Chapter 403 High-dimensional Civilization·City of Star Ring
A few days later, at dusk, a brand-new small garden-style manor was located on the outskirts of the old city of Magic City. The villa inside was renovated from a very retro building.
At this time, Su Mo was standing on the balcony on the second floor in his pajamas, looking into the distance.
An extremely spectacular scene came into view. A brand new interstellar airport had been built on the ruins of the old city that had been bulldozed. The all-metal integrated giant terminal building, each floor is fifty meters high. It is obvious that this is not used to accommodate normal aircraft.
Su Mo did some research and found that the entire federation has planned a total of twenty-four interstellar airports, eighteen of which are built in Area M, Area Z, Area E, and Area O, and the remaining six are located in other areas.
In two months, the twenty-four interstellar airports were basically completed in time while rushing to work at all costs.
It can be regarded as the largest construction project in recent years.
Su Mo picked up his phone and took a look. Today is the last day of the year. After tonight, it will be the New Year. In previous years, this day was definitely very lively. Every household was welcoming the new year.
But today it was unusually quiet, because everyone was waiting for the Cup of Heaven to begin.
At the same time, this morning, Su Mo received a public text message issued by the federation. Starting from this morning, the entire federation entered a level 1 war-ready state.
Su Mo looked at the streets of Magic City from a distance and could see groups of heavily armed soldiers patrolling the streets. At the same time, armored vehicles and tanks drove out, and aircraft roared by in the sky from time to time.
According to the prompts of the closed Star Ring game, the Cup of Heaven will be officially opened at 12 o'clock in the evening.
Su Mo also became more and more inexplicably curious about what this Cup of Heaven looked like.
In the administrative building of the Imperial Capital Center of Federal Zone Z.
Long Ming was wearing a blue parliamentary robe dotted with stars. He sat firmly on the chair and rested with his eyes closed. Various members of the Federation were sitting next to him. But most of them were restless. As the time for the Cup of Heaven approached, everyone was very nervous. After all, everyone was about to face an unknown new world.
On the wall of the room, a large mechanical clock kept moving.
When the hour hand reached half past eleven, a dull bell rang
Boom~
Long Ming opened his eyes, stood up, and said to Auglas and others: "Let's go!"
All the congressmen looked shocked and followed him one after another.
Under the leadership of Long Ming, everyone arrived at a special elevator inside the administrative building. The place was heavily guarded, and everyone took the elevator down to the depths of the ground.
The elevator door opened, and everyone stepped out. A thirty-meter-high alloy gate came into view.
Long Ming pressed his hand on the identification code device.
"Fingerprint recognition passed!"
"Pupillary recognition passed!"
"Biological information identification passed!"
After passing the recognition instructions one after another, click!
The huge alloy gate slowly rose, and a spectacular underground mechanical room came into view. I saw countless optical cables densely packed inside, all of which extended to the central area.
In the center of the mechanical room, there is a very special metal pointed pillar with a special metal Rubik's Cube embedded in the center.
Everyone walked up to the metal pointed pillar, their hearts in their throats.
This is the cornerstone for the opening of the star ring, and it was also what they obtained from space.
Long Ming raised his hand and looked at the time on his watch. When the time reached twelve o'clock. He immediately stepped forward and led everyone in bowing to the metal pointed pillar.
The members of the House of Representatives also followed Long Ming's sonorous and powerful declaration.
"Long Ming, Chairman of the Earth Star Civilization Federation, hereby takes the oath."
"Willing to use faith and life as fuel, ignite the fire of civilization, start the star ring to conquer the cup of star ring sky, even if it is doomed, I will never regret it"
"Willing to use faith and life as fuel, ignite the fire of civilization, and start the Star Ring to conquer the Cup of Star Ring Sky"
While everyone was taking the solemn oath, Long Ming stretched out his hand and pressed it on the metal pillar.
In an instant, the entire metal pointed pillar looked like an iron tree blooming!
Click!
Countless prismatic metal squares popped up.
The metal Rubik's Cube embedded in the center floated, and then the metal ceiling above the head cracked open layer by layer.
In the next second, the metal Rubik's Cube automatically rotated and began to split, and then a sky-wide beam of light rushed into the dark sky.
Like a sharp blade cutting through the dark night sky, like a path pointing to the light in the darkness.
For a time, everyone in the world could see this extremely spectacular scene.
Su Mo's heart trembled slightly as he watched the pillar of light rising into the sky.
Looking down from the sky, you can see a beam of light passing through the atmosphere, then spreading out to form a huge blue halo circle.
This was like an angel's halo, which immediately enveloped the entire earth star and the nearby moon star.
The next second, the scene around the Earth Star and Moon Star began to shift and undergo earth-shaking changes.
In the Earth Star, everyone looked up at the starry sky and saw that the entire world was shrouded in a special halo. The light pillar reaching the sky was like the only guiding light in the world, illuminating everyone.
Many people watching and watching made sounds of horror, and even involuntarily felt curiosity, excitement, worry, panic and other emotions.
Su Mo's heart couldn't help but speed up as he looked at this strange sight that had never been seen in a thousand years. It was really shocking.
Fortunately, the whole process did not last long. In just over half an hour, the sky-reaching light beam began to dissipate.
At this time, the cracked metal Rubik's Cube then rotated again, and a special halo appeared on its surface.
Long Ming and others subconsciously took a step back.
Then a virtual holographic image of an extremely cute girl with a loli face wearing a colorful skirt, who was the one who led them into the Star Ring, appeared.
"Dear pioneers of civilization, welcome to your arrival. I am Ge Li. I am honored to tell you that you are fortunate enough to participate in the Cup of Heaven and get a chance to have a new life. I also know that you must be very confused, but it doesn't matter, all your doubts will be solved. After getting the answer, I officially send you an invitation on behalf of the Star Ring Will to go to the Star Ring City.”
"Where is the City of Rings?"
Long Ming took a deep breath and asked.
Then Goli waved her hand lightly, and a special virtual image appeared.
In the vast starry sky, he saw a top in the shape of a top. The entire body was made of metal and was several times larger than the giant planet. A star-ringing city emerged with seven halo rings of different sizes and colors surrounding its entire body.
The illusory image begins to zoom in, and you can see that its surface is densely covered with pitch-black gun barrels, and its reflected luster is intimidating. Its interior is densely covered with various metal buildings, including a magnificent interstellar shipyard, both up and down, left and right. There are dense automated mechanized processing plants and extremely wide interstellar ports. Interstellar battleships are docked on them. Looking inside, intricate circular orbits are intertwined
The super-future star-ringing city, also known as the star-ringing city. Appearing in front of everyone, people were stunned.
"How do we get there?"
"As the winner of the Earth Cup, you will get your last starship for free. You can take that ship to the Star Ring City, and I will receive you then. In addition, I need to tell you that I will go there just like you. There are also twelve other winners of civilizations in the Star Ring City. They will also ride on interstellar ships. Attacks and conflicts with each other are strictly prohibited on the road."
Goli replied with a smile.
Just when Long Ming was about to ask again.
The light of the metal Rubik's Cube is getting dimmer and dimmer, as if the energy has been exhausted.
Geli's figure gradually disappeared.
"I am waiting for your arrival in the Ring City."
Augustolas and others looked at Long Ming at a loss.
"Chairman of the Longming Council, what should we do now?"
"Yes, do we really want to go?"
"Could this be a trap?"
Long Ming was also a little undecided at this time. This thing happened too suddenly, and now it is different from before. In the past, Star Ring could more or less be called a game, but now they were facing another advanced civilization. Once they made a mistake, they would make mistakes every step of the way.
After all, people instinctively fear unknown things.
At this moment, Li Ruiqi hurriedly walked in and said to Long Ming.
"President Long Ming, an unknown ship appeared in the sky and was landing at the interstellar airport in the imperial capital. It has now caused extreme panic. The fighter formation has locked onto the ship. But no response was received for any calls. Now in the air The formation leader is seeking instructions for the next step. Should we launch an attack? ”
Long Ming took a deep breath, raised his head and said: "No attacks."
"I understand."
Li Ruiqi turned around and left in a hurry.
Long Ming turned to look at Israelin and said: "Iselin, please come forward immediately and give a speech to the whole people to calm the panicked people. Augustolas and others, let's go to the interstellar airport and take a look at the interstellar ship."
"Are we really going?"
Spade also frowned.
"Let's take over the spaceship first. I guess we don't have much choice. Let's inform Dr. Zhang Wei and others to go to the interstellar airport together."
Long Ming gradually calmed down.
"Okay."
No one said much.
Su Mo took his mobile phone and checked the latest news on the Star Ring Forum to see if there was any latest information update.
As soon as I swiped through it, I found a pinned post, and the eye-catching title made my dream come true!
This post was posted by an anonymous player, and the click rate has reached hundreds of millions.
When you click on the post, you can see a photo. The photo was taken in the Z District Imperial Capital. In the sky of the Imperial Capital, a giant gray interstellar ship with a length of five kilometers and a span of one kilometer broke through the clouds and landed towards the interstellar airport.
At the same time, there is another photo attached to the post. This photo was taken at the central civilization site of the Star Ring Lost Continent. The ship of the propeller inside is exactly the same as the ship that actually arrived.
The poster wrote a paragraph in red and eye-catching characters.
"Brothers and sisters, look clearly! Things in the star ring have appeared in reality. Is this fantasy reflected in reality, or are we entering fantasy?"
Su Mo took a deep breath.
At this time, a live broadcast prompt popped up on his mobile phone. Of course, this was obviously sent indiscriminately by the federation and should be used to deal with panic.
Although everyone had made some mental preparations before, when the reality came, the fear in their hearts was involuntarily born.
Su Mo clicked and entered the live broadcast to watch.
Soon, Iselin's image appeared in front of everyone, and she saluted everyone.
"Dear people, please don't have any panic about the various changes that have occurred. Everyone should stay at home. We have now officially participated in the Star Ring Cup, but the specific situation is not yet clear, but everything will happen soon. It will be revealed. The federal government promises to disclose all front-line information and will not hide it from you. However, we also hope that all people will not cause any commotion at this juncture, otherwise they will be punished as treason."
I have to say that Iselin's speech was very effective, directly nipping the hidden danger of instability in the cradle.
On the other side, when Long Ming led everyone to the interstellar airport, the interstellar ship had landed steadily in the middle of the airport.
Li Shijie had already led his men to surround him.
When he saw Long Ming and others arriving, they all saluted.
"President of the Council."
"How's it going?"
"This interstellar ship suddenly appeared and landed. After landing, the login hatch opened automatically, but no one came out. For safety reasons, I did not let anyone in."
"Well done, how long will it take for Zhang Wei and others to get back?"
Long Ming nodded slightly, then turned to ask the subordinate next to him.
"They'll be here soon."
The subordinate next to him responded quickly.
Sure enough, not long after, Zhang Wei and other doctors rushed over. When they saw the interstellar ship, the old man shouted excitedly.
"Propeller!"
When Long Ming saw Zhang Wei and others, he recognized the ship as the Propeller at a glance. In all likelihood, he was right. This ship should be the ship that the Earth Cup finally obtained.
"Get aboard."
Long Ming said.
Zhang Shijie said with some worry: "Master of Parliament, is this too rash? Why don't we go up and take a look first?"
"There is nothing to worry about. The craftsmanship and technology of this interstellar ship have long surpassed our time. If the other party really wanted to harm us, we would have died long ago. There is nothing to worry about. Let me, the old man, go up first. ”
Zhang Wei and other scientific research doctors couldn't wait, and their eyes were extremely excited.
"Don't worry, just go up."
Long Ming pondered for a few seconds before replying.
"Yes!"
Zhang Shijie then backed away.
Long Ming and others boarded the ship from the entrance and came to the long metal corridor.
Soft lighting is embedded at the top of the passage.
Zhang Wei led everyone inside with ease. When he got this ship in the Star Circle game, he walked around the entire ship and was extremely familiar with every corner of the ship.
Soon they came to a three-way intersection.
Three metal gates cut off the road, and Zhang Wei pressed the switch of the gate on the right.
The metal gate opens automatically.
Zhang Wei led everyone inside and introduced everyone as he walked.
"The passage we come in is called the login passage. There are three gate openings here, leading to area A, area B, and area C of the ship. But one thing is the same. After the gate is opened, we will arrive at a sealed and transparent In the isolation room, people who normally board the ship must be inspected here, on the one hand, to prevent intruders and on the other hand. In order to prevent people who board the ship from carrying viruses or parasites, the design concept is very advanced. After passing the first isolation room, there is also an examination room for secondary inspection. It is worth explaining these areas. They are all microgravity areas. Because the coverage of the ship's gravity device is limited, it is not possible to cover all directions."
Augustolas and others couldn't help but reach out and touch the smooth wall. Although they had touched it in the game, the feeling was different in reality.
The cold walls made people feel inexplicably excited, as if the stars and the sea were waving to them.
Soon after, Long Ming and others successfully arrived at the central control room.
The huge control room was empty, without a single figure. At the same time, the central console was activated, and prompts kept popping up on the virtual image screen.
"Please bind identity permissions"
Zhang Wei and others immediately stepped forward to input their identity permissions.
Long Ming and others stood there and looked at the surrounding control rooms, their expressions becoming more and more complicated.
Spade said in a deep voice: "What should we do now? We probably don't have much time left to make a decision."
"As President of the Federal Parliament, I must go there myself."
Long Ming took a deep breath and made a decision.
"We'll go with you too. It's always easier to discuss things if there are many people."
Augustolas and others shook their heads.
"Okay then, let Iselin stay and the others go together, but I have another suggestion."
Long Ming made some calculations and estimated that the risk was not high.
"What proposal?"
"Bring some reporters and broadcast the whole process live to reduce people's panic."
"Will this work? I'm talking about the technical aspect."
Augustolas was also very surprised by Long Ming's proposal.
"No problem, the Propeller is advanced enough, and its internal information transmission device is very powerful. As long as this ship is used as an information transmission transfer device, there will be no problem."
Zhang Wei replied with certainty.
"Then do this. How long will it take for you to complete the debugging?"
Long Ming asked.
"All the parameters of this Propeller have been adjusted. There is no need to move it. You just need to get familiar with it. However, the cold storage of this ship's survival material reserve is empty. We need to fill it ourselves, so the fastest It will be twelve hours before we can set off.”
"Supply the ship immediately and set off in twelve hours"
Long Ming gave the order decisively.
"Yes!"
Twelve hours later, the Propeller completed its supplies.
In the control room, Zhang Wei and others were sitting in their respective operating positions. Two reporters were standing aside with live broadcast equipment on their backs, extremely nervous.
After everything was ready, Zhang Wei turned to look at Long Ming.
"Let's go."
After Zhang Wei received the instructions, he issued the orders in an orderly manner.
"Close all access hatches."
"The gate cuts off the peripheral closed channel."
"Start CS1 energy gathering power device."
"Starting, power output is normal."
"Check all lines, as well as loops."
"R1-R2342 line is normal"
"Activate the anti-gravity assist system and prepare the injection device to start."
As the operation instructions were issued one after another, the special device ports at the bottom of the Propeller were opened. The huge Propeller floated little by little, and then the tail jet device ignited.
The Propeller began to slowly leave the interstellar airport.
Long Ming and Augustolas stood on the observation deck, looking at the shrinking city and the land, and their hearts began to lift.
It would be a lie to say they are not nervous. In fact, they are not too worried about their own safety. What they are more worried about is actually the fate of all mankind.
It didn't take long for the Propeller to break through the atmosphere, sail out of the Earth star, and enter the vast starry sky.
The moment they flew out of the starry sky, through the telescope, they saw the extremely spectacular Star Ring City at a glance. The halo emanating from it was so bright and dazzling, just like the sun.
At this time, Zhang Wei quickly entered instructions on the console to set the flight trajectory, and at the same time issued the order: "Go at full speed, target the Star Ring City."
"Understood!"
Many operators responded one after another.
At this time, the two reporters swallowed, walked to Long Ming's side, and asked.
"Lord Speaker, do we want to start broadcasting?"
"Broadcast it! Everyone is entitled to know what happened."
Long Ming replied calmly.
"Yes!"
Immediately, the reporter began to debug the equipment.
Soon the live video was transmitted back to Earth Star.
At this time, Su Mo was sitting at home watching TV, waiting for the latest developments.
At this time, the TV video was inserted into a live broadcast, and a rather young reporter was seen, saying excitedly: "Dear viewers, I am Nick, the federal news reporter, and now I will broadcast the latest progress of the Cup of Heaven for you. Now you can I see that I am in the control room of a ship. This ship is called the Propeller, which is the final reward for winning the Earth Cup. Now the president of the Federation Council is leading many members of the Council to the Star Ring City. You may. I’m not sure what the Star Ring City is.”
"Actually, I don't know where that place is, but it doesn't matter. I can point the camera at the telescope and let everyone take a look."
As he spoke, the image screen began to change.
From a distance, everyone can see a gyro-shaped mechanical city, but because it is a bit far away, they can't see it clearly.
"Due to the distance, we can't see clearly now, but it doesn't matter. When it gets closer, I will show you the Star Ring City in all directions. Now let me tell you the situation. The ship is currently traveling at sub-light speed. Moving forward, we are expected to arrive at Halo City in seven hours. We are now According to what I and the doctors on board know about the Propeller, its technology is at least five hundred years ahead of our current technology. However, there is a high probability that this ship is not the highest technological achievement in the Star Ring City. The technology in the Ring City may be epoch-making different from ours.”
"So if the exchange goes smoothly and we really win the Cup of Heaven, maybe our civilization can really be reborn."
Nick kept explaining.
Su Mo looked at the live broadcast and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Long Ming and the upper-level federal congressmen.
He also didn't expect that the Federation would not choose to go alone to accept the invitation this time, but would choose to broadcast it publicly.
This is a true intention to be transparent, without any cover-up, and to unite all mankind to deal with this cup of heaven.
Su Mo walked to the refrigerator and took out instant noodles and drinks. He wasn't going anywhere today, he just stayed at home and watched the live broadcast.
He was getting more and more excited. Now that the interstellar ships were real, the mechas also existed. When he thought about it, he could actually touch the mechas.
Su Mo's blood boiled involuntarily.
After preparing everything, Su Mo picked up his phone and took a look at the Star Ring Forum. The forum is still very lively, with countless players posting messages discussing the City of Stars and the Cup of Heaven.
They were panicked at the beginning, but gradually adapted, and began to look forward to the bright future that was about to come.
Of course, there are also many more sensible people who use words to destroy their illusions.
"Don't have too good ideas. If you think about it carefully, the difficulty of the Cup of Earth must be lower than that of Cup of Heaven. Even if we win, how many people will survive in the end, let alone Cup of Heaven. And the worst thing is One thing, this is the real world, not the world of the Cup of Earth, where people can be resurrected after death" (End of Chapter)