We have a level system in place for mankind.

We have discovered a man-made creature called Fadalag that produces red thunderstones. It looked like a bright red slime, but it ran away unexpectedly quickly.

"Huh, how are you moving so fast?"

I took out the mesh I had prepared.

"I'm going to get you more than that."

We take out the flashlight, we go down the hole, and we head in the direction where Fadalag escaped. The cavity is about one and a half meters wide and about one and a half meters high.

It is tough to have to bend over and advance. About five minutes later, I went out into an underground space that seemed to have enlarged my rugby ball.

Tens of thousands of fadalags swarmed through the underground space, pointing at the light of the flashlight.

"Wow, if you have this many, you can accept the amount of red thunderstone mined"

He nodded to Kawai's words.

"The question is, how do we catch them?" I don't want to go down there. "

"Likewise, if you go down, you'll be buried and suffocated."

Fadalag didn't seem to react in the light. I don't seem to have eyes, so I may not be able to feel the light. Then I wonder what I am using to understand my surroundings.

"The first time you saw Fadalag, you noticed our presence." What have you noticed about us? "

If it's not the light, it's the smell or the sound.

I pick up the pebbles and throw them on the other side of the underground space. The pebble made a loud noise by hitting the opposite wall. A group of fadalags stopped moving at once.

But I lost interest when the noise stopped.

Sounds, sound reactive.

"The first fadalag escaped when he noticed the sound we made." Then, if you make a loud noise here and threaten it, you'll panic. I wonder if I can catch you in the middle of it.

"At first, there was only one." If there's so many of them, they might attack us. "

You can't fight back and reduce the number, right?

Of course. They're making red thunderstones.

Then we will have to capture one fadalag passing through the cavity. We took a sample of the soil, went back into the cavity, and went out of the hole that the river well had dug.

"Let's capture the fader rug through this cavity with a net." We should catch about five of them in total. "

Why don't you let out some intense acid and break the net?

"Come on, we don't know until we try."

We waited for Fadalag to pass, and about forty minutes later we saw a red figure. I'll stretch the net and catch Fadalag. I went mad in the net, but I didn't throw up any acid.

The captured fadalag was placed in the steel box that I brought with me. In the same way, we captured five fadalags and brought them back to the creature's researchers.

After studying this fadalag, it turns out that this creature eats earth like a worm. Surprisingly, the fadalag was a silicon organism made of a substance like silicon rubber.

This creature is supposed to split and increase its numbers. Some substances are required to divide, and they are sulfur, phosphorus, and magnesium.

It was decided to build a fadalag breeding ground in Yashiro. Construction began with the construction of a Tokyo dome-like breeding ground on the outskirts of Yashiro.

I asked Misaki, who decided to build it.

Suddenly the Tokyo Dome Class breeding ground is too thoughtful, isn't it?

Yes, but the demand for electricity is increasing rapidly.

I think we can handle that if we increase the amount of red thunderstone mined.

Currently, but considering that the vein of red thunderstone was made by Fadalag, I think the reserves are limited.

"I think we've investigated the reserves and talked about the possibility of a large amount, but was it wrong?"

"It looks like the prerequisites are different." I figured it out like coal, but the fadalags only produce red thunderstones where there are three types of sulfur, phosphorus, and magnesium. "

How many Crimson Thunderstones can be produced in a breeding ground of that size?

I thought you said it was about 500,000 kilowatts.

I can't tell whether it's more or less. However, I have heard that the standard output of a single reactor is one million kilowatts, so I think it is not a small number.

Since the population of Agarta does not reach even 20% of the original population, we believe that the required power is about 20% of the power output in Japan before the anomaly. Oil is no longer usable, so it adds up to 20%.

However, it is based on the time when it is the climax period in Japan, so I was actually thinking of having it endure at about 10%.

"Are you going to produce all the power in Agarta with palm trees?"

"No way... the breeding grounds are going to be scattered throughout Agarta." And at that time, I'll lease it to other cities. "

I shrugged my shoulders.

If you say you owe me too much, I'll hate you.

I'll give you some advice, but I can't afford to give it away for free.

Yashiro's internal affairs seem to be going well, but he still can't afford it. When I asked him about the Kuell Tower, he said that the investigation was in progress.

"It seems that they often don't know that it's just pictures and records." It was easy to see that it was a real thing or at least a model. "

It was difficult to get an accurate picture of the Kuell Tower, as it only contained pictures and texts. However, since the investigation team headed by Associate Professor Nozaki was full of excellent people, it seems that they have discovered some things about the Quell clan.

Huh, what did you find out?

The Quells are in control of gravity.

"Gravity... that's amazing, but what were you doing controlling gravity?"

"That's... not how much energy I needed to control gravity."

I see, if you use more energy than airplanes to fly, you don't use it to fly.