Chapter 286 The 20th Floor of the Airship
Su Ming nodded silently and followed Liu Lingshan to the interior of the airship. They entered the first floor at the bottom of the airship. The aisles inside were very crowded, and only five or six people could pass through one aisle. There were narrow small rooms on both sides, and each small room could accommodate four passengers.
Su Ming made a rough calculation and found that this floor was enough to accommodate thousands of passengers. Looking at the height of the airship outside, he estimated that the airship had more than twenty floors in total.
Is this what Xia Xiaoyu meant by the lack of technological progress? I feel completely cheated. Being able to make such a huge steel ship float in the sky is against the laws of gravity!
Su Ming took out his mobile phone and secretly searched Baidu for the principle of the airship. The principle that made this huge piece of steel fly in the air was very simple. It was to collect a magical mineral called pumice at a specific altitude.
This magical mineral is found throughout the sky and ocean. It is very tiny and its characteristic is that it always floats at a fixed altitude.
A three-hundred-meter pumice stone will always remain at a height of three hundred meters under the influence of natural gravity; a one-thousand-meter pumice stone will always maintain a height of one thousand meters.
If you carry a thousand-meter-high pumice stone to two thousand meters, it will generate a downward force in an attempt to return to a height of one thousand meters. If you carry it to five hundred meters, it will generate a lift in an attempt to return to a height of one thousand meters.
By using this property of pumice, it is very easy to make a huge steel airship floating in the air.
With pumice, the steel airship no longer needs to fight against gravity, but only needs to fight against the stabilizing force of the pumice. If it wants to rise, the thrusters will spray fire downwards to overcome the gravity of the pumice; if it wants to descend, the thrusters will spray fire upwards to allow the airship to overcome the buoyancy of the pumice.
After reading the explanation of the principle, Su Ming felt full of satisfaction. He understood the world better, and the risk of his true identity being exposed also decreased by 1.
"Where are we?" Su Ming asked.
"We are specialists from the Investigation Bureau, and the floor we rest on is different from that of ordinary passengers." Liu Lingshan said calmly as he walked into a huge elevator.
The elevator they took was different from that of ordinary passengers. Their elevator buttons only had buttons for floors 15 to 20, not floors 1 to 15. The people who took this elevator were all men in suits and women in luxurious clothes.
Su Ming was wearing a uniform and felt out of place with the wealthy people around him, but the wealthy people all looked at them with respect. Obviously, these people knew their special identities.
Since the exclusive areas for these wealthy people are floors above the fifteenth floor, Su Ming estimated that the elevators for ordinary passengers should be from the first to the fifteenth floor, but there should be no elevators above the fifteenth floor.
It has to be said that the class stratification in this world is still very serious. The rich and ordinary people are people from two completely different worlds. Even their roads have no intersection at all, like two parallel lines that do not interfere with each other.
When the elevator door to the fifteenth floor opened, Su Ming discovered that the interior decoration was completely different from what he saw on the first floor. The light coming in from outside was pale yellow and warm, the corridor was quiet, and the smell of incense floated in the air.
When the elevator door to the sixteenth floor opened, a fountain could be seen and a waiter was already waiting at the elevator door.
The seventeenth and eighteenth floors were similar, but when the elevator door on the nineteenth floor opened, Su Ming heard faint music and the aroma of food, as if a grand dinner was being held outside the elevator.
It seems that as the floors go higher, the resting places become more luxurious and spacious, so...what about the twentieth floor?
It's inexplicably exciting.
Only Liu Lingshan, Su Ming, Cass and Gu Dongshu were left in the elevator. The electronic display screen jumped from the 19th floor to the 20th floor. The elevator door opened. Su Ming's smile froze as he smelled blood and rust in the air.
Unexpectedly, I didn't expect that the top level of the Investigation Bureau would be like this.
It is said to be one floor, but in fact it has five floors connected from top to bottom. There are stairs on both sides to go up, and people on the upper floors can also lean on the railings to look down. On both sides are small, compact rooms like those on the first floor, and there are many of them. In the middle, there is an aisle that is several times wider than the first floor. There are many tables and chairs, and many fully armed people are sitting at the tables chatting and laughing.
Some of those people were chatting and laughing, while others were having a serious discussion. As the elevator door opened, people at the nearest table saw them coming out. A look of surprise flashed across someone's face, and he stopped talking and looked at them with an indescribable look.
Su Ming knew that the man was not looking at them, but at Liu Lingshan.
This atmosphere of silence spread, and soon the originally noisy corridor became completely quiet. People in the corridor upstairs also looked down and stared at Liu Lingshan.
Liu Lingshan smiled slightly and said nothing. He led Su Ming and others forward in the silence of others, went up to the second floor, and walked into his own room.
This room is very similar to the dormitory of the Investigation Bureau. There are two beds side by side on the left, which can sleep four people on the upper and lower floors. On the right is a rectangular table that can be used to place items or put a laptop for temporary work.
The only difference between this room and the Investigation Bureau dormitory is that the bed has a plastic curtain, which can be fully enclosed to prevent being seen while sleeping. This simple privacy protection should be designed by the airship designer specifically for ladies, providing the only privacy protection for ladies.
This design is not difficult to understand. After all, the specialists on this floor are not from the same investigation bureau, and generally speaking, specialists from different investigation bureaus cannot sleep together. If separate rooms are arranged for ladies, a lot of space will be wasted, so such a simple curtain is designed.
"We're going to sleep here for one night. Cass and Gu Dongshu must have taken this ride many times, so I don't think I need to explain much. Xiao Ming, is this your first time on an airship?"
"That's right." Su Ming said honestly.
He couldn't lie about this issue, because there were many details along the way that would reveal that he had never taken the airship, so lying would definitely expose him.
Of course, this answer is also risky, because if he has never ridden an airship, people would naturally assume that he was born on Dongyang Island. However, having been born on Dongyang Island, he actually has no memory of Dongyang Island and has no idea about the process of social change on Dongyang Island.
If someone were to ask about this issue in detail, Su Ming would definitely be exposed.
But Su Ming was already prepared. If the other party asked in detail, he would say that he had lost a lot of memories and only remembered some memories from a year ago.
Of course, it would be best if no one asked.
"You seem to have very little knowledge about the alliance. It seems necessary to give you a brief introduction." Liu Lingshan said casually.
