Chapter 11 New Essinger

After confirming that there was no problem with the jack, we installed the last four super huge gravity resistance devices on the base of the lower half of the jack. However, because the power core has not been installed yet, we cannot experiment with this device for the time being. The gravity resistance device is not as low in energy consumption as the super jack. It cannot rely on a small power core to provide energy. Besides, these four anti-gravity devices alone may not be able to stably control the balance of the city and may easily cause the city to tilt. I don't want the city to be unstable. It fell apart without covering it properly.

After getting the jack, the technicians did not assemble the crawler propellers on the city. Instead, they began to direct the puppets to install some metal tracks on the city frame. The shape of the metal track is very similar to the rails used by trains, but the size is very huge. One rail is larger than the size of a locomotive. These super rails look similar, but they are actually different. The rails are divided into five types, with red letter marks on the cross sections at both ends. The length of these rails is about one meter. The longest among the five models is only a little more than three centimeters longer than the shortest. However, the number of the shortest type A is relatively small, and the number of the largest type E is at least one of type A. More than a hundred times.

At first glance, these rails seemed to be straight, but as the dolls were installed, everyone soon saw the problem. These orbits are not straight at all, they all have curvature, but because of the small length ratio and the small curvature, they look straight at first glance.

It was only when all five types of rails were installed that it became apparent that these were circular rails. The five types of rails have different curvatures and form five concentric rings when fully assembled. The innermost circle of the five rings has a diameter of only 5 kilometers, while the largest one has a diameter of 30 kilometers. Their centers are the geometric centers of the city.

After the ring was completed, the researchers began to install some huge devices on the ring. The appearance of these devices is very special, long and pointed, like two bullets with butt-jointed tails. In fact, what everyone sees is just the fairing, and the equipment inside is the key. Inside the fairing are installed a large gravity resistance device, a medium power core, two giant engines, and 4 sets of 800 metal guide wheels in total.

The equipment inside these fairings comes pre-assembled and is now easy to install. Several giant dragons dragged a large device like this and flipped it up from under the rails. The guide wheels on the top of the device have automatic bayonet. When the dragon pushes them onto the I-shaped rail, the guide wheels automatically open. When the upper guide wheels cross the widest part of the I-shaped rail, they are opened again under the action of the spring. The lower automatic return just hangs the entire device on the rail.

The guide wheel on the device is an all-metal guide wheel, which is the same as a train wheel and has strong pressure resistance. The 800 wheels are divided into upper and lower layers, with 10 on the left and right on the top, and the remaining 780 wheels are all on the bottom. Many players are curious why there are so many wheels installed between the device and the rails, but there are only one load-bearing wheel used to hang the device on the rails.

In fact, this set of equipment is Essinger's real turning equipment. How it works is actually quite simple. There are many such devices hung on the 5th floor rail, and each device has a gravity resistance device inside. When these gravity-defying devices are activated, they can drag Isinger up, which is why most of the wheels are installed between the rails and the device. Because when the anti-gravity devices in these devices are activated, the weight of the entire Essinger will be evenly distributed on the wheels between the numerous devices and the rails, and those wheels on the top will only catch the device when the device is not activated. It just falls off. So most of the wheels are mounted between the rails and the device, rather than on top.

After the anti-gravity devices on these devices lift the city, the super engine in the device can drive the guide wheel to rotate in one direction, and then the device itself will move relative to the rails. This principle is more like a suspended tram. But something is different here. When the drive wheel rotates, it actually pushes in two directions, one pushing the rail and the other pushing the device itself. For a trolley trolley, the track is fixed, so the trolley starts to move when the wheels turn. However, once the gravity resistance device is activated, it will be horizontally stationary relative to the ground. It will not move horizontally, so the only thing that can move is the track. So many devices started at the same time. When they move in one direction they push the circular track in the opposite direction. Because Essinger is connected to these tracks, the city will naturally move as the tracks rotate, thus completing Essinger's steering action. However, one thing to note is that Essinger must be in a stationary state when this device is activated. It can only allow Essinger to turn in place but not move the city horizontally. The movement of the city depends on other equipment.

After the equipment was installed, the technicians began to transport the completed crawler propellers. The city's frame had pre-reserved installation openings at appropriate locations. These were all on the design drawings, and the sizes were also very standard. .

Huge crawler devices are connected to the city one by one, and the power lines are connected to the interfaces that have been set aside from the city's power, and these devices are powered. 400 crawler units are lined up under the city, which is a square, symmetrical structure. The power unit must also be as symmetrical as possible, and we must ensure the overall stability of the city.

After these huge devices were connected, the Great White Shark finally appeared again off the coast of Essinger. This time it transported the largest part in the city-the main power core. This time we customized a geodynamic core that is three times the size of the original Isengard. If it weren’t for the merger of the White Shark Clan’s technology with the Mermaid Clan, Atlantis would not have been able to create such a large geodynamic core!

After the power core was connected, a half-power test was conducted to test the new propulsion equipment. First, the giant jack in the center of the city lifted the city up, and then the 400 crawler devices contracted and then extended in a unified manner. The experiment was carried out three times to confirm that there was no abnormality. Extend the crawler device for the fourth time and retract the central jack. The driving devices are still working normally.

Because there is no city tree. Now all controls are manual. We had 400 players climb on those crawlers and activate the power equipment. Then the city frame actually started to run on the ground. From now on, Essinger will no longer be a city that is passively beaten, it will become our forward fortress.

The next thing we need to test is the issue we are most concerned about. Urban aerial mobility equipment. Although the gravity resistance device can drag Essinger up, it is due to the damn characteristics of this device. The city is completely unable to move, which has become an eternal pain in the hearts of our guild and Ashford's Iron Crusaders. Ashford originally studied this thing in the hope of building a mobile fortress, but later found out that this thing could fly but not move, which was really depressing.

I stood in front of the city frame and used the guild channel to issue orders to the players in the 400 crawler units at the same time. I couldn't make any mistakes at this time. For such a big city, the weight is unimaginable. If we want to drive such a big thing, the power we use is not half-normal. Once the operation is wrong. The propulsion device will fall apart. This thing costs 100,000 crystal coins each. If Erlangshen hadn't helped me reimburse most of the cost for personal gain, I wouldn't be able to build such expensive equipment. Erlangshen said that Heavenly Court did not understand these technical equipment, so it was easy to get away with "randomly" reporting prices for these things, because those great gods did not know how much this thing was worth.

Under our command, some mechanical arms protrude from the inverted Y-shaped support frames of the 400 crawler units. The tips of these mechanical arms have metal wires like broom heads. This is actually our design modeled after electric brushes. energy brush. There are gravity resistance devices in the mezzanine of those crawler tracks, and the gravity resistance devices located at both ends of the track splints have tentacle-like energy heads extending out. This is our design.

The power core suddenly began to increase the output power. The dynamic energy is transmitted to the energy probe extended by the gravity resistance device through the energy brush, and then enters the interior of the device. The gravity resistance device that obtains energy suddenly starts. By adjusting the energy intensity on the energy brush, the buoyancy of the gravity resistance device can be easily controlled. As everyone increased the output together, the gravity resistance devices in the track pads located under the wheels gradually increased their buoyancy. The entire urban framework of Essinger slowly left the ground under this huge drag force and continued to rise.

When the track pads below were 5 meters off the ground I ordered to keep hovering. Those players immediately adjusted the power to just enough to ensure that the city frame's stable suspension did not rise or fall.

I once again ordered the thrust equipment of the crawler device to be started, and with the neat operations of the players, the power equipment began to operate. The power of the engine is transmitted to the wheels, and then the tracks begin to rotate. The city frame actually started to move. You must know that Essinger's frame is floating in the sky and the earth at this time. It is really flying now!

"Oh!..." The players below were excited. The track propulsion theory is correct, and Essinger can move in the air!

In fact, this set of aerial mobile equipment does not solve the problem of being unable to move horizontally after the gravity resistance device is activated. It just cleverly avoids this problem. The anti-gravity device cannot move horizontally only when it is activated. It can move at will as long as it is not activated, and the crawler tracks exactly accomplish this goal.

When the track is running. The part in contact with the ground actually does not move horizontally. This property is exactly in line with the characteristics of the anti-gravity device. When on the ground, the force for the track to advance comes from the reaction force on the ground, while in the air, this reaction force is provided by the gravity resistance device.

The area covered by that row of huge energy brushes is only the gravity resistance device located under the wheel. That is to say, when the track rotates, only the gravity resistance device that enters the one or two track shoes under the wheel has energy, and once they If you leave this position, you won't be able to reach the energy brush, and of course it will shut down. The advantage of this design is that it is purely mechanical and does not require a specially designed control system to decide which equipment should be started and which equipment should not be started. Everything is automated now. No matter whether the track is stopped or moving. Regardless of its rotational speed, the energy brush will only provide power to the few gravity resistance devices that bear the weight. Others will not start at all.

At the end of the experiment, it turns out that the design is completely reasonable and the city can move normally. In the future, Essinger will have the ability to move in the air, but if you want to turn, you must stop first, then turn off all power on the crawler device and replace it with the rail steering device. After the turn is completed, switch back and continue moving. The trouble is that it's a bit troublesome, but at least I can move and turn.

The most complicated devices have been installed, and the next work is pure physical work. The pipe layer and mechanical layer and maintenance layer have been reserved on the urban framework, and the remaining work is to lay the ground and construct the building.

The overall construction of Essinger is very difficult. The main reason is that the modular design has led to a lot more movable parts in the city. The energy conductors and transmission equipment of these things make the city frame look like spider caves, with wires everywhere. While they were busy with construction, I took out a city tree seed. This is the seed of the mutant city tree brought back from the Mother Earth Temple in Switzerland. This kind of city tree is smarter than the original one, and it also has the commanding ability of a golem. It just so happens that this time Isengard The destroyed city tree was also killed, and the new city happened to be replaced with a new city tree. I placed the seed on the main power core. Then this plant quickly penetrated into various buildings. The characteristic of the new city tree is that its root system is completely invisible. All plant parts are integrated with the city's buildings and equipment, and cannot be discovered at all, and cannot be separated.

After another busy day and two nights, the city basically has a general shape. The main body of the city looks like a Mayan pyramid, formed by stacking three successively smaller terraces.

The bottom of the bottom terrace is a square with a side length of 32 kilometers, and the outer vertical height is about 900 meters. This part is the largest district in the entire city, and we name it the base layer. There is actually not only one layer in the base layer. It is actually divided into 4 levels.

The lowest layer among these four layers is the mechanical power layer. The jacks, crawler propellers, and orbital steering gears are all in this layer. Moreover, there are a large number of retractable weapons installed under this layer of movable armor. Now that Essinger can fly, we may be able to attack other cities in the future. Since we can fly, we must make full use of this advantage. If the weapons are installed under the city, they can float above people's heads and shoot down. In fact, not many of these so-called weapons platforms are regular weapons platforms at all, most of them are bomb throwers. Anyway, we are on top of people's heads, so we can just throw the bombs directly down. It doesn't make much sense whether we need cannons or not.

The second layer of the base layer is the structural layer, where there are backup gravity countermeasures and backup energy systems. The main power core is also here, and most of the city's production equipment is here.

The third layer of the basic layer is the main living layer, where NPCs in the city and some shops are gathered here. The functions of the fourth and third floors on the top floor are exactly the same, and the urban transnational transmission array will also be installed in the center of this floor. It should be noted that the fourth layer on top of the base layer also has a roof, it is not open. The outer wall thickness of this layer is 00 meters, but the interior is not solid. We have left a large number of artillery windows in this wall, and each window is blocked with waterproof partitions. And it has mobile armor protection. When you need to shoot, just open the window and extend the barrel, and close it when not in use. Inside the window is the fighting room, connected by a passage behind it, and extending a little further into the city is the ammunition depot. This design is safe and reliable and can ensure combat effectiveness.

Above the base layer at the bottom is the middle layer. This part is completely independent and can actually be separated from the base layer below. The technicians in the guild have made a lot of crawler propulsion devices and new track steering machines, which will be installed on the middle layer. The shape of the middle floor is also a terrace. However, it is smaller than the base layer. Its bottom side is only 10 kilometers long, and its outer vertical height is about 700 meters.

The middle layer is divided into three layers. The first floor at the bottom has a similar layout to the base floor, and also has a mechanical area. There are 100 crawler propulsion units and a rail steering machine consisting of three rails. But what is different from the base layer is that the mechanical areas on this layer are concentrated in the middle, the peripheral areas are empty, and there are a large number of gates on the outer wall. The space behind the gates is the port. These gates are protected by extra-large waterproof partitions custom-made from Atlantis. If the city goes underwater, this will be the entrance and exit of the battleship. There are special equipment in the port that can keep the water in the port after the city is launched, so that warships can still berth in the port, but if you want the warships to enter and exit, you must wait for the city to be launched.

Because the top floor of the base floor has a ceiling, that means there is a large open space outside the middle floor. Our people have built a multi-functional platform here. There are a large number of lifting platforms on the ground. During battle, the armor in these places can be opened to raise the internal weapons. When the weapon platform is recovered and the armor is closed, it becomes a flat platform. In fact, the purpose of retaining this platform was to consider the possible need to build air battleships in the future, so the airport was reserved first. Such a large area is completely an airport. No matter how many air warships are there, it can be parked in it, and the port at the back can be used as a hangar as long as the water is drained. The equipment is complete and the conditions are first-class.

The second layer of the middle layer is the camp of our NPC army. Our totem beasts and guardian beasts all live here. The third floor of the middle layer is the living area for guild players. There are some major places such as the career center and resurrection hall. The lounge for guild players is also here, and there are also a few commercial areas here.

Because the middle layer is on top of the base layer, it is relatively safer. The wall thickness is only 800 meters, but there are still a large number of fire windows. Our design idea is that Essinger should not have a fire blind spot. In fact, there is also a firepower platform at the bottom of the middle layer, but the middle layer is usually connected to the base layer, so these things are stored inside. If necessary, the middle layer can be separated from the base layer to deploy these weapons to defend the area below it.

Above the middle layer is the command layer, which has a special structure. This layer does not have a square base. Its bottom is a regular octagon with a side length of 3 kilometers, but the top is a square with a side length of 2500 meters. The external vertical height of the command floor is 650 meters, and the interior is divided into three floors.

The lowest level of the command level is of course still the mechanical level. To ensure that the command level can act independently after the city is separated, those power equipment are indispensable. There are only 36 crawler propulsion equipment on the command level, and the steering gear has only one track, but because this level is relatively small, these are enough.

Same as the bottom layer of the middle layer. There are also ports on the outer circle of the bottom layer of the command layer, but the ports here only have four exits, not as many as the middle layer, and the ports here are very small. We plan this to be a backup port only. Usually it is not used.

The second level of the command level is the guild's working level. The city council hall and library, as well as large crystal communication rooms, various research institutions, etc. are basically crowded here. Above that is the third floor, which is the temple floor, but the actual temple where things are done is not here. There are temple offices on each floor of Essinger. The temple floor at the top of the command level is actually just the temple's research institute and Vina's residence. In addition, it is because it wants to promote Taoism. Therefore, a part of it is set aside for Taoist temples.

The topmost level of the command level also has a roof, so there is no complete level on this platform. Because I don’t know what I can put here at the moment, I’ll leave it empty for the time being.

It has been almost a week since the first day, and Essinger is finally basically completed. All the structures have been installed, and the internal buildings are still under construction, but that is equivalent to decorating it being much simpler than building a city. Because many weapons and equipment are not in place, the city feels relatively empty for the time being. Another depressing problem is that there are no free NPCs in the city. When we moved all the people and materials in the city, we also removed the NPCs responsible for the city's operations. However, free NPCs cannot evacuate. The city was destroyed and those people became ghosts, and there was nothing I could do about it.

See that the city is basically complete. Erlangshen came to congratulate me, but I really couldn't be happy. Although the city is almost complete, the real trouble begins now.

I said to Erlang Shen: "Okay, the labor problem is basically solved. We can cancel the external disguise. Even if the people in Heaven see them, they can't say anything. Anyway, the capital is built."

Erlangshen nodded and took off his disguise. Of course, his puppet must be removed in advance, otherwise it would be bad if the heaven discovers it. "What are you going to do next?"

I looked at Erlang Shen said: "Next, I would like to trouble you to take me to see the Jade Emperor."

"What are you going to do?"

"We need special compensation!" I pointed at Essinger. "Isengard used to be the best city in the world. Do you know why it is so special?"

Erlangshen shook his head. "have no idea."

"The reason why Isengard is the best city in the world is not just because it is huge, but more importantly because of its special nature. Essinger has a large number of special buildings. I found these things and accumulated them little by little." I got up, and now I have been completely ruined by the new Suzaku. Even if I am given back such a new Essinger, I will still suffer a loss." In fact, I don't suffer a loss at all now, the new Essinger's My ability is no worse than before, but now that I'm blackmailing, of course it's going to be a bit worse.

Erlang Shen nodded and said: "It's a big loss. So let's do this. I'll take you to see the Jade Emperor, and you can discuss it with the Jade Emperor yourself."

"OK."

The traffic in the heaven is really great. Erlang Shen can directly summon the Nantian Gate to open above our heads, and then fly in. It is simply more convenient than any door on Doraemon. The Jade Emperor heard about the matter of coming to discuss compensation for special items and immediately summoned me. After all, the leader Hong Jun nodded and promised not to let me suffer, so the Jade Emperor is particularly polite now.

"Ziri, I heard that your city has been completed. Is it true?" The Jade Emperor summoned me in the garden, so he spoke more casually.

I immediately said: "It's almost finished, but I don't know what to do now with the loss of special supplies!"

"Tell me first what things have been damaged and cannot be restored? We will solve them for you one by one."

"I feel relieved with your words. I have prepared a detailed record book of items here, please take a look." I handed over an oversized scroll that looked like a log.

The Jade Emperor was shocked by my scroll. There were tens of thousands of records in such a large scroll, even if the fonts were relatively large. He simply didn't even look at it when he saw it was so long. "Are these all lost materials?"

I nodded: "These are all unrecoverable things, especially some magic books. They are all unique copies. These are really going to be lost!" The Essinger Library did lose a lot of books, but there were no What I said is so exaggerated. Moreover, all our books have backups in Tianyu City. There is no such thing as an orphan copy. At most, the originals are damaged.