"His Royal Highness Tilly... her ability is not flying, right?" Nightingale murmured.
"Well, although the flying magic stone can also make her fly, it's impossible to carry such a heavy object," Roland replied, looking at the circling Unicorn overhead, "What's wrong?"
"Even though I've heard you say it many times, and I've been watching by your side when drawing and testing internal combustion engines, but when I see it with my own eyes, I still find it incredible... Humans can really fly like birds with the power of foreign objects." Nightingale With emotion on his face, "That's obviously just a combination of metal and wood."
"It's really just metal and wood, but it's us who organically combine them," Roland said with a slight smile, "Hands, magic, and cognition... So it can't really be called the power of foreign objects."
"Everyone can fly like her, right?" Nightingale whispered, "Me too."
"Well, everyone. Including you." Roland affirmed. The sky is no stranger to Nightingale. She has taken a hot air balloon and Maisie, but before the free and controlled flight, those are obviously nothing. Even the nightingale with magical powers is like this, let alone ordinary people who have no special abilities? The charm of roaming the sky, since the moment people look up to the sky, they have been deeply immersed in it and cannot extricate themselves.
The pioneer of the Fantastic Item Society is the best interpretation.
Thirty minutes later, the Unicorn landed firmly on the runway.
"How do you feel?" Roland asked Tilly, who was running over excitedly.
"This plane is really awesome!" Her eyes glowed, "In terms of feel, it is many times more flexible than the Seagull. Seriously... Although Wendy's wind control ability is not bad, it is always difficult to get along with the seagull. My intention is exactly the same, but this one is different. The speed, pitch, yaw, every detail of the flight is under my control.
Uh... Movements come from the heart, like brothers and feet? Roland couldn't help feeling ashamed. Although the Unicorn referenced a large number of mature biplane designs, it was still a prototype with crude technology and testing components. The control of the rudder surface is all by hand, and the height and speed are all by feel. It is a huge improvement to be able to fly smoothly. If he didn't know the plane thoroughly, just listening to Tilly's description, he would have thought that the other party was flying a modern fighter plane with four-degree telex and flight control computer assistance.
Probably this is the boss.
"So... Satisfied?" He beckoned to the hangar supervisor, "I'll be here today"
"What are you talking about, brother," interrupted Tilly, "How can you be satisfied in thirty minutes?"
"Then you fell down..."
"Just to let you know. You still have a lot of work to do, don't you?" She waved her hand, "Go, don't watch me here, I still have a lot of flying methods I want to try. ."
Looking at the back of the other party rushing away excitedly, Roland shook his head helplessly.
The plane did not break down at the beginning, and it has reached the expected level. According to Tilly's level, he should be familiar with the new characteristics of the unicorn soon. In addition, she can get out of the plane by herself at any time, so she really doesn't need to stare at it all the time.
"Looks like you've been disliked." Nightingale said with schadenfreude.
"You talk too much," Roland rolled her eyes at her, "Let's go."
Nightingale smiled and grabbed him and escaped into the mist.
…
As soon as they returned to the castle hall, the guards greeted them, "Your Majesty, the third frontier city has communicated that the task you have given has basically come to an end."
"Oh?" Roland raised his eyebrows, "Where is the report?"
"It said over there, I hope you can go there in person."
It seems that what the two discovered in Daqing Port cannot be explained in a few words. He thought for a moment and said, "I know, let's go now."
After entering the underground, Celine was already waiting for him in the main hall.
"Your Majesty, you are right, there are indeed materials for making a Rubik's Cube in Endless Cape." She stretched out her auxiliary beard and showed the two samples in front of Roland, "The suitability of the grayish-yellow stone on the left to magic power and rituals Rubik's cubes are very similar, if not exactly the same, they are not too far apart. If there are enough, I can start copying them."
"A sufficient number... how much?"
"Let's try a few thousand dollars first."
Uh... You're really welcome, even if the samples sent are not large, a few thousand pieces can cover the floor of a room. He thought to himself, from this point of view, the excavation of the "Cape Ruins" is imperative, and the sooner the better. "I'll have someone collect it. What about the other?"
"The other is completely incredible. First of all, the light it emits is not harmful to the test animals. It seems to be just a normal light, not the kind of light you are worried about..."
"Radiated particles."
"Exactly. Of course, it is not ruled out that it is so weak that it cannot be detected by animals, but in that case, its harmfulness is not a concern." Celine picked out a "stone tablet" slice from the bottle on the right, Put it in Roland's hands, "I commissioned Miss Lucia to decompose a small piece of it, and found that its composition is not much different from sand."
"With... sand...?" Roland was surprised.
"It's hard to imagine, isn't it? It just looks like a stone or a larger piece of grit, but it has a certain flexibility, and it glows when compressed. There's probably nothing weirder than this in the world."
"Well..." He played with the sample in his hand, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "I can't say that either."
"Do you know what this thing is?"
"That's not true, I just thought of something else..." Roland said slowly, "Since matter is a combination of elements, in addition to the element itself, structure is also a major factor affecting its properties. We feel strange, but Because I know so little."
Just like carbon, which is called diamond under the tetrahedral structure, it has extremely high strength; and graphite, which has a hexagonal layered structure, is so brittle that it can be broken by hand. If you tear off one layer, it will be graphene, which has excellent electrical conductivity, but when two layers of graphene are stacked together and rotated at a slight angle to each other, it will undergo a completely different change and become an insulator. And when it is lowered to a certain temperature and electrons are injected, it turns into a superconductor again.
From start to finish, only one element, carbon, is performing.
This is the mystery of the material.
In fact, even in later generations, the exploration of the microscopic world has only opened up a tiny corner. In this dark field without theoretical guidance, what people do is no different from a thousand years ago. Arrangement, random exploration, even Even the most common elements can be astounding when mixed together.
Whether it is the "luminous stone tablet" or Sylvie's various coatings, it may not be mysterious because of magic.
Rather, it is mysterious because people know too little.