A week later.
"Squeak", Su walked into the door of the office on the top floor of the city hall.
In the office, Jasmine was still immersed in processing documents. After a while, she looked up at Su and asked, "What's wrong? The guy at the reception desk sent someone to rush him again? Didn't you tell him to continue waiting? I'll arrange it for him if I have time."
"Princess, the other party is a little different this time." Su said.
"Why is it different? They sent someone to say they were ready to leave Atlanta again? This is not new, right? How many times has it been since the beginning? Last time, I said that I met Lord Richard in the morning and in the afternoon. Let's go. This time, I should have met Lord Richard in the morning and leave at noon, right?" Jasmine asked. After asking, without waiting for Su's answer, she lowered her head and picked up a quill pen to write a review on a document.
"No, princess." Su shook his head and said, "This time the other party did not send any more men, but came directly in person. Now he is sitting in the hall of the city hall, saying that he will not see either you, the princess, or Lord Richard today. , I will never leave.”
Jasmine stopped writing her review, put down her quill, and made a sound of slight surprise.
"Eh—, if you look at it this way, the other party really can't help it."
"I think so. Princess, how do you think we should deal with it?"
"Is this..." Jasmine started thinking.
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While Jasmine was thinking, Atlanta City, 362 Research Institute.
The four-story stone building stood in the small, unprepossessing courtyard as always. No one was walking around in the courtyard, and it looked extremely quiet. But on the twenty-seventh floor underground of the four-story stone building, it was busy, in stark contrast to the ground.
It can be seen that the twenty-seventh floor underground is a very wide space with a height of more than ten meters, which is equivalent to five floors above ground.
The main color of this space is silver, and the walls are made of thick steel plates. The surface of the steel plates shines with the unique cold luster of metal. In some areas, the steel plates were replaced with special alloys, with magic patterns engraved on the surface, and brilliant energy rays flashed from time to time to guard against possible dangerous situations.
At the top, pieces of electrified crystal lamps emit bright but not dazzling white light, illuminating every corner. Under the lighting, many people were running around in the corridor on the twenty-seventh floor, as if they were preparing for something. Finally, everyone gathered in a control hall in the center, standing in front of densely packed control instruments and waiting.
One wall of the control hall is transparent and made of a special material similar to glass. The surface is engraved with extremely complicated magic patterns, providing strong defense capabilities.
Through this wall, you can see that next to the control hall is a sinkhole that is more than forty meters deep. On the edge of the sinkhole, there are hundreds of red metal pillars, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, as if they were enlarged. Ten times as many needles.
Looking along the edge of the sinkhole and looking into the interior of the sinkhole, the four walls of the sinkhole have been specially cured and are paved with silver and gray metal plates.
Arriving at the bottom of the sinkhole, it was transformed into a relatively flat open space with a radius of more than 100 meters. In the center of the open space stood a metal platform weighing more than ten tons, surrounded by more than a dozen robotic arms. In addition, there were dozens of wires and pipes as thick as a baby's arm hanging from the metal platform, piercing deep into the soil and leading nowhere.
Twelve wizards wearing robes of different colors were busy around the metal platform, constantly pulling the joysticks on it and making subtle adjustments to the position of the robotic arms. There was also a wizard who took jars of liquid and put them into a translucent container on a metal table. He didn't know what it was used for.
Upon closer inspection, almost every one of the twelve wizards is a third-level wizard, and Nora, the sorceress wearing a light blue robe, who is known as the "Queen of Poisonous Hearts", is one of them. The most powerful one is a male wizard named Emerson, who is a fourth-level wizard.
Emerson himself looked to be about forty years old, with a serious expression, wearing a somewhat wrinkled black robe, his hair was very greasy, he had not rested for an unknown period of time, and his eyes were bloodshot. He was the captain of the entire wizard team. When the rest of the wizards stopped busy, he checked to make sure that all the instruments on the metal table were ready, then turned to look at the command hall.
He slowly raised his hand, stretched out his index finger and shook it.
This stands for "Level 1 Ready."
"Received from the command post, please check again to confirm." Soon a voice sounded from the command hall and responded. The voice was not loud, but it spread throughout the entire twenty-seventh floor.
Emerson listened without hesitation and checked the metal table again.
After checking, he raised his hand and shook his index and middle fingers at the same time.
Level 2 is ready.
"Received from the podium, please do a final inspection." The previous voice sounded again, accurately controlling the range of the sound to the twenty-seventh floor underground, filling every corner, but not going up or down. . This is already a display of extremely high strength. Only a handful of wizards who are proficient in wind element sound spells can do it. However, the problem is that there is no energy fluctuation in the sound propagation process, making it impossible to distinguish whether it is a spell effect or a real pronunciation. This makes the pronunciator's ability successfully reach a point where it is impossible to predict.
After hearing this, Emerson showed no impatience and strictly inspected the metal table a third time. Then he raised his hand and shook his index, middle and ring fingers.
Level 3 is ready.
"The command station has received the approval to start the 'Ace 4728 High Energy Experiment' and the 'Gao Ling Capture Plan'. All systems are requested to cooperate, and the experimenters are requested to proceed carefully in accordance with the established procedures."
After hearing this, Emerson nodded lightly, stretched out his right hand, shook it at the command podium to express his understanding, then turned to look at the eleven wizards standing on the metal podium, and quickly issued a series of instructions.
"Start energy transmission." Emerson said solemnly.
"Click!"
A gray-robed wizard stepped forward and pulled down a thick, black lever on the metal platform.
"Buzz!"
The metal platform vibrated, as if a dead beast had been re-infused with vitality and came to life.
"Preheat the high-energy particle generator." Emerson said without changing his expression.
"Crack, click, click, click, click!"
A green-robed wizard stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and pulled down six silver joysticks in one breath.
The six pairs of fixed mechanical arms on the metal platform made sounds from inside and began to heat up rapidly, with some vague heat being transferred to the outside world.
"Report core temperature," Emerson asked.
"One thousand eight hundred degrees." said the third wizard.
"The temperature has passed the line. Open the coolant valve and inject coolant." Emerson followed closely.
The fourth wizard waved his hand, and a turntable beside him began to rotate rapidly. There was a sound of liquid impact, and the entire metal platform slowly cooled down.
…
At the same time, voices kept ringing in the command hall, ordering people in the command hall to perform various operations to cooperate with the experimenters in the sinkhole.
"Start the energy center and connect the transmission lines..."
"Ka ka, the energy center has been successfully started, the transmission line has been connected, ka ka, the status is normal, the energy level is currently one."
"Inject high-energy particles..."
"Kakakaka, kakakak, high-energy particles have been injected, the condition is normal, and the activity level is good."
"Pull out the refrigerant and fill it into the No. 1 pipe..."
"Kaka, the refrigerant was successfully extracted and filled, and the No. 1 pipeline started operating."
"Start the coolant circulation system..."
"Kaka, the coolant circulation system started successfully."
“…”
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