The clear sea surface is sparkling, and seabirds are soaring in the sea breeze. Under the golden dusk, the sea surface is filled with a kind of comfortable tranquility. The tranquility of the sunset is like a stack of gentle beams of light. If you look down from the sky of ten thousand meters, you will see everything in your sight.
The tiny black dots are like ink stains on a piece of white paper. If you get closer and can see the inside of the ink stains clearly, you will find that there is a huge island.
Forests, mountains, and clear springs are each distinct, as are high-rise buildings, machinery factories, and docks and ports.
This island has both a primitive and natural natural environment and prosperous entertainment elements, but it seems to be frozen in place.
At this moment when everything seemed to be silent, a crisp sound of "boom" broke the frozen scene, just like the movie being played was unpaused and everything in the world came to life again.
This is...the sound of a clock striking.
The sound spread in all directions and could be heard throughout the island. The bell that sounded was a clock located in the center of an extremely prosperous town by the sea.
It was a huge clock tower thirty meters high, extending from the bottom to the top like a huge stone pillar, with a huge round clock at the top.
Because of the impact sound caused by the golden hands in the center of the clock, after the impact sound, the inside of the clock began to change.
The diameter of this huge circular dial reaches 4 meters. The outer outline of the dial is isolated by transparent glass and surrounded by gold and silver trim.
Inside the circular dial with a diameter of four meters, there is a mixture of calendar dial and celestial dial but distinct isolation mode. In the middle of the isolation between the two, there is a curved black line that separates them. Overall, this circle
The dial is like a Tai Chi pattern. The calendar dial is currently on the far left, occupying half of the circular dial, and the celestial dial is on the far right, also occupying the remaining half of the area.
First looking at the overall outline, there is a golden pointer more than two meters long in the center of the huge circular dial, but currently there is no sign of this pointer rotating.
There are three black hands installed in the calendar dial on the far left. The lengths of the pointers are 1.4 meters, 1.2 meters, and 1 meter respectively. These three hands will only rotate within the range of the calendar dial and will not rotate to the celestial dial on the other side.
Looking at the internal specifications and structure of the calendar dial, there are three dials with a diameter of about 1.5 meters and three dials with a diameter of less than 1 meter. Each of the six dials of different sizes is equipped with three long and short dials.
The different black hands all point to positions ranging from i(1) to xii(12), because this is the day and night time scale.
The complexity of the internal structure of the calendar dial alone highlights the value of this clock tower.
The other half of the celestial dial has a relatively simple layout, but its internal specifications and structure are more complicated than the calendar dial.
Within the scope of the celestial dial on the far right, the sun disk, moon disk, and astrolabe are respectively installed, with a diameter of 2.2 meters. Within the scope of the celestial dial, three pointers with lengths of 1.4 meters, 1.2 meters, and 1 meter are also installed.
The three pointers point to the three dials of the sun, moon and stars. When rotating, the movement trajectory will not deviate from the celestial dial, but will alternately rotate on the three dials of the sun, moon and stars.
The sun disk is a golden sun, a golden circular pattern with a diameter of 2.2 meters. There is only one golden pointer inside. This golden pointer stays at the twelve o'clock position, and precision hinges are installed at the roots of the golden pointers.
Screws and gear screws, the bottom of the screw is connected to a slender metal wire. It is through the rotation of this hinge and gear force that the entire movement of the celestial body and calendar dial is driven by this metal wire.
Although the hinge screws and gear screws are installed in the day dial, the movement of the day dial will drive the movement of the celestial dial. The movement of the celestial dial will be linked to the calendar dial on the other side, so the round dial will also run at the same time.
Below the sun disk at 45 degrees is the moon disk. The moon disk is moon white and has a different color, but it is much darker than the sun disk. It is 2.2 meters in diameter. Inside the moon disk is a black pointer with a metal wrapped around its root.
Wire.
The bottom is the astrolabe. Viewed as a whole, the astrolabe is far more complicated than the sun and moon disks combined, especially in the dial with a diameter of 2.2 meters. From the twelve o'clock direction to the six o'clock direction, respectively
There are different star patterns distributed, and the layout pattern is like the stars in the starry sky orbit, and the pointer is slowly shaking in the center.
The astrolabe is dark blue, and the hands are the most eye-catching, looking like a blue starlight.
While the celestial dial and the calendar dial are separated, they are also integrated with each other. Especially when the entire dial rotates, the curve that separates the two dials will also move accordingly, and the positions of the celestial dial and the calendar dial will also move.
It will also be swapped up, down, left, and right, so it is said that the two are mixed together.
This huge dial occupies all the area on the top of the clock tower. Its height of 30 meters is unique on this island, and it is also the most stunning scenery on this island.
Just after the golden pointer in the center of the dial completely sounded, the original dial began to change.
The first thing that reacted was the sun disk inside the celestial watch. The hinge screw of the sun disk clicked and clicked with the gear screw, and the power was transmitted. Then the metal wire was instantly straightened, and the golden pointer began to rotate faster.
At this time, the moon disk connected to the metal wire also received this pulling force, and the black pointer of the moon disk began to rotate at the same time.
After that, the power was finally transmitted to the inside of the astrolabe, and the blue pointer began to rotate, rub rub...
The three pointers of the sun, moon and stars sped up their rotation speed, and in the external celestial dial, the three larger hands also began to rotate.
The celestial dial is completely in motion, and the opposite calendar dial is also driven by the power of the celestial dial.
At this time, the huge dial is divided into two parts by the central curve. The operating ranges of the calendar dial and the celestial dial are constantly changing. One moment, left and right are opposite, another is up and down, now right and left, and now down and up. The position follows the pointer.
Rotating and changing.
However, the huge two-meter long pointer in the center finally started to rotate for the first time at this time. It first rotated around the calendar scale on the calendar dial: i (1) to xii (12), and then rotated around the celestial dial.
The sun, moon and stars rotate in three disks.
Rub rub rub... the pointer rotates faster, and at this moment, ding...
Chapter completed!