I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1213 The outside world

"Dawn City? That name sounds familiar..."

"Is that the name of the abyss city in this world?"

In the world where Mo Ling lived, the city built above the abyss didn't have this name, but the meaning was very similar.

"Why does this place 'Dawn City' feel so familiar? I feel like I've heard of it somewhere before... I even feel like I've been there before."

"How could this be? Aren't I from another world? How could I have been to the Abyss City in this world?"

Mo Ling’s memory began to surface with some blurry fragments.

He seems to have visited Dawn City more than once...

He remembered wandering aimlessly through the city, looking at the advanced facilities, and seemingly even strolling into the Dawn City Library.

He remembered sitting in a strange courtyard, then leaving the courtyard and running off to school in Dawn City.

Why am I studying in Dawn City?

He also remembered the monsters fighting in Dawn City, a god radiating brilliant golden light, and a dragon king tumbling in the clouds...

"What are these things?"

Mo Ling banged her square head hard.

These dreamlike scenes were hard for him to believe to be real; Mo Ling preferred to believe that there was something wrong with his memory.

"I don't think I've ever been to Dawn City. I've probably only seen similar scenes in movies or on the news, and then my memory is playing tricks on me..."

As Mo Ling was grappling with these jumbled fragments, she suddenly realized that the car had gone dark, and something seemed to be blocking the view outside the windows.

He immediately peered outside and discovered towering metal pillars that reached the sky, even higher than the bus tracks.

"what is that?"

Mo Ling instinctively peered into the interior of these giant pillars, and after passing through a thick outer layer, he saw a room—an office.

A group of people were busy at their desks.

These colossal metal pillars that reach into the sky are actually man-made structures!
They are high-rise buildings made of metal!

Between the high-rise buildings, there are also intersecting passageways, also made of cast metal. The tracks of the suspended shuttle bus pass through these gaps, like bullets passing through a giant spider web.

Mo Ling looked up and realized that what was blocking the sunlight was not only the tall buildings on both sides of the bus, but also an even larger city in the sky!

Also made of metal, but as light as a cloud, sunlight shines through the gaps and reflects off the metal surface, evenly covering every corner of the "spider web," preventing the city's base from being shrouded in shadow.

As the metallic sheen shone into the bus, flashing like a slideshow of light and shadow as the vertical stripes between the windows moved, Mo Ling's heart pounded with each rapid flicker.

"Estimated arrival time: 1 minute 19 seconds."

Unbeknownst to him, he was already in the city, bathed in the light of dawn reflecting off the metal... Mo Ling's gaze fell upon a researcher's electronic screen, which displayed a research report on the urban planning of Dawn City.

"One of the major problems facing the vertical development of cities is the lack of sunlight. The building structure in the upper district will inevitably block the lower district, and the high-rise buildings will always keep the low-rise buildings in the shadow. At this time, artificial lighting must be used to make up for the lack of natural light."

"However, given the size of Dawn City, the energy required to achieve complete artificial lighting and solve the lighting problem in every shaded area would far exceed the energy-saving requirements mandated by the government. During the city's rapid development, this unnecessary energy consumption would become a serious burden on the city."

“If artificial lighting cannot be used, then natural light can only be used. Since the original light cannot reach the shadow area, it can only be ‘guided’ to the shadow area.”

"Mirrors, use mirrors to wrap the whole city, let the light reflect and travel through the city, and illuminate every corner."

"But this raises another question: how do we choose the material for the specular reflection?"

"As an outer building material, it must be sturdy and not fragile or easily damaged. As a mirror, its reflectivity cannot be too high or too low. Too high a reflectivity will cause heat to accumulate, and too low a reflectivity will not be able to form a complete lighting effect... Through calculation, we found a material with a very suitable reflectivity - Yuan Iron."

“The technology for replicating Yuan Tie is already quite mature. This metal-like material, which combines strength and lightweight, is very suitable for use as a ‘reflective film’ for cities. Urban renewal does not require the destruction of the original buildings. It is only necessary to cover the city’s buildings with regenerable replica Yuan Tie to achieve full coverage of sunlight.”

“In areas where the light is too concentrated, the reflectivity can be changed by altering the roughness of the surface of the iron, thereby reducing heat concentration. Iron has high plasticity, making it easy to adjust the attachment and change the reflection angle, thus focusing the reflected light on areas that need more light.”

"At the same time, the properties of the Yuan Iron itself can also stabilize the ever-growing walls, making the three-dimensional city safer and more robust..."

Looking at the contents of the report, Mo Ling froze in her seat.

Are all the metal parts on these tall buildings outside made of Yuan Iron?
Even though they are all replicas, this is still quite spectacular!

"Did future humans cover the entire city with a protective film?"

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Mo Ling simply wouldn't have believed it.

He immediately realized that the development of the times had exceeded his understanding, and this trip might have a huge impact on him.

Just then, the bus began to slow down, and the scenery outside the window also began to slow down.

Before long, the scene outside the window came to a complete stop, and the carriage slowly descended below the tracks, stopping on a "parking lot" with a buffer layer.

The car doors opened, and the researchers quickly stood up from their seats, lined up, and got off the car. Mo Ling followed behind, stunned.

After getting off the bus, the people in front of him dispersed, heading in different directions, each seemingly with their own destination.

Only Mo Ling remained standing blankly by the station, people passing by him as the bus behind him took off again...

No one gave him a second glance, despite his strange, square head.

Everyone was staring at the electronic screens in their hands, and some were even wearing VR-like glasses, their minds completely absorbed in something else.

There were also some people waiting for buses to other places at the station. Their attire was completely different from that of the people who came out of the research institute; it was somewhat "exaggerated."

Just like the celebrity Mo Ling saw on the "Future Cola" packaging, these people's outfits all tend to go in that direction, carrying a kind of "trendy" feel that Mo Ling couldn't understand.

Among this group of people, his "square head" actually seemed rather ordinary.

(End of this chapter)