Starting from Zero

"Wow..." As soon as he walked out of the bottom exit of Isengard's Sky City, all the children were stunned by the sight in front of them.

Because Isinger Sky City is upside down, its bottom is actually on the top, and this part itself is a flat base without any extras. Under normal circumstances, Isinger Mobile Fortress should be parked at the bottom center of Isinger’s Sky City, where there is a dedicated connection device to fix the two together. Of course, even if it is not fixed, the power needed to separate the two is terrifying.

Although the bottom of this Isinger Sky City is mainly used to park Isinger Mobile Fortress, the Isinger Mobile Fortress is not as big as Isinger Sky City, so Isinger Sky At the bottom edge of the City, there is a ring of redundant open space. This blank area does not feel very large when viewed from a distance, because the size difference between Isengard Mobile Fortress and Isengard Sky City itself is not very large, so the extra edge of the circle does not seem to be felt How big is it.

However, if you walk into this peripheral zone in person, you will find that this so-called peripheral zone is actually very broad.

The bottom of Isinger’s Sky City is a square with a side of 29 kilometers, and the bottom of Isinger’s mobile fortress is a square with a side of 25,000. Therefore, even if Ai The Singh Mobile Fortress is in a moored state, and there is still a 2,000-meter open space on the edge of Isinger's Sky City. Although this two-kilometer-wide open space is not outstanding compared to the size of the city itself, the width of two kilometers is actually very exaggerated. The length of such a wide area is as high as 29,000 meters, and the entire area can be imagined. Such a large space is of course impossible for us to let it remain empty forever.

At first, the use of the entire area was to install cannons continuously, but later we found that this seemed to be of little practical significance.

Although the guild mark of this guild is not in Isengard, it is a secret and not many people know it. In the eyes of others, Isinger is the headquarters city of our guild and the core of our guild's interests. In fact, other people’s ideas are exactly what we want them to think. Therefore, we are also deliberately showing the importance of Isinger, so as to let others mistakenly think that our guild headquarters city is Isinger, so that even if What happened to the conspiracy against our guild, and happened to allow the other party to succeed, at least not to hurt the core of our guild.

Although we originally meant to let Isinger as a shield, because of the subsequent development of our guild, the amount of defensive power of Isinger is also as the tide rises, the boat floats, and the result is Now Isengard has basically become a solid super fortress, let alone destroyed, it is not a simple matter to launch a terrorist attack on it.

Because of the strength of our guild, it’s almost impossible for anyone to really hit Isinger’s city, and even if someone does it, with Isinger’s own defensive power, it’s absolutely impossible Can guarantee that the enemy will come back and forth. As for breaking the city...Don't even think about things like fantasy stories.

Because of this situation, the current Isinger is obviously a bit over-armed. In this case, it is obviously not a good idea to continue to add defense weapons to Isinger. In any case, no one rushed in even with the current weapons, even if it was equipped with hundreds of cannons, it was still the same, except that it seemed to be a little safer, but it had no practical significance at all.

Since it’s not meaningful to install cannons, filling these areas with cannons has become a mentally ill behavior, so we only installed a few large gun positions here. Existing as suppressing firepower, more areas are always in a blank state. However, as the guild’s anti-gravity technology research gradually enters the practical stage, there is finally a place for it to be useful here.

These blank areas are at the bottom of Isinger Sky City, which is located at an altitude of nearly 20,000 meters. The altitude of this place determines that it is very suitable for use as an airport, because if the aircraft takes off from here, there is simply no need for a climb process, just keep flying horizontally. Of course, there is no need to lower the altitude when returning home, just keep the altitude and land directly. This kind of altitude advantage is really a very good advantage for the aircraft, and if there is a battle, the aircraft will take off from the ground and then climb for combat, or directly dive and accelerate from a high altitude to immediately enter the battle. It is obvious which one is better.

In fact, in addition to the altitude advantage, this area is just on the edge of the city, which is also a favorable factor for take-off and landing itself. Also, this place itself is empty and is now converted into an airport base. Naturally, a lot of costs are saved. You must know that Isinger's interior is basically planned now, and some places are even rented or sold to individual players or other guilds. If we want to set up an airport in the ground city, we must demolish some existing buildings. This demolition work will definitely involve a lot of conflicts of interest, and the natural input cost and the complexity of the operation of the event will increase exponentially.

Based on this situation, it is now appropriate to use the blank area at the bottom of Isengard’s Sky City as an airport. Of course, Isinger Ground City and Sky City are actually not without airports, but those are small airports, which are only used as temporary berths. Normally, our spaceship will not stop in Isinger Ground City or Sky City. After all, the airports of those two places can be seen directly, so the confidentiality is not as good as the bottom of Sky City. The place itself was at an altitude of 20,000 meters, and it was covered by Isinger’s own permanent fog of death. Except for the people in our guild, outsiders came simply with black eyes, let alone standing on the ground, even if Don't expect to see what's inside when you fly to the front.

The children who just walked out of the bottom passage of Isengard Sky City looked at the row of towering battleship berths in front of them, and their eyes started to flash with little stars, which surprised them even more. The thing is, there are many large mobile devices that look like modern construction machinery in this place. These engineering equipment all use wheeled walking devices, and the chassis looks like a large-scale armored vehicle, and there are more varieties of things installed in the upper part. Some equipment installed on the equipment can be seen at a glance what it is used for. For example, a long telescopic arm is obviously a crane at first glance, while more equipment can't see what it is used for.

Although children are very confused about these seemingly modern machines, I know that these things just look like modern machines, and their internal structure is just an alternative application of magic crystal power. That's it. Even the top structure of some devices looks like a mechanical structure, but its practical use is the same magic technology as the golem. If you smash open something that looks like a flexible robotic arm, you will find that it is actually solid inside. It simply has no gears or transmission shafts. It is completely a solid lump. Without the support of Golem technology, this thing Simply move does not raise.

The reason why we have to equip so many engineering equipment in the airport, we are also helpless. Don't look at our guild now has a practical flying battleship, but few people know how difficult these things are to serve. Even though many things in the game are much simplified than in reality, the Air Force is still a service that requires extremely high logistical support. Although there are not many combat personnel on these flying battleships in our guild, in order for these guys to fly safely, we have to prepare three times as many ground maintenance personnel on the ground as combat personnel. This is still on the premise that we are equipped with so many large-scale equipment. If it is completely artificial...It is estimated that a spaceship with a crew of 100 people will need one to two thousand people to go around it.

Because these guys have too much pressure on logistics, we have to equip a large number of ground crews and large ground maintenance equipment. Although the cost of these equipment is not cheap, but the role of these things is often more than the role of the ground crew, so even if it is expensive, we have to prepare a lot of these things.

Because the width of the airport is only two kilometers, the length is as high as 29 kilometers, so this place must have commuter vehicles to travel. Even with the physical fitness of the players in the game, it is not a joke to run more than 20,000 meters on foot.

We have a lot of people here, so it took four cars to get it done. Fortunately, there are always many commuter cars waiting here at the exit.

"President, which berth are you going to?" The NPC who was in charge of driving waited for us to get in the car and asked.

I actually don’t know where I’m going, I just want to transfer a spaceship from here to send us to complete the mission, so I can only tell him to drive out first, and then contact the military god while driving. .

"Military god, I need to use spaceship to tell me which berth has a free spaceship that can take off immediately. There are more than forty people on my side."

"Need to fight Class ship?"

"It doesn't matter, just don't delay the normal mission."

"In this case, you can go to berth Z872 on the Western Route."

" I understand." After I listened, I immediately took a picture of the driving NPC and said: "Thin line, berth Z872."

"Huh?" The NPC was visibly stunned, and then hurriedly turned to the direction. The vehicle turned around and drove in the opposite direction.

"What's wrong?" Because if it's just running in the wrong direction, that NPC shouldn't react so much. After all, we just started up, and we haven't run far yet. But his surprised expression clearly said there was something wrong with my words.

When I asked, the NPC immediately replied: "I'm just wondering if you are going to the western front, why are you running to our eastern front?"

" Is this the Eastern Front?" I immediately asked in surprise after hearing the other party's answer, because I already knew why the other party reacted so badly just now.

The airport at the bottom of Isinger Sky City is actually located on its edge. The middle position needs to be set aside for Isinger Mobile Fortress to use, so in fact, this airport is a square hollow. frame. Just because this airport is a hollow frame, it has four sides as it should be by rights, and these four sides are just on the four sides of Isinger Mobile Fortress.

The west line we are going to actually refers to the airport on the west side, and our current location is at the east airport, and because of safety regulations, even if the Isinger Mobile Fortress is not there At the time, no vehicles or individuals are allowed to pass through the blank area in the center, because that place is the parking area of ​​Isengard Mobile Fortress, and Isengard Mobile Fortress itself can perform Space Jump, so no one can be sure of it. Will it come back suddenly in the next second? Therefore, we have set up safety regulations to prohibit any vehicles and pedestrians from entering this area, even if the Isengard Mobile Fortress is not there.

Based on this fix, if we want to run from the east line to the thin line, we need to run from the exit on the east line to the airport on the south or north line, and then cross 29,000 kilometers A long section of the airport can only then be transferred to the western line. The extent of this span can be imagined. Judging from our current position, if we run past, we need to travel a distance of at least 35 kilometers, that is, a distance of more than 35 kilometers. Although the road conditions in the airport area are super good, the speed of this commuter car can reach more than 200 kilometers, and it doesn't take long to run there, but speaking of which is really embarrassing. As the president of the Frost Rose League, I can't even figure out East, South, West, North, and I ran in the wrong direction!

Probably knowing that I must be embarrassed now, so the NPC wisely didn't pick me up, but drove the commuter car to the limit.

The ground of the airport itself is artificially constructed, and because of the use of magic processing, even the actual airport runway is not as good as the road conditions. Ordinary traffic commuter cars use a three-layer overpass structure commuter lane, separated from the left and right, all are one-way roads, and the speed limit of each layer is different, so in this case, we directly drive to the highest speed lane on the top floor, and because Normally, no one makes jokes like me and runs in the wrong direction, so there are generally few people on the top highway.

There are no obstacles, the commuter cars quickly drove to extreme speed, and the western port arrived soon. But you still need to find a berth after you get off the highway. The Z in the berth number mentioned by the military god represents the left half of the port, and 872 is the serial number. Because the serial number is arranged from 001, you can easily find the corresponding berth by following the number.

When we found the berth that the military god told me, we directly found the spaceship we were going to take, because the surrounding berths were all empty, and there were ten berths nearby. There is only one spaceship listening here.

This is a spaceship that is not too big, and this guy said it is a spaceship. In fact, I don't think it looks like a ship in any way.

The flying device in the game relies on the great Great Demon method generated by the solar furnace and the super powerful thrust generated by it to fly into the air, so there is no such thing as aerodynamic layout. The small ones, such as mobile angels, use jet propulsion, so they use the same principles as real airplane wings on their wings, that is, they use the pressure difference generated by the differential airflow to provide lift flight. But as a large battleship, because the speed itself is not fast, even if it is made into the shape of an airplane, the buoyancy generated by the wings is not much. In addition, although the wings of an aircraft can generate lift, the thing that generates lift will also generate lateral drag, which hinders the speed of the aircraft when it rolls over. This is why the wings of fighter jets are usually not as big as civil aircraft. It is because the large wing will affect the maneuverability. Although the lift increase can save power and increase the carrying capacity, the fighter jet needs speed and flexibility, so it is inevitable to sacrifice a part of the carrying capacity.

Our flying battleship itself does not need aerodynamic structures such as wings to increase lift, so for flexibility, for us, the structure of the spaceship simply does not need to consider any aerodynamic issues. The speed of spaceship itself is not fast. As long as we are not mentally disabled to make the aircraft into the shape of a parachute, in fact, any shape is not very different for us. Anyway, our spaceship is impossible to fly like real fighter jets, so aerodynamic factors can be completely ignored in appearance, as long as we consider weapons and defensive abilities from the perspective of actual combat.

The spaceship in front of you is obviously the product of this kind of thinking, or that this thing is simply something that a designer came up with when he was bored, because its appearance looks like an atomic model. Its main body is a huge sphere, and there are several huge metal rings on the outside. These rings are fixed on the central sphere with some horizontal metal structures, which look like electron orbits around the nucleus. Moreover, the designers actually actually equipped "electronics" on these tracks. Each of those tracks has a small polyhedral structure that can move freely on the track. This small structure is much smaller than the big sphere in the center, but the actual volume of this thing itself is not really small. Although the distance is still unrealistic, according to my estimation, each of these small structures may be the size of a minibus.

When we got close to this wonderfully shaped spaceship, we finally saw clearly that the small parts surrounding the track were actually slightly smaller than the minibuses, and although the tracks on these tracks The polyhedrons seem to be fully sealed, but I can see that those polyhedrons actually have opening and closing mechanisms.

Although I haven't studied this spaceship carefully, I have basically understood that these small pods hanging on the orbit around the spaceship may be its weapon system. Judging from the structure of these tracks, these pods should be able to move around the spaceship at high speed, and the circular hull structure simply does not have front and rear, left and right problems. Considering the technical characteristics of the solar furnace itself, I doubt this spaceship. It may fly around like a bouncing ball. After all, the output of the solar furnace is known for its irregularities, and the spaceship itself is a structure that has no bow or stern. It would be strange if it could fly in a straight line.

Although I question the structure of this thing very much, I am not here to check and accept the spaceship this time, so I didn't go into it.

Probably the god of war had already notified in advance. When we arrived here, the crew on the ship was ready to complete, and the captain of this spaceship was already waiting for the pedaling ship under this ship. On the spiral staircase.

Seeing us appear, the player immediately trot over all the way, and loudly shouted: "Chairman, Chairman, come here!"

Of course, I don’t want a normal spaceship. The key to someone guiding the pedaling is that the shape of this spaceship is too weird. If there is no guidance, most people will never be able to see where its entrance is. Fortunately, the captain knew that we were waiting for us below, otherwise we would have to work harder to get up.

The NPC operating the commuter car quickly drove the car over under the call of the other party. After we got off the car, we talked briefly with the captain and we were guided to the spaceship.

As I guessed before, this spaceship is not a mass production type, but an experimental spaceship. Its main function is to collect flight data, so its shape is a little strange. . In addition, the small pods around this guy are not all the weapon systems we guessed. According to the captain, the internal equipment of the pods that can move on the track is actually a new type of camouflage system, which has not been completely finalized, but there is already an internal name called Magic Mirror.

"The magic mirror? The kind of magic mirror that can talk to the owner?" The head aunt obviously knows a lot about fairy tales. After all, with so many children, this kind of story must be told many times.

The captain said with a smile after hearing the aunt’s words: "It’s not that kind of thing. Our magic mirror is also a code name, it’s not a real mirror. But after this thing is activated, it can indeed produce a similar mirror. The same characteristic, but its function is not to reflect the light from the opposite side back, but to project the light behind it to the front, so that it can become a transparent existence in the propagation path of the light, and naturally it will not be affected by people. I found it. Compared with the mirage system we are using now, this magic mirror system does not produce any light distortion, as long as our spaceship itself does not move too fast, it can basically be completely invisible. And, because The method we use is not a pure magic disguise, it just deflects the light, so general anti-invisibility magic is useless for us."

"So powerful?" Kristina also knows Invisibility. Technique, so the invisible ability that can't be detected is naturally quite fancy.

The captain immediately said triumphantly after hearing Kristina’s words: "This is not my bragging. If our spaceship activates the system, as long as we don’t move, don’t even use anti-invisibility magic. Want to see us, and unless you bump into our spaceship by yourself, you simply won’t see our spaceship exist."

"In case of rain or fog, it’s invisible. Will it fail?" Christina continued to ask.

The captain shook his head and said: "It's not clear for the time being. This thing is still in the experimental stage and has not been finalized. We will send you out this time. In fact, another task is to test the performance of the spaceship by the way."

"Test again?" The children who followed us were frightened last time, so they called out as soon as they heard that there was another test.

I quickly comforted them that this is not a battleship, and there is no danger in the test. However, after half an hour, even myself began to realize that my words were actually very problematic, because this kind of test is simply not dangerous, but...very dangerous.

"Ah..." With a scream that cut through the sky, a huge white sphere suddenly zigzagged on the sea surrounded by a bunch of small objects moving around it at high speed. It is moving, and the speed is as fast as a white lightning across the water. Of course, the acceleration change caused by this abnormal polyline movement is also very scary, so...children will all be busy vomiting.

"Then what...How many tests do you have?" Kristina asked with an ugly face, covering her mouth and looking at the captain. Although she is not stunned by the flying machine, this kind of abnormal movement is really not suitable for normal people. In fact, apart from me and the original crew, everyone on this ship, including Kristina, was basically unable to withstand it.

I’m okay purely because the brain’s balance system is too efficient, and there will be no protective reactions due to such things, that is, no feelings of nausea will occur. As for the physical reaction... Considering my attributes, this small acceleration is really impossible to do with me.

Except for me, the crew members who didn't respond much were to count the crew. There are a total of 18 crew members on this spaceship, including the captain. There are not many people, but they are all players and there is no NPC. These people are all mobilized from the flying platoon of the guild. It is said that they were responsible for testing the extreme sports ability of long spear before, so they have adapted to this abnormal aerial change of direction. Unfortunately, although they have adapted, Kristina and the children can’t adapt. If it weren’t because I had the foresight to send each of them a sealable container in advance, it would definitely cause vomiting everywhere in the cabin. Thing out.

The captain probably also knows that this kind of test is unbearable for most people, so he didn't make a joke, but said seriously: "Most of the previous tests have been completed, and now there are only two tests left."

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"There are two more?"

"Well, rest assured, this test is very simple." After the captain finished speaking, he took out a large bundle of rope and began to distribute it to the people present. Everyone.

Everyone took the rope mechanically, but had no idea what the captain did for them. However, I quickly guessed the reason, and the captain didn't mean to sell it, so he just started to demonstrate it to us. It turns out that the function of this rope is to tie oneself, and the function is to firmly fix oneself on the seat.

This spaceship is the spaceship for testing. There are many instruments on it and there are many operating positions, but in fact, not every instrument requires someone to sit there and stare for a long time, but considering this Spaceship's own sports characteristics are not easy to select the personnel it carries, so the last method adopted is to let a few personnel manage multiple devices. Anyway, those devices don't need to be managed all the time. Just copy the data after a while. It is for this reason that there are so many extra seats on the spaceship.

Now that the captain sends us a rope and binds himself to the seat, this behavior itself is rather strange, especially when these actions are actually equipped with cross-stabilizing seat belts. It can be said that the rope is simply a redundant item in this case. However, in the eyes of our inquiry, the captain still asked us to tie up the rope, so everyone did it in the end.

In fact, after we finished the test, we understood that this rope is really necessary, because several people’s seat belts were eventually broken, and even some people’s seats were connected to the fixed metal on the ground. The rods are deformed.

As soon as everyone used a rope to completely fix themselves on their seats, the players immediately began to operate the spaceship to accelerate their forward movement.

The volume of this spaceship is actually only slightly larger than that of large torpedo boats, and even smaller than a frigate. A ship of this size can be said to be in the category of a small spaceship, but it is equipped with a large solar furnace that can only be used by a large battleship, and it is also a modified special version. The biggest difference between this special solar furnace and the general solar furnace is that its power increases rapidly, which is more than twice as fast as the general solar furnace. Although this technology cannot be popularized, at least this spaceship can enjoy the super speed brought by this super power.

The size and tonnage of a small spaceship, and the propulsion power of a large battleship, you can imagine how terrifying the acceleration capability of this thing is. When our spaceship hurried along a straight line, the sea below was cut out a big ditch by the air current brought by it, and when our spaceship flew past, the sea immediately burst into water. wall.

This rapid hurricane mode has lasted for five or six minutes, and we didn’t feel much during this process. After all, when running in a straight line, the simple acceleration only produces a strong feeling of pushing back, which makes people feel The feeling of being pressed on a chair and unable to get up. Although this feeling is obvious, it is far from uncomfortable. However, just when we were wondering why we should tie the ropes to us, this spaceship suddenly played a dry land on the sea, plucking green onions, and went up to the sky with a swish. Although it was not possible to make a standard right-angle turn due to inertia, the turn was scary enough, and it was accelerated upwards almost at a vertical angle. This terrifying gravitational acceleration instantly pressed our blood to the soles of our feet. Several of the more fragile children fainted on the spot, Kristina had to transform herself into the elemental mode to resist this acceleration, while the others turned their eyes white and looked like they were about to hang up. Of course, although this acceleration is scary, it is calculated in advance and is actually within a safe range. However, having said that, although it is said to be within the safe range, it has already reached that safe upper limit not far away.

We haven’t gotten used to the sudden upward acceleration. Kristina just wanted to open her mouth to curse, and suddenly felt the direction of gravity reversed. The spaceship that was originally rising suddenly It is a sudden stop and then a rapid decline. The speed is as fast as a meteorite intruded by the outer planet. You can even see the pink light and shadow effect on the outside of the spaceship. This is a high temperature phenomenon caused by excessive friction of the spaceship.

"I rely on it, thanks to the transformation of the element mode in advance, otherwise it will not be played by you!" Kristina is now in a state where she can ignore the physical impact, so this sudden change in speed affects her Simply speaking, I don’t feel anything, I can only feel the direction of gravity flipping, and I don’t have any actual physical feelings.

The difference from Kristina is that other people can only rely on physical fitness to resist. Although this is a safe range, in fact, the standard of this safe range is that it will not kill people, not that it will not waste blood. Players in the game all have health points, as long as they are not critical attacks, they will first lose their lives, so even if many people can't hold them anymore, it's just a bit of blood.

Fortunately, this gravitational turning speed is very fast, and it will be completely over within a few seconds, and then the spaceship that has fallen to the surface of the sea immediately begins to decelerate and quickly enters a stable mode.

"Huh, I almost thought I was going to die!" A child said with lingering fear.

His words aroused a lot of discussion. The situation of high and low just now was more exciting than a roller coaster. Many people were shocked. Fortunately, there is neuroprotection in the game. Outside of the game, I would definitely not let children sit on this thing.

The result of this gravity flip experiment was perfect. A large amount of experimental data was collected, but the master captain was still killed by the children 10,000 times with hateful eyes. Why did he have to do such an exaggerated action, and almost lost everyone's life.

Fortunately, after this test, only the last test is left, and this test is not a test of power performance, but a test of internal equipment, so for us, there is no What's affected.

At the end of the spaceship test work, we have almost reached the Sea Territory designated by the mission scroll. Because there is no test mission now, the captain is completely flying in accordance with our command.

According to the content of the scroll, we should actually have come by ship, because there is a route map in the content of the mission scroll. This route is obviously not an air route, but a nautical chart, so we only Can fly close to the sea.

There is a setting in "Zero" that all mission areas can fly past, but the premise is that you don't plan to do missions. For example, the target location of some missions is very clear, indicating that it is a lake in the middle of a forest. If you fly over from the sky, the lake in this forest is obviously a very easy target to find, and you can definitely see it at a glance. However, if you really fly over, then there will be many unexpected accidents in the middle, and the system will It will add a lot of extra trouble to you, and make sure to make you feel afterwards that it is better to fly over than to walk over.

In fact, it is normal for the system to have such a setting. After all, "Zero" is very open. If players are allowed to play at will, many tasks simply cannot be done. It's not that the task is too difficult to complete, but that it's too simple and there is a suspicion of sending points. Therefore, the system sets many hidden restrictions that will not be marked without affecting the content of the game. These restrictions often require players to explore with their lives. When completing the task, it must be completed in accordance with the task specified process, which is also one of this hidden setting. Even if you know in advance what the last link of the task is, you must not skip the previous steps, otherwise the task will definitely fail.

This part of our mission to find islands is designed to use ships to board the islands, so we simply dare not fly, and can only let the spaceship move on the sea.

"It's weird, why don't you understand this chart?" I took the chart and compared it le