”
"Yes, scholars from all over the world currently suspect that this is a global phenomenon, and it is very likely the result of the joint action of the atmosphere and the surface energy field...wait a minute."
Hetty suddenly stopped and turned his head to look in a direction outside the screen. It seemed that a new information suddenly appeared in front of her. After a moment, she turned to Gao Wen, and her expression became even more solemn than before.
"Ancestor, Anta Vien, news came from that the Deep Blue Network had abnormal changes... The occurrence and end time were consistent with the time when 'interference in the atmosphere' was observed in various places."
Chapter completed!