Chapter 2594: Mayfly World (5)

Martin also arrived quickly. The ancestral gods of the universe he was in couldn't come, but it seemed that the Marvel Universe also had ancestral gods. He set up an altar outside and summoned for a long time, and he really summoned one.

Currently, there are no Mexican-American students in the Kamar-Taj Magic Academy, so no one has summoned the Aztec pantheon of gods so far. Martin can be considered the first.

The magic rules of this universe are much clearer than those over there, not so dark and raw. Ancestral gods like the Egyptian pantheon and the Aztec pantheon don't have high requirements. It's not that they must have your internal organs or soul to grant you power. Most of them just want offerings.

"The pantheon here is much more complete than over there," Martin said: "The Feathered Serpent God is very interested in this place, so I signed a contract with him first. But according to him, it seems I can sign contracts with other gods, but now having him is enough."

Soon, someone who was not in Stark's expectation but not unexpected came, and that was Xu Shangqi.

He also looked dusty and exhausted, looking like a college student who had stayed up late to catch up on progress.

"How is the space station cooperation project?" Schiller asked.

"It's okay, but those Indians are too difficult to deal with. They speak English and I can't understand it," Xu Shangqi obviously had a belly full of complaints, but finally swallowed them back, just saying: "The technical cooperation between China and the US is going smoothly. Although there are still a few difficult patent technologies that can't be talked about, there have been breakthroughs in more than a dozen project cooperations."

"Is he also a mage?" Pamela asked.

"Oh, hello, Miss. I'm not," Xu Shangqi expressed very humbly and politely. He said: "You can understand that I am a monk, belonging to the Eastern power system."

"Have you already been to Kunlun to see?"

"Yes, and also went to Mount Qingcheng and Shaolin Temple," Xu Shangqi thought for a while and said: "They said I could go to Heaven and Lingshan, but I really didn't have time, so I'll go another day."

"How is the Great Sage?"

"Busy, all very busy," Xu Shangqi waved his hand and said: "He said that since he jumped out of the stone, he hasn't been so busy. But compared to being busy, I feel he is more annoyed. Those Indian gods have no ability, but their airs are high. It's annoying to death."

Schiller could clearly see that he had grown a lot, no longer the hairy kid who was very panicked when he first crossed over, but had already devoted himself to the new cause.

Currently, Xu Shangqi is mainly participating in the China-US technical cooperation project exchange of the Star Core Space Station as an intermediary, responsible for various reception work, which can be considered his old job in civil engineering.

At the same time, because Xu Shangqi himself practices the Eastern system, he also has a good relationship with the magic side here, and has even dealt with some famous figures here.

First is the Monkey, second is Kunlun, then Longhu Mountain, Wudang, Qingcheng Mountain, Shaolin Temple, Fahua Temple, and some other sects.

However, this time Schiller called him over to do some old-job work. He handed Xu Shangqi a design drawing and said: "We are going to build a plant cultivation and experimental base here. This is the phase one project drawing."

Xu Shangqi let out a wail, but still looked at the drawing seriously. After a long time, he said: "The design is very good, both beautiful and practical, and there is no problem with safety. The only problem is how do you plan to build such a large building?"

Everyone gathered to look at the design drawing in his hand, only to see that what was drawn on the design drawing was not one or two buildings, but more like a residential area drawing.

The three villages of Shambhala are scattered high and low. The lowest is about 5,500 meters above sea level, and the highest can reach more than 7,000 meters. The altitude difference in the middle is 2,000 meters. This design fully utilizes the drop, distributing 5 greenhouses in a spiral shape on the only way to the three villages.

Among them, there are two large greenhouses and three small specialized greenhouses. Besides greenhouse buildings, there are open-air farmland, medicinal fields, spiritual springs, and other facilities, as well as several phases of greening schemes.

It can be seen that this design idea is not entirely for practicality, but considering that to make Shambhala's medicinal materials famous, it is inevitable to let tourists come into contact with the mysterious Shambhala, so creating wonders is unavoidable.

Besides this, there are structures like floating islands and suspension walkways, which seem to be used for tourists to visit, as well as supporting oxygen supply stations, power stations, and network signal base stations, making people's heads big.

"With all due respect, the road hasn't been connected yet, and building ordinary houses for villagers is difficult. This kind of large project is really too outrageous."

Everyone could hear that Xu Shangqi was already very tactful.

They are currently visiting the lowest village, and it can be clearly seen that the pillar industry here is handicrafts. Whether it is buildings or crops, there are very heavy traces of manual work.

Take the house as an example. Most of the houses are cut from local trees, and then people carry them on their shoulders to build wooden houses. The mining technology for stone materials is not as good as the Middle Ages, and most are only used for decoration.

There is no large-scale construction machinery here, and even the roads are crowded walkways. Although the south side of the village is close to cliffs and cliffs, there is a large place to build things, but expecting the engineering civilization stage here to build large buildings is a bit too much.

Of course, it's not that China doesn't have ancient wonders, or rather, this country is the only civilization that has continued to build large wonders since ancient times.

But after all, it is not a feudal society now, and Kamar-Taj is not a slave owner. Even if it is, these few hundred people in the village, let alone building the Great Wall, can't dig out much soil.

Maybe some people will say there is magic, but magic is energy. So far, human mages don't have the technology to turn virtual into reality, that is to say, they can't create things out of thin air with magic energy. Even if they can, what they create is energy condensed into substance, not real matter.

So they can at most do some destructive work like opening mountains and digging stones, and can also do some heavy object transportation work, but a large amount of stone and wood processing, data measurement, structural integration, and component docking are all very realistic problems. No one here knows how to do these jobs.

Xu Shangqi kept shaking his head and sighing, and Stark also said: "If only I could bring a mechanical engineering nest here, it's a pity Pepper doesn't allow me to enter the laboratory."

"Intelligent engineering nests won't work either," Schiller said: "They are used to using synthetic materials. If you want to build without destroying the style of the village, you can only use raw materials. The processing of raw materials also requires learning time, and more importantly, it will waste raw materials. The raw materials here are not much."

Pamela's face became more and more dignified. She said: "Just now I took a look, the root system of the underground plants is not lush, and large-scale logging cannot be carried out. As for stones, I don't know much, but I know that since most of the ancient Eastern buildings were wooden, it proves that the stone resources here are not rich."

"Mainly it's difficult to mine," Xu Shangqi added. These were all things he learned in university courses. He said: "So many magnificent stone churches in Europe are mainly because they have rich stone reserves, many open-pit stone mines, and natural transportation hubs like the Mediterranean for transportation."

"In contrast, most of the stones in ancient China were underground, far less easy to obtain than wood, so most ancient buildings were wooden. They were used well at the time, but they were not easy to preserve."

"Then what about transporting from the outside?" Stark asked: "Sichuan is very close to here. Isn't there enough stone materials there?"

"This is the problem," Schiller said: "Stephen wants to show his sincerity, but transporting materials from within China is equivalent to asking the examiner for the answer. He still wants to be self-reliant."

"This is a bit troublesome," Pamela said: "I think I need to go back and ask Bruce for information. When he carried out the Gotham renovation project, he saved materials to the extreme while ensuring safety and comfort, and he didn't use any very advanced synthetic materials. They were basically raw materials."

"Raw materials? Reinforced concrete?"

"If it's really possible to use reinforced concrete as a skeleton, it's not impossible," Xu Shangqi said: "Anyway, it's just a requirement for retro appearance. It's a big deal to make patches on the outside. Reinforced concrete structure is indeed the cheapest and strongest structure."

"What about this?" Xu Shangqi looked at the drawing in his hand, "That is a completely retro construction method. Wooden is mortise and tenon structure, stone is medieval support structure. It can only be said that it has strong artistic and architectural aesthetic value, but it is not very realistic."

"But doesn't reinforced concrete have no materials?" Stark proposed, "Don't tell me there is ready-made steel bars and cement here."

"Indeed there is none, but we have substitutes," Helen suddenly said: "Don't forget, as long as the strength of reinforced concrete is reached, who cares what the material is?"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember Sandman?"

"You mean that guy who always had trouble with Peter?" Stark recalled and said: "Didn't Peter say last time that he seemed to always look at him unpleasantly, and didn't forget to quarrel with him on the way home from work?"

"Did he participate in the space station construction work before? Where is he working now?" Schiller asked.

Stark took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Nick, and soon got a reply. He said: "This guy is working on the moon now. Do you remember the lunar back-side renovation plan?"

"Oh, you mean the lunar warship plan?"

"Can you stop mentioning this outrageous name?" Stark said helplessly: "All countries are refuting the rumors. We are only carrying out limited renovation of the moon, not to drive it away! Why do the Chinese like to drive planets around?!"

"Talk about business," Helen pulled the topic back and said: "I heard that he can compress sand to the extreme, forming a new building material, with good heat preservation and breathability, as well as good adhesion."

"But there is no sand here," Pamela proposed.

"He can change sand himself, or rather, he is sand himself. He can knead himself into various shapes. Recently, he has researched the ability to compress molecules in his body and has become stronger," Stark summarized the information sent by Nick.

"Sounds very powerful, is there any weakness?" Barry asked.

"He is a bit afraid of water. Water will make him slow, but logically speaking, he shouldn't have this weakness. Maybe it's a psychological problem," Schiller said: "I have only seen him once before and haven't dealt with him. Wait until he comes and ask him."

Suddenly, Stark's phone rang. He answered it and talked to the other side for a few words, hung up the phone and said.

"Something went wrong," Stark said: "Baker resigned about a week ago. He didn't write anything in his resignation letter. Now his former colleagues and friends can't contact him." ===== CHAPTER 2595 =====