Volume IX Aris Continental Walker 43 Submarines and Airships 01
The successful transatlantic teleportation of the portal means that the passage from Orson Manor to the imperial capital of Zion has been properly established. Although the cost of teleporting back through the magic array is terrifying, because if the magic crystal that activates it is lower than the sixth order, it cannot be activated at all, but the passage has been established after all, which means that as long as the conditions permit, the people and emergency supplies of Orson Manor can reach the imperial capital in an instant, and appear at the location of the distant magic array, Ogma Academy. And the imperial capital Zion can also use this magic array to transport personnel and materials to Orson Manor.
But it's easy to say, in fact, it's not that simple to return to the emperor. First of all, the demon cores that Xu Zheng scavenged from the Warcraft Forest had already been sent by him, and they were used for them, and they were spent. The rest of them are going to be used to support the actions and life of Mark, a mage puppet, even if Xu Zheng lacks things like magic cores or magic crystals, he will never touch Mark's share, and he won't even think about it. In Xu Zheng's heart, although Mark does not have the flesh and blood of living creatures, he is thoughtful, conscious, and cares for himself, and he definitely belongs to the kind of existence that belongs to important friends. Xu Zheng has multiple feelings, and those who have been with him know it, so when Mark proposed that he still had a little magic core here to use first, Xu Zheng refused without hesitation.
That energy-consuming long-distance transoceanic magic array, just used as a magic material to activate it for energy, the minimum level could not be less than the sixth order. Considering its energy consumption, it is no longer necessary to only teleport a chicken during the experiment, the seventh-order magic crystal will be more appropriate, and the eighth-order will be more suitable. And it can't be like the experiment, only plug in the life system magic crystal provided by Asban, the correct configuration should be the common support of the whole system. There are a small number of eighth-order magic crystals of the elf race, but they only have this single attribute of the life system, and the others do not.
The water system of Tamber was able to get it, and he said that his father Russell had one or two pieces there. Although it is not much, it is really pitiful, but there is still a lot of money to make the magic array run. Another deep seabed, where this type of magic crystal is produced in very small quantities. You can mobilize the Nagas to find some. The high-level magic crystal dwarves of the earth system found one thing in the process of excavation, only one can reach the eighth order, and other attributes are missing. It seems that the only way to buy it at a high price is through Arisio in Madagarh.
Thinking of this, Xu Zheng felt extremely troubled, it was still good to have a Warcraft Forest, and the Demon Core was as cheap as poop. Just say hello, naturally there are all kinds of Warcraft little brothers to send it, the price is just to care more about them, invite them to a full barbecue feast, unlike here, it is difficult to buy money with money. However, Xu Zheng also understood that this matter was urgent, and high-level magic crystals could not be found. It's not a rotten street stall, so I have to wait patiently.
For all these reasons, it is completely impossible to achieve large-scale long-distance transmission through magic arrays. Xu Zheng had to return his mind to more conventional transportation routes. For example, land transportation, water transportation, and air transportation.
There are no more than three forms of land transportation, and before Xu Zheng was born, there was only one, that is, through the way of the Warcraft to pull the cart. And after Xu Zheng appeared. Together with the gnomes and dwarves, he also made magic cars and trains that run on land. The Magic Car is flexible and convenient, and it is a very meaningful short-distance transportation work, but if you want it to achieve long-distance and long-distance transportation, it is impossible to achieve it without multiple transfers. With the current situation on the continent of Arris, it is unlikely that the transportation of the imperial capital and the Orsen Manor will be realized through it. It is true that trains can be transported over long distances, although the train itself does not have to transfer, but the personnel do. Except at the Orson Manor. Other places are not necessarily popular with dwarfs and orcs, not to mention that laying the railroad tracks to the imperial capital is an unlikely task in itself. Therefore, the solution of land transportation was abandoned, and only water or air transportation could be relied on.
In fact, the air transport has almost been realized, and during the smooth development process of the East Cape of Good Hope of Orson Manor, there have been air transport teams of materials flowing through Zion one after another. It's just that this mode of transportation also has many problems, such as the high cost, the physical energy and vitality of the Warcraft are very large, and it also has to go through nearly seven or eight transfers on the way. What's more, when the owner of the Warcraft was chosen at the beginning, it was checked by Xu Zheng, Uncle Hughes and Warcraft scholar Xia, and the Warcraft guardians selected at all levels were all people who loved their Warcraft partners very much, so after only three or five long-distance transportations, these flying Warcraft were tired into the shape of beasts, and all the human guardians were not happy, even if the military salary paid by Zion was high, they were not willing to kill them anymore. If it weren't for the sake of Cheng'an's future, and the limitations of the military order, no one would be willing to overdraw the physical strength and vitality of their Warcraft to do this. Therefore, it is not optimistic to use Warcraft as the main force for long-distance air transportation, this air transportation method is suitable for medium-distance transportation and long-distance support transportation, and it is definitely not suitable as the main transportation mode. In order to be truly practical and low-cost, simple, safe and reliable transportation still has to rely on other methods, such as Xu Zheng's increasingly mature airship.
Then there is sea freight, as we all know, the realization of long-distance sea transport must rely on large throughput huge ships. As far as Xu Zheng knows, the only force on the Aris Continent that can build this kind of ship is Virgil. In the drawings that Hawke gave to Xu Zheng when he left the imperial capital, there was a manufacturing method for this kind of giant ship and another manufacturing method for medium and large warships with ramming angles. Xu Zheng and the gnomes studied this shipbuilding method together, and the result was that it was not easy to achieve this through the dwarf's craftsmanship. One is that the red wood used to build this kind of ship is only produced by Virgil, and the second is that the shipbuilding technology of the gnomes is indeed not as good as that of Virgil, the so-called Virgil Empire, which has always relied on the sea to eat the sea, is far ahead of the gnomes in this regard.
Another reason is that the pygmy race itself is peace-loving, and there is a lack of aggressiveness and competition in racial thinking, so their design ideas will not follow the path of Virgil, whose main direction is to be strong and sharp, and can be used as a sea fire platform. They guarded the dwarf island, which was surrounded by dangerous reefs, and large ships could not drive in, so the sea defense was achieved by means of shallow draft, small and nimble boats, and dwarf artillery distributed on the island. Therefore, due to the limitations of the dwarf's technological conditions, the plan of the transoceanic giant ship has also been stranded.
Xu Zheng called Lingmeimei and Sang Duoduo together for many discussions, and finally settled on two long-distance transportation schemes, the air is an airship, and the ocean transportation is a dwarf submarine.
The plan of the airship has been relatively mature, the gnomes themselves have built a dwarf flying machine, and under the guidance of Xu Zheng, they have created a dwarf helicopter and a support air flight platform, as long as the existing technology is combined, the airship can be realized. Xu Zheng's request was simply that it could not be made according to the petite size of the dwarf race, and that it had to take into account the multi-ethnic nature of Orson Manor, and that conditions had to be created for other races to ride, such as the Minotaur and other orc races that were particularly large.
And then there are submarines. When Xu Zheng first proposed the concept of a submarine, all the dwarf technicians were completely stunned. Even Reimmi, who likes to think wildly when she has nothing to do, doesn't even think about it from this point of view: one day there will be a kind of hermetically sealed boat that can sail underwater!
Because he didn't know where the current technology of the dwarf could be realized, Xu Zheng just proposed the concept of a submarine and drew a rough sketch, just like giving a frame, and the rest was filled in by the dwarf himself. Even so, with this thing that was enough to shock the entire Aris continent, all the gnomes went crazy.
All the gnomes were divided into two groups, one group was reluctant to build large airships with the technology that was close to maturity in their hands due to the design of the red submarine, and the other group was happily studying the submarine manufacturing style day and night with an unprecedented crazy energy, and bit by bit used the current technology to fill the gap in the history of dwarf design.
The theory of the submarine suits the dwarfs too well. First of all, the submarine sails underwater, which fully satisfies the style of the dwarf, who does not want to appear in front of the world and come into contact with other races. In addition, because it sails underwater, it is to some extent hidden, except for the time to change the air, it will not appear in the area, it will not be discovered by various naval armies, and it will not be discovered by the many pirates at sea. They are all on the surface, the submarine is underwater, who can do nothing about it, in terms of safety, there is no ship like it, completely unthreatened by war or pirate forces. At the same time, because it sails underwater, the gnomes have made a conservative estimate according to their own scientific and technological level, and theoretically the first finished ship can dive to a depth of nearly 100 underwater, which means that no matter how bad the weather is, even if the typhoon is coming, the sea surface is turbulent waves, and the place at a depth of 100 underwater is still calm and calm, and is completely unaffected by the waves. This is a great blessing for sailing in the sea!
The gnomes knew that there was a submarine, and they were simply overjoyed, and the next day Ling Meimei brought an edict from the gnome patriarch, announcing that Xu Zheng had become the most honorable friend of the dwarf clan, and in the future, he wanted Xu Zheng to say a word, and all the dwarfs on the entire dwarf island unconditionally supported. At the same time, Xu Zheng was awarded a small wrench of the dwarf tribe, which means that Xu Zheng has become a special technician certified by the dwarf technician committee without passing the dwarf technician exam!
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