The location of the crater has changed drastically.
This place has been transformed into a flat land, on which stands a dark gray flat building, like a shell with many lines, or like a flattened hat. On the top of the building, there are dozens of gaps more than 30 centimeters wide. From time to time, white steam and pungent sulfur smell are sprayed out from inside, which is also mixed with the rotten egg smell of hydrogen sulfide.
A series of silver-white metal ribbons extending from the mountain gather here and extend into the building from different directions. Viewed from above, it looks like a huge blooming silver flower.
Rommel pointed towards the building and introduced: "This is the core. You can think of it as the heart of mankind and the source of energy. It is responsible for transporting energy along the channels to various nodes. Go in and take a look."
"Okay." Richard nodded, and walked forward with Rommel on the scorching ground that was almost fifty degrees Celsius.
After a while, the two walked into the door.
As soon as he touched the ground inside the building, Richard felt that the soles of his feet were getting hot even through his boots. The exposed skin quickly lost water, became dry, and felt a faint sting. At the same time, the smell of sulfur and hydrogen sulfide is stronger and has a sour taste.
Richard guessed that it might be caused by sulfur dioxide erupted from the volcano, which dissolved in the nasal cavity and produced sulfurous acid.
He frowned, activated the free energy elements, and created a light gray energy film on the surface of his body to isolate his body from the outside environment, and then he took a serious look inside the building.
It can be seen that the interior is a hall-like structure. The ground is paved with two-meter-square blue stone slabs, and there is a metal platform ten meters in diameter and more than one meter high in the center.
All the silver-white metal straps are connected to the high platform after entering the building. In addition, there are several trumpet-shaped chimneys on the top of the high platform, which continuously spit out smoke and then spread out along the gaps at the top of the hall.
There should be the original crater below the high platform, but now it has been renovated and sealed to a certain extent. I don’t know what it looks like inside... Richard thought.
Afterwards, he noticed that in the corner of the hall there were fragments of gravel and metal plates left over from the construction process that had not been cleaned up. It was obvious that this building was built in a hurry, probably in less than a month.
It's a new building... Richard thought, his eyes focused on the silver-white metal belt for a while.
"Looking at it like this, the topology of Pompeii's energy transmission is a star structure, which is a bit interesting..." Richard's eyebrows moved, "I wonder if the people who designed it are aware of the shortcomings of this structure... "
"Wizard Richard, where we are now is the real core." Rommel said at this time, "It is here that provides endless energy to the entire Pompeii, which can be used for various purposes after transformation. Pompeii has indescribable vitality. In the foreseeable future, Pompeii will become a magical city and a place of miracles.
By then, most of Pompeii's problems will be solved by energy, which has amazing efficiency and can quickly produce a large amount of products or food. Just one city can support people hundreds of miles around.
As the energy core continues to operate stably, Pompey's effect and influence will continue to increase, and will eventually become... "
Rommel did not finish what he said, but was only halfway through when suddenly there was a "bang" sound inside the metal platform in the hall, and a large column of black smoke came out from it. A chaotic energy surged out, sweeping through the entire hall like a storm.
Rommel's expression changed slightly and he reacted very quickly. He took action almost as soon as the energy storm appeared. He grabbed the air violently and forcibly gathered the chaotic energy into the palm of his hand. Then he clenched his fist hard, squeezed it slightly and then released it, and all the chaotic energy disappeared without a trace.
The hall returned to calm, but not everything was back to normal.
There seemed to be irreversible damage inside the metal platform, and more and more black smoke was coming out. At the same time, one can clearly see that there are almost half of the silver-white metal belts connected to the metal platform. The originally bright magic patterns on them have dimmed, and only the other half remains normal.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
A whistling sound sounded, and three figures flew into the hall from outside almost at the same time, two tall and one short, all wearing dark black robes - typical wizard attire.
After the three people arrived in the hall, they quickly looked at Rommel.
Rommel spoke to the three people: "There was an accident without any operations. After looking at it, there are still some imperfections. It needs to be repaired as soon as possible."
"Yes, supervisor." The three nodded, held up the energy film to protect their bodies, and walked towards the metal platform. Walking to the metal platform, he pressed his hand on the surface, and a door opened to the inside. The three of them filed in, then closed the door and headed further inside.
"It seems that there are many complex devices inside the metal platform." Richard thought.
From Rommel's perspective, he showed his skills and said slightly helplessly: "To be honest, the continuous and stable operation of this energy core is just a goal. For now, it is not very stable. On the one hand, it is under construction In the early days, there were always small problems like this. On the other hand, it connected all the nodes in Pompeii and needed to handle the flow direction and intensity of many energies at all times. The load was too heavy. Therefore, within a day or two, something similar would always happen. The accident happened to catch you up this time.
To be honest, I'm almost used to it. The only thing that is a little hard for me to accept is that once there is an accident with this energy core, even if it is a small accident that is repaired within a few minutes, it will affect a large area of Pompeii's energy nodes, and it will take more effort to adjust. It is a little tiring, compared to before. I'm tired of trying to compete with you. "
After Rommel said this half-complainingly and half-jokingly, he shook his head lightly and was about to leave with Richard.
Richard pursed his lips, but suddenly made a suggestion: "How about modifying the structure of the passage?"
"Modify the structure of the channel?" Rommel was stunned for a moment, then narrowed his eyes and said, "Wizard Richard, don't tell me that your idea is to use a channel to connect all the nodes.
It was designed this way for the first time, but the problem turned out to be even bigger. Not only would there be no improvement, but once a problem occurs in a certain part of the channel, it is likely to cause all nodes to fail. After learning a lot of lessons, it became what it is now. "
So, it was originally a ring or bus structure, and then it was changed to a star structure... Richard shook his head after hearing this, looked at Rommel and said: "Director, don't worry, I'm not talking about using one line to connect all the nodes. Connect them together. What I want to say is that you can design nodes at different levels, such as first-level nodes, second-level nodes, third-level nodes, etc.
The energy core is regarded as zero level, and is connected to multiple first-level nodes, and then each first-level node is connected to multiple second-level nodes, and each second-level node is connected to multiple third-level nodes, and so on. The entire structure is like a tree growing from the core, branching out more and more. In fact, according to what you said, there is such a structure between each node and energy-consuming equipment. I just complicated it. "