Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1482 Pacific Buoy

The liaison ship sailed for about half an hour and successfully arrived at the Pacific buoy.

When a huge sea base that was large enough to span both sides of the field of vision appeared before their eyes, everyone remained relatively calm.

Because I had already read the information in advance at the Metropolitan Police Department.

But when the real thing stood before him, Qin Zhibo couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, could such a huge sci-fi facility be built in just half a month?
You know, just over two months ago, people in this world didn't even have smartphones...

The sea surface portion of the Pacific buoy is in the shape of an "X", with a square plaza at the middle intersection and a lift channel to the facilities below the sea surface in the center of the plaza.

The four corners are ports for transporting various materials. There is also a pier-style circular passage surrounding the central square, which extends to a total of 28 berthing points for small boats to land.

Qin Zhibo and others went ashore from one of the 28 mooring points. When they reached the connection between the circular channel and the central square, the staff of the Pacific Buoy were already waiting there.

In the middle of the bridge stood a man in a suit with a righteous look on his face, and next to him was a sweet-looking girl with braids.

"Thank you for coming all the way here..."

The two bowed slightly to Qin Zhibo and the others, and the man in the suit introduced himself first: "I am the director of Pacific Buoy, Makino Yosuke."

"My name is Naomi Argent, and I'm an engineer." The girl with braids next to her introduced herself.

Naomi's self-introduction was very simple, but Qin Zhibo glanced at the basic information above her head and found something else.

This woman who calls herself an "engineer" is only 19 years old this year.

Being able to participate in the construction of this epoch-making facility at such a young age means he is an absolute genius.

At this time, Naomi also realized that Qin Zhibo in the crowd was looking at her. She was not shy, but responded with a polite smile.

"I'm Kuroda Heibei from the Metropolitan Police Department, and they are all here with me."

Led by Kuroda Heibei, Qin Zhibo and the Akai family introduced themselves respectively.

When he heard that all three people had the surname Akai, Director Makino of the Pacific Buoy was also surprised.

Because he received a call from ICPO yesterday, telling him that the people coming to support him were from the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI, MI6, and civilian detectives.

He had heard of Qin Zhibo's identity. Could these three people with the surname Akai be members of two organizations?
How strange...

However, Makino quickly put aside his doubts and led everyone towards the hole in the center of the square.

As the sea water surged in the cave, a huge lifting platform slowly rose to the same height as the square.

Makino and Naomi walked in front, introducing things to everyone as they walked.

"This is the entrance..."

"Most of the facility is below the ocean's surface, using ballast tanks to rise and fall while managing the force of the waves..."

“It was built in the sea to cool the huge number of servers.”

Everyone took an elevator that went straight into the deep sea. Outside the reinforced glass was a huge ring-shaped device floating in the sea.

Makino pointed at the device outside the glass and introduced: "This is a ring that uses the ocean currents to generate electricity. The black current in this area is very strong, so there is an inexhaustible supply of electricity..."

Makino introduced the facilities, but when he glanced back at the faces of several people, they all had no expression.

This made him, as the director of Pacific Buoy, feel a sense of loss.

However, although Qin Zhibo looked very calm, he still admired the construction here in his heart.

The level of technology here is even close to that in many science fiction works, such as the Umbrella Corporation facilities in the Resident Evil series of movies.

The honeycomb laboratory in Resident Evil 1, the Shibuya underground facility at the beginning of Resident Evil 4, and the underwater facility in Resident Evil 5 are all somewhat similar to this place.

When the elevator reaches the deep layer, it arrives at the residential area of ​​the Pacific Buoy. Most of the staff walking here are blond and blue-eyed Europeans and Americans, and there are also a few Asians and Africans.

The entire residential area is in the shape of an inverted pyramid and is home to approximately 400 staff members.

The tip of the pyramid is located at the bottom of the Pacific buoy, which is also the server storage area.

And on the level above the server is the main control room.

When the metal door slowly opened to both sides, a deep blue space with a sci-fi feel appeared before everyone's eyes.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Qin Zhibo, who had been pretending to be deep all the way, couldn't help but open his mouth slightly, shocked by the scene before him.

The most eye-catching thing is the thick pillar located in the center of the main control room.

This pillar is actually connected to the server below, and there are six huge vertical screens above the pillar.

There are four control consoles at the bottom of the column, which are obviously the most core positions for engineers.

There are more than twenty computer desks distributed around the pillars, which should be secondary control consoles.

Director Makino walked to the middle and began to introduce the main staff of the studio to everyone.

"This is Grace from France..."

A woman with glasses sitting in the main control seat stood up and greeted Qin Zhibo and others.

"This is Reinhardt from Germany."

Another yellow-haired man who was sitting in the main control seat and operating the computer glanced over here and nodded as a greeting.

His hairstyle is completely straight up, and I wonder how much hairspray he needs in a day.

"And Ed from India..."

Makino glanced at the second control position at the edge, where a dark-skinned man with curly hair sat.

It seemed that he was sitting a little far away and did not hear being introduced, so he did not stand up to express himself.

"That's Dr. Agasa who just came here in the past few days..."

Dr. Agasa is naturally an old acquaintance.

At this time, Dr. Agasa was sitting at one of the main control seats, typing on the keyboard with full concentration, and he didn't pay any attention to the situation here.

When Qin Zhibo walked over and patted him on the shoulder, he came to his senses.

"Mr. Qin! You're here!"

"Well, are you used to it here?"

“Very good, the food here is pretty good~”

Dr. Agasa smiled and patted his belly, but Qin Zhibo felt that the doctor seemed to be thinner than before coming here.

As for the last engineer, it was Naomi Algent who came out to greet Qin Zhibo and others.

With Dr. Agasa's introduction, Qin Zhibo also learned about the current development progress of the system.

Originally, it would take at least a month for this monitoring system to be officially connected to the monitoring systems of all monitoring centers around the world, and then connect to monitoring equipment around the world.

However, due to the participation of Dr. Agasa and the artificial intelligence Noah's Ark, the preparation time of this server was greatly shortened.

In just three days, this system will be officially put into use.