MTL - Sword of Daybreaker-Chapter 1459 Two options

Another breeze blew across the courtyard, and the cold air current refreshed people's spirits.

The first snow of this winter has not yet arrived, but the mages who observed the astronomical phenomena predicted that this morning will usher in a light snow; not far away, the evergreen trees swayed slightly in the wind, and the light rustling sound was transmitted from time to time. Come; on the second-floor balcony opposite the garden, His Royal Highness the Archon of the Empire and His Royal Highness are standing next to the window with their heads low; in the sunny courtyard, Betty in winter clothes is standing quietly next to the trolley, in the breeze A faint smile appeared in it.

Everything here falls in Enya's "eyes". The quiet and daily sight seems to have quietly evoked some very, very old, yellowish and faded impressions in her memory, which may have been made by Tarrond millions of years ago. A certain courtyard, it may be a certain afternoon when the dragon civilization is still ignorantly developing in the lofty mountains, or it may be just a fragment she saw in a certain believer’s dream. She laughed, and her voice was gentle and calm: "You Do you like this day?"

"Like it," Betty replied without hesitation, "There is no better day than this."

"Yeah... there is no better day than this. Today's sunshine is also the best in this period of time," Enya said softly, the sun shining on her gleaming golden shell, the two rays of light merged together. The place rippled gently like water ripples, "But it's about to snow, and today's sunshine may be short."

In the distant horizon, a little lead-gray cloud layer appeared quietly at this moment, and it was gathering in the direction of the city little by little. It seemed that the first snow of this winter was calculated by the mages responsible for predicting the astronomical phenomenon. Coming soon.

Betty blinked and looked at Enya with some confusion: "Are you saying something very philosophical?"

Enya was curious: "Oh? Why do you say that?"

"Miss Amber told me that if a big person suddenly turns to something else while talking about something very normal, and seems to sigh with a little bit of exclamation, then he is speaking very philosophical things," Betty replied seriously. , "Although I didn't quite understand it at the time, I think you seemed to be saying something very philosophical just now."

"...I'm just sighing about the weather," Enya laughed. The laughter sounded particularly pleasant. "It's very comfortable to bask in the sun, but occasionally blowing cold wind in the snow feels good, but you have to be careful not to catch a cold. ."

"Don't worry!" Betty immediately patted her chest, and said with pride, "My body is strong, and I have not been ill for two consecutive years. Your Majesty said that I have nutrition to keep up..."

Enya just chuckled, her "gaze" cast towards the sky, and then she seemed to feel something. Her attention fell on a certain position on the horizon, which was pointing to the Frost Sky Constellation, and she thoughtfully "watched "Looking at the sky, it seemed to hear a distant sound, and in the long silence that followed, a piece of snow finally quietly fell from the sky.

This is Cecil's first snow in the winter of 4 years, and it came a bit earlier than in previous years.

An emergency meeting invitation was sent from Cecil to the countries of the alliance.

In the wasteland war not long ago, modern communication technology and the amazing role played by the "Alliance One" proved to everyone the power of the "Magic Age" brought by Gawain Cecil, even before The most closed and backward small countries also realized the changes of the times and the need to keep up with the changes in that war. With the end of the war, the most important step in the post-war reconstruction of all countries was to give priority to the establishment of The communication system of modern magic technology Of course, considering the limitations of realistic conditions, it is impossible for every country to achieve magic net coverage in a short time, but at least, all countries have achieved as much as possible. The country's highest authority "communicates with the network" with other countries of the alliance.

Compared with the national communication network that requires a large amount of basic engineering support, it is not unrealistic to pull a dedicated line from the capitals of various countries to the main network of Cecil’s magic network. Now, these can connect the heads of the alliance member states. When the "dedicated line" together comes into play

On the eve of nightfall, Gawain came to the large conference room on the top floor of the Supreme Government Office. This conference room was quite wide, with a huge circular conference table in the center. The layout of the tables and chairs was almost completely in accordance with the on-site seats of the Alliance Summit. Come to arrange, and at this moment, most of the seats are empty, except that a Mowang terminal in standby mode is placed on each seat.

Gao Wen stepped to his place. He glanced at the file on the table. It was the plan of the magic tide observation device. Then he glanced at the time displayed by the mechanical clock on the opposite wall. There are thirty seconds.

He sat down on the chair. After a while, the low buzzing sound and the slight click of the rune trigger automatically closed sounded everywhere. Suddenly flashing projections appeared one after another around the empty circular conference table. The magic illusion was a little fuzzy at first, but soon with the assistance of the extra computing power provided by the Empire Computing Center, these distant signals were strengthened and filtered, and clear figures emerged from the magic illusion.

That was dozens of alliance leaders including Rosetta, Bersetia, Wenna Baizhi and others.

The entire empty meeting room was suddenly "full of people". Some of them were heads of state attending this kind of meeting for the first time. They looked around in surprise. Obviously, there were similar holographic images on the "their side" scene. Formed an immersive meeting place. Although magic illusions are not uncommon to anyone in this world, relying on large-scale equipment to achieve this kind of "remote meeting" is still a novel experience for them.

For those participants who have used Magic Net terminals for remote meetings and have a better understanding of Magic Guide technology, their performance seemed quite indifferent. Several lines of sight fell on the leaders of the three empires. Simple After greetings, Gawain first glanced at the dragon ambassador on his left, Merita Penya, and got up to break the silence: "First of all, since the communication line on the Talrond side has not yet been set up, this time the giant dragon ambassador The representative of the Dragon Kingdom is still the plenipotentiary ambassador, Miss Merita Penia.

"Secondly, thank you all for responding to this convening. We have limited time now, so let's go directly to the topic. What we are going to discuss today is the plan for establishing a demonic wave observation device."

The holographic projections at the conference table exchanged their sights. In fact, the information on this aspect has been sent to everyone’s desk first. Therefore, the participants were not surprised by what was going to be discussed today. It was just because of time. It's really urgent. This prevents everyone from having the opportunity to communicate and exchange opinions privately before the meeting as they are accustomed to, and they don't even have enough time to discuss with their own advisory group. They seem quite unaccustomed to this.

But whether they are used to it or not, the magic wave will not worry about the pace of action of mortals to slow down. In the face of that cold and ruthless countdown, all the old red tape and table rules must be compromised in efficiency.

"We have already seen the information you sent," said Rosetta Augustus. "From the information, if we want to build an observation device from scratch completely relying on existing technology, it will be successful The rate will be very low, and it will take a long time and huge manpower and resource costs?"

"Yes, and considering the scale of the magic tide observation device and the existence of the'countdown', we may not have a chance for trial and error," Gao Wen nodded, "So at this meeting, we must discuss a feasible The draft that has been approved and supported by all countries, even if it is to be supplemented and revised later, at least the direction should be given this time, and material preparations should be started immediately."

Speaking of this, Gawain couldn’t help but feel a little emotional in his heart. He should be grateful that the Alliance just ended the wasteland war as a victor. Although that war caused great damage to the border area of ​​Gondor, it has a certain meaning. It was also an exercise that was difficult to replicate. The nations of the Alliance knew how to operate as a whole during the war, and knew how to deal with a world-scale crisis. Moreover, the construction of the "blocking wall" project itself is accumulative. Gained valuable experience to engage in world wonders.

The Demon Tide Observation Device is essentially a “world wonder” no less than a blocking wall, and even more technically difficult. If there is no “compulsory training” of the wasteland war, it will be loose and immature. To face this crisis, the result will be quite unoptimistic.

"There are two plans now," Gao Wen continued after leaving some time for the participants to think and discuss. "The first one is the traditional conservative plan. We built the observation device step by step according to the existing technical data. In this process, we rely on our current energy technology to "stack" a stimulating focus. Based on the experience we have accumulated when we opened the gate of the kingdom of God in the fort, relying on the magic net energy station and the magic extraction tower to form a huge The array can just meet the ignition threshold of the starting focus.

"The realization process of this scheme is relatively controllable, and the required technologies are all based on existing experience, but the shortcomings are also obvious. These technologies almost barely meet the basic conditions for the operation of the magic tide observation device, and even only dare to guarantee the final The completed system can be turned on for a short time, and what we need is an observation system that can operate stably for a long time. Whether the things we have built can be used or not, I am afraid that it will be entirely luck at that time.

"The second plan...you must have seen it. It is radical, but it is theoretically feasible.

"Based on the Deep Blue Well, use the huge sources of magic power available on this planet to drive the'vibration focus'. Its advantages are obvious. The power of the Deep Blue Well is more than enough to drive the vibrating focus. Once this plan is implemented, The entire system is at least very stable from the perspective of energy supply, and the'construction period' of the entire observation device will also be greatly shortened, because we have saved most of the time to build the entire energy system...

"Of course, the shortcomings of this plan are also obvious. Although its results are promising, its realization process is risky and difficult to control. The existing Deep Blue Well is not enough to meet expectations. We need more network cracks to extract magic. , And even the Gondor Empire in the past only built extraction stations on the basis of the existing magical fissures. The matter of'manually opening the network fissures' is an unprecedented risk...

"In theory and in the historical records left by the Gondor period, there are indeed more network cracks around the Deep Blue Well that can be developed. If the most advanced'supercritical accelerator' of the Cecil Empire is used to bombard these cracks and At the “weak point” at the intersection of the material world, we can manually open new gushing vents, which is equivalent to building a series of “sub-wells” around the Deep Blue Well. In theory... this process is controllable."

Having said this, Gao Wen sighed gently, solemnly placed the documents in his hand on the table, and looked around the entire venue with his hands on the table: "I'm done."

As soon as his voice fell, there was a deep discussion in the whole venue, and some of the participants suddenly turned to the seemingly empty direction, talking in a low voice with an invisible object. Obviously, they are right now. People who are standing up as consultants and scholars need the opinions of these experts when it comes to professional fields.

Gao Wen knew that these two plans had a little bit of... "excitement", even those who had an idea would be difficult to decide at this time, so he didn't interrupt.

After a few minutes, a voice came from across the round table, and Highmountain King Odris said: "I want to know, is the essence of the second plan... bombing the Deep Blue Well? Although the document says it is. 'Precision Directional Blasting'..."

"...This is a controlled bombing," Gawain sternly, he had expected someone to react this way, after all, he himself had the same expression when he first saw the plan proposed by Rebecca, "It's like Just as explosive magic is used to dig mountains and rocks to dig mines, controllable and precise supercritical bombardment can also be used to'build' things, although this sounds a bit dangerous."

"But I don't think it just sounds dangerous," King Odris looked serious, his one-eyed eye was staring at the document in his hand, and then he looked up again, "I am familiar with the use of explosive magic to dig into the rock. Therefore, it is clearer that even if it is a mountain with a lower technical difficulty, there will be accidents of cliff collapse. What's more, we have to bombard the deep blue well with the most powerful weapon in history at a very dangerous distance... …From the description of the plan, once the "widening" of the Deep Blue Well is out of control, we have no way to remedy it."

Speaking of this, he shook his head: "I prefer the first one, at least the controllability in the implementation process is a little bit higher."

"But the final result of the first plan is too unsatisfactory." As soon as Odris's voice fell, Wenna Baizhi's voice came from the side, "If we exhaust all our efforts and time to create a completely useless observation Device, it’s better to do nothing or take some risks on the Deep Blue Well..."

As soon as Wenna finished speaking, a different voice came from the round table: "The risk of the second plan is still too great..."

"We need a more cautious and comprehensive evaluation process, and it is best to conduct a more in-depth investigation of Deep Blue Well..."

"Does the construction of this observation device really work? Are we making the decision now too hasty?"

"We probably don't have so much time..."

The discussion on the venue was instantly ignited, and the kings, chiefs, federal rulings and emperors who were good at weighing began to put forward their own views and opinions, and as the center of this place, Gao Wen did not say a word at this moment.

He looked at Ophelia Norton who was sitting near him.

Although "Veronica" is in Cecil City, the Ophelia Matrix will still choose to attend the meeting as "Ophelia Norton" on such formal occasions.

At this moment, the true controller of the Deep Blue Well remained silent from beginning to end.