Hearing Hetty's words, Gawain's expression froze immediately. What about the ooze monster's excrement? !
Rebecca over there was still nodding excitedly: "Yes, yes, we have raised a big pond in the backyard of the Institute of Magic Technology! One of the slime monsters was caught by me myself..."
Gawain finally knew what happened when Hetty reported that Rebecca was raising ooze monsters...
"Thank you for thinking it out!" Hetty's expression was as weird as it was, "I'm curious as to how you connected these two things together..."
Gao Wen couldn't help but rubbed his forehead: "Why do I feel a little sick?"
"It's not disgusting," Rebecca said immediately, "Although it is said to be the excrement of ooze monsters, ooze monsters are almost a kind of elemental creatures, and the things they excrete are more like mixed slag generated in alchemy reactions Clean aunt, didn't you tell me that the mages of the Violet Kingdom would even use the excrement of slime monsters to apply on their faces to improve their skin?"
Hetty couldn't help covering her face: "...but that's a curse word..."
Rebecca scratched her head: "Hey? Is that so?"
Listening to the conversation between Rebecca and Hetty, Gao Wen quickly accepted the source of the "tire" in front of him.
He is a kind of weak but powerful magical creature that knows the ooze monster. It usually lives near the magic focus and is the product of the combination of earth element and biomass. The wild ooze itself is not very offensive, but because its habitat is close to the focus of magic power, there are often strong monsters nearby, and it is not easy to catch them. But because they are not very useful, except for a few mages Apart from collecting specific materials and looking for ooze monsters, most people are not interested in those low-level elemental creatures.
As elemental creatures, ooze monsters will leave a variety of gel products after eating soil and rotting plants, which are their "excretions", but as Rebecca said, as long as the psychological adjustment is in place, That's just a by-product of the magical reaction...
But anyway, looking for inspiration from the excrement of the ooze monster, and even thought of using it to make tires... This is really a fresh and refined idea.
With a strange expression, Hetty continued to poke the off-white slightly elastic "tire" with her fingers, and asked curiously: "You should have dealt with it, right? Normal ooze monster secretions should be softer than this." , and the taste is stronger...”
"We mixed very fine quartz sand into it, and used giant wood gum to remove the smell. The effect is not bad, but I think there should be room for optimization," Rebecca said while nodding, "In addition, for To make the secretions from the ooze monster more in line with the requirements, we have also tested many different 'feeds', and now this feeding formula is definitely not the most suitable... "
Ooze monsters are very strange elemental creatures. They eat everything, and then perform complex magical reactions on the swallowed substances, and absorb energy in the process. Their physiological process is like a continuous alchemical reaction. This also leads to the fact that if the things they eat are different, the things they excrete will be very different. Of course, they are basically gel products of various viscosities and hardnesses.
Looking at the off-white "tire", Gawain nodded slightly.
I am afraid that there is really no natural rubber in this world, and humans will never be able to produce artificial rubber based on the oil industry, but alternatives still appear.
A low-level primitive magical creature actually solved a major problem in the magic industry. Regardless of how Rebecca thought of this solution, this fact alone was enough to give Gawain enough confidence in the future.
"Can it start now?" Gawain asked expectantly, pointing to the prototype magic vehicle on the mechanical platform.
"Of course" Rebecca said happily, "we have already started it once in the suspended state before you came, and adjusted a lot of small problems, and now it can be fully opened. Although I haven't tried it, I think it even Can drive outside the workshop."
Gao Wen didn't talk nonsense: "Let's demonstrate."
"Okay." Rebecca had been waiting for her ancestor's words for a long time, and she immediately agreed while walking towards the mechanical platform. Obviously, she couldn't wait to demonstrate this miracle crystallization of the magic industry to everyone in person.
Gawain watched Rebecca get on the platform, then climbed onto the pile of mechanical monsters made of steel, watched her sit in the crude seat welded directly to the frame, and then began to pull and operate The levers and wrenches in front of the seat, and the runes on the chassis of the prototype magic vehicle gradually brightened. A low hum sounded from the connection between the power ridge and the magic engine, and countless gears and levers began to vibrate slightly. Brewing up surging momentum
Hetty listened to the movement from the pile of machines, looked at Rebecca who was fiddling with the lever with excitement, and couldn't help worrying: "Ancestor, is this thing really okay?"
"You have to trust her," Gao Wen said in a low voice, "and trust the hard work of so many technicians for such a long time."
Hetty opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something more, but she swallowed all her words after seeing the scene in front of her
The heavy industrial beast made of black steel and with countless exposed mechanical structures let out a deep roar, and the rotor-type magic energy engine drove all the mechanical mechanisms to run. With vibrations and noises, its four wheels Slowly started turning.
"Look, Ancestor! Let's get up!!"
Rebecca yelled happily, and at the same time pulled another pull rod on the left side of her body. Accompanied by a series of clicks and clicks of gears changing positions, the rotation speed of the wheels increased. Amidst a series of noises and vibrations, this huge machine The machine stepped off the platform, just like the first cry of a human baby in this world, the sound it made was noisy and loud.
The machinists and magicians around the platform cheered and clapped vigorously.
Gao Wen knew that the machining accuracy of Nicholas eggs could be very high, but that was when the blueprints had been perfected. When manufacturing the prototype, in order to verify the blueprints and improve the success rate, in order to leave enough space for all the mechanical structures Safety residual value, in order for the mechanics to confirm the wear rate of all structures and to facilitate disassembly and modification, these initial machines will leave an acceptable margin between the parts, and these margins lead to the prototype magic vehicle running The noises and vibrations in the process sound noisy and chaotic, but the machinists feel that this sound is familiar and friendly.
It signifies the birth of a new mechanical creation, and the sound of the collision and friction of gears and levers is the resounding announcement of the birth of a new mechanical spirit in this world.
Rebecca drove the crude prototype car off the platform, and then controlled it to drive around in the vast open space of the workshop. The girl drinking tea and admiring the flowers on the balcony is wearing a dirty researcher's robe at the moment, sitting among a pile of iron frames and parts, yelling even louder than the machinery under her body
"Look, Ancestor! Look, Auntie! It's really walking! It can run!!"
She smiled like a child.
And amidst Rebecca's cheerful laughter, the pull rod of the magic car was pushed into a higher acceleration gear. Within the range allowed by the workshop space, this complicated machine accelerated again, and it made a loud roar With a sound, the magic engine drives the gear set, allowing the whole car to quickly drive to the exit of the workshop: it is obvious that Rebecca intends to drive the car outside.
Hetty showed a worried look on her face, but Gawain gently pressed her shoulder.
Hetty breathed a sigh of relief, and then put aside unnecessary worries: There is a legendary strong man watching here, and Rebecca and the "machine friend" she made should not be able to make a big deal no matter what. trouble.
However, just when she breathed a sigh of relief, there was a strange creaking sound from the machine car that had already run to the workshop gate. The vibration slowly stopped, and the magic runes on the power ridge also went out one by one.
Gawain and Hetty looked at each other, and then a large group of people hurried to the place where the locomotive lay.
Rebecca pulled the lever next to the seat, and stepped on the pedal under her feet hard. After finding that she couldn't restart it, she had no choice but to stand up from the seat and jumped to the ground with a frustrated face.
"broken."
She said to Gao Wen with a sad face.
However, just when Gao Wen wanted to comfort the girl, Rebecca had already turned her head away. She took out a wrench and a screwdriver from her pocket, and began to disassemble the connection between the magic engine and the mechanical cabin. cover plate.
A large group of technicians immediately surrounded it, and Nicholas Egg floated above the locomotive, and began to help Rebecca get those stuck or even distorted gears out of the gearbox and differential.
In front of Gawain and Hetty, the Mechanics and Magic Technicians began to discuss:
"The gear shift seems to be stuck..."
"The differential seems to be fine...it was damaged by coasting after the gearbox suddenly stuck."
"How could it be stuck... Is there no problem when testing alone?"
"Is the lubricating grease less effective after being heated by friction?"
"Certainly not, the alchemy ointment is also used in the puppet. The temperature of the puppet's power core is much higher than the friction of the gears..."
"Hey, you see, this connecting rod seems to be stuck! It fell off during the vibration! There is a problem with the connection method of this place!"
While Gao Wen was still hesitating whether to go in and have a look at the situation, the discussion among the technicians seemed to have come to an end.
Rebecca got out from the crowd, and the girl had several more oil stains on her face and hands, but her eyes, which were depressed just now, lit up again: "My lord ancestor, the problem is now clear! There is a There is a problem with the connection of the connecting rod...”
"It was our mistake." A mechanic in blue overalls stood up. Gawain recognized him as one of Hammer's apprentices. "We didn't estimate the impact of the vibration."
"It's okay, it's normal for the prototype to have problems." Gao Wen didn't mean to blame anyone at all, on the contrary, his happy mood at the moment was not weakened by this small mechanical failure.
Although there was a mechanical failure, it was just an unavoidable episode during the development process. Rebecca drove the prototype magic car off the platform. This is the real meaning of today's test.
This shows that at least overall, the design of the magical vehicle has been successful.
He raised his head and looked in the direction of the mechanical platform in the center of the workshop, and then looked back at the prototype car that was quietly parked at the door of the workshop.
From stepping off the mechanical platform, testing driving in the workshop, and then driving to the exit of the workshop, the first magical locomotive should have only traveled four to five hundred meters.
That's great, it's a full four or five hundred meters.