Sword of Daybreaker

The cold winter finally left the northern country, and the month of recovery began on this land with a large-scale rainfall across the country.

Cecil is like a never-ending industrial machine, and it has not been able to stop its operation in the cold winter. The relatively warm spring is more like lubricating grease, which makes this huge machine quickly come back to life and surging every day. Power quickly returned to full power.

On the north bank of the Baishui River and in the northern development area of ​​Cecil, a particularly cold wind blows over the somewhat wet ground, and then layers of water-like gleam surging on the surface, and the originally solid land seemed to melt in an instant. Swell and soften.

A large black-painted large engineering vehicle buzzed. The mechanical structure at the front of the engineering vehicle raised two long metal rails arranged in parallel. The runes on the long rail inlaid with the demon metal flashed and the complicated mechanical structure. Adjust the position of the rune trigger back and forth, so that the long track maintains a constant magic effect, and continuously illuminates the softening ground in front of the engineering vehicle.

The surveyor holding a special magic terminal is constantly checking the data, and the light beam in front of the magic terminal sweeps the ground that is being transformed by fossils into mud.

"The conversion rate is 0.8, reaching the predetermined depth-to get down!"

The lifting equipment boomed, and the reinforced concrete pillars prepared in advance and covered with runes at the bottom were suspended and sent to a predetermined position, and immersed in the fluidized ground smoothly. As the predetermined marking line was completely submerged, the measurement was performed. The operator sent a signal to the mechanic who controlled the crane, and the mechanic who was responsible for controlling the black engineering vehicle turned on the on-board communicator at hand, and reported loudly:

"Car No. 1 is going to reverse polarity, and the surrounding area is cleared!" "Peripheral is safe. Car No. 1 can reverse polarity."

The mechanical interlocking device makes a rattling sound, and the rune combination completes the switch at the same time. In the humming low sound, the surface of the "irradiation guide" flows and the ground begins to harden slowly ...

The wind blew over the high platform next to the construction site. Gordon, the great architect, looked away from the blueprint in his hand. He stared at the busy construction machinery and workers busy between the machines not far away, with emotion in his tone: "This This is the first pillar of this spring ... It goes on smoothly, I hope this is a good sign. "

"'Sign' is a meaningless word," a metallic vibrato sounded inside a silver-white metal ball floating next to Gordon. "Some isolated events without logical connection cannot show the future. I am even more Loves accurate math and machines-at least they are not so variable. "

"I also like accurate numbers and machines, the former can make drawings more useful, and the latter can speed up the progress of the project," Gordon smiled and looked at the big craftsman beside him. "Mr. Nicholas, I'm actually curious about this facility. What does it do? It requires a "big craftsman" like you to debug the equipment yourself ... Of course, if it involves a confidentiality agreement, I won't ask. "

"The name can tell you-this is the future Empire Computing Center. Of course, its external name has not been determined yet." Nicholas Egg, the master craftsman of the Empire, slightly heaved up and down, coming from the swollen body A voice full of pride, "It's all very high-end things. Although theoretically the bachelor of mechanisms under my hands can also handle it, His Majesty still let me personally assemble its core area, for the sake of security."

"Computing Center?" Gordon frowned. "Mathematics? Really a strange name ..."

"Sooner or later you will know what it is used for, Mr. Gordon." Nicholas Egg said in a tone, raising his body slowly, the silver-white metal sphere floating in the high mid-air. The happy smile slowly rotated, and on his smooth metal surface, the far and near scenes of the entire development zone were reflected.

Large tracts of construction sites are under construction, hordes of roaring machines, busy workers walk between regions, and the Cecilians are embracing this spring of all things recovery--

...

Low-pitched equipment buzzing came from the upper room of the hub tower, and the high-powered magic crystal antenna slowly rotated outside the window. The tip of one of the robotic arms swept across the direction of Cecil City.

The crystal glass blocked some cold winds. The heating device in the tower was running at the lowest power. The tower-keeper Ge Lin wore a light linen shirt while stirring the hot beverage in the coffee cup. At the window.

A flock of birds flew past the tower, leaving a series of tweets in the clear sky. They bypassed this powerful magic net hub tower far away, and did not stay on the head of this sophisticated facility. Download anything "annoying".

The tower keeper nodded with satisfaction: The new device applied for last year produced satisfactory results. It turns out that the smart man in the Institute and the Design Bureau has more methods than ordinary people, and only needs the lowest level of "animal intimidation". ", You can make the birds from south to north far from the tower-lower energy consumption than the shield, do not have to worry about the extra weight brought by the physical shield.

There is no need to clean up the bird droppings accumulated under the antenna shaft, nor to turn the dizzy heads to the poor birds that have been killed in the crystal array.

Gelin stood in front of the lookout window, took a little sip of the still hot coffee, then turned back to his workbench, ready to check the operation of the hub tower as usual.

The printing equipment connected to the Monet terminal has ejected a long piece of paper, which is a record of information that requires special attention-not all information will be printed out, only the specially marked intelligence, key node failure receipts, and the main hub are issued to The orders of each tower keeper will be printed automatically to prevent omission.

Of course, as the tower guardian of the Lu'an hub, Ge Lin also has some small "privileged treatments". Here he can not only watch clear magic net radio programs, but also "receive" the latest Cecil Weekly and The other two recreational newspapers-the same printing device connected to the Monet terminal.

For those who like to read, newspapers are a better pastime than radio shows.

All of this is not from the beginning, but something that has been perfected a little bit since the hub tower was established, and they will definitely continue to improve in the foreseeable future.

Gelin sat down beside the workbench, pulled the printer's paper cutter hook, took the long paper out of the machine, and then carefully cut it off according to the content. He picked out several newspapers and folded them neatly. Set aside-the newspapers are the commons of the tower keepers, and he doesn't want his colleagues to be defaced before they can change shifts.

Refraining from the idea of ​​reading the newspaper first, Ge Lin carefully checked the reports of each node and confirmed the real-time status of the device. Then he picked up the newspaper that was set aside by himself and read it at will.

"The end of the winter, the provinces of the empire begin production in the spring-Cecil will embrace this spring"

"Everything has started ... I don't know if the factory in the city will recruit temporary workers this spring ... Stum is old enough. Write a letter to his family and let him be an apprentice in the factory. Point technology ... It is still difficult to provide school for five children at a time. Although tuition fees have been waived in the city, but there are five mouths to eat ... there must be multiple earners to subsidize the family ... "

The guardians turned their thoughts, slowly pulled a blank piece of paper from the side, picked up a pen, and began to write a home letter to his wife who remained in the city.

As a scribe, he is still more accustomed to the touch of the pen across the paper, which gives him a more solid feel than the "letter palette" of the Magic Net terminal.

But when he wrote the child's name, he suddenly hesitated.

Storm is the oldest child in the family. He has reached the age when he can go to work in the factory, but he has always been interested in mathematics and now loves runes. The teacher of night school literacy has always said that he has the talent of a rune master ... But that's beyond the scope of general education schools. We have to go to specialized colleges for further studies ...

The other children are still young. It is a good age to learn and they should all go to school, but ... Stohm really likes math and runes ...

Unconsciously, Ge Lin's pen stopped slowly.

He has been a tower keeper on this tower for two years. He watched the Luan area change a little, watch the news from the north and the south, he forwarded the latest mobilization order of the Government Affairs Office, and forwarded the latest news.

In Ansu 738, the first harvest month of the Empire's first year, the real-time image and broadcast announcement of the coronation of Emperor Gao Wen was forwarded from this Lu'an hub to the entire southern border. He and his colleagues witnessed here The moment the country was reborn in the flames of war.

So he sees more and knows more than others-he knows how important schooling is in this era, and he knows that true modern knowledge needs to be learned in school-he can't teach like his father Like literacy, teach your children what advanced mathematics is and what mechanical principles are.

He also knows that Gawain Cecil has been working to free every civilian from ignorance, and to make all children have the opportunity to attend school, and even established a lot of free schools for this, so that every family in the south There can be a place for children to enter school free of charge and board and lodging.

But he has five children.

The towerkeeper's relatively generous salary also seemed a bit stretched in front of the five children-especially when he wanted to send all five children to school.

The tip of the pen did not know when it landed on the paper, but because of the delay in moving, a black ink stain was oozed. When Gelin noticed this, several letters had been contaminated by the ink. Cleared.

He sighed and was about to rewrite, but the printing device next to it suddenly crunched and spit out a new piece of content.

Gelin immediately lowered the pen and paper, and then pulled the paper cutter hook of the printer to remove the information just delivered, and then looked at the contents carefully.

He first saw the sword and plow emblem at the top, and the words Lu'an City behind the emblem, realizing that it was a notice from the City Hall, and then surprised to see his name appear in the notice:

Submit Green Tower Guardian Lu Lin:

Assessed by the City Hall, the "Public Tower Improvement Proposal" you submitted in Anzuo in 737 was of great value, and it has promoted the subsequent actual improvement programs. According to the "Special Contributions and Awards of Employees of the City Hall" "I am hereby notified that a bonus of 125 gold pounds will be issued with this month's salary.

Note: Previously, due to the adjustment of the functions of the statistical department and the restructuring of the Imperial Office of Government Affairs, the award has been postponed to this day. Please forgive me.

enjoy working.

——Cecil of Lu'an City Hall 2 years of recovery 2 years

Ge Lin looked at the contents of the paper again, and then again.

125 pounds, that's a lot of money.

There was a confused expression on his face, and then it was stunned, and finally he laughed afterwards, stood up happily, and walked around the working room.

He picked up the coffee on the table-it was completely cold-and drank it, then picked up the notice and read it again before sitting back in his chair.

After picking up a new stationery, he took a deep breath and wrote smooth text on it:

"Dear Sarah, I have a bonus.

"I want to send the children to school, they are all at school ...

"Tell Stohm the good news. He can learn runes or real magic techniques. He can even go to Imperial College if he can pass the exam there. I heard there are the best ..."

After writing the paragraph, carefully checked each letter on it, Green nodded, and placed the letter on the metal platform next to the magic terminal.

No postman or delivery is needed. Ordinary letters can be delivered directly to the "Magic Net", and soon a copy of this letter will appear in the public magic net center of Lu'an City. If it goes well, within a few hours It will be delivered to his wife.

After doing all this, Ge Lin took a long breath and got up to the window.

In the distant wilderness, the machine is heading towards the farmland, and the ground after the spring rain seems to soon be green.