Sword of Dawn

"Okay, don't be emotional here. If you have the time to be emotional, it's better to clean up your crime scene first." Gao Wen reached out and patted her on the shoulder, and then looked back at the messy desks, bookshelves and the ground. , "It's like following a husky from a reinforced battalion. You... Forget it, you probably can't clean it up by yourself. Let Betty send a few people to clean it up later."

While talking, he grabbed Amber's arm and walked out. Amber was dragged and continued to BB: "Hey, don't drag me... What is a husky? How do you explain this entry... Hey you Where are you dragging me to?"

"Where are you going? Find a place to wash your hands with me! The ink is soaked! And I have to change my clothes. Wait a minute, what entry are you talking about... Is your old book still serialized?! And You don’t need to add such trivial things!”

Amber was dragged out of the room by Gawain in this way, while running and bouncing after her, she yelled, "Then I know, next issue I will write about the release of the "Holy Words" by the Emperor himself." Great attention, and personally put forward constructive writing comments'..."

……

The night is getting thicker, the cold wind in early winter is whistling and blowing through the window, the lights of the distant city and the gradually dense stars in the sky appear cold and distant, but the warm wind blowing from the heat exchanger dispels the coldness in the night , Under the bright light brought by the magic spar lamp, Hetty rubbed her sore shoulders and put down the document in her hand.

This is her bedroom. The room full of femininity looks warm and friendly. She also changed into comfortable casual clothes. The light dress allowed her to temporarily let go of the majesty and tightness of being the Grand Consul of the Empire, but even so Well, the burden brought by being in an important position will not end with the end of work - she brought some documents back from the government affairs office today, and she didn't finish processing them until just now.

"Perhaps it's time to consider optimizing the workflow of the secretariat and the secondary advisory group," Hetty said softly to himself, "The previous plan should be able to..."

There was a slight noise from the corridor outside the door, and Hetty raised her head suspiciously. There seemed to be a familiar movement in the noise, but soon the sound was far away and could no longer be heard clearly.

"...Could it be Rebecca, it doesn't sound like it."

She muttered casually, and not half a minute later, she heard footsteps coming to her door, followed by a knock on the door and Rebecca's voice: "Aunt, are you here?" inside?"

"...Come in." The corner of Hetty's mouth trembled, and her fingers twitched twice for some unknown reason, "The door is unlocked."

The next second, Rebecca pushed open the door and poked her head in, holding a large stack of documents in her hand. The first thing the girl saw after entering the room was Hetty, who was sitting behind the desk, with a look on her face. He smiled all of a sudden: "Hey, you are still working!"

"Actually, I was just about to take a break two minutes ago." Hetty's eyes instantly fell on the thick stack of documents in Rebecca's hands, and the corners of her eyes trembled involuntarily. "What is this?"

"A little technical matter, I need you to go over it," Rebecca smiled and came to Hetty with the document in her arms, as if she didn't notice her aunt's gradually subtle expression during the whole process—maybe it was because of this over the years. I have long been used to it, "Actually, I originally planned to get it from the Government Affairs Office tomorrow, but I accidentally went home today..."

"How careless you are to accidentally bring this thing back..." Hetty glanced at Rebecca before she finished her argument, and asked casually while reaching for the document, "What happened in the corridor just now? You're not running around, are you?"

Rebecca quickly waved her hand: "Ah, no, it's Mr. Zuzu and Amber..."

"Master Zu and Amber?" Hetty's hand that was about to open the document suddenly stopped, and looked at Rebecca suspiciously, "That's all for Amber, Mr. Zu... Can you pay attention to the logic when you make up a lie?"

"What I said is true!" Rebecca quickly waved her hands, and then began to describe vividly, "I just saw Mr. Zu ran across the corridor dragging Amber. It’s ink, and while walking, we were discussing the contents of the new issue of "Emperor’s Holy Words", and the ancestors also ordered Betty, who was passing by, to take someone to clean up the study, saying that half of the shelves of books fell to the ground..."

Speaking of this, she paused, and then added: "Actually, I originally brought these documents for his purpose, but he seemed busy, so he asked me to send them to you first."

Hetty: "...?"

The Grand Consul of the Empire stared at Rebecca for a long time with an expressionless face, as if she wanted to forcibly see some evidence of nonsense from the frank face of the Empire, but in the end she saw The only thing left was Rebecca's harmless and clean smiling face, so she could only believe that what the iron-headed girl said was true.

This can only be true—after all, Rebecca has been characterized by her head since she was a child, especially this kind of remark that is likely to be hanged up and beaten by her ancestors when it is spread back. Every punctuation mark she uttered is It must be so sincere from the heart...

Hetty suddenly reached out and rubbed her forehead, and let out a long sigh: "Rebecca..."

Rebecca immediately leaned forward: "Ah? What's the matter?"

The lady of the Grand Consul of the empire was full of worry: "You said... the pressure on the ancestors during this time is too great?"

Rebecca thought for a while, then rolled her eyes: "Then I'll cook him some brain-replenishing soup later..."

Hetty looked up at the eldest niece who was full of sunshine: "Don't say this is my suggestion."

Before Rebecca could react, her eyes fell on the document in her hand, and as she glanced down, Hetty's slightly relaxed expression before gradually became serious.

After quickly browsing the previous part, she looked up at Rebecca who was standing aside: "Is this the localization construction draft of the 'observation device'?"

"Yes, Starbreaker has worked overtime to complete the translation of the original text, and then the team led by Jenny has re-annotated and theoretically deduced the translated documents-the document in front of you is a summary of the entire engineering project The explanation and the initial plan," Rebecca said with a nod, "the technical difficulties encountered so far are also written on it."

Hetty looked serious, and she carefully read the content she had browsed in a hurry before, with a thoughtful expression: "The 'magic tide observation device' of the Nuoyi is calculated indirectly based on the observation of the magic power changes of nearby stars." The 'traces' left by the origin shock' in the cosmic space, is the core part of the whole device the 'vibration focus'..."

"Yes, this 'vibration focus' is the 'heart' of the entire observation system, and it is also the most difficult part of the plan." Rebecca's expression also became serious, and she pointed to a schematic diagram on the technical document, that The schematic diagram is obviously derived from the technical document originally sent by the Noi people, with only a few adjustments made in the details, and the place where Rebecca's finger is located is the most central structure of the entire device: the one located in the circular observer At the center, a huge structure that looks like some sort of pyramid or obelisk.

The magic tide observation device designed by the Nuoyi people consists of two parts as a whole, one part is a huge ring formed by splicing multiple segments on the outside, and the other part is a huge monster in the center of the ring structure. , it is called the "vibration focus", and this focus is the real heart of the whole device - its function is to "resonate" with the distant stars.

The magic power in the universe is everywhere, and these powers that can penetrate all things, cross the boundary between virtual and real, and even cover all dimensions are in a sense like the "skeleton" of this world. Everything in the world depends on them to connect and determine order, and the universe The stars in the sky... are the "focal points", large and small, in these magical webs.

The invisible tide of magic flows back and forth among the stars like a monsoon. Apart from having a devastating effect on the minds of intelligent creatures, it hardly reacts with any physical matter, so its traces seem to be invisible at all, but it contains Stars with astonishing energy can still interfere with the movement of the magic tide to a certain extent, and "reflect" the trace of the magic tide in the process of flickering themselves. theory" description.

So in a sense, the endless stars are mirrors in space.

And only from these distant and flickering "mirrors" can mortals catch a glimpse of the doomsday as it skims over the real world.

But it is not a simple matter to watch the "reflected scenes" of those distant stars from a small planet.

"The biggest problem we have encountered now is that the energy level required for the 'vibration focus' to operate is simply astronomical—and it requires more than just powerful energy," Rebecca's voice came to Hetty In the ears, "The Nuoyi people built a device that can interfere with the space-time structure inside the vibration focus, and its function is to weaken the virtual and real boundary of the focus core, so as to form accurate projections of the observation device in the shadow world, shadow world and other realms , to enhance the measurement accuracy of distant stars, this thing...even if there are blueprints, it is not easy to do!"

Chapter 1458 High and low blood pressure

In this world, all living beings are trapped in a dark room, which is inlaid with mirrors the size of sesame seeds, and there is an invisible man-eating beast prowling in the dark, which cannot be seen by the eyes and ears of ordinary people. , I can't hear the sight and movement of this beast, and only those special mirrors can occasionally reflect the beast's scales and half claws. In these reflections, mortals may seize the opportunity to find the only way to survive before being swallowed.

Unfortunately, those mirrors are too small and far away, and the feet of all sentient beings are trapped in place. Mortals can't see the blurry and subtle reflections at all. Therefore, in order to capture the trace of the beast, mortals must rely on the magic tide observation device , but now there is the biggest problem: the device is not that easy to build.

Hearing Rebecca's words, Hetty fell into a short silence.

She knows that what is needed to fight against the magic tide is not only an observation device, but more importantly, the "protection system". However, if the protection system is to take effect, the parameters obtained by the observation device are the necessary prerequisites. With the "step by step" policy, no matter how to solve the problem of the protection system in the future, this observation device must be built in advance.

After a long time, she raised her head and looked into Rebecca's eyes: "Is it absolutely impossible to build this 'vibration focus' with our current technology?"

"It's not completely impossible—it's just that the probability of success is very low," Rebecca said after deliberating, "With our current state-of-the-art energy matrix technology, coupled with the energy purification experience accumulated in the 'Gate' project, It can barely reach the energy level required for the "ignition" moment of the starting focus, but it is only up to the ignition standard. How to maintain its stable operation and maintain the special space-time structure inside the focus is still a problem. And..."

Hetty's expression was very calm: "And what?"

"The probability of losing control of the start-up focus is extremely high, because the whole system will be barely started, and many technical parameters will not meet the standards. Uncontrollable energy source, and then connect it to a machine with a half-knowledge of principles, and expect it to run stably for several months or even longer - once this thing explodes, it's not like a 'bang' in the laboratory So easy."

Seeing the serious expression on Rebecca's face, Hetty suddenly felt a chill in her heart.

Even this silly roe deer is so nervous because of the probability of failure and the possible consequences of the project, then the terrible consequences of this thing are definitely beyond the imagination of ordinary people-you know that Rebecca can usually rub the gate as big as a city with a smile on her face Fireball's!

On the spot, Rebecca vaguely felt that her aunt looked at her with weird eyes, but with her EQ, it was difficult to guess why the other party's eyes were weird in a short time, so she immediately ignored this little doubt in her heart, and continued: "In addition... no matter whether it can be done or not, we have to try our best to ensure that this observation device can be successful once. Its scale is very large, and we probably don't have enough time and resources to 'trial and error'..."

"I want to hear your plan," Hetty interrupted Rebecca, she looked at him with a serious expression, "I understand you, when you ask me to report a technical difficulty, in fact, you probably already have Some kind of bold solution—I don’t care about the feasibility of your plan this time, you first talk about what you plan to do.”

Rebecca opened her mouth, she was really not used to her aunt's attitude now, but she nodded after thinking for a while: "I have an idea... I just don't know if Mr. Zu and Miss Veronica are the same. agree."

Speaking of this, she considered it again, and then said cautiously: "The energy of the Deep Blue Well should be fine, I read the data provided by Miss Veronica before, and that natural magic source can completely take Come to ignite the vibration focus, but..."

"Just what?" Hetty frowned, "Don't be so hesitant, just talk about your own plan, and I won't beat you because of it."

Upon hearing this, Rebecca's words immediately became fluent: "It's just that the scale of the source of the deep blue well is not large enough. The main reason is that it may not be enough to rely on only one main network channel crack to supply energy. We need to expand a few more." The cracks come out. I have calculated that we only need to blow up the current Deep Blue Well a little bit... The Dawn of the World will probably fire a salvo from a supercritical accelerator... Aunt? Aunt, are you all right? Aunt Your complexion is not very good!"

Hetty held her chest for a long time before she could catch her breath. She felt that she was still careless on the spot. She should have taken a picture of her mechanical mind, cold thinking and calm mind the moment Rebecca entered the room. By the way, Then put two bottles of quick-acting resuscitating potion—it’s been a few years, why is the lethality of Rebecca’s mouth not only not shrinking with her age, but also increasing with the increase in the equivalent of the empire’s weapons?

Cooperating with her, the degree of convulsions in her brain follows the power of the main gun?

Countless thoughts flashed through Hetty's mind, but she still maintained her aunt's majesty on her face. She tried her best to put on a gentle and friendly smile, and looked into Rebecca's eyes: "You know that in Gondor How did the empire end?"

"I know, the Deep Blue Well exploded, but my plan is different from that!" Rebecca immediately explained, "I am controlled—not to detonate the entire Deep Blue Well, but just to detonate the entire Deep Blue Well." Opening more webway rifts and 'draining' more dark blue veins into the material world is equivalent to digging a few small holes in the barrier outside the webway. You see, the dark blue webway itself is there , in the gap between the material world and the deep realm, we punched a few holes and did not destroy the pulse flow itself, and for the entire planetary power system, this little energy drainage will not affect the operation of the entire webway... "

"You... let me take it easy." Hetty had to raise her hand and waved it. She took a breath, and her eyes fell on the pile of documents on the table again. It suddenly turned into dizzying layers of whirlpools and abysses, and she watched them, as if watching the world's precarious future.

But whether she likes it or not, the future will come sooner or later.

"I will read all the materials you sent tonight, and submit them to the ancestors for review tomorrow morning." She slowly calmed down, with a hint of helplessness, "This kind of thing... I'm afraid it's not something we can do in one country. It’s up to you to make a decision.”

Rebecca nodded: "Oh, then you watch first, I'll go first—I have to go to the alchemy laboratory before it's too late..."

Hetty was a little puzzled: "What are you doing in the alchemy laboratory so late?"

"Go find some herbs." Rebecca smiled like a flower. "Tomorrow morning, I will make some brain-replenishing herbal soup for the ancestors...Did you forget what I just said?"

Hetty: "..."

……

After breakfast the next day, as soon as Gawain came to the study, he saw a large pile of documents sent by Hetty—and the dark circles around the other's eye sockets that were obviously not painted on.

And after roughly browsing the contents of the document, and listening to Hetty relay Rebecca's lightning-like "solution" that day, he instantly understood how the other party's serious dark circles came about.

"...When I heard that she chose to use the Deep Blue Well to solve the problem of igniting the energy of the vibration focus, I just thought it was a bold but creative solution," Hetty sighed, and she noticed that Gawain's expression was very subtle Obviously, even the well-informed and broad-minded ancestors were shocked after hearing Rebecca's plan, "But after hearing her plan to 'reform' the Deep Blue Well, I almost thought she had a brain problem .”

After a long time, Gao Wen put down the document in his hand, and he let out a long sigh: "...It's not that she's out of her mind, she's always been this way."

"Then what do you think?" Hetty paid attention to the change of Gawain's expression, "Are we really going to adopt this bold...almost crazy plan? By bombing the Deep Blue Well, 'drill' out of the surface of the planet. An energy matrix, and then build a magic tide observation device on this energy matrix? Although Rebecca called this 'precision blasting' in the plan..."

Gao Wen pondered for a moment, then slowly said: "But we have to admit that theoretically this process is reasonable and feasible."

"...I don't want to admit the rationality of this process at all," Hetty said in a rather tangled tone, "We really have no choice to such an extent that we have to take such a risky move... Rebecca still The specific risk probability of this option is not given, but it is only a rough estimate, and I can hardly sleep all night."

"Maybe we just have no choice to this extent," Gawain looked into Hetty's eyes, but then changed the topic, "But this is just an 'alternative plan'. This matter concerns the whole world Destiny is not something that we can decide on our own, and no matter how smart Rebecca is, she and her technical team also have limited vision."

Speaking of this, he paused, and then said: "We need to discuss this matter with other alliance members, especially to ask the opinions of Ophelia Matrix. After all, Deep Blue Well has a special international status, and we have set our own rules. , even the Cecil Empire cannot mess around in the Tarash Plains, and there are smart people in other countries, they are also studying the information sent by the Noi people, maybe... some of them can think of a better alternative .”

Listening to Gawain's calm and powerful words, Hetty nodded slowly, and her impetuous mood since last night gradually calmed down, along with her high blood pressure—she couldn't help but sigh , I have reached my position, at this time, there is still a mountain-like reliable elder who can rely on behind me, it is really a lucky thing.

But at this moment, a burst of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside the study, and then the heavy oak door was pushed open from the outside, and Rebecca was holding a large steaming pot with a strange smell Her medicinal soup came in, and the bright and cheerful voice of the Imperial Shot poured into the room like the first ray of sunlight in the morning: "My lord ancestor! I made soup for you... Ah, you are here, aunt!"

"Soup?" Gawain looked at the black pot of unknown liquid in Rebecca's hand with a dazed expression, and saw that there were still unfiltered herbal leaves floating on it, "What is this?"

"Brain-boosting herbal soup," Rebecca said with a bright face, "Auntie said that your brain may not be functioning due to mental stress recently. Let me get you something to make up your brain."

Gao Wen slowly turned his head: "...Hetty?"

Hetty felt that her blood pressure "boomed" just after going down, and it reached its peak all of a sudden.

Gao Wen looked back at Rebecca again - the girl's smile was still bright, as bright as the first ray of nuclear explosion flashing into the room in the morning...

……

The wheels of the trolley crushed the stone pavement in the garden. The slight creaking sound seemed soothing and peaceful in this silent morning. The cold wind in early winter blew across the courtyard, making the hem of the maid's dress flutter slightly, Betty I couldn't help but sneezed, then rubbed my nose, and looked up at the flowerbed not far away where there were no flowers blooming: "Winter is here...there was still a war at this time last year."

A soft and gentle voice came from the stroller in her hand: "Do you have a cold?"

"No, it's just that the nose is itchy when the cold wind blows." Betty shook her head immediately, smiled and said to the golden giant egg supported by a special bracket on the trolley, and then stretched out her hand to tuck the quilt around the golden giant egg , "It's you, it's windy in the garden, aren't you cold?"

"...Actually, I don't need to wrap these things at all," the voice from the golden dome was a little helpless, "I won't get hurt if you put me in the arctic ice or volcanic magma..."

"That's different!" Betty shook her head seriously, "Legendary powerhouses are not afraid of cold or heat, but they still need to wear clothes when they go out..."

Golden Dome: "...you are right."

The former god of the dragon gods had no choice but to accept the "arrangement" of a little maid who was not very smart, and let Betty push her to the center of the garden, and this scene seemed strange to anyone—— Betty, the head maid of the Palace of Syr, was pushing a remodeled trolley. On the trolley was a quilt, and inside the quilt was a shimmering golden giant egg. The two "people" were still walking and chatting in the garden... …

However, for the servants and guards working in the garden, such a sight has long been commonplace.

The head maid will push this trolley out every now and then—to take the "Egg Lady" to bask in the sun.

Most of the attendants and guards did not know the true origin of this golden dome, but this did not prevent them from getting familiar with the existence of this special "royal guest" and establishing a friendly relationship with him.

"Unknowingly, you've been taking care of me for a long time..."

The golden giant egg on the trolley suddenly spoke, with an exclamation in his voice.

"It seems so," Betty thought for a while, recalling her experience with this "Ms. Enya", with a smile on her face, "But for you, this shouldn't be too long—I According to His Majesty, you have lived a long, long time..."

"No, I decided to start counting from the day I was born in this posture. I am two years old this year," Enya said casually, "A new beginning, a new life—this will be more interesting."

Betty was a little dazed: "...Can it be calculated like this?"

"It can be calculated like this."

"Oh."

Betty gave up overly complicated thinking, she pushed the cart to the sunny place in the garden, squinted her eyes and looked at the sky, enjoying the rare leisure of the day.

And at this moment, she saw a certain window on the second floor and a figure near the window.

It was the room with the blue velvet carpet, Gawain's study.

"...Your Highness Rebecca seems to have been disciplined again," Betty glanced carefully and whispered to Enya, "I saw her standing by the window..."

"Probably got into trouble again." Enya said with a smile in her voice.

"But Her Highness Hetty seems to be standing next to her as punishment..."

Enya said with surprise in her tone, "Ah... this is a bit uncommon."

Chapter 1459 Two Solutions

Another breeze blew across the courtyard, and the cool air was refreshing.

The first snow of this winter has not yet come, but the mages who observed the sky predicted that there would be a light snow this morning; the evergreen trees not far away shook their branches slightly in the wind, and the slight rustling sound could be heard from time to time. Come; on the balcony on the second floor opposite the garden, His Royal Highness the Grand Consul and His Royal Highness are standing by the window with their heads bowed; in the sunlit courtyard, Betty in winter clothes stands quietly beside the trolley, in the breeze A faint smile appeared.

Everything here falls into Enya's "eyes", and the quiet and everyday scene seems to have quietly aroused some very, very old, yellowed and faded impressions in her memory, which may be from Tarrond millions of years ago. A certain courtyard may be an afternoon when the dragon civilization was still ignorantly developing in the mountains, or it may be just a fragment she saw in a believer's dream. She laughed, with a gentle and calm voice: "You Do you like this day?"

"I like it," Betty replied without hesitation. "There's never been a better day."

"Yeah... There is no better day than this, and today's sunshine is the best in this period of time," Enya said softly, the sun shone on her shimmering golden shell, the two kinds of light merge It rippled gently like water ripples, "But it will snow soon, and today's sunshine may be very short."

In the distant sky, some leaden gray clouds quietly emerged at some point, and they are gathering towards the city little by little at this moment. It seems that, as calculated by the mages in charge of predicting the sky, the first snow of this winter Coming soon.

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