Chapter 17: The One-Way Street of the Times
The express train traveled from east to west, naturally covered in frost and dew into the night. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After nightfall, the two of them, who had been chatting for hours during the day, naturally did not speak all night, and after dinner, the two of them took care of the sleeper above the seat early, and snorted to the sleep music on the train.
Even if the capital city of Garcia is snowing heavily outside due to a cold snap, not a single snowflake will fall in the train - not only that, but the system in the carriage has turned up the heating to make the temperature in the carriage more suitable for passengers to rest.
It is said to be an "express express", but in fact, the speed of this train is only more than 100 kilometers per hour. After departing from the port of Hilzi, it took almost a day for the train to reach the imperial capital of Garcia.
Rao is a "day" that is as slow as a snail in the eyes of modern people, and it is almost difficult for the Elta people to adapt. A few years ago, it would have taken a week to get from the Minerva estuary to the former Garcia...... And where else can you enjoy such a comfortable journey?
The train stops at Garcia Station for half an hour as usual. By the time Huang Yi woke up from his sleep, the seat across from him had already been cleaned up by the flight attendant - Frank had already packed his luggage, and as soon as the car stopped and the door opened, he got off the bus and went to Xindu to report on work.
From the elevated railway platform, the view of the new capital of Garcia can be described as unobstructed.
The new capital of Garcia was left with nothing but rubble after the destruction of the imperial unrest, fires, civil strife and shelling in the last moments of the Liberation War. Almost immediately after this, the engineering teams accepted the tender for the reconstruction project and began to redraw the blueprint of the capital of the Elta Empire.
There is no trace of the wreckage of the war-torn metropolis in Xindu at this time, and it is not much different from Mendong City a few years ago from the inside out. The castle had long since become a ready-made source of earth and stone for the city's construction, and the half-burned shantytown ruins were lined with factories, calciners, and chimneys that were used to provide processed raw materials for the city's infrastructure.
"It's really troublesome......" Huang Yuan looked at the huge cooling tower of the power plant in the distance outside the window, shook his head and sighed. Of course, he knew whose power was driving the turbines under the cooling tower. Of course, he knew that for Chen Heng and the "elves" to build a new Garcia City, even if it was to build it into the premier metropolis on the two planets, it was simply a simple effort, and the people of this vast land were now working for it and the fruits of it, compared to the nest of ants.
"Hey, big brother." A familiar whining voice suddenly came from the direction of the seat, "You mean I'm in trouble with you across from me?" β
Huang Yuan couldn't help but be taken aback, leaning over from the sleeper to see what kind of sacredness he was seeing-
"Ah, Huang Da Translation! I said who it was, it was you! β
"Oh, isn't this Dr. Wei?"
Dr. Wei sat busy in his seat for a long time before settling in. He didn't go to the sleeper to lie down comfortably, but took out a neck pillow from his bag that was probably bigger than a swimming ring, and after putting it on, he collapsed into the soft-backed seat.
"I thought you were complaining that there was someone across from you, and it was inconvenient for you to."
"Where, I still have to recharge my energy, God knows what she wants this time." Feeling a little embarrassed, Huang Translator quickly diverted the topic, "Dr. Wei, didn't you work at Bahivita before?" Wouldn't it be closer to take the New Westside route in that case? β
Earlier in the Battle of Lancas, the Elta Empire had already begun to develop the West Coast. With the new road development capacity and the powerful Liberation Wheel, the untouched (in fact, completely degraded) barbarians of the West Coast are living in great hardship, and the alpine wasteland is no longer an insurmountable natural hazard.
Today, more than two years later, many new port cities have been built on the west coast, and the wealth shipping routes to other countries from these port cities are collectively called the "New Westward Route". Nowadays, if you have to take the waterway from the ports on the west coast of the Bahivita continent to Mendong City, the east road has long become of little practical significance.
"I attended the opening ceremony of the Straits Bridge." Dr. Wei replied lightly. "The first train, from Bujcanci to Elta, passes through the border and then continues north to the station here. Speaking of which, those Bui Kanchi ministers are really pitiful, and they have been kept in the dark from beginning to end. β
"According to internal rumors, you used dozens of ships and carried out decent air traffic control, just so that no one found out the truth about the construction of the land straits?" Huang Yuan looked around first, then rolled over from the bed and whispered to Dr. Wei's ear and asked.
Dr. Wei shook his head after hearing this, "It's not that simple. We've also had the AI back-monitor all the optical sensors on this side, making sure that none of the scenes are likely to be evidence leaking out. β
"Fuck me, cow x!"
"It's not over yet." Dr. Wei looked around again, carefully drawing a circle on the table. "Once the blockade is established within a radius of 50 kilometers from the center of the bridge, even the high-ranking officials of the Bui Kanchi Kingdom will not be able to cross it, otherwise they will have a telescope to see how the piers of the bridge are built."
From the perspective of modern Chinese, the Luxia Bridge is a very ordinary suspension bridge, and the Qiantang River Bridge or Bohai Bay Bridge in China can crush it, not to mention the Taiwan Strait bridge and tunnel combination that is in the engineering demonstration stage.
But the scary thing about it is that it is a ...... designed and built by a few artificial intelligence and Chen Heng alone And it actually took less than three days, of course, every day is an eight-hour work week, and these artificial intelligence quickly learned the bad habit of being lazy and unwilling to work overtime after returning to human society, although this is not a bad thing.
"This is also Mr. Chen's first appearance since her fiancΓ©e recovered, right? I remember him saying that creating another Elta continent would be a matter of course for him? β
"They've already had a wedding," Dr. Wei had just shaken out of the cigarette case, but remembered the ban on smoking in the carriage, so he had to wrinkle the corners of his mouth and stuff the cigarette back into place. "I don't know the inside story, but it should have happened before the construction of the Continental Straits...... Even the chief was shocked when he saw it at the construction site. β
"You say...... See? Huang Yi heard the special smell in his words on the spot, "That is, Sakamoto Xiao also appeared at the project site?" No, no, no! Akira Sakamoto...... Ah no, Wolff, the red-eyed bachelor, showed up in Hirzi City the other day, could it be that you are mistaken? β
"Of course I'm not mistaken, do you remember the rumors?" Dr. Wei patted her on the shoulder, then leaned close to his ear again and spoiled word by word, "Chen Heng made a replica of Sakamoto with the help of artificial intelligence, and this rumor is true. β
"Huh?" Huang Yiyi's whole face was stretched.
"And Chen Heng put the consciousness extracted from the body into the body of the 'fake' under the unconscious cultivation of the replica, and one of them is Sakamoto Xiao who is now appearing at the project site, and the other is to follow the coachman to start a family, and then go to work with you, I can't remember Wolf who exists with Sakamoto Xiaoyuki."
"Ah......" After Huang Yi listened, the whole person's sanity value returned to zero, and he really couldn't say a word.
"It's top secret." Dr. Wei let out a sigh and casually stretched his neck back to his seat with the exaggerated neck pillow. "Let's just look at it as anecdotal stories and urban legends. However, it should be decrypted in decades. β
"The central government won't have an opinion on their clone behavior?" Huang Yiyi, who was also sitting back in his seat, took a sip of the hot tea in the thermos flask, "This can be regarded as a violation of human ethics." The 'elves' don't take this seriously at all? β
"If you have an opinion, you can only count it as an opinion." Dr. Wei, who was closer to the central decision-making level than Huang Yiyi, nodded, and then shook his head again. "It is impossible to fully trust everything in their hands, after all, with some awe...... For example, those two satellites orbiting our heads, do you know a thing or two about the secrets on them? β
"Artificial asteroid ...... to create artificial ecology and tides on the planet"
"Hey, that's just modest, and it's appropriate to make a statement to us." Dr. Wei gave an example, "You know the 'Death Star' in Star Wars, right? Those two moons will only be more deadly than it, and they can casually wipe these half galaxies into cosmic dust. And its control ......"
This question does not need an answer. None of the planetary facilities that were originally in the hands of artificial intelligence and Chen Heng have now been handed over to China.
"It's still a long way off, so it's us who is in trouble, and we should be thankful for that." Looking at the condensation tower of Garcia's No. 1 Power Plant, Dr. Wei finally gave a meaningful reply, "If one day, he, her, and they think that our 'trouble' is meaningless and go out of our orbit to go it alone, then it will be the real trouble, right?" β
Like the city and town of Hirzi, which had disappeared backwards from the train window, Garcia, the new capital of the reviving Elta Empire, quickly disappeared from the view of the express train's passengers, leaving only a few memories behind. And the two of you here didn't know for sure: was this the last time they would see this alternate scenery of the old and the new? If there were, what kind of bizarre will it be next time?