mtl008 Chapter 2605 Mayfly World (5)
Chapter 2605 Mayfly World (5)
Chapter 2605 Mayfly World (V)
Martin also arrived quickly. The ancestor gods from his universe could not come, but it seemed that the Marvel Universe also had ancestor gods. He set up an altar outside and summoned for a long time, and finally summoned one.
There are currently no Mexican students in Kamar-Taj Academy of Magic, so no one has ever summoned the gods of the Aztec pantheon. Martin is the first one.
The magical rules of this universe are much clearer than those in DC, not so obscure and difficult. Ancestral gods like the Egyptian gods and the Asteric pantheon do not have high requirements. They do not necessarily want your internal organs or soul to grant you power. Most of them just require offerings.
"The pantheon here is much more complete than that over there," Martin said. "Quetzalcoatl was very interested in this place, so I signed a contract with him first. But he said I could sign contracts with other gods, but he's enough for now."
Soon, a person who was not within Stark's expectations but not unexpected came, that was Xu Shangqi.
He also looked dusty and exhausted, and looked like a college student who had been working all night to catch up on his studies.
"How's the space station cooperation project going?" Schiller asked.
"It's OK, but those Indians are too difficult to deal with. I can't understand their English." Xu Shangqi was obviously full of complaints, but he swallowed them in the end and just said: "The technical cooperation between China and the United States is going smoothly. Although there are still a few difficult patent technologies that cannot be negotiated, there have been breakthroughs in more than a dozen project cooperation."
"Is he a magician too?" Pamela asked.
"Oh, hello, miss, I'm not." Xu Shangqi was very humble and polite. He said, "You can understand that I am a cultivator, belonging to the Eastern power system."
"Have you visited Kunlun?"
"Yes, we also went to Qingcheng Mountain and Shaolin Temple." Xu Shangqi thought for a moment and said, "They said we can go to Heaven and Lingshan, but I really don't have time, so we can only do it another day."
"How is the Great Sage?"
"Busy, very busy." Xu Shang waved his hand angrily and said, "He said he hasn't been this busy since he jumped out of the stone. But compared to being busy, I think he is more annoyed. Those Indian gods have no abilities and are arrogant. It's so annoying."
Schiller could clearly see that he had grown a lot. He was no longer the frightened young man who had just traveled through time, but had devoted himself to his new career.
At present, Xu Shangqi is mainly involved in the Sino-US technical cooperation project exchanges of the Star Core Space Station as an intermediary and is responsible for various reception work, which is also his old profession in civil engineering.
At the same time, because Xu Shangqi himself practiced the Eastern system, he had a good relationship with the magic side here, and had even dealt with some famous figures here.
The first is Monkey, followed by Kunlun, then Longhu Mountain, Wudang, Qingcheng Mountain, Shaolin Temple, Fahua Temple and so on.
But this time Schiller asked him to come over to do something more traditional. He handed Xu Shangqi a design drawing and said, "We are going to build a plant cultivation and experimental base here. This is the first phase of the project drawing."
Xu Shangqi wailed, but still looked at the blueprint carefully. After a while, he said, "The design is very good, both beautiful and practical. There is no problem with safety. The only question is how do you plan to build such a large building?"
Several people came over to look at the design drawing in his hand, only to see that the design drawing did not show just one or two buildings, but more like a blueprint for a residential area.
The three villages of Shambhala are scattered at different heights. The lowest is about 5500 meters above sea level, and the highest is more than 7000 meters. There is a two-thousand-meter altitude difference in between. This design makes full use of the altitude difference and distributes five greenhouses in a spiral shape on the roads that must be passed through the three villages.
Two of them are large greenhouses, and there are three small specialized greenhouses. In addition to the greenhouse buildings, there are also open-air farmlands, medicinal fields, spiritual springs and other facilities, as well as several phases of greening plans.
It can be seen that this design idea is not entirely for practicality, but considering that Shambhala's medicinal materials must be made famous, it is inevitable to let tourists have some contact with the mysterious Shambhala, so creating wonders is also inevitable.
In addition, there are structures such as sky islands and suspended plank roads, which appear to be for tourists to visit. There are also supporting oxygen supply stations, power stations, and network signal base stations, which are really confusing.
"Excuse me for being blunt, but the road hasn't even been built yet, and it's hard to build houses for ordinary villagers. This kind of large-scale project is really outrageous."
Everyone could hear that Xu Shangqi was already very tactful.
They are now visiting the village at the bottom, and can clearly see that the pillar industry here is handicrafts. Whether it is buildings or crops, there are very strong traces of manual work.
Take houses for example. Most of the houses were built by cutting down trees on site, and people then carried them on their shoulders and hands to build wooden houses. The technology for mining stones was not as advanced as that in the Middle Ages, and most of the stones were only used for decoration.
There are no large-scale construction machinery here, and even the roads are crowded plank paths. Although the south side of the village is close to cliffs and there is a lot of space that can be used to build things, it is a bit too much to expect that large-scale buildings can be built at this stage of engineering civilization.
Of course, China is not without ancient wonders, or rather, this country is the only civilization that has continued to build large-scale wonders in ancient times and has continued to this day.
But this is not a feudal society after all, and Kamar-Taj is not a slave owner. Even if he had only a few hundred people in the village, he wouldn't be able to dig out much soil, let alone build the Great Wall.
Some people may say that there is magic, but magic is energy. So far, human wizards do not have the technology to turn the virtual into the real, that is to say, they cannot use magical energy to create things out of thin air. Even if they can, what they create is condensed into substantial energy, not real matter.
So at most they can only do some destructive work like mountain excavation and stone digging, and they can also do some heavy object moving work, but large-scale stone and wood processing, data measurement, structural integration, and component docking are very realistic problems, and no one here can do these jobs.
Xu Shangqi kept shaking his head and sighing, and Stark also said, "It would be great if I could bring a mechanical engineering hive here, but it's a pity that Pepper doesn't allow me to enter the lab."
"Even intelligent engineering nests won't work," Schiller said. "They are used to using synthetic materials. If they want to build without destroying the village's appearance, they can only use raw materials. It takes time to learn how to handle raw materials. More importantly, it will waste raw materials, and there are not many raw materials here."
Pamela's expression became more and more serious. She said, "I just checked and the roots of the underground plants are not dense, so we can't cut them down in large quantities. As for stones, I don't know much about them, but I know that since most of the ancient buildings in the East were made of wood, it proves that the stone resources here are not abundant."
"It's mainly because it's difficult to mine," Xu Shangqi added. He learned this in college courses. He said, "There are so many magnificent stone churches in Europe because they have rich stone reserves, many open-air mines, and a natural transportation hub like the Mediterranean for transportation."
"In comparison, the stones in ancient China were basically all underground, and were far less easily accessible than wood resources, so most ancient buildings were made of wood, which was fine for use at the time, but difficult to preserve."
"What about transporting from outside?" Stark asked. "Sichuan is very close to here. Isn't there enough stone there?"
"That's the problem," Schiller said. "Steven wants to show his sincerity, but isn't it like asking the examiner to answer if he wants to ship the supplies from China? He still wants to be self-reliant."
"This is a bit troublesome." Pamela said, "I think I need to go back to Bruce to get some information. When he was carrying out the Gotham renovation project, he saved materials to the extreme while ensuring safety and comfort. At the same time, he did not use any very advanced synthetic materials, but basically used original materials."
"Original material? Reinforced concrete?"
"If we can really use reinforced concrete as the frame, it's not impossible." Xu Shangqi said, "Anyway, we only need to make a retro appearance, so at most we can just make a patch on the outside. The steel-concrete structure is indeed the most economical and sturdy structure."
"As for this?" Xu Shangqi glanced at the blueprint in his hand. "It shows a completely retro construction method. The wood is a mortise and tenon structure, and the stone is a medieval support structure. It can only be said to have a strong artistic and architectural aesthetic value, but it is not very realistic."
"But don't we have the materials for reinforced concrete?" Stark asked. "Don't tell me there is a place here that produces ready-made steel bars and cement."
"Indeed, we don't have any, but we have alternatives." Helen suddenly said, "Don't forget, as long as it reaches the strength of reinforced concrete, it doesn't matter what material it is."
"what do you mean?"
"Do you remember the Sandman?"
"You mean the guy who always had a problem with Peter?" Stark thought for a moment and said, "The last time Peter came back, he said that he always seemed to dislike him and would always quarrel with him on the way home from get off work."
"Did he participate in the construction of the space station before? Where does he work now?" Schiller asked.
Stark took out his phone and sent a text message to Nick, who quickly responded by saying, "This guy is working on the moon now. Do you remember the lunar back transformation plan?"
"Oh, you mean the lunar battleship project?"
"Can you please stop mentioning this outrageous name?" Stark said helplessly, "All countries are refuting the rumor. We are only making limited modifications to the moon, not driving it around! Why do the Chinese like to drive around on planets?!"
"Let's get down to business." Helen brought the topic back and said, "I heard that he can compress sand to the extreme to form a new building material. It has good thermal insulation and breathability, and it also has good adhesion."
"But there's no sand here?" Pamela suggested.
"He can create sand by himself, or he is sand himself, and can mold himself into various shapes. Recently, he has developed the ability to compress the molecules in his body, and has become even stronger." Stark concluded after looking at the information sent by Nick.
"It sounds very powerful, but does it have any weaknesses?" Barry asked.
"He is a little afraid of water, which makes him slow, but logically he shouldn't have this weakness. Maybe it's a psychological problem." Schiller said, "I've only met him once before and never dealt with him. I'll ask him when he comes."
Suddenly, Stark's phone rang. He picked it up and said a few words to the person on the other end, then hung up and said.
"Something went wrong," Stark said. "Baker resigned about a week ago without writing anything in his resignation letter, and now none of his former colleagues or friends can get in touch with him."