Chapter 956： factory (1/2)

Blue and white dragons glide over the city, and the protective barrier exudes a faint glow under the night, becoming one of the countless streamers of the neon flashing metropolis of Tallond, Gao Wen stands in Meili Between the shoulder blades of the tower, looking at the huge steel structure used to support some kind of sky garden not far away, I couldn't help but ask: "Where are we going?"

Melita's low voice came from the front: "We start from the beginning of a dragon's life-a concentrated incubation center."

"Incubation..." Gao Wen suddenly froze, feeling that he had heard a noun that he had never thought of, "Incubation Center?"

"You can also call it a hatchery factory, or a dragon egg hatchery, these are more popular names," Melita said casually, and at the same time began to lower the height, "seeing the facility like a big pillar in front. What? That is the hatchery factory in Agondo. When we stand firm, we are about to land."

Gao Wen subconsciously adjusted his standing posture, and his eyes fell involuntarily in front of him. He had seen the huge "factory"-it was indeed like a huge pillar, with countless auxiliary facilities like gas tanks. A cylindrical body is surrounded by a large number of pipes and supporting beams, and lights extend obliquely from its half waist, sketching a dozen or so light strips in the air to guide landing.

Gao Wen also saw a landing platform on the half waist of the huge facility. Many platforms had dragons coming and going. The occupied platforms were surrounded by red lights, while the vacant platforms were striking white. The halo is marked out and is very conspicuous-Melita and Noreta flying nearby are approaching one of the empty platforms.

But just when Merita was about to lower her altitude, a wind suddenly came from the other direction, and then a black dragon flew from the night sky, and rushed to the platform that Merita just selected. In the direction, a roaring and anxious roar came from the night sky: "I'm so sorry! The dragon egg I claimed broke in advance!"

"Snatch you x... I wish your cubs safety!" Melita, who was robbed, was about to yell, but suddenly changed her mouth after hearing the roar from the other party, then she suddenly flapped her wings. , While adjusting the direction and looking for the position again, said to Gao Wen a little awkwardly, "Sorry, let you see the less civilized side... Please understand that it is not easy to obtain an incubation permit in these years, it is just anxious Father."

Gao Wen: "..."

He now seemed to be numb to all the unexpected places in Tallond, and he was too lazy to talk.

After this small setback, Melita and Noreita finally found an idle landing platform. The two dragons landed smoothly on two adjacent platforms. Before they landed, the lights around the platform were already Turned red, and after they landed, the entire platform was covered by a translucent barrier-until Gao Wen and Amber, Veronica jumped from Melita and Noreta, respectively, two Miss Dragon also became humanoid and left the platform area before the platform's "temporary control" system switched back to the idle state-all of which seemed to run automatically.

This should be regarded as the unique "traffic control system" of Tallond, which is slightly eye-opening.

In front of a gate leading to the interior of the incubation plant, Noreta in a white dress brought Amber and Veronica to Gavin and Melita, and then Amber looked up subconsciously, with amazed Eyes looked up at the gate that was much more magnificent than the city gate: "Wow..."

Veronica looked at the long, long corridor behind the gate, looking at the cold steel, flashing lights, and lifeless polymer windows and ducts. For a long time, she whispered to herself : "I never thought that... the dragon was born in such a place... I thought that even if it is not a nest in the hot spring, at least it should be beside the parents..."

"Long and long ago, it was like that," Noretta, who was humanized, said softly, "It's really long and long ago..."

"I've got the access permission, Omega will open the gate on the route, you can just follow me in," Melita looked at Gao Wen and others, "Don't touch anything you don't know after entering, just other There is no requirement-dragon eggs are strictly protected, and normal visiting behavior will not affect hatching."

Gao Wen and others nodded, and then led by Melita and Noreta across the wide gate and entered the interior of the hatchery.

What Gao Wen saw later was completely consistent with the description of this facility-a factory, a factory for hatching dragon eggs.

They entered the factory from a connecting bridge suspended in midair, and one end of the connecting bridge was fixed to the outer wall of the factory-that is somehow thick metal shell, which was filled with flowing lights and busy machinery running around-the other end A "standpipe" leading to the core of the factory. After entering the standpipe, Melita began to introduce Gao Wen to various facilities along the way, and after going deeper, Gao Wen saw the dragon eggs that were in the hatching state-

They are placed one by one in a large transparent "greenhouse". The appearance of the greenhouse is like a slightly twisted ellipsoidal pressure tank. The dragon eggs are located on a soft tray in the cabin. The diameter is about one meter. The shell and black or brown spots, bright lights illuminate them from multiple directions, and mechanical probes of unknown purpose occasionally fall down to perform some irradiation and inspection on the surface of the dragon egg; and the entire "greenhouse" is placed in On a round metal platform, the lights of the platform base flicker and are connected to each other with pipes...

Hundreds and thousands of incubation devices are arranged neatly on both sides of some circular corridors. Many pipelines hang from the sky and connect to the "integrated port" behind the incubation device. It seems to be used to supply energy. It may just be collecting data. Gao Wen raised his head and tried to find the place where the pipes converged or originated, but he only saw a vague darkness-the dome of the hatchery was extremely high, and the ceiling was dim. The pipes eventually converged into the depths of darkness, as if There is a dark abyss in the sky, all swallowing all the gaze.

He withdrew his eyes and looked back at the neatly arranged incubation devices like a production line. A dragon egg was lying quietly in the incubation cabin closest to him, receiving the careful care of the machine and growing strictly according to the schedule. With.

Amber also came to the incubator, and she looked at the scene in front of her, and it was very rare to quiet down. There was no more hesitation, no surprise.

"The new dragons were born like this," Veronica said softly. "What kind of development will it take to take this path..."

"There are many reasons to make Tallond look like this today, and the emergence of incubation plants is only a trivial part of it, and...incubation plants are just an ancient technology for us." Melita shook He shook his head and said slowly.

Noreta on the side took the topic: "You should have heard a saying-the more powerful creatures, the more difficult to reproduce. This is the'balance' imposed by the laws of nature on all living beings, and the dragon family as a vulgar species The most powerful individual in the world, the difficulty of reproduction is even more difficult to the limit..."

"There is indeed such a saying," Gao Wen nodded. "And not only bards and playwrights say so, but experts and scholars think so too-although they have no way to study dragon samples, most creatures in nature follow This pattern."