bookbashuk Chapter 484 Queen Mera’S Request For Help
Chapter 484 Queen Mera’S Request For Help
When Mera came to Haihou Mera's office, she saw that there seemed to be faint black marks under her eyelids, forming two circles around her eyes.
She asked curiously: "Did you sleep well last night?"
The Queen of the Sea Mera rolled her eyes at her without any trace, but she didn't want to tell her such embarrassing things.
She pulled a document from under her desk and handed it to Mera.
Mera took it and found that it was filled with Zebel's supply list. At the bottom of the list, the name of a substance was marked with a key symbol - Orichalcum.
When the two of them returned to Zebel some time ago, as expected, they did not find any living Zebel people in that country.
They speculated that the survivors either escaped or joined other surviving Atlanteans. "The destroyed kingdom of Xebel is not worthy of their continued presence.
However, as an underwater kingdom with a long history, many treasures of Zebel have not been destroyed. Definitely, it may be that Apocalypse simply does not care about it, or that they are not in a hurry to search, so most of the kingdom's treasures can be preserved. .
The Kingdom of Zebel is located in a secret alien space, and its treasures are naturally hidden in another alien space. Only the blood of the royal family can open the treasure.
Both Meras meet the conditions for opening the "523" treasure. They are said to be treasures, but the ones stored in them are not gold, silver, jewelry or the like. Undersea civilization has moved away from the level of being addicted to heavy metals.
This treasure contains the technology and material reserves left over from the most heyday of the Atlantis Empire. Before the empire split, the Atlanteans had conquered the sky and the ocean, and were only one step away from flying out of the planet.
If their belief in Poseidon hadn't kept them trapped on this planet, Atlantis might have developed into an interstellar civilization.
But even so, the Atlanteans' technological achievements are still second to none.
Compared with the current technology of submarine civilization, the knowledge of the old empire is not completely outdated. This is mainly because the submarine civilization class is seriously solidified and has insufficient innovation. The design and aesthetics of technological products may have made some progress, but the underlying science has not There is no particularly big improvement.
This is also reflected in surface civilization. As we all know, theoretical science is always far ahead of applied science, and this phenomenon is even more obvious in underwater civilization. Their technology has not advanced for a long time.
When the underwater kingdom was invaded by the planet Apocalypse, most of the documents and carriers containing their science and technology were destroyed. This directly led to the degradation of Atlantis' civilization over a long period of time. , fell into the tribal era.
Without machines, the people on the seabed do not know how to grow marine plants. Fortunately, they still have good physiques and a martial spirit that has not been eradicated, and they can also obtain food through fishing and hunting.
If not, it is hard not to suspect that these undersea people would die of starvation within a short time of being hit by the Apocalypse star.
Later, in order to change the poor living environment of her people, Mera, the Queen of the Sea, led the remaining survivors to scavenge on the seabed, and finally recovered some of the technology and equipment that had not been completely destroyed, thus improving the survival of the Atlanteans. state.
In the past, when they had no worries about food and clothing, underwater people might subconsciously ignore class issues, but when survival becomes a problem, many conflicts that were hidden in the past can easily explode, like a dynamite barrel that is just short of a spark.
Mera, the Queen of the Sea, has a very keen sense of politics. She had already seen some signs at that time, so she led the Atlanteans to scavenge in search of the science and technology lost by their undersea people.
But I also know that scavenging alone can only meet urgent needs, but cannot completely solve this problem.
For a long time, Mera struggled to regain their science and technology.
When Batman came to them at the end of the world, Mera barely recovered some of Atlantis's technical strength.
Only after losing technology did she understand what science and technology are the primary productive forces. Without the material prosperity brought by the prosperity of science and technology, many social contradictions began to emerge one after another, which made her physically and mentally exhausted.
But what she didn't expect was that the solution to this problem lay in her home country, Zebel.
Mera, the Queen of the Sea, does not know what King Nessance originally thought about, but he did have the foresight to leave a valuable legacy for underwater civilization.
In Zebel, the Mera found the treasures scattered around the world through the codes left by Nessance. Who would have thought that Zebel did not hide the most precious things in Zebel, but scattered them around the world.
Some of the treasure locations were even set in the Lost Kingdom. Even if they had the key to the treasure, it still took them a while to get it.
Among these treasures is a high-energy mineral inherited from the old empire era called "Orichalcum". This material is small in size but has a high energy level. It can store more energy per unit volume than any other high-energy battery in the world.
Even in Atlantis, which is highly technologically advanced, orichalcum was originally a black technology.
But this high-energy mineral has a shortcoming. It is not very stable. It condenses huge energy into a small triangular prism, and the atoms inside it are undergoing fierce collisions all the time.
Therefore, as long as it is subjected to a slightly larger external force, this high-energy mineral may directly cause an internal energy reaction and produce huge amounts of explosions.
Because the energy level is too high, most of the energy inside the orichalcum after the explosion will be emitted into the atmosphere in the form of heat energy, causing the environment to heat up.
In the old imperial era, this defect in orichalcum caused widespread melting of Arctic glaciers and mass extinction of Arctic species.
Even one of the humble but important reasons for the sinking of Atlantis was because the melting of Arctic glaciers indirectly led to the rise of sea levels.
The Atlantis Empire, which was originally far away from sea level, came close to the ocean in just a few years, which laid the foundation for the subsequent sinking of Atlantis.
After causing huge amounts of mistakes that caused drastic changes in the environment, the old empire decided to sequester these high-energy substances and prohibit anyone from using them.
Since Orichalcum is difficult to destroy, and destruction will still cause it to emit a large amount of waste heat, the old empire at that time sealed this material in several fixed deep-sea Warehouses.
The location of these Warehouses later became the main places of several kingdoms.
Atlantis originally had such an orichalcum storage warehouse. To be honest, after Atlantis was destroyed by the Apocalypse planet, in order to solve the food and fuel problems of the tribe, Mera, the queen of the sea, violated the ban and opened the orichalcum warehouse. .
The waste heat caused by the use of orichalcum will heat up the atmosphere, thereby melting glaciers and causing global sea levels to rise. However, this problem has the greatest impact on people on the surface. For people under the sea, rising sea levels are more like a good thing.
The rise in temperature brought about by global warming is not a big problem for people on the bottom of the sea. At most, the survival challenges of marine animals and plants may affect the diet of people on the bottom of the sea...
At that time, all human beings in the world were overwhelmed by the oppression of Apocalypse and Blacken Superman. Mera, the queen of the sea, did not think that the earth would have a future, so she did this desperate thing.
In order to make the lives of the remaining tribesmen better, she used these orichalcums without hesitation. This seemed to be no problem at the time, but now it is a bit embarrassing.
After the earth has passed through the Apocalypse star, surface civilization has also begun to rebuild. At this time, the environmental problems caused by Atlantis' use of orichalcum will become very prominent.
The reason why it has not yet been criticized by people on the surface is that on the one hand, Apocalypse's use of geocentric energy on the earth is much more serious than the use of orichalcum by the people of Atlantis, and it also causes greater ecological problems. , so no one has discovered the trouble caused by the Atlanteans.
On the other hand, people on the surface don’t know about orichalcum. No, that shouldn’t be said. At least Batman at the end of the world knows about it. When he was doing research in Atlantis, he used it. Orichalcum energy.
But Mera didn't know if this man had discovered the hidden dangers of using orichalcum. If he knew, then this matter might not be hidden for long.
When the time comes for people under the sea to cooperate in all aspects with people on the surface, the orichalcum incident is likely to have an adverse diplomatic impact on Atlantis.
After returning to Atlantis, what Mera wanted to solve most was this hidden danger.
After Mera read the entire document, her pretty eyebrows frowned.
"You actually used orichalcum? That's not..."
Mera, Queen of the Sea, raised her hand to interrupt her: "I know that was forbidden, but we were at the end of our rope at that time, you know? We had to do this.
Although undersea people can withstand the high pressure and oxygen environment of the deep sea, and can also withstand low temperatures, there are limits to these.
Especially at low temperatures, in order to withstand the low temperatures in the deep sea, people on the seabed themselves must emit a higher body temperature to regulate their own internal environment temperature.
This high body temperature is bound to consume a lot of bioenergy, and bioenergy comes from 0.9 food. However, after the civilization was destroyed, their crops were burned, and fishing and hunting alone could not fully meet the survival needs of the people on the seabed.
So at that time they were not only hungry, but also cold. Using orichalcum, firstly, it could provide energy for the technological tools that could still be used, and the heat produced could prevent the Atlanteans from freezing to death in the cold temperatures.
Mera had nothing to say after hearing her explanation. Considering the poor living environment at that time, it was understandable for the other party to do this.
If they don't do this, they may not be able to wait for the Justice League to arrive, and even the doomsday Batman will not have a chance to make a shuttle here.
but...
Mera pinched her head with a headache: "Does Arthur Curry know about this?"
Mera rolled her eyes at her, the meaning was obvious.
How could Arthur, that stupid guy, have made all this twists and turns?
"Then what you gave me is..."
Mera adjusted her voice and said in a normal manner: "I heard that you are familiar with Dane from the Justice League..."
Mera's face is slightly red, which means she is not relatively mature, but she is quite mature, very mature.
"So, I hope you can ask him for help on this matter.".