The Admiral of Hogwarts

Because Hugo and the others were sightseeing along the way, it took them nearly 20 minutes to reach the most central location of the entire base.

This was a huge space reinforced with magic, and it looked very busy inside. Many robots and alchemical golems were working with workers wearing crude exoskeletons to manufacture one massive, sealed canister-shaped metal structure after another.

Soon, Hugo noticed a scene here that clearly violated the secrecy laws: ordinary people in exoskeletons were welding those metal structures, and beside them, several wizards were waving wands, installing metal plates inlaid with magical runes onto the metal structures.

"Won't this really cause any problems?" Hermione asked Prestige nervously. "With such a large-scale operation, can we really guarantee sufficient secrecy?"

"Don't worry, this place has been operating for several years, but it has always been under the premise of secrecy," Prestige said with considerable pride. "We have enough ways to keep the secrets here."

According to Prestige, they had set up a large number of shielding spells on every inch of land here, which could completely prevent the magical reactions below from being discovered by others.

In addition, everyone here had been inspired by both Su Lian and Saint George, so it was impossible for them to actively reveal the secrets of this place.

"I can say for sure that our inspirational ability is even comparable to Grindelwald in his prime. Under these circumstances, no one will betray this place," Prestige introduced.

"Of course, in addition to spiritual inspiration, we also have magical contracts plus Dzerzhinsky's subordinates as our last line of defense to ensure that the local situation will not be exposed."

"That sounds really impressive." At this time, everyone walked to the bottom of this huge space, and then Hermione looked at the sealed container, which was about three or four stories high, and asked.

"However, what exactly is the core of this plan? Also, what exactly are these things being manufactured? Why do they need to be so huge?"

"I think this seems to be some kind of space that needs to be sealed." Hugo looked at the huge diameter of those containers and then looked at Prestige. "Are you planning to build an underwater base?"

"Yes, and this is just our first step." Prestige nodded. At this time, the three people passed through the busy construction site and came to an office where Xizhang was drawing blueprints.

After greeting Xizhang, Prestige walked to a desk and took out two documents from the drawer and handed them to Hugo and Hermione, and then said.

"Here is our plan. Now we have completed most of the tasks in the plan, so we will most likely be able to complete the first step of the plan by the end of this semester."

"In fact, this base is only the final core department. The operation of the base is supported by our global production network. Only a small part of what you see is produced locally, and most of it is shipped in from the outside—"

Along with Prestige's explanation, Hugo began to read the plan. As a result, he was shocked by the content of the plan at the first moment.

Because according to the plan, the ultimate goal of this plan is interstellar colonization, and the first step that can be completed by the end of this year is to build a permanent space station in Earth's geosynchronous orbit that can support the long-term survival of 1,000 people.

At this time, Hugo suddenly remembered the containers he had just seen. Obviously, in addition to building an underwater launch center, the most important thing in those containers was to manufacture various spare parts for this space station.

For ordinary people, the difficulty of launching such a huge structure into the sky has exceeded the existing technical level, but for wizards, magic can reduce the difficulty by 90%.

Also, because of the existence of magic, the ship girls can ensure that the entire process of launching and operating the space station is completely concealed from everyone's eyes, and the goal is advanced step by step in secret.

"Where exactly did you get these technologies from?" After quickly reading the plan, Hugo took a few deep breaths first, and then asked.

Because in addition to building a large permanent space station in the plan, there are two more steps in the plan, and the difficulty of those two steps is much greater than building a space station.

Among them, the second step of the plan is to build an industrial center on the moon and transfer most of the manufacturing in the plan to the moon to make full use of the rich resources on the moon for construction.

The third step is to build a permanent colony on Mars and use the colony as a bridgehead for sailing into the depths of the universe and open the age of cosmic navigation.

In order to achieve these goals, the ship girls have developed a series of technologies, such as energy shields, room-temperature superconductors, controlled nuclear fusion, and short-range teleportation.

This is why Hugo was surprised. Because these things only exist in theory and science fiction novels, and do not seem to exist in reality at all.

"These things were mainly researched by Xizhang and Massachusetts," Prestige explained. "They have many technologies that are far beyond reality."

"Although because of the different worlds, the technologies they master may not be usable in this place. But because of the existence of magic, they only spent a short time using magic to reach or even exceed the height that those original technologies could reach."

"Also, because we have successfully integrated magic and technology, we can guarantee the establishment of three outpost bases located in the deep sea, Earth's geosynchronous orbit, and the moon by the end of this semester."

"And by next year, we will build a fast space channel between the Earth and the moon and initially complete the lunar industrial zone. Then, we will build no less than three Mars colonization ships."

"What a magnificent plan. I suddenly realized that my idea of wanting to become the Minister of Magic is too conservative and small." After hearing Prestige's plan, Hermione showed a shocked expression on her face.

"Compared to the vast stars, the things on Earth are really not worth mentioning. But why have no wizards ever been willing to look up at the starry sky before?"

"This is because the personal strength of wizards is too strong compared to ordinary people." Hugo thought for a while and said. "This allows them to develop much better than ordinary people in the early stages of history, but as time goes by, the development speed will become slower and slower."

"Why does too much personal strength lead to slower development?" Hermione looked through the window glass at a wizard directing a huge part to float through the air and said, "Shouldn't it develop faster?"

"Too much personal strength will create two problems." Hugo looked at his sister and stretched out his fingers to explain. "One is the reproduction speed. Naturally, the more powerful the creature, the lower the birth rate."

"For this reason, if you exclude the Weasley family, you will find that wizard families obviously have fewer children than ordinary people."

"Secondly, wizards are more inclined to fight alone, especially in many cutting-edge directions where there is a lack of sufficient cooperation. This is mainly because they can use magic to抵 (dǐ) the work of several people, so they will naturally ignore cooperation."

"And this is also an important reason why they cannot look up at the starry sky."