From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 346 Interstellar Route

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 346 Interstellar Route

Today, sixty years later, the Republic has established a semi-open-air general base that extends about 5 kilometers outward along the huge 30-kilometer-diameter crater, and has built all over the planet's surface.

Exploration and prospecting sub-bases and large and small sites.

At this time, Shadi was leading Alena, who had come from the distant mother star, to visit the "general base" there.

Among them, since Shadi herself is a real entity that exists here, according to the "Purgatory Star Activity Code", in terms of breathing methods, skin moisture retention, etc., she strictly follows the standards of an elf and carries out much more body inscription protection than a large elf;

Alena is somewhat different from this, because she exists here based on the ultra-long-distance projection of the virtual world network, so she only needs to abide by the restriction of "not exceeding the virtual world coverage area", and all other forms are

There is no difference from the home star.

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Their first stop is the area 4.5 to 5 kilometers outside the main body of the main base. There is a circle of thunderstorm power stations spaced about 2 kilometers apart. It is also the most suitable environment under the special natural environment of the Purgatory planet.

Suitable for use at the energy generation end here.

The other methods are each inappropriate in their own way. For example, the Inscription fusion reactor is not suitable because it has not been successfully miniaturized. The Inscription fission reactor has the problem of excessive energy consumption when operating in extreme environments. Other methods include fire, wind, sunlight, etc.

Power generation technologies also have their own anachronisms.

"So, this kind of thunderstorm power station has replaced the Beast King's cage that has been sent back to the home planet and placed on the moon, and has become the main energy source in the base."

Just when Shadi was patiently introducing, and Alena was nodding her head to listen carefully, there was thunder high in the sky above carrying majestic energy, and was bombarded by the translucent sphere at the center of the power station.

The restraint turned into the dense purple light inside.

These purple lights are energy bodies between reality and reality, and what is very cost-effective is that only 13% of them will be used to drive the maintenance inscriptions of the power station itself, so that they can always be in a working and self-healing state;

The remaining 87% of the energy will be sent to many receiving points within the base through unintermediated remote delivery, becoming the driving source for the functional modules within it.

After roughly visiting one of the power stations, they began to walk back. When they arrived at the 4-kilometer perimeter of the base, they saw the real distinction between the "inner and outer areas", a transparent wall that seemed illusory but not imaginary.

Shadi said that this is a multi-layered hemispheric structure generated based on virtual realm penetration and energy shield technology. It completely covers the entire crater area above the surface, and draws an arc downward at a maximum depth of 500 meters, with

The core area of ​​the base directly borders;

As a result, the sky above the entire inner area of ​​the base seemed to be covered by several layers of transparent films, maintaining a visually hazy state.

And they are like breathing, inhaling the outside world and the gas generated in the lower volcano layer by layer, and under the chemical and physical effects that occur between each layer based on the influence of magic, they are generated in the film interval.

Different kinds of mist.

Afterwards, the mist will be absorbed by the surrounding equipment at the bottom, and flow to a special chamber in the base for compression and cooling, and then be sent to a regulated environment to complete the storage;

And among these reserves, there is an extremely important resource - water;

It is naturally also the lifeline for the residents on the surface. If the daily production capacity in the base is based on 'saving', it can supply the drinking needs of about 300 great elves, plus the collection from the space station, and other

With the addition of several methods, you can turn this number upward by several more numbers.

After that, they walked through the underground passage for about 200 meters, and finally left the 'wall' composed of multi-layered membrane structures and arrived at the real inner area of ​​the base.

Obviously, the great elves have not put much effort into 'environmental transformation', because both the previous periphery and the current inner periphery are equally hot.

Moreover, except for the 'corrosive components' in the air that have been specially filtered for other purposes, the other components and the overall air pressure have remained at the same level as in the past;

Therefore, when considering the temperature, gas composition, and air pressure together, we can draw the conclusion that this is still a forbidden place for most life.

However, what you see in front of you doesn’t seem to be the case?

"But aren't there obviously trees here, and there are so many of them?"

The large forest farm composed of tall purple 'trees' in front of her came into Aliena's sight at this moment, which made her have corresponding doubts, so she asked Shadi like this.

"They just look like trees."

According to Shadi's introduction, these 'trees' are not plants in the usual sense, but a bionic structure composed of 'a small amount of flesh and blood + a large amount of metal + inscriptions', and they are by no means a single plant.

The independent existence of a single body is essentially an extension of the surface of the overall structure of the base, sharing the root system that goes unknown depth into the magma layer.

The tree-like appearance they display on the surface actually corresponds to the refining terminal of a type of element. The inscribed 'fruits' with or without metallic luster on them are the Republic of China on the planet Purgatory.

The most important output of the above plan.

From time to time, Aliena can still see some ripe and plump 'fruits', which seem to have fallen downwards and been swallowed up by some opened tunnels.

"The pipeline will send them to the corresponding transfer cabin, and then be delivered by the electromagnetic gun, or transported by the relay spacecraft, and sent to the orbiting space station batch after batch;"

"Then what?"

"In fact, the space station is not the end point. Those independent storage warehouses in orbit that also surround the Purgatory Star are their temporary destination until the window period between the home planet and the Purgatory Star approaches again."

"After that, it's time for 'Truck Driver' to come on the scene, right?" Alena confirmed curiously.

"Yes, the transportation team I am currently interning with is waiting for the window to arrive, trucks. Well, it is more accurate to say spacecraft. Now they are all connected to the orbital base. We are just waiting for the window to arrive.

They will leave with these supplies."

"Sister Shadi, does your fleet only travel between the moon and the star of Purgatory?"

“Not really”

"Tell me about it~ Where have you been? What kind of places are they?"

"Ah, don't you want to continue reading? How can you visit this place and talk about other things at the same time?"

Hearing this, Alena felt a little torn, because she wanted to see the Purgatory Star Base, but also wanted to hear Shadi's story about the 'Interstellar Voyage'.

"What a greedy little cutie"

After scratching Alena's nose, Shadi said in a funny way,

"If you still have time, let me give you a brief overview first, and then we can go back to the dormitory and tell other stories?"

"Well, let me see how much balance is left first."

Just as he was talking, Aliena, who was not very familiar with the 'double-line operation', closed her eyes slightly and looked at her wealth in her mind;

After only half a breath, she opened her eyes, made a 'no problem' gesture, and said happily,

"Haha, I'm really too rich! Come on, let's continue visiting!"

"Don't be too careless. This is an ultra-long-distance virtual call across planets."

Although he said this, it could actually be seen from his expression that Shadi was not too worried about this matter;

After all, as long as an elf graduates normally, there will be no problem of being poor, let alone Alena, who is also a top student?

Therefore, this tour can continue

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Afterwards, they continued to move inward through the large bionic forest, and finally arrived at the core area of ​​the base.

The 30-kilometer crater is used as the hollow inner diameter, and the outer ring is the main body of the ring-shaped building spanning the surrounding one-kilometer area. Its purple-gold shell has a texture that is very similar to the skin of elves, and it is also shining with densely packed inscriptions and etchings.

In the direction of the inner periphery of the building, they saw hundreds of arc-shaped ascending tracks with special curves. They extended to a length of nearly ten kilometers towards the center of the crater, and from time to time they would appear as if they were flashing with electric light.

It was a spaceship and something that looked like a barrel-shaped warehouse was thrown into the sky at a very fast speed;

The two of them raised their heads and watched the objects projected by the orbit. After breaking through the thick clouds, they gradually and quickly disappeared from the end of their sight.

In fact, when they arrived here, there were a lot more real or virtual big elves in the surrounding area.

Among them, the incorporeal body seems to be to save certain resources, or for the convenience of movement, so it deliberately maintains a normal body shape;

Although their 'normal' height of about 3.5 meters is still considered very tall for these two dwarfs, it is only when they occasionally meet those physical residents that they will truly feel what the height difference is and what the height difference is.

It's called body shape difference.

"Hey~ Little Shadi, are you bringing your friends to visit?"

The nearly 8-meter-tall guy passed by with a smile and a greeting.

"Why hasn't little Shadi grown taller yet?"

After more than ten lights passed, another behemoth with a height of about 7.5 meters greeted people passing by with the same smile.

"Let's go another way"

Amidst Alena's confusion and confusion, Shadi said this with a slightly reluctant and slightly stiff smile.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Alena first asked in surprise, and then quickly asked with some anger,

"Are those big guys bullying you behind your back?"

"No, no~"

Shadi waved her hand in denial and immediately gave a corresponding explanation.

"You have just been to the home planet not long ago, so you have no experience. Some great elves will have a sense of oppression that they unconsciously exude. When we encounter them without psychological preparation, they will make us feel a little uncomfortable.

"

In just two sentences, Shadi had actually overcome the impact of the previous encounter and continued to add,

"The big elves who can apply to be resident on alien planets are generally quite old, and some of them are the first batch of trolls."

"Oh, that's it. It's a pity that I can't feel it in this state. I'll look for it when I go back."

While talking, they continued to move forward and entered the overlapping building shells, and saw the electric drive chambers responsible for various specialized tasks.

In terms of environmental transformation, there are regional gravity and air pressure adjustment rooms and special storage environment maintenance rooms;

In terms of energy, the control and maintenance of thunderstorm electric fields and transmission lines seem to be carried out in separate terminal assembly rooms;

The production business of materials needed locally is also handled by the manufacturing and inscription engraving terminals of various engineering vehicles, aircraft, and even buildings;

In addition, there are maintenance of water barriers to maintain lifelines, organic matter synthesis and other matters, 'super-time and space intervention' matters in the field of virtual reality and communication, control projects of the 'forest' where elements are separated and maintained in single-phase states, and the internal commuter rail layer

Maintenance and so on.

It is precisely under the joint action of this series of facilities that the Purgatory Star main base, including the outer, inner and core areas, as well as the exploration and prospecting sub-bases all over the planet, can be maintained;

The existence of these general bases and sub-bases allows the more than 400 entity elves and tens of thousands of virtual consciousness projections resident on the surface to carry out various research, maintenance, or exploration in various aspects here.

and other work, thereby providing the Republic and the elven people with abundant external resources, as well as an experimental base outside the home planet.

At this point, the two and a half-year-old elves finally had a brief tour of the entire base and returned to Shadi's temporary residence, ready to tell the story about 'interstellar transportation'

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About two years ago, an elf named Shadi was born on the moon and arrived at the mother planet on a relay spacecraft.

Shadi quickly adapted to the various differences between the real and virtual realms, and without much hesitation, she chose a large city to live in the Black Forest, which has the most comfortable climate;

Afterwards, she began to consider her options for the 'future' and made a preliminary decision to walk more and see more.

Therefore, after many consultations and careful thinking on his own, Shadi settled on a profession that allowed him to see more scenery - 'Interstellar Transport', and after going through the application process, virtual realm training and other processes, he entered

'The 23rd Interstellar Transport Fleet' finally became a glorious trainee driver.

The fleet has 43 ultra-large-tonnage Inscription fission reactor transport ships, which are mainly engaged in interstellar transportation between the fourth orbit-the mother planet Moon-Purgatory Star route.

By the time of the first voyage, although Shadi had already had more than 5 voyage experiences in the acceleration of the virtual world, the fleet still arranged for her to follow a master master for learning and control assistance first;

Of course, there are actually only two elves in this boat, one big and one small.

Subsequently, the fleet set off from the moon carrying a large amount of living supplies. Because the window period was just right, its first stop was accidentally set at the Death Star base, and it arrived successfully after more than 20 days of sailing.

Here, she not only saw the orbital space station base with more than 20 great elves stationed there, but also briefly visited the surface of the earth with complete low-temperature protection measures, truly seeing the near-zero magnetic field, cooling core, and extremely thin atmosphere.

A 'Death Star' with characteristics such as extreme day and night temperature differences;

In addition, the base on the surface also left a very deep impression on her.

According to the master, in the earliest days, the space station launched a surface spacecraft with layers of protection, and inside it there were five physical elves sleeping in a 'constant temperature sleep cabin';

Based on the "high-level caster's ability to communicate instantaneously with no obstacles between the body and the clone", the virtual realm domain that has been functionally modified and enhanced uses the thoughts of these five elves in their sleep as a guide and springboard, across the mother planet.

The vast distance from the Death Star really touches the surface here.

Afterwards, the consciousness projection of a high-level spellcaster appeared in the spacecraft, and using the remaining spellcasting resources from the thoughts generated by the dreams of the five elves in addition to maintaining the projection, it spent a considerable period of time on the surface of the Death Star.

The initial phase of construction was slowly completed, giving this place an advanced base with energy and low-temperature resistance as its primary goals.

As a result, ten, dozens, or hundreds of physical elves successfully settled in and jointly supported a larger 'Void Realm Super Time and Space Channel', allowing the mother star's reserved thought resources to intervene more.

This allows hundreds of consciousness projections to exist simultaneously and still have the power to affect reality.

After that, the 'Void Realm Super Time and Space Channel' technology was upgraded several times through continuous research, gradually reducing the total amount of requirements for physical elves' thought intermediaries, and even finally reached the point of using 'flesh+metal+' on a certain scale.

The inscription 'can stabilize the existence of the passage to the point.

Therefore, even if there is not even a single physical elf in the current Death Star base, it is still able to maintain the existence of thousands of consciousness projections. These projections, which do not need food and drink, and do not need to consider extreme low temperature conditions, have also become this place.

The most cost-effective operator.

As a result, the Death Star became a smelting center specifically responsible for the 'processing' of minerals from the asteroid belt, and it was able to transport a large amount of rare resources, including fissile heavy elements, to the parent star every year.

There are two other reasons why there are more than twenty physical elves permanently stationed in the orbital space station.

First, since the projected body does not have an 'internal perspective', high-level spellcasters who want to study the disturbances of the Death Star must come in person to merge;

Secondly, the 'Virtual Realm Hyperspace Channel' is an extremely complex and sophisticated technology, and is not as reliable as the 'Silly Big Thick' structure in terms of stability. Therefore, although it is uncommon, sudden link interruptions caused by accidents have also occurred;

The consequence is that all projections are offline, and the Death Star base falls into "dead silence". Therefore, the casters in the space station will take responsibility for it. When the same accident occurs again, they will go to the surface base to conduct emergency operations on the "time and space channel".

repair.

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All in all, due to the special nature of the Death Star base and the 'retrograde' nature of their own fleet at this time, they finally only dropped a small amount of supplies here to supplement the window period, and then headed to the next stop, which was Heng Heng.

A journey through the asteroid belt.

"If you are very lucky, you may also have a chance to see spaceships in the mining area. There are people who specialize in prospecting, and there are also people who are responsible for using gravitational fields to bind them and pull them to the Death Star~"

When leaving, the old master said to Shadi:

Although this gave her some expectations, in the subsequent process of crossing the asteroid belt, she unfortunately failed to do so.

Moreover, the asteroid belt itself is different from her previous imagination. Under the extremely sparse material density, there is no room for fantasy like "using superb technology to shuttle between asteroids". The spacecraft

Just flying in the backlight very normally

Therefore, Shadi spent the next period of time in a slightly disappointed mood. It was not until more than twenty days later that the old master informed that the fleet had left the asteroid belt and was now heading towards the fourth orbit of the giant planet.

The position where it appears is flying.

At this time, the sun behind is already very small, and the surrounding space has become darker. On the contrary, it is the light that has taken who knows how many years and what journey it has taken to arrive, carrying information from distant stars, and is shining in the sand.

Di's eyes became even brighter.

After that, more than ten days passed, and the extremely huge, extremely fluffy super giant planet finally appeared on the fixed route in front of the fleet, pulling on the weak star ring and affecting more than ten natural satellites.

"This is the last section of the road. Shady, please come and sit next to me and observe carefully while I operate."

The gravity in the main control cabin was set according to the standards of the home planet, so after the master's greeting, Shadi easily came to his side, sat in the co-pilot's seat, and connected the nerve plexus behind his head.

in the control terminal.

Then, her mind was able to be integrated with the spacecraft to a certain extent, and the various programs and inscription terminals inside it seemed to have become her own hands and feet. However, because the control of the spacecraft always rested with the old master.

, so she could not truly experience the smoothness of using her arms and fingers, but instead had the illusion of hemiplegia.

But overall, this is actually a very charming experience.

After all, she was able to 'see with her own eyes' the operation of the fission reactor, the activation of the gravitational field, and the operation of many different structures, just like 'looking inside' her own body.

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"Don't be in a daze, focus on the process of entering orbit, pay attention to my timing of operations, and my cooperation with the fleet;"

It seemed that he felt Shadi's thoughts running wildly, so the old master devoted some of his energy to remind her,

"The coupling with the traction force at the end point is also very important, don't distract anymore!"

The old master's height has reached about 6 meters, and his whole body is knotted with muscles. He always exudes a mountain-like power. Under the dual background of this physical substance and illusory momentum, the Shasha, who is only 1.6 meters high, is

Di is as small as a poor chicken

At that moment, the little chicken quickly nodded in agreement, indicating that he would concentrate on observing.

At the same time, after the Identification Friend or Foe program that seemed useless but was strictly reserved was completed, a communication that seemed to come from the 'terminal' was connected to the entire fleet, and the ship Shadi was on naturally also listened.

's clear and distinct.

'Attention fleet, the base is about to start the gravitational traction program, please maintain control of the terminal of your own gravitational field.'

Then, when each ship in the team responded one after another, the instructions from the captain were also connected and sounded directly in the minds of each crew member,

'This is the last stretch of the journey. Please be careful not to make stupid mistakes. The outcome of falling into the fourth orbital star will not be much better than falling into the star!'

'clear!'

'clear!'

The old master's reply merged into the general flow, and Shadi also responded in a low voice, and then nervously watched the process of entering the orbit.

It is worth noting that this base does not exist on the surface. Of course, the Republic does not yet have the ability to place a base on the surface of a gas giant planet;

But they were not satisfied with the more common approach, such as building a large space station as the site for an orbital base. Instead, they selected a very special individual as a base among the dozens of natural satellites orbiting the main planet.

.

As for how special it is, it is nothing more than environment and life!

(End of chapter)