Chapter 213 Alternation

December of the year, winter.

Under the new calendar, this should be close to the New Year, and we should start preparing for the New Year, so that this area is filled with a festive atmosphere.

The territory follows the lunar New Year, and the New Year's Eve is the tenth day after the beginning of spring, and the Spring Festival is the end of New Year's Eve.

The beginning and end of the year in the Holy City are not in January and December, but rather the Holy Day Celebration is the beginning and end of their year. It is a grand celebration where all of them can rest and enjoy. Priests from other cities will return to the Holy City to reunite, or preach in foreign lands.

The autumn harvest season is the dividing line of the year.

The alternation of December and January is not a particularly important festival in both the Holy City and the territory, and only causes small-scale celebrations.

The territory will celebrate a one-day holiday on January 1, which is New Year's Day.

For holidays, the people of the territory are always very welcome.

Without leap years and peaceful years, the cycle of the calendar is much easier to calculate, but the solar terms still need to be adjusted according to the local environment.

The dean sat in his office and exhaled gently.

The warm white air quickly cooled and condensed in the air, and the light penetrated these condensed droplets, showing snow-white fog visible to the naked eye.

The temperature finally dropped.

There was no fine snow in the sky, and the fact that they could spit out white mist was the best proof of the temperature drop, proving that the temperature in this area had reached below 10 degrees Celsius.

The green plants outside the window were in high spirits, shaking their branches and leaves slightly in the cold wind of December. The students had already put on winter cold-resistant coats over their uniforms. The working residents also changed into warm clothes woven with cotton by the tailor shop. Each person was limited to one piece, which was issued after verification by the city hall.

The seabirds gathered in groups on the tree trunks, three or five groups to keep warm.

The warm sunlight in late winter shone into this small office through the floor-to-ceiling windows, which inevitably made people feel cozy and comfortable.

The dean couldn't help but touch his stomach, which had only drunk a cup of brown sugar water since the morning, thinking about the taste of roasted bird.

It is somewhat different from the scientific research work that most people imagine. There are very few researchers who bury themselves in piles of papers. Before finding a research idea, the researchers in the territory will be in a daze like the dean, thinking about possible research directions.

Sitting in front of an empty white paper for an hour, occasionally writing a few characters or irregular lines, and only drawing a new blueprint on the paper when inspiration comes.

They wait for the sudden flash of inspiration to push themselves to find the direction to move forward.

"Come in."

There was a knock on the door, and the dean responded.

Since pulling students into the research team of the territory, the dean's work efficiency has been greatly improved. He no longer needs to face a large number of complicated repetitive formulas alone, nor does he need to do several repeated experiments alone, contacting the territory's blacksmith shop and carpenter shop to produce the samples he needs and conduct mass production possibility tests.

These relatively simple repetitive tasks are handed over to the recruited students-they also enjoy it.

The territory pays them wages.

The dean leaned back in his chair and picked up the cold brown sugar water. The quality of his daily rest was also improving.

Finally, he went back to resting at 10 o'clock every night and getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning.

Chongyan, wearing a white and blue uniform, was tense. The white color of the school uniform, which was specially customized for students, set off the wearer's figure, while the blue color was used as a secondary embellishment. The pure white color set off the wearer's rationality.

Chongyan placed the blueprint he had completed the calculation in front of the dean. It was the project he was responsible for, the feasibility study of the long-term stable operation of the cooling rune.

He put down the stack of reports in his hand, and his eyes quietly fell on the blueprints that the dean had spread out on the table.

On the paper were blueprints of airships that had been disassembled into structural drawings. The thin lines drawn by pencils outlined stable and precise structures, forming an airship among countless structures. However, none of them could escape the bloated shackles of the airship itself. The airship that had been optimized several times under the dean's pen also looked as bloated as the prototype.

Chongyan had seen the airship. When it was transported to the academy, almost everyone was watching.

Rather than being transported in, it was better to say that it flew in slowly from the sky and finally stopped next to the small factory. The academy didn't have a good warehouse to store it, so it was simply placed outside. There were too many curious students visiting, and the dean had to set up a blockade outside to prevent these curious students from acting rashly.

"Some time ago, when multiple runes were close to each other, interference would occur and cause self-destruction. By referring to the model obtained... we theoretically..."

Two or more runes that were drawn too large would conflict and interfere. Too high a rune density would cause the runes to interfere with each other when they were running. The small rune lamp in the Holy City was carried out to the extreme in this regard, integrating four rune modules into a crystal smaller than a fist without conflict.

And with such a fine structure, large-scale mass production can be implemented.

They dismantled fifty rune lamps and only found a little clue. They knew the starting point and the end point, but they were confused about the process in the middle. What really drove progress was a batch of rune equipment seized from the outpost, filling the most critical gap in the middle for the territory research team.

Reverse research, along with the airship, a large number of rune-based spellcasting equipment and magic weapons were transported to the academy. Their rune attainments were obviously not as good as those in the Holy City, but things with low technical levels were easier to copy and refer to.

These are all precious treasures of another world.

The dean was not polite and said that everything should be dismantled, and the scattered parts after dismantling were handed over to various research groups for research... The number of people in each research group is not fixed, and it is mainly based on the freedom of each student to cooperate to complete the scientific research project.

The dean even asked the lord to apply for scientific research incentives. Completing a scientific research project or a scientific research sub-project can get special incentives/rewards. Ji Lin refused. The territory can only approve so much funds for your academy at present. So many mouths are waiting for food, and all rare resources are sent to your academy.

It’s not that Ji Lin doesn’t want to, but the territory’s finances have entered a state of non-redundant operation since the development. At the same time, the outposts of the territory and the floating island are built, and manpower resources must be invested in small-scale battles.