Until the end, Gawain still failed to understand Veronica's true intentions.
But he at least confirmed one thing, the holy princess, who is extremely devout in the eyes of everyone, may not be as devout as she appears, or the object of her piety is not the Holy Light belief shaped by the Northern Church .
The visitors from the royal capital have left, and a huge source of income has been opened up. The port leading to the Holy Spirit Plain will bring a lot of money and supplies to the new Principality of Cecil. Leaving here, before the arrival of the cold moon, the series of trade routes established by Kord in the east can be on the right track.
In the study room of the lord's mansion, Gao Wen handed over a document to the Minister of Commerce Patrick: "You are in charge of forming the 'White Sands Mining Company'. You can transfer the latest mining machines and blasting consumables at will. I only have one request. : dig out the most ore in the shortest time and ship them back.”
"yes."
After Padraic left, Gawain lowered his head again, quickly signed the second document, and placed it on a metal plate under the magic net terminal. With a slight buzzing sound, the document was transferred and overwrite.
A half-body projection of Valdeperic appeared above the magic net terminal, and Gawain nodded to the old knight: "A special trestle is prepared in the port area of Panshi City for merchant ships from the Holy Spirit Plain to dock. The materials and all the gold coins mentioned in the list attached to the document can be shipped back, and the rest of the materials will be directly sent to the Panshi City Arsenal to be processed into swords and armor for them to take back."
The old knight on the holographic projection made a knight salute: "Yes!"
The magic net terminal was closed, Gao Wen rubbed the center of his brows, and breathed a sigh of relief, while Amber's voice came from behind him: "You bully people without sparing any effort, just like Ming Qiang."
Gao Wen didn't turn his head back: "I didn't let Wald process it in front of them, and what is Ming Qiang? Technology cost is not cost?"
"Then the cost of your technology is high enough."
"I can't let the Holy Spirit Plain take advantage of trade opportunities to infiltrate too many spies into the southern border. I have already shown them enough." Gawain waved his hand, and then directly skipped the topic, "Compared to these, You should pay more attention to the establishment of the intelligence network in the east, Kodd has opened up the business route there, and the time has come for the Military Intelligence Bureau to show its talents."
Amber immediately waved her hands proudly: "Don't worry, the first batch of operators has already set off with Kord's caravan."
Gawain nodded, stood up and stretched his hands and feet to relieve his slightly stiff joints. However, just as he was about to sit down again, a faint explosion sound suddenly came from a distance, "Boom!! !"
Amber's figure disappeared into the air almost instantly, and Gao Wen suddenly looked in the direction of the explosion sound, which was the Institute of Magic Technology.
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"Come and see with me. Mom?!"
Gao Wen casually fished it to the side, picked up the amber that was being invisible, and left the study. At the same time, through the crystal glass window of the study, there was already a curling wave rising from the buildings in the direction of the Institute of Magical Technology. soot...
When Gao Wen arrived with sprinting and charging all the way, a large number of soldiers had gathered around the Institute of Magical Technology to maintain order. Soldiers were keeping irrelevant people out of the cordon. Cooperating with the soldiers who came to help transfer the wounded to the square in front of the research institute, the medical staff wearing doctors' short robes had arrived and were doing emergency treatment for those burnt and blasted. The heavily armed white knights also arrived at the scene, cooperating with the doctors to treat the wounded.
A large hole was blasted into a building flanking the Institute of Magic Technology, and thick smoke was rising from the hole.
Looks like an experimental accident? Or did Rebecca finally make a big fireball in the lab
The on-site order seems to be under control. The safety drill system that has been continuously implemented has finally taken effect at this moment. Gawain passed through the busy soldiers and medical staff, and shouted loudly: "Where is the person in charge? Report the situation!"
Amber, who was caught all the way, didn't bother to protest after realizing that there was an accident here, but followed Gao Wen obediently. At this time, she saw a figure standing in the open space sharply, and immediately Poking Gao Wen's arm: "There's Rebecca over there!"
Following the direction of Amber's finger, Gao Wen finally saw Rebecca who was standing on the edge of the crowd, still looking a bit shocked.
He ran over immediately.
Rebecca's face was smudged black, and her clothes were torn from the explosion, but apart from a few obvious scratches, she didn't seem to be seriously injured. After seeing Gawain Immediately afterwards, the girl yelled loudly: "Master Ancestor!! The laboratory exploded!!"
"Are you okay?" Gawain looked at Rebecca's whole body for the first time, and continued after confirming that the girl was not seriously injured, "What's going on? How are the casualties? Why did the laboratory explode?" of?"
Rebecca turned her ears sideways and continued to yell loudly: "Ah? The wind is too strong and I can't hear you!!"
"She was shocked." Pittman also arrived at the scene at some time. The little old man held up a cane made of oak and shook it next to Rebecca's head. A light green halo descended, quickly treating her Looking at the various injuries on Rebecca's body, "It should be fine this way."
"Ah, the wind has stopped." Rebecca shook her head with a look of surprise on her face.
Pittman bowed slightly to Gawain: "I was testing the newly completed artificial nerve cord in a nearby laboratory, and immediately rushed over with my apprentices when I heard the explosion."
Gawain nodded. He realized that Rebecca had been bombed at the scene, so he turned to Pittman to learn about the accident: "How about the casualties? How big is the damage?"
"Three people were seriously injured, and a dozen were slightly injured. The good news is that no one died," Pittman did not continue to smile in this situation, but reported seriously and quickly, "Just hand over the lightly injured to the doctor, and the seriously injured I've dealt with it myself, don't worry, I won't die, but I'm afraid it will take a few days to fully recover. As for the damage... It seems that one laboratory has been completely destroyed, and there are another laboratory and a small warehouse next to it that were affected .As for the cause of the explosion, I don't know."
Hearing that no one died, Gawain was slightly relieved.
Fortunately, this is a world with extraordinary power. Healing spells have effects far surpassing the earth's medical technology. As long as they don't die on the spot, they can basically be rescued.
As more white knights rushed to the scene, the order around the Institute of Magic Technology was completely stabilized, and the seriously injured were quickly moved to places more suitable for treatment.
After receiving Pittman's treatment, Rebecca was completely fine. She stood in front of Gawain with her head drooping, looking at her experienced posture with a look of being ready to be beaten at any time, fearing that Hetty was coming I couldn't do it at the first time.
Of course Gawain didn't intend to beat her up, at least he couldn't beat her casually if he didn't understand the situation now, he cleared his throat and asked Rebecca to raise her head: "What's going on?"
"We were testing the engine," Rebecca shrank her neck, "the engine of the magic train...and then it blew up."
"The engine of the magic train?" Gawain was taken aback, "You built the engine of the magic train so quickly?!"
"No," Rebecca shook her head whistlingly, "If it is built, it won't blow up. We just got a large amplifier and a set of high-power magic nets, trying to see how much power it needs. It took an engine that big to push, and it blew up."
While talking, Rebecca couldn't help shrinking her neck again: "I know you said that the train project can be taken off the table, but I just want to do the preliminary test first... And I didn't delay other projects! But the lab did blow up..."
Looking at Rebecca who looked like a frightened rabbit in front of him, Gao Wen couldn't laugh or cry in his heart. He certainly wouldn't punish Rebecca for doing these tests, but at the same time, he also had to investigate the whole ins and outs of the accident, and Immediately began a series of aftermath work.
The explosion of the Magic Technology Research Institute is not a trivial matter, and it is not a joke. Although people often say that "there is no magician's laboratory that does not explode", the Magic Technology Research Institute has completely surpassed this era. There are too many ordinary people involved, and the operation of the research institute itself is closely related to the lives of the citizens, so there will be many follow-up effects that can be produced by an explosion here.
In addition, the test items described by Rebecca also made Gao Wen vaguely aware of one thing: the manufacture of the magic train may not go so smoothly.
Just to test the booster and energy supply module of the high-power magic energy engine, this kind of accident happened...
In the next few tens of minutes, he asked Rebecca about many details before the explosion, the environment of the laboratory at that time, the test data, and various technical means adopted. As he learned more, he I also confirmed my own thoughts more and more.
Compared with other magic technologies developed by Cecil so far, the magic train has many special features.
Gao Wen knew that the early trains on the earth were a means of transportation with a relatively simple structure and low technical requirements, but in this world, steam engines with low technical requirements could not be built, and the magic train could only start from the rotor engine when it started. In the beginning, this led to the fact that the technical starting point of "trains" in this world is even higher than that of "cars".
The large-scale magic energy engine with immature technology, the complex structure of the amplification device, and the output efficiency is affected by the size of the rune, and the magic net structure can only be rigidly connected. These factors have greatly increased the difficulty of the research and development of the magic energy train. There is also a bigger problem, that is, the magic train technology is a complete product of the "magic industry", and its foundation is completely new, so that many old magic technologies are useless in this field.
So far, Cecil has developed many "advanced things" that are inconceivable to outsiders, such as the magic network terminal that integrates instant messaging, holographic images, and file transfer functions, such as the rainbow light that uses energy beams as a means of killing Cannons, such as thermal energy ray guns, such as the white knight's inverter holy light device, these things seem to be beyond the era, or even beyond the era, but Gawain himself knows that the truth behind these things is actually just that the world has already changed. People who are ignorant of the extension and reorganization of technology will marvel at how fast they develop, but those who understand the truth will realize the high level of technology in this world itself, and it is precisely because of the solid foundation laid by those existing magic technologies The foundation, Cecil's magic industry has been able to develop so smoothly.
But the magic train... It has gone too far on the road of the magic industry, so that it is difficult for the old magic technology to give it such a big boost.
There is no existing magic that can continue to optimize the magic net and magic energy engine. The progress in this area must rely on the breakthroughs made by Jenny's Rune Research Institute and other materials and engineering departments. Now it seems that Rebecca There must be a problem in this regard.
Fortunately, when the concept of the magic train was proposed, Gao Wen felt that the difficulty of this project might be very high, and he was fully prepared for it.
"Master Ancestor..." Seeing Gawain lost in thought, Rebecca couldn't help rubbing her head, guessing that she might not be beaten today, so she asked cautiously, "Then... should this project be stopped for a while? ?”
Gao Wen woke up from his contemplation, he saw the hope on Rebecca's dark face, and he already had a decision in his heart.
"It can continue, I will find a way to deal with the subsequent impact of this matter. But in view of the lessons learned this time, all testing sessions of the magic train project must be placed far away from the urban area. In addition, the experimental process has been re-planned and safety protection The measures should also be redesigned to ensure the safety of the experimenters and to separate people from the experimental equipment... ”
Rebecca listened carefully one by one, and Gao Wen said one by one seriously.
In the process of technological development, accidents are always unavoidable. As early as the beginning of the construction of the territory, Hetty's laboratory was bombed by Rebecca crystal, but in the end Rebecca crystal was not sealed up, and It shines in today's military and engineering fields.
As magic technology continues to develop, the scale of energy that people can master will inevitably become larger and larger. Today's explosion will not be the last, nor will it be the most powerful one, but even Rebecca has already done it well. He was ready to continue walking, so Gao Wen naturally did the same.
To keep going, all they can do is be careful, be careful, be careful, do everything possible to be safe and then, do it again.