Chapter 181 Cyber Undersea City
Chapter 181 Cyber Undersea City
The Abyss Sea City is located in a trench southeast of Dragon Palace.
Compared with other major sea cities, this one is the aquatic city with the worst lighting.
For example, Coral Sea City is located in the coastal coral reef area. The water depth is no more than 35 meters. It is home to shallow-water marine creatures. During the day, the underwater area really feels like a Bikini Bottom.
The Whale Falls City is located on an underwater plain 700 meters underwater, where sunlight can barely reach.
Only the abyss mirage in the trench, with a water depth of five thousand meters, never sees a ray of sunlight all year round.
But this sea city was not completely dark in the past. Deep-sea creatures evolved luminous organs, and the bones of these dead creatures were collected and used as lighting tools.
However, this is only better than nothing, so many residents of Hai City have poor eyesight and rely on smell, hearing and perception to survive.
This deep-sea city is not suitable for living organisms, but the ocean is vast, and there are many species of organisms that can adapt to the pressure of the deep sea. Because they have fewer natural enemies and are not affected by human fishing, they grow to huge sizes and have long lifespans.
As more deep-sea creatures developed intelligence, they gathered together and built huge underwater cities.
Compared with the Abyss Sea City, the living environment in the Coral Sea City is indeed better.
However, due to the overlap with the terrestrial biological activity area, the shallow sea aquatics suffer greatly from fishing and plundering, and the livability seems to be inferior to that of the abyssal sea city.
Two oarfish swam their slender bodies gleaming with silver light, dived into the deep sea trench, and came to this underwater city.
These two large cutlass fish are actually the transformation of the Dragon King Ao Guang and his daughter Ao Lan, father and daughter.
After hearing the report from his men that the lighting projects of the four major sea cities had been completed, Ao Guang, at the suggestion of his daughter, transformed himself into an ordinary sea monster and went to the Abyss Sea City for a secret visit.
The Dragon Girl advised the Dragon King that the man named Wen was too cunning and his actions were full of ulterior motives.
It is better not to be blinded by vanity, but to experience the changes he brings as an ordinary sea creature, and then make a conclusion whether to support and cheer for his underwater lighting project.
Ao Guang also listened to the advice. He had been the king of the water tribe for many years, although his governing ability was just so-so.
——The Sea King in the Far West has built the Atlantis high-tech civilization, but he is still guarding the Crystal Palace and serving as a warehouse manager for various powerful people.
The Dragon King's skill level is not high, but he is experienced and understands the ways of the world. Ao Guang also feels that Wen Rui's "kindness" is indeed suspicious.
From a certain perspective, based on years of experience as a dragon, it is easy to deduce this simple truth.
That means if you don’t bully the immortals and gods of the dragon clan, there is definitely something wrong!
Two large cutlassfish swam into the trench and were immediately blinded. At first glance, they could hardly recognize that the underwater cyber city with bright lights and neon lights below was actually the dark abyss city with only a little light.
Arriving at the sea market, Ao Guang, who was the Dragon King and was used to seeing mountains of treasures, couldn't help but be amazed.
"Master Wen, are you showing off your wealth to me?" Ao Guang said to the dragon girl beside him, "The Dragon Palace is only filled with 100,000 pearls, but it is known as the number one dragon city in the three realms, five oceans, and four seas. This city is filled with at least a million colorful pearls! Are the pearls on land so worthless?"
"Father, the pearls that Wen Rui took out are not night-shining pearls at all." The Dragon Girl explained in the Dragon King's ear: "I once took apart a few of them for research. They are more like artifacts made by skilled craftsmen. They are all made of ordinary things. It is only because they follow some kind of heavenly principle that they emit colorful light after being electrified."
"But, it works just like a night-shining pearl, and the light it emits is even brighter than a night-shining pearl. It's not that it's better than a night-shining pearl, and the price won't be cheap."
Ao Guang shook his hairtail head and said, "By the way, didn't you lose the bet to Wen Rui and join Jiejiao? In those books he gave you, did he write about how to make the seven-colored pearls?"
"Uh..." Dragon Girl said ashamedly, "My daughter has only studied for a short time and has not yet fully understood it. It does mention the principle of 'electric light' lighting, which is to convert electrical energy into light energy. The book is profound and all-encompassing. The author is Master Tongtian. I still need to study hard and comprehend it carefully to get the essence of it."
Two cutlassfish were wandering in the streets of Haishi. Many lamp poles could be seen erected on the seabed. Each lamp pole was equipped with a large "pearl" emitting incandescent light. One pearl could illuminate a large dark area.
On the outer walls of the surrounding mirage buildings, there are strings of colorful small light beads, which change colors in a regular and continuous manner.
Even under the roadside corals, underwater thermal pipe columns, and sea animal skeletons, there are landscape ground lights buried.
What’s even more exaggerated is that at the intersections of the city’s main streets, there are projector headlights that project three-dimensional light images, like giant glowing sculptures.
The lighting projects for streetscapes and public areas have been completed, but there are still many puppets moving around the city, carrying out the lighting project into homes.
As long as the citizens of the aquarium pay deep-sea minerals, pearls or gems, they can purchase a certain amount of electricity. The Chamber of Commerce's lighting engineering maintenance base station will dispatch metal puppet workers to install lights for free.
In fact, Wenrui's ultimate goal of lighting the streets for the four major sea cities for free is to sell electricity to the Shuizu residents. When installing street lights on each street, they have already begun to lay out a power transmission network covering the entire city. To pull the lines into the homes, they only need to pull a waterproof wire from a nearby street light.
The two big cutlassfish were like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden. They looked around the city and unknowingly came to a newly built metal-frame high-pressure resistant building.
At the entrance of the building with a metal exterior, the words "Jinling Sect's Office in Abyss Sea City" were spelled out in neon lights, followed by a line of small words "Chamber of Commerce Experience Hall in Abyss Sea City".
This building has many water-repellent beads inlaid at key positions on the outer wall. The invisible force field pushes away the high-pressure water flow, forming a waterless space in the deep sea.
It is easier to spend some spirit stones to buy a water-proof magic weapon than to use technological means to build a base on the seabed. When Wen Rui was designing the underwater base, he did not dwell on the use of technology. As long as the cost permitted, he would do whatever was convenient.
The huge water pressure is difficult to solve by technological means, but unscientific things like water-repellent beads can ignore water pressure and create a waterless space.
The two big cutlassfish looked at each other, and their tails turned into two legs, and they walked into the strange metal building.
As soon as they entered the building, a mermaid girl in a short skirt uniform came to the door. She bowed to the two hairtail fish in a very businesslike manner and said with a smile: "Welcome! Two distinguished guests, are you here to experience the Chamber of Commerce's latest underwater home appliances?"
Ao Guang took a quick glance and saw a hall at the entrance. There were many men and women mermaids in uniform busying around in the hall. There were also some aquatic visitors following the mermaid employees to experience the so-called "underwater home appliances".
Since the shop was opened on the bottom of the sea, Wen Rui had no plans to arrange for human employees of the Chamber of Commerce to be stationed there. After all, the water pressure was quite harmful to the human body, and employees were prone to drowning and death.
So, through the introduction of Li Moshen, a large number of mermaid employees were hired from the Lishui Mermaid Tribe. After training, they were sent to the four major sea cities to work.
In this way, the mermaids had their income guaranteed and were much farther away from the mainland, reducing the covetousness of many land-based cultivators who were interested in mermaid pearls and mermaid flesh.
(End of this chapter)