Although this all-you-can-do hotel is only 50 floors, it is the tallest building on the island of Tongjin.

Surrounded by a swarm of drones, the entire building is completely enveloped. In the darkness of the night, it is like the palace of the demon king shrouded by a swarm of bats.

It is the tallest building on Tojin Island because of the considerable height of each floor.

When you look up, it looks like a magnificent palace. Each floor is nearly twenty meters high, which is an astonishing height.

Pulling each floor so high, and maintaining stability and sturdiness, obviously requires special strength building materials.

But the high-rise hotel in Tartaros easily solves this problem.

"How did you do that?"

Standing in the sightseeing elevator, Russell watched the layers of people gradually approaching him, moving away, becoming as small as ants, and then completely disappearing from view.

He suddenly asked, "The first floor is twenty meters high, and the fifty floors are a full thousand meters high...... Other buildings, even half its height, are bound to crumble on the upper floors. If there is a strong wind blowing, the top floor will even shake.

"It's hard to keep a building safe at this altitude, both in terms of materials science and engineering."

Therefore, the buildings of other empty islands are still based on the standard height of three to four meters per floor. Only Tongshen Island has that kind of extremely high floor...... However, while the tall buildings in other places are intimidatingly tall, they are actually a kind of giant structure - a "covered bridge" between different high-rise buildings, connecting these buildings to each other. It's like connecting a wooden stake stuck in the ground into a fence.

But...... The Tartarus High-Rise Hotel, although also connected to other buildings, is only 20 storeys below and has a covered bridge every two floors. After all, the first floor of other buildings is about four meters, while the first floor of Tartarus is twenty meters.

"To be precise, the standard building height for each floor is 19.8 meters."

No. 44 replied smoothly: "The Tartarus Hotel is built with the most cutting-edge technology of Shenzhi Heavy Industries.

"The construction reinforcement uses a new material called 'conductive steel', and the concrete layer is also doped with a special shock-absorbing metal powder. Even if the machine directly bombards a high-rise building, it can defuse 96% of the shock wave.

"Whether it's a hurricane, a bomb detonated inside, or a direct bombardment from the outside from the mechanics and high-level psionics, all the vibrations and impacts generated will be evenly distributed to the entire building by the shock-absorbing metal at the first time. The lower covered bridge can further disperse it to the surrounding buildings. Unless we can smash the entire G3 in an instant, we will always remain unharmed.

"As long as it doesn't crush completely in the first place, the conductive steel in the building structure converts it into electricity with high efficiency and reserves it in a backup energy hub underneath the hotel. Even at a height above forty floors, there would never be the slightest tremor - even if the machine soldiers collided directly, it would only crush itself to pieces, and Tartarus would be unscathed. ”

"So powerful?"

Russell was also a little surprised: "Have you seen it with your own eyes?" ”

Somewhat unexpectedly, No. 44 replied blandly.

"Yes, I have seen it. Soon after Tartarus was built, a rebel force planted a total of 46 large bombs from the ground floor in an attempt to blast the hotel from the ground floor. But the only damage to their bomb was the door to the room where the bomb was installed. The walls were unscathed, not even scratched. The next room, which was close by, felt only a faint momentary tremor.

"I wasn't No. 44 at the time, I was No. 6. Responsible for the jurisdiction of the sixth floor. And one of the bombs was less than five meters away from me in a straight line - I was right behind the wall on the other side of that bomb. But I'm still alive.

"That's our technology from the Divine Isle, Mr. Ultramarine. Whether it is the 'triple compass' of Sun Island, the 'water recycling city' of Yongquan Island, or the 'nine-layer paradise' of Taoyuan Island, they are all completed by Shenzhi Heavy Industry. Since we have done very little work on Happiness Island, except for the giant statue in addition to the branch, it is reasonable for you to be unfamiliar with our technology and hesitant. ”

I see......

Russell sighed in his heart.

Just as the only people who sell Happiness Island to other empty islands are "idol trainees", Sogo Island will never sell the artificial intelligence system they are proud of, Holy Blood Island will not sell the best medicine to the outer islanders, and Sun Island will never share their ancient knowledge with outsiders...... Russell has only been on Tongshen Island for only one day, and he has already seen many different kinds of high-strength materials that are used in various occasions and fields, and are difficult to see from other empty islands. This is exactly what is produced here.

Tongshen Island has clearly made a huge breakthrough in materials science, but Shenzhi Heavy Industries is not willing to share the breakthrough technology they hold.

Materials science is the foundation of all things, the forerunner and cornerstone of all scientific and technological progress——

But from another point of view, materials science is also a discipline full of metaphysics. The research results of materials science are in one of the three states of "useless", "I don't know what is useful", and "very useful". If other disciplines want to make leaps and bounds, they usually need to obtain the "very useful" SSR-level materials science research product, which happens to be the corresponding one as the ascending material.

The most important thing is that the specific usefulness or uselessness of the research results of materials science is usually not transferred by the will and efforts of individuals. The important materials that lead the development of other technologies across the generations usually come from "inspiration".

In other words, the research process of materials science is like a gacha. Unfortunately, this gacha doesn't just click to get ten consecutive results, but it takes a long time, effort and effort to know what you've drawn - and the drawn card doesn't have an attribute introduction, and you may not even know what it can be used for. A team led by a good enough researcher can at most reduce the probability of "useless" N cards and speed up the card draw cycle a little. It's still impossible to point where to hit and what materials you want.

This means that when the research of other companies is stuck at the level of materials science, it is really stuck. No matter how you pile up people and how you give money, if you can't study it, you can't study it.

Because what can't be smoked is what can't be drawn. The problem of luck cannot be made up by "hard work" and "perseverance". Just like when you draw a card, you will not make what you draw better.

At most, it gets more smelly.

The head office on each island is engaged in a different monopoly industry. Shenzhi Heavy Industries has a monopoly on one of the most profitable businesses...... That is, the monopoly of core materials.

The cutting-edge research of other Sky Islands must be supported by Tongshen Island. In this way, they can plunder the resources of other empty islands through the exchange of interests, and obtain "credits" that can be used by branches on other empty islands. With these credits, they can buy off the best talent in other Sky Islands and thus move their system into their own homes.

It's like "heaven sends", and it's like "dust gaps".

The credits of each air island cannot be exchanged directly through official channels, and the purchasing power is not completely equal - the so-called "branches" are used for this.

By operating locally, earning credits that can be used locally, and then acquiring materials and talent locally. After getting the product, it can also be sold locally or transported back home. If there is any local demand, it can also be purchased through the branch and then shipped back.

Although the employees of the Tongshen Island branch work on the outer islands, their families are in the mainland of Tongshen Island, and they will return sooner or later; Just like the talents they bought from the outer islands, they usually don't need the credits of the mainland of the island...... Since they are in a hurry to ask for money, most of them have families. All their families need is to ask their hometown branch office to pay their families for local credits.

To put it simply, the operation idea of Tongshen Island is to jam the necks of other empty islands through materials. Then use their money to buy their own talents and systems, and transport them to Tongshen Island to complete the technical replication.

This is the reason why Tongshen Island does not have a theoretical research institute - generally speaking, the birth of applied technology is necessarily later than theoretical research in the field. But what they need is not "completely new technology" at all, but "technology that other air islands already have".

Technological systems from different fields resonate with each other, and new technologies will be born easily. It's not about theoretical research, it's about applying technology – not an invention, but an improvement.

Take the best of the best, and then integrate it - as a "fake" to surpass the real thing.

…… From this point of view, the core operation idea of Tongshen Island is very similar to Russell's psionic nature.

If Russell hadn't listened to his mother at that time, he would have joined the Tianen Group...... Perhaps he will be quite comfortable with the rhythm of the Divine Heavy Industries.

But under the premise of that kind of IF plot, Russell will not feel Tartarus's depravity and distortion - but will gladly accept it.

After all, Russell was originally empty and ever-changing, and he was easily influenced by others.

At this moment, Russell was a little happy...... Fortunately, I complied with my mother's last wish and went to Happiness Island.

He used to think that Happiness Island was crazy and degenerate, but now he looks at it...... They may really be islands as they name them.

Happiness Island is indeed happy.

As for Tongshen Island......

It is true that wealth can be channeled.