People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

Hansa actually knew very well why Academy City didn't allow him and others to leave.

The reason was nothing more than the astonishing vision that occurred in the city late that night, a month ago.

Perhaps to other ordinary people it was just a particularly bright flash of unknown meaning, which was easy to fool, but to these church members it had a completely different meaning.

That's an angel.

Although I was only indoors at the time and saw the huge wings made of angel feathers through the window, any member of the Christian Church would recognize this phenomenon.

That is to say, it is a strange thing that Hansa is a main agent and a sideline priest, so I was quite surprised by this phenomenon at the time, but now I can still remain calm.

But the nuns in his combat formation called 'Quartet' were different. Unlike himself, they were agents with firm faith and to some extent, they restrained lazy priests like Hansa himself.

"Unbelievable! You, Academy City, actually summoned such a wrong fallen angel--!" an older nun accused. She was still polite. If it weren't for Aponia restraining the behavior of everyone present, the younger nuns would probably have cursed out loud immediately.

"No doubt about it! This is a hateful blasphemy against the faith of the Lord! ..."

Although a month had passed since the incident, the nuns still had this attitude when they saw Aponia. It might be because Aponia was also a nun, and these agents must have thought that Aponia was a believer of the Fallen.

"Almost there."

Hansa would always appropriately stop these behaviors every time. After all, this was someone else's territory. He wanted to know when they would be released. This nun had very strange abilities. No one knew what kind of magic she used, but without any signs, their spirits were easily interfered with. They couldn't leave here at all these days.

"Everyone."

Aponiya suddenly spoke, and as soon as she opened her mouth, the air suddenly became quiet, as if she was born with the ability to restrain others.

"——Everyone, before I tell you about your return schedule, there are a few things I need to confirm." Finally, for some unknown reason, Aponia began to respond to several people directly. "This nursing home has received many growing children. Have you paid attention to them? May I ask... how do you think their lives are?"

"child?"

Hansa and several nuns were all stunned for a moment. The topic changed so quickly that they fell into deep thought.

"I don't understand, what does this have to do with our return? Even if you put us under house arrest, we are still helping diligently when it comes to taking care of the children!" said the old nun as a matter of course.

"Yes, you have noticed them well. They are flowers that have not yet grown. Even though the relationship between us is so... regrettable, children should not be involved in such a complicated dispute."

Aponia held her hands together. "I want to confirm this because I want to state my faith here. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you the details in the previous communication. But my faith is... hope, the hope of breaking free from the cage of fate. I used to believe in some wrong ideas, but now I am willing to provide relief and spread hope."

"—"

Everyone in the church was speechless. They thought she was a pagan or had a heretical belief, but they didn't expect it to develop like this.

"There is one more thing that I regret." Aponya did not look at the crowd, but her eyes seemed to penetrate the surface of things and reach the inner world. "I thought the church should also be a group of people who provide relief in this way, but the reality is not what I thought."

"What!?" A nun immediately retorted, "Everything we do in the Holy Church is undoubtedly to practice the Lord's teachings and spread the Lord's glory!"

"--So, those victims...are not worthy of seeing 'glory'?" Aponya said in a calm and sad tone.

"You are--" The nun wanted to say 'What nonsense are you talking about', but she was suddenly stopped by Father Hansa.

"Ms. Aponya, regarding the operation of the church," Hansa had a vague feeling of what Aponya was going to say, "it is an internal matter of our organization. As an outsider, you have no right to--"

But Aponia's spirit instantly spread all around, like a heavy pressure that solidified the entire room, and Hansa was unable to speak.

"Everyone in the church, you have gathered a staggering amount of wealth and resources by relying on your vast network of secular believers, but you have failed to devote yourself to becoming the saints you praise. Instead, you use your resources to eliminate heretics. You don't know how to protect mortals. In order to achieve your goal, you are willing to blow up the city as well."

"It was like this during the war with the Magic Association, and it has always been like this when it comes to exterminating the blood-sucking species. Even your own agents have suffered heavy losses and become victims who are destined to be harmed."

Through them, Aponya saw a kind of past.

In the church's monastery, a large number of people contaminated by the ancestors were imprisoned, because from high-level dead apostles to ancestors, they were poisonous creatures that could cause pollution just by existing, which was also their way of denying human nature. Because of this, Academy City had Ryougi Shiki hunting down dead apostles and obtaining countermeasures against these vampires very early on.

The church simply treats people as consumables.

During the long-term war against vampires, a large number of personnel became contaminated - a state close to or almost transformed into vampire dependents, and then they were either guarded by the monastery or continued the crusade work as agents. Most of these low-level agents did not last more than two years, and the few who survived were already psychologically distorted.

However, even so, after being pointed out, Hansa and others remained unshakable.

This is what is even more sad.

Moreover, what was not mentioned was that even the true stance of the vampires and the church was questionable. For example, the original 25th ancestor, Bei Zhe, was the inventor of the Black Key and the teacher of Xiel; the 20th ancestor, Meilian, was a member of the church's burial mechanism; the 16th ancestor, Feim, and the 27th ancestor, Kobake, were once believers like Meilian; and Roya was simply the founder of the burial mechanism.

"Everyone from the church, please leave. Everything here can be used as a report," Aponya delivered the final message, but several people really wished they hadn't heard it.

"——But you are not the first group of visitors from the church. Mario, the Japanese head of your church, once negotiated with Academy City to ask for the research results of the Dead Apostles. It was not a strategy to fight the enemy, but to ask for the technology to prolong his father's life."

"Mario is the son of your Cardinal Laurentius, who was designated by your superiors as the next King of the Church (the supreme leader of the Holy Church). I am sorry to know the true face of your organization... I wish you a bright future."

Chapter 382 Mass Accelerator Projection Satellite Group

"Just let them go, okay?"

Aponia allowed the few people from the Cathedral Church to leave, under the instruction of the chairman who represented the highest will of Academy City.

In the air - in the world filled with the invisible AIM diffusion field, a voice replied: "Don't worry, the original purpose of their trip...the purpose of eliminating a certain Dead Apostle has been achieved. On this point, we in Academy City will not make things difficult for the church workers. 'The agent team led by Hansa cooperated with the Academy City officials to deal with the Dead Apostles and the impact they brought', just have such a consistent statement, as for the mutual perception and attitude of both parties, this is another matter. The church will not make trouble because of this matter."

"...But, the matter of artificial angels..."

"Ah, this is indeed the main problem. However, compared to the historical significance of the transition from the old era to the new era, the attitude of the church is just a small problem. In other words, it is just a small part of the counterattack force of the old era."

The reason why the old human principles in the outside world still exist is that in 1000 BC and AD respectively, two tools of God, King Solomon and Jesus, ended the Age of God and founded the human principles, and then continued for more than two thousand years to this day to form the "inertia of the times", or in other words, the stability of human principles.

Judging from the people who intervened at that time, it goes without saying that they had a strong Christian style. Therefore, the forces represented by the Christian Church and the Holy Church were the essence of the old human principles. And now, once again, the new human principles have set off a wave of change in the times, and the counterattack of the old human principles is foreseeable.

After all, when the Age of Gods was declining, some pantheons tried to save the nation, but the final result was self-evident. By analogy, in today's Old Man Order, there must be some "attempts to save the nation", and the church should play an important, even critical role in this.

"Although this 'identity' accusation is groundless, I still tend to speculate that the church will be a major pillar of the 'reactionaries' of the old times," the chairman said, "In this case, there is no need to cover up the news. Sooner or later, it will be a confrontation, and there is no point in keeping it under house arrest—"

"But there is actually another reason for letting them go. That is, our important operation has begun," the chairman's voice showed obvious ups and downs. "Soon, we will become the focus of the whole world - some initiative should fall into our hands."

At the same time, a virtual display screen appeared in the church where Aponia was, showing a picture of more than a dozen streams of light being launched from the ground, breaking through the atmosphere and flying into outer space.

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minutes ago.

An undisclosed area in Luzon.

This is a mountainous area covered with dense forests and vegetation. A spacious highland area is one of the launch sites of the space base specially built by Academy City.

In fact, the space base, as a major type of land planned for Luzon, has been under construction since a month ago. Such launch sites are distributed in different locations. According to the plan, a total of 30 sites have been built, 15 of which have been completely completed and put into use early, and half are still under construction.

But no matter what, the cover provided by the mountains is a great advantage, but for Susanna who is rushing over, it may also be an extra torture.

"Hmm...well, Chief Engineer Velvi belongs to...the Space Management Department, and Space Launch Site 03 is located at..." Susanna drove her car on the winding mountain road. Of course, she couldn't run here, so she just drove all the way to Alvette's workplace.

"Hello? Senior Alvette, I came here according to your work address. Is this the place?" This place is different from those cities and towns full of daily life atmosphere. There is not even a road sign. Susanna felt a little lost.

"Huh? Wait a minute," Rialvet's voice on the communicator was very surprised. "I sent you the location. I'm not at that work address. That's the launch site. The default address of the base headquarters is also there, so it's also the work address. I'm actually at the data observation station. You've gone to the wrong place. Follow the location I sent you!"

"Ahhh, sorry, sorry!" Susanna apologized for her rash behavior and quickly turned around and took another route.

"Susanna, where are you now? Are you already at the launch site?"

"No, no, I'm only halfway there. I'm turning back now... well, I should still be in time, right?"

"Please stop for a moment and look back."

"Ah?" Susanna braked subconsciously and looked back, but there was nothing.

"——It's almost time to launch, so don't blink."

Then, the voice of Rialvet on the communicator gradually became noisier, and there seemed to be other people's voices and the sound of numbers counting down.

"…Three, two, one, zero, fire."

At the same time, among the mountains, a muffled sound of explosion resounded back and forth in the mountains, as if a horrific explosion was echoing beneath the ground. Then, one, two... a total of fifteen meteors, with an initial velocity exceeding 10 kilometers per second and a surface shining with extremely hot and bright light, flew out from Luzon Island at a 45-degree angle.

Susanna finally understood what Alvette was talking about. This was launching a spacecraft.

But rather than a traditional rocket, this looks more like a cannonball?

Yes, this thing is indeed a cannon. It can be said that the idea of ​​using a cannon to launch a spacecraft was proposed by Vivi when she supported the launch project. The inspiration came from the "Barbados Cannon".

In the 1960s, Canadian Dr. Girard Bull led the development of a super cannon capable of launching artificial satellites. It once fired a 2100-kilogram shell into space 15000 kilometers at an initial velocity of 190 meters per second and an overload of 180 g. The doctor's experimental site was called Barbados Island, and the device was named after it.

Relatively speaking, Weiwei did not follow this plan completely, but made some modifications. The first was to bury the "gun barrel" underground and add multi-stage acceleration based on the electromagnetic principle, that is, to use a mass accelerator similar to an underground launch silo to launch the spacecraft.

The advantage is that it can further increase the load and initial velocity of the gun, and can even directly enter low-Earth orbit without propulsion.

Chapter 383 Quantum Engine, Uranus

Fifteen streams of light rushed up to the sky, and the thermal insulation layer on the surface continued to emit intense light and heat due to the friction and burning of the atmosphere. It was evening in Luzon at this time, and night was just coming, so this scene was particularly dazzling in Susanna's eyes.

It can't be said to be dazzling. Susanna noticed it in advance, so in her eyes, these spacecraft were like meteors that were getting smaller and flying backwards.

While people on the ground were looking up, these "meteors" had already rushed out of the Karman line at an altitude of 100 kilometers, and were still flying upward at a very fast speed, quickly reaching the low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 650 kilometers.

At this time, the thrusters installed at the bottom of the meteor-shaped shells began to operate through the semi-permanent quantum engine constructed by the Krilonomya basic unit, continuously creating low-temperature quantum conditions through the characteristics of the second-type perpetual motion machine, and achieving efficient propulsion by converting bosons into fermions and then converting them back.

The advantages are similar to those of mass accelerators. The electromagnetic projection of mass accelerators is efficient and cheap, and unlike traditional rocket launches, it does not require a large amount of chemical fuel to account for the total weight of the launch vehicle.

The quantum engine also gets rid of the mode of periodically heating and cooling the gas like the traditional engine. In simple terms, it takes two fermions and combines them into a molecule. This new molecule is a boson, and breaking it can get fermions again. Through this cyclic operation, the engine is powered without using heat.

The high efficiency of the quantum engine allowed the spacecraft to gain even more amazing power, continuing to fly upward at an ultra-high speed. From the ground, it looked like a tiny bright spot.

Altitude 1000 km, 2000 km...10000 km, 20000 km...

Finally, a total of fifteen "meteors" glided into different positions near the geostationary orbit at an altitude of 35786 kilometers in a gliding mode and began to correct their orbits at the predetermined positions.

But it’s not over yet.

The fifteen spacecraft are not independent artificial satellites, but actually satellite components in groups of five, each with different functional areas. So all the quantum engines began to adjust their directions and started orbital docking with the help of the originally loaded intelligent programs.

Each satellite weighs 10 tons, and the average mass of the three satellites, which are grouped into five, reaches 50 tons. After docking and assembly, each satellite is 5 kilometers long. The solar panels are then deployed to absorb solar energy and other cosmic rays to complete their own operation and power various experimental modules. At the same time, due to the characteristics of the Krilonomea basic unit, the satellites can also separate, navigate, and change orbits by themselves.

The three satellites were named Uranus I, II, and III. However, overall, they are more like multi-purpose space stations or something else than satellites. They are called satellites only for the convenience of complying with international treaties.

It took only 14 minutes from the launch of the spacecraft to its arrival at the intended location. During these 14 minutes, the whole world was watching.

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America, the Pentagon.

In a room with a sign that read “Space Systems Office”, sat a white man in military uniform.

Charles is a general of the American Air Force and also a representative of the military forces in the magician family of the Mountaintop City. He is one of the direct superiors of Faldius, who belongs to the special department. After all, in order to independently hold the Holy Grail War in the United States, a certain degree of official monitoring is also required. As a position in the Space System Office, he can directly retrieve satellite data and detect whether the situation in Snowfield City is abnormal at any time.

But he was not in a very good mood at the moment. Previously, the Squartio family had asked for help with drug sales channels in South America. Due to the importance of magic material resources, they had to take action. However, the bad news was that even with the new manpower, those who opposed them and wanted to kill the drug cartel were still nowhere to be seen.

What was worse was that the enemy could not find them, but instead had mixed up many of their data bases. The satellite receiving devices, radar signal towers, and electronic equipment in the data building were physically destroyed. Apart from the local people who were unaware of the situation and ordinary laborers, no one was left alive.

No useful information about the enemy could be gathered from the traces left at the scene, and the bodies that could be found were found to have no external wounds upon examination.

They originally thought that it was an unknown magician who did it, so they secretly used magicians to investigate, but they could not find any traces of curse or magic power. They just showed all the signs of brain death.

This is very confusing.

Suddenly, the phone next to me rang.

"Hey, what's the matter?"

"General, something bad has happened! This is an emergency, please come to the monitoring room immediately!"

"it is good!"

Charles immediately left his seat and came to a room full of surveillance screens, where a large number of equipment were displayed and many people were busy working.

The staff member who had just contacted the general displayed a screen: "General, just now, 15 targets from the southern island of Luzon flew into outer space from the local Awa Mountains. It took about 14 minutes."

"WTF?!" Charles looked at the employee's screen and found that it was true. Satellite monitoring data showed that the speed of these targets was very terrifying. At this time, they were all staying near the geostationary orbit at an altitude of about 3.6 kilometers for position correction.

"——14 minutes, damn! The average speed exceeded Mach 100!?"

Charles took a while to calm down, and after ordering a continued monitoring, he began to wonder what was going on. He absolutely did not believe that Luzon suddenly had such a high level of aerospace technology. If he had to name a suspect, Academy City should be one of them.

The intelligence about the "Advanced Humanoid Armor" reported by Faldius not long ago was still fresh in his mind. And according to investigations, well-known companies stationed in Academy City, such as Shencheng Anti-Entropy, entered the local market not long before the blockade of Luzon, which made him suspect that Luzon and Academy City had some secret agreement that could not be revealed.

"General! A clear signal came from the satellite!"

"Translate it!"

Soon, the signal from the Uranus satellite group was broadcast:

【学园都市太空管理部向全世界宣告：我方携手吕宋当局政府，于2003年10月22日18时51分，成功发射乌拉诺斯气象卫星组，该卫星均重50吨......】

[Academy City aims to develop deep space, promote human civilization, and lead the future of exploring the universe...]

Chapter 384 Weather Control Satellite is also a weather satellite!