Until the end, Gawain still failed to figure out Veronica's true intentions.

But he was at least sure of one thing—the Holy Princess, who was extremely religious in the eyes of everyone, may not be as religious as she appears, or the object of her devotion is not the Holy Light faith that the Northern Church has shaped.

The visitors to the royal capital had left, and a great source of money had been opened, and the port to the plain of the Whitsunday would bring a great deal of money and goods to the nascent Duchy of Cecil, while the guests from the east had left the area earlier, and the series of trade routes that Cod had established in the east could be put on track before the cold moon arrived.

In the study of the Lord's Palace, Gawain handed a document to the Minister of Commerce, Padraik: "You are in charge of forming the 'White Sands Mining Company', you can transfer the latest mining machines and blasting consumables at will, I have only one request: dig up the most mines in the shortest time, and then transport them back." ”

"Yes."

After Padraic left, Gawain lowered his head and quickly signed the second document, placing it on a metal plate beneath the Magic Net Terminal, and with a slight humming sound, the file was transferred and copied.

Above the Magic Net Terminal is Wald? Perridge's half-body projection, Gawain nodded to the old knight: "Prepare a special trestle in the port area of Rock City for merchant ships from the Holy Spirit Plains to dock, you only need to bring back the materials mentioned in the list attached to the document and all the gold coins, and the rest of the materials will be directly sent to the Rock City Arsenal to be processed into swords and armor for them to pull back." ”

The old knight on the holographic projection made a knightly salute: "Yes!" ”

The magic net terminal was closed, and Gawain rubbed his eyebrows and breathed a sigh of relief, while Amber's voice came from behind him: "You bully people really spare no effort - it's just like Ming robbed." ”

Gao Wen didn't reply: "I didn't let Wald process it in front of them, and what is a robbery?" The cost of technology is not a cost? ”

"Then the cost of your technology is high enough."

"I can't let the Holy Spirit Plains take advantage of the opportunity of trade to infiltrate too many spies into the south, enough things to show them," Gawain waved his hand, and then skipped the topic directly, "You should pay more attention to the formation of the Eastern Intelligence Network than these, Cod has opened up the trade routes over there, and the time has come for the Military Intelligence Bureau to show its talents." ”

Amber immediately waved her hand proudly: "Don't worry, the first batch of operators has already set off with Cod's caravan." ”

Gawain nodded, stood up and moved his hands and feet, soothing his slightly stiff joints, but just as he was about to sit down again, a faint explosion suddenly came from a distance—"Boom!! ”

Amber's figure disappeared into thin air almost instantly, and Gawain looked sharply in the direction from which the explosion came from—it was the Magic Guiding Technology Research Institute.

Something went wrong?

"Come with me." "Mom?!"

Gawain casually scooped it to the side, picked up the amber that was hiding and left the study, and at the same time, through the crystal glass window of the study, a cloud of smoke and dust had risen from the building complex in the direction of the Magic Technology Research Institute......

When Gawain arrived with a sprint and charge, a large number of people had gathered around the Magic Guiding Technology Research Institute - the soldiers maintaining order were blocking the irrelevant crowd from the blockade line, the security personnel inside the Magic Guidance Technology Research Institute were cooperating with the soldiers who came to help to transfer the wounded to the square in front of the research institute, the medical staff wearing the doctor's short robe had already arrived, and they were doing emergency treatment for those who were burned and injured, and several heavily armed white knights also arrived at the scene, Cooperate with the doctors to treat the wounded.

A large hole had been blown open in a building on the side of the Magic Technology Research Institute, and smoke was rising from the hole.

Looks like an experimental accident? Or did Rebecca finally rub a big fireball in the lab?

The order on the scene seems to have been brought under control - the safety drill system that has been in place for a long time has finally come into play at this moment. Gawain walked through the busy soldiers and medical staff and shouted, "Where is the person in charge?" Report back on the situation! ”

Amber, who was caught all the way, didn't bother to protest after realizing that there was an accident here, but honestly followed Gawain, at this time she saw a figure standing in the clearing, so she immediately poked Gawain's arm: "Over there, over there- where is Rebecca!" ”

Gawain followed Amber's finger and finally saw Rebecca, who was standing at the edge of the crowd, still looking a little frightened.

He immediately ran over.

Rebecca's face was blackened, and her clothes were tattered by the explosion, but apart from a few obvious abrasions, she didn't seem to be seriously injured, and after seeing Gawain, the girl immediately shouted, "Ancestor!!" The lab exploded!! ”

"Are you alright?" Gawain looked at Rebecca's whole body for the first time, and after confirming that the girl was really not too injured, he continued, "What the hell is going on? What about casualties? How did the lab explode? ”

Rebecca tilted her ears and continued to shout, "Huh? The wind is so strong I can't hear it!! ”

"She's shocked," Pitman arrived at the scene at some point, and the little old man held a cane made of oak and shook it next to Rebecca's head, and a pale green aura descended, quickly healing Rebecca's various injuries, "It should be fine." ”

"Ah, the wind has stopped." Rebecca shook her head, 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 when I heard the explosion, I immediately rushed over with my apprentices. ”

Gawain nodded, realizing that Rebecca had been blown up at the scene, so he turned to Pittman about the accident: "What about the casualties?" How big is the damage? ”

"Three people were seriously injured, more than a dozen were slightly injured, the good news is that there were no dead people," Pitman did not continue to smile in this situation, but reported seriously and quickly, "Just hand over the lightly injured to the doctor, I have already dealt with the seriously injured myself, don't worry, I can't die, I'm afraid it will take some days for all to recover." As for the damage...... It looks like one of the labs has been completely destroyed, and there is another lab and a small warehouse next to it. As for the cause of the explosion, I don't know. ”

Gawain was already slightly relieved to hear that no one had died.

Fortunately, this is a world with extraordinary powers, and healing spells have effects far beyond earth's medical technology, so as long as you don't die on the spot, you can basically get it back.

As more White Knights arrived at the scene, order around the Magical Technology Research Institute was completely stabilized, and the seriously injured were quickly moved to more suitable places for treatment.

Rebecca was completely fine after receiving treatment from Pittman, she stood in front of Gawain with her head drooped, looking ready to be beaten at any time - looking at her experienced posture, I was afraid that Hetty would not be able to do it in the first place.

Gawain, of course, wasn't going to beat her - at least he couldn't do it casually if he didn't figure out the situation now, he cleared his throat and asked Rebecca to lift her head: "What's going on?" ”

"We're testing the engine," Rebecca said, cowing back, "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 whirred with a whirring head, "it wouldn't blow up if it was built - we just got a big amplifier and a high-powered magic net to see how much power it would take to propel that big engine, and it just blew up." ”

As she spoke, Rebecca couldn't help but shrink her neck again: "I know you said that the train project can be in no hurry first, but I want to do the preliminary test first...... And I didn't delay other projects! But the lab did blow up......"

Looking at Rebecca like a frightened rabbit in front of him, Gawain couldn't help but laugh - of course he wouldn't punish Rebecca for doing these tests, but at the same time, it was necessary for him to investigate the whole ins and outs of the accident and start a series of aftermath work immediately.

The explosion of the Magic Technology Research Institute is not a trivial matter, it is not a joke that can be passed, although people often say that "there is no mage laboratory that does not explode", but the magic technology research institute has completely exceeded the concept of "mage laboratory" in this era, there are too many ordinary people involved in it, and the operation of the research institute itself is also closely related to the lives of citizens, and the subsequent impact of an explosion here can be more.

In addition to this, the test items described by Rebecca also made Gawain vaguely aware of one thing: the construction of the magic train may not go so smoothly.

This kind of accident happened just to test the amplification of the high-power magic engine and the power supply module......

In the next few tens of minutes, he learned a lot of details from Rebecca before the explosion, learned about the environment of the laboratory at that time, the test data, and the various technical means adopted.

Compared to the other magic techniques that Cecil has developed so far, the magic train has a lot of special features.

Gawain knew that the early train on the earth was a relatively simple structure and a means of transportation with low technical requirements, but in this world, the steam engine with low technical requirements could not be built, and the magic train could only start from the rotor engine in one step, which led to the technical starting point of the "train" in this world was even higher than that of the "car".

The immature large magic energy engine, the complex structure of the amplification device, and the magic network structure whose output efficiency is affected by the scale of the runes and can only be rigidly connected have greatly increased the difficulty of the development of the magic train - and there is a bigger problem in the middle, 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.

Cecil has developed a lot of "advanced things" that seem incredible to outsiders, such as the magic network terminal that integrates instant messaging, holograms, and file transfer functions, such as the rainbow cannon that uses energy beams as a means of killing, such as the thermal ray gun, such as the White Knight's inverted holy light device, these things seem to be cross-era, even beyond the era, but Gawain himself knows that the truth behind these things is actually just an extension and reorganization of the existing technology in this world- The ignorant will marvel at how quickly they have developed, but those who know 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 magical technologies that Cecil's magic industry has been able to develop so smoothly.

But the magic train ...... It has gone too far on the path of the magic industry for it to be difficult for the old magic technology to give it such a boost.

None of the existing magic could continue to optimize the magic web and the magic energy engine, and progress in this area must rely on breakthroughs from Jenny's Rune Research Institute and other materials science and engineering departments, and it seems that Rebecca must have had a problem in this regard.

Fortunately, as early as when he proposed the concept of the magic energy train, Gawain felt that the difficulty of this project might be very high, and he was fully mentally prepared for it.

"Ancestor ......" Seeing Gawain deep in thought, Rebecca couldn't help but touch her braincase, she guessed that she might not be beaten today, so she asked cautiously, "What about ......it?" Should this project be stopped for a moment? ”

Gawain awoke from his contemplation, and he looked at the hope on Rebecca's dark face, and he already had a decision in his heart.

"You can go on, and I'll figure out how to deal with the aftermath of this matter. But in light of the lessons learned, all testing sessions of the Magic Train project were to be placed away from the city. In addition, the experimental process should be re-planned, and the safety protection measures should also be redesigned to ensure the safety of the experimenters and isolate the people and the experimental equipment......"

Rebecca listened carefully one by one, and Gawain said earnestly one by one.

In the development of technology, accidents are always inevitable, 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 mothballed, but shines in today's military and engineering fields.

As the magic technology continues to develop, the scale of energy that people can control will inevitably become larger and larger, and today's explosion will not be the last, nor will it be the most powerful, but even Rebecca is ready to continue walking, and Gawain is naturally the same.

All they can do in order to keep going is be careful and cautious, cautious and cautious, doing everything possible to make sure it's safe – and then, doing it again.