Chapter 1301： Awakened Sky Fortress

"Oh mom!"

The last words that Sea-Monster Coroline left to her comrades and officers was such an exclamation. In the next second, her figure was engulfed and swallowed by that powerful torrent of energy, and quickly turned into one of them. The streamer flew to the distance, but the commander of Sea Abyss and Sentinel Vera beside him couldn't even react, and it was too late to reach out to stop them.

Not far away, the Water Elemental Lord, who was floating in the sea trying to heal his body, just saw this scene. This huge elemental giant quickly rushed to the "downstream" of the blue vein, where the elemental power was flooded. In the boundless sea, his speed is almost like a flash of lightning-but still cannot match the speed of the deep blue torrent. The element lord only had time to get his arm out, and the blue and purple figure representing Coroline in the torrent has completely disappeared from everyone’s sight. in.

The scene calmed down, and the sudden change made the Kraken and the water elements near the Deep Blue Vessel do not know what to do for a while. In the end, Vera was the first to speak: "...I think she is already dead inside."

"Not necessarily, she didn't seem to be'melted' after jumping in," Commander Haiyuan touched his chin and analyzed, "Our life form is relatively inactive to the magical environment of this world, so maybe she wants to be in it. It takes a while to hang up..."

Vera shrugged: "Anyway, sooner or later, I will go to the outpost to adjust the shift of the next guard."

At this time, the element lord who was like a liquid giant also slowly swam over. The huge lord looked at the location where Coroline had fallen with a sluggish expression. It took a long time before he muttered to himself: "She too I don’t want to jump in... Actually, I just want to ask for an explanation. If there is no explanation, there is no explanation..."

"...I don't think she jumped in deliberately..." Vera said with an awkward expression, and then suddenly noticed that the element lord seemed to have only one upper body floating in the sea, and was shocked, "Ah, your lower body What?"

The Lord of the Water Elemental was taken aback for a moment. He turned his head and glanced at the place where he had just rushed out, only to see a pure water vortex filled with faint blue light slowly dissipating in the boundless sea, and his expression of frustration and regret appeared on him. On the hazy face: "Ah... I forgot to bring it when I rushed out."

"Don't be too sad," Commander Haiyuan couldn't help but stepped forward and patted the arm of the Lord of the Water Elemental. This time we will look back and investigate, but before that, we can help you heal the "wound"-if you can trust our Kraken's technology, there will be an element reorganization matrix at the outpost, and we are usually not careful. If you are seriously injured but don’t plan to die, you will use it to heal your wounds. The native water element can also be used..."

Obviously a companion was involved in the deep blue veins just now, but the two sea monsters in front of him were extremely calm. This reaction made the younger water elemental lord at the scene quite uncomfortable. He couldn't help but think about it. Some records of the "Elemental War" that year reminded me of what those ancient element lords had told me, and I couldn't help but feel a little stunned: this group of starry visitors, called "drawers"... it turned out to be a terrifying species.

Then he involuntarily raised his head again, and saw the shadow floating on the distant sea. It was an outpost built by the sea monsters. Usually the nearby water elements would go around that place as much as possible, but as an element Lord, he didn't have much fear of that thing, he was just a little skeptical: "Your technology... can also be used with pure water elements like ours? Will there be any sequelae?"

"Of course not," Commander Haiyuan suddenly patted his chest proudly, "We are the same as you, everyone is the water element-come and come, you are welcome, I will introduce you to our medical technology... That's right. Vera, first go to the communication station and report to it. It is said that Coroline was swept away by the dark blue veins, and maybe she will die back some time, so that the sisters who stayed behind Antaweien have time to go to the assembly point to recycle. …"

Vera waved her hand to show that she knew. With a flick of her tail, she swam in the direction of the outpost. The Lord of the Water Elemental couldn't help but sighed: "Oh, although I've heard it a long time ago, I still have to say it after seeing it with my own eyes... Your lifestyle is really different."

…

On the north side of the Dark Mountains, west of Cecil City, among the giant engineering facilities hidden by the undulating mountains and the outer jungle, Gawain, who came to inspect the situation in person, is standing on a high platform overlooking the entire assembly yard. Rebecca was standing not far from him, intently checking the parameters just submitted by his assistants.

In the vast assembly field under their feet, the high-power magic spar lamp makes everything brightly lit. A huge steel structure is lying quietly in countless support modules and construction frames. The main part of the steel structure Part of it has now been almost completely completed, and its outline is roughly a slightly elongated hexagon. The energy array, power ridge, anti-gravity engine group and various weapons, control, housing, and protective facilities that were originally like bones and internal organs are all It has been properly wrapped in layers of cabin shells, and now only its neat and orderly "deck building" can be seen from above, as well as the large weapon bunker distributed on every sharp corner.

Gawain cast his gaze into the distance, seeing bright flashes constantly coming from the edge of the magnificent "deck", and there were ant-like construction workers and machinery busy in those areas: the wizards were welding this area. The last part of the edge of the sky fortress is armored, and a solid alloy shell is installed for the last exposed biological nerve tube bundle. After their work is completed, this amazing "fortress" can be considered basically complete.

Yes, it is basically complete-everything here is just the main structure of the aerospace fortress, which can only ensure that it has basic flight and combat capabilities, and many auxiliary equipment, such as detection arrays, air data centers, alchemical synthesis factories and other facilities are still far away It is far from finished. According to Rebecca's original plan, it will take at least one or two years for these things to be installed in the corresponding compartments. However, the situation does not allow it... Gawain can only urge this fortress to complete a prototype as soon as possible.

Those things that won't fit for a while...It's really impossible to wait until the sky fortress is lifted into the sky while performing tasks while slowly assembling them in the sky.

Gawain's gaze moved slowly on the wide deck below, sighing the scale and momentum of this thing in his heart, but the majestic posture of the "sentinel ship" came to his mind uncontrollably for a moment. After the comparison, he still couldn't help sighing: The gap between the two is still a bit big...

Rebecca noticed Gawain's sigh, but she didn't know what her ancestor was thinking, she just tilted her head curiously: "My ancestor, why are you sighing? Are you still not satisfied with the current progress?"

"No, I just thought of something else... The progress here has far exceeded my expectations," Gawain shook his head, and did not explain anything in detail to Rebecca. Then he glanced at the Monet terminal behind Rebecca and asked casually. Said, "How is the control center?"

"The last round of wake-up test has just been conducted, and the state is already very good," Rebecca immediately showed a happy and proud expression on her face, her eyes gleaming like a child showing off the full score test paper, "You want to talk to'it 'Say hello?"

"Is it ready to say hello?" Gawain was a little surprised. Then he raised his head and glanced at the sky above the assembly yard. The gray "rock dome" covered everything in his vision like a high sky, but he knew that now That giant sun should have almost risen to the highest point in the sky, it’s almost noon now, "Indeed, the time is almost up... Rebecca, help me get the picture of the control center, let me have a fight with'it' call."

"Okay, my ancestor." Rebecca immediately nodded happily, then turned around and quickly operated a few times on the magic net terminal. The holographic image floating above the terminal quickly expanded and brightened, and soon It became a large projection floating above the platform with a diameter of almost two meters. The scene in the projection jittered twice, and then quickly became clear.

Gao Wen saw a brightly lit hall presented in the projection. Busy technicians can be seen walking between the nerve nodes and recording parameters throughout the hall. In the center of the hall, there is a set of extraordinarily crawling quietly. The huge device is composed of one large, two small, three hemispherical metal main bodies and a set of large and complicated bases. A large number of intricate structures, like pipes or cables, are spread around the base and behind the main body. They are submerged into the floor below and the roof above, and there seems to be a slight flow of light inside.

In the next second, the hemispherical shell of the upper half of the huge device slowly opened, and as the metal shielding layer slowly lowered, the crystal container inside appeared to Gawain, one large, two small and three hemispherical crystal containers. The middle is filled with a translucent thin solution. The large container in the center is immersed in a huge biomass brain that is taller than a human. The two containers next to it are empty at the moment.

Around this set of wetware devices, you can also see many immersion chambers that are on standby, and of course those immersion chambers are also empty at this time.

Gawain looked at the various things presented in the holographic projection in front of him, and subconsciously glanced sideways at the silent fortress under the platform—the scene he saw was exactly in the control hall at the core of the fortress. scene.

This fortress is alive. It has a living brain and a nervous system that spreads over the whole body and is more than a hundred kilometers long. Every engine and every turret is wrapped with nerve endings. It can even feel the flight. The breeze passing over the deck while in the air can feel the footsteps of the fleet members as they walk on the deck, and the team that controls it can even lie in the immersion cabin (if required by the battle situation) when commanding the fortress, through neural synchronization Come to accurately and quickly exchange opinions and convey instructions with the "host" of this fortress.

Part of this technology comes from the legacy of the Society of the End of All Things, part from the accumulation of the Eternal Sleeper over hundreds of years, and part from the "Seat of Domination" of the Silver Spirit.

"Hello, honorable Majesty the Emperor," a neutral, synthesized voice came from the magic net terminal. At the same time, Gawain saw a floating around the synthetic brain immersed in the hemispherical container. Strings of grunting bubbles, "I'm glad-this is the first time I have seen you, and it's nice to see you for the first time."

"Hello, Earthly Dawn," Gawain nodded and said, he felt a little strange-he knew that these synthetic brains cultivated from the giant trees of Thorin or biochemical factories had certain thinking ability and virtual personality, and he also knew that psionic singers, Wetware technicians can communicate with these brains, but for himself, this is the first time he has talked with a synthetic brain. This feeling is a bit strange, "How does it feel to wake up?"

"Very good," the synthetic brain in the holographic projection replied immediately, "I have been able to feel all my engines and deck buildings, as well as the temperature of each cabin and the operation of the underlying mechanical area. The technicians are very nervous about me. The connection is perfect-and the biomass solution here is also very comfortable."

The synthetic brain’s response was smooth and natural, which was somewhat beyond Gawain’s expectations. Although it could not be compared with the iron man mental technology of the Gondor Empire that was almost indistinguishable from humans, these “synthetic brains” created by Bertila "Obviously it is the top level among the various "artificial mind" technologies of the Loren countries in this era.

Rebecca next to him has been curiously staring at the two empty containers on both sides of the wetware host in the holographic projection. At this time, he suddenly asked: "Where are your two accessory brains? I remember your two. The accessory brain has been installed a long time ago..."

As soon as her voice fell, the voice of Synthetic Brain came from the Monet terminal: "The left accessory brain is helping in the kitchen, and the right accessory brain is lifting iron in the gym. The system load is very low in the parked state, in order to prevent the synthetic brain generators. Qualitative decline, we take turns on duty."

Gao Wen: "...It's okay."

It is not the first time that he has dealt with the "synthetic brain" created by Bertila. He has also learned about the trial operation reports of synthetic brain systems submitted by factories, laboratories, and data management departments from various channels. I'm not unfamiliar with the special operation and maintenance methods of these "biological computers", so although I think this is a bit weird at the moment, I still accept it smoothly.

Overclocking depends on jelly beans to maintain the gym. This is the normal use process of the alien’s characteristic biomass computer, and I have to taste it.

He shook his head, shaken off the spitting thoughts in his mind, and then raised his head and glanced at the gray "rock" ceiling.

"The Earthly Dawn, your main body has been completed, although it is not yet time for the official flight, but...do you want to bask in the sun?"

"Baking in the sun?" Synthetic Brain said questioning words in a tone with almost no emotional fluctuations, "Can you?"

"Of course," Gawain laughed, "this is part of the process."

"Understood, I want to bask in the sun," Synthetic Brain replied immediately, "The'mother tree' engraved the'happy of photosynthesis' in the memory of every'brain'. She told us that being in the sun will bring benefits. The excitement-I want to experience the feeling of the sun on the deck."

"...Bertilla engraved everything into your memory..." Gawain couldn't help but tremble, then turned to Rebecca on the side, "OK, turn off the projection, open the canopy, and let the sun shine in here. ."