Traversed to the Ark of Tomorrow, but was a traveler

Chapter 246 The Beginning of Change
In the Rhodes Island restaurant where the evening peak was gradually receding, Xia Lan came to the table of a Chef Feng Ho with surprise on her face, and looked at him with strange and familiar eyes.

"Where has this little brother met me before?" The other party greeted with a light smile: "I'm a new cooperative operator in Rhodes Island, just call me Jiaofeng, and I'm in the kitchen when I don't have missions on weekdays." This side is in charge, do you want to try my dishes?"

Xia Lan was taken aback by the other party's unexpected enthusiasm, she nodded subconsciously and said, "Hello, Mr. Jiaofeng, just call me Xia Lan."

Facing strangers who may get along with him for a long time in the future, he is relatively reserved and polite at the beginning, and he will let go only after he is familiar with the way of getting along.

He paused for a moment, and said a little nervously: "Uh, which dishes have more energy? It's best to be high in protein, and the price is not a problem."

"Hey, the tone is not small." Jiaofeng raised his eyebrows and pointed him out.

Mushroom stewed meat, charcoal grilled short ribs, freshly fried tenderloin...

After chatting for a few words, Xia Lan also let go a little bit, served a few tough dishes generously, then returned to Skadi's side, and sat down opposite the two.

Phantom Shark rested his chin in both hands and looked at him with a faint smile on his face, while Skadi had silver hair coiled around his fingertips, his eyes swept over the signboards of several other chefs in the restaurant, and he considered other chefs very seriously. Want to eat something.

Knowing that the Ghost Shark's eyes had been on her face, Xia Lan reluctantly took out the terminal, opened the Rhodes Island operator file, entered the advanced access mode, and selected all types of relationships with Rhodes Island. members of , sorted by time.

Watching the names of the operators installed in the game scroll by one after another, he saw the four people of Karan Trade on the next page: Jiaofeng, Messenger, Yaxin, and Yinhui. Looking at the time, they seem to be the same Time to come to Rhode Island.

Going forward, he saw a few operators who hadn't been installed, and he saw other operators who didn't seem to be installed during the big storyline, that is, operators who were installed immediately after the server opened.

Then in mid-April, just a few days after he left Rhode Island, he saw two names unexpectedly: "Chuxue" and "Yela". The files of these two people need advanced permissions to see , signed a secret cooperation contract.

"But I didn't realize Yela's power." He whispered.

He inquired about their status. The cooperation description said that they were temporary contract operators, that is to say, the type who came and went as they wanted. They collaborated as an individual, the Saintess of the Snow Mountain and her spokesperson.

The superficial description is not much different from the files in the game, but the content here must be more detailed, and the various evaluations, predictions and other content far exceed the game.

While he was watching, Jiaofeng also came over with a few large plates of food, put them down and then left, but his eyes were on Skadi and the ghost shark for two seconds, revealing a Intriguing expression.

"Don't look, just eat." Xia Lan put down the terminal and said.

Ghost Shark nodded obediently, but he must still be thinking about something extremely interesting to her, but Xia Lan didn't know.

……

After having dinner with the two deep-sea hunters leisurely, Xia Lan remembered the luggage the three of them had brought to Rim Billiton earlier, and opened the terminal to check, but Skadi on the side saw this and said: "We just went to Take those things back, and put them in the dormitory.”

"Oh, good." Seeing his wife's peace of mind, Xia Lan naturally nodded happily, and then thought about it: "Then since I have nothing to do, I'll go to the workshop, say hello to other people, and make plans by the way." next thing to do."

"Hmm~" Skadi agreed, "Then we'll go back to the dormitory first."

The ghost shark on one side looked at her sideways, raised his hand to hook her neck, and whispered, "Come to sleep with me tonight?"

Xia Lan looked at Ghost Shark helplessly, and then firmly refused: "No, she is my wife, and she wants to sleep with me first!"

"Couldn't your wife be my wife? Besides, I've been with her for so long, so I must be the one who has the right to speak?" Ghost Shark said disdainfully.

This made Xia Lan stunned, but after thinking about it, she still didn't know how to refute, so she said helplessly, "Then you have to return her to me before going to bed."

"Hmph~" Ghost Shark chuckled in satisfaction, waved his hand and said, "I know, I know, I will pay attention."

Seeing her "compromise" implying a trap, Xia Lan always felt that something bad was about to happen.

With a hint of shame on Skadi's face, he couldn't help but gently pushed the ghost shark's arm wrapped around his neck, and said angrily, "Don't say that..."

"Hey, there's no one around anyway." Ghost Shark lowered his hand and touched her without hesitation, his face full of anticipation.

……

They chatted all the way, and came to a fork in the road, saying goodbye to warmth.

Xia Lan took the elevator and came to the floor where the engineering department was located. When she got out of the elevator, she saw an old acquaintance——Curusil, and greeted her with a smile.

Holding a box in her hand and walking in a hurry, she was stunned for a moment, then walked over quickly with some curiosity, poked him with her arm, and whispered: "Tell me about what you encountered along the way." Well, Kelsey probably didn't force you not to speak out."

"Don't keep your secrets unscrupulous, you must know that I stayed up all night to decipher the signal you sent back... Although it was deciphered in a short time, we in Rhodes Island have been worried about you for a long time!"

"Hmm~" Xia Lan hooked her lips, then remembered the information she had read in the cube, and said deliberately, "I have seen a lot of high-tech things, and there are even almost miraculous things." man-made structures."

But when Lucille heard the words, her eyes lit up immediately, and she urged, "Tell me!"

"A super-large man-made ecological park with a diameter of more than ten kilometers and a height of two or three kilometers!" Xia Lan said exaggeratedly: "There are mountains, rivers, lakes, and wild animals inside!"

"Oh!" Lucille was really taken aback.

"There is a super micro-engraving machine that is five or six powers more accurate than the best micro-engraving machine in Rhode Island!"

"Ah?!" But Lucille's widened eyes were almost instantly stunned.

Seeing that she was shaken, Xia Lan patted her on the shoulder and comforted her: "But unfortunately, these things are insulated from Originium skills, that is to say, they cannot be made with materials related to Originium. Where in the world are there any industrial substances that have nothing to do with origin stones?"

"Ah..." But Lucille staggered when she heard the words, and threw all the boxes in her hand, and Xia Lan caught them with a spell.

It was as devastating to her as engineering didn't exist anymore.

"It's a big deal, I'll print out a copy of the technical information for you later, and you can convert it, maybe it can be converted into a technology that we can realize... At least some basic physics design ideas can be reproduced. "Xia Lan spread her hands and said.

"Hmm..." Lucille nodded slightly in a daze, but she was still sluggish.

He quickly left Keluxier and came to the door of his workshop. He swiped his card and walked in with emotion on his face. Seeing the equipment that was exactly the same as in his memory, he raised his hand and set off a storm.

Pieces of dust gathered in his palm, and after being heated and compacted, they flew into the empty trash can.

After cleaning, he came to the central control room inside, opened the large terminal, checked the access records at the first time, and glanced at the messages inside - eight more orders were placed during this period, and several other people gave I left messages by myself, and they were basically people I knew.

I don't know why they didn't send a message directly to his terminal, but came here to leave a message. Is it because it is more ritualistic?

But it doesn't matter, Xia Lan sent them replies one by one, and then thought about the next thing to do - arming Rhodes Island.

The group of mercenaries that appeared outside the ship during this period are probably just vanguards, and their behind-the-scenes agents are estimated to be far away. It is difficult to eliminate these threats at present, so it is better to hold force in your own hands until then .

Thinking of this, he sent a message to Clusille, asking her about the electromagnetic cannon that she threw to her before leaving.

A moment later, the reply was sent to his terminal along with a file:
"Your idea is indeed whimsical, but the energy utilization rate of the first version is too low, the accumulation of metal fatigue is too fast, and the ultimate load is too wasteful... Anyway, there are many problems, and I have changed it during this period of time. By the way Several other calibers were checked."

Xia Lan: "Thank you very much."

Ke Luxie: "This weapon is indeed epoch-making, how did you tinker with it...and what are you going to do with it?"

Xia Lan: "I want to arm them on Rhodes Island, cover them all without dead ends, and use the PRTS system to control them. What do you think?"

But Lucille: "Then how many doors do you need to do? Let's not talk about whether you need it or not, the cost of materials is a sky-high figure."

Xia Lan: "I think it takes [-] guns to start. No matter what, it should be long enough to sink a large land battleship. The truth is within the range of the cannon."

But Lucille: "...it has to be you."

"But if you think about it, it may be necessary. Kelsey held a meeting a few days ago and said that we may be attacked in the next period of time. We just sell a medicine. As for?"

Xia Lan: "You also know the new medicine I sent back?"

Cruciel: "What?"

Seeing this sentence, Xia Lan realized that she had slipped her tongue, so she could only say, "Uh, it is a very powerful medicine for ore disease. It is still in the secret beta stage, and it should be carried out in the Rhode Island Medical Department later. Large-scale clinical trials."

Cruciel: "Oh..."

Xia Lan thought for a while and added: "It's as cheap as the cheapest medicine we have in service, and it's more powerful than our most powerful medicine."

"Ah!!!???" Lucille's reply with punctuation clearly expressed her shock.

"I said, no wonder he was hunted down."

"Then let's make fifty cannons first. I will purchase the basic materials, and I will leave the synthesis of advanced materials to you. Before making them, I will find a suitable installation location on this ship."

Xia Lan: "...OK."

After chatting with Ke Luxie, he loaded the power of the devil, connected to the 'Ark data storage module with first-level authority', and came to the operation console.

After connecting with the power of the devil king, the data he can normally browse has increased from about 56% to a complete 100%, and he can already use it fully.

He glanced at the extra data, and then showed a bitter smile—there were still some science and technology in it, but what made him extremely bitter was the book "Interaction between Modern Technology and "Origin Stone Technology"" Transformation".

They should have known about the existence of the Origin Stone long ago, and they lied to Xia Lan if they didn't know.

Judging from the preface of this book, although the two ancestors did not know the fundamental structure and composition of the Origin Stone, they already fully understood its specific utility.

Even: the former civilization was the origin stone designed for these effects, and then the two ancestors transformed the scientific and technological achievements based on these effects, and compiled these transformation results into this book. The source stone is the last piece of the puzzle.

"Although I don't know to what extent it can be achieved, I always feel that it is really awesome..." Xia Lan couldn't help but sighed, withdrew her consciousness from the cube, and unloaded the power of the Demon King.

It has been four hours since dinner, and now the time has come to 09:30 in the evening, it is time to go back to the dormitory.

He adjusted his endocrine system this morning, and it has completely returned to normal by now. He wanted to stand up immediately, so that he was looking forward to the next thing, and couldn't help but curled up the corners of his mouth full of fantasy. .

As he thought about it, he cast a voice of inquiry to the other side of his mind, but the reply he got was a faint murmur accompanied by deep sleep.

"Asleep?" He had a strange look on his face, trying to think back, but found that he hadn't felt the feeling from Skadi before, and couldn't help but feel even more strange.

"strangeness……?"

A few minutes later, he swiped his card to open the dormitory door, and when he saw that there was no one there, he looked back at the quiet dormitory door opposite him. After thinking about it, he decided to go back to his dormitory first.

Xia Lan slowly soaked in the warm bathtub, and by the way, called out his wife's name from the bottom of her heart, and yelled dissatisfiedly: "Why are you still sleeping, wake up, and tell her I'm coming to take you gone?"

"Oh..." A vague promise came from the other end, and Xia Lan felt that Skadi was carried by the ghost shark through empathy. She was very obedient and did not struggle much while she was at a loss.

After a while, he heard the sound of his bedroom door opening, then the sound of Skadi being thrown on the bed by the ghost shark, and the sound of Skadi complaining that she was too violent.

"What do you want to do?" Xia Lan murmured, raising her hand to lock the bathroom doorknob.

A few seconds later he heard the crisp sound of the ghost shark putting its hand on the door and its fingertips squeaking across the glass.

"Crackling——" The harsh metal twist sounded at the doorknob that started to rotate, and then it collapsed into two pieces, and the sound of several parts hitting the metal floor was a bit scary.

Xia Lan rose up, it was too much for her to open the door like this!

"Seriously?" he issued an ultimatum.

"When am I not serious?" She asked rhetorically, stepping forward eagerly.

Obviously, before arriving, she had already made enough warm-up preparations.

……

Neither of them would give in to the other, and they both waited for the other to surrender first, so as to separate the dominant position thereafter.

(End of this chapter)