Chapter 35: The Pearl

Māori Magnetic Tram Station C4, the full name of Canberra District No. 4 Station Division, has a total area of 160 square kilometers and no sub-divisions. The station is built on a narrow plain at the western entrance to the Māori prairie, at the northern foot of Mount Cauthiasco, and is the only functional administrative subdivision of Māori that deals with the prairie.

Māori love the savannah, and most of the inhabitants have chosen to give up their surface life in order to protect the grassland ecology. A small number of people living in this grassland also gave up all lifestyles related to industrial civilization in accordance with the law, and hundreds of thousands of human beings born in the post-AD period lived a wild life of slash-and-burn farming, riding horses and cattle herding, and living in grass like nomads in the Middle Ages.

But Māori still needs a window to communicate with the outside world, and C4 was born. As a last resort, the Māori made the most of their talent as architects, and C4 was designed to be more of a craft than a product of industrial civilization.

The overall structure of the station is a huge fan-shaped shell that emits a five-colored glow, and all the walls are spliced with multispectral magnetic glass crystals, with one side opening, and the lower side of the shell is slowly upturned in a huge U-shape, and the upper side is wavy. In the middle of the station is a huge platform, which can stop 32 trams at the same time, ranking second in the world in terms of throughput scale, and the two sides of the platform are flat and excavated downwards to form station facilities such as people flow channels, logistics channels, transit warehouses, outpatient hospitals, tax stations, and entry and exit inspection stations, and the end of the track is a comprehensive spherical building with a spherical diameter of 92 meters, including the command center, tram steering channel, elevator terminal and other facilities from top to bottom.

- "Walking Slowly" IC81, Shi Youran

As one of the fastest trams in the world, the Swordfish cruised at about 950 kilometers per hour, and it didn't take even a day to cross the island from Dunhuang to Maori. The transit application was conveyed to the islands in the name of Li Mubai and the scientific research team as early as before departure, under the pretext of the usual scientific investigation. This method was flawless in normal times, but when Dunhuang was abandoned, the Swordfish was delayed in the territory of the Huaxia Alliance for three full days.

Seeing the Futu Legion a kilometer ahead of the island, armed with live ammunition, Fenices immediately realized that he had made a huge mistake. The Dunhuang conflict may still be a secret to a small force, but it is semi-public news for a power of the level of the Huaxia Alliance. The smoke of gunpowder in Dunhuang has not stopped, and the 10 capable people of the entire R agency have entered the hinterland of the Huaxia Alliance without notice, which is really not friendly.

The Swordfish honestly stopped. In the carriage, looking at Fenices' slightly solemn expression, many people were thoughtful, of course, not everyone.

"Hey, the car is parked, are there any shopping malls in Beijing?" Mo Qiu and Mo'er, who are of the same age, have already become inseparable handkerchiefs along the way, and the two bit their ears all the way, and the car stopped for a long time before they found something unusual.

"Mall? Obviously for Chinese food, authentic! ”

"You know how to eat! I didn't even bring a set of clothes with me when I moved this time, and I still had to change it when I was making a meat ticket, and I was almost rancid! ”

"Huh? Why don't you tell me if you don't have any clothes to wear, I'll lend it to you! ”

"You came out to fight and brought a lot of clothes?" The little girl asked suspiciously.

Mo'er smiled and froze: "Three sets." It's a rotten set when you fight, a dirty set of giggling, it's really gone. ”

"Then you'll have to buy it too!"

"My allowance is all from Sister Anna." Mo'er slumped her shoulders, "My brother said that there must be a dowry to get married, and Sister Anna saved it." ”

"It's okay, my sister is rich! The stinky boy's money is all in my hands, a lot! The little girl patted her chest, looking like she had a big bag.

"Xiao Yun? How long has he been on the job, and how much money can he have? ”

"Uncle Mo's pension, Grandpa Siwu's allowance, and his grandfather's inheritance, a lot." The little girl is like a treasure, and she doesn't care about the feelings of the parties.

Ke Lan, who was sitting on the other side, couldn't help but smile and patted Mo Liyun's shoulder, and Su Le and Tao Tao in the front row also cast their sad and obedient eyes, which made the stinky boy almost crazy.

Happiness belongs to young people, and Fenics has no way to share it. As the general manager of this field service, she must think thoughtfully, make up for the previous mistakes, and prevent a rift between Maori and the Huaxia Alliance, and by the way, she can't sell Maori's interests.

After waiting for a while, the commander of the Swordfish came over and reported softly: "Someone from Beijing is here, and he is the director of the research department of the scientific research department, named Luo Sanshui." ”

"Lao Luo? Fenice, I'm an old acquaintance with him, why don't I go? Li Mubai was stunned, in his opinion, Futu had been sent out as a warning, and the other party would at least be the prime minister in person, but he didn't expect to send his classmates.

"I'll go, Andy, Elder Li, you guys accompany." Fenix let out a sigh, and the friendly expression of the Huaxia Alliance made her put down a big stone and let her rigid brain turn again. She was wondering if there was anything missing, so she added, "Xiaoyun, you come too." ”

Mo Liyun followed inexplicably. Whether as an assistant or as a bodyguard, this kind of foreign affairs note is more useful for Colan than for him. But he won't mention that soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, and they know how to do it, and if they don't understand it, they have to do it, this is the tutor of the Mo family.

After passing through the two carriages, Andy motioned for Mo Liyun to go out with him first. Outside the door, a squad of special soldiers guarded an old man in a white coat with a gun, and behind the old man stood a middle-aged man in a moon-white samurai uniform, with blazing eyes and extraordinary momentum.

"Master Feng Rui, the only remaining fourth-order martial artist in this world, is the representative of the pinnacle of human physical strength." Andy's voice came from his ears, soft, but clear enough, "We fly, you go up and I go down." ”

Mo Liyun obeyed, and the green wings of light stretched out from behind him to support him and fly out of the car door, levitating nearly 5 meters above the ground, Andy followed, floating, and stood still at a height of less than 20 centimeters above the ground.

There was a click, the sound of pushing the bolt of the gun was heard everywhere, and the entire guard squad raised its gun and aimed it at the two.

"Collect the gun, I'm afraid that people don't know that the Chinese people have never seen the world?" Feng Rui snorted coldly and stared at Andy, "I heard that you are fourth-order?" ”

"yes."

"Liu Sheng has accepted a good apprentice, if you are not a capable person, it is even better."

"Different paths, aren't they?"

"The Gap in Mind." Feng Rui spit out four words to refute.

"It's not as big as I thought." Andy smiled, "The boss can't get out of the gun if he keeps pointing a gun at us." ”

"Put away the guns and withdraw the siege." Feng Rui waved his hand, the guard squad put away the gun, Andy also summoned Mo Liyun to stand beside him, and Fenice and Li Mubai walked out of the car door.

"Lao Li! Didn't you inform me when you came to Beijing, didn't you treat me as a friend? ”

"! I didn't even plan to go in, so what did I tell you about? If you don't stop me, I'm all in Nanjing now! ”

The two old men questioned each other, and their tone was not good, but they hugged each other and hugged each other tightly.

After a long time, Luo Sanshui let go of Li Mubai, as if he had only seen Fenice now: "Lao Li, your student?" ”

"Elizabeth. Fenix. Windsor, Head of the Māori Returnee Agency, it's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Law. ”

"Greenwich's little princess?"

"That was a long time ago."

"Oh, why are you in the car, I haven't heard?"

"Professor Luo, you must have heard of it, if you don't remember, it's probably because your people are busy."

"It's not busy, but you have to forget, otherwise it will be rude for me to come forward to greet me."

"Let everyone in Beijing bother, we are going to go back to Maoli, and the extension will also pass through the two islands of Nanjing and Guilin in Guimeng, so I don't dare to bother too much, and please bear with me if there is any rudeness."

"Don't stay for a meal?"

"Be sure to bring the whole car to attend."

"That's right, Mr. Prime Minister said before he came, he is a guest from afar, and Beijing, Nanjing, and Guilin will sweep the couch to welcome him."

"Let you break the bank, if you can, just send it to the car."

"I can report on that."

"Excuse me, please."

Not far away, in the command car of the Futu Legion, Wang Xunan, the prime minister of the Huaxia Alliance, sat in front of the monitoring screen, and behind him stood Lieutenant General Lou Lubing, the commander of the Futu Army and the commander of the first division, who is 33 years old, he is the only third-order ability person in the Huaxia Alliance.

"Walk on the ice, if you don't understand anything, just ask."

"Prime Minister, they entered without announcement, we do a routine inspection, just don't embarrass them, why do you still invite them to dinner."

"Roll call, you can't let them stand in a row, otherwise why do you say Ms. Phoenix is bringing the whole car to attend."

"She's quite cooperative."

"She is indeed very good, and if she inherits the throne, there will be a lot less strife in this world. Regarding the Dunhuang conflict, has the General Staff analyzed the causes? ”

"No, go straight to the home field, the battle plan can be called unplanned, unlike the handiwork of Fenices, the staff has not yet analyzed the reason."

"Let Greenwich's comrades work harder, the president is very concerned about this incident, maybe it is this hidden story that will tell us what is behind the Dunhuang conflict."

"Would it be nice to just ask her?"

"She won't say it. If we want to know from Maori, we have to find Testin. Oren. ”

In this way, the Swordfish stayed in the Huaxia Alliance for three days, and then went south from Guilin and officially entered Maori territory through the four islands of Vientiane, Lion City, Irion, and Solomon. The Swordfish sped through a magnetic orbit set up across the sea until the water turned from gray to blue. Fenix stood up and smiled at everyone, "Welcome home, everyone. ”

There was jubilation in the carriage.

The stinky boy breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling a little sour all over his body, his spirit had not relaxed since he was surrounded by a regiment of Futu soldiers on the outskirts of Beijing, after all, it was a Futu, and during the First World War, he besieged and killed two second-order capable people, forcing back Prodi. Ethel's strongest legion in the world.

"Girl, it's Maori." Mo Liyun shouted at Mo Qiu, the strange thing was that the little girl's sex was not very high, she reluctantly smiled at the stinky boy, and quickly twisted her head out of the window again.

"What's wrong with Xiaoqiu?" Mo Liyun asked Mo'er strangely, how do you know that Mo'er is also weird, she couldn't speak for a long time, she was forced to step on Su Le's feet in a hurry, and ran to the next car with a shout.

The stinky boy and the grinning Su Le glanced at each other and pouted: "Strange, is the relationship so good that the eldest aunt is here together?" ”

Tick tick! The horn of the carriage gave a hint, and Fenicex pressed the answer button, and a soft female voice was heard.

"Swordfish, this is the control center."

"Elizabeth. Fenix. Windsor. ”

"Chief Elizabeth, all colleagues in C4 welcome you and the returning heroes to Hong Kong, platform 7 has been cleared, and Prime Minister Oren is waiting on the platform."

"Swordfish received, please convey our thanks to the Prime Minister." Phoenix hung up the phone and stood up to everyone and said, "Chancellor Oren is on the platform to greet us, get ready, guys, this time you are heroes." ”

"The train slows down and prepares to merge into the track."

"All passengers, please note that the train is about to merge and there will be light turbulence, please fasten your seat belts."

"Attention engine crew, the main engine is turned off and the tail fin is open."

"The guide wheel sticks out, and the magnetic flake group closes."

"Receive route guidance from the command center, analyze the channel, target platform 7, and start the merger."

"The release of the guide wheels is complete, the merging begins, the auxiliary engine starts, and the coasting phase begins."

There was a slight tremor in the body. Through the portholes, huge dark green mountains slowly rise over the horizon, and the sky is full of lush greenery, which is a natural barrier to the western side of the Maori Australian Mountains and the Aclyd Forest that grows on them.

The tram turns a gentle bend into the straight upwards, and a high mountain pierces the sky in front of it, and the Cauciasko mountain is not high, but it is more than a steep one. A hundred years ago, a nuclear war shattered nearly half of its peaks, and the main peak has since sprung up.

As we get closer, the Aclad Forest becomes more layered in the sun, with sparse dark green coniferous trees at the top, dense evergreen broadleaf and coniferous forests on the mountainside, and deciduous forests at the base. Autumn is Maori at the end of April, and deciduous forests are dominated by gold and red, swaying in brilliant colours in the breeze.

The straight reaches its apex, the train goes downhill, revealing a shell-like building that glows in the sun, and as it forks in the road, the train turns onto track 7 and gets closer and closer to the shell-like building.

As the glow fades, the glass façade of the Maori Magnetic Wheel Station is finally revealed, with huge shells and dozens of dense electric tracks sticking out from the half-open and half-closed mouth of the mussel, revealing a series of strange buildings inside, the façade is wrapped in colored mirrors, reflecting the sunlight and shining with brilliance.

The auxiliary engines were also turned off, and the Swordfish slowed down and finally slid into the platform under the guidance of the colorful lights.

On April 29, IC62, R returned to Maoli.