bioinnovel Chapter 494 The Heavenly Crafts Hall!
Chapter 494 The Heavenly Crafts Hall!
The Heavenly Craft Hall is the lowest level of the Ruins of Return.
The location is literally at the lowest point underground.
It is seventy meters deep and can only be reached by taking a special landing platform.
Mo Yuan walked at the very front.
Mo Li followed behind.
Guan Xing and Zhang Yan walked side by side.
The corridor was very narrow.
The ground was covered with flowing patterns of light.
The light pattern is a visual display of the load-bearing distribution system and has no decorative purpose.
With each step, the light pattern spread out to both sides in a small patch.
The temperature was six degrees lower than the upper floor.
A familiar scent lingered in the air.
It was the same smell he had encountered near the first underground gate in Shennongjia.
It is the scent emitted by high-dimensional materials at low temperatures.
It has a mild, metallic smell and is not pungent.
There's also the lingering aroma of 30,000 years.
The landing platform came to a stop, and the door opened.
The entire space is more than ten times larger than the council chamber.
The dome is spherical and its surface is covered with densely packed runes.
The runes were a darker color than those in the outer corridor, with a deep blue hue.
Only a faint light peeked through the gaps in the runes.
A suspended platform with a diameter of 20 meters stands in the very center of the space.
A three-dimensional projection floats above the platform.
The projection is enormous and has many layers.
The outer frame structure alone has at least fifty layers.
Each layer rotates slowly at a different speed.
Guan Xing stepped into the hall and stood still.
My fingertips unconsciously loosened, and I lowered my hand that had been hanging by my side.
She had seen the complete set of technical blueprints for the Chaos Mech.
I have also seen the spaceship designs of the Mo family descendants.
They also searched through dozens of lost technical documents in the deep archives of Guixu.
However, the density of the projection in front of us is more than thirty times that of the Chaos Mech.
"The final act of the divine craftsmanship".
Mo Yuan stood beside the platform, his voice steady.
"For 30,000 years, Guixu has been studying it, but has never been able to complete the final step."
Zhang Yan walked onto the platform and stood next to the projector.
He accessed the data analysis layer of the Heavenly Craftsmanship.
The system can automatically compare the structural parameters in the projection.
This architecture is different from that of conventional mechs.
However, it cannot be completely separated from the category of mecha.
To be precise, it is a converged architecture.
The energy protocol of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart serves as the core axis.
The underlying protocol of the gate network serves as the signal carrier.
The maintainer's consciousness serves as the driving layer.
The three parts interlock completely, forming a closed system.
The outermost layer is the mecha form, which is the physical vehicle of the entire system.
"After construction is completed."
Mo Yuan continued speaking.
"The maintainers can use it to directly access the consciousness of the community and deconstruct its collective consciousness structure. This is done without physical attacks or energy purification. It takes the approach of dismantling the core."
Zhang Yan stared at the consciousness access layer in the projection for a while.
He had sensed the outer defenses of the enemy when he previously infiltrated their territory.
That time we only encountered the edge area because the tunnel wasn't deep enough.
This architecture is specifically designed to break through the outer defenses.
"Why hasn't it been completed in 30,000 years?" Zhang Yan asked.
"Core power source".
Mo Yuan pointed his finger at the center of the projection.
"The final stage of the Heavenly Craft requires a core that continuously outputs extremely high levels of pure energy. The energy purity must be at least at the first-order level and be made of star-grade material. There are no stars that meet the requirements near Guixu. The nearest one that meets the quality standard is 20,000 light-years away from Guixu's current coordinates."
So I'm stuck here.
Guan Xing had already turned to look at Zhang Yan.
He noticed the stargazing gaze but didn't speak immediately.
First, scan all the parameters of the central layer of the projection.
Star core crystallization.
They had been planning this before they even set off.
His lips twitched slightly.
"We had already been planning how to get to the core of the sun before we came here," Zhang Yan said.
Guan Xing laughed out loud.
This was the first time she had smiled so relaxed since she set off.
A few seconds of silence followed in the Hall of Heavenly Crafts.
Low voices soon rose from behind Mo Yuan.
The elders who had come along began to exchange opinions in hushed tones, speaking rapidly.
Mo Ling stood on the left side of the platform, remaining silent.
Zhang Yan glanced in her direction.
She stared at the consciousness access layer in the projection.
The initial resistance and doubt had vanished from their eyes.
Zhang Yan was overwhelmed by a mix of emotions and couldn't quite define them.
All I know is that she's quickly sorting through all the information.
Her grandfather went to launch a frontal attack eight thousand years ago with equipment, but failed.
What she sees now is a feasible solution that addresses the issue from a conscious level.
Mo Ling spoke, his voice steady, in a declarative tone.
"Therefore, the equipment from back then and the consciousness access layer of the Tiangong Final Stage share the same underlying protocol."
"Yes," Zhang Yan said.
"The equipment we took away back then was a prototype, while the Tiangong final version is the complete version, with the same underlying protocol."
She remained silent for a while.
"So its research on that equipment from eight thousand years ago actually helped us verify that the consciousness access layer of the Heavenly Craftsmanship is effective."
No one responded to that sentence.
But once those words were spoken, the sense of confrontation that had hung in the Heavenly Craft Hall for 3,700 years completely dissipated.
This loosening has nothing to do with Mo Ling's attitude.
This logic itself is flawless, and no one can refute it.
Mo Yuan glanced at her but didn't say anything.
Zhang Yan stepped back from the projection and turned to Mo Yuan.
"What construction components are you still missing?" Zhang Yan asked.
Mo Yuan raised his hand and tapped a few times on the control panel next to the platform.
Three orange markers lit up in the projection.
"The first one is the resonance calibration device for the consciousness access layer. It was 70% completed according to the design drawings 30,000 years ago. The missing 30% requires the Heart of Heaven to be in sync with the design before it can be built, so it has been shelved."
"The second area is the stress distribution layer of the outer frame. There is a lack of manufacturing materials, but the material formula is well archived. The Guixu Technology Team can produce it on its own, and it is expected to take twelve days."
"The third location is the core power source slot. The structure has been completed and is just waiting for the star core to condense."
Zhang Yan extracted the parameters from these three annotations and stored them in the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship.
"The resonance calibrator will be completed today," he said.
"You start manufacturing the stress layer material, and simultaneously advance the modification of the outer frame. Complete everything that can be done within fifteen days, and I'll install it directly once I bring back the solidified crystal."
Mo Yuan nodded.
Zhang Yan was about to continue speaking.
Footsteps sounded from the other end of the corridor.
The walking speed was twice as fast as normal walking.
It is Mo Li.
He pushed open the side door of the Tiangong Hall.
His complexion was much darker than usual.
The bad news has been confirmed, and they seem to be carefully considering how to phrase it.
"We have just received the latest movement data from the parent community."
He paused for less than a second.
"It's accelerated. What was originally expected to take three and a half months is now only seventy days."
No one spoke in the Heavenly Craft Hall.
Seventy days.
Zhang Yan watched the slowly rotating Tiangong final structure in the projection.
I quickly went through the schedule in my mind.
There's no room for error, but it can still be done.
"Put on the highest level of combat readiness," he said.
"Starting now."
The elders voted unanimously.
This incident itself speaks volumes.
Even the most radical elders of the disruptive faction did not abstain.
Seven people, all seven votes passed.
All resources were handed over to Zhang Yan for unified allocation.
The 3,700-year-old disagreement was put on hold by the number 70 days.
After announcing the results, Mo Yuan did not make any celebratory gestures.
The meeting was adjourned immediately, and the group leaders were instructed to assign tasks.
Zhang Yan stayed in the Tiangong Hall until late at night.
He, Mo Li, Mo Ling, and Guan Xing stood around the projection and went over the timetable three times.
The fault tolerance range of each node is minimized.
The first step was for the Guixu technical team to perform the Tiangong final-stage external frame modification on the Chaos Mech. Simultaneously, the remaining 30% of the resonance calibration instrument's structure was completed, taking fifteen days.
The second step involves Zhang Yan and Guan Xing piloting their mechs back to the solar system. They will enter the sun's core to extract star crystals, a journey that will take ten days including the round trip.
The third step involved returning to the Ruins to complete the final assembly and consciousness fusion calibration, which took twenty days.
A total of forty-five days.
The remaining twenty-five days are a buffer period for returning to Earth to face the challenge.
The stargazer printed out the timetable and nailed it to the technical wall of the Heavenly Crafts Hall.
She made a sound as she nailed the nails.
"A 25-day buffer is a theoretical value. If any step exceeds its time limit, the subsequent time will become negative."
"I know," Zhang Yan said.
Mo Ling looked at the timetable but didn't say anything.
She stayed in the Tiangong Hall for an extra half hour.
He scanned through all the technical parameters of the modified outer frame section before turning to leave.
She paused before leaving, without turning around.
His voice was very low.
"Regarding the section on the sun's core, if there's anything about the mecha that we can optimize in advance, please let me know."