Chapter 215 Interstellar Navigation, City in the Clouds
The fat captain of the mercury tribe has been to Jingyuan City more than ten times.
Sometimes I am in a hurry for official business, sometimes it is just a leisurely vacation.
After enough times, even if he has not deliberately collected various information about Jingyuan City, with the fat captain's brain that surpasses the normal human beings on Blue Star, he can still know that city like a treasure.
Therefore, through his complicated and trivial memories, Mu Cang, standing in the huge warp bubble space, soon clearly 'saw' the humanistic features and urban construction landscape of Jingyuan City.
It was a large city... floating in the sky relying on multiple sets of giant anti-gravity engines.
The planet it is located on is called Drugana, a gas giant planet with a diameter of 120,000 kilometers.
Its surface is covered with large patches of pink and purple clouds for a long time.
The two-colored clouds stretched thousands of miles apart, rolling and colliding with each other like ocean waves at every moment, breaking and merging, and finally splitting again, forming hundreds of millions of pink and purple clouds.
That kind of thrilling and magnificent scenery, whether viewed from space or from the planet's atmosphere, is extremely magnificent and charming.
Like most gas giant planets in the Milky Way, Degaruna is composed of a stellar core and three concentric component layers.
Its geological core with a radius of 6,000 kilometers is composed of solid metal filled with ultra-high pressure and ultra-high temperature.
The second layer immediately adjacent to the core is the 24,000-kilometer-thick spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen 'mantle' layer.
In this layer, the hydrogen element that has been soaked in [high] active spiritual energy for countless years, and the natural spiritual energy crystallization phenomenon miraculously occurred, is so dense that its shape is like a real metal. Similarly, there
The temperature is also at an extremely high level.
The next level up is the liquid hydrogen ocean with a depth of 28,000 kilometers. Its internal pressure is strong enough to crush a large warship into the size of a matchbox.
Finally, we come to the top layer, which is the atmospheric cloud layer two thousand kilometers thick.
At the edge where the bottom of this thick cloud layer meets the ocean of liquid hydrogen, the temperature can reach thousands of degrees Celsius.
But in this hellish high-pressure and high-temperature environment, it is said that there is a group of intelligent creatures similar to nomads.
But what kind of life form does this ethnic group have? Has a specific written culture been born? That is unknown.
Therefore, Mu Cang, who was in the memory of the Fat Captain, did not pay too much attention to it.
He moved his 'eyes' upward and 'looked' through the heavy clouds towards the area where Jingyuan City existed - this planet was only 280 kilometers away from the universe.
There is the [residential layer] on the planet Drugana that is truly suitable for the survival of most life forms.
Jingyuan City was built on this level, which was originally a spiritual crystalline metal hydrogen collection settlement.
In a sense, Drugana is a rare breed in astrophysics.
Because among the endless thick clouds of this gas giant planet, there is actually a broad and thick atmosphere that can be comfortably inhabited by conventional life.
This layer is 175 kilometers thick and is very suitable for life regardless of temperature, magnetic field strength, air pressure, and even oxygen concentration.
Although oxygen is not necessary for life groups, at least in this galaxy, carbon-based groups that rely on breathing oxygen still account for the majority.
In this vast residential layer, apart from some rare gaseous wild animals, there were no intelligent groups that existed a long time ago.
Until 50,000 years ago, six thousand light-years away from this star field, deep in the symbolic field corresponding to an unknown star field in the spiral arm of the Orion Galaxy, there was an incomplete high-level corridor in the spiritual world that had been abandoned for countless thousands of years.
After a long period of time, it actually repaired itself due to unknown reasons.
And after its functions were restored, this section of road instantly extended explosively at tens of millions of times the speed of light, penetrating into the depths of the boundless sea of stars.
The connected road is connected to a number of Ningbo Road sections that are in normal operation, forming an orderly traffic.
Not only that.
Along the way, it also activated and repaired a large number of abandoned corridors.
Therefore, due to their series connection, an interstellar transportation network covering an area of 6,000 light-years and containing a large number of unknown broken star fields was formed in a short period of time.
The star field where Drugana is located is the very end of this interstellar network.
It is the place where that strangely resurrected high-level corridor finally arrives.
This major event immediately caused a sensation among the civilizations in the 20,000-light-year-long Orion spiral arm.
All these indicate that a large number of opportunities, resources, and territories have emerged.
If you have a quick hand, you will have it; if you have a slow hand, you will not have it.
For a time, driven by profit, countless interstellar navigators, adventurers, merchants, and pirates swarmed into the unknown and embarked on a journey to explore the unknown.
This "feast" journey filled with exploration, plunder, occupation and colonization lasted for thousands of years.
During this period, countless adventurers and navigators died in the depths of the vast universe. At the same time, more backward Duan Dao civilizations were colonized, enslaved, sold, and even exterminated.
Just as the 'banquet' was about to end, a group of interstellar miners in an old spaceship arrived and landed on the planet Drugana.
After careful investigation, this group of early miners quickly discovered the [residential layer] and the layer of natural spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen on the planet that was more than 20,000 kilometers thick.
So they boldly built a simple and shabby floating multi-functional mining platform, specifically to mine this high-energy material from the depths of Degaruna - a spiritual crystal state that contains extremely high energy density and can be used as fuel for interstellar navigation.
Metallic hydrogen.
Although this kind of mineral resource is not particularly precious strictly speaking, it has a huge output, is easy to extract, and is relatively easy to transport and store, so it is generally very profitable.
So after many years, this small mining platform became larger and larger, and its functions became more and more complex.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the end, the earliest Jingyuan City was formed.
For tens of thousands of years, after countless generations of repairs and upgrades, Jingyuan City has become a giant floating city that is firmly fixed by multiple sets of giant anti-gravity devices and suspended high in the thick, pastel-colored clouds of the planet Drugana.
City.
This city is home to fifteen intelligent species from all over the stars, with dozens of common languages and a total population of one billion.
They exchange technology and culture with each other, allowing technology to develop by leaps and bounds.
Viewed from a high place, Jingyuancheng appears in the shape of a clover.
Two small leaves and one large leaf.
This also represents three different large-scale residential areas in Jingyuan City.
Southwest, northwest regions, and the eastern region with the largest area.
In the liquid area of the southwest, three aquatic species live.
Most of these slippery intelligent species use exposed nerve bundles to communicate.
They are good at using their unique fluid interference superpowers, combined with sophisticated and weird liquid technology, to 'plant' clusters of natural spiritual crystalline cobalt elements.
After quarterly collection, these aquatic species will cut and polish individual crystalline clusters through high-pressure water jets to make various types of jewelry, pendants, and ornaments, which can be sold for profit.
The native cobalt element in nature is highly radioactive and is harmful to normal life.
However, the radiation field of the clusters of spiritual crystalline cobalt element miraculously has the effect of strongly nourishing the bodies and souls of various intelligent creatures such as carbon-based, sulfur-based, amino-based, silicon-based, nitrogen-based, etc.
Especially when multiple groups of large cluster ornaments are placed indoors or in places, it can significantly affect the coherence of the surrounding spiritual energy, causing it to increase slightly, which is conducive to the absorption and tempering of the spiritual energy of intelligent species. (Aura coherence degree design
See Chapter 82 for details)
In the gaseous region of the northwest, there is a group of low-density and variable-temperature gaseous life forms. They are the descendants of the ancient interstellar miners who founded this Jingyuan City. They specialize in mining the natural spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen located inside the planet.
mineral.
Compared with their ancestors, the mining technology of these gaseous intelligent lifeforms is essentially the same, but it has been iteratively optimized a lot in terms of mining scale, efficiency, and tools.
It is very efficient and convenient no matter from the extraction, processing, selection and packaging of minerals, to the smelting, processing and deep processing of minerals, and most importantly, maintenance and storage.
Different from the industrial front located behind the northwest city, the mining area where the gaseous lifeforms actually extract the spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen minerals is located at the central connection of the three major urban areas.
There, at the bottom of the center of the Jingyuan city body, there is a huge building area that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, gradually transitioning into the shape of an upside-down white spire, with a volume comparable to the size of a mountain range.
One hundred and twenty-eight pairs of large tractor beam generators are installed in this huge building.
The giant tractor beams emitted by these huge devices have multiple functions: one is to fix the Jingyuan city-state within the 'thin' biological habitation area of Degaruna's atmosphere; the other is to extract spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen from the deep strata
And guide it into the large-scale refining and storage equipment behind the northwest city; third, bring a large amount of external heat into the city's thermal energy converter array to provide additional energy use and power support for the entire city.
At the sharpest end of the inverted spire, there is connected a slender one-legged support. The total length of this white support reaches tens of thousands of kilometers, running through more than a thousand kilometers of thick atmosphere and 28,000 kilometers of liquid water.
The hydrogen ocean goes straight into the spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen 'mantle' layer of the planet Drugana.
The tractor beam uses this one-legged support with a deep high-pressure thin tube to extract spiritual crystal minerals.
This series of work seems complicated, difficult and time-consuming, but compared with those early mining pioneers, today's gaseous lifeforms have saved a lot of time and effort. More of the work is fully automated and there is no need for it at all.
They worked so hard.
Compared with their ancestors, they are happy.
In fact, for the gaseous life forms and many intelligent groups living in Jingyuan City, mining is not difficult to deal with. What is really difficult to deal with is that the planet's majestic and thick atmosphere often forms and spreads around.
A powerful storm running rampant.
These huge storms roll violently and sweep thousands of miles away as soon as they are born, often attacking Jingyuan City.
So for a long time, in order to ensure that this huge city could remain motionless in storms, a giant wind tunnel was built in the center of the city connecting the three major leaf-shaped urban areas, and extended to the long and thin wind tunnel at the bottom of the city's belly.
The upper end of the single-leg bracket.
This huge chasm, like an abyss, with howling winds all the time, can continuously divert the dangerous winds passing through Jingyuan City, help Jingyuan City gain huge power and huge mechanical support, and can also serve as urban garbage.
Dumping system.
In the memory picture, Mu Cang's 'eyes' left the two major urban areas of gas and liquid, crossed the sinkhole-like wind tunnel, and came to the vast eastern part of Jingyuan City.
There is the home of other conventional life forms, and it is also the largest and most complex area.
The city is so huge that the eastern area alone is 980 kilometers long, 550 kilometers wide at its widest point, and 130 kilometers high.
The eastern area has a large-scale covering circular landing platform for the take-off and landing of a large number of starships.
These are all surrounded by a large square on the top floor with towering spiers built on the outer circle.
In this vast and beautiful city, the corridors and squares are always spotless and sparkling with light. With the refreshing wind blowing, it will even give people a wonderful feeling of flying in the clouds.
From Mu Cang's 'perspective', the architectural style of Jingyuan City is quite similar to the classical architecture of Blue Star Ancient Europe, with many white rock columns and tall gray spiers.
Both elegant and solemn.
The real "content" of the eastern city lies below the grand square on the top floor.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There, the city is further divided into different levels.
Starting from the large square at the top of the first floor, it is divided into the 120th floor.
The majestic height of a full one hundred and thirty kilometers, even though it is divided into so many layers, the average height between each layer still reaches an astonishing thousands of meters.
Starting from the top, the first to fifteenth floors are comprehensive commercial and entertainment areas, where there are thousands of top hotels; as well as large and small hotels with various methods and special topics such as physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, fire therapy, and magnetic therapy.
Health care places.
There are thousands of themed shopping streets and mixed shopping streets, as well as large nightclubs, small nightclubs, museums, libraries, exhibition halls and large casinos.
The fifteenth to thirtieth floors are high-end residential areas for the wealthy and management class such as interstellar merchants and city-state officials. The vast area is occupied by poor people who are not allowed to enter.
The thirty-first to forty-fifth floors are the area of the Governor's Mansion of Jingyuan City State, which is magnificent and magnificent.
The forty-sixth to sixtieth floors are the most dilapidated areas in Jingyuan City with the highest crime rate, also known as the gray dock area.
There are small and medium-sized industrial loading and unloading docks, black casinos, black bars and many gang activity places here. The slums of Jingyuancheng are also on this floor.
The sixty-first to seventy-fifth floors are residential areas for civilians and poor people. They cover an equally large area, but most of them are densely packed rows of tank-type floors that are close to each other.
The seventy-sixth to ninetieth floors are large factory areas. Many machinery, metallurgy, and chemical plants are located here. This is also the gathering place for Jingyuancheng's shipyards. Many compliant and non-compliant, life-threatening starship transformation plans are here.
can be found.
Floors 91 to 105 are where the economic lifeline of Jingyuancheng is located - the spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen mineral processing plant, the product canning and sealing area, and the resource sales and distribution company.
Many intelligent beings who want to buy starship fuel have to come here to make purchases.
This is also a large-volume shipping point for minerals.
As for why such an important place is not in the hands of that group of gaseous beings, this involves many, many historical issues.
Many events occurred during the 40,000-year period, including conflicts, bloodshed, and death.
It can only be said that the hard work of ancestors often cannot protect future generations. When the interests become larger and larger, the weak are not qualified to take the initiative.
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The fat captain only knows that the current Jingyuancheng has been controlled by a strong man from an unknown ethnic group from the depths of the galaxy a long time ago. It is under absolute control and no one else can interfere.
In short, the gas miners have already withdrawn from the power center of Jingyuan City, either actively or passively, and now they only focus on mining minerals and don't care about anything else.
And further down.
The 106th to 120th floors are the bottom of the eastern area of Jingyuan City.
Like the two major urban areas in the southwest and northwest, large tractor beam arrays and giant anti-gravity generator working group arrays are installed there.
It is the foundation that maintains Jingyuan City to truly float and be fixed on Drugana [residential layer].
At the same time, there are also maze-like magnetic levitation tunnels throughout the city, running through each of more than a hundred floors.
"It's a really nice place, I've taken a liking to it."
Mu Cang's eyes flashed with joy and he murmured, "Governor Lao Shizi, all the good things should go to me."
Withdrawing his attention from the memory picture, he raised his eyes and looked at the boundless sea of light in the distance at the front of the warp bubble. He calculated in his mind and said leisurely:
