Chapter Ninety-Five: A First Exploration of the Wormhole Laboratory
Early the next morning, Yun Yi walked out of the guest room refreshed and turned into the next room.
"Boss, where are we going?"
Syrophys, who had just been woken up, was sleepy-eyed, sitting on the bed in her pajamas with a confused expression, her hair messy, and she was very unhappy that Yun Yi had woken her up so early.
"The fleet is estimated to not be able to come back for a while and a half, and it's useless for us to wait here, so it's better to go to the mining area first and have a look, maybe there will be something to discover."
"Oh, Syrumis understands."
Waking up Hiluffis, Cloud Wing walks out the door and happens to run into Natasha. The little girl's room was side by side with Yun Yi, but she was wearing a white practice uniform, and there were sweat stains on her forehead, which seemed to have gone through a lot of exercise.
"Good morning."
Seeing that the little girl was so diligent, Yun Yi nodded approvingly and stepped forward to say hello.
Natasha hurriedly said, "Good morning Mr. Yun, are there any activities today?" I can arrange it for you. ”
"Can you arrange a spaceship for me? I want to go to Shushan Star to have a look. ”
"Huh? Go to Shushan Star ......" Natasha covered her mouth and looked at Yunyi in surprise: "Master said, don't let me take people to the mine......"
"I didn't say that you should take me there, I want to go by myself, and I don't need anyone to lead me." Yun Yi smiled and teased this little girl. He knew the location of the mine, and he could find it even without Natasha leading him.
"I see...... Can you take me there, then? It's been a long time since I've known Shushan Star, that's where I grew up, so nostalgic. ”
"Okay." Yun Yi said with a smile, if there is such a little girl on the road, it will not be too boring.
"I'm going to get ready for the spaceship." The little girl looked very happy and bounced away.
Natasha is very efficient and seems to be familiar with the road. On the way to the pier, many people greeted this little girl, and it seemed that she was very popular here.
The spaceship is not a special plane, and Hong Tie is extremely strict with the traffic management of these planets, and it is strictly forbidden for any private spacecraft to go except for a few specified flights. The relationship between the two planets is not very close, and there are about 100 flights a day, most of which are local business elites and pirate group members.
Shushan Star is not far from Kunlun Star, and this ship is also a clipper ship snatched by the pirate group, and it took a little more than an hour to arrive at the spaceport of Shushan Star. Shushan Star is not very developed, and there is no track elevator, on the one hand, because of lack of financial resources, and on the other hand, in order to facilitate management, this equipment is not installed.
Natasha stepped in and soon rented a small spaceship in the atmosphere. Piloting the spaceship, Yunyi took the two girls and flew towards the location of the mine.
"We were lucky, the weather was fine today, and there was no wind and sand at all." When she was about to reach her destination, Natasha couldn't sit still and looked out from time to time.
"My hometown is not far from the mining area, and there are sandstorms for half a month every month, and the yellow sand in the sky hurts people's faces. And ah, don't open your mouth when walking in the sandstorm, otherwise, you can taste the taste of Shushan Star Sand. ”
Listening to Natasha's introduction, Yunyi had already seen a giant egg built on the ground from the sky.
This is supposed to be the laboratory built by Blue Sky, and the entire laboratory is encased in a huge egg-shaped building. Such a structure protects the people inside from the wind and sand. And the color is the same earthy yellow as the surroundings, which is easy to hide.
Just as the ship was about to get closer, the top of the egg-shaped structure suddenly cracked, and two cannon barrels protruded. Yun Yi was immediately startled when he saw it, it was a 250CM caliber beam cannon used for large warships, not to mention the small spaceship he was driving, even if it was a medium-sized battleship, at such a close distance, it would be blown to pieces.
Seeing that the two main cannons were obviously being charged, Yun Yi hurriedly stopped the spaceship, and at this time, the other party sent a communication request, and a middle-aged man with a cold face appeared on the screen.
"Please show your identity and enter the sixteen-digit Sebesk password. Otherwise, five minutes later it will be shelled. And don't try to escape, we'll shoot too. ”
There is no problem with the identity, just use Natasha's. But the password ......
Yun Yi tried to remember, as if Lan Tian had told him about the password, and he didn't think about coming at that time, and he didn't remember it. The Sebesk code is hundreds of letters high, and even if it is cracked with the central light brain, it will not be possible to complete it in a few days.
"Uncle, you ...... Don't you know the password? Natasha's little face turned white with fright, and she didn't expect that the defenses here in the mining area would be so strict. No wonder she begged her master to bring her here before, but Li Lingfeng always refused.
"Don't make noise, let me think about it......" Yun Yi snorted, trying to remember. But I didn't pay attention to it at the beginning, and I only saw it once, how can I remember it.
"Three minutes to go......" The other party's voice became even colder, and the two beam cannons had been fully charged, and they locked on the small ship. If there is any movement, I am afraid that the other party will immediately open fire.
Yun Yi grabbed his hair in distress and thought about it carefully. But the more I thought about it, the more confused I felt, and I didn't even have a clue at all.
Do you want to die at the hands of your own people?
Yun Yi had such a thought in his heart, although his martial arts cultivation had reached the innate level three, he couldn't withstand the bombardment of the battleship's main gun.
Use the combo mech in the necklace? How much time is enough?
Just when Yun Yi was anxious, a character suddenly flashed on the screen, and at the same time, the cold-faced middle-aged man checked it and said, "The password is correct, allow you to enter." ”
"Huh? What's going on......" Natasha was a little stunned, she obviously didn't see Yunyi enter characters, but a line of characters automatically popped up on the screen.
Yun Yi patted his head, how could he forget [Sakura]. It seems that when Blue Sky told him the password, [Sakura] was also hidden in the wrist light brain.
"Ahaha, I've already entered the password. It's just to scare you, look, your face is white. Yunyi pretended to be indifferent, and laughed at Natasha as he drove the ship to the ground.
"Cut...... Uncle, you really look like you, you can even sweat out, hum. Natasha looked angry, pouting and twisting her head to the side, not looking at Yunyi.
When I touched my forehead, I really had a cold sweat on my hand, and I don't know when it came out. Looking behind him, Syluphys looked at the cartoon projected by the light brain heartlessly, smirking as he watched, as if he didn't know anything about what had just happened.
The spaceship slowly landed on the sand at the entrance of the egg-shaped building, and the air currents of the landing blew up the yellow sand on the ground. As soon as the three of them walked out of the hatch, they were gray-headed and gray-faced, and their whole bodies were dyed yellow.
"Ahem...... The ash here is so big. Natasha, did you grow up in this kind of place? The environment is also too harsh. Yun Yi slapped the dust on his body vigorously and asked the girl beside him who was also gray.
"It's an uncle stupid, you can just turn on the anti-gravity system when you land, why do you want to open the electromagnetic particle ejector, do you think you're driving a battleship?" Natasha shook the dust from her hair and complained.
As for Syrophys, she fanned the dust in front of her curiously with her hands, suddenly took a deep breath, and took the cough that was choked on, and her little face turned red.
The door of the egg-shaped building opened, and several soldiers with loaded guns hurriedly ran out, and then the cold-faced middle-aged man he had seen on the screen walked out, looking at the dusty appearance of the three people, and couldn't help frowning.
"Let's clean it up first, we'll tow the ship in for you, and then hand it back to you when you leave."
Follow the cold-faced middle-aged officer into the laboratory, and after cleaning up, the refreshed Yunyi and the two girls followed the soldiers to the meeting room, and the cold-faced officer was already waiting for them.
"My name is Ducasse, and I am appointed by General Manager Lan and Head Hong, and I am in charge of this laboratory. You have the highest authority for the password, can you tell us about it first? "The cold-faced officer Ducasse didn't become enthusiastic because Yunyi had the highest authority. Obviously, his character is like this, and he can't force it.
"My name is Yunyi." Yun Yi didn't explain too much, just said his name.
Ducasse had a little surprise on his face, it seemed that he knew about Yun Yi.
"I didn't expect the boss to come over in person, why didn't I notify me in advance?" Ducasse still looks businesslike, but his tone is no longer so blunt.
Yun Yi said: "It's not a coincidence that I came at the same time, the pirate group has gone out on a mission, so I came by myself." After a pause, he said, "You did a good job in laboratory safety, I want to go to the experimental area now, can you take us over to have a look?" ”
Ducasse didn't expect Yun Yi to ask to go to the experimental area as soon as he came, but he didn't stop him, after all, he was the big boss, and everything here, including the pirate group outside, was his, so how could he refuse what he wanted to do?
"Okay, please come with me." Ducasse got up and walked outside, saying, "There is a lot of radiation in the experimental area, we have to change into anti-radiation equipment first, and then take an internal hovercar to go." ”
Yun Yi was a little surprised and said, "Is the experimental area far away?" ”
"It's not very far, but it needs to be moved underground." Ducasse explained: "The main body of the collapsed wormhole is located at a depth of four hundred meters underground. Those on the ground are just minor leaks......"
"It turned out that those were only minor leaks...... Natasha immediately understood why the radiation she had encountered before was not as powerful as the legend suggested. If the tincture lanthanum composite ray in the wormhole is enough to make an innate master lose his power within a few minutes, and the muscles of the whole body will atrophy until death.
Hearing Ducasse say this, Natasha's interest intensified, and she wanted to see the true face of the death ray in the valley back then.
Several people took the elevator to the ground floor first, and received a small box the size of a palm in turn. According to Ducasse's explanation, it is only necessary to place this small box on the body to form an invisible defensive shield with a radius of one meter and five. Yun Yi began to think that it was the defensive shield he had seen on Cai Hongzhang in the reincarnation organization, and after listening to Ducasse's explanation, he realized that this small box could not block force attacks and beam attacks, but it could play a pretty good role in radiation.
Hop aboard the hovercar and speed down the underground passage under the driver's wheel of Ducasse, sometimes going straight and sometimes turning, but the overall feeling is that you are flying underground. Along the way, you can see a variety of exposed defensive artillery, and according to Ducasse, the hidden defensive equipment is several times more powerful than the exposed. And high-explosive charges were buried in several important locations, and if they could not be defended, they would blow up the passages and bury it all deep underground.
The hovercar circled downwards for about 10 minutes before arriving at a parking lot.
This is the heart of the lab.
Stepping out of the hovercar, Yunyi surveyed the laboratory deep underground. Different from the underground base of the Dragon Slayer Society, it seems to be a bit lively here, and from time to time you can see the experimenters talking while walking, and there are also some assistants walking around pushing the experimental materials.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the head of the lab, Director Berkeline."
Following behind Ducasse, Yun Yi listened to his introduction to the director.
Berklein is now nearly two hundred years old, and he is only an eighth-level martial artist, and he is almost at the end of his life. Before coming here, he was a senior professor in the Department of Space Studies at Harvard University, the best college in New America, and studied artificial wormholes for many years, but the problem of refining tincture-lanthanum composite rays stopped his progress. In order to solve this problem, he threw himself into the laboratory for many years, even ignoring his home, but still no progress was made. In the end, after the new America lost patience with the subject and decided not to invest any more money, the old professor refused to give up, and continued to study, and the number of researchers who followed him became fewer and fewer, and finally only two assistant researchers who had been loyal to him remained.
But without the support of funds, how can the artificial wormhole research that can be called a gold-eating beast continue on the strength of individuals? In the end, when the old Berklein was desperate and helpless, Blue Sky found the old professor. Lan Tian didn't say much, just showed him a rock stained with tincture-lanthanum composite rays. Then the old professor didn't say a word, and immediately took decades of research materials and led two assistant researchers to quietly disappear from New America......
"Hahaha...... Lao Du, what are you talking about me behind your back? ”
As he was talking, he had just walked into a laboratory when he heard a hearty and old laugh greet him.
"It's strange, why didn't Director Berklein conduct research today?" Ducasse was a little surprised, and said, "Usually you hate people to disturb your experiments the most, how did you change sex today?" ”
Berklein is a typical image of a scientist. He had white hair and beard, was short and thin, and looked to weigh less than a hundred pounds. He also wears a pair of reinforced glasses over his small eyes, which are always squinting, and it seems that his eyesight has been weakened to the extreme, and he has to wear this aid. The old man walked tremblingly, making Yun Yi always feel that he might fall down next.
"Come on, come on, see my new research."
Without saying a word, Berklein asked Raducas to go in. After walking in, he found that there were two people behind Ducasse, the old man held his glasses, glanced at Yun Yi and said, "New researcher?" Let's go in and have a look. ”
Because the lab is constantly expanding, new researchers join in from time to time. After listening to Ducasse's whispered explanation, Yun Yi didn't plan to let him tell the old man his identity. For such fanatical researchers, the identity of the other party is not at all to pay attention to. In their hearts, the world is big, and only their own research is the greatest.
Several people followed Berklein to the depths of the laboratory, but they didn't expect that although Berklein was old, his walking speed was not slow at all, and he was in high spirits and seemed very happy.
"Come and see, come and see......," the old man said, turning on a strange machine in front of him, while saying something through his wrist light brain.
The machine looked like a locomotive, or an old-fashioned particle emitter, big and clumsy, more than ten meters long. There were a large number of pipes of different thicknesses connected to the sides and upper end of the machine, which was so complex that even Yunyi didn't see what it was.
Just as Yun Yi looked at the machine curiously, Dukas, who was next to him, showed an expression of disbelief.
"Director Berkeline, have you succeeded in making it?"
Berklein laughed and said, "It was completed yesterday, and after 4 hours of charging, it can finally be turned on for the first time." Then, with a frenzy on his face, the old man shouted: "How many years have passed, how many people have not been able to complete the research, and finally in my hands has become a reality." The New American politicians know what to do, as long as there is tincture lanthanum, I can make artificial wormholes. Look, this will be a moment that will go down in history......"
No matter what the old man was shouting, Yun Yi's complexion changed first.
With the current state of technology, the standard energy block can already meet the energy needs of almost all machines. Except for mechs or warships that release a large amount of energy, they will only be ready to be recharged. However, even the 2000CM super-large caliber main gun of the flagship warship only needs a few minutes to recharge.
Of course, there are more energy transmission channels in battleships, and the machines in the laboratory are not comparable. But even so, the energy gathered inside was absolutely terrifying. If something goes wrong, not to mention this laboratory, even the entire Shushan Star will be affected by this explosion, and the dust caused by the huge explosion will pour into the sky, blocking the sunlight and causing the entire planet to enter an extremely cold ice age.
Before Yunyi could react, Old Man Berklein laughed maniacally as he activated the strange machine......
PS: I'm so sorry, I came back late from dinner with my friends today, so ...... I beg your pardon.