Chapter 82: The Underground Shipyard
To the seaside, it is for shipbuilding.
If they want to gain information about the outside world without alarming the Marais government, they must leave Paradis Island in their own power to witness the vast world.
This location, which is hundreds of kilometers away from the port of the Marais, is a low probability of being discovered by the Marais.
But even if it's lower, Ian doesn't dare to take any chances.
This is not something that can be gambled on, once the gamble is lost, let the Marais people realize in advance that something is wrong, and propagate the "Phra Island threat theory" in the international community, then the nuclear construction plan will be over.
It will become the situation that you have to use the ground sound again.
Relatively speaking, compared with the nuclear bomb dropping of a mature system, the deterrent power is not enough.
Diming, this method, if not launched on a large scale, is actually very limited.
First, the oversized giants must be on foot to the crusade army.
If it is a small-scale deterrent, the super-large giant will destroy everything it passes along the way, and it will not be tenable in terms of "humanitarianism".
It is clear that another country has declared war on you, but you have walked through our land and killed our ordinary people, which will only make the international hatred for Paradis Island deeper and deeper, more and more difficult to unravel, and finally become the target of public criticism.
Let's also assume that during the crusade, the army is constantly moving, and the super-sized giants changing their route will cause more and more innocent people to be killed and injured.
Secondly, only the owner of the power of the Ancestors can unleash the Earth Roar.
In the current era, there are Alan and Dinah, who bypassed the oath of 145 kings not to fight, but after that, if you only rely on the power of giants, when Allen's thirteen-year life expectancy is reversed, no one can guarantee what kind of person the next Ancestral Giant owner will be.
Once Allen's lifespan comes to an end, everything becomes unknown.
To make the most extreme assumption, if the owner of the Ancestral Power is killed after the weapon has been developed.
The super-sized giants, let alone used as weapons, will lose control and attack humans indiscriminately.
The extinction of all mankind is not impossible.
In that case, there will only be giants left wandering around the planet, and it may be possible to redevelop civilization after a long time with the evolution of creatures such as rat people and lizard people.
It's no wonder that Alan would think of using the earth to kill eighty percent of human beings.
He was like the man who faced the problem of the tram, who was already mentally disturbed, and chose to kill everyone, as long as the people he valued could survive.
However, there is now a better way.
If a nuclear bomb can be built so that the world can see the power of nuclear bombs, then there will be room for "diplomacy".
Instead of using the power of giants, we use machinery and technology that humans can understand to demonstrate the military power of Paradi Island.
When the world is afraid of nuclear bombs, when they become powerful countries, they are qualified to stand at the negotiating table, and they can use diplomatic means to ease relations with other countries, instead of unilaterally declaring war by other countries.
Unlike the Ground Bomb, there are many limitations that cannot be crossed.
Therefore, a nuclear bomb must be built.
However, although Ian did not need to study the structure and principle of the nuclear bomb, he did have to have an industrial system that could support the various parts and materials of the nuclear bomb.
With the sparse population of Paradis Island, even if there are "special giants", it is really difficult to reach that level in a short period of time.
To do this, we must build ships, and we must look outward, seeking possibilities.
It makes no sense to reinvent the wheel.
Since the outside world has the technology and industry they need, they must find a way to make use of it.
So in 846, at the end of December, the construction of the shipyard officially began.
The location of the shipyard is not on the ground, but underground.
They used giants to dig cavities in the ground and excavate underground shipyards in an unnamed mountain along the coast.
Eight hundred giants, equivalent to eight hundred heavy-duty intelligent robots with unlimited energy.
By rotating the sun to replenish their mobility, 800 giants picked up shovels and quickly built underground shipyards using a series of building materials transported from within the walls, such as steel bars and cement.
Their efficiency is terrifying.
Giants are creatures that are simply born labor.
When the capitalists see it, their saliva will definitely flow.
This thing is much easier to use than a worker, it doesn't take a stitch from you, but it does its best for you.
In March of 847, in just four months, they created an "underground artificial cave".
The total engineering area of the underground shipyard is 14,000 square meters, 3 large caverns, roads, guide tunnels, branch tunnels, tunnels and shafts, etc., reaching 16, the largest shipbuilding cavern is as high as 75 meters, and the cavity is 75 meters high.
The light source of the underground shipyard uses "giant ore" mined from the underground of the Church of Reis.
It was the place where the kings of the walls held their handover ceremony, and the ores that would emit their own light were mined and packed into special glass containers that were used as a source of light.
The mechanism of this ore glow is unknown, but it can provide a bright glow almost indefinitely.
They are not radioactive light sources, they emit light that is harmless to humans, as can be seen from Rod Reis's health.
According to Rhodes, every week, the Lacey family prayed in the ceremonial place, and the high-ranking members of the Wall Sect, some of the central nobles and gendarmes would also come to the ground on important religious festivals, and no one had ever had a physical problem in a hundred years.
"It's a sacred place made by the ancestors."
That's how Rod replied.
"It's finally done." Ian let out a sigh.
He took off his rattan helmet and looked up.
This is the largest shipbuilding room in the underground shipyard, and as far as the eye can see, there is an endless curved dome poured with cement and anchored with thousands of scales of steel.
Hundreds of ore lamps emit a bright white glow, illuminating this underground shipyard, which is as big as a football field.
Those glowing glass covers, like hanging stars, are so dreamy and beautiful.
It's not just Ian staring at this futuristic space in a daze, Hanji, Allen, Dinah, Hannes... All the workers involved in this project, even the giants who were waiting in the corner, seemed to be shocked by this scene.
"It's really made," said Hanji in disbelief, "It's like a dream." ”
It's like a dream, and this is the sentence that best describes the mood of everyone present.
Everyone held their breath, afraid to suddenly wake up from their dreams.
But they knew clearly that it was not a dream.
Because this underground shipyard is a miracle created by them using the power of giants in their daily labor.