Volume 3 The Chaotic Present Chapter 66 The Strange Terdaheim
"What are you arguing about? Give me some quiet! β
Qin Rongyu opened the door and roared angrily, and the three little complainants suddenly all entered a state of "shock".
The sound insulation effect of the office door is good, but no matter how good the sound insulation effect is, it can't stand the sound of three small complaints that are louder than the other. Qin Rongyu had to blow them all away.
"You guys! It's only ten minutes before the meeting time, and you still don't want to go? β
"Yes! Let's go right away! β
Satsuki immediately stood upright, saluted, and then pulled her two younger sisters to turn around and run.
ββThose who know the times are Junjie!
Although this roar was not directed at Lily, Lily was also shocked, because she found that this Doctor Qin's inadvertent demeanor was a little more majestic than that of the archbishop of the Temple of Eros.
- Confirmed the eyes, he is a big guy who can't be provoked.
Lily turned around decisively and ran away, chasing the backs of the three rabbit-eared Lori. Anyway, it's also to help the rabbit spirits do training, and it's the same to go early and late!
Lin Xiaomiao was even more direct, the moment the door was opened, she turned her head and ran away. At this moment, he had already run around a corner, hiding in a place where Qin Rongyu couldn't see and panting.
"Thulick?"
Qin Rongyu's voice was raised, with an obvious questioning tone.
Fang Qiuling hurriedly explained: "I was about to contact Zhang Dongchen's secretary, you see, I just took out my mobile phone." He said as he raised his phone.
"Oh......" Qin Rongyu nodded noncommittally, and then ordered, "Contact and go away, don't make noise with me." People are annoyed right now! β
ββ¦β¦ What's upset about you? Fang Qiuling's mind seemed to froze, "Say it to make everyone happy?" β
As soon as the words fell, Fang Qiuling suddenly felt chills all over his body, and his cold hair stood up.
"Xiu Lik, Fang Qiuling, what did you just say?"
Qin Langyu's voice was calm, the kind of calm that preceded the eruption.
"I just said ......," Fang Qiuling swallowed, "I was about to contact Zhang Dongchen's secretary...... Doctor Qin, Sister Qin, I'll go first. I'll talk about it later, bye-bye. β
- Run!
Fang Qiuling turned around and ran.
- Just kidding! Don't run and wait for her to be dismantled!
The bustling public area was empty in the blink of an eye.
"Humph!"
Qin Rongyu snorted coldly, and then slammed the door shut.
And in the nearest corner, Lin Xiaomiaozheng and Fang Qiuzheng stared wide-eyed.
"Why are you here?"
Fang Qiuling was the first to ask.
"Y-Why can't Iβwhy can't I be here?"
Fang Qiuling was speechless for a while, and his eyes blinked for a while before he hurriedly got up.
After Lin Xiaomiao hid, she secretly poked her head out to look around with the idea of "dead friends don't die poor way". And when she looked around, Fang Qiuling happened to rush over like a gust of wind. The two suddenly collided.
Of course, it must not have been hit. With Fang Qiuling's current physique, if he hit it solidly, he could directly knock Lin Xiaomiao out and fly out, and breaking a few ribs was the least. Ignoring his forced reversal of direction just before the two bodies collided, he turned around and made a 180-degree flip. The reaction is very fast, and the difficulty coefficient of the movements is also very large, if it is estimated that he can get a high score in the gymnastics performance, but this cannot change the fact that Fang Qiuling lost his balance and fell to the ground.
Facing the figure that suddenly bumped into, Lin Xiaomiao also subconsciously took a step back. Unexpectedly, he stumbled under his feet and fell to the ground solidly. The two then lay down on the carpet in a very ambiguous position.
Fang Qiuling stretched out his hand after getting up.
"I'm sorry. Didn't hurt you, did you? β
"Humph!"
Lin Xiaomiao opened his hand and rolled over and climbed up.
- A girl's hand can be held casually!
"Be careful when you walk in the future! Get out of the way, don't get out of the way. Lin Xiaomiao snorted coldly, walked away with her chin up, and at the end there was a voice full of disdain, "This method of accosting is too old-fashioned!" β
Fang Qiuling suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.
- This is really accidentally bumped into, not in a conversation!
Explanations are definitely not necessary, after all, the more you explain this kind of thing, the more unclear it becomes.
Fang Qiuling shrugged his shoulders and took out his mobile phone to send an email to the secretary of the "LSP" Adventist.
- Huh? What about the sticky notes for the mailbox?
I was still holding it in my hand just now.
- Could it be that I fell and fell?
Fang Qiuling looked around.
The red carpet is clear at a glance, there is nothing.
- Where did it go?
Although Qin Rongyu can definitely ask for it again, but ...... Hey! Got it! The sticky note paper was glued to Lin Xiaomiao's ponytail braid!
Fang Qiuling didn't say a word, and immediately chased after him.
Lin Xiaomiao heard the movement behind her, turned sideways slightly, and then saw Fang Qiuling rushing over again, and reached out to grab her ponytail.
"Yikes! What do you want? Dirty! β
With an exclamation and a "snap" slap, Lin Xiaomiao left angrily, leaving Fang Qiuling, who had a slap print on his face, stunned.
- This slap seems to be a bit wronged.
Maru's little snowball-like figure staggered over. When it saw its No. 1 shovel officer, it pounced on it with joy.
"Meow, meow, meow!"
But his No. 1 shovel officer seems to be a little different today? How do you feel stunned, and it's very strange.
None of the other shovel ladies would draw a slap print on their face in red. Although Maru doesn't know how to put on makeup, she still has a basic aesthetic concept. The No. 1 shovel officer looks so strange, it's really weird.
β¦β¦
Zhang Dongchen's secretary's name is Murong Qiuxue, a rare compound surname. Just looking at the name, one can't help but think of a dignified ancient lady.
Fang Qiuling received the email from Murong Qiuxue that was almost nine o'clock in the evening. He was chatting with his mother while browsing the information given by Qin Rongyu.
- Satsuki and the others were all arrested for training, and Lily also went to be an instructor. I didn't have any girls around me all of a sudden.,A little sad.,I feel like everything is a little bit wrong......
Terdaheim is a slightly strange world. Because it's hard to define whether it's a low-magic world or a high-magic world. The influence of the power of the "source" on Teldaheim...... Some don't understand. Most of the area belongs to the Demon Tide Trough, and there are even large areas of the Demon Tide Death Domain. However, in a few special places, the concentration of free "Extreme Source" power in the unit space is even higher than that of Elune, the High Demon World.
The area with the highest concentration of power in the "Extreme" is called "Terda Rockfairino". With a strong knowledge of the language, Fang Qiuling understood the meaning of the name of this region after a little thought.
In the ancient language of Teldaheim, Tyrda Rockefellertino means "the place where the gods died", "the place where the gods were executed", and "the place where the godslayers killed the gods".
In other words, most likely a god died in Terda's Rockefertino. Of course, there may be more than one. This kind of place where the gods are buried also exists in Elune, and is called the "Land of the Fallen Gods".
In Elune's Godfall, the concentration of free mana per unit of space is higher than in all surrounding areas. Scholars in the neutral capital of Paranthas believe that the cause of this phenomenon must have something to do with the "natural emanation" of the gods after their fall. It could be the corpse of a god, it could be a curse of the god before he died, it could be a power that the god was still completely dissipated, or it could be a godhead left behind after the god died.
With the experience of Elune's scholars, coupled with the basic introduction in his hands, Fang Qiuling felt that most of the Terda Rockefellitinos were also in this situation. Because Teldaheim is also a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
That's right, Terdaheim is a wasteland world, and a world war broke out just over thirty years ago that swept the world. Weapons of mass destruction, similar to today's nuclear weapons, have scorched most of the world's land, raising dust that obscures the sky and even triggered a nuclear winter.
The enormous energy generated by the explosion of weapons of mass destruction throws large amounts of dust into the atmosphere, many of which enter the stratosphere at a height of more than 12 kilometers. Because the dust particles produced by the explosion are so small, a significant proportion of them less than one micron in diameter, they can remain high in the stratosphere for days or even more than a year. At the same time, because the average diameter of dust is smaller than the infrared wavelength, about 10 microns, they have a strong absorption of visible light radiation from the sun and a weak absorption of infrared radiation from the outward facing of the ground. As a direct consequence, the upper atmosphere warms up and the surface temperature drops, which has the opposite effect of the greenhouse effect, giving the surface a nuclear winter that resembles a harsh winter.
According to a brief history of Terdaheim in hand, the nuclear winter lasted for three whole months. To add insult to injury, the inhabitants of the nuclear winter, already ravaged by the war, froze to death more than died in the war.
Even in Elune, where there is no world war, there will be gods who accidentally die every once in a while. In the midst of a post-apocalyptic world war that can trigger a nuclear winter, it doesn't seem strange that one or more gods have accidentally died.
If there is the power of the "source", then the "spirit" will also be born. On the other hand, "reason" will also be weakened. If there is a "spirit", then there will be magical creatures, there will be magical creatures, and then there will be magical civilizations.
In Teldaheim, magic and technology complement each other, and a very local technology system has been built - magic technology.
In the Magic Science and Technology, the power of the "Ultimate Source" is named "Aether", and it is defined as:
- The stream of consciousness that makes up space, the first and most basic element created by the spiritual realm when it creates the realm of material phenomena. All things in the realm of material phenomena live within it. It is called the first of the five basic elements, the main sound. It is also the creator of the four essential elements. It is also often used as a synonym for "space". Between the stars, the spiritual eye can observe that the space is composed of a dark red fluid-like stream of consciousness, forming a more stable shape of the spatial fluid, which is the ether.
By definition, there are certain similarities between the ether and the Mana that Fang Qiuling is most familiar with, but the differences are also very obvious. Aether has a very obvious "spatial" property, while Mana is more of a "none" attribute.
Fang Qiuling remembered that he had read a book called "Examples of Practical Application of Light and Magic Technology". This collection of Weiyang Palace is a very detailed introduction to the knowledge of magic in the form of "light and magic", with light and magic particles as the main expression. Although the beginning of the book states that everything in the book is magic, emphasizing that "it is magic, not science".
However, after reading the whole book, Fang Qiuling believes that the light and magic technology mentioned in the book cannot be described as a simple "magic-supernatural phenomenon", but a technology that can indeed be called "science".
What is the definition of science? It is a systematized and formulaic system of knowledge based on testable explanations and predictions about the form, organization, etc. of objective things.
The key lies in "systematic and formulaic knowledge", that is, objective truths that can be summarized and repeated, and the results will not change because of the subjective will of the individual.
Light & Magic technology also has this characteristic, it can be summarized and repeated. Due to the different basic laws of different worlds, there is no "electricity" in the world in which the light and magic technology is used. Yes, yes, there is lightning, there is thunder, but there is no electricity. Elune has electricity, but it's hard to handle. In the Letonian world described in the book "Examples of the Practical Use of Light and Magic Technology", electricity cannot be stored, let alone used, and light and magic replace electricity and become the cornerstone of the Letenian world.
The characteristics of Aether storage are very similar to those of Light and Magic. Judging from the materials in hand, ether is used as an energy source with an extremely high consumption ratio, and it is a very environmentally friendly and efficient energy source. Compared to Mana's extremely high storage cost and extremely low collection efficiency, Ether has a great advantage in terms of storage.
With the advantages of high energy utilization and easy storage, Terdaheim's involvement in war weapons can basically ignore the limitations brought by the power source from the beginning, coupled with a variety of "not scientific at all" materials and technologies, all of which have allowed Terdaheim to enter the era of the sky early, and all kinds of floatboats, airships, and aerospace aircraft carriers are rampant. Thirty years ago, during the Great War, there were still giant floating fortresses on frontal battlefields.
If the fleet of various floating ships is the foundation of the survival of the countries of Terdaheim, then the individual combat unit carried on the floating ship, the Raider Machine, is the sharpest spear in the production of fundamentally!
Assault Machine...... Fang Qiuling hadn't looked at the specific introduction yet, his eyes lit up just by seeing a few photos.
- This is Gangpla, right? That's right, it's definitely Gangpla, it's definitely Gangpla!
Assault Mechs are humanoid mechs that are about 10 meters tall. It uses a small ether engine as the power source, different weapons such as live ammunition and light beams as equipment, and heavy armor and repulsive force fields as defense methods. Most of the airframes are not capable of flying, and a few are specially designed to have the ability to fly or shapeshift.
The pilot who piloted the assault machine was known locally as the "knight", the absolute protagonist and uncrowned king on the battlefield.
For such a world, Fang Qiuling said - this is really great!