Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 614 - 80 The Trouble Named Sigein_1

Chapter 614: Chapter 80 The Trouble Named Sigein_1

Entering the building at the heart of Ava’s description, they saw a round hall that stretched hundreds to thousands of square meters. Four large doors were symmetrically distributed within the hall; aside from the door they just entered through, three other metal doors were tightly closed, their destinations unknown. Scattered across the curving wall of the hall were more than ten small doors. These doors looked similar to the elevators they had seen in the Tower of Colossus, each door accompanied by directional arrows pointing up and down. It seemed like they were a more advanced version of the Goblin elevators they had encountered before.

"The door on the left leads to the energy supply centre, which supplies energy for all the buildings in the 500-square-kilometre research centre," Ava explained. "Every facility within this demiplane derives its energy from this centre. Inside the energy supply center, there are high-powered energy extraction devices that, via a passage within the pit at the foot of Felryas Mountain, draw a vast amount of Leyline Energy from deep underground. This energy is then transported to the supply centre through a spatial energy transmission channel, and the centre immediately distributes it to each laboratory and residential building within the research centre. I’ve checked before after space interference, the energy consumption of all the labs is running normally. In other words, even those labs swallowed into the void are still intact, just like they were in normal times. This is one of the reasons why I thought Laboratory No.9 might still be alright; only the Crystalline Network had been destroyed."

"Is it really appropriate to place the energy supply centre at the core area?" Freya, who was quite knowledgeable about Goblin technology, couldn’t help but ask, "The core area should be a very important place, right? Including the offices of some big shots should also be here, putting the energy supply centre here, isn’t this akin to the bigwigs sitting on a dangerous Crystal Energy bomb when working?"

"The energy supply centre is different from other buildings that use crystals for power," Ava explained, "Using crystals indeed involves significant dangers because crystals might explode, but these Leyline energies will never be as dangerous."

"But this still sounds unsafe; after all, you’re storing a large amount of energy," Freya commented, "The more energy you store, the more likely it is to explode, isn’t it? That’s why current Mage Towers and Energy Storage Pools are constructed safely, far from impacting the main structure of a Mage Tower, for fear that any abnormalities leading to a Storage Pool exploding."

"There are no storage pools here, or rather, the storage pools here are different from what you imagine," Ava replied. "The storage pool here is more like an emergency measure; the stored energy is only enough for the research centre’s consumption for ten minutes. Even if it does explode, it wouldn’t break through the building’s protection."

"Then how do you sustain the operations of the entire area?" Freya voiced her confusion, "Such a small storage pool can’t be enough."

"Extract on-demand, apply on-demand," Ava answered succinctly, "Draw as much as you use. When it’s not being used, the energy transfer spatial channel won’t deliver energy back. This ensures the maximum safety of the research centre. The only worry is if someone damages the energy extraction device, after which the centre could collapse. However, the centre also has a backup Leyline Energy extraction device. If the main device malfunctions, it will kick in, and the Joint Government will immediately dispatch a repair team deep underground. Although, from the time the research centre was built until now, no such crisis has occurred."

"This approach indeed solves the risk of storage pools, but considering the current circumstances, it doesn’t seem too viable," Vivian remarked regretfully, "But maybe, several hundred to a thousand years later when Magitech develops to a certain stage, we could use this method to solve the issues with storage pools."

"Moving onto the door to the right of the hall, which leads to the control area," Ava continued, "All the separate sections within the research centre, every lab in each section, every room within every building, even every piece of research equipment within each room, can be adjusted from the control area. At the same time, I can control them from within there. Part of my entity exists in the control area, as do Risha, Andy, and Julie."

"They all also..." Catherine hadn’t even finished her question when Ava interrupted, "They are not like me; they don’t have their divine intelligences and are merely functioning control centres. I am the only special exception in the entire Goblin Empire."

"Alright, please continue," Catherine gestured apologetically: "Sorry for interrupting."

"I can observe hundreds of lab buildings, tens of thousands of large labs, and several hundred thousand pieces of research equipment from here," Ava continued, "Every single lab, even each large equipment, has corresponding monitors for constant observation. For this reason, the core area had to set aside hundreds of rooms as control rooms; otherwise, there’d be no place for the monitors."

"Does this mean that those researchers work under constant supervision?" Catherine inquired, "And that the monitors are always present?"

"The monitors are for the equipment, not the people operating the equipment. There is a considerable difference between the two," Ava clarified, "Technically, goblins are a race that places a high value on privacy. Yet even so, they don’t object to monitoring the equipment, which indicates that it doesn’t interfere with individual privacy issues."

"So what are you seeing in the control center now?" Pannis asked, "What’s happening in the areas with no response? Is everything normal like in the energy supply center, or you can’t see the interior situation?"

"From the energy distribution perspective, everything is running smoothly, including some low-temperature, high-temperature, or constant temperature preservation devices. The energy distribution of various devices has no abnormalities, which means spatial function pipelines have not been damaged," Ava replied, "However, from the equipment monitoring perspective, it’s all blank. I cannot receive any return signals, indicating that the information transmission channels have been completely severed. Looking at what happened in Laboratory No.9 just now, this result is quite normal, because the energy supply channels for spaces only exist as images and are not physically stored in this space, while information transmission channels, though invisible and intangible, do exist in this space. If the space is torn apart, they will definitely be severed."

"As for these thirteen elevators, they all lead to some offices on the upper floors," Ava said, "Various administrative organizations are here, and those allowed in are high-level managers of various laboratories. I won’t go into further details with you, as you probably have no interest in these matters."

"Indeed," Catherine nodded, "So, this large door we are about to open leads to the emergency shelter, right?"

"Correct." As Ava opened the large door which led to a spiral staircase heading downwards. On one side of the wall were four elevators, Ava explained, "The staircase is an emergency exit, only to be used at the most critical moments when all the elevators lose their energy supply. At other times no one uses the stairs. There are a total of six underground levels here, each with its function, such as the hazardous material storage warehouse, the armory, and the puppet repair workshop. The deepest part of the sixth floor is the emergency shelter."

"The emergency shelter is vast, very vast." Ava instructed everyone to board the called elevator and pressed the button for the lowest floor. The elevator was a bit small for humans, only about two meters tall. Aside from Vivian, everyone else could almost touch the top of the elevator when they reached up, a height not typically adhered to in building standards. Thinking about it, the elevator mainly served the goblins, and the average height of the goblins was about 140 centimeters. For them, this height of an elevator was quite fitting, although it would be a bit of a squeeze for the Three-eyed Divine People. As the elevator descended, Ava continued, "It can shelter a thousand people at once and can be considered an underground castle with complete living facilities, including automatic crops planting devices. Besides, in the low-temperature vacuum storage room, there is enough food for a thousand people to eat for fifty years. Unfortunately, the goblins never had the opportunity to use them."

"It sounds like the goblins take shelter measures seriously," Pannis mused, "I always feel that they are too prepared for disaster, and I wonder if other crucial Goblin facilities also have similar emergency shelters?"

Ava fell silent again, but Pannis spoke before she had a chance, "Alright, I already know the answer. Conserve your energy, conserve your energy."

"My energy supply is virtually unlimited. There’s no need for replenishment," Ava’s voice almost conjured the image of her rolling her eyes, "Don’t use this technique to get me to talk anymore. Sometimes it’s better for you not to know things, not for my own sake, but for yours. If possible, I’d like to tell you everything now. It would be more advantageous for me, but unfortunately, I can’t."

Pannis nodded and whispered, "I understand. It won’t be long before you can tell us everything."

The elevator shook slightly, halting its descent. The door swooshed open. Just outside the elevator was a narrow corridor, no more than several tens of meters long, ending in a frightfully thick metal door. The door seemed entirely sealed, likely preventing even air from entering.

"Please go ahead. The healing device is inside," Ava’s voice returned to its original metallic quality.

"And so is the trouble," Pannis smirked and walked up to the door. As it automatically swung open, he sighed, "Trouble is also inside, right?"

"Correct, both the healing device and the trouble are inside," Ava responded calmly, "The trouble named Sigein is only a problem for me." (To be continued. If you like this work, please cast recommendation votes or monthly tickets on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)