Walk through the structure of the Ark and wander on the continent of Terra

"That's good news indeed, trouble."

"Has Kelsey already set off?"

"Yes, she had already left when we docked this morning and was preparing to set off to the southeast."

"Okay, Amiya still wants to say a few words to her."

"She is still within the gain range of my communication base station. Just let Amiya talk to her directly later."

"Okay..." The doctor nodded, "One more thing. Operator Linguang asked me to ask you if you heard any news about her family when the Grand Knight Leader was parked."

Judging from the news intercepted on the Internet media, the only news about the Linguang family is that the Linguang family's Changqi, that is, Linguang's grandfather, has passed away. Without Changqi, the status of the knight family will be shaken. This is not Good news.

In Alpha's memory, Margaret's sister Maria will participate in a special tournament a few months later as an independent knight, but now there is no news on public channels, and it is difficult for them to contact Linguang as they have been tracked and monitored. The family members have no way of knowing the inside story.Alpha could only tell the doctor what he learned about the situation and leave it to him to make a judgment.

After ending the call, the day's events came to an end. Alpha found Ceria on the deck outside the bridge, who was blowing the evening breeze and thinking about something.

"Remember the incident at Linguang's family that we found out before? I have a hunch that her family may encounter some trouble during that special tournament in a few months."

"You are still so enthusiastic, how are you going to help?"

"It's a knight's competition. How about we form a team and go up there and have fun?"

Ceria smiled, "If you're not busy by then, it's not impossible. With your level and your financial resources, you can even register a knighthood of your own to participate in those capital games."

"Then it's decided. I, you and I will call Shirter and we will form a knighthood called the Glory Knights, and then we will reach the finals and win the championship for fun, hahahaha!"

When staying with Alpha, Ceria will feel a lot more relaxed. Even if it is an idea that sounds ridiculous, she can use her extraordinary power to put it into practice.The thoughts in her mouth sounded very random, but they could reverse an extremely bad situation.

And she was still so warm-hearted. Celia even suspected that if she had known her when she and Kristen had a falling out, she would definitely have gone to Rhine Life to help her punch Kristen twice. Kristen... …

"Ceria, it seems like you have something on your mind."

"Suddenly I remembered an old friend..."

"That Rheinland Life Governor Kristen you mentioned?"

"Well, she is actually a good person. Her ideals are too lofty for ordinary people to understand. Familiar friends will always say that her eyes are always staring at the sky."

"Star pod..." Alpha raised her hand, and a faint fire condensed in her hand, and then dissipated into nothingness. It was a star born in a curled higher dimension. After a brief burning It was extinguished by her casually. If she had thrown it into the sky just now, there would be no more star pods, but this should not be done by her.

"Terra's starry sky is hypocritical..." Ceria muttered, "Alfa, you have seen the real starry sky, right? What does the real starry sky look like?"

"I can take you to see it." Alpha took out the consciousness link device and handed it to Ceria, "I will take you to see the real starry sky in my memory."

Following Alpha's guidance, Ceria put on the consciousness linking device in the correct position. Just like everyone else who tried this technology for the first time, she felt that she and Alpha briefly synchronized their senses, this kind of heterotopic feeling. Very novel.

Then Alpha snapped his fingers, and a soft white light occupied Seria's entire field of vision. When she came back to her senses, she was already standing with her in a huge facility that was clean, tidy, and full of technology. .

"here is?"

"Welcome to the Hanging Garden, the first super-light starship built by mankind, now the last bastion of mankind against Pamish. She is located in a planetary orbit at least hundreds of kilometers above the surface. I have removed those struggles and tragedies, Today we just came to see the stars."

As Alpha waved his hand, the hall where the two of them were in ignored their existence. The phantoms of the busy staff disappeared into the air, leaving only the empty hall.

"This is a combat maintenance hangar in the Sky Garden Circle area. When I was the chief commander, the maintenance room of my team and I was nearby. There is a light frigate on the apron over there. Take it , I have participated in several important battles. The little guy in the distance is an aerospace transport plane that conducts transportation and dispatch between heaven and earth."

Following Alpha as she walked among the huge man-made structures that stood proudly in space, a space that she could not even imagine, Ceria couldn't help but marvel at the great creativity and unyielding spirit of exploration of mankind. The ancient ancestors of Terra continent We must be like this, able to touch the stars in the sky in a real sense.

"In this era, outer space operations are rarely performed by natural people. Those responsible for this work are usually drones or structures like mine now. Human beings need heavy protection to survive there." Alpha pointed to the corridor. The deep black screen outside the porthole window, "Space is separated from us by a thin layer of man-made material, and there is almost absolute nothingness there."

"Nearly absolute vacuum?" Vacuum pumps or similar low-pressure equipment are widely used in various production processes, and Ceria can certainly understand it.She was also shocked by the name, "Space". Using the ancient hieroglyphs of the Yan Kingdom to describe this infinite vastness of desolation was a perfect fit.

"Yes, after you leave the atmosphere of your home star, nothing will protect you anymore. You will face the radiation from stars, the powerful magnetic fields from various celestial bodies, the temperature difference of hundreds of degrees Celsius, and the flight every second. Micrometeors measuring several thousand or even tens of thousands of meters, the kinetic energy entrained by those micrometeors is no less than that of projectiles fired by electromagnetic rifles.”

"..." Ceria stopped, stood by the porthole and looked out. She saw the curved horizon, the blurry outline left by the edge of the atmosphere.

"The planet we live under our feet is the cradle of our civilization. Her magnetic field blocks the deadly stellar wind, and her atmosphere blocks deadly radiation and countless dangerous debris. It is as safe as a mother's warm embrace, but from The moment we step out of the cradle, every remaining step can only be learned by ourselves."

This is such a majestic desolation. Ceria could no longer formulate complete words at this moment. She just opened her mouth slightly and looked out the window dreamily.

Alpha pulled Ceria, who was already stunned, to the dressing room painted with a pattern of gray crows. Lucia and the others were not in this cleared memory. She did not come here to feel sad.There is something here that allows Ceria to experience space first-hand. It is a space suit. Qishi didn't know where she found it. It was a space suit used by human astronauts to deal with the space environment before the golden age.

The portholes of the Gray Crow Team's preparation room were very small, and the closed environment full of various equipment made Ceria feel relieved. She looked at the heavy and even bloated equipment in the big box that Alpha carried out, "Is this? "

"A space suit, a survival equipment that allows you to walk in space. This thing is considered an antique in the Sky Garden. It is in good condition and fully functional. It is just that this space suit does not have room for your tail and horns. , it might be a little crowded.”

Ceria quickly shook her head. As long as she can wear that equipment now, it doesn't matter if her horns and tail are cut off!

Qian!:'"Xun!;'.'Free, fee, small'?'?!Say?skirt'2...,5!".5,'';5'!.?9"!;"5 "3,!0:!'0 Fortunately, the internal space of the space suit is quite large. After wrapping the tail around her waist and making the sacrifice of not wearing a protective hood, Ceria successfully put on this antique suit. Then The sound of system startup sounded in her ears, and the system self-test icon appeared on the head-up display in front of her. Alpha taught her to bypass the alarm for missing head protection and successfully activated all systems of the space suit.

"The oxygen circulation is normal, the pressure protection system is normal, the energy system is normal..." Alpha did not skip any extravehicular walking process, striving to allow Ceria to experience the complexity and rigor of aerospace engineering, as well as the grandeur of the universe, in the most realistic way.

"Try taking two steps?" This space suit was already the most advanced model before the golden age. The application of a large number of advanced technologies at that time made its weight significantly reduced compared to its predecessors, and it also hindered activities. It was less, but it still weighed fifty kilograms, and Ceria's dragon horns were stuck in the helmet, making it difficult for her to turn her head.

But Ceria stepped forward resolutely, and it only took a few seconds to adapt to the heaviness. Her eyes were looking hotly ahead, unafraid of any obstacles.

"The front is the airlock. After entering the airlock, the air in the cabin will be discharged, so that the difference between the air pressure in the airlock and the space environment outside the cabin is reduced to negligible. In this way, when opening the door When the time comes, you won’t be blown by the airflow to a place where you can’t return.” Alpha finally checked the equipment on Serea’s body, “The frame structure installed outside the space suit is a vector propulsion device, which sprays working fluid to allow you to It can carry out activities in the space environment and adjust posture, but if you don’t know how to use it yet, don’t activate it yet.”

"Everything is ready, let's go." With that, Alpha opened the door of the airlock. This time, there was no man-made barrier between the two of them and the outer space.

"Stay steady and don't move." Without professional training, it is very difficult to directly adapt to the microgravity environment of space. Any random shaking in a panic will cause people to spin in circles uncontrollably, so she has no intention of doing so. Let Seria come up and walk outside the cabin by herself.She lay down on the back of Seria's space suit and started the thruster on her waist. The weak plasma plume, which was no more than a gust of hot wind on the ground, easily pushed the two of them and flew out of the cabin at a stable speed.

Ceria noticed that after the sound of decompressed airflow, the sound she heard gradually weakened until it disappeared, and Alpha's voice appeared in the radio headset.

"Okay, we are in space now, Ceria, you can turn off the communication and all the notification sounds first, and feel this peerless emptiness."

Seria did as she said and turned off all the supporting sounds. In an instant, only the slight sound of the mechanical pump in the space suit was running and the sound of her own heartbeat was left. The whole world was lost at this moment. All the sounds, silence took over everything, and the endless emptiness also hit her heart directly.

Alpha flew in front of her from behind. She skillfully used the propeller on her waist to fly in space, and her beautiful red hair floated freely in this empty vacuum.

"Welcome to the universe"

Between Alpha's hands, arcs of electricity formed such lingua franca sentences.

7. May there be endless life and prosperity!

When the almost nightly lights of the Grand Knights and the seemingly unquiet streets became quiet as the hour hand pointed to midnight, Alpha took Seria back to reality from the starry sky in her memory, and Seria returned to reality. She took off the consciousness linking device and returned it to Alpha solemnly, then looked up at the sky obscured by the light. Alpha could see that there were tears in the corners of her eyes.Until she returned to the room and was about to fall asleep while lying on the bed, all she could see floating in front of her eyes were the stars.

"Ceria, why are you crying?" The next morning, Ifrit lay beside the bed and looked at Ceria with tears on her cheeks in confusion. She had never seen her cry before. look.

"It's okay, I just remembered some dreams that should not be forgotten and given up. I have some feelings."

"As long as you're fine..." Ifrit pouted and took a thick draft book from the writing desk, "Here, I've copied the safety manual five times, and I've finished it!"

Seria took the draft book, which was densely covered with Ifrit's somewhat crooked and immature handwriting. She indeed carefully copied the not-thin safety manual five times. "It is indeed dangerous to get into the vegetable container. I already know it. If you hadn't discovered it in time, I might have died of suffocation in it... I will never do such stupid things again, Ceria."

"Well, I believe you." Ceria stroked the little guy's forehead. Although Ifrit was very childish, she knew clearly in her heart when it came to big things. Otherwise, with her character, she would definitely not be honest. Copied the manual five times.

Ceria took out a beautifully decorated box from her shoulder bag and put it in her hand, "Sister Alpha and I picked out a set of staffs for you. This is the most suitable one we found in the Great Knight Territory. The staff of the exothermic Source Stone skill should be regarded as a souvenir of passing by Casimir."

Ifrit opened the box, and a shiny-looking technical staff and a ritual dagger with an etched source stone technology circuit were lying quietly in the box.

"Oh hoo!" Ifrit, who felt that she was okay again, jumped up happily.

……

Nothing worth recording happened in the Great Knight Territory for the rest of the day. The Life Star completed its supplies and preparations. Alpha checked the working conditions of all the movement mechanisms of the vehicle for the last time and confirmed that it could fully cope with the coming events. journey, and then everyone left the Great Knight Territory and began their journey south.

When approaching the border of Casimir, everyone had a routine communication with Kelsi, who had already gone to the southeast. Kelsi said that she had confirmed the identity of the mysterious mercenary operating in the area and was trying to contact her. .

On the doctor's side, as a partner and the host of the Kjerag region, Silver Gray conducted a long-distance communication with Alpha. After a brief conversation between the two parties, he proposed a commission, hoping that Alpha could build a trade port for Kjerag. A remote communication base station.

"I can accept this commission, Mr. Shivaash, but the situation this time is quite urgent. I can only handle the relevant matters for you when I return. I hope it will not affect the right-of-way issue we discussed before. The purpose of this commission is The price also needs to be calculated separately.”

"Of course." Boss Yin was very talkative. Alpha, a long-distance high-bandwidth communication device that can easily cover half of the continent, is something that can be encountered but cannot be found in the entire Terra.

……

"Sister Zaolu, what kind of place is Kjerag?" Ifrit, who was lying on the ship's conference room doing homework with Zaolu, looked curiously at the person she had not seen before who was still displayed on the big screen in the conference room. logo and photo.

"Sherag..." Zao Lu had no memory of it. She only mentioned it from her geography teacher. It was a plateau area with a cold climate. The most famous thing is that they have a sacred mountain called Kalan where gods live. Moreover, the people there are not troubled by natural disasters and all live in settlements.So she told Ifrit what she knew.

"Snowy mountains, they sound very interesting."

At this time, Seria walked in with several boxes of medicine. She handed the medicine box to Zao Lu, "The big box with the red mark contains a herbal preparation from the Yanguo Plateau. The blue box It is a drug developed here by Alpha that promotes hemoglobin activity and alveolar gas exchange rate. On the way to Kjerag, the altitude will rise more than 3000 meters. If you have mild breathing difficulties and other altitude sickness, herbal preparations can relieve it. If you have acute breathing problems, Chang, just take the pills in the blue package as an emergency. Also, wear the vital sign detection bracelet during this period. The center of the Life Star can confirm whether you are in danger."

"Thank you, Ms. Seria." Zaolu took the medicine box and put it into her backpack. Then, as before, she took out her homework book and asked Seria about what she didn't understand about the homework questions.There are two underage little guys on the Life Star now. Even though they are here, they still have to do homework and study.However, Ifrit's homework is not comparable to Zaolu's. Zaolu's current math homework is already calculating calculus, while Ifrit has just finished learning the basic four arithmetic operations.

……

Since we are just passing through this time, the location where the Life Star plans to stop is the trading port with the lowest altitude at the southern end of Kjerag. It is also the place closest to the outside world in this small and isolated country. There are trains connecting the inside and outside of Kjerag. Lager's open windows and bridgehead.

Therefore, along the way, the Star of Life was actually moving around the periphery of Kjerag, covering at least a few hundred kilometers more.However, energy and fuel are the least valuable things on the Life Star. On the contrary, when operating in places with high and cold climates, the cooling water consumption of Base Walker is greatly reduced. The water used as fuel in the reactor is compared with that consumed in hot areas. Cooling water is simply a drop in the bucket, which is why Alpha went to great lengths to take a detour.

She must ensure that there is as much cooling water as possible in the car before entering Sargon. In a desert area, replenishing the cooling water tank may drain a desert oasis. In that case, the only way to pump out water is by on-site groundwater exploration and drilling.

Before entering the trading port, the Star of Life had already entered the snow line. The surrounding scenery changed from the wilderness of the plains to the snowy realm in almost a few hours. The little guys in the car couldn't wait to run to the snow line. Looking outside, he looked curiously at this foreign land.

"Petrova, aren't you going to see the snow?"

"You haven't seen enough in the snowfield?" Seeing Koloff's joking expression, Petrova snatched the vodka from his hand, "I'm an adult! If you treat me like a child again, I'll I will punish you not to drink alcohol for a week."

"Spare me. If I don't have a sip of vodka in the cold area, I will freeze to death."

"Drinking alcohol is actually not conducive to keeping out the cold. Alcohol will dilate your capillaries and speed up heat dissipation." Seria, who was passing by, made a timely comment.

At this time, Alpha was lazily leaning against the turret on the roof of the car, facing the cold wind in the snow.The weather today is very good, the blue sky is clear, the sun is bright and cloudless, but the ultraviolet rays are indeed a bit strong.Under the reflection of the sun, the snowy top of the Kalan Holy Mountain in the distance shines with dazzling silver light, like a gem embedded at the junction of the earth and the sky, which is breathtakingly beautiful.

"Strange foreigner, what are you thinking about?" A strange voice came from the empty sky, and a line of sight fell from a high distance.Alpha smiled, took off the wine flask from her waist, and raised her glass to the distant Kalan Holy Mountain. She drank half of the mellow liquor from the country of Yan in the flask, and sprinkled the other half on Shelagh's face. earth.

"Live and prosper. First meeting, Yeragond."

"Eh!?"

8. Go deep into the yellow sand part.1 - abnormal point

Continuing south through Kjerag, as the altitude decreases, the temperature gradually becomes hotter. This is a vast inland wasteland. Because there are mountains in the northern Akahula region further south, the water vapor from the ocean is blocked to the north. It is even more boundless land. This relatively low-altitude plain is extremely arid. It has not yet entered the border of Sargon and is already surrounded by endless desert.

The starry sky on the continent of Terra is false, but fortunately, at least the sun is not false. The trajectories of the sun and the moon are also stable. The geomagnetic field can still be used as a reference. Basic navigation instruments such as sextants can be used to coordinate Using a compass and a drone overlooking the surrounding landscape from a high altitude, the Star of Life sailed smoothly to the northwest of Sargon.

The sun in the sky beat the earth fiercely. Even from the bridge of the ship, which is more than ten meters high, one can see the heat wave rising in the distance and the total reflection phenomenon caused by the high-heat air.

Alfa stopped the car before noon. They needed to set up a sun screen to reduce the heating of the car body, and at the same time shield the radiator panels that did not consume water-based heat dissipation from direct sunlight.Alpha knows very well that the base walker itself is painted in a light color, which can reflect solar radiation to a considerable extent. Its surface coating even has a special infrared shielding function. The material of the body armor itself also has strong heat insulation properties. It can be said that he is a professional desert man who can fly up the waves of Karaksha with the heat of the air. The adaptability of this tropical desert is really not ordinary.

Seria returned to the room through the isolation cabin from the outside. She was wearing sun-protective clothing, but she was still panting from exhaustion. She picked up a bottle of light salt water from the cabinet in the dressing room, drank most of the bottle, and then poured the rest. After pouring it on her head, a stream of steam rose from the top of her head.

She finally understood why Alpha still chose to park and rest between [-] a.m. and [-] p.m., and put up a sun screen, no matter how strong the heat dissipation was, even though her vehicle was so adaptable to high-temperature deserts. ability, the external temperature is already so fast that it can burn people. According to the most basic thermodynamic principles, the heat dissipation efficiency will also decrease, and the continuous high temperature and sand and dust erosion, no matter how powerful the materials science and targeted design, the vehicle They will still be under tremendous pressure, and since they have no logistical support, they will almost have to rely on themselves on this journey.What kind of black technology are those six tires that can travel thousands of kilometers in extreme desert environments and still maintain performance integrity?

"Ms. Seria! Alpha is waiting for you in the hangar!" The little rabbit from the action preparation team, who had been squinting his eyes, found Seria. Judging from her appearance, it should be good news.

Arriving at the hangar, Alpha was leading Koloff and Petrova around an equipment rack.

"Seraya, you came just in time. I have just modified a desert environment protective suit. I have greatly upgraded the performance of the exoskeleton so that it can keep up with your movements. Come and try it!"