Walk through the structure of the Ark and wander on the continent of Terra

Looking at the land and people that have regained vitality after the dark clouds passed, and looking at the arteries of Kjerag built by railways that are flowing again, everyone's emotions were a little complicated for a while.During this period of time, I seemed to have done a lot of things, but it seemed that I had only done some small things.They did not have a big impact on the final direction of Kjerag's situation, but they did too much personally to help Kjelag's situation settle down smoothly.

It is worth mentioning that the images returned by the drone showed that the Colombian pioneer team seemed to have received some kind of order, and finally stayed outside the actual line of control of the original Perrochi family territory, and even There were several protrusions where the Perrochi family had outposts, and they retreated for dozens of kilometers, and they did not continue to invade Kjerag's de jure territory at will.

The Colombians realized that Kjerag had changed, but their energy was still tied up by Bolivar and Siesta. It was difficult to attack Kjerag, who was already wary of him. They couldn't afford to offend Kjelag, who had already manifested himself more than once. The real and objective existence of Yeragond, the current situation is not as good as keeping what you have eaten first, digesting as much as possible and converting it into tangible benefits.

Since independence, Colombia, which has always had the upper hand, finally realized its own shallowness. Some things are not under their control as they wished.

After all, they are still an emerging country. On the continent of Terra, a land that has a profound history and is facing turbulent major changes, blind expansion and arrogance will ultimately harm their own interests.

58.The shadow of the ocean

"I'm sorry to trouble you about Kjerag's affairs." On the first night after leaving Kjerag, Alpha organized a small dinner party in the restaurant of the Star of Life to tell what happened on the snow-capped mountains. Opportunity to communicate clearly to colleagues.At the same time, she also expressed her gratitude to the three deep-sea hunters who helped in this incident.

In this regard, Gladia said that these help are just a little effort, and the information about the Deep Sea Church provided by Alpha is of extraordinary value. At the same time, they will also need to rely on Alpha's power for the next trip to Iberia.Therefore, Gladia believes that the help provided by the deep-sea hunters in Kjerag is just a reasonable form of mutual help between the two parties during this long period of time.

The most suitable route from Kjerag to Iberia is to pass through Siesta. The Life Star will stay briefly in Siesta for a few days. Alpha is going to proofread the various facilities of the volcano project, and the doctor is responsible for In the past few days, the work currently piled up by two companies, Rhode Island's Siesta Branch and Rhode Island Biological Resources Development Co., Ltd., that require approval from senior staff will be dealt with.

Rhode Island is now on its way to Victoria. In this Iberia operation, everyone does not have enough time. In other words, they cannot deal with these affairs slowly. They need to concentrate on dealing with the deep-sea bishops. This means that the entire operation must be thunderous, and all those anti-human elements will be choked to death in the toilet in one breath. Otherwise, when they realize the danger and flee elsewhere to hide again, the intelligence advantage brought by Alpha's knowledge of other worlds will no longer be there. exists.

……

Xu Yu discovered that during the several-day journey to Siesta, Alpha would sit in front of the host terminal in her captain's room whenever she had time, connected to the neural data wire, and watch the various messages scrolling on the screen that dazzled her. Seeing the window, Xu Yu knew that he couldn't understand what Alpha was doing.So she was full of curiosity and decided to ask.

"I am planning to build a large enclosed dry dock in Siesta to prepare for possible future ocean navigation and deep-sea diving."

"But isn't Xista an inland lake?"

"Remember the band Eternal Sunset that I saw in Siesta before?"

Of course Xu Yu still remembers those visitors from the ocean who scared her so much, but her impression of them is much better now. If it hadn't been for that incident, she wouldn't have had the chance to express her feelings to Alpha, right? "Yeah, I still remember them."

"Kelsey revealed a piece of information. According to what they said, the narrow isthmus in the southern section of Lake Siesta, which is closest to the sea, actually has a passage to the sea underneath. When conditions allowed, I sent an unmanned machine, and commissioned several expedition teams in Siesta."

Hearing this, Xu Yu could already guess what Alpha wanted to say next. She still remembered that with the help of high-altitude drones to scan the landscape, she made a map centered on Siesta, including parts of Sargon, and Topographic map of most of Iberia.On that telemetry map, there are solid rock formations near the Isthmus of Lake Siesta, and there are indeed traces of seawater erosion.

"You mean, there is a passage to the sea hidden under the surface of that isthmus?"

"Yes, high-power stratigraphic scanning and the survey results of the two exploration teams have confirmed the result that below the narrowest section of the isthmus, between Lake Siesta and the ocean, there is a middle water body , a channel with a huge span." Alpha stopped what he was doing and put the data map of the seismic stratigraphy scan and the structural schematic diagram of the address acoustic imaging on the table.

"Look, a huge passage several kilometers long."

The computer-processed structural diagram was quite intuitive, and Xu Yu could understand the scene it depicted at a glance.But looking at Alpha's eyes, she realized that Alpha had something special to say.

Alpha nodded, and she also knew that Xu Yu was waiting for her next words, "Now there is a very strange problem here. In theory, Xista Lake and the ocean, because of the existence of this huge geological culvert, should A connector has been formed, and at least near the mouth of the channel, currents related to ocean tides should be observed."

"Well, that's indeed what it should be."

"But guess what, the two expedition teams observed on the isthmus for a week, and they did not observe the tidal phenomenon at all. The sea water near the culvert channel and the lake water were the same as anywhere else, with only calm waves. That Geological culverts that are not deep have never appeared due to the rise and fall of sea water."

This is very strange. Xu Yu has forgotten all her past experiences in Iberia, but her knowledge tells her that Iberia has tidal phenomena.And the location of that isthmus is the Iberian coast.

"Alfa, Iberia should have tides."

"That's right. I specifically verified this matter with Kelsey. Our planet does have tidal phenomena, and in the past history, Iberia also had ocean tides. I investigated Kelsi What I hope you can get over there are the maps surveyed and mapped by the Royal Society of Iberia, as well as related hydrological data, to compare the changes in the coastline in the past 60 years." Alpha paused, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea.

"Since the beginning of the Great Quiet, in the past 60 years, the erosion of the land by the sea has been real and visible to the naked eye. Moreover, the seawater spreading along the low-lying areas along the coast seems to have been affected in some way. The tidal phenomena of those water bodies , very weak.”

"..." After hearing this conclusion, Xu Yu suddenly became nervous. She knew very well the meaning of Alpha's words. Her meaning was very clear. After the Great Silence, the ocean next to the continent of Terra displayed a model of activity. , which means that they are no longer only controlled and affected by the natural environment, but there is some kind of existence that is purposefully controlling the ocean, slowly but surely, encroaching on the land inch by inch.

"Hai Hei, or Poseidon?"

Qian?":?!Xun'?!;;Free.'?'Fee,,'':small!said':skirt.?,?,2!,"'5,;"5''5'9? ?!5",3?,;0';0 "I don't know, maybe it has something to do with Agor. But this kind of change is comparable to the sea-dwelling fish that the Iberian authorities can barely cope with. , is much more serious. Iberia’s Judgment Army can still barely cope with the hordes of predatory fish, but Iberia, a country that has long since declined, is unable to fight against the living ocean.”

59. Siesta is under great pressure

"The Star of Life will arrive at the port tomorrow, right?" In the Siesta City Hall, Mayor Herman breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the news in the mayor's office. Now the Siesta City Council has been facing quite a lot of pressure. Under great pressure, investment in volcano construction projects is almost a huge bottomless pit, even if what they really need to invest is only the annular corridor and base at the bottom of the volcano, as well as photovoltaic-wind energy complementary power generation projects on the mountain.

Those drone swarms and production facility arrays that technicians cannot understand are handling massive amounts of materials every moment, converting the earth excavated from the volcano and the minerals mined into reinforced concrete for construction. , and more engineering drones.Although this process is as magical as magic in people's eyes, it is still somewhat acceptable. After all, it is a creation of the ancestors. It is understandable to be exaggerated.

But now the city hall is still under heavy pressure. As the volcano project progresses, Siesta will gradually use clean electricity from volcanic geothermal power plants, photovoltaic farms, large wind turbines, and backup reactors to replace the original In the last year of Alpha's first five-year plan, Siesta needs to eliminate the Originium technology devices that use etching spells to operate in all public facilities in the city, and replace all Source Stone technology devices with electrical appliances. Moreover, standardized electrical appliances should be promoted into every household.

After seeing the shocking work efficiency of those uniform drones, Herman has no doubts about the standardized construction proposed by Alpha. As a leader who can build a city from scratch, he is keenly aware that standardized construction is a key factor. An important construction standard related to industrial and social development.

But at the same time, he also clearly realized that this would be a huge social project. People who are used to using Originium technology equipment are still doubtful about the reliability of equipment that directly uses electricity, and at present Under such circumstances, unless there are high subsidies, people will still be willing to use equipment that they have used for many years and have various specifications, but are most familiar to them.

The City Hall conducted a small-scale statistical survey some time ago. It only counted the household appliances in the homes of all people who work in the City Hall. The results only included refrigerators. The conclusions drawn are crazy. Twenty people in the survey Households use 32 different specifications and infrastructure refrigerators from six countries.Two of the refrigerators are as old as the establishment of Siesta Central Street. The manufacturers have closed down and the parts can no longer be found.

"Promoting standardized household equipment is both a huge challenge and a huge opportunity..." Herman flipped through the internal investigation report. According to Alpha's plan, new household appliances entered thousands of households, which was part of the economic plan, but The relevant manufacturers will be converted from peripheral factories that were left vacant in the later stages of the Volcano Project, and local workers will be hired for production.This means that this in itself is helping Siesta establish an industrialized manufacturing brand, and the production capacity generated by Siesta's own huge replacement demand will establish a huge household appliance production industry chain.

This is only part of that huge plan, and Alpha’s original intention is to reduce Siesta’s dependence on the Source Stone industry, thereby reducing the impact of the increase in Source Stone particles and activity in the environment due to the application and development of the Source Stone industry. Potential natural disaster hazards.

Sierag will become the second city on this land that does not need to be driven around by natural disasters after Kjerag. However, unlike Kjerag who relies on the protection of a god, Sierag has received Although shelter also comes from her extraordinary existence, what constitutes this protection is not a vague supernatural power, but a tight network established by institutions and technology that can be seen everywhere and within reach.

Herman put down the report at hand and looked at a filing cabinet in the office, where the complete drawings of the volcano construction plan were stored. He clearly remembered that Plan Alpha completely changed the structure of the volcano, relying on the ability to control underground lava pools. The pressure and activity of the super volcano geothermal power plant and some related special equipment fundamentally change the crustal structure around the volcano, making it relatively controllable.

Then, on this basis, a huge underground city is built inside the volcano. This underground structure is usually used to accommodate various primary processing production lines. In the event of uncontrollable external natural disasters, or high-threat emergencies such as war, the underground city will It can be used as an underground bunker and battle fortress to transfer people.

This plan is not crazy, but the more he looks at it, the more Herman thinks it is feasible.After all, he has seen the things built by drones, and the steel mass-produced by equipment, except that it cannot conduct the Origin Stone technology, surpasses D32 steel in all performances.

"Those materials were developed and used to build a giant structure that is more than ten kilometers high and needs to withstand huge driving force. Once it is built, natural disasters will not affect it at all." Herman still remembers these words. The man-made miracle of the other world that Alpha had secretly shown him could drive the planet's [-] planetary engines, so he believed in everything in front of him and was convinced that it could protect the city of Xista.

……

There is always little time for thinking and emotion. After a while, Herman refocused his attention on the work in front of him. There are still several very important hearings and inquiry meetings that require Alpha to attend in person. Now the city hall is in Help her Norman Industries withstand pressure from all sides.

The mercenaries of the Rhode Island Security Contracting Company have already dealt with countless infiltrators and saboteurs from various countries in the volcano construction area. In this kind of competition, those guys can only suffer the loss, but they come to the door for various reasons. There are more and more people who are disgusted with Norman Industries, and some advanced technology companies in Colombia are coming to put pressure on them. All kinds of commercial spies are emerging in endlessly.

Alpha has not been in Siesta for a long time, and many people in the city hall are worried. Although the things she left behind are still functioning normally, rumors created by people with ulterior motives have spread everywhere, and the city hall needs her. Coming back to take charge and revitalize the confidence that has been crumbling under pressure, there are many things in Siesta that can really be decided only by her presence.

Herman handed over the relevant matters to his secretary, then took out a document that had been there for a long time from the drawer. He opened the cover of the document and saw the words "Siesta City Commercial and Counterespionage Law" printed on it. superior.And below this document, there are more than ten documents of similar thickness.

60. Prepare for a rainy day

"I'm so exhausted!" In the office on the top floor of the Rhode Island office building, the doctor who burned himself every day unexpectedly started to cry out that he was tired after entering the office.After discovering that one of the only two couches in the spacious office had been occupied by Alpha, he quickly jumped onto the other couch, slumped down, and lay down on it.

The Life Star stayed in Siesta for longer than everyone expected, because both Alpha and the doctor found that there were too many things that needed to be handled by themselves.

Alpha and the Doctor were lying on the sofa without any image. ACE beside them brought a teapot to make tea for them with a helpless expression.Under the control of Tifa, the service robot brought blankets to the two sleepy guys, hoping that they would not catch a cold in the 26-degree air-conditioned wind.

Compared to the doctor who was really exhausted to death, Alpha's condition also needs to be better. At least she won't feel physically tired, but several days of high-intensity hearings and various meetings also made her feel tired. Incessantly.

Before entering hibernation, Alpha only gave Diesel a wake-up call and instructions to prepare the Star of Life in advance. The time that had been lost could only be recovered on the road.They now need to get as much rest as possible before getting back on the road.On the Iberian side, Kelsey relied on her invincible network to establish several important high-level relationships, and everyone's actions in Iberia were authorized to a considerable extent.

Generally speaking, a country is not willing to allow outsiders to use force on its territory. The exercise of coercive power within the territory is also part of sovereignty. This is even in Thailand, where the concept of nationalism and state is relatively weak. The same goes for La Continent.

But there was one person, her name was Kelsey, and her face-saving strength had reached its peak. This kind of thing was a piece of cake for her. She easily convinced several old friends from the Iberian Tribunal, and The energy of those old friends can easily allow Rhode Island's small-scale field operations to enter anywhere in Iberia reasonably and legally.

It's just that Kelsey never mentioned to them the location and identity of the deep-sea bishops in the existing intelligence. Instead, he used a clever name, Rhode Island Bioresources Co., Ltd., to investigate the ecology of Haihe.Her old friend Saint Carmen expressed her understanding of this matter. Even Carmen herself could not guarantee that there were no spies who collaborated with the enemy and caused rebellion among the senior officials of the Tribunal.

……

On the other side, after Alpha settled all the remaining objections in one breath, Mayor Herman himself breathed a sigh of relief. That night, he took the rare initiative to call his daughter. With the help of Alpha, the father and daughter Communication broadcasts built on the mainland, thousands of miles apart, communicate the latest overview through video with almost no delay.

When the video ended, Herman raised his head and realized that it was already late at night. He stood up from his desk and looked out at the city through the window. Those drones had been replacing Siesta in the past two days. The street lamps were turned off, and the electricity-lit lights illuminated the land for the first time. Under those street lamps, Xista was peaceful and peaceful at night.

Dong Dong Dong, someone knocked on the door of the office. Herman frowned. He didn't know who would come to see him so late now.

"Please come in."

The person who opened the door and walked in was his new secretary, a very capable young man in his 30s.Recently, like himself, he often works overtime late due to various things.It was obvious that he was tired, but still full of energy.

But today, there was a look of worry on the young man's face, which caught Herman's attention.

"What happened."

"You noticed it..." The young man managed a smile and touched the back of his head, "There is a report here, which was sent to you by an official confidential letter from Rhodes Island."

"Secret letter? This has never happened." After taking the envelope, Herman realized something was wrong, because the envelope had a pattern of a natural disaster messenger printed on the clay, but the cover was also stamped with Rhode Island, No. Seals of MAN Industrial Defense Contractors and three units of Life Star.

These seals did not represent the confidentiality level of the letter, but Herman already had a rough idea of ​​what it meant.

Taking out the letter opener, Herman opened the envelope. A piece of filled letter paper and a data chip fell out of it. The data chip was the standard style of the Volcano Project. Herman had to turn on his new computer again. , ready to read it.

While waiting for the computer to turn on and read the chip, Herman picked up the piece of letter paper and after browsing it for a moment, he frowned.

"Haij...is that kind of monster finally getting his hands on Siesta..." As the leader of a city that lives by the water and has quite frequent trade exchanges with Iberia, Herman naturally knows In the ocean not too far away from Xista, there was some kind of unknown threat lurking. Through some side information, he also knew the concept of Haihe.but……

The computer was quickly turned on, the chip was inserted, and the system started to run automatically, reading a special self-compiled program. Then, a three-dimensional terrain data appeared on the screen.

Lake Siesta and the ocean are actually connected, and the seawater that surges to the entrance of the channel is controlled by some external force.

"Damn..." Herman immediately realized that Siesta was now in a potential substantive threat. It was really lucky that Siesta was not in trouble now.

"What can we do...?" After pondering for a moment, Herman looked up at the young man. After hearing what Herman had muttered before, the young man's face turned pale nervously. Although he passed this unusual Envelope, I realized that the matter was not simple, but I had not thought that the things announced in the envelope would actually make the mayor feel like he was facing a formidable enemy.

The young man couldn't answer Herman, but the self-compiled file displayed on the computer could.

Soon, a series of documents replaced the terrain data, and the system automatically took over the computer's camera and started eye-tracking mode, asking Herman to browse those documents completely.

It turned out that they had already made a plan and just left it to them to implement... Seeing those documents, Herman breathed a sigh of relief.

"Just make a note of it and notify the city hall tomorrow."

"Okay, please tell me."

"Starting next week, the market supervision department will conduct a comprehensive inspection of the output of all Siesta Lake fisheries. New equipment and equipment will be delivered by Norman Industries in the near future; secondly, tomorrow we will invite all large-scale enterprises in the city to The hospital's managers will go to the Rhode Island office in Siesta for a meeting. I will be there in person..." Herman is still in charge of Siesta, but he has no problem following Alpha on this matter. He was very clear about the arrangements over there. Those things were not something that he, the mayor of an independent city-state, could fight against and resist. He could only rely on Alpha, a powerful enough force.

"Also...tell the lady to call Hei back."

[Norman Industries will support Siesta for free in establishing a special anti-terrorism and chemical defense force to support the city council in having its own emergency response force that is capable of dealing with Haidian-related threats. The specific arrangements are up to you. Make your own decision. 】

61. There is a little fish named Lamia

"Alfa, what's wrong with you?" On the first morning when the Life Star sailed into Iberia, Xu Yu was awakened by strange movements coming from around him.Opening her hazy sleepy eyes, she was slightly frightened.

Next to her, Alpha was stretching her waist in the morning light simulated by the system, stretching the image of her brand-new body that she had never used before.The long blue-gray hair of the new machine brushed Xu Yu's cheek, and she actually felt a faint smell of sea salt.

Hearing that Xu Yu had been woken up by him, Alpha turned around guiltily with an apologetic smile, "Sorry, I'm getting used to the new body."

"Oh." Xu Yu blinked, and her refocused sight allowed her to see clearly what Alpha's new incarnation looked like. What surprised her was that compared to the images she usually used, it looked tougher and more peaceful. The image of this girl with gray-blue hair looks a bit weak due to her rapid momentum. This is an illusion that makes people feel that she is very ordinary and ordinary. This feeling is so strong that Alpha, who is vigorous and resolute, is now a little out of control. Live with this temperament.

Seeing Alpha's rare appearance, Xu Yu stretched out his hand in a mischievous manner and pinched her cheek, "Alfa, will the image you incarnate this time be too intimidating..."

"Ugh -" Alpha, who was suddenly attacked, screamed involuntarily, and then became serious again with a twitching look on his face, "Ahem, cough, cough, that stupid fish is really outrageous..."

"Stupid fish, is it her?" Xu Yu suddenly became serious. The hand that was holding Alpha's cheek was released and gently brushed her delicate face. At this time, she discovered that the new body's hair It is dotted with a pair of conch-like decorations, and two pairs of fluttering fin-like tentacles are branched upwards from the conch shell hair ornament, swaying leisurely in the dry and purified air of the Star of Life.

"Well, a child named Lamia..." Alpha seemed to be remembering something, his eyebrows were lowered, and he lowered his head and stroked his arms. Lamia's body that had been modified by Luna was still the same below the arms. A rather conspicuous structural structure, the energy network flows with a strange brilliance under the flexible shell. It touches his skin, and the experiences that belong to him but do not belong to him slowly flow through Alpha's heart.

It was an inevitable tragedy that happened in the depths of the ocean that no one knew about. A duplicate of himself and Lamia experienced an escape destined to separate heaven and earth.