The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 542: Do foreign countries also have sky-ground barriers? How long is the shelf life of their barriers?

【Hey Hey……】

Yun Kun shook his body happily. The new version of the fireproof cabin made by Shen Le made it very comfortable, and it could finally breathe a sigh of relief:
God knows, it must have been exhausted in order to bring this thing back, to house it and to protect itself from being burned!

[Shen Le, you absolutely won’t believe where I got this thing from! ]

"where?"

[Hehe, hehehehehe... guess what! ]

Shen Le smiled slightly, turned around and left. Guess?

What's there to guess?

He went back to ask the scholars, naval officers and soldiers who were on the ship to find out where their destination was this time, or where they had reached the farthest before Yun Kun activated the water shuttle.

Isn't that the place where the things were brought from?

Children sometimes need education and cannot be spoiled all day long!

[I went to the bottom of the sea!] As expected, Yun Kun immediately revealed the answer, as if he was afraid that if he spoke a little later, Shen Le would ignore him:
[I was scanning the terrain, but there was a crack there, and it rushed towards us... So scary! So scary! It almost burned me! ]

Shen Le stopped in his tracks. According to Yun Kun's description, it looked like an underwater volcanic eruption?

This kind of thing has no effect on ordinary ships, and even less on aircraft - unlike land volcanoes, whose large-scale eruptions can force aircraft within a radius of thousands of kilometers to detour - but what about submarines?

I guess the submarine will be a bit overwhelmed...

After all, the eruption of an underwater volcano will cause changes in the terrain and will also cause a large amount of hot sea water to surge up, forming different water currents and overturning submarines.

If we just rely on the original data and rush forward, something might go wrong...

"Have you told them?" Shen Le's face was serious:
"Have you told the people here? Have you informed them of the location?"

Although our own big black fish may not run that far... In fact, Shen Le has no idea where his big black fish has gone...

However, this kind of information should be reported as soon as possible!
[No... I'm dying of burns...] Yun Kun lowered the sail dejectedly. After a pause, he suddenly raised his voice:
[A Luo! A Hua! Go tell them! Tell them quickly!]

Okay... After such a long time, you have already given each other names...

Shen Le didn't need to look back to know that the compass and the scroll must have begun to project light and shadow, telling the experts who returned together and the others in the naval port where they encountered the volcano.

He pondered for a moment and tapped the wooden board beside him:

"Would it be convenient for you to ask other people to come up now? Ask them to move the equipment back, interpret the data in the equipment, and confirm the route and position in detail?"

Unfortunately, the ship does not have a black box, so we can only rely on these instruments...

[No problem... but be careful.] Yun Kun was silent for a moment, and Shen Le heard a muffled bang above his head. It must have taken the initiative to build a springboard:
[I told them to follow the paper man and not to go into places where the paper man didn’t allow them to go!]

Well, probably because the heat has not been absorbed yet, those places are not open to people. Shen Le nodded in understanding, turned around and went out, greeted the experts who rushed onto the deck and gave them a few words of advice, then returned to the engine room:
"Well, let's get on with it. There's a crack over there, and what's that thing coming towards you? Is that the rock inside? You couldn't get rid of it?"

[It’s not a stone… It’s not a stone!] Yun Kun suddenly became excited. Beside Shen Le, a few wooden boards creaked, as if a little guy was dancing:
[The crack is not an underwater volcano! I have seen that thing before, I can see it from a long distance, there is absolutely no way I can’t avoid it! That is, that is…]

Its voice suddenly became smaller. With a crackling sound, the stone insulation board in front of Shen Le cracked into seven or eight thin holes, and high-temperature steam rushed out:

Shen Le quickly cast a spell to help it. Condensed fireballs, absorbing high temperatures;

Command the steam to condense into a stream of water and fly out of the cabin;
Absorb the power of earth and repair the insulation board...

It took a long time before the situation calmed down. Outside the dock, a group of people were looking around, looking worried:
"Why did Mr. Shen suddenly start to beat bricks again..."

"Next time you sail, take these insulation bricks with you as supplies, right? In case they explode and you can't repair them..."

"Pah, pah, pah! Pah, pah, pah!"

"By the way, we need to ask Mr. Shen to make some more insulation bricks. The laboratory has not yet found the industrial production process..."

"This is too inefficient! Let them work overtime! As much as possible! If you don't work 12 hours a day, how can you say you are doing research? When I was rushing to meet deadlines, I worked 110 hours a week!"

"You are too cruel, aren't you? You just dragged a sleeping bag and slept directly in the laboratory!"

"There were no sleeping bags back then!" The expert shook his head as a matter of course:
"It's all just a roll of moisture-proof mat and a blanket. When I'm really sleepy, I just lie down anywhere. After sleeping for a few hours, I get up and work quickly..."

As he was speaking, Shen Le popped his head out from under the deck. Before he even climbed out of the deck, he raised his voice:
"Prepare the raw materials for me! I'll make another batch of refractory bricks! - Oh, can you help me find some fireproof talismans and formation diagrams? I'll try to carve them on the refractory bricks to raise their temperature!"

Small cheers continued to ring out from the crowd of experts and special affairs bureau personnel. Shen Le was finally going to upgrade the refractory bricks!

Very good!
Trick him into doing a little more, a little more, and we can at least build a small furnace...

Shen Le was already very familiar with the task of hand-kneading refractory bricks last time, so this time he did it again without having to use his brain and just relied on instinct to knead out a large pile.

The staff who helped him and transported materials only saw a flash of light in front of him, and a trailer was flashing, and a trailer was flashing.

Although it's just a small flatbed truck that can only carry four barrels of purified water, it's much more efficient than rubbing the bricks one by one last time!
By the way, he also wants to carve fire-proof talismans and formation diagrams on it... What's wrong with that?
Bring over all the most effective talismans and formation diagrams in the Special Affairs Bureau’s inventory and let him choose!

"...Why is there more?" Shen Le stopped, turned his head, and stared at the research dog who pulled another flatbed cart to bring him materials:

"I feel like I made at least two truckloads of refractory bricks! I can use them to build Yun Kun's engine compartment. One layer inside and another layer in the surrounding rooms will be enough!"

"Ah this..."

The researcher secretly cursed his supervisor for being a bad person and pushing him out to take the blame, and then he quickly bent down. With a smile on his face, he patiently explained:

"Mr. Shen, it's like this. Aren't you going to carve a fire-resistant talisman on it? We have already arranged an engraving machine and professionals and started working..."

So it was machine engraving, hand engraving, and mental engraving, all done at the same time. Shen Le nodded, accepting this explanation:

"Well, show me the finished one. If it's usable, I'll immediately replace it for Yun Kun. This thing he got is a bit troublesome... If we don't replace the refractory bricks, I'm afraid there will be big problems!"

"Okay! Immediately! I'll urge them to finish it!" The research dog was startled and ran out. Not long after, three forklifts came in a line, carrying the carved stone bricks and delivered them to the dock:

"Mr. Shen! Mr. Shen! Can you see if these can be used?"

Shen Le didn't need to look with his eyes or touch with his hands. He just stretched out his hand and hooked it. A whirlwind flew out, carrying a stone brick and falling onto the concrete floor.

He pondered for a moment, raised his hand and pointed, and a small fireball appeared at his fingertips, turning from red to orange, from orange to yellow, and from yellow to white...

Finally, it floated out slowly and landed on the stone bricks, sinking quietly like a drop of water seeping into the soil.

"hiss……"

The researcher next to him felt uncomfortable and couldn't help but shrugged. "Mr. Shen, your verification method is too crude!"

The temperature of the fireball you summoned has not been measured at all. You can only rely on the color of the fireball itself to identify it, which is completely impossible to be accurate!
Shen Le glanced at him with a half-smile. He knew, of course, that this kind of test method was much less accurate than the stable and controllable high-temperature burning.

However, the fireball summoned in this way carries with it a powerful fluctuation of spiritual power - and only stone bricks that can withstand the fluctuation of spiritual power can cover the things swallowed by Yun Kun and relieve its worries!

The summoned fireball sank into the stone bricks and quietly dispersed under Shen Le's control. Soon, hot steam rose from the surface of the stone bricks and began to radiate heat.

Shen Le looked intently and saw the hot air rolling above it, which had twisted the side of the ship behind into a curve.

However, the stone bricks have remained quiet, with no discoloration, cracking, or powdering on the surface.

He hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand and hooked it. A stream of water quietly flew up and landed on the stone bricks. It swirled and washed, bringing up huge clouds of steam, covering the entire stone brick tightly.

The water column fell, the steam dissipated, and the stone bricks still stood there quietly, with no sign of cracking in two.

"It looks like it can be used." Shen Le nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, a cable immediately flew up, wrapped around the bricks delivered by the forklift, and lifted them onto the deck.

Then, a group of paper people swarmed forward, pulled a small flatbed cart, loaded the bricks onto the cart, and pushed it towards the entrance of the stairs.

The research dog cried out "Ouch" and wanted to help pull the cart, but was blocked by the paper man. He could only look worried and stretch his neck to watch the flatbed cart being pulled forward:
It’s not that the flatbed truck can’t pull the bricks, the problem is, these paper figures are floating in the air, rustling in the wind, and their bamboo frames creaking. How can they do such heavy work?
Before other things are delivered, break them yourself first!

Shen Le was not worried, and followed the paper people, striding forward. When they reached the stairs, a wooden board rose naturally, forming an inclined slide beside the flatbed cart;
The paper man tilted the flatbed cart slightly downwards, and the bricks and stones slid down, and soon fell into the deep cabin and went away.

When Shen Le was about to enter, the wooden board was quickly moved to the side, and a handrail was provided for him beside the downward stairs:

Please, please, walk slowly, don't fall... Shen Le walked to the engine compartment. The temperature of the entire cabin had dropped to a point where ordinary people could stand there comfortably.

The entire cabin was wriggling rapidly, swallowing up the newly delivered bricks and stones one by one.

Shen Le looked closely and saw that the stone ball wrapped in the golden-red sphere was spinning non-stop, swallowing a brick and spitting out a lump of stone powder, then swallowing another brick and spitting out another lump of stone powder.

Soon, the surface of the stone ball was covered with patterns, and the symbols carved on the surface by the machine were constantly disappearing.

Shen Le used his mental power and immediately discovered that the talismans were not burned, but penetrated deep into the bricks and stones, layer upon layer, interconnected...

Very good, carve it once, and it will carve more times in the refractory brick. Shen Le walked slowly and relaxed, stretched out his hand and patted the stone ball:

"Yun Kun, well done! I'll prepare a cabin with firebricks for you in the future, and you can take care of it yourself, so I don't have to worry about you! - Come on, tell me more about what happened at that time?"

The spinning stone ball even stopped for a moment. Shen Le could almost imagine a smiling little face emerging from the surface of the stone ball, suddenly becoming sluggish and cowering in fear.

He patiently stroked the surface of the stone ball, letting the heat seep into it bit by bit, and comforted it softly:

"It's okay, it's okay. Come on, tell me what happened, who hit you?"

Judging from the appearance of this golden-red sphere, it should not be a missile, torpedo, depth charge or something like that.

So, what exactly is going on? Was it intentional to hurt Yun Kun, or was it accidental? Who is behind this, which country?

[It's not an undersea volcanic eruption... it's... it's... it's cracked.] The stone ball swayed restlessly, as if there was a rope hanging from it and it was doing the motion of a pendulum.

The amazing thing is that even with such a regular swing, Shen Le could still sense the fear in Yun Kun's heart:
[Just like... just like the last time we went to catch the big black fish... the sky cracked... the sky cracked...]

The sky under the sea has cracked?

If someone who doesn't know the situation were to do this, they would probably be confused: Isn't this at the bottom of the sea? How could the sky be cracked?
Even if the sky cracks, you will still fall into the sea first!
However, Shen Le understood it immediately. The sky cracked. What Yun Kun wanted to say was that the barrier between heaven and earth cracked.

Then, the thing that was blocked behind the barrier between heaven and earth ran out and rushed towards Yun Kun?

"Where did you run to?" Shen Le took out his phone, swiped a few times, and opened the map:

"Where did you encounter the sky crack?"

Is it the part covered by the copper sheet?

Strange, if it was the part covered by the copper sheet, the copper sheet should have been in a fuss a long time ago, and would have forced him to work. So, where did Yun Kun go?

[We go down along the South China Sea and through the Strait of Malacca...]

Yun Kun whispered his route. Shen Le kept moving his fingers on the map, moving the map to show the part from the Strait of Malacca to the Red Sea on the limited size of the mobile phone screen.

Yun Kun said softly:

[After leaving the strait, keep walking along the coast... keep walking... keep walking...]

Is this a replica of a certain voyage to the West? Shen Le thought silently, his fingers moving non-stop. Up, down, up again, down again.

Going further ahead is the Red Sea...so you should have entered the Red Sea?

Does the map given on the copper plate cover the Red Sea? It seems not. The map drawn on the copper plate seems to extend vertically southward from our territory, and at most includes the Strait of Malacca...

"Yun Kun, where have you been? Are you still heading west? Have you entered the Red Sea?"

Shen Le asked patiently, his heart pounding. The Red Sea is narrow and shallow, a major traffic route, with a large number of ships coming in and out every day.

Even the Xida aircraft carrier battle group would occasionally circle around in it. If Yun Kun was discovered while traveling through this strait...

Once discovered, there is no way to save you!
[This is it! I just walked here!] Yun Kun hummed:
[Back then, the eunuch Sanbao landed here and went on a pilgrimage to the holy land... I know the way here, even without someone to lead me, and I want to take a look... Then, this place cracked...]

The stone ball trembled again. Shen Le touched it gently:

"So, what was that thing that flew out of there? Was it like this from the beginning? Or did you fight it and it became like this?"

[It looked like a big bird... a very big bird, and it was burning.] Yun Kun was obviously frightened and spoke incoherently:

[It was flying in the sea, and the water was set on fire. It was flying on the seabed, and the sand and stones on the seabed were also set on fire. Then it saw me, and I ran away desperately...]

Shen Le subconsciously reached out and touched the copper sheet. The copper sheet was quiet and unresponsive. Shen Le tightly grasped the copper sheet, inputting the heat flow into it, and silently said in his heart:
"What kind of monster is this? Is it a monster from our country? Is it the monster you have recorded and sealed?"

After asking three times, the copper sheet suddenly vibrated. Shen Le felt his head buzzing, and in his mind, an L-shaped broken copper tripod slowly flew up and kept spinning:
On one side of the bronze tripod, there were mountains, rivers, and oceans. It was a map that Shen Le had seen countless times. It was just as Shen Le remembered, and it did not reach the Red Sea.

On the other side of the tripod wall, a faint light was like a broken line, bending back and forth on the nipple patterns, continuously passing through.

Most of the nipple patterns did not react. A few lit up slightly and then quietly went out. When the very few one or two lit up, Shen Le seemed to hear a loud roar of an animal:
This is, the copper piece is counting one by one, checking the information one by one, and asking about the monster sealed by it?

Please, please give me an answer!

He prayed silently in his heart. He didn't know whether the copper piece heard it or not, but it didn't say anything.

The faint light shuttled back and forth, touching every nipple mark. With a flick of the brush, the copper sheet shrank back to its original shape and disappeared from the meditation world.

Shen Le lowered his head and touched his chest. It was still hanging there, not getting any bigger or smaller.

This means that the monster swallowed by Yun Kun is not our own, it is not under its jurisdiction, and it has no information about it!

Okay, okay, so the sky in a foreign country is cracked - as for how the sky-sky barrier in a foreign country is cracked, that is another question.

Anyway, in that land, there are no gods running around, demons and monsters running around, and although there are priests, vampires, and werewolves, their combat power does not exceed the standards of the country...

Perhaps, they also experienced events similar to "Jedi Tiantong" and separated the human world from the world of ghosts and gods?

I don't know how long their barrier will last. Is it about to be destroyed...

"And then what? And then you beat it?"

[No! There is no way to win! It is too hot and can catch fire! ]

Yun Kun yelled indignantly. Shen Le really wanted to ask him:
Are you sure that what ignited was the seawater, sand and gravel, or the natural gas coming out of the seawater, or the oil in the sand and gravel very close to the surface of the earth?

Forget it, this is not the point. Even if an oil layer is found on the coast of the Red Sea, the Red Sea is such a busy transportation route and a key throat that it will not allow anyone to develop the oil field.

Shen Le said patiently:
"and then?"

[Then I ran away! That place is not my homeland. Although the water veins over there responded to my call, they were always a beat slower. It was so hard for me to escape!
I finally managed to escape back, but it couldn't get through, so it spit this thing out to hit me, and I had to desperately swallow it down! I held it tightly all the way back home! 】

what……

Uh……

So, this thing is the inner elixir of that strange bird...the monster that came out of the crack between heaven and earth...?

Shen Le was speechless. He touched the copper piece again and thanked him secretly in his heart:
Fortunately, our own heaven and earth barrier is here, which can block both our own monsters and foreign monsters.

Unfortunately, it can stop monsters but not humans; it can stop foreign gods but cannot stop the weakness of its own dynasty...

[Shen Le, take this away! I can feel that this thing is useful! Very useful!] Yun Kun calmed down a little and began to urge Shen Le again:
【Take it! This is a good thing! It’s good for you! 】

Maybe it is indeed a good thing. Shen Le smiled bitterly. Standing outside, he could feel the heat rushing inside through layers of protection.

But this thing is of no use to me!
Can I use it to refine weapons or to make pills?
I can't possibly absorb its spiritual energy myself! If I'm unlucky, it might burst me!
And there is no place to put it if I take it away... Shen Le thought about it and decided to put it back in his own mansion. He would have to live in fear every day, worried that this thing would break the seal and burn down the mansion.

The only place where it can be stored safely is probably the Yuhuan Secret Realm - the problem is that it is just a storage place and cannot be used!

"Uh, Yun Kun... it's like this. If I take it away, it's useless. At most I can sell it to the Special Affairs Bureau for money - but that requires the Special Affairs Bureau to have a way to use it."

He chose his words carefully:
"Haven't you always wanted to make a nuclear reactor and use it as an engine? Try it and see if you can use it directly as an engine?"

If it works, everyone will be happy. Yun Kun has an extra engine, and with such strong spiritual power, it can slowly absorb and strengthen itself, which is much stronger than ordinary energy without spiritual power;
The Special Affairs Bureau doesn't have to scratch its head every day, trying to figure out where to move a nuclear reactor for Yun Kun;
Shen Le didn't need to worry about it. He was afraid that these heat shields couldn't withstand the high temperature of the nuclear reaction, and Yun Kun would be burned to ashes in an instant, and he wouldn't even have time to save him...

(End of this chapter)