Chapter 46: High-altitude experiments
About half an hour later, a huge piece of land appeared in the sea in front of the Magic Airship Team.
If you get closer, you'll find that it's an incomparably huge island, more than ten times larger than all the small islands you've seen along the way.
And unlike the deserted islands scattered here and there on the endless sea, on this huge island, you can see a complex of buildings, and a small harbor has been built on the island, which is obviously already a master land.
In the northeast corner of the island, a square with a large area has been leveled, and the magic airship team flew over this large island and landed directly on this square.
Xu Yi and the accompanying group of people stepped out of the magic airship, but they didn't see the familiar figure in the crowd outside.
"Where's Akali?" Xu Yi asked Doroen, the deputy head of the overseas branch of the Magic Communication Research Department of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, who was in charge of greeting him and the others.
This huge island is the overseas base that Akali chose to use to study hyperspace magical communications.
Since the last time I returned to the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, recruited a group of new research assistants, and then brought people here, it has been more than half a year.
Since there is no real means of hyperspace long-distance communication, for most of the year, Akali can only send some information back through the fleet that transports supplies every month, but he has never left the island at all.
According to the information she sent, through more than half a year of research, she has solved most of the problems, and is about to create a hyperspace magic communication relay station. Real-time magic signal transmission on the Sainz Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent.
Of course. Long before Akali came here with people. This overseas research base has been in preparation for two years, otherwise these buildings on this island alone would not have been able to be built in more than half a year.
And all the research before that, that has already been basically completed.
Akali led her research team to come here just for the final practice.
However, it still takes a lot of time, energy and money to put it into practice.
In the past six months, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has invested a huge amount of materials worth more than six million gold coins on this island.
"Director Akali and a few dragon friends are doing the final stage of observation and debugging on it. Hearing Xu Yi's question, Deputy Director Doroen cautiously looked at the look on Xu Yi's face. "Do you need to inform her now, Grown, that you're here?"
"Is it up there?" Xu Yi raised his head and looked at the sky, but he only saw a sunny sky, where could he see the figure of Akali.
After thinking for a while, he shook his head and ordered, "No need, I'll go to her myself in a while, and you can arrange the guests first." ”
"Guests?" said Doron, looking behind Xu Yi in some surprise.
At this time, several female elves came out of the magic airship, and behind them were a dozen heavily armed male elves, who looked like guards.
It seems that the guests Xu Yi said should be them.
There's something strange about Doroen.
Although the last fleet of ships that sent relief supplies had already told them that the elder would come in person during this time. But I didn't mention that there would be elven guests coming with me.
This overseas research base should be regarded as a secret base for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Why do Growers bring outsiders in now?
Of course, Doron was puzzled, but his face didn't show the slightest hint, and with a wave of his hand, he let several of his subordinates meet him.
After some commotion, those elves went to settle down first under Doroon's arrangement, but Xu Yi did not listen to Doroon's arrangement, but after asking a few words, the magic power in his body moved, and he flew directly into the air.
With Xu Yi's current strong magic level, in the blink of an eye, he had already flown to a height of more than a thousand meters above the ground.
At this point, when you look down, the huge island has turned into a small black dot.
However, Xu Yi still did not stop, and while continuing to fly upward, he took out a magic phone box from his arms and connected to the private communication band with Akali.
"Hey...... Feed...... Yes...... Long...... People, you ...... You're here?"
From the magic call box, Akali's voice came intermittently, not at all clear.
Xu Yi frowned, but he was not surprised.
Akali had already told him that in fact, the current means of magical signal transmission were outdated and would be subject to many limitations.
For example, in such a high altitude, because the concentration and operation rules of the magic elements in the space and below are different, the communication signal will be affected, and the communication quality will of course also be affected.
However, Xu Yi didn't expect to rely on this to communicate with Akali, but concentrated on sensing the fluctuations of the magic signal transmitted through the magic call box, and easily determined Akali's current location.
The magic power in his body moved again, and when Xu Yi reappeared, he had already come to the real sky farther away from the ground.
What appeared in front of Xu Yi was not only Akali with an unexpected smile, but also several huge dragons.
"Hey, Lord, I was just going to ask a dragon friend to pick you up. Akali enlarged the magic shield around her body to envelop Xu Yi in it, and the two of them were able to have the same barrier-free conversation as they did on the ground.
"Where do you need to be so troublesome? Xu Yi shook his head, smiled at the dragon clan flying around in the sky, and asked, "What is this doing?"
"We're testing the fluctuation of magical elements in this part of the area and collecting data. Akali gestured to the dragons. "You see, they've got a huge simulator on their backs, and that's what they use to collect data. ”
Xu Yi took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw that each dragon clan was carrying a huge metal square box on its back, and there were strange-shaped tentacles sticking out of it, which were combined with their huge bodies, and the appearance looked as strange as it was.
Seeing this situation, Xu Yi couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, and wanted to laugh.
Whether in the fantasy literature on the earth, or in the literature of the stalls on the continent of Sainz and the legends of various races, the dragon is an extremely terrifying creature.
Powerful by nature and supposedly tyrannical, they can only represent destruction and destruction in the minds of almost every race, but they have never had a good impression.
But now, these legendary dragons are all carrying these strange machines on their backs, and they are honestly flying in circles in the sky according to Akali's command.
If this is known to the people on the Sainz continent, I'm afraid their impression of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will be even more terrifying, right?
Seeing that Xu Yi was looking at the dragons, with a strange expression on his face, Akali misunderstood Xu Yi's thoughts and explained, "This is also no way. If we are human magicians, because the use of flying magic itself will disturb the fluctuations of magic elements in the space, it is difficult to get accurate data, so we can only let the dragons come. They fly with their own physical gifts, and there's no problem. ”
"Flesh * body talent?"
Xu Yi looked at the huge and bloated bodies of the dragons, and thought to himself that the appearance of these guys did not match the body description of biological flying creatures, and they barely flapped their wings during the flight, so how did they keep flying?
"Actually, we don't need to make our dragon friends work so hard. It is completely possible to build the aerostat first, and then improve it while collecting data, and the effect may be better than it is now. Xu Yidao.
"Of course if possible. But the aerostat hasn't been debugged yet, and my research has reached this point, so we can't let a group of us stay here and have nothing to do, right?"
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "The aviation department is also working hard, you see, I brought you the aerostat by the way soon this time." ”
Akali's eyes lit up immediately: "It's done, great, great, where? I'm going to test it now, I can't wait......"
"Calm down. Xu Yi held her down. "The things have already arrived anyway, so there is no need to rush for such a moment and a half. Let's go and call those dragon friends back first, with the aerostat here, they don't have to work so hard. ”
"Good. Akali answered, and immediately flew over.
Xu Yi couldn't help but smile and shook his head.
Akali is now close to fifty years old, but she is still as impatient as a little girl, and she really can't change anything.
After a while, the dragons stopped, and then flew in front of Xu Yi with Akali.
One of the dragons didn't carry those metal boxes on his back, and after flying in front of Xu Yi, he turned into a human girl, which was the first dragon Xu Yi had ever seen.
"Hey, Miss Kassandra, hello. Xu Yi said hello with a smile.
Kassandra tilted her head and looked at Xu Yi for a moment, then asked Akali with a puzzled expression, "Who is this?"
Akali rolled her eyes, "This is our Elder, haven't you seen it before?" ”
"Oh...... I'm sorry, but you humans look the same way to me, and I didn't recognize them for a while. Kassandra replied unapologetically, hesitated for a moment before extending a hand to Xu Yi. "Hello, President Xu, it's a pleasure to see you again. ”
Xu Yi reached out and shook her hand with some surprise.
"Miss Kassandra, I haven't seen you in a few years, and you seem to be much more proficient in our human etiquette than before. (To be continued.) )