Chapter 207: The ...... of Choosing a Building Site
The orbital gliding site is complete, and the search for the second race begins.
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Ranstar, a blue planet floating in the darkness of space, its blue ocean and white clouds intertwined with its surface that made it look as beautiful as a jewel, at this time, a group of guests from next door were welcomed in its space orbit, they were arranged in a neat formation and moved in an arc-shaped orbit.
With almost endless energy and the ultra-high efficiency of the antimatter power furnace, Xinglan can allow spacecraft to do some of the more extravagant things...... For example, ignoring the launch window and ignoring the optimal orbital entry point, it relies on its own strong propulsion to recalculate the orbit of the shortest path in a gravitational environment.
These space vehicles are not space shuttles that resemble small planes as they usually travel between Lanxing and Qingyi, but a very simple cargo shape: they are completely a combination of various propulsion units with independent fuel and control systems, and in the center is a cylindrical container with a diameter of several tens of meters, and this container-like structure is a large landing module with a thermal insulation layer...... There is not even a device set up to take off again.
Soon, the cargo equipment from the Dawn arrived at a certain entry point in the space orbit, and the small propulsion devices attached to the surface of the container all broke away at the same moment, and began to raise the orbit in an orderly manner like a swarm of bees, while the cylindrical body with some inclined surfaces in the center ejected several alloy plates similar to wings, and began to fall downward under the effect of gravity, gliding into the atmosphere of Lanxing.
Powerful insulated outer layer and shock absorbing device, signal transceiver system, and some small attitude adjustment equipment and parachute device, these are all the devices that these containers have on their own, they only need to glide around the Tsuyoshi for most of the circle and then land in the designated sea area, there is no need to take off again.
Although each component is not really equipped with a powerful intelligent processing system, these machines have indeed done similar things under the control of Xinglan's signal subs, and all the projects are progressing in an orderly manner.
Instead of a flotation system, these slender containers splash into the designated sea area and sink into the water, where they are propelled by propellers all the way to the designated seabed. They carry a large amount of construction machinery and raw materials...... There are even a few small-scale controllable nuclear fusion engines, even though they have been able to master the technology of antimatter energy supply, but Xinglan still chose controlled nuclear fusion as the energy source of the Holy City, on the one hand, considering that there is not much need for too strong output power here, there is not much difference between the two, and on the other hand, it is ...... The main thing is security.
Nuclear fusion is actually a very safe way to supply energy, because the high temperature of the reaction required is too harsh, so once there is an accident in the equipment, nuclear fusion will stop immediately, and the maximum damage that can be caused is nothing more than some radioactive contamination. However, antimatter is the ...... Once the magnetic restraint device is damaged, the antimatter will immediately collide with the surrounding ordinary matter and annihilate, it will be a super catastrophe, and Xinglan does not want such a devastating thing to happen in the future Holy City.
Before the civilization on the planet developed this level of energy supply technology on its own, Xinglan would at most only equip a few small antimatter batteries for devices such as mechanical bodies that were small but occasionally required high output, and the truly large antimatter energy supply devices would be used in outer space as much as possible without being brought into the atmosphere.
As for the landing location of these containers, it is a location that Xinglan and Feng Death finally decided after repeated discussions, that is, the location of the future Holy City.
Xinglan did not name the ocean on Lanxing, and the division of the ocean was more vague than the well-defined land, and it was because of this that she decided to let the future civilization divide and name the vast ocean by itself, so it is impossible to describe exactly which ocean is located in that place, but we can still find some obvious references for it.
The Star Continent, which was once located in the upper half of the Northern Hemisphere, gradually broke apart and sank after the large-scale changes in the earth's crust caused by the Yanghai Space Gate Event, but there are still some remaining islands above the sea, and this part of the island group called the Shattered Star Islands has gradually moved southward over a long period of time, until it reaches the Tropic of Cancer and the equator of Lanxing. If you continue to move about two hundred kilometers west from the location of these islands, it is almost the location of the Holy City chosen by Xinglan, which is a higher and relatively flat submarine plateau, about 400 meters above sea level, and the nearest land is the nascent volcanic belt of the Shattered Star Islands...... Even at the edge of the island, lava is still pouring into the sea to expand the island's area, and large expanses of basalt and obsidian can be found almost everywhere.
After checking remote sensing satellite images and even signaling subs to scan a part of the area himself, Xinglan finally confirmed this site as the construction site, about thirty kilometers south of the Holy City, there is a gushing area containing hundreds of submarine hydrothermal vents, this is a long-term stable submarine hydrothermal vent area, which can last for at least a thousand years, and after the underground scanning of the signals, it is confirmed that there is no danger of submarine volcanic eruptions here.
It seems that due to the geological activity that was once very active, even the area is very rich in minerals, and Xinglan easily found several veins of ore passing through the ground, and she planned to wait until the construction machinery in those containers was in place to start mining and smelting minerals on the spot as construction materials for the Holy City. After all, if all spaceships were used to transport raw materials, it would not only be a waste of resources but also quite time-consuming, and Xinglan's goal now was to get this huge underwater city in as short a time as possible.
But even so, the base on the Death Ground is not idle, because some really high-tech products obviously cannot be produced in a temporary factory in the ocean, not to mention that since the return of Night Lai Star, Xinglan has always wanted to play a big ticket, maybe he will be able to conduct an experiment in the Holy City for the first time: a large-scale band field artificial gravity regulator with an influence range of more than ten kilometers.
This equipment, which would be quite grand after operation, even made Xinglan hesitate to risk using antimatter to power it, and it did not come to Lanxing with this batch of containers...... Or maybe it's not even been manufactured, it's just a semi-finished product that's still being assembled on the engine, and considering that it will probably last for thousands of years, the components need to be very precise, sophisticated enough to use atomic stacking technology on a large scale.
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With hours to go before the containers glide and splash down to the surface of the ocean, and all the necessary assembly work would take place after that, Xinglan didn't have to pay much attention to the situation there, and instead turned her attention to something that seemed more important.
Feng Death said that Lan Xing had actually appeared on land now, but Xing Lan had not encountered it in a hurry across the continent before, considering the number of intelligent creatures and the area of the land in this era, it was indeed unlikely that this kind of journey across the continent in an almost straight line would meet them.
However, it's not the same thing to play aimlessly and deliberately search for it after learning that it must exist. The intelligent creatures on land are different from the sea giant tribe hidden in the deep sea, their traces of activity are obvious, and after getting the information about the existence of land civilization from the wind passing, Xinglan will definitely be able to search for these anomalies from satellite photos as long as she is willing to spend some time...... Not to mention that the wind passed away and fully understood the other party's location.
"So, sister, you're suddenly going to see how this intelligent race on the land lives?" The blue-gold little beast lazily lay down on the floor of the shuttle, tilting its head to look at Xinglan standing at the window in front of him, this is the same Xijie who has been on vacation in the wild environment for a long time, "If you see any race you haven't seen, you have to explore people's privacy, is this the soul of gossip burning in your heart?" My sister is really a change. Ah~"
“…… It's all said that it's not you, you idiot! ”
It seemed that some sensitive nerves were stimulated by Xijie's sharp complaints, Xinglan, who was originally standing in front of the window and staring outside, turned around and grabbed the little beast on the ground without hesitation, pinched her ears and pressed them on the porthole, and made a vicious look: "If you dare to talk nonsense, I will throw you down from here!" ”
This trick was obviously quite effective, and Xi Jie glanced out the window and subconsciously trembled a little, and then obediently curled up in a ball. Although the end result was the same, the reason she did it was completely different from the reaction of most creatures: it was not the fall from hundreds of meters that really scared her, but the endless ocean below.
Kindness...... This guy's hydrophobia seems to be completely hopeless.
According to the information provided by Feng Shu, who was almost about to turn into a professional tour guide, the destination of this shuttle was the northernmost coastal forest area of the Nanyuan Continent, and as before, he only gave Xinglan a rough location, and the specific situation was also obtained there and then slowly explored.
After hesitating for a while, Xinglan still chose to use her mechanical body to travel on land again, and at this time, the girl who was 1.4 meters tall was completely dressed as a jungle explorer: a loose camouflage uniform, and some slender hemp ropes, stretching hiking sticks, electromagnetic pistols, climbing grappling hooks and other explorer's daily tools pinned to her waist...... Well, don't worry about something strange mixed in this, even the slender blue hair is wearing a camouflage straw hat woven with high-strength fibers, don't look good, this thing can't be pierced by ordinary pistol bullets.
"The forest here has never been here before." Xing Lan smiled and threw the tide knot out, and the latter quickly made a backflip in the air, looking at her with some resentful eyes, "In the forest area on the north coast of the Nanyuan Continent, who would have thought that there would be a wise race hidden in it." ”
"A new adventure is about to begin~"
(Flipping through the book review or something, it's really pleasant w)