Chapter 101 The Stupid Roe Deer Has Made Another Contribution!

Gawain abandoned plans to build Earth's classic steam engine after discovering that boiling water couldn't generate enough steam power.

But that doesn't mean he's giving up on his goal of making a universal, reliable, simple powered machine.

He still remembers how in his home world, industrial mass production razed all inefficient production modes, including manual workshops, and how roaring machines led the entire human civilization to rise from the land and enter the space age . In a factory, raw materials are poured into the workshop like flowing water, and the end of the machine cluster will spew out tons and tens of thousands of products. The power of machines can completely change the way a society operates. They can crack mountains and rocks. They can also reclaim the sea, they can be more powerful, precise, efficient, and tireless than any single human individual, and these qualities that surpass the natural person - but precisely reflect the true power of human beings.

That is the power of thinking and creating.

Of course, Gao Wen is also very aware of the side effects of industrial production, such as pollution, such as the pressure on natural resources caused by excessive production efficiency, but the problem can be solved, but survival is not negotiable, just like human diseases can be cured, but you It would be unreasonable to refuse reincarnation in order to prevent illness...

So whether it is to survive natural disasters including the magic tide, or to make life more comfortable in this backward world, or to understand the truth of this world, Gawain must put the technology tree together. Light up, and in order to light up technology, the most basic thing is to solve the problem of power.

Steam propulsion is a dead end, but many rules in this world in the macro field can still be used, gears can be used, levers can be used, waterwheels can be used, and thanks to the power of magic, many of them cannot be used on earth. The technological development that has been skipped and requires slow accumulation can instead be directly advanced here, such as high-quality steel smelted based on magical technology, such as various alloys and crystals that are different from the earth, but with exceptional properties - only But these things have not been fully discovered in this world.

In other words, people in this world have indeed discovered the usefulness of these things on their own technical routes. After all, outsiders are not stupid - it's just that due to the limitations of their world view, they have never thought of using other methods. use these things.

Gawain looked at the structure of the cylinder block on the drawing, he had already drawn a fork on this structure, and now he wanted a substitute to replace the steam to power the whole device.

He can still think of expansion to do work, or high-pressure airflow to do work, but where do these "sources of power" of high temperature and high pressure come from?

He once thought about Rebecca crystals—explosion is also a kind of expansion, as long as it is used properly, the power of explosion is also a kind of driving force. The essence of the internal combustion engine on earth is actually a continuous "safe explosion" in the cylinder. (deflagration),

So can the explosion caused by the Rebecca crystal also be controlled and directed to become the driving force?

But after understanding the principle of those crystal explosions, he had to give up this idea.

The Rebecca crystal that explodes with magic is completely different from gunpowder on Earth, and the two "explosion" processes are completely different.

The explosion generated by the Rebecca crystal is essentially a "spell". The power of the magic circle drives the energy in the crystal and forms an autonomous spell casting process, and the effect of this spell is "explosion", so the impact is generated. Before the expansion and expansion, the Rebecca crystal first produced a spell effect, so what would happen if such a crystal was stuffed into a cylinder to trigger the detonation of the magic circle?

The cylinder will be detonated as an alchemical product...

Of course, Gawain can make this cylinder extremely strong, extremely thick, and even so thick that it can't be blasted with crystals stuffed inside it, so at this time, can the explosion magic in it produce a push?

No, it will blow up weaker connecting rods, pistons and the like as casting materials, as long as these things are within the casting range of the magic circle, they cannot be spared.

What if everything, like the connecting rod, piston, etc., was so strong that it wouldn't blow up, and only the crystal was involved in the magic reaction?

Well, this device may really be able to do work at this time, but its volume will be extremely huge-because the outer diameter of its absolutely explosion-proof outer wall must exceed the casting range of the detonation array, depending on the equivalent size of its core, This outer wall is most likely a sphere with a radius of several meters to tens of meters, and it cannot shrink in the slightest - once it shrinks, part of the outside of the device is within the effect range of the explosion spell, so if the operator is standing beside this The operator will be detonated... Humans are one of the best magic materials.

Even without an operator nearby, the device itself is enveloped in a constant explosion that detonates everything that comes close to it.

It doesn't work at all!

And because the "explosion" of this world is so special, the idea of ​​using Rebecca crystals to make guns was also abandoned by Gawain, or at least the idea of ​​using this crystal to launch: he couldn't use these crystals to make guns. Put it into the gun chamber as a propellant, because these propellants will directly create an explosion in the spell effect area during the casting process. When the gun is fine, the person who fired the gun must have exploded, and the person standing next to it should have also exploded. ...

Then what should he use to do the gong?

Steam doesn't work, explosions don't work, fuel... He hasn't heard of anything like oil in this world until now.

And he has to take into account the machining accuracy of the world now. Even if he designs a usable prototype, it will be a problem that the blacksmiths can't knock out suitable parts.

But to be honest, he is not the most worried about this aspect: he still remembers the mithril safe he found in the old mansion in the capital. The complex magic lock in the safe is actually a very sophisticated mechanism. Those who are like organs are not ordinary blacksmiths, but rune craftsmen who specialize in processing magic items and have a higher status than blacksmiths.

Rune craftsmen are equivalent to blacksmiths and carpenters who have received advanced training. Although they do not have the ability to cast spells, they have some knowledge in the field of magic. They are usually "workers" trained by magicians to make magic props for themselves.

They are skilled in crafting things more intricate than ordinary iron, and they know how to safely work a variety of magical materials.

While there are fewer runesmiths and it costs a lot to build things (mainly the cost of magic materials), it's worth it if they can build a prototype for themselves.

Among the 100 technicians from the capital, there are rune craftsmen...

While Gawain was thinking, two familiar auras appeared in his perception, the tent curtain was lifted, and Rebecca and Heidi walked in together.

"Ancestor (Master Ancestor), are you looking for us?" The two of them almost said in unison.

"Yes," Gawain said no nonsense, and pushed the drawing forward directly, "Move your own chairs and sit here, you guys have a look at these things."

Rebecca dashed to move a big chair, and Heidi made a random move, and the energizing hand grabbed a chair in the corner of the tent and flew here - Rebecca was stunned for a moment. stunned.

But soon, Miss Tietou's little loss was attracted by the drawings that Gawain showed.

"What is this?" Rebecca's eyes sparkled, "There are so many wheels and connecting rods... Is it a waterwheel too?"

"No, it's a...a machine that can generate power," Gawain explained casually, "I have limited ideas, and I want to hear your thoughts—you can imagine a machine that uses the most basic magic unit to drive it. , can generate stable and reliable power, such as making the wheel rotate continuously, such as driving the hammer to move up and down. Look at these connecting rods and wheels, and this structure - it is called the crankshaft, these things can connect the reciprocating motion of the straight line with the movement of the wheel. Rotational movements are converted into each other..."

Gawain explained his thoughts patiently, Heidi became thoughtful while listening, and Rebecca's eyes lit up: she had developed a strong interest in these imaginative designs!

A mechanical device that relies on magic power to operate—this concept is actually not new. This world with extraordinary power has natural advantages in many aspects. Naturally, there are many things that are "super-era" in Gawain's view, such as magicians. The magic puppets they made, the automatic gates activated with keys like the treasure house in the mountains, and the magic locks that could identify the user that I saw in the capital. These are all applications of magic organs, and many of them can even Described as "black technology".

But Rebecca instinctively felt that the "magic power mechanism" proposed by Gawain was completely different from those things.

Most of its structures are intuitive and direct mechanical structures that do not require magic to participate.

Its function and purpose are extraordinarily simple, and it is to provide power, and this power is prepared for the next level of machinery.

It is normative, standard, and clear. It discards all the parts that allow craftsmen to "play freely" and replaces them with numerical indicators that are as precise as magic rules, striving to achieve their goals in the most reasonable and concise way, unlike those traditional Like the rune craftsmen or wizards, they will make a lot of patterns on the magic items they make, and they will go to great lengths to hide those really useful runes in the complicated encrypted patterns, for fear of being seen. to and understand.

Rebecca thought hard for a long time, and finally came up with a word that Gawain often said to herself: universality.

Like Monet One, this device is "universal".

It wasn't designed as a treasure or as a work of art, but like those Rebecca crystals fired in the kiln district - all you need is a large, well-stocked, reliable skin.

After Gawain explained his thoughts, he finally pointed to the structure of the cylinder that had been forked: "Now there is only one step left: it needs an initial power source to make this 'piston' move. Expanding gas to complete the process, so this sealed 'air cylinder' was designed, but you don't have to be limited by my thoughts - from a magical point of view, which spell do you think can create an uninterrupted as long as there is an energy supply A cyclical propulsive force?"

Rebecca grabbed the chair and swayed: "Carve a super small hurricane circle in it? Blow the wind hard?"

Hetty also frowned and thought seriously: "It's not realistic, the hurricane circle is too complicated, and the airflow it can induce in a closed environment is limited..."

As she spoke, she condensed a translucent sculpting hand beside her, but then dissipated the magic: "It would be easy to push it with the sculpting hand, but unfortunately this is a very special Spells, there is no corresponding magic circle, and... it feels weird to have an evocative hand pushing around in the machine."

"The energizing hand..." Rebecca rolled her eyes and thought for a while, and suddenly seemed to open up her mind, "Yes, you don't have to use airflow... Even this thing called 'air cylinder' is fine?"

Looking at Rebecca's brighter eyes, Gao Wen couldn't help but rejoice: Silly Roe Deer is about to make a contribution again! ?

Heidi also became curious: "What did you think of?"

Rebecca gestured happily: "Aunt, do you still remember that I had a spell that I could never learn..."

Hetty: "Apart from fireball, which spells did you learn?"

"No, at that level of magic, you thought that no matter how stupid I was, I would definitely be able to learn it," Rebecca waved her hands vigorously, "Later I secretly drew runes in my gloves and pretended to be able to cast spells, but I was caught by you. Hang up with dad and fight..."

Gao Wen: "..."

Does this girl have to be so happy when she says this? !

And Hetty had obviously remembered what the "trick" Rebecca was referring to: "Repulsion Trick?"