Chapter 98: Closing the Gap (Part II)
A day later, Brentre sent a number of experts to the central hub under the leadership of Radamandis.
"Commander-in-chief, you're here!" When Blake saw Radamandis, he hurriedly went up to say hello.
"Hmmm! How's the clean-up going? Radamandis asked, looking at the piles of trench ronin corpses that he saw.
"In 20 hours, more than 300 trench ronins were killed and 18 escaped." Blake reported.
"Is there anything else out of the ordinary?"
"Report to the commander-in-chief, there is nothing out of the ordinary, all the strongholds have been cleaned!"
"Well done! Now you get rid of these corpses. Experts from Brentre have arrived and will soon be working to close the trench buffer zone. ”
"Order!" After accepting the order, Blake hurriedly led people to clean up the scene.
Then, Brenthal's team of experts officially settled in the central hub, and Radamandis asked Blake to rest, and he personally led the various sea columns.
The team first drove in, with a few machines similar to the Wind Protectors. However, it is slightly different, the bottom is several times thicker than the wind.
"What is this?" Curious, Tianxuan walked over and asked one of the experts.
"Oh! It's Tianxuan! ”
"You are?" When the expert turned around, Tianxuan saw that it was a middle-aged strong man with half-bald hair, a big beard, and a gray-black sundress.
"Don't recognize me?" The middle-aged strong man asked with a smile.
Tianxuan looked at it for a few seconds, and suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, it's Mr. Bell!" It's been a long time! I didn't expect you to join the expert group as well. What a surprise to me! ”
After listening to Tianxuan's words, Bell's expression stiffened, and he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Look at what you kid said, as if I didn't have the ability to join the expert group." ”
"Oh! No! No! No! Tianxuan hurriedly waved his hand to apologize, "That's not what I meant." Just seeing you too suddenly! Forgive me for being clumsy. ”
"You are not guilty." Then Bell smiled and said, "By the way, what did you just ask me about?" ”
So, Tianxuan hurriedly pointed to the machine that looked like the Wind Protector and said, "That's, that's it." What is this used for? ”
Bell smiled and said, "Come, come with me." ”
Tianxuan followed Bell to the side of the machine and stopped. At this time, Bell stepped up, turned around and smiled and stretched out his hand to him, "What's wrong?" Come up! ”
"Oh!" Tianxuan answered and followed the machine. After he went up, two more men and one woman came up, who were also members of the expert group. When the three men also came up, guardrails with an interval of 15 centimeters and a height of 1.2 meters were immediately raised around the machine.
Tianxuan was startled and hurriedly asked Bell: "Mr. Bell, what is the situation?" ”
I saw Bell smile unhurriedly and said, "Stand firm!" The show is on the scene, and it's coming soon. As soon as he finished speaking, a platform 5 meters long and 2 meters wide began to peel off from the bottom of the machine, vibrating and rising.
"Hey! Uncle! It's like flying! Tianxuan shouted.
"You're right! It's to fly! Bell replied with a smile.
After rising about ten meters, Tianxuan leaned on the fence and looked down, only to see that the bottom of the platform was constantly spraying air currents rising, and after careful observation, Tianxuan also found that there was a thick pipe connecting the bottom of the platform between the mist-like air currents.
After observing for a while, Tianxuan left the fence and returned to the center of the platform and asked in surprise, "Mr. Bell, this platform seems to be rising by jets, but how can it maintain continuous momentum?" ”
Bell pointed to the ground of the platform with his eyes downward, and said, "There is a 1-meter-thick gas pipe below here, which will continue to be transported up." ”
"I see! No wonder! At this time, Tianxuan pondered in his heart and knew that the thick pipe he saw just now should be the gas pipe, and now he could match the number.
After understanding the principle, Tianxuan opened his eyes and asked curiously, "Mr. Bell, what is this thing called?" ”
"Jet lift!"
"Wow! It feels amazing! Tianxuan held his hands in front of his chest, his eyes sparkling, and he looked adoring.
"Of course!" Bell raised his head a little smugly and smiled.
After the platform rose for about a few hundred meters, the air flow at the bottom gradually became stable, and the shaking was no longer violent.
At this time, Bell pressed a device in his hand, and five transparent seats immediately rose from the box on the platform.
After Tianxuan sat down, he felt very elastic, and he leaned back and was elastic, and pinched the armrest of the seat with his hand, which was not only as elastic as the seat that popped up on the Wind Resistant, but also had a smoother surface.
"Hmmm! This seat is really more comfortable than the one on the Wind Protector! Tianxuan leaned back in the chair, put his hands on the armrests, and couldn't help but say while enjoying his eyes closed.
"Of course! This is a special equipment, and it can't be compared with the ordinary means of transportation like the Wind Resistant! Bell then said to the other two men and a woman, "It's still early to get to the top, let's have some juice and have a chat!" ”
So, the other three sat down and had a juice talk.
I don't know how long it has passed, Tianxuan and they can already faintly see the rock layer at the top on the lifting platform. So, Bell manipulated the device in his hand to slow down the ascent, and then he stood up and looked up at the rock formation, no longer sitting down.
After a while, Tianxuan saw the blue gelatins at the top that were in the shape of blocks, tubes, forks, umbrellas, and other polygons, so he pointed to the gelatins and said to Bell, "Mr. Bell, we are almost at the top, and that sea-colored substance is a sponge." It is from it that the sea water is drained down. ”
"Oh!" Bell nodded, continuing to observe the blue sponge seriously.
When about five or six meters from the top, Bell began to stop rising, and after a few seconds, the platform came to a stop about three meters from the top.
"Tianxuan, you just stay where you are." After saying that, Bell said to the other three experts, "You take samples of these sponges with me." ”
"Hmm!" Then, a small air cushion was raised under the feet of the three men to raise them a little further distance, and then the individual adjusted to the position where the sample could be collected according to their height.
Tianxuan had nothing to do at this time, so he lay down on the chair boredly and watched them do their homework: I saw these four people, holding a tool with a ring in one hand and putting it on the sponge, only to hear a "click", and an annular blade appeared on the inside of the ring tool to cut off the crisp ring of the sponge. Then, with a glass bottle in their other hand, they took the cut sample......
It didn't take long for the four of them to finish collecting samples of the sponge and return to the platform. At this time, Bell found that Tianxuan was actually asleep, so he walked up to him and patted him and said, "Sleepy worm, wake up!" ”
Tianxuan rubbed his eyes, stood up and said, "Is Mr. Bell all over?" ”
"Yes! It's over, and we're going to start descending right away. Bell said.
"Oh! So fast! ”
"Of course, who made us the Experts!"
At this time, Tianxuan stared at Bell with a grin.
Bell stared at Tianxuan a little uncomfortably, and hurriedly leaned back and said, "What are you doing, I'm not a girl, why are you staring at me?" ”
"Oh!" Tianxuan narrowed his eyes, rubbed his palms and said, "I want to see the samples you collected!" ”
"Hey!" Bell sighed and said, "What's the hurry, let's wait until we go!" ”
"Good, good!" After speaking, Tianxuan sat down in the chair honestly.
In this way, after a descending journey, the platform where Tianxuan and the others were located was not so stable when it was a few dozen meters above the ground, and began to shake violently.
"What's the situation? Did something go wrong? Tianxuan looked down at the fence, looking a little panicked.
Bell calmly said to Tianxuan at this time: "Take it easy, it's like this before landing." ”
After listening to Bell's words, Tianxuan calmed down, let out an "oh" and returned to his seat.
Bell then went on to explain: "When the platform is about to touch the ground, the air jet will have a strong reaction force when it reaches the ground, causing uneven force at the bottom of the platform, so it is normal for vibrations to occur. ”
"I see, it looks like I'm overhearted again!" Tianxuan stroked his chest and said.
Bell smiled, placing the juice cup in his hand and waiting for landing.
Just a few minutes later, when the platform was close to the ground, Tianxuan clearly felt that the vibration under his feet was more violent than before. Immediately after that, the sound of a "poof" air flow hitting the ground also reached his ears, and because it was a little harsh, Tianxuan covered his ears.
However, the tremors did not last long, and only a "bang" was heard, and the platform and the base of the jet lift merged back together and stopped. Then, Tianxuan breathed a long sigh of relief.
As soon as Bell stepped off the platform, several other members of the expert group rushed over. Then, Bell and his three companions took out the samples they had collected and began to study them.
Tianxuan and the other experts studied for a while, and when they were resting, they walked up to Bell and asked to show him a sample.
Bell smiled and said, "What a big deal, take it!" With that, he handed a sample the size of a steamed bun to Tianxuan's hand.
Tianxuan took the sample and touched it, nodded his head and said, "Sure enough, it's the texture of a sponge, soft and elastic." ”
"That's true, but it's the first time I've heard of a sponge stretching 100 meters thick." Bell said.
"If I hadn't heard about it from the trench waves, I wouldn't have known that such a strange thing could happen in the ocean." Tianxuan was also amazed at this time. After a while, he remembered something again, and said to Bell, "Oh! By the way, Mr. Bell, I saw you have a circumcision tool, what's that? ”
"That's for you, that's what you're used to cut samples!" Bell said as he handed the tool to Tianxuan.
"Oh!" Tianxuan took the tool in a strange way, held the trigger on it, and sure enough, the ring-shaped blade came out from the inside. So, he immediately put the sponge into the round mouth curiously, and with a "click", the ring cut off part of it, and then "clicked" and cut off the other part.
"Stop! Stop! Bell shouted.
"What?" Tianxuan looked at Bell at this time, and inadvertently cut off the sponge with his hand, and with a "click", the sea water immediately sprayed Bell's face.
"You're still here!" Bell was a little annoyed.
"Oh! No, I didn't mean to! With that, he quickly put down all the things in his hand, holding his head in both hands and looking like a surrender.
Bell was looking at Tianxuan very unpleasantly, and was about to say something, when a member of the expert group came over and handed him a towel, and said: "Bell, now that the sample has been studied clearly, the next step is to start closing the gap, you can come over later to help debug the equipment!" ”
Bell wiped the water from his face and replied, "I see, give me some time to change my clothes, and then come here." ”
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