Every matter in the territory seems to have entered an orderly stage, and Gawain finally got a short period of leisure.
In the study room of the Lord's Mansion, he finished handling the official duties accumulated in the past few days, and then leaned on his large chair, relaxing while listening to Hetty's report on daily affairs.
"...To sum up, all the autumn grain storage and statistical work has been completed, and the winter rations in remote areas have also been distributed. There should be no large-scale famine outbreaks in the main areas of the south this winter...
"The Magic Network project is still expanding along the cross axis, and now it has covered the Peilin area...
"The commercial messenger sent to the East has already set off..."
p>Gao Wen breathed out slightly: "It's so good to have days without bad news."
"We can't have bad news every day. It's not easy for us to settle down," He Di showed a smile, but her expression became a little subtle in the middle of the smile, "But although there is no bad news, there is one thing that is quite concerning - that kid Rebecca seems to be tinkering with something recently..."
Gawain's relaxed expression suddenly stopped: "Rebecca? What has she done recently?"
"She built a big pool in the Magical Technology Research Institute... ..." Hetty's expression was almost blank when she said this, "Raising an ooze monster in there"
Gawain: "...Why is she raising an ooze monster?"
"The report submitted said that it was to study the industrial value of ooze monsters, but because it was a group project within the Magical Technology Research Institute, she only knew the details of the project herself."
Gowen listened. There was a question mark on his forehead, but just when he wanted to continue asking, the Magic Network terminal installed next to the desk suddenly lit up and made a loud buzzing sound.
Gawain casually activated the terminal, but he did not expect that it was Rebecca's figure that emerged from the holographic projection above the machine.
"Rebecca? I happened to be planning to..."
However, Gawain was interrupted midway through his words. The girl was wearing a researcher outside her dress. He was wearing a white robe, his face and hands were stained with oil, and he was jumping up and down excitedly in the picture: "Master Ancestor!! Car! Car! There is a car!!"
Gaowen was confused by this. The words made him confused: "What did you say?"
Hetty couldn't help but frowned when she looked at Rebecca's unaristocratic behavior: "Rebecca - you again Have you forgotten the etiquette?"
"Ah! Auntie!" Rebecca then noticed that Hetty was also on the other side of the communicator, and her expression and movements suddenly stiffened, "You are there too..."
"Are you at the Machinery Manufacturing Factory?" Gawain noticed the scene behind the girl after Rebecca stopped jumping. After seeing the lathes and the wide assembly platform, his heart moved. , "Is it a magic vehicle?!"
"Yes! Dandan and I finally succeeded in solving the last few problems! We built a usable chassis!!" ReibeiKa excitedly rushed to the communicator. Eighty percent of the holographic projection in front of Gawain was occupied by the girl's greasy face, "Come and see! Come and see!"< /p>
The voice of Nicholas Mr. Dan came from the background of the communicator: "Why is it like Eggy again? Didn't you call me Mr. Egg last time?"
Afterwards, Rebecca seemed to say something else, but Gawain had no intention of listening anymore. He stood up suddenly, turned off the communicator, and walked towards the door and said to Hetty: "Come with me!"
At this time, Hetty was still thinking about the question "Why did Rebecca raise an ooze monster?", but from Gawain's reaction, she realized that Rebecca might have done something again. What an astonishing result, this result is enough for the ancestors to throw all the ooze monsters behind.
She quickly agreed and quickly followed Gawain's pace.
Beside the "Mechanical Platform" of the first workshop of the Mechanical Research Institute, hundreds of technicians wearing work clothes or researcher uniforms gathered together, looking at the hard-won machines on the platform with eager and proud expressions. As a result, Rebecca and several of her assistants were also standing in the middle of the crowd, excitedly discussing the possible future uses of this epoch-making creation, while Nicholas Egg, who was silver-white and had a pleasant smile on his face, was quiet. Floating quietly in the place closest to the mechanical platform, he felt every exquisite detail inside the complex machine, every perfectly matched gear and lever, every repulsive mechanism and pump device that was ready to go, an unprecedented Satisfaction filled his body, which was 1.3 meters in diameter and weighed one and a half tons.
There was a burst of heavy and rapid footsteps at the door of the workshop. Rebecca immediately raised her head. After seeing the person clearly, she excitedly waved her hands and said hello: "Master Ancestor! Aunt ! You are here! ”
Gawain walked through a group of researchers who were paying tribute to him, and looked at the mechanical creation on the circular platform with eager eyes: “That’s it?”
p>"As you can see..." Rebecca raised her hand, imitating the gesture of a butler or a senior attendant introducing a guest, pointing at the creation, "Isn't it beautiful?"
Confession Generally speaking, in the aesthetic sense of many people in this era, that thing may not be considered beautiful, but in the eyes of those who have accepted the mechanical painting style of Cecil Magic, it can indeed be associated with "aesthetics".
It is a complex machine made of black steel. Its shape is slightly similar to the car chassis in Gawain's impression, but there are huge differences. Because it is a test product, it does not have a shell, and almost all the mechanical structures are directly exposed to the outside. The gears, levers and axles assembled together are like a monster with no flesh and blood, which makes it look quite scary - but also There is some kind of strange beauty.
Since there is no outer shell, Gawain can clearly see many structures of the chassis: four steel wheels are installed on both sides of the same steel frame, and a small, specialized to moveThe specially designed second-generation magic engine of the mobile vehicle is installed at the tail to provide power. A large number of runes are spread across the entire chassis structure, forming a complete set of magic network structures, and in the center of the chassis you can see He saw a very conspicuous "beam" - it was not only a beam that provided structural strength, but also a part of the magic mechanism. Gawain saw a large number of runes concentrated on this beam, and the magic network on the chassis was also in line with the beam. Connected together, many connecting rods and wire mechanisms that control the rune triggers were also integrated into the front section of the beam. This structure gave him a sense of déjà vu.
Rebecca quickly answered the source of his sense of déjà vu: "Did you think of the 'power ridge' on the magic battleship?"
Gawain Suddenly it dawned on her: "The same idea?"
"Yes, the power ridge of the magic battleship gave us a lot of inspiration," Rebecca nodded, "Integrating various control mechanisms and energy transmission structures By forming a module into a module, reducing the intermediate structure and the number of trivial parts as much as possible, the failure rate can be reduced to the greatest extent, the reliability of the machine will also be improved, and once a fault occurs, it will be easier to repair - if the fault is too large You can even directly replace the entire power spine, so that the entire machine can be operational again in the shortest time. I think that in the future, all large-scale magical machinery, such as vehicles and ships, can use the power spine structure."
For a while, Gawain really couldn't think of anything that could replace this architecture in the emergence stage, so he nodded slightly: "Very good."
The power spine architecture can be said to be magic technology. The most typical technological achievement created by local technicians since the establishment of the research institute and machine manufacturing institute - and not only did Gawain have no involvement at all, but Rebecca was not the main inventor of the power spine structure.
The people who came up with this structure were a group of mage apprentices from the Leslie area. After they became magic technicians, they were sent to carry out the magic transformation of old ships. A large-scale magic device was stuffed into a large battleship, and all complex systems were integrated into a stable and reliable control-energy supply structure. They referred to the control technology of the mage tower and proposed the original The dynamic ridge concept.
After that, nearly a hundred rune masters, mechanics, magicians and craftsmen from all over the southern border worked together, and the first generation of truly practical "power spine" was created and used. Aboard the Aurora and Morning Star.
And now, this technical achievement that has been proven to be stable and reliable on the magic battleship has been successfully miniaturized and installed on the first-generation machine after the tireless efforts of the technicians of the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. On the chassis of the magic vehicle.
If Rebecca's plan is reliable, then the "power spine" architecture will continue to develop and become the central structure in various magic vehicles and various large-scale magic energy facilities in the future - it will It will be continuously improved and popularized until one day in the future, a more epoch-making, stable and reliable architecture can replace it.until.
Gawain didn't know how to describe this feeling - even though he started this era, the flashes that kept emerging in this era were always beyond his expectation.
He raised his head and looked at the control part of the "prototype magic vehicle" - there was a chair welded to the front and middle of the chassis, and many control devices were set in front of the seat and other locations on the chassis. Just like the exposed mechanical structure, it is also a completely unobstructed "driver's seat".
At least the steering wheel still looks like he knows it.
But the several levers and pedals outside the steering wheel were different from his memories of his previous life.
Obviously, the designers did not completely follow the "conceptual plan" originally proposed by Gao Wen to design the operating system of this machine. They planned the functions and positions of the levers according to their own habits, and maybe These changes were made based on the special operation method of the "Rune Trigger". It is more likely that they asked the most experienced coachman in the city and planned the entire control seat based on the coachman's driving experience.
Gawain will not comment on this. Although he has a mature design of another world in his mind and has the experience of two lives, he knows that his experience is not always applicable, and He is not the expert here. Whether these things are useful or not depends on the actual test results.
As for now, looking at the prototype magic vehicle in front of him that has not yet been sealed, with exposed mechanical structures everywhere, like some kind of punk product, he can only feel joy in his heart - However, due to his ancestors With all the baggage, he could only make a serious inspection appearance in front of others, and circled the mechanical platform again and again. When he turned the third circle, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand to touch the wheel curiously: "...What do you use to make tires?"
Due to the discrepancy between the material list and the technology tree, there is currently no rubber in the Cecil Territory - neither natural nor artificial - no rubber. , various rubber products including tires are naturally out of the question. At the beginning of designing the magic vehicle, one of the difficulties that Gawain expected was here.
Tires play a huge role. They can reduce vibration, make the driver more comfortable and extend the life of the mechanical structure. They can provide reliable grip and friction, prevent slipping, and prevent steel wheels from directly collapsing. After being worn, well-designed tires can also make the vehicle drive more effortlessly and save energy...
However, without rubber, everything is just a fantasy.
Gao Wen even considered using a suspension structure + crawler tracks to barely get around this problem, but now it seems that the team of Rebecca and Nicholas Egg have solved the material science problem—— Although I don’t know what material they used, the layer of material on the outside of the wheel is obviously not rubber.
It is gray-white, rough to the touch and has a certain elasticity. If you smell it carefully, it seems to have a very slight earthy smell.
Rebecca seemed happy to see the omnipotent ancestorZong Ye curiously asked herself a question. She put her hands on her hips with a proud smile on her face: "Master Ancestor, what do you think we used?"
Gowen was stunned for a moment, and then began to search his memory. But before he could think of the answer, Hetty, who was coming with him, rubbed the surface of the wheel with his hands, and then showed an uncertain look: "Could this thing be...it can't be...you use soft..." The excrement of the mud monster is used to make tires? ”