Overturned Tower

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According to Mr. Driver, additional registration is required to enter No.19 floor from No.20 floor.

Moreover, those without a code are absolutely not allowed to enter above the [-]th floor.

Prosthetic security guards with live ammunition stood guard at every corner of the twentieth floor.And there is also a well-disciplined, silent and orderly patrol guard with mechanical dogs and drones, patrolling back and forth on the edge of the [-]th floor—not only inside the building, but even outside the building.

Even in the sky, there are drones passing by repeatedly.A dense mass of drones formed a "crow flock", constantly making piercing whistling sounds.

Before Russell's floating vehicle arrived, they were scanned by the drone swarm.These drones did not interfere with the flight of the floating vehicle at all, and even escorted them around.

Immediately after Russell got off the floating car, four "security guards" whose heads had been replaced with prosthetic bodies came up respectfully with a team of drones and four mechanical dogs.

Although they are "security guards" in name, the exoskeleton armor worn by these security guards is so handsome that Russell is a little envious:

It was a jet-black matte armor that covered the whole body and made a heavy stomping sound when walking.The full-coverage helmet can't even see the eyes. It should be the dim yellow night vision light on the position of the eyes-black and yellow are the logo colors of Shenzhi Heavy Industry, just like the logo colors of Tianen Group are red and Same as white.

And in the gaps and decorations of this armor, you can still see the same dim yellow energy lamp.

It looks like a knight from the depths of hell.It doesn't look cyber-like at all, it's even fantasy.

And these people gathered together, wearing different specifications of exoskeleton armor, just like the army of the devil king is lining up.

Behind them, without exception, there is a huge faint yellow six-pointed star - that is the trademark of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

On their chests is the logo of the Tartaros high-rise hotel: a huge eye overlooking an abstract "person" below.

"Mr. Qunqing, good evening!"

First of all, he bowed to the four "knights" walking towards Russell, and said in unison: "Tartaros wishes you a pleasant and relaxing night."

A formation of drones circled Russell.Several large drones turned on a soft and non-glare light source above his head, dyeing him and the area he was in a clear daylight.The light was specially processed to allow Russell to see the road clearly without dazzling him - but it is not certain whether others are dazzling.

Russell was a little confused for a moment.

He looked around in confusion.

But found, whether it is a "knight" on duty motionless, or a "knight" on patrol.The moment Russell glanced over, they immediately sensed Russell's gaze, and knew Russell's identity before they turned around to confirm with their eyes-they turned their heads directly, without even looking at Russell. Directly and respectfully touching the chest, bowing and saluting.

And when Russell finally walked towards the hall, the four prosthetic security guards followed Russell at the four corners simultaneously.At exactly the same speed as Russell, he sent Russell forward while looking around vigilantly.Others were not even allowed to come within two meters of Russell.

The other prosthetic security guards who were dressed like knights immediately backed away when Russell approached within ten meters, and knelt down on one knee to salute Russell.These knights saluted in unison, coupled with the exoskeleton armor they wore, they made a neat, heavy, and loud sound.

Except for the initial welcome, there was silence afterwards. The No.20 floor itself has an air parking lot, which is specially used to park floating vehicles.And the other guests who got out of the car hurried away from Russell, didn't even dare to look at Russell, just ran around Russell's side in small steps.

Even Russell, who enjoys star treatment in Happy Island, is the first time to enjoy such an exaggerated reception style.

How much outrageously stained belongs to yes.

Russell didn't even know why Shenzhi Heavy Industry arranged such a hotel for himself-it was like celebrating his birthday in Haidilao.

And these security guards are even more outrageous.

Russell is very, very sure—whether it is Happy Island or Tongshen Island, their executive departments absolutely do not have such professionalism.

Even the security guards at Tianen Group's headquarters are far less professional than them.

Russell just glanced over them, and he could immediately sense the gaze, and even directly recognize the identity of the owner of the gaze through the gaze—although it is not clear whether this is the function of their exoskeleton or the special function of the prosthetic body, but happiness The island certainly does not have such technology.

And he just glanced at the material of these armors, and he knew that the strength of this thing was also outrageous-at least spray it with a shotgun nearby, and at most a few small holes would be formed.

——Because the material of the exoskeleton armor is a special material for mecha soldiers.

"What is the identity of this hotel? Is it the hotel of Shenzhi Heavy Industry?"

Russell asked such questions to the security guards around him.

Although I don't know exactly who to ask, but since they can even sense their own gaze, such trivial matters should not be surprising.

As a result, just after Russell finished asking, the door of the hotel on the twentieth floor opened—the hotel manager, who looked about in his early 20s, with a pair of horns on his head, black hair like a waterfall, and an unusually plump figure, came over and looked at Russell. He saluted from a distance.

After saluting, Russell just walked to the gate.

She also just raised her head, and followed Russell not far behind right without any pause.

"You guessed right. This is the hotel where the board of directors of Shenzhi Heavy Industry lives."

The hotel manager's voice was soft and clear: "The directors of our head office and some high-level executives all live in Tartaros. I am your exclusive manager, No. 44."

"Elf director?" Russell asked back.

"The non-permanent directors."

She replied: "The twelve non-permanent directors are all here, from the 49th floor to the 45th floor."

Non-permanent directors, another polite term for human directors.

"Has Ringo arrived yet?"

"Your girlfriend has reached the 44th floor. She is now in room 4401, but the entire private room on the 44th floor belongs to you."

The hotel manager didn't stare at Russell the whole time, and said respectfully: "If you still need any services or want to see anyone, you don't need to go to the front desk or make internal calls. You can speak anytime, and we can hear you. We It will be arranged for you as soon as possible, and any form of office work can be carried out without leaving Tartarus.

"If you don't know the exact address of the other party, we can help you find it; if you don't know the name of the other party, you can also give us the portrait of the mind. This hotel is connected to the internal database of Shenzhi Heavy Industry;

"If you need a playmate in any form, you can also ask this hotel at any time. If you don't want to or don't want to talk, after you enter the 44th floor, you can click to confirm the installation of 'Tartaros' from the pop-up window. Services'. Just typing can also provide any form of search and service."

"any?"

Russell asked rhetorically, "What if I want a symphony orchestra, or a ballet company?"

"Arranging for you at any time, we can arrive within half an hour."

"What if I want you?"

"Honored."

The hotel manager with long black hair replied respectfully without hesitation.

"Then if," Russell said in a deep voice, "whose head do I want?"

"This hotel can hunt any animal for you."

The manager replied: "It can be delivered within an hour, live capture or markers are fine."

"Oh? How much does it cost?"

"It's completely free," she replied respectfully, without any fluctuations in her tone, "as long as you are still a VIP of this hotel. If you want to see other guests below the 44th floor, you can call them for you at any time."

... The style of Tongshen Island is indeed completely different from that of Happy Island.

Russell was acutely aware of this.

He shook his head: "Forget it... I didn't say those things.

"Ringo is on the 44th floor, right?"

"Yes, I will take you to the dedicated elevator."

Number 44 replied.

Chapter 35 The Monopoly of Materials Science

Although this sky-high hotel has only fifty floors, it is the tallest building on Tongshen Island.

Surrounded by drones, the entire building is completely wrapped.In the dark night, it was like a palace of a demon king surrounded by bats.

It can become the tallest building on Tongshen Island because each floor of it has a considerable height.

When you look up, it looks like a magnificent palace.Each floor has an astonishing height of nearly 20 meters.

To stretch the space of each floor so high, but also to maintain stability and firmness, obviously requires special strength building materials.

But the Taltaros high-rise hotel easily solved this problem.

"How did you do it?"

Standing in the sightseeing elevator, Russell looked down layer by layer as people gradually approached him, moved away, became as small as ants, and then completely disappeared from view.

He suddenly asked: "A building is 20 meters high, and a fifty-story building is a full 1000 meters high...Even if other buildings reach half its height, the high-rise buildings will inevitably crumble. If there is a strong wind blowing, the top floor or even will shake up.

"Materials and engineering, it's very difficult to keep buildings safe at this height."

Therefore, the buildings on other sky islands still have a standard height of three to four meters per floor.Only Tongshen Island has that kind of extremely high floor... However, although the tall buildings in other places are frighteningly tall, they are actually a kind of giant building-the "corridor bridges" erected between different tall buildings, connecting these Buildings are connected to each other.It's like connecting stakes in the ground to form a fence.

But... Although the Tartaros high-rise hotel is also connected to other buildings, it is only below the 20th floor, and there is a corridor bridge every two floors.After all, the first floor of other buildings is about four meters, while the first floor of Tartarus is [-] meters.

"To be precise, the standard building height for each floor is 19.8 meters."

No. 44 responded obediently and smoothly: "The Tartaros Hotel was built using the most cutting-edge technology of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

"The building reinforcement uses a new material called 'guide steel', and the concrete layer is also doped with special shock-absorbing metal powder. Even if the machine soldiers directly bombard the tall building, it can dissolve 96% of the shock wave.

"Whether it is a hurricane, or a bomb detonated inside, or a direct bombardment from mecha soldiers and high-ranking psykers, all the vibrations and impacts will be evenly distributed to the entire building by the shock-absorbing metal immediately. body. And the lower corridor bridge can further disperse it to the surrounding buildings. Unless we can smash the entire G3 area in an instant, we will always remain safe and sound.

"As long as it is not completely shattered in the first place, the conductive steel in the building structure will convert it into electrical energy with high efficiency and store it in the backup energy center underground of the hotel. Even if it is at a height of more than forty floors, it will never There will be the slightest jolt—even if the mechs come straight at it, it will just crush itself, and Tartarus will be unscathed."

"so smart?"

Russell was also a little surprised: "Have you seen it with your own eyes?"

Unexpectedly, No. 44 replied flatly.

"Yes, I have seen it. Not long after Tartarus was built, a rebel force installed a total of 46 large bombs from the ground floor and tried to blow up the hotel from the ground floor. But the only damage to their bombs was the installation of the bomb. It was just the door of that room. The walls were undamaged, not even scratched. The next room, which was close at hand, only felt a very slight vibration for a moment.

"I was not No. 44, but No. 6. I was in charge of the sixth floor. And one of the bombs was less than five meters away from me in a straight line-I was behind the wall on the other side of the bomb. However I am still alive.

"This is the technology of our Tongshen Island, Mr. Qunqing. Whether it is the 'Triple Compass' of Sun Island, the 'Water Cycle City' of Yongquan Island, or the 'Nine-story Taoyuan' of Taoyuan Island, they are all completed by Shenzhi Heavy Industries. .Because we have done less work on Happy Island, except for the branch office, there is only the giant statue, so it is reasonable for you to be unfamiliar with our technology and hesitate."

I see……

Russell sighed in his heart.

Just as Happy Island sells only "idol trainees" to other empty islands, Chongguang Island will never sell their proud artificial intelligence system, and Holy Blood Island will not sell the best medicine to outer islands People and Sun Island never share their ancient knowledge with outsiders... Russell has only been in Tongshen Island for a day, and he has seen many different kinds of monsters used in various occasions and fields. Rare high-strength material.This is the specialty here.

Tongshen Island has obviously made a huge breakthrough in material science, but Shenzhi Heavy Industries is not willing to share the breakthrough technology they hold.

Materials science is the foundation of all things, the forerunner and cornerstone of all scientific and technological progress——

But from another perspective, material science is also a subject full of metaphysics.The research results of materials science are in one of the three states of "not useful", "don't know what is useful", and "very useful".However, if other disciplines want to complete leap-forward progress, they usually need to obtain the "very useful" SSR-level material science research product, which happens to be the one that is right for them, as the star-raising material.

The most important thing is that whether the research results of materials science are useful or not is usually not transferred by individual will and efforts.Those important materials that lead the development of other technologies across the ages usually come from "a sudden inspiration".

In other words, the research process of materials science is like drawing cards.Unfortunately, this card drawing is not just a click to get ten consecutive results, but it takes a very long time, hard work and energy to know what you have drawn - and the drawn card has no attributes Introduction, it may not even be possible to immediately know what it can be used for.A team led by a sufficiently good researcher can at most reduce the probability of "useless" N-cards and speed up the card-drawing cycle a little.It is still impossible to point to where to hit, and to rub out any material you want.

This means that when the research of other companies is stuck at the level of materials science, it is really stuck.No matter how many people you gather and how to pay money, if you can't research it, then you can't research it.

Because if you can’t smoke something, you can’t smoke it.Difficulties at the level of luck cannot be made up for by "hard work" and "perseverance".Just like drawing cards with a constipated expression, it will not make the things you draw better.

At most, it will become more stinky.

The head office on each empty island is engaged in different monopoly industries.What Shenzhi Heavy Industry monopolizes is one of the most profitable businesses... that is, the monopoly of core materials.

The cutting-edge research of other empty islands must be supported by Tongshen Island.As a result, they can plunder the resources of other sky islands through the exchange of benefits, and obtain "credit points" that can be used by branches on other sky islands.Through these credit points, they can buy outstanding talents from other sky islands and move their systems to their own homes.

Just like "Heavenly Sent", also like "Dust Gap".

The credit points of each sky island cannot be directly exchanged through official channels, and the purchasing power is not completely equal-the so-called "branch" is for this purpose.

By operating locally, earning credits that can be used locally, and then source materials and talent locally.After obtaining the product, it can also be sold locally or transported back to the mainland.If there is any demand in the local area, you can also purchase it through the branch and then ship it back.

Although the employees of the Tongshen Island branch work on the outer islands, their families are in the mainland of Tongshen Island, and they will come back sooner or later; just like the talents they bought from the outer islands of Tongshen Island, they usually don’t need The local credit points of Tongshen Island... Since they are in a hurry to ask for money, most of them have family members.For the money their family needs, they only need to ask the branch company in their hometown to pay their family with the credit points used locally.

To put it simply, the operation idea of ​​Tongshen Island is to use materials to jam the necks of other empty islands.Then use their money to buy their own talents and systems, and transport them to the mainland of Tongshen Island to complete the technical duplication.

This is the reason why Tongshen Island does not establish a theoretical research institution—generally speaking, the birth of applied technology must be later than theoretical research in this field.But what they need is not "new technology" at all, but "technology that other sky islands already have."

Technology systems from different fields resonate with each other, and new technologies will be born easily.This has nothing to do with theoretical research, but a mishmash of applied technologies—not inventions, but improvements.

Learn from the strengths of many families, and then integrate them into a comprehensive one-to overtake the real product as a "fake".

...From this point of view, the core operation idea of ​​Tongshen Island is very similar to Russell's spiritual energy essence.

If Russell hadn't followed his mother's advice and joined the Tianen Group... maybe he would have adapted to the rhythm of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

But under the premise of the IF line of the plot, Russell will not feel the depravity and distortion of Tartarus-but will gladly accept it.

After all, Russell was originally an empty, ever-changing thing, easily influenced by others.

At this moment, Russell felt a little lucky... Fortunately, he obeyed his mother's last wish and went to Happy Island.

He used to think that the Happy Island was crazy and depraved, but looking at it now... Maybe they really lived up to the name of the island.

Happy Island is indeed happy.

As for Tongshen Island...

It is true that wealth can pass through the gods.