The location of the Great Library of the Void is exactly 78000 kilometers, which is the center of the earth.
The network used by the Void Library is not a space-based network, but a ground network, a super-large "local area network" covering the entire world. This is why even now that the space-based network has collapsed, the Void Library systems around the world are still running.
Ren Shenyuan could never have imagined that the high elves would hide the inheritance of civilization in the center of the planet.
No, even if they knew, there was nothing they could do, because except for true gods, no one could go 7 kilometers deep into the earth's core, not even demigods.
"I have to say that the wisdom of the high elves is truly amazing. They actually hid the main library of the Void Great Library in the center of the earth..."
Rhine had lost count of how many times he had marveled at the wisdom of the High Elves. Every time when he thought he had seen through the High Elves, they would always come up with new things to do for him.
The High Elf civilization is not the most powerful of all civilizations, and the High Elf Era is not the most prosperous of all eras, but they are the most special and unique.
It was a hundred times or a thousand times more wonderful than the civilizations created in the prehistoric era, the era of the gods, the era of the Titans, and the era of the dragon gods! He unilaterally announced that the era of the high elves was the number one among all the eras!
"That's not right. Now is not the time to be sentimental! If there is no elevator, how long will it take me to reach the center of the earth?" Rhine asked Laplace.
This is not a few thousand or tens of thousands of meters, but seventy or eight million meters.
"Don't worry about that, because the hub connecting the third and fourth floors is not an elevator, but a large tunnel that runs through the entire planet. The high elves have laid a special train in the tunnel, and people can take this train to the center of the earth."
"The train is very fast, with a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per second. Theoretically, it can reach the center of the earth in 5 minutes."
"Damn... at such a fast speed, won't the person be crushed to death due to excessive acceleration?"
"Of course not. The train has a built-in recoil device."
"You just said that it was a tunnel that went through the entire planet. In other words... in addition to the entrance to the Landia continent, is there another entrance?"
"Yes. The reason why the high elves chose the test site on the Landia continent instead of other continents is because the location of the Landia continent is directly opposite the Penicheia continent on the other side of the planet."
"The line segment between two points is the shortest. As long as we open up the underground of the two continents, we can quickly travel back and forth between the two continents."
"And if we go through the center of the earth, we don't have to worry about frequent travel interfering with the Landia continent test site. After all, when the academic capital was at its peak, there were hundreds of millions of scholars. If such a large number of people were to use ground transportation, it would definitely have an impact on the "residents" of the Landia continent."
"I was wondering how hundreds of millions of people were transported here. It turns out they used a tunnel through the center of the earth." Then, Rhine almost blacked out.
???
Not long after he finished speaking, the high elves gave him another trick.
Although he was a little shocked, he could still accept it because it was not the first time he had heard of this plan. The geocentric tunnel appeared in Liu Cixin's "Earth Cannon", but that was a hole dug between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What shocked him was that the high elves actually realized the scenes described in science fiction novels. They actually opened up the center of the earth and built a tunnel connecting the two ends of the planet. They also set up a research base in the center of the earth, and the scale was even larger than what was described in science fiction novels.
"Where is the other exit? I mean, where on the Penicheia continent?" Rhine asked curiously.
Does this mean that he can return to the Penicia continent through the geocentric tunnel? If he takes the geocentric train, he can even reach the Penicia continent from the Landia continent in just 10 minutes.
"Based on the current terrain, it should be at the crater of the Mikaheto volcano," Laplace replied.
"???"
“Isn’t that near my home???”
The Mikaheto volcano is located in the Demon God Territory in the southwest coastal area of the Peniche continent. It is the largest active volcano on the Peniche continent, erupting all year round, and the environment is very harsh. It is also the location of the "Lava Secret Realm" of the four royal families of the Demon Clan, and Rhine's hometown, the Far West Empire, is right next to the Demon God Territory. (Chapter 108)
"Wow, it turns out that the 'Lava Secret Realm' is the entrance to the Earth's core tunnel. I originally thought it was a processing plant specifically for producing fertilizers..."
"You're not wrong. That place is indeed where fertilizers for crops are produced. Otherwise, how could a volcano erupt continuously for tens of thousands of years?"
"Ha! I knew it! Is there an agricultural base there?"
It's all connected! Many things that I only half understood before are now clear to me.
"Yes. There is a secret realm there that can freely adjust the speed of time. One day in the outside world may be a month or even longer inside. That is why they can continuously export food to the world and solve people's food and clothing problems."
"If the Earth Center Train is still running, can I buy goods from there?"
Rhine thought, why bother planting a field here? Wouldn’t it be better to just use the ready-made ones?
If the agricultural base operates at full capacity, it can meet the food needs of people all over the world. Wouldn't that be more than enough to solve the food crisis in the Kingdom of Elfriden?
His original plan was to buy grain from the system at his own expense during the period before the agricultural reform was completed, which was called "paying gold", but it would be even better if he could get it for free.
As for whether the demons are willing?
You have to be willing even if you don’t want to.
"In theory, it is possible, but I don't know if the agricultural base can still operate after tens of thousands of years."
"Yes, I happen to know someone there."
"Speaking of which. Can I get in touch with the main library and other branches of the Void Library?"
"Yes. The network carried by the Void Library is a ground network, which is not affected by the collapse of the space-based network. Except for the inability to build the divine space (metaverse), it is basically the same as the space-based network."
"Good, good, good! It's true that after a long journey, you may think there is no way out, but when you turn around, you will find another village!"
In order to save time on the journey, Rhine picked up Alisha again.
He no longer had the patience to keep walking, nor did he have the leisure to appreciate the scenery along the way. He only wanted to get to the third level space as quickly as possible and then head to the center of the earth.
Although Alisha was curious about Rhine's transformation, she did not ask.
Since they were flying the whole way, Rhine quickly arrived at the underground space on the third floor.
This floor is the control center of the academic city and also where the top management of the academic city is located.
If the first floor is the living area and the second floor is the scientific research area, then the third floor is the commercial area. Almost all the top technology companies have their headquarters on this floor. That’s right, this control center is not only the center for managing the entire underground space, but also the “control center” of those technology companies.
Rhine did not even visit this floor, but went straight to the "high-speed rail station" on the third floor under Laplace's navigation.
If the train was still running, maybe he could go back to Penicheia.
When Rhine arrived at the boarding point for the Earth Center Train, he saw a strange building. The building was in the shape of a perfect cylinder, about 500 meters in diameter, and about 100 meters high. The surface was smooth and there were no openings.
"Unfortunately, the Earth Center Express has stopped operating. Normally, Danterian is in charge of starting and sending trains, but now she seems to have encountered some problems, causing the entire transportation hub to stop operating."
Looking at the tightly closed cylindrical building without any openings, Laplace said to Rhine.
“How can this happen!!!”
After Rhine put Alisha down, he scratched his hair frantically.
"There is another way. I can hack into the system and help you manually activate the Geocentric Train."
"But then wouldn't you disappear due to running out of energy?"
"It's just a clone. If it disappears, it won't have any impact on the original body."
Although Rhine wanted to say that it was not the real person who went on the adventure with me, and without the memory of this adventure, the real person and the clone would be two people. However, he was not a person who could not distinguish between the important and the trivial, and would not give up because of this reason.
"Every secret realm of paradise has a place to replenish energy for the elves in the divine realm. There must be one in this secret realm. You should retain the last bit of energy to maintain your own existence before it runs out. I will wake you up when I find a place to recharge." Rhine said calmly.
"As commanded."
Afterwards, Laplace fell silent, as if it was invading the system. Rhine could only wait slowly for good news from it.
After a while, a heavy iron door rumbled to the side, revealing an entrance.
"I have set up the automatic driving for you. You just need to follow the prompts. I will fall into a deep sleep and will not be able to accompany you any further. When you arrive at the Void Library, see if you can find Danterian. If you can't find her, you must return to the train within 24 hours. I have set up the automatic return for the train. If you miss the time, it will be troublesome. You may be left in the center of the earth forever."
After giving instructions to Rhine, Laplace remained silent.
Now was not the time to be sad, it wasn't a life-and-death separation anyway, and whether he could leave or not was not something he had to worry about. As a player, he had plenty of ways to leave the center of the earth.
After Rhine led Alisha into the cylindrical building, the iron door behind them closed tightly again.
Under the dim light, Rhine saw that they were in a place that looked like a sealed cabin. On the smooth white wall hung a long row of sealed suits that looked like space suits. Following the prompts, he and Alisha each took a set of sealed suits from the wall and put them on. Presumably, these were suits used to buffer overload.
During this process, Rhine looked around and saw a tightly closed sealed door opposite. A red light was on the door. Next to the red light was a glowing digital display. He saw that the display showed the atmospheric pressure value.
When Rhine tightened the heavy helmet, a transparent LCD display area appeared in the upper right corner of the mask, showing rapidly changing numbers and graphs. He knew that it was the self-inspection status of the various systems inside the sealed suit.
Then he heard a low humming sound outside, as if some equipment was activated, and then noticed that the atmospheric pressure value displayed above the door opposite was decreasing rapidly. After about three minutes, it dropped to zero. The red light next to it turned green, and the door opened, revealing the dark interior of the sealed building.
Before entering the black hole, Rhine repeatedly helped Alisha confirm whether she had put on her clothes properly. This was no joke.
"Come on, let's start our journey to the center of the earth."
Rhine had never expected that what he thought was just a simple trip would develop to the point it is now.
(ps: If there are any inconsistencies or things that I don't understand, then there must be some places where I skipped the chapter, because all my settings are useful, with an outline, and there will be no useless settings or holes that are not filled. I had already set them up when I wrote Chapter 108. 4768 words, here you go. Please vote~)
Chapter 302 Entering the Earth's Center
Soon, after three minutes of waiting, the number displayed on the LCD screen hanging on the wall turned to 0.
Rhine realized that the place he was in should be a transition area from the atmospheric area to the vacuum area.
So the interior of this huge cylinder is a vacuum.
But this is normal. When a train travels in a vacuum tube, it can reduce the resistance between the air and the train. Magnetic levitation technology can reduce the friction between the train and the track, thereby greatly increasing the travel speed.
Rhine remembered that before he traveled through time, researchers on Earth were already developing a "vacuum tube high-speed train rail transit system," commonly known as the "super high-speed rail."
The high elves' geocentric train can reach a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per second. What does this mean?
This is equivalent to 800 times the speed of sound, one thousandth the speed of light, and 108 million kilometers per hour. It should be noted that the distance between the earth and the moon is only 38 kilometers. This speed means that people can reach the moon from the earth in 20 minutes.
Even to Mars (7830 million kilometers) it only takes three days by train, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the high elves' geocentric train is an interstellar express.
If such a high speed is not operated in a vacuum environment, even the thinnest air will become a huge resistance to forward movement.
When the air pressure in the transition area shows 0, the flashing red light on the door turns green.
Then, the huge cylindrical wall located in the center of the cylindrical building slowly opened to both sides.
After entering the inner ring area, what comes into view is still a huge cylinder.
No, strictly speaking it is not a cylinder, because the bottom end of the cylinder is not a flat surface, but a cone like a cut pencil.
This giant "pencil" has a cone-shaped head, and the rest of the pen body is made up of 99 small cylinders connected in series.
According to the 30-meter height of a carriage, the length of the entire "pencil" is at least 3000 meters, and its diameter is also 200 meters. Such a huge "pencil" is suspended steadily and quietly above the bottomless black hole.
There is a solid transparent glass wall separating the tube and the train to the center of the earth, so there is no need to worry about passengers slipping and falling into the tunnel.
Inside the glass wall is a bottomless tunnel, and outside is a spiral staircase laid around the pipe. Passengers can reach the car where their parking space is located by stairs or elevator.
As a member of the high elf royal family, Rhine's seat was naturally arranged in the first class, but now it should be called the bottom cabin.
Following the signs, Rhine arrived at the floor where the cone-shaped carriage at the bottom of the Earth Center Special Train was located. When he stepped onto the sky bridge connecting the train and the corridor, Rhine looked into the depths of the tunnel through the transparent glass plank road.
He was now standing on a deep well.
The diameter of the well is about 300 meters, 100 meters larger than the diameter of the cylindrical train. There is a ring of light at intervals (1 km) on the well wall, marking the current depth in the dark.
Looking down from above, the tunnel is bottomless, and the countless light circles on the wall gradually shrink until they become a small dot.
"Alisha, do you know where this bottomless shaft leads to?" Rhine turned and asked Alisha, who had been following him quietly and never asked him any questions.
“I don’t know.” Alisha also looked down at the scenery in the tunnel, then shook her head.
"It leads to hell." Rhine joked.
He recalled that the deepest hole humans had dug on Earth was a 12262-meter-deep hole drilled by Soviet scientists on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia. The radius of the Earth is 6371 km. If the Earth is compared to an apple, humans may not even have drilled through the apple skin.
So why didn’t they continue digging? It’s because there are rumors that when the borehole reached 12000 meters, the workers heard bursts of shrill and miserable screams through an ultra-precise recorder, and the workers believed that they had drilled into hell and opened the “gate of hell.”
Of course, this statement is absolutely nonsense to Rhine, who is half a scientific researcher, and the amateur scientists all shook their heads when they saw it. They didn't dig it simply because they had no money. At that time, the Soviet Union happened to have a little "small problem".
"Even if it's hell, I'm willing to accompany Your Majesty." Alisha responded with a smile.
"Ah, this..." Rhine felt as if his heart was hit hard.
He thought Alisha would say something like "I'm not afraid", but he didn't expect her to say something like "I'm willing to go to hell with him."
She really understands!
"Come on, let's go to hell together."
An ordinary carriage is divided into twenty floors, and each floor covers an area of 2π*100^2, which is 62831 square meters.
Excluding the space between aisles and seats, the maximum number of passengers that can be accommodated on one floor is 4, and one carriage is 80 people, so a train can transport 8000 million people in one trip.
This is only the case when seated tickets are used. If all tickets are changed to standing tickets, the number can be tripled to quadruple.
As the continent closest to the Dark Continent, Landia naturally became the bridgehead for the Penician World to fight against the Abyss.
During the war with the Abyss, the High Elves once deployed an army of over 3 million people at one time.
It took less than 10 minutes for the high elves to transport such a large army to the other side of the planet. Both the efficiency and cost of transportation were unmatched by ground transportation.
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