The glorious sun shines on the Island of the Rising Sun after the disaster. It may take a long time to repair the collapsed and cracked city. As for the huge engine that has been completely scrapped, it is unknown when it will be repaired. The thrilling tumbling last night made the island spend an unprecedentedly short night and a hasty dawn. All institutions in the city were forced to operate at high power to treat the wounded and rush to repair the damaged key equipment. The only good news now is that the casualties are not as serious as imagined. Most of the places where collapses and cracks occur are marginal areas or too old urban areas. The residents in those places are limited, and the earthquake-resistant design of the city itself makes it shake. At the beginning, they persisted for a long time, and the citizens had ample opportunities to take refuge in the relatively stable central area of the floating island.
Looking down at the land from a high altitude in the city, you can see dust and smoke pillars that have not yet dissipated. The dome has entered a traffic control state. The most urgent missions are flying in the sky. To the well-ordered citizens: they are spontaneously rescuing all those in need around them, spontaneously queuing up to receive the supplies that have just been rescued from the collapsed warehouse, and spontaneously declaring whether they were injured in the previous disaster. Injuries affect how much they can work. There was no chaos, no complaints, and it was rare to see a sad look on the faces of the elves. They organized themselves in an astonishing order. This disaster happened suddenly, but everyone in the city seemed to have rehearsed it many times.
Some huge shadows were cast on the dome, which were large transport ships sent from other floating islands. These cumbersome spaceships quickly completed their preparations when the Isle of the Sun exploded. Now they brought valuable medicines and extra air filtration, which was essential: the air circulation in the dome relied on purification equipment buried in the ground and in the surrounding hoops, but the explosion took some damage to them. Damage, now the dense smoke and dust in the city must be removed as soon as possible, and only external equipment can be used.
Hao Ren and Hilda stood on an open terrace above the steeple in the Royal Quarter. Hilda was meditating, while Hao Ren used his extraordinary eyesight to see everything in the city. He expressed admiration for the elves' response to the disaster.
Wim stood quietly behind the two of them without making a sound.
"My people are used to this kind of thing. When Tranquility Island disintegrated seventy years ago, they kept the most important material warehouse on the island with great calmness. About one tenth of the citizens in this city are The survivors of Tranquility Island," Hilda said softly, "more and more floating islands are approaching the limit of their use, and the Technical Elder Council is trying to find a way to repair some dead floating islands that have been extinguished, but there has been little progress."
Hilda's face was full of exhaustion. In the past few hours, she had been under the greatest pressure. After the elders' meeting was hurriedly concluded, she began to direct the evacuation and emergency rescue. When the floating island rolled over, the various districts began to crack. It was she who immediately allocated the evacuation plan for each district and the evacuation plan to the Royal District. After the propulsion unit was completely destroyed, it was she who cooperated and directed the work of re-stabilizing the floating island. : This queen is not an authority who can only give orders, she is also an expert who knows all the technical parameters of the floating island. Now that everything was settled, she did not follow the guard's advice to go back to rest, but took Hao Ren to the terrace of the minaret overlooking the whole city.
"That's where we are."
Hao Ren was still thinking about the most suitable solution for the elves of Arim. He already has a few ideas. However, we still need to wait for the data terminal to come to confirm which is the most feasible. Before that, he asked Hilda a question cautiously: "If I have the ability to get you out of trouble, how much are you willing to pay?"
Hilda spread her hands with her back to the edge of the terrace, as if her whole body was about to melt into the skylight under the dome: "You can see what we have left, and you can just take what you think you need. You can take everything in your sights as long as you can give my people a better life, a true sky like any other race."
Hao Ren quickly waved his hand: "Don't be like this, don't be like this, it's easy to misunderstand—I'm not threatening you or talking to a lion, I want to help out of a friend's mentality, but to be honest, I'm not strong enough alone. My boat is about 500-600 meters long at the end of my life - so I may need to hire helpers, and those helpers don't come for free."
Hilda thought for a while: "That's the same thing. Anyway, we don't have anything else. This place doesn't have any resources. What we have at hand is no different from stones in the eyes of those advanced civilizations. What we have left should only be our own. Labor, but that doesn't seem like a precious thing either."
"Forget it, let's not mention these things for now," Hao Ren scratched his hair, feeling that the more he talked about these problems, the more he felt, "Let's just..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw an elf running out from the small door at the back and knelt down on one knee in front of Hilda: "Your Majesty, the results of a rough scan of the world have come out, and Cadylon was not found." Your Excellency's message."
As he said that, the elf handed a rolled-up document to Hilda, who took the document and glanced at it quickly, frowning tightly: "The main memory has been tampered with... They actually infiltrated So thorough. Inform Ecarom to temporarily close the three auxiliary storages of the Wishing World, and strictly review every citizen who applies for uploading... Temporarily prohibit citizens from the Prism Island from entering the Wishing World, and the extra rations they consume will be from Spending in the royal treasury."
The elf herald obeyed and retreated. Hao Ren asked curiously, "What is this wishing world?"
Hilda sighed: "Actually, this is our own trouble... But it's okay to tell you. The world of wishing is a virtual world, established by my predecessor, and it has been running for more than two thousand years. Currently it is The place where we place the souls of the dead is also a special testing ground."
Hao Ren immediately thought of a lot of things, and he knew that his guesses were close to ten.
"That world was first established for scientific research tasks," Hilda slowly explained, "You know, we are short of supplies, and many things can't be consumed, and every failure of some large-scale experiments is a huge burden to the entire Arim society. A cold winter, so another queen more than 2,000 years ago built a virtual environment called 'Prayer World' with the support of the Technical Presbyterian Church. It ran on a giant server and was run by the best It was designed and constructed by magicians and astrologers, and it is our last large-scale technological achievement. The Aerym star system is simulated in the wish world: a sun, a planet, 100% simulate the home we live in, and input all the information we have Every law of the world we know. We even made the reality of this world accurate to every grain of sand, and added a lot of restrictions on the microcosm to it in the later stage. This world imitates reality as much as possible, in order to be able to Various large-scale experiments were carried out under the condition of consuming material resources - the technical elders at that time hoped that they could find a feasible way to travel to other star systems within the resource constraints of the Aerim star system in the wishing world, and they did get it in the early days Some results: some of the spacecraft we are using now are simulated and verified in this way.”
"But it's definitely not going so smoothly in the later stage." Hao Ren could easily imagine that there must be a turning point in the second half of this story.
Hilda nodded: "That's right: I wish the world would imagine everything so beautifully, but the technology required to travel tens of millions of light-years to other stars is more rigorous and precise than we imagined. A virtual world that is exactly the same as reality must be created under the condition of fully grasping the truth. Otherwise, the closest imitation is just an imitation. The shadow that is infinitely closer to reality is a shadow after all. There are still many unknown secrets in this universe. It is impossible to guess out of thin air in this small cradle. Some scholars even speculate that the mathematical structure of the universe is not necessarily continuous. The deviation of the decimal point. In addition, many technologies will be affected by the microcosm when they develop to a certain extent, and even if we make the wishing world more accurate, it is impossible to describe its microcosm in detail, and we can only add patches one by one— This is not enough. In any case, after hundreds of years of hard work, the superluminal engine manufactured in the wishing world produced a big explosion in reality, and two floating islands were wiped out in the explosion. The enthusiasm for the wishing world plan ended fading, the talented and generous queen died in depression."
Hao Ren knew that there was a follow-up to this story. (to be continued~^~)