Sword of Dawn

"An individual?" He frowned. "What does that mean?"

There was a hint of memory in Veronica's eyes, as if she had sunk into the ancient memory thousands of years ago. After a few seconds of pondering, she said in a soft and gentle tone: "I think you already know , in the rebellious plan thousands of years ago, Sister Baishuang accepted the employment of the Gondor Empire as a consultant scholar... This employment lasted for hundreds of years, until the outbreak of the demon tide 700 years ago, Fierna Baishuang and Lena Rimefrost is secretly serving the Gondor Empire.

"The first time I saw them was in the vast palace of the imperial capital...a druid facility for studying the natural environment and the evolution of species. They were a pair of very cheerful sisters. What impressed me the most about them was that they have always been Laughing, they are full of curiosity when they see everything in the human world, and they have many bold ideas, which are quite different from the usual relatively conservative elf scholars...

"Sorry, I said it too far. This is what it is like to fall into memories. I always think of too many irrelevant details."

Veronica showed an apologetic smile, while Gawain shook his head at her, signaling her to continue talking.

"They are indeed a pair of sisters, as I said just now, they were indeed two people at the beginning, until the accident...

"That was the stage of the Rebellion Project that had just reached the stage of preliminary analysis and contact with the power of the gods, also known as the first stage. In a certain experiment, we wanted to test an observation method that had never been tried before. The general process is In a highly enclosed room, a gap leading to the boundary of the present world is opened. This gap crosses the Shadow Realm and the Shadow Realm, and at a certain critical point is infinitely close to the Kingdom of God. We hope that through this gap, the Kingdom of God Achieving a level of monitoring...

"It now looks like a bold and reckless attempt, but our understanding of the power of the gods was far less clear then than it was later.

"This dangerous experiment required two operators, one to maintain the Rift and one to do the actual observations. Yes, you guessed it... the Rime Frost Sisters.

"They signed up voluntarily, and the reason is irrefutable: as twins, they have an extraordinary tacit understanding, which can greatly increase the success rate of the experiment. If something really happens, they can quickly take countermeasures without communication, and the reaction speed will be faster. Much faster than the average researcher.

"At that time, I personally sent them to the laboratory... I watched them walk in, and then the entire laboratory was completely sealed under the control of the automatic system.

"Even the most powerful magister can't detect the situation inside through the strict protection system.

"After the countdown ended, the laboratory was opened, and it was filled with thick smoke and turbulent mana flow. I rushed in with people, and the laboratory was already in ruins. Among the ruins... there was only one scarred elf lying on the ground , and the other one has disappeared.”

After Veronica finished all this with a calm expression, Gawain couldn't help frowning slightly: "Who is missing? Who stayed?"

"do not know."

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "I don't know?"

"The appearance of their sisters is almost exactly the same, and outsiders have never been able to tell them apart. At that time, the laboratory was a mess, and the identification cards carried by the injured were also severely burned, so no one knew who survived."

Gao Wen couldn't help but adjust his sitting posture: "Then what happened to them..."

"The one who survived sneaked out of the hospital one day, and she returned to the druid laboratory built by their sisters. Three days later, the 'Sisters of Frost' returned to the Palace of the Vast. Subsequent reports showed that their laboratory There's a huge amount of biomass that's gone unaccounted for...but the purpose is anyone's guess."

"She created one for herself..." Gao Wen had already understood, "And then? You just accepted it?"

"Sisters Bai Frost are back, at least that's what they say, they look like business as usual, and everyone knows it, but we welcome them back."

Gao Wen didn't hide his surprise: "They... no, her mental state obviously has a problem, didn't you find it?"

"It's obvious, but among rebels, especially those at the forefront, this level of mental problems is not a problem at all," Veronica smiled faintly, her tone was calm, but the content of her words was clear. It is thrilling, "We are against the gods, standing in front of those indescribable and vast knowledge, we are facing the abyss, and we are passing by countless deadly and invisible truths every moment, sometimes just Accidentally glancing at the wrong sample, or mentioning the wrong word at the wrong time, someone will go crazy, someone will suddenly disappear, someone will mutate and die...

"Before we roughly grasped some rules, we had paid hundreds of thousands of lives. Many people died silently, the cause of death could not be disclosed, and they could not be awarded honors after death. Many people fell into permanent frenzy, and Because he has the knowledge of the gods, he can only be imprisoned in mental control facilities one by one.

"Even including myself... As a former Gondorian, have you ever heard of the name Ophelia Norton mentioned in any book about the history of the royal family?

"In this extreme situation, every member who maintains the ability to work is very precious to the rebel.

"Compared to those who are in the worst condition, Sister Bai Frost is just a little paranoid... This symptom is very mild, at least it was like that back then."

Gao Wen didn't know how to answer for a while. From the logic of normal people, he couldn't imagine what it would be like to let a person who obviously had mental problems continue to participate in the project, because the project itself was already crazy enough. A more powerful reason to fight against, however...

Mortals are so fragile that sometimes they have to fight madness with madness, not because they want to, but because they have to.

He believes that Veronica and the team she led must have thought about it seriously back then. Maybe they confirmed that the mental problems of Sister Baishuang would not affect their daily work, or maybe they thought that Sisters Baishuang, as a consultant scholar, could produce In any case, it was already a consideration and choice 1000 years ago. Today, he, and even Veronica/Ophelia at this moment, can no longer understand what happened back then. What comment did you make.

Now he can only express his afterthoughts: "...she may have been delusional back then, but now, she...or they, have become ghosts who defy the plan."

"...Everyone who participated in the first phase of the rebellious project is walking in the countdown to madness. We will discuss this matter candidly on weekdays, because we all know that most members will not live to see the results. , or madness, or death, or disappearing in all kinds of weird supernatural phenomena... Even if everything goes well and survives safely, the lifespan of human beings also determines that most members of the first stage will not survive more than two stages... …but elves, they live too long."

Veronica said, sighing softly.

"Maybe it's because the survival time is too long, or maybe it's because there is no hope in sight. The Baishuang sisters have lost control after all. Unfortunately... I don't even know if 'they' are Fierna or Leierna."

"I have a hunch that sooner or later we will have to deal with those 'sisters' again," Gawain shook his head. "This kind of persistent ghost will not really go silent."

"Perhaps." Veronica pursed her lips, "Then what else do you gain?"

"Technology, the technology of the death of all things," Gao Wen said, "We recovered a large amount of technical materials from that underground palace, as well as complete laboratory equipment and various samples, semi-finished products, specimens, these things It will be delivered to Pittman's research facility in batches in the near future, but we all know that there is not only druid knowledge in it..."

"I understand," Veronica lowered her eyelids, "I will assist in identifying and analyzing the rebellious techniques, and if any dangerous factors are found, I will remind you as soon as possible."

Gawain nodded in satisfaction, and Veronica suddenly looked into Gawain's eyes after a moment of silence, and asked, "Then after eliminating the risk factors, what do you plan to do with the 'results' of the end of all things?" deal with?"

Gawain glanced at the other party, showing a smile: "Of course it's for use."

"Even if they were created by the Dead of All Things?"

"Technology is technology, and of course we have to use it if it's useful. People can only commit crimes, and it's meaningless to judge tools," Gao Wen said. "The use of flesh and blood magic to create monsters is indeed chilling. But if it is used to treat the wounded, it must be very useful.”

"But there may be people who hold grudges and even criticize you for using black magic in private. The ignorant will always have unnecessary fear of things they don't understand. In the past 1000 years, no matter how the world has changed, only in the face of prejudice and conservatism never changed.”

Gawain and Veronica met each other's eyes and suddenly laughed.

"Of course, these people will always appear, and it's better to blame your failures on dead things than to admit your incompetence and ignorance, but it doesn't matter--the ignorant, just teach them, let them know the truth, teach them who don't make sense, or Those who deliberately make trouble, then set the rules and write down the contract. I grant them no need to touch the technology and its derivatives excavated from the ruins of Solinburg. After all... In the stage of new technology application, our social resources are originally It’s not enough, some people actively want to isolate themselves from new technologies, so why not satisfy their loyal heart of saving social resources?”

"...I admire your style of conduct."

Veronica left, and the study was quiet for a moment. Gawain exhaled, stretched his muscles a little, and prepared to return to work.

However, he had just picked up a document on the table, and before he had time to read it carefully, he heard a slight wind passing by the window.

The next second, there was a loud "bang" when someone hit the window frame.

Given that this was already a daily routine, Gao Wen had long since lost any thoughts of feeling or complaining. He just got up naturally, opened the window, and put in the dazed amber.

As soon as Amber landed on the ground, she began to scream: "What are you doing with the windows closed and locked in broad daylight..."

Gao Wen was expressionless: "The weather is cold, and the elderly are afraid of the cold."

amber:"……"

"What's the matter of coming here in such a hurry?" After successfully choking back the shame of all things, Gao Wen was in a slightly better mood, so he asked seriously.

While Amber window jumping is standard practice, there are different styles and situations for window jumping:

Standing outside the window sill and carefully studying the anti-amber clips and locks for a long time, carefully eliminating all traps and then coming in through the window is a routine operation, usually when there is no serious matter to report to work; jumping in in such a hurry that I accidentally stepped on the clip It is an ordinary emergency, and there is usually a report that Gao Wen needs to read personally at the first time; but as it is now, even if the window is locked and the window is locked, it will be terrible if you bump your head against the window frame. Gao Wen has encountered it twice——

The first time he came to report that Francis II was assassinated and died, and the second time he came to report that Rebecca's trial-produced aircraft malfunctioned and fell from the sky and killed Tyre.

Hearing Gao Wen's question, Amber immediately ignored the details of being choked back. She was indeed here to report an important situation, and after gathering her breath, she spoke quickly: "The aircraft over there by Rebecca..."

Before she finished speaking, Gao Wen frowned: "Tire, that unlucky sea monster was crushed to death again? It's okay, you also know that she can recover..."

"No!" Amber almost jumped up, and the expression on this short wax gourd was extremely excited, "It's flying! It's successfully flying this time!"

Then she took a deep breath and said, "And it landed smoothly—right side up!!"

Chapter 0721 Dragoon I Type

Gao Wen reacted for two seconds before finally showing an uncontrollable joyful smile.

Hu Po was happily BBing a second ago, but she stopped in a daze after seeing Gao Wen's expression.

She seldom saw Gao Wen so openly hiding his emotions, and rarely saw the latter laugh so happily.

He never smiled so much when he was crowned.

So is the "aircraft" such an important thing?

"Let's go and have a look." Gawain grabbed Amber and strode towards the door. "It's in the eastern suburbs test site, right?"

"Oh, oh yes... Hey, let go, I will go by myself, don't pull...don't carry...don't pinch me under your arm again! I will..."

……

In the suburban test site, the "Dragoon", which successfully completed its first flight experiment, has already landed smoothly on the open field. A large group of technicians are busy around this flying machine, checking every part of it again and again. again.As the general manager of the project, Rebecca also took part in the battle in person. With tools in her hands, she circled the mechanical cabin. There were several oil stains on her face and stains on her clothes, but she smiled more than everyone on the scene. Brilliant - happy like a child.

Maggie stood quietly by the side, looking at the busy and beaming scene in front of her, and her eyes fell on Rebecca from time to time——Over the years, Maggie has seen all kinds of human nobles, but Rebecca Such a "princess" was the only one she had ever seen in her life.

"Perfect, perfect, there is nothing wrong with it! No breakage, no falling off, no overheating, none of the problems that have appeared before..." A magician jumped down from the connecting shaft of the dragon wing servo, full of With an excited face, "The new structure works!"

"That's right!" Rebecca also got out from under the main cone of the aircraft, her eyes sparkling, "It's not in vain that we tested thousands of times..."

Maggie knew that the thousands of tests Rebecca mentioned were not all actual test flights, most of them were completed in the origin laboratory-but although it was a simulated environment, the hard work of everyone in the team was worthwhile. It's the real deal.

With this effort, Rebecca had already come to Maggie, she smiled like a flower: "Hey, hey, Maggie, how does it feel to fly?"

Maggie was taken aback for a moment, then she lowered her head a little bluntly, and said politely: "It feels very... good, Your Highness."

She was always uncomfortable with the behavior of Her Royal Highness, who was not aristocratic at all, but in any case, after all, she represented the face of the Duke of the North, and she still had to work hard to be courteous and thoughtful.

"Don't be so tense all the time, we're not in the city, and Aunt Hetty and the ancestors can't see, so it's okay to relax a little bit," Rebecca patted Maggie's shoulder carelessly, and slapped down Afterwards, she belatedly said "Oops", she quickly pulled her hand back, glanced at the oil on her hand, wiped it vigorously on her robe, and then patted Maggie on the other shoulder, "Experiment There are no titles in the room, this is what we agreed from the beginning."

Maggie looked up at the back of the other party, with a weird expression: "...But, Your Highness, I think the necessary etiquette is still required..."

After hearing this, Rebecca couldn't help puffing her mouth: "Why do you speak like my aunt. Let me tell you, it's easy to get old if you are always tense like this. Aunt is usually too tense, with dark circles He is getting heavier every day, and the ancestor is so serious all day long, I can see his wrinkles..."

Maggie looked up again, wisely chose to keep her mouth shut, and silently stepped aside.

Several technicians around also raised their heads to look behind Rebecca, showing strange expressions, and retreating slightly in tacit understanding.

Rebecca looked around, felt the atmosphere, thought for a while, and came to a conclusion——

Mom, I'm cold.

The experienced princess knew what to do without being reminded by others. She wiped both hands on the robe, then hugged her head, and slowly squatted down: "Can you not start this time..."

Rebecca just squatted halfway, a powerful big hand stretched out from behind, lifted her up by the collar: "Stop squatting, Hetty is not here."

When Rebecca heard it was Gawain's voice, she quickly turned her head to take a look while being held up by the collar, only to see the helpless ancestor and Amber following the ancestor—just the two of them, Hetty Sure enough, my aunt was not there.

Her expression that had been restrained just now suddenly became bright again: "Master Zu, you are here!!"

The ancestor has always spoiled himself very much. Although he usually looks serious, he is different from his aunt's seriousness - he will not knock himself on the head. Rebecca is very clear about this.

Since she was a child, she has been very optimistic. This optimism is mainly reflected in her ability to find sunshine by herself, and then shine herself.

In fact, Gao Wen still wanted to hit the girl's head. After all, as far as he knew, Rebecca hadn't been beaten for three days. Judging from experience, this stupid roe deer's current mentality should be wandering in the upper house and setting it on fire. Among the mountains, but before that, his attention had already fallen on the strange looking machine next to him.

He stared at the device for a long time, which was completely different from the "aircraft" in his memory in terms of shape and principle, and his thoughts fluctuated. After a long time, he said softly: "This is our aircraft..."

Really different, totally different.

It is an inverted cone-shaped device similar to a top. The diameter of the main body is about two to three meters. There is a metal ring engraved with runes floating on the lower half of the vertebral body—the ring should be the anti-gravity ring. The effective force field continues to float at the root of the vertebral body, controlling the lifting and gravity balance of the entire device, while the sides and top of the device have a half-moon-shaped main wing and a steering wing that imitates a dragon's wing, which makes it look like a whole. It looks like a huge, upright steel insect, a little weird, but full of the unique beauty of the magic industry.

Gao Wen couldn't see the shadow of "aircraft" on it.

This is the aircraft that Rebecca led the magicians to create based on the technology and logic of this world after he let go of his experience on Earth and only told the technical team about the application requirements and some performance characteristics.

It was a bold attempt, and the result proved Gao Wen's long-standing thinking: the magical world's own technical route is the most suitable technical route here.

It's not that he didn't think about copying the planes on the earth to this world. After all, although many rules in this world are quite different from those on the earth, at least this world also has wind and birds, which means that aircraft based on aerodynamics have It was possible, but he didn't do it in the end.

Because he doesn't know everything, even with enhanced memory ability and huge "miscellaneous knowledge", he still has areas that he is not good at, and aircraft manufacturing is undoubtedly one of them.

In the early stage, some simple machinery may be pieced together by relying on the miscellaneous knowledge in his mind, but the aircraft is too professional, and Gawain knew that the rough sketches he could recall might only mislead his technicians ——What's more, he has to face the fact that due to the unique elemental spells, the world's technical foundation in the field of aerodynamics is blank, but there is a ready-made anti-gravity technology route here.

Instead of drawing a bunch of erroneous sketches by yourself, and then asking technicians to light up a technology tree from scratch on this basis, it is better to let them derive and transform the existing technologies in this world-after all, this The world itself has flying units such as Griffon Knights and Giant Eagle Knights, and even more powerful mages can fly directly in the sky. Mortals are not blank in the sky. Under this premise, even if he spends a few years creating If the original aircraft based on aerodynamics is lost, I am afraid that it will not be able to compete with the existing air units in this world. It is better to try it boldly and let Rebecca and her technical team do it freely, directly challenging the mature anti-gravity air combat platform.

The result of this bold attempt is this weird-looking "Dragoon" whose performance absolutely exceeds that of the early earth aircraft.

Relying on anti-gravity vertical take-off and landing, highly flexible and maneuverable, able to fight in the air with well-trained Griffin Knights and achieve suppression, using dragon wing runes for "magic wave drive", the highest speed exceeds the giant eagle of the elves, and this At the same time, the wind language runes all over the cone shell and the rune group of the dragon wing itself also solved the wind resistance problem caused by its weird shape. If coupled with advanced magic weapons and communication devices, it will undoubtedly become a The most advanced and powerful air power of this era.

Of course, it must still have many shortcomings. As a brand new product, and it is the most complex and advanced technology product, it still needs to undergo a lot of tests, and it will take some time before mass production. This path has finally been proved to be able to go through.

The structure of this aircraft will become the cornerstone of Cecil's series of flying technologies in the future, and the experience it has accumulated may be able to bless him for a hundred years...

"Yes, this is the aircraft we built..." Rebecca raised her head with a proud smile on her face, "It took a lot of effort!"

Immediately afterwards, she said: "My lord ancestor, do you want to give it an official name? After all, 'Dragon Cavalry' is just a code name..."

"The official name is Dragoon. I think the code name itself is vivid enough and nice," Gao Wen laughed. "Referring to the Warhammer tank, this type of anti-gravity aircraft is named Dragoon I."

Having said that, his heart suddenly moved, and he couldn't help looking at Maggie who was standing quietly beside him.

"Speaking of which, as a dragon, what do you think of the name 'Dragon Cavalry'?"

Maggie thought for a while in confusion, then shook her head: "I don't have any idea...Why do you ask that, Your Majesty?"

"I'm just worried that this name will make the Dragon Clan unhappy." Gao Wen laughed a little embarrassedly. "I didn't think much about it when I decided on the code name before, and I didn't ask your opinion. At this moment, I suddenly feel a little inappropriate. You Dragon Clan Don't you think this word is offensive? After all, it implies the meaning of using a dragon as a mount..."

Maggie was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled lightly after a while.

"Your Majesty, I don't know much about what the dragons of Tarrond would think, but as far as I know, humans on the continent have played important roles in various epic stories and myths and ghost stories for hundreds of years or even longer. The time, and most of the time, this important role is not very bright - dragons rob castles, hijack princesses, seize property, threaten kingdoms, brave adventurers and knights repel dragons, occupy dragon lairs, and even turn dragons into monsters. For the mount, so many years have passed, have you seen those bards and novelists who made up stories being hunted down by Tarrond or the Holy Dragon Principality?"

"...It seems that there is really no..."

"Dragon, I don't care about human stories, because no matter how long human stories are passed on, they will soon go with the wind. Even the relatively short-lived 'degraded dragon descendants' of the Holy Dragon Principality have plenty of leeway to watch." Even the most exciting legends of human beings will be reduced to dust," Maggie said with a slight smile, but then added, "Of course, the 'protagonist' who returns to the stage of history like you is probably the most important thing for a dragon." It was a surprise..."

Gao Wen: "..."

It's really surprising that the guys in the Mithril Treasury who made their fortunes by encroaching on entrusted objects jumped around for a while because of such a dead and resurrected entruster. It is said that not only did thousands of graves be dug in a month, Also recruited hundreds of souls by the way...