Witch Special

On the other side, Child Emperor had just explained to the officials of the United Government the reason why J City was flooded, and was about to unscrew the water cup and take a sip of the energy drink inside to moisten his throat.

The reason why J City was flooded is really outrageous.

It’s because of the moon phases.

This answer was hard for the audience on the other side of the screen to believe, even Child Emperor himself couldn't believe it when he came to this conclusion. It wasn't a fox giving birth, so what was the moon phase talk about? It was pure nonsense.

However, this result was not something Child Emperor made up casually, but a terrifying conclusion he came to after careful calculations.

For some reasons that are not yet understood, the moon's gravitational pull on the planet has created a depression, and the tides are closely related to the moon's gravity. The gravitational depression is moving, and the tides are also moving in pursuit of the depression.

Now, the gravitational depression just hits the edge of City J, so the tide obtains a continuous pulling force at the edge of the gravitational depression, thus breaking through the boundary between sea level and the horizon, flooding onto the land and submerging City J.

The conclusion is that the flooding of J City was a natural disaster and had nothing to do with the monster called Deep Sea King. At most, that monster had some ability to control the flow of water. It just happened that it took advantage of the rising tide to lead its men to seize J City.

As the relative position of the moon and the planet changes, the gravitational depression will naturally move, and the tide will recede.

This is the theory, and this is how Child Emperor explained it to the officials.

But J City's problems were far more complex than simply waiting for the water to recede. After being deeply submerged in the sea, J City's already severe urban subsidence problem would become even more pronounced. The deep-seated foundations could no longer sustain the stability of skyscrapers hundreds or even thousands of meters tall.

At the same time, the influx and receding of the tide will be very rapid. The flowing sea water will sweep away the sand and soil under the road surface that has been soaked into mud, hollowing out the road surface and suspending J City.

In this case, even if the sea recedes, the flooded area of ​​J City may no longer be habitable. After all, no one can guarantee when those buildings will collapse.

As for backfilling the hollows? This project is too huge and impossible to complete in a short period of time, but the citizens cannot be left without a place to live.

City J wasn't City Z, an insignificant agricultural city whose primary business was canning. It was a commercial center of the United Government, boasting a highly developed economy and substantial annual tax revenue. This tsunami had completely destroyed the United Government's most prosperous port city, a devastating blow.

Although Deep Sea King was still rampant in J City, the people present at the meeting did not take a mere weirdo seriously at all.

Dragon-level? So what? Humanity has killed dozens, if not hundreds, of Dragon-level monsters over the years. As long as powerful heroes arrive, a single Dragon-level monster won't cause any significant trouble. The current priority remains rescuing J City. J City cannot be lost. With this fundamental goal as their guide, everyone is brainstorming and exhausting every possible solution.

At this point, Child Emperor's role is limited; he's now merely a scientific advisor. When it comes to urban governance, the real work still lies with the government and large corporations. Heroes excel at dealing with monsters, not disasters. Even if he's a master of advanced technology, it doesn't change the fact that he's fighting alone. Delegating tasks to the right people is also a form of wisdom.

However, at the moment when Child Emperor's lips were about to touch the rim of the cup, he suddenly became alert and his whole body trembled.

Because just now, a voice sounded in his head.

"Crooked, zaima?"

buzai!

This feeling is really weird, as if someone has put a small speaker in your head, and the sound from the small speaker is ringing directly in your head. It is an unprecedented experience.

Hallucination? He really hadn't slept recently... Child Emperor looked around suspiciously, actually to confirm that the various sensors around him had no unusual data before he prepared to continue drinking his own sip of water.

However, that strange, or rather eerie voice, came again without pause.

"Child Emperor, can you hear me?"

"Who are you? What are you talking to me with?" Child Emperor could no longer sit still.

However, telepathic communication required both parties to have a magic device. Child Emperor didn't have a magic device, so Lin Zhenxi's telepathic communication was more like a one-way broadcast, and it was impossible to receive a reply. Fortunately, Lin Zhenxi had considered this situation and continued directly, "I'm Lin Zhenxi. Please call me at this number later, xxxxxxx. I need to talk to you. It's about J City, the sooner the better."

After saying this, Lin Zhenxi exited the telepathic communication, looked at the Heart of the Rising Sun that was spewing out milky white steam, and patted the shell of this big iron thing in frustration.

Now that she had the Space Cube, after this mission was over, could she go to the Mage's world and build herself a proper magical device? Although those were external objects after all, only knowledge and those soul-bound weapons truly belonged to her, the difference between this thing she had rubbed and the real thing was too outrageous.

It's clear that Child Emperor is eager to know how exactly Lin Zhenxi put the voice into his head. This is understandable, as everyone's brain should be their own private domain. Not to mention interfering, even peeping should be absolutely forbidden.

Child Emperor, this genius child, is the type of person who tends to think too much. If he lets his thoughts wander a little, he will definitely scare himself. When he thinks about it carefully, of course he will contact Lin Zhenxi in a hurry.

So, during this pause, the phone Lin Zhenxi was carrying began to ring. Lin Zhenxi took out the phone, but there was no number displayed on it, only a message saying that a call was coming in. Lin Zhenxi swiped her finger across the screen and answered the call.

"Ms. Lin, are you looking for me?" If the voice wasn't still that of a child who hadn't gone through the voice change period, you really wouldn't be able to tell that Child Emperor was still a child.

Lin Zhenxi didn't intend to keep the secret and went straight to the point. "Child Emperor, I want to know if you have any energy sources with high output power that can be used in J City."

"There's nothing ready, but it won't take much time to transport it. What are you going to do?" Given the current situation, there's nothing more important than J City, so even if Child Emperor really wants to ask about the voice in his head, he must first answer Lin Maki's question.

"As long as you give me energy, I can raise the entire foundation of J City, preventing seawater from entering J City. However, I need energy, a lot of energy, at least at the level of an electromagnetic traction cannon. I think only you can provide something like that."

“…” Child Emperor was really stunned by Lin Zhenxi’s words.

How big is City J? It's a numbered city, the crown jewel of the United Nations government, a central city, a trade hub, and a logistics hub. The entire urban area covers tens of thousands of square kilometers—kilometers, not meters! I doubt you could flatten a city like that with a massive bomb. And you say you can lift the entire city from its foundations. Am I still asleep, or are you just dreaming?

Lin Zhenxi also knew how unbelievable what she said was to the natives of this world, but now she had no way to prove it and could only repeat it.

"I'm not kidding. I have a way to lift the entire J City out of the water, but it requires a huge amount of energy. I need you to help me solve the energy problem."

"...I'll assume you're serious. Actually, Ms. Lin, there's no need to raise J City. The rising seawater is only temporary, and it's related to the moon's unusual gravity. Once the gravitational depression disappears, the seawater will naturally recede."

"City J's biggest problem right now is soil erosion and subsidence. City J is built on an alluvial plain, and the soil beneath is very loose compared to other cities. To ensure the buildings are strong enough, all the buildings in City J have very deep foundations."

"But now J City is being deeply submerged by seawater. The loose soil will inevitably lead to seawater infiltration, which is equivalent to soaking the foundations of all buildings in water. They are now unable to provide stable support for the buildings."

"When the seawater recedes, the soil that has been turned into mud will also flow away. By then, J City will have countless underground hollows, and collapse is likely to occur at any time."

"In other words, all the buildings in J City will become dangerous and uninhabitable." Child Emperor relayed the results of his discussion with the officials to Lin Zhenxi.

"The moon again," Lin Zhenxi muttered softly. Ever since Saitama returned from outer space and told her about the powerful monster on the moon, Lin Zhenxi had been paying attention to this world's moon. After all, that monster was something even Saitama had said was "powerful," definitely not just any random soldier.

According to past experience, the existence of monsters is closely related to human social activities. As soon as a monster appears, it immediately begins its actions with the goal of destroying humanity. In this comparison, the monster on the moon, which only displays hostility towards humans leaving the atmosphere, seems too docile. When things are out of the ordinary, there must be something wrong. There is definitely something wrong with the monster on the moon.

"What moon?" The child's ears were still very sharp, so Child Emperor asked.

"Nothing much, I just feel like the humans here are having a hard time. Everything comes to oppose us, even the moon comes to join in the fun. Anyway, according to you, the biggest problem in J City right now is that the soil has become soft due to waterlogging and can't provide sufficient support for houses. So, if we just harden the soil in J City so that it won't be washed away by the sea, that would solve the biggest problem, right?"

"That's right," Child Emperor agreed with Lin Zhenxi's summary, "but the area is too large, and hardening the deep soil is not an easy task, especially when there are already buildings on top of the soil. At least, I don't have a solution yet."

Lin Zhenxi believed that with the research and development capabilities of these scientists in this world, a simple foundation subsidence problem would not be a problem for them. Child Emperor also said that he just didn't have a plan "right now", but if he gave him a little more time, he might come up with a solution.

But since Lin Zhenxi had already stepped forward, he naturally couldn't just go back without doing anything. Compared to the plans that Child Emperor and the others were still thinking about, Lin Zhenxi had a ready-made solution at hand.

"Leave it to me, but as I said, I need enough energy." Lin Zhenxi will solve the problems in J City.