"Princess Tilly doesn't have the ability to fly, does she?" Nightingale murmured.
"Yes. Although the Stone of Flight can make her fly, she can't carry such a heavy object," Roland said as he looked at the Unicorn hovering overhead. "What's wrong?"
"I've heard you talk about it many times, and I've been by your side when you were drawing and testing the internal combustion engine. But when I see it with my own eyes, I still find it incredible. Humans can really fly like birds with the help of external forces," Nightingale said emotionally. "It's just a combination of metal and wood."
"Indeed, it's just metal and wood, but it's our own bodies that combine them organically," Roland said with a smile. "Our hands, magic power, and cognition … So it can't really be called an external force."
"Everyone can fly like her, right?" Nightingale asked softly. "Including me —"
"Yes, everyone. Including you, "Roland said affirmatively. Nightingale was no stranger to the sky. She had ridden on a hot air balloon before, and she had also ridden on Maggie's back. But compared to flying freely and freely, those were obviously nothing. Even Nightingale, who had magic power, could do that, let alone ordinary people without any special abilities. Ever since people raised their heads to look at the sky, they had already been deeply immersed in the charm of roaming the sky, unable to extricate themselves.
The pioneer of the Society of Wondrous Crafts was the best example.
Thirty minutes later, the Unicorn landed steadily on the runway.
"How do you feel?" Roland asked Tilly, who ran over excitedly.
"This plane is amazing!" Her eyes lit up. "It's so much more flexible than the 'Seagull'. To be honest... Although Vendy is good at controlling the wind, it's difficult for her to do what I want. But this is different. The speed, pitch, and deflection of the flight are all under my control. It can be said that the movements are born from the heart, just like the limbs of the hands and feet! "
Uh … Movement comes from the heart, shaped like hands and feet? Roland could not help but sweat in his heart. Although the Unicorn had referred to a large number of mature biplane designs, it was still a crude prototype with testing elements. Controlling the rudder depended entirely on hand, and altitude and speed depended entirely on feeling. Being able to fly smoothly was already a huge improvement. If it were not for the fact that he knew the plane inside out, he would have thought that the other party was flying a modern fighter with a four-speed fly-by-wire and computer-aided flight control.
He was probably a big boss.
"So … are you satisfied?" He waved at the hangar supervisor. "That's all for today —"
"What are you talking about, brother?" Tilly interrupted. "How can thirty minutes be enough?"
"Then why did you fall down …"
"Just to let you know. You have a lot of work to do, don't you? " She waved her hand. "Go. You don't have to wait for me here. I still have many ways to fly that I want to try."
Roland shook his head helplessly as he looked at the back of the other party excitedly leaving.
The plane did not break down at the beginning, which was already good enough. According to Tilly's ability, she should be able to quickly familiarize herself with the new characteristics of the Unicorn. Besides, she could get out of the plane at any time, so there was really no need for him to keep an eye on her.
"It seems that you've been abandoned." Nightingale gloated.
"You talk too much." Roland rolled his eyes. "Let's go."
Smiling, Nightingale grabbed him and disappeared into the Mist.
…
As soon as he returned to the castle hall, a guard came up to him. "Your Majesty, the Third Border City sent a message saying that the mission you assigned to us has basically been completed."
"Oh?" Roland raised his eyebrows. "Where's the report?"
"They said that they want you to go there in person."
It seemed that what the two people found in the Festive Harbor could not be explained in a few words. He thought for a moment and said, "I see. Let's go now."
After entering the underground, Celine was already waiting for him in the main hall.
[Your Majesty, your speculation is correct. There are indeed materials to make the Rubik's Cube in the Endless Cape. She stretched out her auxiliary tentacle and showed the two samples to Roland. "The greyish-yellow stone on the left is very similar to the Magic Ceremony Cube. Even if it's not exactly the same, it's not far off. If there are enough of them, I can start making replicas. "
"Sufficient … How much is it?"
[Let's try a few thousand first. "
Ugh … He really didn't stand on ceremony. Even if the samples weren't big, a few thousand yuan would be enough to cover the floor of a room. He thought to himself that it was imperative to excavate the Cape Ruins, and the sooner the better. "I'll send someone to collect it. What about the other one? "
"The other is simply inconceivable. The first thing we can be sure of is that the light it emits does not harm the test animals at all. It seems to be just an ordinary light, and not the kind of light you are worried about … "
"Radioactive particles."
"Exactly. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that the radiation is so weak that it can't be detected by animals. But if that's the case, we don't have to worry about its harmfulness. " Celine picked out a piece of "stone tablet" from the bottle on the right and put it in Roland's hand. "I asked Miss Lucia to decompose a small piece of it and found that its composition is not much different from sand." "
"Like … sand?" Roland was surprised.
"It's hard to imagine, isn't it? It just looks like a stone or a larger gravel, but it has a certain degree of flexibility and emits light when compressed. There's probably nothing weirder than this in the world. " "
"Well …" He fiddled with the sample in his hand and thought for a long time before saying, "You can't say that."
"Do you know what this thing is?"
"No, I just thought of something else..." Roland said slowly, "Since matter is a combination of elements, in addition to the elements themselves, the structure is also a major factor that affects its nature. We find it strange only because we don't know much about it. "
For example, the element carbon is called diamond in its tetrahedral structure and has extremely high strength. Graphite, which has a hexagonal layered structure, is so brittle that it can be broken by hand. If you tear off a layer, it becomes graphene, which has excellent electrical conductivity. But if two layers of graphene are stacked together and rotated at a slight angle, it will undergo a completely different change — it will become an insulator. When it is lowered to a certain temperature and injected with electrons, it will transform into a superconductor.
From beginning to end, only one element, carbon, is performing.
This is the mystery of the material.
In fact, even in the later generations, the exploration of the microscopic world had only uncovered a tiny corner of it. In this dark realm that had no theoretical guidance, what people did was no different from what they did a thousand years ago. They rearranged, combined, and explored randomly. Even the most common elements could produce shocking phenomena when they were mixed together.
Perhaps the "luminous stone tablet" and the various coatings of Soroya were not mysterious because of magic.
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