Sword of Dawn

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"How about increasing the 'capacity' of each shelter as much as possible?" Jenny said suddenly, "Put as many people in as possible, after all, the magic tide only lasts for half a year to a year, everyone It is enough to survive in the shelter for at most one year..."

"My estimate just now is already a limit value, Master Jenny," Windsor Mapel said calmly, "The population of each shelter is within the limit range, and everyone's material ration is only slightly higher than the survival bottom line A little bit, and in this process, the over-allocation of the "privileged population" has been erased in advance. According to the plan, people including the royal family and military and political officials only have the same material and living space quota as ordinary people in the refuge city , to 'squeeze' out the chances of survival to the maximum."

Jenny was speechless for a moment: "This..."

"In the final analysis, it is not only the supplies that restrict the shelter population, but the scale and number of shelters," Windsor Mapel continued, "The number of cities that can be transformed into shelters is limited, and the output of protective equipment is also limited. It is impossible to cram the entire population of each country into a refuge city."

Chapter 1495

How long does it take a person to prepare mentally before he can choose to count hundreds of millions of lives as a "price" to pay for the survival of civilization?

Gao Wen felt that the answer might be "permanent" - no one can be prepared for this kind of mentality, no one can take this as a mathematical problem with peace of mind, this is something that will never become "natural". The size of the refuge metropolitan group is doomed that more than half of the world's population will be kept out of the barrier and face the impact of the demon tide, and those survivors who come out of the refuge will take at least one generation to slowly understand And remember the price.

But if there is no other choice, this terrible option will still become an executable plan, whether it is himself, Rosetta Augustus, or Belsetia and the two dragon leaders, all here Everyone knows a truth - most of the difficult decisions in this world are not made in a state of "peace of mind".

You may not be willing, but you have to choose, as Veronica once told Gao Wen, the appearance of every victim means the incompetence of the decision-maker—but the decision-maker will still continue to make decisions, sacrifice The latter will always accompany the process of civilization development.

It was in this situation that the Typhonians gave their solution, and Gawain believed that Rosetta Augustus was fully aware of the significance of this solution.

But this shouldn't be the only option.

"The sanctuary city group plan circumvents the engineering problem of planetary barriers, but the price is that its protection scale is limited, and there will be astonishing sacrifices," Gao Wen tapped on the table lightly, "and I still have a question about it... We all know that neural networks are the basis for generating non-directional trends of thought. We need a large number of 'computing nodes' to be densely integrated into the network, and these computing nodes are all human beings... where do you plan to arrange such a large number of 'nodes'? ?Should we concentrate on building specialized 'node shelters' and use several cities to assume the 'source' function, or distribute these computing nodes in various refuge cities?"

Speaking of this, he paused and began to explain his own problem: "If you build a 'node shelter' in a centralized manner, you can maximize the efficiency of network operation and maintain a sufficient strength of mental unity field with as few nodes as possible. Correspondingly, we have to consider the safety and daily operation of the 'node shelter'. Since most people in the whole city need to access the network to maintain the unified field of mind, we must leave special and absolutely reliable personnel in the real space to Keep these connected nodes alive while keeping the entire city safe.

"Considering the high concentration of computing nodes, in this case, once there is a problem with the refuge of one or two nodes, the 'strength' of the unified field of mind may be greatly reduced, or even completely penetrated by the magic wave.

"And if the computing nodes are distributed in various cities, it can effectively reduce the risk of barrier breakdown caused by a large number of nodes being offline at the same time. In the case of equal computing power, even if there are problems in several shelters or in the wilderness The interruption of some of the lines will not affect the refuge groups around the world, and because the nodes are abundant and safe, the people who serve as computing nodes can also take turns to rest, but the disadvantages of this are also obvious-distributed in Computing centers in each city will incur higher costs than 'node shelters'. At the same time, because each city must have a complete set of node facilities, this will reduce the 'capacity' of each shelter in disguise, and will cause more people to lose chance of survival."

"We have indeed considered these two different situations," Windsor Mapel looked at Gao Wen in surprise, as if he did not expect that the other party could fully understand the structure of the refuge city group in such a short period of time , and directly considered its two implementation plans, and she thought so deeply, but she quickly adjusted her expression and replied with a very serious attitude, "At present we are inclined to the second solution, that is, to use the Computing nodes are allocated in each refuge city, and a complete set of supporting systems is built in each city.

"We know that this will reduce the 'capacity' of a single shelter, but this is to maximize the safety of all shelters in the world. Because once the magic wave starts, each shelter will be closed, except for neural network-based communication. In addition, there will be no flow of people and materials between cities... No one can go across the unobstructed wilderness to repair a faulty node shelter, so the only way is not to have a node shelter."

After Windsor Mapel's voice fell, the figures around the round table also fell into deep thought at the same time. This is such a cold and realistic plan that even the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world would not Every effort is needed to carefully weigh all the details of the plan and deduce all possible variables in its implementation.

As the caller and organizer of this meeting, Gawain looked at everyone present while he was thinking. He noticed that Belsetia and Verania were talking in a low and hasty tone. After a minute of communication, the Silver Queen suddenly raised her head to break the silence: "Let me tell you about our plan."

The queen stood up, put her hands on the edge of the round table, and slowly said: "The Silver Empire's plan also bypasses the difficult goal of the 'planetary barrier'. Similar to Typhon, we also tend to build a Vaults that are achievable with the current level of technology, and move large numbers of people into shelters, the difference is that our solution should be able to keep more people... and hopefully keep everyone in the world."

As soon as these words came out, the gazes of everyone around the round table changed instantly. Gao Wen vaguely thought of something, and subconsciously said, "You mean..."

"Gondor Wasteland," the Silver Queen nodded, "We intend to repair and rebuild the Sentinel Tower that was damaged in the previous war, restart the magnificent wall, and build the entire Gondor Wasteland into a sanctuary!"

As soon as this remark was made, there was a sudden silence around the round table. Even Rosetta Augustus, who always had a poker face, opened his eyes slightly. Belsetia clicked after a moment's pause. Nod and start explaining this amazing concept in detail:

"The Sentinel Tower itself is a powerful force field projection device, and it also has a high-speed information transmission function. At present, part of the communication link between the Silver Empire and the Cecil Empire relies on the remaining Sentinels. The tower is used to complete the forwarding. We have realized the compatibility adjustment between the neural network and the sentinel link, so only a small amount of modification is required, and the sentinel tower can be converted into a transmission node of the neural network and a projection node of the unified field of mind—— And their power will be enough to shelter the entire region of Gondor."

"Wait, I have a question." As soon as the Silver Queen finished speaking, Rebecca raised her hand and asked, "The Great Wall is a circular barrier, even if it can 'enclose' the entire Gondor region Get up, what about the sky and the underground?"

"This part is accomplished by the 'blocking wall'," Belsetia nodded, apparently the issue that Rebecca thought of had already been discussed on the Silver Empire side, "The two buildings built in the previous Wasteland War The blocking wall that runs through Gondor is still standing on the ground. Although the mana pollution in the wasteland has receded, the blocking wall itself has not been abandoned, but only needs a little modification. The purification of those that make up the blocking wall The tower can be used to guide and transform the energy field projected by the Sentinel Tower.

"Everyone here has just experienced the wasteland war. We all know that the principle of the blocking wall is to interfere with the magic energy environment of the entire wasteland area through 'frequency modulation'. Its core part itself is a wide-area Force field projection and control devices, and according to Master Verania's calculations, if we can restore the operation of all the sentinel towers and add the function of the blocking wall, we will be enough to support a barrier covering the entire territory of Gondor—— Barrier coverage includes the sky and the earth.

"In this way, judging from the 'scale' of the shelter, the Gondor Shelter will be sufficient to accommodate the world's population... at least the living space and the storage space for basic living supplies are sufficient."

The Silver Elf proposed an astonishing yet attractive plan—frankly speaking, even Gawain had to admit that this plan was completely beyond his expectations, and it sounded extremely feasible.

Restart the ancient majestic wall, let the ancient barrier and the modern blocking wall interact, and finally turn the entire wasteland into a refuge for mortals. The ancient kingdom of Gondor, which was once destroyed in the "Magic Tide", will become a place of sanctuary In the past, the desperate situation of death has turned into the hope of the continuation of civilization. This is not only an escape plan, but also a very romantic and dramatic plan.

Gao Wen even felt that if Mo Chao had the will, he might have to say a word of admiration after seeing this plan - why don't you leave this place and change homes?

But he was not overwhelmed by this romantic and dramatic plan. Instead of lamenting, he paid more attention to the shortcomings and risks behind this plan: "Have you considered the shortcomings of this plan?"

"Yes," answered him was the great astrologist Verania sitting next to the Silver Queen. This lady who had personally presided over the construction of the Sentinel Tower stood up and met Gawain's gaze calmly, "' Although the scale of the Gondor Sanctuary is far greater than the Sanctuary City Group in Typhon's plan, its ability to resist risks is actually lower.

"In our plan, the entire refuge is maintained by a large and complex sentry tower-blocking wall system. Considering the actual limitations in technology, production capacity, and the urgency of the magic wave, it is almost impossible for us to create If more sentinel towers or blocking wall nodes are used as 'redundant components', it is already the limit to complete the 'refuge transformation' of the Gondor wasteland within a year and a half.

"Therefore, the entire system after Gondor Sanctuary is activated is equivalent to operating at a critical point. Every sentinel tower and every node of the blocking wall is extremely critical and cannot afford losses... Maybe the situation of the blocking wall is not enough. Well, we should still be able to squeeze out some production capacity to build backup components now, but the Sentinel Tower is definitely not redundant..."

"That is to say, within half a year to a year of the demon tide, there will be no problems with the sentinel towers supporting the barrier," Rosetta said in a low voice, "Even if one of the towers shuts down, the shelter will be destroyed..."

"Indeed," Verania nodded lightly, "Compared with the sanctuary city group, the disaster tolerance of the Gondor sanctuary plan is almost zero, and its advantages and disadvantages are obvious—our plan can protect as many people as possible. Possibly more people, but at the cost of multiplying the risk."

"The risk of this plan is really great," Gao Wen also said at this time, "and I think the biggest risk comes from those sentinel towers... Let me be blunt, we all know the situation of those sentinel towers, To describe it as 'in disrepair' is the most euphemistic term, and in previous wars, several Sentinel Towers were completely destroyed by the attack of the Wasteland Legion. With the current capabilities of the Silver Empire, it can really be 'rebuilt' Are these towers? There are still those towers that need to be 'repaired', and will they be able to return to their heyday when they are repaired?"

Gao Wen's words were straightforward, but Verania did not show any dissatisfaction with this, she just responded frankly: "It must be admitted that the Silver Elves are no longer capable of restoring the Sentinel Tower to its full glory and 'rebuilding' those destroyed The tower is actually a major repair of the wreckage, plus some modern alternative technologies to restore it to operation. These repair and reconstruction methods are not reliable, but considering that the duration of the magic wave itself is not long, these unreliable repairs Tinkering becomes 'reliable'."

Having said that, what Verania meant is actually very clear-the silver elves have lost the complete technology to build the Sentinel Tower, but relying on their tinkering experience and the newly developed modern magic technology, they can make those who are The towers damaged in the war temporarily resumed operation. In theory, they can guarantee that there will be no problems with those towers within half a year to a year when the magic tide lasts.

But if something goes wrong within a year and a half...then only the global GG will be left.

And in Gao Wen's view, the problem with this plan is actually more than that.

"The bigger challenge we have to face is the wasteland itself," Gawain said slowly after thinking for a moment, "moving everyone to the Gondor Sanctuary, even if it's just for a year at most, will not be a problem. will be a huge challenge.

"Although the chaotic mana in the wasteland of Gondor has subsided, the wasteland is far from being restored to a livable state. Currently, except for the marginal area and the purification area affected by the giant tree of Thorin, most of the ancient country of Gondor The environment in the area is still harsh. The slightly better place is a wasteland, and the worse place still has toxic water bodies and soil pollution. It is not easy to set up settlements in these places. We need life-support facilities with an astonishing scale and quantity In order to ensure the survival of ordinary people... and it is only barely maintained.

"In general, the Gondor wasteland is still a 'wasteland', and its natural environment restoration has just begun, let alone discuss any infrastructure. There are no towns, no fields, and most areas have no communications and roads. There are primitive wastelands that cannot maintain order everywhere, and countries will face huge chaos after migrating in..."

Gao Wen shook his head when he said this, and his tone was not optimistic: "Hundreds of millions of people have been stuffed into a primitive and barren land of lawlessness. To be honest, even the Cecil Empire may not be able to maintain normality under such circumstances. social order, not to mention those small and medium-sized countries that originally had problems with execution and mobilization.

"We will not underestimate the tenacious will of mortals in the face of crisis, but we also cannot overestimate the ability of 'groups' to maintain reason and order in complex environments, especially when all people have to crowd in a wilderness. Survival resources must be calculated carefully, and the state institutions that maintain social order are almost in a state of failure..."

Chapter 1496 Two Plans of the Giant Dragon

The Silver Empire and the Typhon Empire each proposed a refuge plan that could be realized with the current level of technology and production capacity. Regardless of whether it is a refuge city group or a Gondor refuge, these two proposals have their own obvious characteristics and differences. A flaw that cannot be ignored.

The refuge cities of the Typhon people have a higher safety factor, higher disaster tolerance capabilities, and lower implementation costs. The refuge cities scattered across the continent and isolated from each other are equivalent to "civilization backups" scattered around the world Even if accidents happen to some of the shelters, as long as the neural network behind the urban agglomeration does not completely collapse, as long as a few shelters survive, the civilization as a whole will continue.

However, this plan needs to give up more than half of the world's population from the very beginning, and to be honest... It is still unknown whether the smaller refuge cities can have sufficient protection against the evil tide.

The Silver Empire's plan is likely to preserve the world's population, and at the same time, the size of Gondor's shelter also ensures that the "output power" of the entire barrier system is strong and reliable. However, the disaster recovery capability of this plan itself is a fatal flaw. The sentinel tower running at the critical point is the biggest weakness of the shelter—frankly speaking, it may be helpless to put all eggs in one basket in the face of a world natural disaster like the magic tide, but the biggest problem with this plan is " The "basket" itself might not be very strong...

What's more, even if there is no problem in the Gondor refuge from the beginning to the end, how to persist the huge population who migrated to the refuge until the refuge reopens is a difficult problem of the century.

Many people think that the duration of the demon tide is short, and people only need to endure in the refuge for half a year to a year before they can be liberated safely. Therefore, it is not a problem at all to live in the refuge, and it will pass after patience, but Gao Wen is very happy. It is clear that there is a limit to this "difficulty", especially when the management functions of countries have declined sharply after entering the refuge, and the ability of a large crowd to maintain rationality and order is not worth looking forward to.

In a year and a half, the barrier system used to build the shelter and the relocation project are enough to drain the production capacity and mobilization capacity of each country. If a sufficient number of settlements are built to meet the standard, food, medicine, clean water, and protective equipment that are enough for all people in the world to consume for a year will not be prepared, and the survival resources in the shelter will be far less than the population it accommodates , which is almost inevitable.

Therefore, in Gao Wen's view, although the Silver Empire's shelter plan protects all mortals in the world in name, in the shelter, about half of the population may still passively lose the basic conditions for survival. This is no different from the Typhon Empire's "abandoning more than half of the population to meet the size limit of the refuge city group".

No, it's even worse—because half the population that was abandoned in disguise is also inside the barrier.

There is only hunger in this world that cannot be eliminated through any compromise and patience.

Gawain believes that he is not the only one who can think of these things. Belsetia and her courtiers and advisors must have gone through repeated consideration and discussions. No matter how many adjustments are made to this plan, the rigid shortcomings are doomed to be irreversible, and these shortcomings are the "price" to be paid for the survival of civilization.

After a brief discussion and weighing of the Silver Empire's plan, Gawain finally turned his attention to the two giant dragon leaders: "I want to hear the opinions of Tarrond and the Holy Dragon Principality."

Balogar and Heragor exchanged glances, and the latter stood up. The golden dragon who was once the chief scientific leader of Tarrond and served the gods as a priest for 1807 million years said calmly: " We have two options, both of which can be pursued simultaneously, and both of which have obvious flaws."

"Two plans?" Belsetia's tone was full of surprise. She didn't expect that the dragon not only discussed the plans in such a short preparation time before the meeting, but even prepared two plans at a time. Subconsciously lamenting that the other party deserves to be the strongest civilization in the world in the past, at the same time, an uncontrollable curiosity arose, "What's the specifics?"

"The first plan is similar to the Gondor Sanctuary of the Silver Empire," Heragor nodded, and said unhurriedly, "We are planning to restart the great shield of Tarrond."

"The Great Shield of Tarrond?!" Gawain was astonished. "Hasn't it been destroyed on the day of the coming-of-age ceremony? You have the ability to rebuild it so soon?"

"...it wasn't completely destroyed," Heragor was silent for two seconds, shaking his head lightly, "it just went out...we completed our circumnavigation of the continent of Tarrond not long ago, surprised It was found that 90.00% of the shield devices around the entire continental border were in an intact state, and only the southeast coast was completely destroyed. That was... when the gods rushed out of the continent to intercept the spaceship, they were torn apart by the gravity field Part, and this small section can be repaired with our current capabilities.

"As for the shield generators in the rest of the continent, they are actually temporarily shut down because the energy system is overloaded and offline... All of them will be restarted in a short time."

Gawain's eyes widened, and he didn't know what to say for several seconds. This was a situation that everyone, even the Dragon Clan, had never thought of. Everyone thought that the great shield of Tarrond had been completely destroyed by the Dragon God. But in fact, that thing was miraculously preserved, but due to the difficult situation in a short period of time after the war, the dragons themselves had no spare time to patrol the whole territory, and they didn't even think of checking the condition of the shield. Only now discovered...

But then again, on a battlefield as terrifying as the coming-of-age ceremony, how did the big shield survive?

Gawain was full of confusion, but his eyes suddenly froze again, looking at Heragor and Baloger sitting opposite the round table, he couldn't help but come up with an idea - perhaps, He was afraid that they would be cold...

He shook his head, threw some irrelevant thoughts out of his mind, and stared at Heragor with scorching eyes: "After restarting the great shield of Tarrond? This should not be the whole plan, after all, according to what I know You know, just relying on a large shield does not have the function of resisting the magic tide."

"Yes," Heragor nodded lightly, "Restarting the large shield is only the first step. Since the hardware foundation is still there, the part that needs to be repaired is only a short section, so this step can be completed soon. After this, we will start trying to link the 'mind unity field' to the large shield - this is theoretically possible.

"During the Eternal Cradle Era, the great shield of Tarrond had sheltered the giant dragon from several demon tides, and what it relied on was actually the dragon god linked to the great shield. According to the information sent by the Noi people According to the technical documents and recent research results of the alliance, the position of this "god" actually corresponds to the unified field of mind. If the theory is correct, then the connection technology we used to use on the large shield should be directly applicable to the unified field of mind The above... just need some compatibility adjustments at most.

"The three of us, Andal and Baloger, have already studied the blueprints sent by the Noi. Although there are still many technical details that need to be confirmed, overall, I think my judgment is correct. Lord Tarrond The shield can be the vehicle for the neural network and the unified field of mind—as good as the Sentinel Tower, if not better."

Gawain nodded slightly as he listened. From the perspective of the reliability of the entire system, the Great Shield of Tarrond might be a better solution than the Sentinel Tower barrier—that thing has a higher technical level and a better hardware condition. Well, and there are many redundant nodes in the Tarrond shield itself, and more importantly... this thing has been tested in practice.

After all, the Dragon Clan has survived the demonic tide more than once with this thing. In a sense, their big shield was originally designed to fight against the demonic tide. Even now, this big shield is only missing a It is just a "signal source" used by Chao Chao. This signal source used to be the dragon god Enya, but now it is very likely that it can be directly and seamlessly switched to the mind unification field, a more advanced and more harmless solution.

But it's not enough for a shelter to have just one barrier - the asylum seekers need to survive inside.

Gawain posed his own question, and Heragor's answer seemed to be well prepared: "It is true that most of Tarrond's area has been turned into wasteland after the battle of coming of age, but after the battle, it has spared no effort to clean up and rebuild. The whole territory has not yet been recovered, but great progress has been made. At present, one-fifth of our land belongs to the "green zone" free of pollution and dangerous organisms, and about two-fifths of the area belong to risk controllable areas. Residents The 'yellow zone' where you can live in a group for a short period of time, and the remaining dangerous areas also have clear borders and perfect protection and early warning methods, and more importantly...we have already established a certain scale of infrastructure, and at the same time restored some The operation of the production center may not be enough, but at least it is not as wasteland as the wasteland of Gondor."

Having said that, he paused, organized his language, and continued: "Another point is that many infrastructures and material reserves in Tarrond are set up according to the standards of giant dragons, and a giant living in the form of a dragon If a dragon keeps itself in human form for a long time, it can save a lot of resource consumption and living space. Even in more extreme cases, as long as we don't switch forms, we can endure hunger for several months... This is almost enough to last until the end of the demon tide, The saved rations could keep millions of people alive.”

Gao Wen frowned: "This..."

"We have already discussed this point within the clan, and no one has any opinions," Heragor said without waiting for Gawain to continue, his eyes swept over Typhon and the two leaders of the Silver Empire at the same time, slightly Nodding, "After the coming-of-age ceremony, dozens of countries in the Alliance have collected food and medicine and sent them to Tarrond. These things have allowed most survivors to survive the initial difficult days after the war. Regarding this, The dragon is one who knows how to repay his kindness."

The round table was quiet for a while, until Rosetta frowned slightly and broke the silence in thought: "Perhaps what I want to say is a bit disruptive to the atmosphere, but it should still not be enough... The living space of Tarrond is much smaller than just now. Duo shelter, and it is located in the Arctic Ocean, it is inconvenient to transport people and goods, no matter how many people are stuffed inside, no matter how much materials are saved, I am afraid that many people will still be left outside the barrier, right?"

"So we have a plan No. [-] that can be carried out at the same time to accommodate other people," Heragor nodded, "The restart cost and time required for the large shield of Tarrond are not much, and the dragons can independently Once this is done, the Alliance can save enough resources and energy to open up a 'Second Sanctuary'."

"Second Shelter?" Gawain frowned.

"We actually have a natural shelter, which can be directly 'moved in' without any 'handling'. It is absolutely safe and reliable, and the magic tide will not affect it in the slightest. Its scale is not too small. Maybe it's not enough to accommodate everyone, but at least it's enough to accommodate those outside the large shield of Tarrond," Heragor smiled slightly, "Did you forget...the Alliance also controls a 'Kingdom of God'? "

"You mean God of War God Kingdom?!" Gao Wen was taken aback, this was completely beyond his expectation, it was a proper blind spot, but soon he realized that this was an excellent idea, "Yes , the realm of the Kingdom of God is a natural barrier against the tide of magic..."

"The Kingdom of God was born based on the thoughts of mortals, and it belongs to the standard model of the 'observer effect closed loop'. Even if the god itself falls, as long as the Kingdom of God has not completely dissipated, it will still not be affected by the magic tide inside," Helago said. Er nodded, "Although the Kingdom of God of War is currently in a state of accelerated 'disintegration', this disintegration process is also calculated in decades or even hundreds of years. For a year and a half, it will start, two to two As far as the demon tide that will end within three years, it will be an extremely stable and safe refuge.

"We don't have to worry about any 'hardware failure' in the Kingdom of God Sanctuary, we don't have to worry about it being broken down, and we don't even need an additional neural network and mental unity field to keep it running. There is no need to worry about mental pollution in the national refuge, and at the same time, there are no waste soil poisons and dangerous creatures, and the environment is stable and safe... It is said that Cecil's agronomists even tried to grow vegetables in the God of War Temple and achieved success ?”

Noticing Heragor's gaze, Gawain nodded: "Indeed, we brought in some equipment and supplies from outside, and built a small-scale hydroponic farm in the God of War Temple. The harvest was good, and we I also tested a circulating water purification facility that does not rely on magic power, and it was also successful..."

Belsetia next to her was stunned. She stared at Gawain, "How could you think of doing this kind of experiment in God of War's kingdom?"

"Why not?" Gawain spread out his hands, "When you find a place with a mild environment and a stable climate that happens to have never grown vegetables, don't you want to grow something?"

Belsetia thought for a while, but was speechless.

Heragor, on the other hand, understood the fact that "the Cecils tried to grow vegetables in the Kingdom of the God of War and succeeded", and he was not even at all surprised when he first learned about it, because he knew very well that this was exactly what happened. It is an important part of the many technologies of Alien Exploration—and it is a rare part that can be lit without triggering the "final disobedience".

For this leader of the dragon clan who once personally led the giant dragon aerospace project, he actually noticed this from Gawain's many actions a long time ago... The eyes of the Cecilians have already turned to him at some point. The sea of ​​stars.

Chapter 1497 Mother Star Barrier

Of course, small-scale hydroponic farms and circulating water purification systems cannot be used to meet the daily operations of a large-scale doomsday shelter, but the experiments conducted by the Cecils in the God of War Kingdom have at least proved one thing—if there is a After more than a year of preparation, mortals can achieve a certain level of food and drinking water production in the God of War God Kingdom, which is enough to reduce the supply pressure in the shelter and allow the limited-scale "God Kingdom Shelter" to accommodate more residents.

In this way, although the two plans of the Dragon Clan are not comparable to the elves' "Gondor Refuge" plan (or home-changing plan) in terms of scale, as long as they are implemented at the same time, they are still sufficient to meet the refuge needs of the world, and whether it is The great shield of Tarrond is also a particularity of the Kingdom of God itself, and its reliability exceeds that of the Sentinel Tower, which has been in disrepair and some of them have been seriously damaged.

At the same time, if the two shelters can be successfully activated as Heragor described, this can be regarded as a "backup" to some extent-although it is still not as good as the "refuge city group" of the Typhon Empire There's a whole bunch of security redundancy that way, but at least it doesn't wipe out an entire civilization just because a safehouse is breached.

In Gao Wen's view, the idea proposed by the Dragon Race may be regarded as a "hybrid upgraded version" of the two plans of Typhon and the Silver Empire. The huge size of the shelter, and to a certain extent, made up for the biggest flaws of the two plans. This is almost the closest to the perfect plan that Gao Wen has heard so far.

The only problem behind these plans proposed by Heragore is that there is great uncertainty in the realization of all processes-except for theoretical support, no one knows whether the unified field of mind can really access Tarlon The Deda shield has replaced the original position of the gods. Although the Sentinel Tower is not advanced, it has already realized the connection and compatibility with the neural network. In this regard, there are actual measurement data available; No one knows whether it is really safe and reliable to use the Kingdom of God as a refuge. After all, in the field of "gods", mortals still know very little, and the Dragon Clan's "Kingdom of God Refuge" plan is also based on old data and On the basis of theoretical deduction...

But no matter what, Gao Wen knew that these were the best plans they could come up with in a short time.

Facing the heavy pressure of survival, mortals' wisdom and will to survive are stimulated. Standing behind each of these grand plans are not only the few figures around the round table today, but also an unknown number of hard-working scholars. Carefully considering all the resources, technologies, and time costs left in the hands of mortal nations, and at the same time, under the pressure of the countdown to the approaching demon tide, try to find a way to make civilization survive within the limited time and resource framework. down the law of asylum.

They have to make too many choices in this process. These choices may be a decimal point after a certain resource, or a list that needs to be adjusted. years, or even millions of years of civilization.

Do you choose to sacrifice most of the people to ensure the absolute safety of the remaining small half of the "lucky population", or choose to increase the risk of the shelter being broken down to protect all the people, or choose unverified, unreliable Determined technology, hoping that everything goes as smoothly as theoretical deduction, to achieve a happy ending of "everything"?

No matter which option you choose, it has gone beyond personal desires and interests, and even beyond the concept of gain, loss, honor and disgrace of a nation. As for the final results of these options... at least one thing Gao Wen can be sure of, even if they choose here today If we took the wrong path, I am afraid that there will be no historians in future generations to comment on today's merits and deeds.

Now, all eyes around the round table finally fell on Gao Wen.

Although the leaders of the most powerful countries in the alliance and the most outstanding scholars among mortals are sitting here at this moment, in the real world they have already stood at the pinnacle of their respective fields, but in this vast sea of ​​pure white flowers, in this vast sea of ​​pure white flowers, Beside the small round table, they still acquiesced that Gao Wen, who sat silently at the table, was the "core" of everything - because he was the convener here and the founder of today's order in the world.

"We want to hear Cecil's plan," Belsetia looked into Gawain's eyes, "You should have your own plan."

Gawain pondered for two seconds, and when he looked up again, his eyes had become as firm as steel: "You may be surprised - Cecil's plan is still the 'parent star barrier'."

As soon as this remark was made, the surroundings of the round table fell silent instantly. Several leaders looked at each other in blank dismay, and the scholars behind them were also stunned. The last plan proposed by Cecil went back to the original point, and Rosetta Augustus was the first to speak: "The mother star barrier is something that cannot be realized by current technology...you mean, Cecil Do you have a way to solve this problem?"

"With the current technical strength and resources of the alliance countries, it is really impossible to build a parent star barrier from scratch within a year and a half, but we may not need to 'start from scratch'," Gao Wen glanced at After passing everyone, he said in a deep voice, "We actually have a 'semi-finished' mother star barrier, have you forgotten?"

"Semi-finished parent star barrier?" Rosetta was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized, "You mean...the one that Sentinel and Death of Everything wanted to do..."

"Yes, it was exactly the Sentinel's plan to 'domesticate' the planet by using rune stones," Gawain nodded lightly, "by transforming and draining the dark blue webway of the planet itself, using rune stones as control nodes to build A force field capable of enveloping the whole world... The essence of this plan is actually to build a mother star barrier, and it is also a more excellent and stronger mother star barrier than the technical indicators proposed by the Nuoyi people in the blueprint."

"Wait, isn't this thing a doomsday weapon?" The great astrologer Verania didn't seem to react immediately, "Once the deep blue webway is guided to explode, won't the whole planet be shrouded in a deadly energy storm?" Are you in..."

Gawain raised his hand to interrupt the Great Astromancer, his expression became solemn: "Ma'am, this is where the fallacy lies—strictly speaking, it's that the Sentinel wants to use the parent star barrier as a doomsday weapon." ', rather than 'the mother star barrier itself is a doomsday weapon', which is also a misunderstanding that most people are accustomed to. This point was even discussed when the war was not over. Will the technical system be just a kind of environmental modification equipment..."

Verania showed a pensive look, and Belsetia reacted—because she had discussed this matter with Gao Wen herself, and she even kept thinking about the rune stones left by the sentries in the dark blue webway. In concern: "You mean, it has been confirmed that the control system that Sentinel built in the Deep Blue Network Road can be harmless, and we can control it?"

"It has not yet reached the level of complete control, but the progress is smooth." In this special venue, Gao Wen did not hide anything. "Cecil has been cooperating with the Deep Blue Well and the Deep Sea Kingdom. We have received the Sentinels and all things. The technology left behind after death will perish. Although this point has not been fully disclosed, everyone in the upper echelon of the alliance should know it - so far, we have cracked some of the basic agreements between those rune stones, and passed several key The channel has reconnected most of the rune stone nodes, and the subsequent command deciphering and authority replacement work is in progress, especially in terms of command deciphering, I have some unique...advantages here."

When he said this, he raised his finger and pointed to his head, and the people around the round table quickly showed a sudden look—to this day, at least among them, Gawain Cecil and the legacy of the voyager The connection is no secret.