Chapter 56: The Admiral's Treehouse
After coming out of the cafeteria, the group followed Karlsruhe to visit Alehijeka.
Everyone followed Karlsruhe around the town guard mansion for more than ten minutes, and finally came to the place where Alehijeka recuperated, a big tree house built on top of a giant tree!
If the city of Sournais is a great example of the harmony between man and nature, then this treehouse in Alesieka is the best example of a man!
Thanks to its unique geographical and climatic conditions, the vegetation and trees in Shurenae have a very good growing environment. In the city of Shurnayis, it is not uncommon for large trees to be surrounded by several people, with trunks exceeding three meters in diameter and forty or fifty meters in height.
The giant tree where the Alehijeka tree house is located occupies about two or three hundred square meters of land just by the trunk at the bottom and a small part of the roots protruding from the ground.
The diameter of the trunk of the giant tree is at least more than 15 meters, and when you stand under the tree and look up, you will feel that this giant tree is as shocking as a pillar of heaven! The giant tree was not tall, about fifty meters long, but the canopy at the top was like a green canopy, covering the sky in a radius of thousands of square meters.
A delicate wooden spiral staircase winds its way up the roots of the giant tree to its trunk ten meters above the ground, perhaps because of the humid climate, and even the wooden ladder grows a little green, as if it were growing on top of the giant tree.
At the end of the winding wooden spiral staircase is a natural tree hollow, perhaps a scar left by the giant tree as it grows.
The hole is about three meters high and about two meters wide, and it is more than two feet sunk into the tree. Originally, it was supposed to be a trunk behind the sunken two-foot tree, but now it has become two gates with intricately carved patterns.
The builders of the treehouse designed it cleverly, deliberately looking for the scars left behind by the natural recovery of such a giant tree as a breakthrough point, and hollowed out the internal trunk of the giant tree without hurting the outer bark of the giant tree, and built this huge treehouse that merged with the giant tree.
Standing in front of this delicate gate, Karlsruhe raised his hand and pulled a seemingly ornamental object on the side of the wooden door, which was hollowed out and carved into a copper ring like a wreath of roses, and the room immediately resounded with a jingling wind chime.
It's a luxury to make the doorbell look like this!
Mo Yan took a closer look, and the two gates were carved with a delicate relief like an elven kingdom, and the so-called doorbell was simply the wreath worn by one of the girls in the relief picture.
After a while, the door was opened from the inside, and it was opened by a young girl who looked very similar in style to Karlsruhe, also tall and delicate. He has short shoulder-length hair in amaranth and an iron cross around his neck.
"This is my sister Königsberg." Karlsruhe first introduced Mo Yan to the girl who opened the door, and then turned to Königsberg to introduce Mo Yan's line: "This is the guest invited by the chief, Admiral Mo Yan, and the next four are his ship's wife, Quincy, Akagi, Princeton and Lexington. ”
Königsberg smiled at his sister and did not speak. Just glanced at Mo Yan and then stepped out of the door, gestured to Mo Yan and his party to invite in, and closed the door after Mo Yan and his party entered.
After closing the gate again, Königsberg sighed and said directly to Mo Yan: "Go in, the chief has been waiting for you." ”
"Hmm." Mo Yan answered, and walked directly into the room.
Karlsruhe quickly followed Mo Yan and explained with a complicated face: "Sister, she wasn't like this before......
"It's okay, I can understand." Mo Yan stopped and looked at Karlsruhe, "I know how important people close to me are, and I know what it feels like to lose someone close to me, so I cherish the people around me even more." I can see that your sister and I are the same kind of people, so I understand her! ”
"That's fine!" Karlsruhe smiled shyly, walked in front of Mo Yan, and led everyone to continue walking inside.
The details of the interior of the treehouse are very different from what Mo Yan imagined, I thought it was directly hollowed out and settled in it directly, but after I came in, I found that the original construction form of the treehouse was actually built inside layer by layer.
The trunk was excavated so meticulously that the walls, corridors, and even most of the furniture in the treehouse were made of the trunk itself, except for the space that had to be vacated, and the craftsmen only carved out the exterior features to give it the function of being a furniture wall, but in fact these things were still part of the trunk, and they were never separated from the tree.
As for the load-bearing capacity of the tree house after Mo Yan has been curious about hollowing out the trunk, the craftsmen reserved a section of the center of the tree with a diameter of about one meter and a half at the center of the trunk as the central load-bearing column, and the load-bearing wooden wall between the rooms was also reserved to be slightly thicker, so that it retained enough bearing capacity. Even more ingeniously, the central load-bearing column does not only play a load-bearing role, but also makes a spiral staircase hovering over this column, allowing it to serve as a passage between the upstairs and downstairs of the treehouse.
There are nine storeys in the treehouse, each of which is about 2.5 meters high, adding up to a total of 22.5 meters.
For this giant tree more than 50 meters high, it is a miracle that human beings have done such a huge project inside its body, and it has not had much impact on its vitality, and it is still healthy and strong more than 20 years after the treehouse was built!
Alehijeka's room was located on the fifth floor, and a large window had opened in the wooden wall next to the bed, which could only provide light from the outside world and an observer, and the frame and wall were connected and could not be opened.
The ventilation function in the house is solved by a honeycomb channel in the corner of the roof, and the energy of this ventilation facility is derived from the secondary high-efficiency energy source, that is, the resource energy block used by the ship's maidens, this second-level high-efficiency energy source not only does not produce side effects such as pollution and radiation, but strengthens the life characteristics of the giant tree.
Similarly, the heating in the house is also provided by the heating facilities that consume resource energy blocks, and the ability to regulate the room temperature is not worse than that of modern air conditioners, compared to the heating pipes that Mo Yan used when he was in Ishtenor.
After entering the bedroom, which was about 30 square meters, Mo Yan found that Alehiyeka was sitting in a rocking chair by the window, holding a cup of hot coffee in her hand, looking at the town guard mansion outside the window in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
The floors in the treehouse were all wooden, and the noise caused by the group entering the house was not small, especially Quincy, who never knew how to press down on his feet.
Alehieka came back to her senses after hearing the movement, put down her coffee cup and turned her head to look at Mo Yan and his party.
"If you're here, sit down first! It's getting a little cold, Carl, pour you some hot drinks. ”
"Do you prefer coffee or tea?"