Chapter 2617 Moment Of Insanity:>56
- Ling led me to an open door and I stopped cold when I saw the emerald light spilling from the open hatch. It was a vibrant green light and not the sickly verdant I had seen coming from Bian. I collected my thoughts and ignored the tiny amount of piss that had escaped for that second of sheer panic. She went in and I followed after. I stared at the engine and wasn't sure what the hell I was even looking at. It looked like an iron sphere with six diamond shaped windows spaced equidistant around the equator. The windows showed a cloud of crystals that seemed to dance and orbit around one another. The crystals would merge and spin and when they collided they would break apart and begin all over again.
- I walked around the sphere and the one thing I expected to see but didn't. There wasn't a single rivet or weld or sign that humans built this thing. The surface of the engine was perfect and free of any mar I could detect. Ling smiled and shrugged when I looked over at her. How the hell did they build this thing? I don't know if modern techniques could replicate what I was seeing here. I clutched the journal tighter as I followed the ceiling pipes to the boiler. It like the core was fabricated of seamless metal shell and it was this superheated water that drove the turbines and gave the vessel its movement, its life.
- I poured through the journal and found the engine schematics. This was pure genius. There were two metal screws that drew in sea water and funneled it into the engine where the heat from the core flash fried it into steam. I didn't know much about stress and tolerances but I bet this bitch could do a good clip given a full head of steam. I wished Shu was awake. She could make sense of all of this. Ling was gone when I turned around and then I heard the not so subtle howls of pain as she began interviewing the pilot.