To be honest, after encountering this metal egg, Gawain finally realized how lucky his current situation was - he did not lose his memory, he fell into a world dominated by humans, and he still had a way to go smoothly. An identity integrated into the current world (although this identity is somewhat spooky and supernatural), a satellite perspective that may be useful, and most importantly, he has the memories of Gawain Cecil.
This last point is particularly important. It is precisely because he has memories from two worlds at the same time that he can more easily face this time and space where the physical rules are hugely different from those on the earth. When you can’t solve a problem with earthly experience, use “this world” experience to tide you over.
However, Nicholas Egg is completely unable to do this. The situation of this metal ball is simply the other extreme compared to Gawain:
He has lost his memory, and he has no power that can be effective in this world. Experience and knowledge, he was caught as a test subject as soon as he arrived here, and most importantly, he fell onto the ground of the terrifying Ape erectus in the style of an egg-shaped creature...
If Gawain wants to farm and advance technology in a world with completely different physical rules, it is already difficult for him to enter hell. Then this ball simply smashed through the ceiling of all the kings in hell, and then rolled to the ground and fell into the lord of hell. In the big pot, the bottom of the pot is still spicy durian.
Therefore, Gawain had to admire the ball's adaptability and mental toughness: despite encountering such a desperate situation, he could still live so calmly and become an excellent funny man... It's hard to believe Could it be because the nerves of metal creatures are relatively hard?
"Hey, why did you suddenly stop talking?" Nicholas Egg's voice woke up Gawain from his thoughts. The big metal ball floated around the latter, "I I also want to hear your suggestions. What do you think I can do? To be honest, I really want to find something to do now..."
Gao Wen immediately began to think seriously. In fact, He had been thinking before today: This metal ball from another world with wonderful abilities was probably just an experimental material in the eyes of the Gondor magisters, but in the eyes of Gawain it was a potential high-tech talent... a talent, However, he knew that this ball had just woken up from a deep sleep, and he probably needed some time to adapt and adjust his mentality, so he was not in a hurry to force him to work. But now that Mr. Dan took the initiative to speak, he said while sorting out his thoughts: "You have the ability to control the flow of magic power and metal. Both of these abilities can be of great use to me, but I don't know the specific parameters of your magic power and metal control yet, so I can't arrange it for you."
“I actually don’t know much about controlling magic power,” Metal Ball replied. “You call that energy magic power, but there is no such thing in our world. When I affect the flow of magic power, I actually Vibrating my own magnetosome—this is an organ in my body that can generate high-frequency magnetic fields. In our world, the magnetosome vibrates.At times, a protective barrier can be formed on the body surface, but here I found that when the barrier disappears, it can affect the energy you call 'magic' and make it temporarily ineffective..."
Gawain immediately interrupted the other party: "You mean magnetic field? Are you actually using a magnetic field to affect the flow of magic power? "
"That's right - even when you used 'magic' to talk to me, I actually felt its fluctuations using the magnetosome... But it's a pity to say that, although I can feel the magic. , can also use magnetic fields to influence it, but can't use magic like you 'magicians'. The female...the magician named Hetty explained to me what mental power and spell models are, but I didn't listen to every word. don't know. "
Gawain did not pay attention to the second half of the other person's words. He had been completely attracted by the fact that "magnetic field affects magic power" and fell into huge confusion: "You confirm that you generated' Is the magnetic field really the kind of 'magnetic field' that everyone in the world knows? You know, the same noun in two worlds may refer to completely opposite phenomena! "
"This is really confirmed," Nicholas Egg floated up and down vigorously, as if imitating the human nodding action, "A magnetic field is a magnetic field. Of course, people in this world don't seem to have the concept of a magnetic field. They I only know about magnetism, the kind of magnetism that natural magnets can attract iron objects, but I have confirmed that the magnetic field I generate with the magnetocell is the same as the natural magnets in this world... What's wrong? "
"I don't know what went wrong," Gawain smiled bitterly and spread his hands. "I have done many experiments with magnetic fields, and I have never found that it affects the flow of magic power. Could it be that I used it? The magnetic field is not strong enough? "
He still has half a sentence to finish: In addition to using magnetic fields to affect magic power, he also failed to conduct experiments on magnetic electricity generation...
"Strength? I don’t think it matters much. The magnetic field generated by the magnetocell is not strong,” the metal ball said while swinging back and forth. “Maybe it’s because of the frequency. You didn’t use a high-frequency magnetic field, right?” I remember that a thousand years ago, those 'magisters' used a oscillating magnetic field to scan me. How high was the frequency... millions of oscillations per second? That seems to be the highest frequency they can get, but it's not even one-tenth of the frequency of the magnetocyte - why don't you try to work harder and increase the frequency of the magnetic field? ”
Gawain had a blue vein on his forehead: In such a poor place with no technology in the Middle Ages, where could he get a high-frequency magnetic field of tens of millions of Hz!
Nicholas Egg It is probably the only high-frequency source in the world that can produce a magnetic field of such frequency!
Knowing that there is no suitable experimental environment at this moment, Gawain silently noted this in his mind. , and then prepared to ask about the other party's ability to manipulate metal, but just as he was about to speak, he suddenly saw the door of the brick kiln being pushed open by someone, a stupid roe deer... a fireball launcher... an iron head... Rui Beka ran towards this side in a hurry.
"Ancestor! AncestorSir first! "Miss Viscount shouted excitedly as she ran, "Come quickly! Come with me! ! ”
Seeing the girl’s excitement, Gawain’s first reaction was to hide aside: he was afraid that this stupid roe deer would get mad and throw seventy or eighty fireballs on his face. ...
After Rebecca ran up to him and managed to catch her breath, Gawain asked her unhurriedly: "You finally destroyed Hetty's laboratory with a fireball." Exploded? "
"Ah...ah? ! "Rebecca was startled by Gawain's words as soon as she regained her breath, and then waved her hands vigorously, "No, no! I'm very careful - let me tell you, the magic engine you proposed has been assembled by us over there! "
Gao Wen's originally calm expression was instantly replaced by shock and surprise.
"Is it finished? ! Have you tried it out? "
"Not yet," Rebecca waved her hand, "Waiting for you to go over and test the machine! But Aunt Hetty has tested all its components. They are all according to the design drawings and can achieve the corresponding effects. There should be no problem..."
"Stop talking and leave quickly," Gao Wen could no longer suppress his excitement, and he pulled Rebecca and walked outside the brick kiln factory. Halfway there, he remembered that there was a ball, so he turned around and waved, "You come too, come too - take a look. Great stuff we designed! ”
I’m afraid no one could have imagined that the “assembly workshop” of the first-generation magic engine would be so crude.
It is a wooden shed next to the Cecil Steel Plant , except for some soldiers guarding it, there is no difference between this place and other shacks at all. There is nothing here that reminds people of high technology or cutting-edge magic: except for the most sophisticated runes. In addition to being completed in Hetty's laboratory, all parts of the magic engine rely on the hands of blacksmiths and rune craftsmen to hammer and shape. Therefore, there are neither machine tools nor precision molds here. Rebecca and Hetty led the craftsmen Every processing process of the prototype was completed using the most primitive and laborious methods.
If it weren’t for the magical assistance in this world, and Hetty’s fire and energy-shaping spells could be a big help, the prototype would be finished at the end. Assembly and welding work is probably a problem.
No matter what world it is in, the birth of anything is not easy.
In the central open space of the "assembly workshop", there is a large area. The burlap cloth covered something less than two meters high. Its outline was a little weird. Gawain could only vaguely make out that one of the larger protrusions should be a flywheel structure, but its true appearance was still obscured. p>
Both old blacksmiths Hammer and Hetty were standing next to this prototype. There were also some people standing beside them, some of whom were Hammer's apprentices, and the other two had just joined the territory. A rune craftsman from the royal capital.
“Rebecca had to run to find you by herself,” Hetty nodded apologetically to Gawain, “This child is a little reckless. ”
“She wanted toIt's understandable that you tell me the good news in person." Gawain took a breath and looked at the machine, "Open it and let me see it. "
Hetty waved her hand, and a translucent plastic hand appeared in the air, and lifted up the covering cloth.
That's underneath. It is a strange-looking machine.
It has some shadows of its "distant relatives" on Earth. It has a huge flywheel, as well as a connecting rod, crank, and crankshaft structure connected to the flywheel, but it is also taller than the original one. Wen's memory is completely different from any power machine on earth: it has no cylinder, and is replaced by a "repulsion mechanism" located in the middle of the machine consisting of a slide rail, a piston, and a base. The piston is a square piece of iron. , there are four slide rails passing through its four corners, and are fixed on a base at both ends. On the side of the base facing the piston, you can see a slightly flashing magic array, and on the two repulsion arrays There are runes extending out from the outer edge of the It is connected to the crankshaft of the flywheel through a connecting rod and a toggle device.
Every time the crankshaft rotates half a turn, the rune trigger will be pulled, and the corresponding rune will be connected to one of the repulsion arrays until After the crankshaft rotates another half circle, the rune trigger leaves this magic circle and enters the connection range of another magic circle, activating the opposite repulsion mechanism...
Except for the talisman used to "switch the direction of repulsion" In addition to the rune trigger, there is another rune trigger that controls the "total energy" of the two repulsion arrays. It is also controlled by a connecting rod, and the control rod is located on the side of the machine.
Special. The repulsion mechanism allows this machine to avoid the need for a cylinder structure, thus circumventing the maximum precision threshold: mechanical precision. Instead, it is the precision requirement for magic runes - and this happens to be "this world". "Features.
Hetty looked at the magic engine in front of her in a daze. It had an appearance and inner mechanism that were completely different from any magical creation in the world, even though she herself participated in it. The maker of the engine was still a little distracted at this moment, but she soon came back to her senses and looked at Gawain: "Lord Ancestor, please turn off the mechanism. "
This is located on the edge of the Cecil Steel Plant. The engine placed here can fully receive the energy from the magic network, although there is no "amplifier board" like the one in the steel plant compound to enhance energy transmission. Efficiency, but as a low-power verification machine, the energy is enough.
Gao Wen shook his head: "We designed this together, you two come with me. ”
Hetty seemed a little hesitant, but Rebecca didn’t think much about it at all. She could no longer control her curiosity. With Gawain’s permission, she rushed to the machine in two steps and tried her best to Waved: “Aunt Hetty! Come quickly! ”
Hetty smiled, put aside all the hesitations, and came to Gawain’s side.
Three hands were placed on the handle that controlled the total energy connection. Then Gawain counted down three numbers, and the three of them pressed down the handle together.
The magic circuit was instantly connected, and the repulsion mechanism at the core of the engine was lit up. As one of the magic arrays lit up, the thick and simple "iron piston" slowly appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Moved.
It seemed to be to drive the heavy flywheel. It moved very slowly at first, but when the flywheel became active, the piston quickly moved to the end of the entire repulsion mechanism - and the rune trigger for switching also followed. When it took effect, the magic circle that lit up first was extinguished, and the other repulsion magic circle lit up almost at the same time.
The flywheel turned a full circle, and then turned faster and faster - the whole machine was accompanied by huge noise and shaking, but it was indeed running!