All affairs in the territory seemed to be in order, and Gao Wen finally got a short period of leisure.
In the study of the lord's mansion, he finished handling the official duties accumulated in the past few days, and then leaned back in his large chair, listening to the daily affairs reported by Hetty while relaxing.
"... To sum up, all autumn grain storage and statistical work have been completed, and winter rations in remote areas have also been distributed. There should be no large-scale famine outbreaks in the main areas of the southern border this winter...
"The magic net project is still expanding along the cross axis, and it has now covered the Palin area...
"The commercial courier sent to the east has set off..."
Gao Wen breathed out slightly: "It's a good day without bad news."
"It's impossible to have bad news every day. It's hard for us to settle down." Hetty smiled, but halfway through the smile, his expression became a little subtle, "But although there is no bad news, there is one thing that makes people care The Rebecca kid seems to be tinkering with something lately... "
Gawain's relaxed expression stopped immediately: "Rebecca? What has she been up to lately?"
"She built a big pool in the Institute of Magic Technology..." Hetty said this with a blank expression, "raise ooze monsters in it."
Gao Wen: "...what is she raising the ooze monster for?!"
"The submitted report said that it was to study the industrial value of the slime monster, but because it was a group project within the Institute of Magic Technology, she knew the details of the project herself."
Gao Wen's forehead was full of question marks, but just when he was about to continue asking, the Magic Net terminal installed next to the desk suddenly lit up and made a loud buzzing sound.
Gao Wen casually activated the terminal, but he didn't expect that it was Rebecca's figure that emerged from the holographic projection above the machine.
"Rebecca? Just when I was going to..."
However, Gao Wen's words were interrupted by the other party just halfway through. The girl was wearing a researcher's white robe over her dress, her face and hands were covered with oil, and she was jumping up and down excitedly in the screen: "Master Ancestor!! ! Car! There is a car!!”
Gao Wen was taken aback by the nonsensical words: "What did you say?"
Hetty couldn't help but frowned seeing Rebecca's lack of aristocratic behavior: "Rebecca, have you forgotten etiquette?"
"Ah! Auntie!" Rebecca noticed that Hetty was also opposite the communicator, and her expression and movements froze instantly, "You are too..."
"Are you in the Machinery Manufacturing Institute?" Gao Wen noticed the scene behind the girl after Rebecca stopped jumping, and after seeing those lathes and the wide assembly platform, his heart moved, "Is it a magic car? !"
"Yes! Eggy and I finally managed to solve the last few problems! We built a usable chassis!!" Rebecca excitedly jumped in front of the communicator, and the holographic projection in front of Gawain's eyes was 80% They were all taken up by the girl's oily face, "Come and see! Come and see!"
The voice of Mr. Nicholas Dan came from the background sound of the communicator: "Why is this becoming Dandan again, didn't you call Mr. Dandan last time?"
Afterwards, Rebecca seemed to say something, but Gawain was no longer in the mood to continue listening. He suddenly got up, turned off the communicator, and said to Hetty as he walked towards the door: "You come with me!"
At this time, Hetty was still thinking about the question "Why did Rebecca raise the ooze monster", but from Gawain's reaction, she realized that Rebecca might have made some amazing results again, which was enough to make The ancestors threw all the slime monsters to the back of their minds.
She quickly agreed, and quickly followed Gao Wen's pace.
Mechanical Research Institute, next to the "mechanical platform" of the first workshop, hundreds of technicians wearing overalls or researcher uniforms gathered together, looking at the hard-won results on the platform with eager and proud expressions, Rebecca and Several of my assistants were also standing among the crowd, discussing excitedly the possible future uses of this epoch-making creation, while the silver-white Nicholas Egg with a happy smile on his face floated quietly on the nearest mechanical platform. He felt every delicate detail inside that complex machine, every seamless gear and lever, every repulsive mechanism and pump device ready to go, an unprecedented sense of satisfaction filled his diameter. Point three meters in a body weighing one and a half tons.
There was a sound of heavy and hasty footsteps coming from the door of the workshop. Rebecca immediately raised her head. After seeing the person coming, she excitedly waved her hand and said hello: "Master Zu! Aunt! You are here!!"
Gawain walked through a group of researchers paying tribute to him, and looked eagerly at the mechanical creation on the circular platform: "That's it?"
"As you can see..." Rebecca raised her hand, imitating the gesture of a butler or a senior attendant introducing guests, pointing at the creation, "Isn't it beautiful?"
Frankly speaking, in the aesthetics of many people in this era, that thing may not be considered beautiful, but in the eyes of those who have accepted Cecil's magical and mechanical painting style, it can indeed be associated with "aesthetics" .
It was a complex machine made of black steel. Its shape was slightly similar to the car chassis in Gao Wen's impression, but there was a huge difference. Because it is a test product, it does not have a casing, and almost all the mechanical structures are directly exposed to the outside. Those assembled gears, levers, and axles are like a monster that has lost its flesh and blood, which makes it look scary but has a certain quality. A strange beauty.
Since there is no shell, Gao Wen can clearly see many structures of the chassis: there are four steel wheels installed on both sides of the same steel frame, and a miniaturized, specially designed for mobile vehicles The second-generation magic energy engine is installed at its tail to provide power. A large number of runes are spread over the entire chassis structure, forming a complete set of magic net structure. In the center of the chassis, you can see a very conspicuous The "beam" is not only a large beam that provides structural strength, but also a part of the magic mechanism. Gawain saw that a large number of runes were concentrated on this beam, and the magic net of the chassis was also connected to the beam, and there were many The connecting rod and wire mechanism that controlled the rune trigger were also integrated in the front section of the beam. This structure gave him a sense of déjà vu.
Rebecca quickly answered the source of his déjà vu: "Did you think of the 'power ridge' on the magic warship?"
Gao Wen suddenly realized: "The same idea?"
"Yes, the power ridge of the magic warship gave us a lot of inspiration," Rebecca nodded, "integrate various control mechanisms and energy transmission structures into one module, reduce intermediate structures as much as possible, and reduce the number of trivial parts , the failure rate can be reduced to the greatest extent, and the reliability of the machine will also be improved, and it will be convenient to repair once there is a failure. If the failure is too big, you can even directly replace the entire power spine. The machine will be able to run again. I think that in the future, as long as it is a large magic machine, such as a car or boat, it can use the structure of the power ridge."
For a while, Gao Wen couldn't think of anything that could replace this structure, so he nodded slightly: "Very good."
The power ridge structure can be said to be the most typical technical achievement created by local technicians since the establishment of the Magic Technology Research Institute and the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. Not only did Gao Wen not intervene at all, even Rebecca was not a power ridge structure. main inventor.
It was a group of mage apprentices from the Lesley area who came up with this structure. After they were transferred to become magicians, they were sent to carry out magic transformation of old ships. Introducing a large-scale magic device and integrating all complex systems into a stable and reliable control-power supply structure, they referred to the control technology of the Mage Tower and proposed the original concept of power ridges.
After that, nearly a hundred runemasters, mechanics, magicians, and craftsmen from all over the southern border worked together, and the first generation of truly practical "power ridges" was created and used on the Aurora and Morningstar.
But now, this technical achievement, which proved to be stable and reliable on the magic warship, has been successfully miniaturized and installed on the chassis of the first-generation magic vehicle through the tireless efforts of the technicians of the machinery manufacturing institute.
If Rebecca's plan is reliable, then the "power spine" structure will continue to develop and become the central structure of various magic vehicles and various large-scale magic facilities in the future. It will continue to be improved and popularized until a certain time in the future One day, a more epoch-making, more stable and reliable architecture can replace it.
Gao Wen didn't know how to describe this feeling. Although he started this era, the flashes of light that emerged in this era were always beyond his expectations.
He raised his head and looked at the control part of the "prototype magic vehicle". A completely unobstructed "driver's seat".
At least the steering wheel looked the way he knew it.
But the several levers and pedals outside the steering wheel are not quite the same as the memories of his previous life.
Apparently, the designers did not design the operating system of this machine according to the "conceptual plan" originally proposed by Gawain. They planned the functions and positions of the levers according to their own habits, or it may be based on the "rune trigger" It is more likely that they asked the most experienced coachman in the city to make these changes, and planned the entire control seat based on the coachman's driving experience.
Gao Wen would not comment on this, although he has a mature design of another world in his mind and the experience of being a human being in two lifetimes, but he knows that his experience is not always applicable, and the expert here is not him , Whether these things are useful or not depends on the actual test results.
As for now, looking at the unsealed shell in front of him, with exposed mechanical structures everywhere, like some kind of punk product, he can only feel joy in his heart. However, due to the burden of his ancestors, he can only make it in front of others. After a serious review, he turned around the mechanical platform again and again, and when he turned to the third circle, he couldn't help reaching out and touching the wheels curiously: "... What kind of tires do you use? "
Due to the discrepancy between the substance list and the technology tree, Cecil has no rubber, no matter whether it is natural or man-made, and there is no way to talk about various rubber products including tires. At the beginning of designing the magical vehicle, Gao Herein lies one of the difficulties Wen envisioned.
Tires play a huge role. They can reduce vibration, make drivers more comfortable and prolong the life of mechanical structures. They can provide reliable grip friction, prevent slipping, and prevent steel wheels from being directly worn. Excellent tire design It can also make the vehicle run more labor-saving and save energy...
But without rubber, all is fantasy.
Gao Wen even considered using the method of suspension structure + crawler tracks to barely bypass this problem, but now it seems that the team of Rebecca and Nicholas Egg has solved the problem of materials, although I don't know what materials they used , but the layer of material on the outside of the wheel is obviously not rubber.
It is off-white, rough to the touch and has a certain degree of elasticity. If you smell it carefully, it seems to have a very slight earthy smell.
Rebecca seemed very happy to see that the omnipotent ancestor was curiously asking herself questions, she put her hips on her hips, with a smug smile on her face: "Master ancestor, guess what we used?"
Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, and then began to search his memory bank, but before he could think of the answer, Hetty, who came along with him, rubbed the surface of the wheel with his hands, and immediately showed an uncertain expression: "This thing Could it be... No way... You use the excrement of ooze monsters to make... tires?!"